Category Archives: UK Met Office

Whatever happened to the Global Warming Hiatus ?

Posted on June 24, 2019 by Clive Best

The last IPCC assessment in 2013 showed a clear pause in global warming lasting 16 years from  1998 to 2012 – the notorious hiatus. As a direct consequence of this  AR5 estimates of climate sensitivity were reduced and CMIP5 models … Continue reading →

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2018 Temperature Comparisons

Posted on February 7, 2019 by Clive Best

The US Government shutdown delayed the release of the December GHCN station data. This also, perhaps surprisingly, also delayed the the Met Office/CRU results. So just how independent are they one from each other? Here is a comparison of the … Continue reading →

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July’s Hadcrut4.6(3D) = 0.65C

Posted on August 30, 2018 by Clive Best

My preferred method for calculating the global average temperature anomaly  for HADCRUT4.6 is by triangulating the measurements over the surface of a sphere. This gives almost identical results to those of Cowtan & Way but is a far simpler and … Continue reading →

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