Snatch the pebble from my hand, and you are ready to adjust.

Ah, but do you hear the air conditioning vent at your feet?

I could come up with several more, but I am not sure if you are even referring to this, so I will abate. :)

As best as I can recall it involves walking on rice paper . . .

Hansen tells us that he won’t “joust with jesters”, as presumably he’s too busy adjusting to have time for jousting. We by contrast have lots of time to jest with adjusters.

“Better A Jester than Adjuster”
Hansen et al 2001 describes:
a) the gist of the adjustment;
b) a jest of an adjustment
c) just an adjustment
d) a joust with a jester

REPLY: LOL! – A

http://drought.unl.edu/DM/MONITOR.html

It’s still nothing like what my parents and grandparents had to deal with in our drought of record, back in the 50’s (unless this continues).

“They have no time to joust with us jesters, but we must jest with these adjusters.”

Just the right lilt and cadence. Cousteau-quality.

I nominate this for quote of the week!

Ha! I remember the days I spent in the Mojave, on Edwards. You had to have a green lawn per the Air Force regs for property upkeep, but you were only allowed to water once a day either at 6am, or 8pm. You could not tell the water wasters, but you could tell the people who painted the lawns green when it rained. The paint would run off into the street. Base institutions were among the offenders if I remember correctly. :)

One would expect instrument error (unknown at this time in direction and magnitude) to further degrade the USCHN observation accuracy. And for example, are observers even aware of proper procedures in reading instruments – for example, overcoming parallax error?

I would not even remotely imply that Anthony do anything different than carry-on with his current survey, but everyone should recognize that he will not discover all of the possible errors embedded in the observations.

In short, Anthony’s survey may just expose the tip of the iceberg.

San Antonio.
We just went from stage2 restrictions (sprinklers once a week on your designated day) to stage3 (sprinklers every 2 weeks).
It’s easy to spot the the water wasters – green lawns.

If anyone remembers John V’s early look at temperatures from CRN1,2 stations versus CRN3,4,5 and then comparing that to GISS’ records, I believe John V and other posters may not have appreciated the problems with using the homogeneity adjusted numbers – like the NOAA above.

Some of the earliest data John V produced showed a huge difference in just the TOBs-adjusted data between CRN1,2 and the CRN5 stations (using just the TOBs adjustment might be valid but I would prefer to see just the Raw data as well.)

Effectively, the trend differential is 0.6C between CRN1,2 (TOBs only) and CRN5 (TOBs only) from 1900 to 2002 (5 year smoothing).

http://www.opentemp.org/_results/20071002_CRN12R_CRN5_TOBS/temp5yr_1996_2005.png

I still don’t buy that it vindicates GISS’ methods – there is still a problem with that analysis.

At some point, we still need to compare the station’s ratings against the Raw and TOBs-only data trends.

Where in Texas do you live? We had tons of rain (records even set) and cool temperatures in North Cental Texas up through the beginning of June. I didn’t turn my sprinklers on until a few weeks ago, and my lawn is currently growing out of control with only one watering per week. Nothing unusual in my part of Texas.

Expect a Texan to whine. :~P

Plenty hot in Dallas — but no chance of a record

The National Weather Service is talking about high temperatures of 103 today in Dallas and at Dallas-Fort Worth International, not to mention a searing 105 in Waco.

True, those would be the highest temperatures this year — but 103 still misses the record for the date by 10 degrees.

Back in 1980, the summer that encapsulates all that is hot about the Texas summer, the mercury climbed to 113 on June 26 and repeated the feat the next day. Those two days were the peak of a mind-numbing 11-day run of record-high temperatures that still stand 29 years later. Here are the specifics:

June 23 104
June 24 106
June 25 109
June 26 113
June 27 113
June 28 112
June 29 108
June 30 108
July 1 109
July 2 110
July 3 109

“an odd juncture of history where the agenda of the power-brokers is aligned with the world-view of the press. The media won’t tattle on itself.”

Another odd feature is that the pols who are supposed to be running the show see themselves instead as part of a protest movement against the status quo.

A kind of worldwide vandal-ocracy.

I’m thinking especially about Penny Wong in Aus and Ed Miliband in the UK. Both are cartoonish caricatures of deadbeat student protestors against everything.

“Don’t the models say the SW U.S. will be the canary in the coal mine?

Well they were right on. We’re cooking down here – 103°F again today.”

Well, weather patterns have shifted and the winds bringing moist air in to your area are going elsewhere these last couple of years. You’re hot because you’re dry…not because of CO2. Lower humidity allows for higher temps. Which makes me wonder about that positive water vapor feedback. I mean the more water vapor in the air, the less likely temps are going to skyrocket. Warmer at night, yeah, but during the day?

That AGW thang is full of inconsistencies.

30years is long term?