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Global Microwave SST Update for May 2013: -0.01 deg. C « Roy Spencer, PhD

Despite the relatively short period of record, I consider this dataset to be the most accurate depiction of SST variability over the last 10+ years due to these instruments’ relative insensitivity to contamination by clouds and aerosols at 6.9 GHz and 10.7 GHz.

It’s Time for Scientists to Tweet | The Yale Forum on Climate Change & The Media

Tweets are also effectively “science sound bites” that can misrepresent complex ideas. These sound bites could then be hijacked by outside agendas, such as occurred in the infamous Climategate e-mail scandal.

Budget ‘Sequestration’ and Climate Change: The Looming Reality of Less Science | The Yale Forum on Climate Change & The Media

untouchable scientific travel budgets — for the conferences and meetings where ideas are exchanged and the peer-review process is kindled — are making it difficult for agency scientists and researchers to go anywhere these days.

Average Arctic Sea Ice For May (from 2004) is Climbing | sunshine hours

Taking the mean of Arctic Sea Ice Extent for May (from 2004) results in a graph that goes up up up (admittedly in small jumps).