Author Archives: Anthony

The Decadal Global Climate Bet – Now at the half way mark

Posted on January 8, 2016 by Anthony

Updated to December 2015 (month 60/120): We’re now at the half way mark; and the present decade is still running cooler than the preceding decade. The average temperature anomaly for the previous decade is 0.202 C. The average temperature anomaly … Continue reading →

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The Decadal Global Climate Bet – October 2015 Update

Posted on November 11, 2015 by Anthony

Updated to October 2015 (month 58/120): The present decade is still running cooler than the preceding decade. I wonder when we’ll begin to see the heating effect of the big El Nino? There’s not much sign of it yet. More … Continue reading →

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Global Energy Emissions (during the climate bet)

Posted on August 8, 2015 by Anthony

Having just updated the climate bet, which confirms the lack of recent warming (ie: the ‘pause’ or ‘hiatus’ as some call it), I thought next we should take a look at global energy emissions on the same time comparative basis. … Continue reading →

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The Decadal Global Climate Bet – June 2015 Update

Posted on July 18, 2015 by Anthony

The Decadal Global Climate Bet is now 4.5 years into the race.  Here is a quick update of progress. An interesting change has taken place with the data.  UAH has extensively revised their dataset to version 6.  I have updated … Continue reading →

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The Decadal Global Climate Bet – Dec 2014 update, 4 years into the race

Posted on January 7, 2015 by Anthony

Four years ago, early 2011, a decadal global temperature bet was made. And with all the hype about 2014 being the hottest year, now is a good time to check out progress with ‘the bet’. But first a little background … Continue reading →

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An Empirical Look at Recent Trends in the Greenhouse Effect

Posted on October 28, 2014 by Anthony

[New material has been added to this post] [More new material added – monthly SBRE calculation 4/11/14] Just in case you were not aware, since about 1997 or so, there has been nearly no global temperature rise. This is despite … Continue reading →

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A Decadal Global Climate Bet – three years down the track

Posted on January 6, 2014 by Anthony

Three years ago, early 2011, a decadal global climate bet was made.  At that time, December 2010 marked the end of a 10 year period.  January 2011 marked the beginning of the next.  The transition stimulated the formation of a … Continue reading →

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A Decadal Global Climate Bet – a second view of the race

Posted on November 7, 2013 by Anthony

About six months ago I posted a short article and a graph attempting to show the progress of a global decadal climate bet.  The graph compared the temperature of the two decades Jan 2001 through Dec 2010 and Jan 2011 … Continue reading →

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Advocating for CO2

Posted on May 19, 2013 by Anthony

Typical newspaper and TV articles which refer to CO2, malign it as a pollutant and some sort of horrible gas that we should do our utmost to get rid of, by not making it, or burying it deep underground.  It … Continue reading →

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The Decadal Global Climate Bet

Posted on May 16, 2013 by Anthony

Just over two years ago, early 2011, a decadal global temperature bet was made. At that time December 2010 marked the end of the last 10 year period.  January 2011 marked the beginning of the next.  The transition stimulated the … Continue reading →

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