On 25 January 2011 the BoM published an amended SPECIAL CLIMATE STATEMENT 24 (SCS24) originally published on 7 Jan on the subject “An extremely wet end to 2010 leads to widespread flooding across eastern Australia.” The revised SCS24 is nearly doubled in size and is titled, “Frequent heavy rain events in late 2010/early 2011 lead … Continue reading Australian Bureau of Meteorology report conceals details of high rainfall in February 1893→
Yesterday the Queensland Premier announced a Commission of Inquiry into flood disaster. Terms of reference – on 2 pages, which read to me as being in simple plain english. The Premier said the inquiry would have the powers of a Royal Commission – perhaps lawyers could explain and comment. Have I missed seeing “climate change” … Continue reading Commission of Inquiry into Queensland floods 2011→
The Canberra Times has a front page article on 15 January 2011 – “Canberra should batten down the hatches” – and talks of “…predicting devastating storms and unrelenting rain in the capital for the next two months.” The ACT SES Commissioner Mark Crosweller said a long-range briefing provided by the Bureau of Meteorology in November … Continue reading Canberra emergency services – new experts on weather→
Last week some work took me out to West Wyalong region and I also looked around Temora – town gardens look fine (I know there has been rain), the water supply at motels (we used two) seemed excellent – no needle sharp shower roses out there – and the motel prop seemed unconcerned about water … Continue reading Sky high Canberra water bills compared to Riverina and central NSW→
This webpage from the Danish Centre for Ocean and Ice has interesting graphics showing the temperature of the arctic above 80 north since 1958 using the climate reanalysis ERA40. I have made an animation with 2 second frames. I can add 2010 later.
I have been collecting total votes twice each day from late October. From before the major revision to online totals ~28 Oct by “The Science Museum” – see their statement here about spurious voting. Several interesting points come out of my daily numbers, first there have now been two other major adjustments to total votes … Continue reading Sudden jumps in vote totals at “The Science Museum” (London) online poll→
Jones et al 1986 looked at 86 Australian stations and rejected 46 (25 Short term – 21 long term). Of the 40 they used 27 were short term and 13 long term. Of the long term there were 5 large cities. The 27 short term stations were mostly only quoted from 1951 onward – regardless … Continue reading Jones et al 1986 methodical insertion of warming bias→
This book by New Zealand journalist Ian Wishart – a #1 bestselling author four times, surprised me by the completeness with which he reviewed and presents alternatives to the plethora of IPCC inspired spin and publicity which floods our media today. His sixteen chapters examining aspects of the debate are meticulously footnoted and thus are … Continue reading AIR CON: The Seriously Inconvenient Truth About Global Warming→
Primarily exposing faulty methodologies behind global temperature trend compilations