At The Hill, which bills itself as "a top US political website, read by the White House and more lawmakers than any other site – vital for policy, politics and election campaigns," Laura Barron-Lopez has an article on NOAA's latest climate report that apparently shows that "changes in the earth's climate are increasing at a steady rate ... Greenhouse gas emissions, sea levels, global temperatures and super storms all are trending upward, NOAA said." So NOAA thinks that the absolute absence of any significant increasing trend in global temperatures for almost two decades is "increasing at a steady rate"?  That's right: using the standard Mann-Kendall test for trends, there is no significant trend in global temperatures since 1995. Barron-Lopez's article also states that "Last year ... California experienced its driest year on record and Oregon had its fourth driest year." That would be interesting if a NOAA report...(Read Full Post)