This week’s main subject is climate change induced drought. Dr. Michael Mann this week released an article on attribution, which I cited in my post Drought or Deluge: https://guyonclimate.com/2017/03/28/drought-or-deluge/ In Drought or Deluge we discussed how in the United States droughts lasting up to about five years over the last couple of decades were ending […]
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Coal Hard Facts from the book From Kyoto to Katrina to Keystone… How right wing politics hijacked the climate issue
Was peeved enough to present this allegorical chapter from World of Thermo since President Trump signed an executive order rolling back President Obama’s climate initiatives today. For a detailed look at the ramifications of Trump’s executive orders on the EPA and climate please look at Dr. Jeff Master’s blog: https://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/comment.html?entrynum=3591 Story 30. Hard Coal Facts […]
Drought or Deluge?
In a chapter from my potential book, World of Thermo, in an allegorical but amusing way, I told the story of three black birds on top of a wind turbine musing over a new, or second Dust Bowl in the 2020’s here: https://guyonclimate.com/2017/03/26/world-of-thermo-wind-whistler-story/ A second Dust Bowl would not be a laughing matter, however. The first one during the […]
Extreme Temperature Index-Some Calculations and Comparisons
This week Bob Henson and I introduced the world to the concept of an index which has the potential to rank and statistically compare surface temperature records. For a detailed explanation see: https://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/the-extreme-temperature-index-identifying-which-records-are-most-sign.html So for this post let’s do some calculations using the ETI for some very recently set records. These come from March 21st, 2017 […]
Extreme Temperature Index Proposal/All-Time U.S. Record Counts and Trends
So how have the ratios of all-time record counts been charting the last few decades? All-time records would be the crème de la crème of the hottest or coldest temperatures ever recorded at a site, and to weather historians the most interesting. Over the last few posts I have shown charts of daily and monthly […]
Burn Baby Burn… Fall 2017 Update
My editorial: *Because of the indictments in association with the Trump Administrative this morning (10/30/17) there is hope that government stances on the climate change issue, through political change, will occur sooner, not later, and that egregious damage to the environment won’t come to fruition due to United States policy. I reread what has been […]
Nights Warming Faster Than Days
Shortly after the Meehl Records Study that I was a part of got published in 2009, I began noticing a rather strange phenomenon in association with record temperatures. Data from the National Climatic Data Center’s record site had come on line in 2008, which confirmed my findings that in the decade of the 2000’s there […]
Monthly Temperature Records Perspective
My last post dealt with record high temperatures set on a daily basis. In Atlanta, for example, we tied the record high of 80 on the first of March, which would count as one tally in my daily records database. Meteorologically it would be much more difficult to tie or break the all-time record for […]
Climate Lottery: Spring 2017 Contest
Play “The Climate Lottery” by posting your picks here in the comments section after following the directions on this link. https://guyonclimate.com/the-climate-lottery/ This forecast contest is open from now until April 5th. Prior individual Climate Lottery numbers are posted here:
February Game Over-An Update
As suspected in my post, February at Halftime, the “warm team” fueled by carbon pollution ripped up the ill prepared and under equipped “cold team” during the second half of “the game”, but just by how much? What was the final score for February 2017? The answer as of the time of this post is […]