Pre-Industrial Sclerosponges
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...
View ArticleWhat’s Up With That?
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...
View ArticleAdjusted Global Temperature Data
Way back in 2011 I co-authored a paper with Stefan Rahmstorf (Foster & Rahmstorf 2011, hereafter FR11) in which we adjusted global temperature in order to remove (as best we could) the influence of...
View ArticleAdjusted Data to play with
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...
View ArticleAccelerations
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...
View ArticleOptimism of the Will
Regular readers already know that I will continue to focus on the science of climate change, but occasionally share something on the policy side. In a most outstanding interview, Kevin Anderson states...
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