Tiny Barrow, Alaska Has 3C UHI On Calm Nights | Real Science

Barrow has less than 5,000 residents, yet they have a very large Urban Heat Island Effect.

Smoking Gun : Hansen Lying About UHI | Real Science

It is also curious how the raw data is higher now than it was 13 years ago. Perhaps Hansen went back in time and remeasured the temperatures.

More on Koutsoyiannis and the homogenization of temperature data – plus some comments on blog review | Watts Up With That?

Koutsoyiannis makes an interesting point about blogs -vs- traditional peer review. Traditional peer review is a slow and arduous process, taking months, sometimes years, and in my opinion is a holdover from a much slower time pre-Internet and email. Usually less than a dozen people are involved in that process. Blog review of papers, presentations, and topics is like an insta-launch, where citizens and scientists alike spar in sometimes a gladiatorial style over broad issues as well as minutiae. Hundreds and often thousands of eyes and minds are brought to bear, often picking the carcass clean of errors until nothing is left.

For all its warts, science blogging has a purpose and a place in today’s world.

Denialists will soon run the show? Not at all. Those in denial are losing to the realists. « JoNova: Science, carbon, climate and tax

Texas Drought Update, July 2012 | Climate Abyss | a Chron.com blog

What is the outlook for the rest of the year?

“NOAA has officially declared an El Niño watch, which means that it thinks there’s a better than 50 percent chance of El Niño forming within the next six months,” Nielsen-Gammon said. “This tends to mean a damp and cool winter is in store, which I think most of us have learned to appreciate.”