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Energy balance and the oceans

Climate forcing relies on  an imbalance between incoming solar energy and outgoing IR energy at the TOA (top of atmosphere). The CERES instruments monitor radiation fluxes at the TOA and has measured this imbalance over the last 11 years [1]. … Continue reading

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Marcott – Proxy errors and conclusions

There has been a lot of discussion (see here) about the treatment of errors by  Marcott et al. through  their  Monte Carlo analysis. Since I  avoided any interpolation or Monte Carlo by using only the measured values for each proxy, … Continue reading

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Detecting peaks in Marcott data

New: Simulation of a 20% uncertainty in proxy resolution time and peaks practically disappear. Have there been previous warming periods over the last 10,000 years comparable to current warming ?  If so would Marcott proxy data have been able to … Continue reading

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Map of Marcott Proxies

The map below shows the location of the 73 proxies provided by Marcott el al. “Mouse over” gives the name of the station and a click on the dot shows the graph of the measured temperatures and anomalies (relative to … Continue reading

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Evidence that Marcott’s up-tick is an artefact

I have calculated from scratch the global averaged temperature anomalies for the 73 proxies used by Marcott et al. in their recent Science paper.  The method used is described in the previous post. It avoids any interpolation between measurements and … Continue reading

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Marcott Study

There has been much media interest in a recent paper by Marcott et. al “A Reconstruction of Regional and Global Temperature for the Past 11,300 Years” published in Science. It seemingly shows that following a slow cooling over the last … Continue reading

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Mars Greenhouse effect

Mars has a much thinner atmosphere than Earth but it is 95% composed of CO2. One might therefore expect a larger greenhouse effect, since there are 20 times more CO2 molecules in the Martian atmosphere than there are on Earth. … Continue reading

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Met Office Statistics

The UK Met Office seem determined to stand by their claim made in  response to the David Rose article in the Mail on Sunday: ‘The linear trend from August 1997 (in the middle of an exceptionally strong El Nino) to … Continue reading

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Met Office Embarrassment

The recent  Mail on Sunday article  by David Rose showing essentially no global warming for the the last 16 years  has caused quite a stir. The data he used for the article are  the Met Office/UEA own dataset – Hadcrut4. The … Continue reading

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Decelerating Global Warming !

Shown below is an updated version of the 2007 IPCC graph which formed the basis for the claim that AGW was accelerating. The same  analysis repeated in 2012  now shows a deceleration in warming, which  demonstrates just how dubious the original … Continue reading

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