Thursday, May 22, 2008
Windsor Tornado May 22, 2008
Monday, January 28, 2008
Sunday, December 30, 2007
Arctic Sea Ice Recovery November-December 2007
This video was generated from UIUC Cryosphere Today images, showing the record recovery in Arctic sea ice this fall and early winter.
Monday, September 3, 2007
GISS Maps are Skewed
- The rounded maps interpolate red through vast regions where there is no data - like most of Canada and the arctic. There is not a single data point shown in the arctic regions of Canada, yet the rounded map paints a broad brush of red across those regions.
- The rounding algorithms push all of the temperature regions upwards. Note the graph of the raw (250km) data shows average temperatures below normal for most of the southern hemisphere
- The map projections greatly exaggerate the size of polar regions and give the appearance of large areas of warmth, which are in fact much smaller than they appear.
Figure 1. Raw data rounded to 250km
Figure 2. Most of the area 0-60 south latitude shows below normal temperatures.
Figure 3. GISS rounded data to 1200km. There are vast areas of red which have no data points to back them up. The impression from this map is that July, 2007 was very hot, yet as you can see from the raw data above in figure 1, that was not the case in most places. Most of Antarctica appears bright red, yet this is based on a single location at the south pole where the temperature averaged colder than 65 below zero Farenheit. The Antarctic penninsula was about eight degrees below normal, but that is missing from this map. See figure 1.
Figure 5 shows the rounding errors. Blue regions are latitudes where temperatures were rounded up, and brown regions are rounded down. There is clearly a much greater region of rounded up temperatures than rounded down. Maybe by a factor of 10x.
Sunday, September 2, 2007
Fire and Ice
NOAA SST animation is overlayed with NASA Modis fire data. Note how sea ice regions of Siberia near gas flares (80E) and burning forests (130E) are showing large amounts of melting. Could this be due to soot darkening the ice and making it melt faster?
Monday, August 20, 2007
Neanderthals protest shrinking glaciers
Dr. Handsome
Disclaimer - any similarity to more evolved humans is completely coincidental.
Lucy, the Global Warming pin-up girl, is clearly distraught from the disappearance of the glaciers. Either that or she is just chewing on her finger.
Sunday, August 19, 2007
What warming?
http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/maps/