…deliberately concealing the specific numerical value of such differences and instead hyping these carefully hidden small differences as being “a new monthly record for heat” and the “hottest November” even when the latest…
Category: El Nino Basics
New Ocean Satellite Monitors How El Niño Is Shaping Up
Not all El Niño events are created equal. Their impacts vary widely, and satellites like the U.S.-European Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich help anticipate those impacts on a global scale by tracking…
Response to Willis Eschenbach’s WUWT Post “How The El Nino Is Changing”
El Niño and La Niña events act together as a chaotic, naturally occurring, sunlight-fueled, recharge-discharge oscillator, with El Niño events acting as the discharge phase and La Niña events acting…
How The El Nino Is Changing
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Let me start with a quick run through how mainstream climate scientists think the climate works, and then my hypothesis on how the climate works.…
La Nina is Not Going Away. What Does This Mean for This Summer’s Weather?
But first, the bottom line: the summer effects of La Nina are modest, but will push the western side of our region towards cooler than normal conditions.
The Big 5 Natural Causes of Climate Change Part 3: How La Nina Warms the World
Until then embrace renowned scientist Thomas Huxley’s advice: “skepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin”
How El Niño and Drought Affected the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
El Niño, an oceanic phenomenon that affects worldwide weather patterns, significantly affected the number of enslaved Africans transported from West Africa to the Americas between the mid-1600s and mid-1800s,
La Nina Conditions Continue Across the Equatorial Pacific
…likely to last into at least early summer with a potential impact on tropical activity…seeing an impact on global temperatures
La Nina: Globe Expected To Continue Cooling Into Next Year, Extending Cooling Streak To 7 Years
From The NoTricksZone By P Gosselin on 24. September 2021 Snowfan rreports here of how parts of western Germany have had 4 nights in a row of surface frost and how new models are…
La Nina is Collapsing
These rapid changes out of La Nina conditions are good news for California, which has experienced two dry winters in a row, since neutral conditions should bring increased chances of…
Sunspots and El Nino Part Two
Guest post by Willis Eschenbach In my last post, The Sun Also Sets, I looked at a study that I’ll continue to call L2021. It claimed a correlation between what…
Under The Equator
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Inspired by my previous posts, Boy Child Girl Child and Sea Levels in the Nino-Nina Cycle, I decided to take a look at what is…
Sea Levels in the Nino Nina Cycle
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach [UPDATE: Grrr … thanks to an alert commenter, I find that my previous numbers were out by a factor of ten. I love the web…
Boy Child, Girl Child
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I’ve said before that I consider myself a climate heretic rather than a climate skeptic. A skeptic doubts parts of things. A heretic questions the…
After nearly a decade away, La Niña weather system is back…
According to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), La Niña is back in the central and eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean, after nearly a decade’s absence.
Fidelity of El Niño simulation matters for predicting future climate
A new study led by University of Hawai’i at Mānoa researchers, published in the journal Nature Communications this week, revealed that correctly simulating ocean current variations hundreds of feet below…
Upcoming La Nina Winter: Cooler and Wetter than Normal
There comes a point during mid-summer when the veil of uncertainty lifts regarding the nature of the upcoming winter season and we are at that point now.
Coral tells own tale about El Niño’s past
Rice, Georgia Tech study in Science reveals Pacific temperatures over a millennium Rice University Georgia Tech climate scientist Kim Cobb samples an ancient coral for radiometric dating. She is part…
La Nina may form in the equatorial Pacific Ocean later this year and, if so, it could have wide-ranging ramifications
By Paul Dorian NOAA’s CFS v2 computer forecast model is predicting relatively strong La Nina conditions by later this summer (August/September/October); SST anomalies plot courtesy NOAA *La Nina may form…
A Weak El Nino Transitioning to La Nada
Reposted from the Cliff Mass Weather Blog Friday, February 14, 2020 A Weak El Nino Transitioning to La Nada During the past few months we have moved from near neutral…
Half of 21st Century Warming Due to El Nino
Reposted from Dr Roy Spencer’s Blog May 13th, 2019 by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D. A major uncertainty in figuring out how much of recent warming has been human-caused is…
Curious Correlations
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Grrrrr … gotta pull this one. The effect I found was due to the interaction of the El Nino with the seasons. Once I removed…
Impossible research produces 400-year El Niño record, revealing startling changes
Ph.D. student extracts world-first centuries long seasonal record of El Niños from coral cores University of New South Wales Melbourne: Australian scientists have developed an innovative method using cores drilled…
The La Nina Pump
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Sometimes a chance comment sets off a whole chain of investigation. Somewhere recently, in passing I noted the idea of the slope of the temperature…
