Normally we see the HadCRUT monthly temperature data released by about the 20th of each month. It is now November 2nd, and the data has not yet been published. I can’t recall them ever being two weeks late.
HadCRUT (Hadley Climate Research Unit Temperature, UK)
HadCRUT3 anomaly data which can be found here
description of the HadCRUT3 data file columns is here
Perhaps they are a bit flummoxed with recent developments, such as the erasing of “sensitive” temperature data, or maybe they are just busy processing FOI’s?
Or maybe its the new supercomputer holding up the data?
Maybe the row over one tree has them delayed. Or maybe the 25% funding cut?
Who knows, but it sure is odd to see them so late getting the data out the door.
I imagine they are so busy trying to figure out how to cover their colletive [self-snip,] that they don’t have time to do their jobs.
Perhaps the program producing the result had links to the historical data and needs that information to produce the end result.
Now they may need to go through the code changing all the links to wherever the data is now stored. Or did they change the access permissions to the folders and the program can’t access the data.
Alternatively am I just being a bit too cynical
Maybe their still stuck in that car wreck? They would be driving the Prius.
Or I could say it this way:
May they’re still stuck in that car wreck?
It takes time to cook the data just right.
Was it last year they were caught publishing September Siberian temperatures in the October data? Maybe this year theyre waiting to publish the September and October data together as one — just redefine one month as two — now try challenging our Siberian temperatures ha ha!
Two thoughts spring to mind. One, they may be in a state of shock on hearing that should NuLabour lose the next election (very likely 95% confidence), & that the incoming Conservative governemnt may well privatise them, meaning job cuts, efficiency drives, & making money using their weather preditions, (fat chance), & Two, perhaps they are cooking the books again to show warming where there is cooling. So if you can smell burning, don’t worry, it’s only the books. May you live in interesting times!
THE RESULTS
105th Hottest October, 2009.
Nope, they deleted the data…
the dog ate the data
@Pamela
You mean stuck in the gravy train wreck.
Willy, it was GISTEMP and J. Hansen.
CRU just lost all raw data for peer-reviewed HadCRUT dataset, used in all IPCC reports 😮
I have been thinking that it is strange too. For much of the last year though the page which contains the update appears to have a retrospective date. What I mean by that is that I check on days a, b and c to find that the page has not been updated. However, on day f the data is updated, but the ‘end month updated’ section gives date b…..
My guess is that September 2009 came in top and they want to make sure that it was the case.
My two “kronor”.
/Sven
Here in Canada, the hockey term “stick handling” can be used either as adroit manipulation or as effective evasion. In this case, based on the hockey stick metaphor, take your pick.
Am I the only one to notice that the Centre’s logo has wavy data bands rising from left to right?
Or they have decided to stop making their data public.
I live 15 miles away. Shall I knock on their door and say that Anthony Watts would like the up to date information please? I am sure I will get a very friendly reception.
TonyB
not sarcasm – why would it even take 20 days? can’t all those mflops crunch thousands of numbers under a second? is retrieval automated?
The result has been delayed in an abundance of caution. Center personnel have slowed their activities because, according to their scientific calculations, in today’s hyper-heated atmosphere wind-on-skin friction at normal speed could cause them to catch fire and burn up.
My guess is they had to make a choice between spending the budget on the data, or on the party in Copenhagen. And since the science is settled and there is a consensus and therefore the data doesn’t matter, they decided to spend the money on the party in Copenhagen.
Pamela:
Attributed to Andrew Jackson: “It’s a *** poor mind can think of but one way to spell a word.”
TonyB 08:23:17:
Yeah, go on Tony. I’ll hold your coat!
Anybody send an email? Any response yet?
Waiting for the Hadcrut data causes me to visualize Ben Stein:
“Bueller? Bueller? Bueller???”