The other day I found this great TED video where blogger David Roberts explains the significance of increasing degrees of global warming:
Category Archive: Global Temperature
Apr 21 2011
Christy Crock: Do the observations match the models?
I wrote this post for Skeptical Science. At the recent US House of Representatives Committee on Science Space and Technology climate hearing, the Republicans called Dr. John Christy as an expert witness testifying against the global warming consensus. Unfortunately, Christy spent his time repeating a long list of climate myths, including the common contrarian refrain …
Jan 24 2011
2010: A Year of Record Warmth and Weird Weather
Last year’s global temperatures are in, and the result is that 2010 is statistically tied with 2005 for the title of the warmest year since records began in 1880. According to the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Climatic Data Center (NOAA NCDC), the global temperature for both years was 0.62°C above the 20th-century …
Nov 23 2010
The Fake Scandal of Climategate
This post was written for Skeptical Science as the first part of a series on the fake scandal of Climategate. It’s bad enough that global warming contrarians are successfully misleading the public by propagating misconceptions about climate science. But recently it has become popular to attack climate scientists themselves, to accuse them of fraud and …
Oct 23 2010
2010 Temperature Update: Earth’s Second Warmest 12 Months on Record
NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) have just updated their global surface temperature anomalies to include this September, so I thought it was time I updated my 2010 temperatures page, which was becoming rather neglected. To recap, the year began with an unusually cold winter in northern land areas which had a disproportionate impact on …
Sep 25 2010
Skeptical Science posts
I haven’t been posting very often recently, and one reason is that I’ve been busy writing for another climate blog called Skeptical Science which, unlike mine, actually has a readership. Skeptical Science is run by John Cook, and basically the core of the site is an increasingly comprehensive database of rebuttals to the arguments of …
Aug 04 2010
Global Warming Contrarians Part 7: State of the Climate
Claim: There’s no evidence that the global climate is warming. Why worry about a problem that’s invisible? Fact: Just about any aspect of climate you care to look at does show signs of global warming. The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have recently released their 20th annual State of the Climate report. The report …
Jul 18 2010
Mid-Year Update on Global Temperatures
NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) have announced that the Earth has just experienced its warmest June on record, 0.68°C warmer than the 20th-century June average of 15.5°C. Most of the globe was warmer than usual, with the highest temperature anomalies seen in eastern and western Asia, eastern North America, western South America, and most …
Jul 09 2010
Global Warming Contrarians Part 1.1: Amateur Temperature Records
After a two-month hiatus, I’ve finally completed the next installment in my increasingly non-linear series of posts examining the (mostly bad) arguments against the reality of global warming. Originally I had planned out a sort of arc of subjects to cover, but as I learn more about climate science, I find I want to go …
Jun 24 2010
2010 Shaping Up To Be Warmest Year
The Earth has just experienced its warmest March, April, and May on record, according to the US National Climatic Data Center (NCDC), and 2010 is well on track to becoming the warmest year on record. March 2010 was not only the warmest March globally, but also the third warmest month of all time. I don’t …
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