Another January, another annual data point. As in years past, the annual rollout of the GISTEMP, NOAA, HadCRUT and Berkeley Earth analyses of the surface temperature record have brought forth many stories about the long term trends and specific events of 2022 - mostly focused on the impacts of the (ongoing) La Niña event and the litany of weather extremes (UK and elsewhere having record years, … Read Full Article about 2022 updates to the temperature records
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Serious mistakes found in recent paper by Connolly et al.
Guest post by Mark Richardson who is a Research Scientist in the Aerosol and Clouds Group at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology. All opinions expressed are his own and do not in any way represent those of NASA, JPL or Caltech. Should scientists choose to believe provably false things? Even though that would mean more inclusive debates with a wider range of … Read Full Article about Serious mistakes found in recent paper by Connolly et al.
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Unforced variations: Jan 2023
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Unforced variations: Dec 2022
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Unforced variations: Nov 2022
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[latexpage] The CERES estimates of the top-of-atmosphere radiative fluxes are available from 2001 to the present. That is long enough to see that there has been a noticeable trend in the Earth's Energy Imbalance (EEI), mostly driven by a reduction in the solar radiation reflected by the planet, … Read Full Article about A CERES of fortunate events…