Data for the three main surface global annual average temperature datasets are now available for 2011.

HadCrut3

According to (one of the ) HadCrut3 databases 2011 was the 12th warmest year, with a temperature anomaly of 0.342, behind 2010, 2009, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 1998 and 1997.

The rating for the individual months...

The IPCC models are close to being refuted with respect to the magnitude of global warming even with the large Loeb et al values.

I posted earlier today on a report regarding the Earth’s heat balance; see

Missing Ocean Heat Study Reported On By Climate Wire – Response From Josh Willis

The Nature Geosciences paper referred to in that...

Predictions, Neils Bohr once said, are difficult, especially about the future. They are even more interesting however, when there is money at stake.

In December 2007 I wrote what I thought was quite a straightforward article for the New Statesman pointing out that it was curious that when so many voices were telling us that global warming was...

Researchers are beginning their analysis of what are probably the first successful ice cores drilled to bedrock from a glacier in the eastern European Alps.

With luck, that analysis will yield a record of past climate and environmental changes in the region for several centuries, and perhaps even covering the last 1,000 years.  Scientists also...