I was working on updating our Catalina October through May historical rainfall data with this past season’s total, when a friend brought this Scientific American article to my attention. Today’s blog title is inspired by the May 25th, 2012, issue of Scientific American, one in which it was pronounced : “Climate Armageddon: How the World’s Weather Could… Continue reading Catalina winter rainfall to end by 2035!
Category: Soapbox
Let’s talk about May
Now in a really good web site about weather, clouds and climate, we would have talked about May around the first of May. But let’s face it, this site really isn’t that great. So now we’ll talk about the climate of May on May 11th. Below is the rain frequency climate, such as it is,… Continue reading Let’s talk about May
The Myth: Climate scientists were not on the global cooling bandwagon in the 1970s
Advisory: heavy reading ahead…have to fill time during current cloud drought In an article published in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (BAMS) in 2008, it was asserted that there was no “concensus” on global cooling in the 1970s. Why address this now? I was busy before now…. Overall response to this BAMS assertion:… Continue reading The Myth: Climate scientists were not on the global cooling bandwagon in the 1970s
A short rant about another “hide the decline” incident in the climate domain with a short rebuttal
Advisory If you are queasy, don’t like reading about what the author perceives as “broken science”, hit the back button now. ————————————————————- Background: 1) The “Hide the decline” phrase alluded to in the title above came out of the “climategate” e-mails. Specifically, “hiding the decline” was about climate scientists deliberately hiding a recent divergence between… Continue reading A short rant about another “hide the decline” incident in the climate domain with a short rebuttal
Climate change: what they were saying, 1974
An early anticipation of a possible climate castastrophy One of the great books of our time on weather modification and climate change came out in 1974: Weather and Climate Modification by Wiley-Interscience Press. It was edited by Wilmot N. Hess, Director of the Environmental Research Labs under NOAA. Hess oversaw 11 ERL programs. … Continue reading Climate change: what they were saying, 1974
Weathering extremes: what goes around comes around
Some brutal storms over the past year or so, such as the recent one that dropped 1-2 feet of snow from Tulsa to Chicago and beyond with sometimes hurricane force winds, have been labeled with all sorts of monikers, “Frankenstorm”, “snowmageddon”, etc., to emphasize how bad, and perhaps, how unique they were. Some incautious observers have… Continue reading Weathering extremes: what goes around comes around
Montford’s The Hockey Stick Illusion, p269: climate change meets cloud seeding
“McIntyre’s first step in trying to replicate a paper was to collate the data. While data might be cited correctly and accurately in the papers, it was always possible that what had been used was different in some way to the official versions, whether due to an error in the archive or one made… Continue reading Montford’s The Hockey Stick Illusion, p269: climate change meets cloud seeding
The FAA and the Ideals of Science
Today, its not unusual to see researchers publishing seemingly important findings in journals accompanied by a global news release at the time the article appears. At this point, such research has perhaps been reviewed prior to journal publication by only several individuals. However, it has become fairly common for researchers asscociated with globally impactful… Continue reading The FAA and the Ideals of Science