A letter from the NWS:
Greetings,
You are invited to take part in the NOAA National Weather Service (NWS) Climate Services Customer Satisfaction Survey open until Wednesday, June 10^th 2009.
The NWS Climate Services Program is committed to meeting the needs of its customers through collaboration, partnerships, outreach, and training. The NWS Climate Services Program includes the Climate Services Division, the Climate Prediction Center, and the NWS Regional and Local offices. The NWS is researching user satisfaction with products and services provided by the Climate Services Program, and would appreciate your feedback. The purpose of this research is to help the NWS improve its climate products and services for you and others like you.
Your answers are voluntary, but your opinions are very important for this research. Your responses will be held completely confidential, and you will never be identified by name. CFI Group, a third party research and consulting firm, is administering this survey via a secure server. The time required to complete this survey will be dependent on how certain questions are answered, but it will likely take approximately 20 minutes, and is authorized by Office of Management and Budget Control No. 1505-0191.
Please Click Here:
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to provide your valuable feedback through the survey.
The deadline for survey responses is *Wednesday, June 10^th 2009*.
Please forward this announcement to your interested constituents and partners. Thank you very much and we apologize for any cross-postings as we are distributing this survey widely.
Ok, “wide distribution”, you got it, happy to oblige. Brace for impact. – Anthony
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Brace for impact indeed.
I trust the report will be written on fire retardant paper.
Thanks for the link. I took the survey – boy they must have paid a lot of money for someone to set this up! I any case, in the comment boxes I told them that they needed to make sure that all of their analysis codes were available online so they could be scrutinized by interested persons to permit verification and auditing of the algorithms being used to generate their climate predictions. I also mentioned that their codes should be well documented, but I’m not holding my breath on that one…
Come on, Anthony, I can live with the text adverts but not the flash-based ones I’m now forced to scroll over to get to even the comments spot. If this is the future, I think your site has no future. I realise you have to make a living but Google is going to screw you right off the internet. If you don’t believe me, send a reply e-mail address and I’ll send you a screen-shot.
When I see the term “climate services”, I automatically start thinking along the lines of the type of services offered by women of ill repute.
Shameless blog plug alert!
First they came for your SUV’s, and you did nothing…
Then they came for your incandescent bulbs, and you did nothing…
Then they came for your flat screen TV’s, and you did nothing….
Now they come for your iPods…….
About NOAA dear antonio as promised yesterday here:
http://72.14.221.132/translate_c?hl=it&sl=it&tl=en&u=http://daltonsminima.wordpress.com/2009/05/14/ci-eravamo-parzialmente-sbagliati-ieri-sera-ecco-qui-che-riscappa-il-giallo/&prev=hp&rurl=translate.google.it&usg=ALkJrhhzj6wWJ_qQLeMQCDYx4roqPmAHSg
Pops – I see no flash adverts when I access this blog. Maybe you need to change the security settings in your browser?
Pops (10:04:53) :
“Come on, Anthony, I can live with the text adverts but not the flash-based ones I’m now forced to scroll over to get to even the comments spot. If this is the future, I think your site has no future. I realise you have to make a living but Google is going to screw you right off the internet. If you don’t believe me, send a reply e-mail address and I’ll send you a screen-shot”.
Pops,
I don’t understand your problem.
I have customized my browser (Firefox in this case) to suppress adds and flash adds reducing the Google Adds to text only.
I have ample higher download times and NO PROBLEMS with any kind of interference with the original WUWT postings.
Now THIS is the WUWT Quote of the Week! LOL
Brace for impact indeed. I trust the report will be written on fire retardant paper.
NOAA appear to be known for their err… unique methods of data processing… but data bias appears to be leaking over to the solar front,,, the most recent GONG images show no spots, only blurry plages that can be seen if you tilt your head to the side and look at the screen at an angle to see a darker image, yet there is still a sunspot number, surely it can’t go on like this… 100 years ago it wouldn’t have been seen so why should it be counted? Standards really need to be set for such things,
Catania has been going absolutely wild, naming random specks of dust like it is going out of fashion.
Antarctic Melt Less Than Thought, But Still Serious
NPR.org, May 14, 2009 · Scientists have been worried about the West Antarctic Ice Sheet for decades. A new study finds that if it were to collapse, global sea level would rise drastically, though not as much as predicted 30 years ago…
…In a study published Thursday in Science magazine, Bamber’s group now concludes that if West Antarctica does collapse catastrophically, global sea level would eventually rise by about 11 feet, not 20.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=104133389
Nothing on above average ice in Antarctica, of course…
Besides the NOAA climate service pole, serious action is needed according to Icecap.us as our politicians tend to decide on a compromise on the Waxman Cap & Trade bill.
