Category Archives: Science

HADCRUT4.6 for June 2018

Posted on July 30, 2018 by Clive Best

The CRUTEM4.6 weather station data for June 2018 has just been published, which when combined with the HadSST3 sea surface temperature data forms the global average – HadCRUT4.6. The traditional method for calculating this is by binning all the station … Continue reading →

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Has Gaia really been explained?

Posted on July 4, 2018 by Clive Best

I was interested in a new paper which claims to be able to explain the Gaia hypothesis, first proposed by James lovelock, that life stabilises the earth’s climate.  The paper is described in an article in the Conversation. The paper … Continue reading →

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Spatial rainfall distribution

Posted on June 20, 2018 by Clive Best

Rainfall anomalies also have monthly spatial distributions analogous to those for temperature. North Atlantic storms in January 2014 brought flooding to Western England. That month’s distribution shows  that abnormally high rainfall also affected the western coastlines of France, Spain and … Continue reading →

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