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2w ago
I don’t know the young man behind this, but I know his dad. Be proud. Climate change education is essential to help young people face the future ..read more
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1M ago
In the last post I discussed sea level at New York City, and showed this graph of yearly averages with a PLF fit (piecewise linear fit): I like the PLF because it has simple statistical behavior, and one can choose ..read more
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1M ago
The New York Panel on Climate Change (NPCC) recently unveiled their latest projections for future sea level rise in New York City. You can view their presentation here, but in my opinion it’s very boring. There has been a lot ..read more
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1M ago
New blog posts will be slow coming this week, because I’m busy doing science. First, the new adjusted temperature data and the methods to produce it should be published in the peer-reviewed literature, and in my opinion, soon. Second, I’m ..read more
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2M ago
Looking at global temperature anomaly since 1950 (data from NOAA), it clearly shows acceleration around the year 1975. For the 25 years prior to that, it’s hard to say whether it was rising or falling but it surely wasn’t going ..read more
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2M ago
In the last post I discussed the changes I’ve made to my method for adjusting temperature data, to compensate for volcanic eruptions, the el Niño southern oscillation, and solar variations. It seems that some readers like to play with data ..read more
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2M ago
The “CO2 Coalition” has prepared a report claiming that in Wyoming, “… high daily temperatures peaked during the Dust Bowl years of the 1930s and have been in a 90-year decline.” To back up this claim they show this graph ..read more
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2M ago
I never heard of sclerosponges until a paper came to my attention which uses their skeletons to estimate temperature in the Ocean Mixed Layer (OML). The authors do so using sclerosponges from the Carribean sea, specifically, using the ratio of ..read more
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2M ago
A lot of things climate-related aren’t just increasing, they are accelerating, and one of them might not get quite as much attention as it should: carbon dioxide. Here are the measurements since 1958 of atmospheric CO2 concentration, from the Mauna ..read more
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2M ago
The year 2023 was a doozy. The news started to heat up when the planet recorded its hottest June in history. Then came July, and the news burst into flames because not only was it the hottest July in history ..read more