How to solve attribution conflicts in climate science

Readers may recall this post: More dirty pool by NCDC’s Karl, Menne, and Peterson …where I take NCDC to task for not given proper attribution to the surfacestations.org and volunteer Russ…

Friday Funnies – triple quadruple the hilarity

Oh, we have a wide selection today. Tamino provides a chuckle extraordinaire, plus we have two cartoons from Josh. [Plus, I’ve added something from Steve McIntyre.] Happy Friday everybody!

My answer to Tamino's question

Tamino (Grant Foster) writes: I have a question for Anthony Watts: We have over 30 years of satellite data for arctic sea ice. Why do you consistently display the only…

Another prominent Wikipedia editor has been climate topic banned

I hadn’t noticed this yesterday, but the second most prolific climate revisionist at Wikipedia has also been banned from posting on the climate topic. By a vote of 4-3 Kim…

Cohen comments on the Revkin Dot Earth op/ed

Dr. Roger Cohen, APS member, sends this via email commenting on this Dot Earth article. Where do I start? Well, maybe the most offensive part of this column is the…

MIT op/ed says do "very little, if anything at all" on global warming

From MIT’s campus newspaper, The Tech: Not worth the fight huh? Them’s fightin’ words to some people.

Met Office turns to crowdsourcing climate data

Gee, where have we seen this pioneered for gathering data before? Of course, Professor Stott saw fit to not invite Dr. Roger Pielke Sr., myself or anyone who has any…

BOM disappears rainfall data, "no trend" becomes "downtrend"

UPDATE: Thanks to a reader who pointed out where to find the 2008 version of BOM rainfall data, I’m able to plot the two data sets. There are differences. See…

New ideas on Total Solar Irradiance and flares

From: SOHO sheds new light on solar flares ESA Science & Technology After detailed analysis of data from the SOHO and GOES spacecraft, a team of European scientists has been…