On icecap.us a list of all the Senators and contact information is published with the request to contact them with a single message: NO CAP & TRADE
The risk of not being reelected is what drives these people so call them, mail them, fax them, write them en mass.
Thank you.
imapct
“I am a percentage!”
Alex (11:28:33) :
This may be true, but artificially enhanced sunspot counts do not make an active sun!
and the results will be filed away in the little round filing bin
Alex (11:28:33) :
NOAA appear to be known for their err… unique methods of data processing… but data bias appears to be leaking over to the solar front,,, the most recent GONG images show no spots
Be more compationate, in these hard times, they have to survive !
Brace for impact indeed.
Warning:
survey feedback will contain adult language, adult content, and pychological nudity. Reader discretion is advised.
Sigh! But why should I have to suppress that which I need to use on other sites that have not been tempted by the Google-eyed monster?
Sooner rather than later, Anthony will get a phone call SUGGESTING that the advertisers would prefer that he tone-down his site… just a little. It will happen.
Enjoy the site while it lasts.
Pops, I have never seen a popup on WUWT. You appear to have a client-based problem. Anthony, KUTGW.
I just want one thing. I want a hit count for the word “bias” in the comments.
papertiger (12:51:28) :
Careful! Lest you be banned from Britain as well! 🙂
What NOAA could do is read this Fortune magazine article interviewing John Christy in which he talks about Urban Island Heating and mis-sited weather stations. Someone should do a study about quality of stations.
http://money.cnn.com/2009/05/14/magazines/fortune/globalwarming.fortune/index.htm?postversion=2009051412
uh oh….this can’t be true, can it?
INTERVIEW – US Forecaster May Cut Atlantic Storm Outlook
http://planetark.org/wen/52870
Colorado State University hurricane forecaster Bill Gray said on Wednesday he may reduce his next Atlantic season forecast because sea temperatures are cooling and a weak El Nino may appear by late summer.
Gray said sea surface temperatures in parts of the Atlantic were clearly cooling. Where they were about 0.1 degree Celsius above average last fall, they are now about 0.3 degrees Celsius below average, he said.
Hurricanes draw energy from warm water, so cooler temperatures bode well for fewer and possibly weaker storms.
The prospect of an El Nino event — a warming of eastern Pacific waters that can suppress hurricane activity in the Atlantic by increasing storm-wrecking wind shear — could be a key element in the outlook for the 2009 season, Gray said.
Those of us on the US Gulf Coast sure hope Dr. Gray is right!
I don’t see any flash ads. All is see is some text ads and a little icon, a cartoon of James Hansen wearing his floppy white hat…and a trench coat, and…oh, wait…aaaaughgh!
Somewhat O/T. It seems that I’ve been providing a climate service peripheral over the last week.
Climate depot has used a couple of my graphics (I take photographs and produce simple graphic designs as a hobby and licence them to be used for free). First my “No BS” graphic to illustrate on article on Plimer’s excellent book and now my witch image.
http://www.climatedepot.com/
I’m well chuffed that the images are being used in a good cause. However, there’s a flipside to this as I discovered yesterday:
http://www.supereco.com/news/2009/05/13/epa-effectiveness-on-the-upswing/
Do you think the supereco webmaster will listen if I explained to him/her that the cooling tower emissions in my power station image are water vapour and not CO2?
;0)
Definitely off-topic for this post but certainly worth a blog entry of it’s own, and maybe even a “Quote of the week”.
British explorers cut short trek to North Pole
Beginning of article:
By CHARMAINE NORONHA, Associated Press Writer Charmaine Noronha, Associated Press Writer – 1 hr 20 mins ago
TORONTO – British explorers in northern Canada to measure the thickness of floating Arctic sea ice ended their expedition short of reaching the North Pole due to an early summer ice melt, the team said Thursday.
Explorers Pen Hadow, Ann Daniel and photographer Martin Hartley had planned a three-month journey to the North Pole, but ended their arduous trek Wednesday, approximately 304 miles (490 kilometers) from their destination, said Hadow.
The trio stopped after 73 days, during which they measured the thickness of floating sea ice to provide data to scientists studying the impact of global warming in the region.
“This year, the summer melt came a little early***” Hadow said during a Webcast conference from Resolute Bay in northern Canada
***There’s your quote of the week, maybe of the year.