Sea-Surface Temperatures
My last post compared actual sea-surface temperature (SST) estimates to one another to see how well they agreed. It was not a pretty sight; the various estimates covered a range of global average SSTs from ~14°C [...]
Sea surface and mixed layer temperatures
As described in my previous post, the ocean "mixed layer" is sandwiched between the very thin "skin" layer at the ocean surface and the deep ocean. The skin layer loses thermal energy ("heat") to [...]
Sea surface skin temperature
In previous posts, see here and here, I’ve tried to show that because the oceans cover 71% of Earth and they contain 99% of the thermal energy stored on the Earth’s surface, they dominate the speed and [...]
The true “control knob” of long-term temperature change is the oceans
A considerable amount of new information on ocean temperature has been gathered since I last wrote about the subject in 2016 here. In my last post on GHCN and the National Temperature Index, it appeared that ocean [...]
The U.S. National Temperature Index
The United States has a very dense population of weather stations, data from them is collected and processed by NOAA/NCEI to compute the National Temperature Index. The index is an average temperature for the nation [...]
There is no climate emergency
A global network of
1971
scientists and professionals has prepared this urgent message. Climate science should be less political, while climate policies should be more scientific. Scientists should openly address uncertainties and exaggerations in their predictions of global warming, while politicians should dispassionately count the real costs as well as the imagined benefits of their policy measures.