Use of running means in temperature graphs
Climate Progress has a post highlighting that according to NASA the 12-month running mean global temperature has reached a new record in 2010. You can read all about it there, including the full reprint of the Discussion section of the [...]
Hot and cold – perturbations from on high and perhaps missing heat below
Figure 1: January-March mean surface temperature anomaly While we know that a short-term variation doesn’t make a long-term trend it is interesting, in view of the bitterly cold winter in some parts, that the global mean the surface temperatures have [...]
It's been a bit hot, just about everywhere
In spite of a bit of a cold snap in parts of the northern hemisphere recently (we’ll come back to that) it’s been hot just about everywhere in 2009. In Australia 2009 has been the second warmest year on record [...]
Temperature update: more warming coming up
Just back in May it seemed as though it would never stop raining. At our place we had 460mm (over 18 inches) in three days, most of it in about 27 hours. That’s 40% of the yearly average. But if [...]
The world may cool for the next decade
Then again it may not. If it happens, as reported by Fred Pearce in the New Scientist, the denialists will become insufferable. Indeed such an eventuality could affect the urgency with which climate change mitigation change is attacked by governments. [...]
Hotting up?
Some all-time temperature highs have been broken around Queensland in recent days with summer seemingly arriving while we are still officially in winter and my daily check of the temperatures in selected overseas cities last week showed Frankfurt at 36C, [...]
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