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Tag Archives: Natural Cycle
Weather swings and see-saws
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
Posted in Climate Cycles, Weather
Tagged Arctic, Climate Science, Cold, Met Office, Natural Cycle, snow, Temperatures
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Estimating sea ice decline due to natural variability
From environmentaresearchweb.org, a new paper examines the contribution of natural cycles the AMO, AO and AMOC to the reduction in Arctic sea ice. A Japanese and UK collaboration used five CMIP3 coupled general circulation models with pre-industrial forcing to investigate … Continue reading
Cherries are not the only fruit
A Tamino rant aimed at Joe D’Aleo’s Arctic ice refreezing after falling short of 2007 record (also at ICECAP) has had me smiling. Tamino’s accusation against Joe of cherry picking are centred on one of the graphs originally posted here at … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Cycles, Station Data, Trends
Tagged Arctic, Natural Cycle, Station Data, Urban Heat Island, Warming
It’s a lemming year
[Update (14th May): Not just lemmings but a plague of Scottish Field Voles. They too have benefited from increased snow cover thermal insulation and protection from predators.] Both Norway and Sweden are reporting a population explosion of lemmings this year. … Continue reading
Unprecedented Warming?
I’m Confused Update: I’ve now added the speliothem data sent to me by Charles earlier in the week. Guest Post by Charles Duncan The claim is often made that the rate of temperature change the Earth has experienced over the … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Cycles
Tagged AGW, Anomalies, Climate, Greenland, Ice core data, Natural Cycle
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Removing UHI distortion – the elephant in the sitting room
Lucy Skywalker asked me if I would like to repost her recent work on UHI from her website Skeptical Real Climate Science and I am delighted to do so as she has a gift for clear explanations and great graphics, … Continue reading
Period comparison – how useful?
A while back I found myself pondering on these two graphs:
Posted in Climate Cycles, GHCN V3 Beta, Station Data
Tagged Natural Cycle, Station Data, Temperatures
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NAO is the winter of our discontent…
Temperatures in the UK fell rapidly again on Thursday. I watched the thermometer drop from about 7°C mid-morning to -1°C by 4pm and another 5-6 inches of global warming accumulated by late evening. More snow also fell on Friday. Blame … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Cycles, Weather
Tagged Arctic, Climate, Ice, NAO, Natural Cycle, Temperatures
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Did the previous Arctic warming start in 1910 or in 1919?
Guest Post By Arnd Bernaerts Introduction The posting “Mapping global warming” (Jan. 18, 2010 by “KevinUK”) demonstrated convincingly that “much of the claimed global warming is hardly global at all. In fact it looks to be more accurately Northern Hemisphere … Continue reading
NOAA: “Arctic Report Card: Update for 2010”
Guest Post By Arnd Bernaerts, 25 October 2010 With the message “The Arctic region continues to heat up” the Arctic Report Card: Update for 2010 was released by NOAA a few days ago. The NOAA home page has the headline: “Return … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Cycles, News, Opinion
Tagged Arctic, Climate, Ice, Natural Cycle, Ocean
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