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Do Observations And Climate Models Confirm Or Contradict The Hypothesis of...
UPDATE (December 12, 2011): Just noticed there was something missing in the title. I added “Observations And”. INITIAL NOTE This is an edited version of the post On the SkepticalScience Post “Pielke...
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Part 2 – Do Observations and Climate Models Confirm Or Contradict The...
OVERVIEW This is the second part of a two-part series. There are, however, two versions of part 1. The first part was originally published as On the SkepticalScience Post “Pielke Sr. Misinforms High...
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It Really Should Go Without Saying, BUT…
OVERVIEW In a good number of posts over the past few months, we have discussed and illustrated how poorly the coupled ocean-atmosphere climate models used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate...
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The IPCC AR4 Models Of 20th Century Surface Temperatures With And Without...
This is a quick post. It reinforces one of the points made repeatedly in recent comparisons of the observed rise in Global Surface Temperatures during the 20thCentury and of those hindcast by the...
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Mid-December 2011 SST Anomaly Update
NINO3.4 NINO3.4 Sea Surface Temperature (SST) anomalies (a commonly used El Niño-Southern Oscillation Index) are varying near the threshold of a moderate La Niña. They’ve been bouncing back and forth...
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IPCC Models Versus Sea Surface Temperature Observations During The Recent...
OVERVIEW This post compares satellite-based Sea Surface Temperature (SST) anomalies to the hindcasts and projections of the multi-model mean of CMIP3 models. CMIP3 is the archive the IPCC used as the...
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CMIP3 Models Versus 20th Century Land Surface Temperature Anomalies
I was writing the summary post for my recent series that compare observed Global Surface Temperatures to the IPCC and CMIP3 Climate Model outputs when I realized I had not presented Land Surface...
View ArticleHappy Holidays
Thanks to all who have visited and to all who have contributed to the discussions over the past years. The upcoming year should be just as enlightening. Enjoy your holidays! Regards Bob
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VERY PRELIMINARY December 2011 SST Anomaly Update
STANDARD OPENING PARAGRAPH The December 2011 Reynolds OI.v2 Sea Surface Temperature (SST) data through the NOAA NOMADS website won’t be official until Monday, January 9th. Refer to the schedule on the...
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ON THE IPCC’s UNDUE CONFIDENCE IN COUPLED OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE CLIMATE MODELS – A...
OVERVIEW This post is a summary of the series of our recent posts that compared observed Surface Temperature data to the simulations of the coupled ocean-atmosphere climate models used by the IPCC in...
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