Author Archives: Clive Best

UK Power generation 2018-19

Posted on April 5, 2019 by Clive Best

Peak electricity demand in the UK occurs between 5-30pm to 6pm each weekday evening. I have been monitoring daily power generation on an hourly basis for several years. During 2018 extra wind capacity has been added to the grid and … Continue reading →

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Changing temperature anomaly baselines

Posted on February 27, 2019 by Clive Best

I wanted to check whether the choice of baseline can affect the calculation of  global temperature anomalies from station data. Each temperature index (GISS, Berkeley, CRU) uses different normalisation periods for calculating weather station temperature anomalies. I was surprised to … Continue reading →

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January 2019 global average temperature remains unchanged – 0.73 C

Posted on February 21, 2019 by Clive Best

Global averaged surface temperature for January 2019 was 0.73C using my spherical triangulation method merging GHCNV3 with HadSST3. This is unchanged since December 2018. The baseline used is always 1961-1990. The Northern Hemisphere is shown here. and here is the … Continue reading →

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