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 […]
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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 […]
Time Flies
I noticed the following article about arctic sea ice loss this week: https://insideclimatenews.org/news/16022017/arctic-sea-ice-extent-nasa-global-warming-climate-change?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social What struck me was not so much the results, but the fact that the reported study began in 1979, the year I graduated from high school. Briefly, the article reported that Claire Parkinson, now a senior climate change scientist at NASA, began […]
February At Halftime
The football season has come and gone leaving me with the thrill of my Falcons getting into the Super bowl, and the agony of them blowing a twenty-five-point lead at the hand of the Patriots. In the world of climate, we have another dubious stat of 1916 daily record highs to only 18 daily record […]
How Much Is Too Much?
Let’s not sugarcoat this post. Even if the entire planet went cold turkey getting off fossil fuels today, it may already be too late to prevent civilization as we know it from having to drastically change in order not enter a new dark age. One of the worst problems with carbon pollution is sea level […]
I’m Not Monkeying Around
Without naming names here is my take on politics that I alluded to in my last post on the subject of carbon level trends in the atmosphere. Actually, this post touches on human psychology, and is also a mix of philosophy and science delving into the nature of mankind when it comes to taking care […]