Category Archives: CRU

30 years of IPCC assessment reports – How well have they done?

Posted on January 2, 2020 by Clive Best

Over the last 30 years there have been 5 IPCC assessment reports on climate change.  I decided to compare each  warming predictions made at the time of publication to the consequently measured  temperatures. The objective is twofold. Firstly how well … Continue reading →

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Spatial integration of global temperatures

Posted on December 30, 2019 by Clive Best

The spatial integration method used to calculate the global surface temperature has a large impact on the end result. I am using a 3D method based on  spherical triangulation of the weather stations combined with SST results from HadSST3.  This … Continue reading →

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CRUTEM4 is cooler than GHCN-V4

Posted on November 27, 2019 by Clive Best

The October 2019 global temperature anomaly that I calculate based on the latest CRUTEM4 station data is 0.15C cooler than that using GHCN-V4 (0.79C as  compared to 0.96C). The temperature series are calculated in exactly the same way and both … Continue reading →

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