Tag Archives: Temperatures

The dog that did not bark

Posted on May 4, 2013 by

Guest post by Peter Morcombe Remember the case of “Silver Blaze”?  Here Sherlock Holmes discusses it with a Scotland Yard detective: Gregory: “Is there any other point to which you would wish to draw my attention?” Holmes:  ”To the curious … Continue reading →

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Silence of the lambs

Posted on April 4, 2013 by

I apologise up front for the title of this post, but it aptly describes the impact of this snowy spring on Britain’s hill farms. The point of this post is to show the severity of this weather event.  As the … Continue reading →

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Weather swings and see-saws

Posted on April 1, 2013 by

The contrast of the current March weather to Spring last year could hardly be a greater swing (Daily Mail: What a difference a year makes: Mother’s Day daffodils delayed by the cold weather…) to the coldest March in 50 years … Continue reading →

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The trouble with anomalies… Part 2

Posted on October 29, 2012 by

Last week’s post (Part 1)  looked at Reno, SFO and Sacramento, three relatively close-by cities at the same latitude but with varying altitude and distance from the coast. The previous post showed that: The three cities differed in their response … Continue reading →

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The trouble with anomalies… Part 1

Posted on October 21, 2012 by

The use of anomalies is the normal defense against any critical assessment of the variability of numbers of stations across the climate record – the so-called ‘station drop-out’. The rationale is that it should not matter if stations are located … Continue reading →

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Location Location Location

Posted on July 30, 2012 by

Well now we know, and I for one think it is worth the wait. Assuming this stands up to further scrutiny, and I have every confidence it will, this is a big deal.  These are only initial thoughts. Watts et … Continue reading →

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Merry Christmas

Posted on December 25, 2011 by

How different from last year! A Green Christmas – the garden sensor is reading at least 20°C warmer than a year ago.

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Man on a train

Posted on September 18, 2011 by

I was on an early train on Friday. Normally I try to work, or doze; occasionally it is nice to fall into conversation with fellow passengers. There’s something about trains that seems conducive to such behaviour. About an hour from … Continue reading →

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The only way is up

Posted on April 30, 2011 by

Charles Duncan has sent me a simple analysis comparing the unadjusted and adjusted versions of the data in GHCN V3. The following graphs were created in an Excel spreadsheet as anomalies for each stations ref 1940 using a First Differences … Continue reading →

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Cherrypicking in Bolivia

Posted on April 17, 2011 by

Last week the Guardian published an article reporting from Bolivia on plans to introduce new laws related to protecting nature from human activity.  The piece was about the effects of climate change in Bolivia and cited a large and accelerating … Continue reading →

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