Monthly Archives: October 2011

Tisdale on the new “hide the decline” version of ocean heat content data

Posted on October 24, 2011 by

Introduction To The NODC Ocean Heat Content Anomaly Data For Depths Of 0-2000 Meters by Bob Tisdale The National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC) recently posted a new Ocean Heat Content (OHC) anomaly dataset on its website. It is available on annual … Continue reading →

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Rina becomes a hurricane

Posted on October 24, 2011 by

I said yesterday to keep an eye on this storm, and now it has grown into a hurricane rather quickly. The big question is whether or not it reforms after passing over the Yucatan peninsula. If it does, we’ll have … Continue reading →

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Climate change to flood link – no evidence

Posted on October 24, 2011 by

Another climate FAIL. Add this to tornadoes and hurricanes not being linked either, and you find that the entire Joe Romm / Bill McKibben alarming industrial complex of doubtful linkages between weather and climate has pretty much collapsed. From the … Continue reading →

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Quote of the Week – Grist thinks spontaneous human combustion might be a convincing bit of evidence for AGW

Posted on October 24, 2011 by

There’s been some wild claims out there the past few days since BEST released their results in a media blitzkrieg on October 20th prior to peer review.  But this one from Grist writer Jess Zimmerman has to rank up there … Continue reading →

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WWF in denial over Donna Laframboise’s new book

Posted on October 24, 2011 by

So upset they issued a press release. That’ll show ‘em. Funny how they couldn’t delineate the title of the book in the text. You can get the full story here at Marketwatch. But I see this as a rousing endorsement, … Continue reading →

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Unadjusted data of long period stations in GISS show a virtually flat century scale trend

Posted on October 24, 2011 by

Temperature averages of continuously reporting stations from the GISS dataset Guest post by Michael Palmer, University of Waterloo, Canada Abstract The GISS dataset includes more than 600 stations within the U.S. that have been in operation continuously throughout the 20th … Continue reading →

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Keep an eye on Tropical storm Rina

Posted on October 23, 2011 by
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Not Alarmist Enough

Posted on October 23, 2011 by

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Normally, I might not deal with a four year old paper by James Hansen, the NASA doyenne of serial doomcasters. However, I note that this paper has been cited ten times this year alone, so … Continue reading →

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Sunday Silliness – the new crop

Posted on October 23, 2011 by

Josh has a handle on the “best” practices for farming data and producing crops out of season. See below.

Posted in Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature, Humor, satire | 43 Comments

A preliminary assessment of BEST’s decline

Posted on October 22, 2011 by

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach With altogether far too much fanfare for my taste, the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature (BEST) project has not released its preliminary results. Or at least I can’t find them. I just wanted the month-by-month data … Continue reading →

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My thanks to Mike Roddy for helping with BEST review

Posted on October 22, 2011 by

Eh, even when I try to get away from it on weekends it follows me via email. But, I decided I’d take a moment to post this comment from Joe Romm’s Climate Progress somebody sent me that popped up on … Continue reading →

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World is warming. Pope is Catholic.

Posted on October 22, 2011 by

Guest post by Maurizio Morabito Quite an effort has been made by many people (including Dr Richard Muller) to portray the BEST pre-pre-pre-papers as some kind of death blow against climate skepticism, as if the whole debate had been a sports … Continue reading →

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Weekend open thread

Posted on October 22, 2011 by

I’ll be offline most of this weekend, as I got virtually no work done for myself this week thanks to the BEST “PR before peer review shenanigans” and the compliant cadre of barking media lapdogs that followed with tails-a-wagging looking … Continue reading →

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The Public Trust – Climate

Posted on October 22, 2011 by

  Guest post by William McClenney This piece is advisory in nature to the many state Attorneys General, Eric Holder and any attorneys that may be involved in joining any of the many suits brought under the Public Trust doctrine … Continue reading →

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BEST: What I agree with and what I disagree with – plus a call for additional transparency to prevent “pal” review

Posted on October 21, 2011 by

There’s lots of hay being made by the usual romminesque flaming bloggers, some news outlets and the like, over my disagreement with the way data was handled in one of the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature (BEST) papers, the only one … Continue reading →

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A mathematician’s response to BEST

Posted on October 21, 2011 by

Doug Keenan, who readers may remember doggedly pursued and won some tree ring data that Queens University held back, was asked to comment of the BEST papers by the Economist. He posted up the full correspondence, including his critiques. There’s … Continue reading →

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Sceptical Berkeley Scientists Say, “Human Component Of Global Warming May Be Somewhat Overstated”

Posted on October 21, 2011 by

From Dr. Benny Peiser and the Global Warming Policy Foundation via email. The Observatory, 21 October 2011 David Whitehouse The Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature Project has released its preliminary findings though not in a research journal but to the scientific … Continue reading →

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Friday Funny – This is London: “make China bend to our will”

Posted on October 21, 2011 by

Josh writes: There was a debate last night at the Royal Society entitled “London’s Policy on Climate Change Should begin in Beijing“. Event info: If a windmill is about to blight your cherished view of the green English countryside, you … Continue reading →

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The Durban ramp-up begins – now the Earth only warms by hemispheres, and not simultaneously – until now

Posted on October 21, 2011 by

From Lund University, a new way to blame modern man.  Look for more nuttiness like this as the Durban climate conference approaches. Read the conclusion of the paper below, which is a long winded treatise of speculation. New study shows … Continue reading →

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California commits business suicide

Posted on October 21, 2011 by

A mass exodus of business and jobs out of California will be the likely result of this madness. From the San Franscisco Chronicle:

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Dr. Ben Santer speaks on climate modeling, and everything else

Posted on October 21, 2011 by

Today is a day I got not one thing done for myself due to the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature release sucking all the oxygen out of the climate debate with their pre-peer review release shenanigans. Tonight was no different, as … Continue reading →

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The Alligator Model

Posted on October 20, 2011 by

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I wrote my first computer program in 1963. It was an implementation of the Sieve of Erastosthenes, used to find prime numbers. I haven’t stopped programming since then. So I am intimately acquainted with the … Continue reading →

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Pielke Sr: No surprise about BEST

Posted on October 20, 2011 by

Dr. Roger pielke confirms a point made in comments in my earlier post on BEST about all data coming from a single source, which is the National Climatic Data Center. (NCDC) By Dr. Roger Pielke Senior Comment On The Article … Continue reading →

Posted in Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature, climate data | Tagged , | 84 Comments

Browner, Colbert, the EPA, and Broken Windows

Posted on October 20, 2011 by

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Last night I saw Carol Browner, ex-head of the EPA, make an astounding statement on the Colbert Report TV show. I was so amazed, I tracked down the video to make sure I’d heard her … Continue reading →

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The Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature project puts PR before peer review

Posted on October 20, 2011 by

UPDATE: see this new story BEST: What I agree with and what I disagree with – plus a call for additional transparency to prevent “pal” review ======================================================= Readers may recall this post last week where I complained about being put in … Continue reading →

Posted in Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature, climate data, peer review, post-normal science | Tagged , , , , , , | 409 Comments