Residual Analysis
A closer look at scientific data and claims, with an emphasis on anthropogenic global warming.


Sprawling Cities Getting Hotter Faster
An interesting new paper has been published (ahead of print) in Environmental Health Perspectives: Stone et al. (2010). It's being widely reported in the media (e.g Yahoo! News.) It finds that:
Our ...

Intensity or Frequency?

I have previously argued that – in my estimation – there's a strong causal association between sea-surface temperatures and the number of named storms (or tropical cyclones) in the Atlantic Basin. ...

Urban Heat Island Effect - A Model
In the addendum of my last post on the Urban Heat Island (UHI) Effect, I noted that GHCN v2 apparently does contain data that we can use to verify the existence of the effect, even though UHI doesn...

Urban Heat Island Effect - Probably Negligible
Previously I had discussed the difference between rural and urban temperature stations in the U.S. Commenter steven argued that population assessments (R, S and U) in GHCN v2 might be outdated and ...

US Rural vs. Urban Temperature Stations
There's an article by Edward R. Long titled "Contiguous U.S. Temperature Trends Using NCDC Raw and Adjusted Data For One-Per-State Rural and Urban Station Sets." It claims to show that in the raw/u...