About a week ago, I looked at the apparent interannual divergence in satellite temperature records. Lucia also blogged about why the UAH vs RSS temperature differences might have energy at 1 year. There was also a good discussion in the blog comments about energy being observed at 1 year when the current UAH data is subtracted from the UAH data from late last year.

Last time when I looked at the difference between the difference between the anomalies, there was a jump that occured in 1992. This was attributed by many to the differences in splicing the different satelittes together between the two groups. After the 1992 jump, there was a very obvious ~1 year periodic cycle. In the comments at Lucia’s blog, Spence_UK noted that the period was not exactly 1 year, but slightly less. Robb commented that the periodicity may be from the diurnal and hot target temperature corrections.
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Thanks to Richard Littlemore at DeSmogBlog.

I am horrified to find my name on such a list. I have spent the last 20 years arguing the opposite.

Dr. David Sugden. Professor of Geography, University of Edinburgh

I have NO doubts ..the recent changes in global climate ARE man-induced. I insist that you immediately remove my name from this list since I did not give you permission to put it there.

Dr. Gregory Cutter, Professor, Department of Ocean, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Old Dominion University

I don’t believe any of my work can be used to support any of the statements listed in the article.

Dr. Robert Whittaker, Professor of Biogeography, University of Oxford

Please remove my name. What you have done is totally unethical!!
Dr. Svante Bjorck, Geo Biosphere Science Centre, Lund University

I’m outraged that the “Heartland Institute” has included me as an “author” of this report. I do not share the views expressed in the summary.

Dr. John Clague, Shrum Research Professor, Department of Earth Sciences, Simon Fraser University

There’s been a buzz going around that maybe the Arctic Ocean will be ice free this summer. Unlike the surface temperature record, the veracity of the sea ice record does not seem to be in dispute on the Internets. The Arctic sea ice is declining.

I’m offering my no-skill prediction of the sea ice extent (as reported at Cryosphere Today). By no-skill, I mean that I have assumed that the linear trend from 1950 through 2007 will continue. This means that since 2007 was such a large negative anomaly, that my prediction is there will be more ice extent this year than last.
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Energy efficiency is a topic that should be unanimously agreed upon to be a good thing. Left-leaners should like it because it helps save the environment. And right-leaners who don’t care about the environment should like it because it will save them money. This post will offer suggestions that will be friendly to the environment, and save you money.

Air Conditioner Efficiency

A cheap way to reduce energy consumption is to check your air filters in your air conditioning units. When dust collects on the air filter, it reduces the air flow into the air conditioner, which means that it needs to work longer to produce the same amount of cooled air. Running the air conditioning unit longer means reduced energy efficiency; wasting your hard-earned money. A dusty air filter can reduce efficiency by 5-15%.
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