Writing from Starbucks WiFi in Sacramento. Still have all my hair, but have to drive 90 miles home now as I just dropped off the server for re-rack at the CoLo
As I promised for tonight, www.climateaudit.org has regained life.
– Anthony
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Good job Anthony.
Thank you. You, and many of those whom you help or enable, have taught me a lot.
Your work is valuable. I hope you look at your visage in the mirror every morning, smile, and say with pride, “You do good work!”
Mark Young
That was directed at Anthony.
Nothing personal, jeez.
:O
😀
Reply: I’m just a squire. He’s the knight ~ charles the moderator aka jeez
The withdrawal symptoms were tough going… but not as tough as your heroic efforts, I’m sure.
Love the website. Question, well actuall two. Firstly, do you know of any places online that have temperature records for various stations around the world, especially in desert areas, that can show the minimum temperatures of those areas over time?–Secondly, I ask because I had a thought, most areas have cloud, water vapor, oceanic, mountain or vegetation or human influences which skew their temprature records and make it hard to detect the actual supposed CO2 signal for warming. I thought that since deserts tend to have little water content, little outside influnce, and are excellent radiators of long-wave radiation at night, their rises (or probably, different trends) of minimum temperatures ought to give away the true CO2 signal if there is one. Your thoughts?
Try:
ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/ghcn/v2/v2.min.Z
They also have an ‘adjusted’ version at the same location. It is v2.min_adj.Z and of course the mean is at v2.mean.Z and the max is v2.max.Z with both available in ‘adjusted’ forms as well.
I’ve documented some of this at:
chiefio.wordpress.com under the GHCN topic.
That would be at:
http://chiefio.wordpress.com/2009/02/24/ghcn-global-historical-climate-network/
I also wonder why deserts aren’t studied more closely. If I understand the process correctly, the lack of water and resultant evaporative cooling is what creates the desert. Evaporation (or the lack of it), then, would be appear to be a significant forcing. I’ve not seen much study on this.
Possibly one reason is that living out there doing experiments is expensive, hazardous, and for those accustomed to peering at computer screens in air conditioned luxury, doing “field work” is unpleasant.
It’s a rising trend among recent university graduates in most field oriented sciences – lifestyle is more important than vocation.
So the trend is to remotely controlled sensors etc via satellite telemetry, providing they don’t fall out of the sky or crash up there), and then if the equipment fails, its a little more than a 90 mile drive to fix it. And occupational, safety and health regulations are starting to make field work very, very expensive, if on occasions, impossible.
Deserts also have longer term weather pattern variations that are noted in oral stories as well as historical manuscripts and geologic soil layers. Anything less than these more dramatic changes, such as those viewed in timescales of decades, is likely due to oceanic, jet stream, and trade wind influences that oscillate in these shorter time spans. The slight rises each season that look like CO2 are, IMO, likely due to the fact that these natural events oscillate (swing up and down) and this oscillation continues on its course (up or down) till it runs out of steam, and then starts swinging the other way.
Jacob,
I have a question; regarding your comment, that “deserts are excellent radiators of long-wave radiation at night.”
Who the hell turns on the long-wave radiator at night and turns it off in the morning when the sun comes out ??
Have you given some thought as to how much better at long-wave radiation these deserts are in the blinding light of the noonday sun. Now that is when they really perform.
It is a popular misconception that the tropics heat the planet, and the poles cool the planet; nothing could be further from the truth.
The hottest places on planet earth (at around +60 deg C surface temp) actually cool the planet at a rate 12 times faster than the puny cooling rate (long-wave emission) that occurs at the coldest places on earth (Vostok at as low as -90 C at night)
The deserts and Urban Heat Islands are amongst our best friends, if heating is our problem.
George
Well done and thanks. It shows your commitment is strong, much stronger than ours, keyboard resistance cheerers.
Definitely a moment or two of worry. Thanks so much, Steve.
Jacob,
You can try CO2 Science:
http://www.co2science.org/data/ushcn/ushcn.php
Also, click on the DATA link on the menu bar to get to world temps.
Thanks.
Thank you, Anthony, for your dedication to the cause. Did you add a fan or two? I’m another one who favors large enclosures with extra fan room…
REPLY: I replaced two that were running slow. Fans are maxed out in the box. – Anthony
Cool dude, err should that be hot man!
fans blow. use this instead
http://www.spikynorman.dsl.pipex.com/CrayWWWStuff/Criscan/Cray2towers.jpg
Congrats! Good show.
Hope you are taking the bus and not traveling as a single occupant vehicle, BTW do you have any idea how much CO is expended to get you that cup of coffee?
You did use this opportunity to switch to a low draw power-supply with energy saving stand by mode and auto-sizing routers right?
You better off-set ASAP!
Sorry just trying being a green for a minute… that was rather disturbing…I think I need a long hot shower until the tank is cold, then a drive up the coast in my 8 Cylinder low-mileage hi-performance car before bed.
