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2015 SkS Weekly Digest #23
Posted on 7 June 2015 by John Hartz
SkS Highlights
"Setting the record straight" is the common theme of three articles posted on SkS during the past week. The three are:
- New research suggests global warming is accelerating by John Abraham
- Real-world measurements contradict paper claiming little global warming by Mark R
- Research downplaying impending global warming is overturned by Dana
The findings contained in Possible artifacts of data biases in the recent global surface warming hiatu,Thomas R Karl et al, Science are summarized and explained in two of the articles — John Abraham's and Dana's. In his article, Mark R details the findings contained in Misdiagnosis of Earth climate sensitivity based on energy balance model results, Mark Richardson et al, Science Bulletin
El Niño Watch
- El Niño and La Niña affect spring tornadoes and hailstorms, Climate.gov, June 5, 2015
- How will El Niño affect 2015’s placement among the warmest years on record? by Deke Arndt, Beyond the Data, Climate.gov, June 4, 2015
- Why This Hurricane Season May Be Quiet for Atlantic Ocean (An El Niño and cooler waters in the Atlantic could be harbingers of a slow season for tropical storms.) by Willie Drye, National Geographic, June 1, 2015
Toon of the Week
Hat tip to I Heart Climate Scientists
Quotes of the Week
"We can try to put a nice face on it. We can try to soften it, but the reality is that there is no statistically significant hiatus, and there never has been," says Harvard science historian Naomi Oreskes.
Science challenges claim that global warming took a hiatus by Marianne Lavelle, National Geographic, June 4. 2015
"Adding in the last two years of global surface temperature data and other improvements in the quality of the observed record provide evidence that contradict the notion of a hiatus in recent global warming trends," said Thomas R. Karl, L.H.D., Director, NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information. "Our new analysis suggests that the apparent hiatus may have been largely the result of limitations in past datasets, and that the rate of warming over the first 15 years of this century has, in fact, been as fast or faster than that seen over the last half of the 20th century."
Science publishes new NOAA analysis: Data show no recent slowdown in global warming, NOAA News Release, June 4, 2015
SkS Spotlights
NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) is the merger of the National Climatic Data Center, National Geophysical Data Center, and National Oceanographic Data Center as approved in the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2015, Public Law 113-235. From the depths of the ocean to the surface of the sun and from million-year-old sediment records to near real-time satellite images, NCEI is the nation's leading authority for environmental information and data. For more information go to: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/news/coming-soon-national-centers-environmental-information
Coming Soon on SkS
- Factcheck: Is climate change ‘helping Africa’? (Robert McSweeney & Roz Pidcock)
- 2015 SkS News Bulletin #3: NOAA Updates Global Temperature Record (John Hartz)
- Trolling our confirmation bias: one bite and we’re easily sucked in (Will J Grant)
- 2015 SkS Weekly News Roundup #24A (John Hartz)
- What you need to know about the NOAA global warming faux pause paper (Dana)
- The Carbon Brief interview: Thomas Stocker (Roz Pidcock)
- Guest post (John Abraham)
- 2015 SkS Weekly News Roundup #24B (John Hartz)
- 2015 SkS Weekly Digest #24 (John Hartz)
Poster of the Week
Hat tip to I Heart Climate Scientists
SkS Week in Review
- 2015 SkS Weekly News Roundup #23B by John Hartz
- New research suggests global warming is accelerating by John Abraham
- Real-world measurements contradict paper claiming little global warming by Mark R
- Research downplaying impending global warming is overturned by Dana
- 2015 SkS Weekly News Roundup #23A by John Hartz
- Melting moments: a look under East Antarctica's biggest glacier by Tas van Ommen
- The Carbon Brief Interview: Prof Dame Julia Slingo OBE by Leo Hickman
- 2015 SkS Weekly Digest #22 by john Hartz
97 Hours of Consensus: Josefino Comiso
Quote provided by email.
The so-called "hiatus" only appeared if you used 1998 as the starting point. Starting with 1997 or 1999 gave completely different pictures of the warming trend. That's why I never bought into it.
To me the 1998 starting point was always a big sign in glowing neon letters reading "Phony Hiatus".