Category Archives: GIStemp

How BEST to deal with cooling cities

Posted on October 30, 2011 by Verity Jones

I’ve been silent on BEST so far. I still have not read the papers or looked at the data. I’m barely keeping up with so much being written about it.  New posts on station data analyses have been absent for … Continue reading →

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Hide the Decline – Data at Orland is Chopped

Posted on August 13, 2010 by Verity Jones

Various Updates (Aug 17-19) It seems this is not so much “Hide the Decline” as “Drop the Estimates” (see comments) – Graph of USHCN adjustments compared with GISS now added, then corrected.} The data from the weather station at Orland, … Continue reading →

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Are all anomalies created equal?

Posted on July 14, 2010 by Verity Jones

Climate is changing; climate has always changed. It is a chaotic system where local microclimate effects can be strong. How can any global average be sure to represent adequately the local nuances and variations (anomalies)? In the existing input data, … Continue reading →

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GIStemp: Plus ça change (plus c’est la même chose).

Posted on July 10, 2010 by Verity Jones

The more things change, the more they stay the same. GISS reports updates to the surface temperature analysis regularly (here).  In the last year, for example, there has been a change to use of USHCN v2 data for US stations … Continue reading →

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Nightlights and Shifting Sands

Posted on April 6, 2010 by Verity Jones

Sandbanks off the East Frisian Coast (Germany/Netherlands border) – the setting for Erskine Childers’ “Riddle of the Sands” Recently, every time I have looked at the GISS Station Data, I have found something different, a subtle change.  It would be … Continue reading →

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Temperature in Guam: Filling a Gap

Posted on April 4, 2010 by Verity Jones

Congressman Johnson may be concerned about the increasing population on Guam causing the island to tip over, but has population increase had interesting consequences for one of the island’s weather stations? Andersen Airforce Base, Guam (original here) There are three … Continue reading →

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A Tale of Two Datasets: Part 1

Posted on December 5, 2009 by Verity Jones

One of the Hadley leaked files (idl_cruts3_2005_vs_2008b.pdf) contains an intriguing array of temperature graphs – seasonal temperatures by world region or country – 154 sets. Each graph of the four per region has both raw and smoothed data from two … Continue reading →

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GIStemp Reloaded

Posted on November 16, 2009 by Verity Jones

Image source: Copyright © 1999-2003 by Jamie Zawinski. Large hands type on a keyboard; out of sight a printer springs to life and green code cascades down the screen. I can make out a few lines of barely intelligible text; … Continue reading →

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Climate Fast Food

Posted on November 13, 2009 by Verity Jones

“How would you like your climate trends, sir? Homogenised, data treated the same the world over with no regard for local conditions? Carefully prepared using the best raw data from reliable sources with a long operational history and local knowledge?” … Continue reading →

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