Wow, I am going to make a killing on the 12 step program I am developing. (Environmental Paraniods Anonymous) or EPA for short.
Sorry I had some cough syrup earlier…
OOT (Off Off Topic?) Canadian Prime Minister Harper is still the man, watch his comments on “The Kudlow Report”
sample “…that economic reality will hit those policies pretty hard…”
Link through my Blog, ( Shameless self promotion) …
like I always say have the USA make a list of what they do not need from Canada and I will stop it at the border myself.
A remarkably selfless act by a very busy proprietor of a small business struggling to survive in an economic recession induced by boundless greed! (who also runs gratis one of the most interesting and informative web logs in the world).
A truly admirable human being!
Richard
My sentiments, exactly.
You’re one helluva a guy, Anthony.
And a very busy one too.
Good job Anthony and Thank you.
Well done Anthony!
Keep hitting the tip jar folks.
It’s one way to show our appreciation.
I see you’ve already made the recommendation…
But it doesn’t hurt to remind people as I have below.
For a moment I was afraid that was a photo of Anthony after finishing the repair… then I came to my senses. Mostly. 😉
I’m so glad to see the server back and happy. Thanks, Anthony, for the hard work!
Quite fitting using a comedy spoof of an early science fiction novel to announce the return of CA. Seems deliciously ironic!
Clearly you need more experience fixing computers. Then it would just seem normal. 🙂
For example, back in my PDP-10 days [self snip out of deference to readers who don’t like “puzzling things in … technology”]
REPLY: I used to run about 50 PDP 11/03’s, a PDP11/10 and a PDP 11/70 – Anthony
I have a running PDP-11 in the other room. My tiny company still uses it for bookkeeping, and the occasional revisit to ancient project work. Aside from occasional maintenance on the 9-track tape drive, it has survived for over 20 years… just try to get that kind of lifetime out of a PC!
I’m sure there’s a forum somewhere for war stories from the good ol’ days of the PDP-10…
This makes me suddenly feel very old – I used one during the early 1970’s!
Dr., sir, I have the brain, ‘Abby Normal’.
Mary,
Just to show what I meant in my post yesterday about nesting, I will reply to you.
Oh dear, get a life!
That’s what nesting encourages you see.
Exactly what I was thinking, since CA makes statistical climate scientists seem little better than mad doctors.
Thanks a lot for the efforts, it is good to see CA back online!
Now if only the NOAA responded as rapidly and effectively with the upkeep of the USHCN surface stations as you have
with the server problem.
NOAA,
hope you read this. I’d be happy as a taxpayer if you responded just a quarter or a fifth as fast in repairing your surface stations.
Really, this type of commitment and mobilisation deserves us going to the tip jar!
Mary,
If you want to see real comedy, visit some US surface stations. Brought to you by the NOAA!
http://www.surfacestations.org/odd_sites.htm
It would be funny if it wasn’t paid by us taxpayers.
Is the Arctic melting already?
http://www.osdpd.noaa.gov/PSB/EPS/SST/climo&hot.html
It would seem that somehow the SST temperatures are also dependent on the SSMI sensor and is consequently in a state of collapse too.
And OCO (Orbiting Carbon Observatory) just had a launch failure.
Perhaps NOAA is using the same DMSP satellite that both NSIDC and Cryosphere Today use which resulted in questionable sea ice readings.
On the other hand, the readings from the AMSR-E satellite don’t seem to be showing the same problems, although they seem to be showing some reductions around the edges. See images here:
http://www.ijis.iarc.uaf.edu/en/index.htm
Perhaps there is some compaction of sea ice happening, rather than significant melting. The sea ice extent they show has decreased from this winter’s high (so far) of 14, 204 million km² to yesterday’s preliminary reading of 13, 942 million km². There’s still about a month to go before serious melt begins. So far the numbers seem to be hovering around 2004 & 2005 values.
The current image seems to match Cryosphere’s 2/23 image, see http://igloo.atmos.uiuc.edu/cgi-bin/test/print.sh?fm=02&fd=22&fy=2009&sm=02&sd=23&sy=2009
I.e. west half of Hudson’s Bay melted, all of Greenland’s western coast is open.
Oh – the northwest passage looks like it might be open. 🙂
Sigh.
HA! i love that movie. also great job with both website anthony
Great work! Not knowing the setup, I was concerned for permanent information loss.
Does the server use RAID 1 (or similar) to protect against information loss by disk failures? Are there other hardware redundancies built in? Just wondering — a couple yes/no are all the feedback my wondering is worth.
Merci.
This man does it all.
Anthony – it could be worse, and very much on topic:
http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSTRE51N23M20090224
I just heard on NECN that it crashed into the ocean near Antarctica. Ironic!
Actually “Young Fhrankensteen,er.Frankenstein, ” was a bit of genius by the great
Mel Brooks.It was a homage to the 1930’s monster flicks.One of my favorites.
“Abby who?”…
“Abby Normal…”
BTW good show Anthony!..