Last night anybody who watched TV or surfed the web was assaulted with all manner of red/blue maps. There were states, counties, cities, dots, and graphs. Your green channel of the RGB system on your TV or LCD could have gone completely out and you wouldn’t have missed a thing.
Thanks to the election, we are now all red/blue color sensitized. So it seemed the perfect time to introduce this map.
I’ll have more on this later, but behind one of those dots lies a very interesting story.
I’ll bet those are surface stations with calibration problems of some kind. Hell, even the private one I always refer to in Enterprise, Oregon has left me a skeptic on its ability to accurately record hourly temperature data.
Red for warmer, blue for colder, and green for Libertarians?
Second guess! Surface stations that have recorded a change in temp when compared to some previous mark. Big blue dot, decreased temp. Big red, increase temp. the smaller shapes and color hues are the inbetween ones.
Obviously a map of California (& maybe a dot or two in the Reno NV area)
More red dots near urban centers, more blue dots in rural areas…..
I will guess this is a temperature trend dot of some sort – red for warming trend (dot size proportional to some sort of rate or delta) and blue for cooling trend, again proportional. Might be good evidence for UHI effects…
How’s that for a guess Anthony???
Looking forward to the whole story ….
Well California’s an interesting place.
Obviously the state of CA, but I don’t quite understand the dots. I see blue where I should see red and red where I should see blue! Blue should be clustered around SF and LA with most of the rest of the state red. And I really don’t know what pink or teal means??
hes got leaking pens and its dropped blots all over the page
Ahhh,
California is just a big loaf of Wonder Bread.
I recognize the graphic, it is from LaDochy, S., R. Medina, and W. Patzert. 2007. Recent California climate variability: spatial and temporal patterns in temperature trends. Not sure under which dot the mystery is hiding.
Am I supposed to see a Dalmatian or something? =)
Ok, so lets look at what we have. We have shapes. Three different ones:
Circles
Triangles
Squares
Circles apparently come in three different colors and three different sizes. Blue, Red and Purple; small, medium, and large. All purple circles are small. That would lead me to deduce that circles represent temperature change. Purple being neutral, and the size is some indication of the magnitude of the change. So color represents sign, size represents magnitude, purple equals zero.
All squares are small and green. All triangles are small and cyan. My guess is that they are site markers of some sort. I would guess that triangles are airports but there is certain information missing where I would expect to see it to make that only tentative in my mind … a guess.
I have no clue what green squares might be.
Maybe they are mushroom colonies?
“Dried Mushrooms Slow Climate Warming In Northern Forests”
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081103084045.htm
They are not proposed gulag sites are they?
Ok, I found it. Here is a hint:
May 30th, 2007 at 8:17 pm
JG CSC
Lets hear it for real data.
I was hoping to find Waldo… anyone find him? ;”]
I’ve done some research and I think I’ve got it…
Little red dots are where power grid is weak and companies cannot build coal-fired power plants.
Small Blue dots are where power is low and companies can’t build nuclear power plants.
Little green triangles are where oil fields are geologically probable and where exploration is forbidden.
The green squares represent counties that have clean natural gas power plants under construction.
The small dots at the border represent places where there were originally plans to run pipelines to the gas power plants but they have not been approved.
The large blue dots represent the total land area required for the wind farms necessary to supply the needed power for the King’s Canyon gondola and surrounding cabins.
The small red dot outside the state is where the people want all the power supplying California to be generated.
The small black dots at the border also represent the land where it is unlawful to erect power lines coming from the external power source.
Pretty sure that this is it, but what is the “Mystery dot?”.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2007/11/30/a-new-paper-on-california-climate-variability/
Red represents high urban waste heat. Blue represents no heating trend.
Anthony writes: …one of those dots
Singular.
Wal; I’ve used DotPeep.gzt to look under most of them and found nothing so will just wait, with bated breath, for the revelation.
OT, but snowing in southern New Zealand just three weeks before summer begins.
Giggle .. kinda looks like the earthquake map:P
http://quake.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Anim/canv.html
but its not.
One of the great AGW skeptics has died, and hardly a peep in this forum!!
Why did I get up this morning and expect some sort of tribute to Micheal Crichton here?
How naive of me.
MICHAEL CRICHTON did more for the skeptic movement than all the skeptic blogs put together.
I think some kind of tribute would not be asking for too much.
Some of us live outside the USA. What is ‘California’?
Hmmm, California. Pale blue triangles; green squares; small and large red and blue dots. Must be something to do with surface stations. Size suggests importance. Square and triangle suggests difference e.g. not yet surveyed or something.
It’s your trip across Reno measuring UHI and you’ve now done a transect at right angles to the original one.
Do you have local population growth comparisons with all the nearby weather station sites that don’t have so much urban growth as Reno?
Looks like one of those color-blind tests…..