Perth water utility pleads for more water yet our Governments can not reliably collect rain data

Perth media says – Utility pleads for more water – yet as this table of monthly rain data for Collie 9628 shows, there are several years since 2002 with missing months data. The record was perfect from 1901 to 2001 through world wars and depressions.

Then our modern Govts fail in recording such vital data for the nation. Amazing failure – see Mundaring Weir 9031 too – who cares – it is only free water from the sky that could run into dams already paid for – why bother to measure that – so passe. We clever people are in “Our Drying Climate” now.
Collie rain has relevance to the Wellington Dam Water Recovery Project by AgritechSmartwater – saved by the Wayback Machine. Agritech are revitalising their campaign – but the WA Govt has blocked their proposals for a decade now.

BoM “crying Wolf” again warning that Brisbane heat may come as ‘shock’

Tuesday the BoM put out this warning – BoM says hot Brisbane weather may come as ‘shock’ Five days later I just wonder who is shocked as Brisbane temperatures look boring normal as AWN shows.

Taxpayers should be shocked at paying for this feverish twaddle. Eventually Brisbane will get a hotter than normal day – nothing is more certain.
Here we are on Sunday afternoon near 1700EST and the BoM has not figured out what the maximum was on the 5th and the minimum on the 12th – I mean what can happen to change things now? 30 minute data is here. Searching Google for the ABC headline shows a small sample of how this BoM rubbish infests the media.

Timeline around the “We have 25 or so years invested in the work.” 2005 email from Dr Phil Jones

I have just had an email saying that the Feb 2005 email from Dr Phil Jones to me saying – “We have 25 or so years invested in the work. Why should I make the data available to you, when your aim is to try and find something wrong with it. ” – has been mentioned at Climate etc the blog by Dr Judith Curry.
This got me to wondering if I have posted anywhere the six months sequence of emails starting July 2004 that lead up to Dr Jones marvellous missive. If you click more – my warts & all text file notes are there for those interested.
Continue reading Timeline around the “We have 25 or so years invested in the work.” 2005 email from Dr Phil Jones

Uncommon example of GreenLeft Australian media mentioning the urban heat island

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Research by the BoM 15 years ago found measurable urban effects in small Victorian centres Hamilton, Camperdown-Cobden, Colac. The BoM paper can be downloaded as a 216KB pdf-

Huge variations in Australian satellite temperature trends over 37 years 1979-2015

Comparing data for RSS V3.3, UaH V5.6 and the UaH V6Beta for the exact 37 years 1979-2015 (data from KNMI Climate Explorer using the Australian mask) – The trends using the Linest function in Excel are RSS V3.3 – 0.26°C, UaH V5.6 – 0.58 and the UaH V6Beta is an eye watering 0.88. IMHO huge differences shown in these KNMI charts.
First RSS –

Then UaH V5.6 –

Finally UaH V6Beta

I have posted on these issues a couple of years ago – I think the differences in overall trend are increasing.
Warming departure in UAH lower troposphere satellite temperatures compared to RSS over the period 2005-2006
and –
Difference between UAH and RSS satellite lower troposphere T anomalies has a distinct step change 2004-2005 over the USA 48 States – not as marked as Australia

Update solar cycle 24 through 2015 includes new RI sunspot series

Time to revist the progress of solar cycle 24 –

SIDC Brussels have produced a Version 2 series of sunspot numbers that looks very close to SWO NOAA.
SWO have a prediction out to end 2019 using the Version 1 RI numbers.
Does anybody know of any predictions for the timing of the next minima?

Breakthrough turning CO2 into a clean-burning formate fuel using partially oxidized atomic cobalt layers

This research by Chinese scientists in Hefei is reported in Nature – Partially oxidized atomic cobalt layers for carbon dioxide electroreduction to liquid fuel
and Popular Mechanics – Breakthrough Material Is a Better Way To Turn CO2 Into Clean-Burning Fuel.

Could a process such as this be a basis for making CCS (Carbon Capture & Storage) more worthwhile?

95 homes lost at Yarloop – is it time for large water bombers to be managed by the RAAF ?

ABC news today WA bushfire tears through Yarloop; homes destroyed
Map: Yarloop 6218 pre fire – Ninety-five homes and buildings have been confirmed destroyed.

‘Thor’ Hercules C-130 aircraft, capable of dropping 15,000 litres of water, arrives in NSW ahead of bushfire season – 1 Sep 2015 carries 15metric tons
DC-10 “Southern Belle” 43,900 litres carries 43.9metric tons – also in NSW
747 SuperTanker can carry 76 metric tons being refurbished in the USA.