If some of you have noticed I’ve been a bit absent from WUWT it is because I’ve been working the last two weeks with Mr. Pete and JohnA to get the climateaudit.org server migrated to a new home.
We wanted off a single server box and onto wordpress.com where they have a distributed cloud computing system, gobs of optical pipe bandwidth, automated backup, automated code updates, and 24/7 support. I wish to personally thank Nick and Lloyd of WordPress VIP support who went above an beyond to manage the huge migration of files that spanned all the way back to 2004. WordPress.com has a great staff and a great product.
When Climategate broke, so did the climateaudit single box server. It was more traffic than any one server could bear. The datapipe to the box at our CoLo was also not sufficient to handle the load. I setup camirror.wordpress.com for Steve to use in the interim while the CA IT team figured out how to make this migration happen. There were lots of hitches. Some are still unresolved but the bulk of it is there.
Today, about 5PM PST 90% of the migration has been completed. Steve McIntyre made this announcement:
We have a new and hopefully final home. It has been a very big and complicated job moving climateaudit.org with its nearly 2000 threads, over 200,000 comments, plus images, data, scripts to wordpress.com, which has large enough facilities to prevent the chronic server problems that plagued climateaudit as a standalone server. camirror.wordpress.com was set up to deal with overthrow while our new “home” was being prepared and has been transferred as well.
What substantially complicated the move was our desire to preserve the very large number of links to existing climateaudit images and threads (which I’m told create a subterranean draw and which we didn’t want to disconnect.) Anthony, Mr Pete and John A all contributed to the move, which was accomplished during a period when I was otherwise occupied so to speak. I’m very grateful to them. WordPress.com went several extra yards to accomodate the move and I’m very grateful to their staff as well. We think the old addresses are all pointing to the new addresses – let us know if you have any problems.
A couple of caveats before you rush off to view it:
1) There may still be an occasional broken link or missing file, we’ll get to them all as time permits. Don’t overload Steve with comments about these.
2) DNS propogation may not have completed yet for your portion of the web. So if you visit www.climateaudit.org and you get nothing don’t freak out. The IP address/DNS server changes will eventually propagate to you.
3) Can’t wait? You can try forcing a DNS refresh if you own a PC with Windows by doing the following.
Open a command prompt and type the command in yellow below and press enter.
If you have a Mac, I have no idea how to do this, maybe somebody who owns one can leave a comment.
So within 24 hours or so, almost everybody should be able to get to www.climateaudit.org
Also, beyond the above, and maybe cycling your router/modem, I can’t suggest how to solve DNS propagation delays at your location, so just wait it out if none of that works.
We all look forward to Steve’s next big thing. Now CA can handle most anything we throw at it and Steve can drive CA “car” without having to carry a set of tools and a small army of mechanics jammed in the trunk.
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Got it now.
I just pulled up my favorites directory, clicked on CA, and there it was, new WordPress site and all. Thanks for all the dog work, Anthony, and thanks for all the content, Steve. Way to go, guys!
@Wag
“Established McIntyre’s credentials as an everyday citizen auditor, unfunded by interests that could afford a big fancy server.
For whatever that’s worth.”
As an opinion from you worth noting? Nothing at all. The big money is right behind Gore and the alarmists. After all, ETS schemes will make the energy companies a very great deal of profit.
Home page doesn’t work for me, but the individual article pages come up (like the one from link http://climateaudit.org/2009/12/09/8155/ Once on the site, clicking link to home page results in “site unavailable” error again.
There could be something wrong on the server side with the main index file.
Russian hackers ????? (Just kidding)
Great work Anthony. I haven’t tried to get on the new Climate Audit site yet – patience everyone – all good things…
I’ll be visiting a few tip jars over this festive season – if Steve’s isn’t up and running by then, I’ll drop a bit extra in your’s so you can buy him a very well deserved beer.
2009 has been a good very good year – here’s to 2010.
Wasn’t working for me but I added a manual entry to my hosts file and it’s fine now.
Under c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc is a hosts file you can open with notepad. If you add an entry exactly as the line below to the bottom of the file and save it, it will temporarily fix the problem.
76.74.255.123 http://www.climateaudit.org
Note, this makes your pc bypass DNS for that site, so remember to remove the entry in a few days otherwise if the ip address for the site changes again you will still keep trying to use the above forever.
Looks like a DNS issue.
It should resolve itself in a day or so.
It worked on my home PC, but here at work I get the DNS error.
When I saved a link to climateaudit via a context menu, it saved
http://climateaudit.org/
but this fails when used, at least on my computer.
I had to change it to
http://WWW.climateaudit.org/
for DNS to find it.
Just a note if others having the same problem.
This may be a temporary problem.
(And yes, I did reset dns hours ago)
Here’s a link about how to flush DNS cache for a number of OSes
[http://www.tech-faq.com/flush-dns.shtml]
For those of you who are having (or had) problems accessing the new site, you should think about switching DNS providers. Your ISP provides one for free, but they are usually slow and neglected. Accessing a single web page can trigger several DNS queries, so using a slow DNS can be a huge bottleneck for an otherwise fast internet connection. Plus, you can have connectivity issues like reported above.
I switched to OpenDNS and have never looked back. Google just launched a similar service. There is also UltraDNS, which I know nothing about. They are all free of charge. Here’s a program you can use to test the various alternate services:
http://lifehacker.com/5420931/namebench-helps-you-find-the-fastest-dns-server-for-your-computer
Switching isn’t very difficult. If you are using a router at your home (Linksys, Netgear, or such), you can change the setting on that box, and it will use the new alternate DNS for every computer connected to it in your home. I know the instructions and the help forums are very good at OpenDNS. Don’t know about the other alternatives.
Don’t go changing the DNS at your work computers, though… at least without checking with the IT people. Large corporate networks use DNS to control access to things, and you’ll lose connectivity for all sorts of services (printing, internal websites, etc) if you change those settings.
I just used Cocktail to clear my Internet cache (on my MacBook Pro running Snow Leopard), and no joy getting to ClimateAudit.org. Adding ‘www’ doesn’t help.
/Mr Lynn
CA server is now broke, or the DNS is updating, but can’t access it.
REPLY: The server is fine.
Tip jar not owrking yet ? What ??
You call this job “completed” ? Robust ?
[snip – For the last several days you have been thread bombing WUWT with posts duplicated across several threads in the span of a couple of minutes. Yesterday it was the political link. They have been moved to the trash. Stop this behavior or you will be banned – Anthony]
Has the Bulletin Board been deleted?
REPLY: Steve decided not to continue it. – A
Atomic Hairdryer
Thanks for info.
I had already gotten in once with no problems, everything went south after that. But whatever/whereever the glitch was, it seems to be fine now.
Richard Black has just posted a report on the BBC Website http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8405025.stm
“UK Met Office warns carbon emissions must peak by 2020”
As he provides an e-mail address I have just sent him a message with the following contents:
“Richard Black
I really do think that Vicky Pope should spend her time going through the HAD/CRU temperature time series to check for “man made global warming” in the actual so-called “enhancements” they and particularly CRU may have added to make the present warmer and/or the past cooler. I am not saying that this has happened. I am simply saying that the “hacked” Fortran code may indicate that such adjustments have been made. Surely you also know about the accusations that NASA/Giss may have been “adjusted”. The various Mann/Briffa hockey sticks have been shown to be, well not perhaps the best scientific efforts to eliminate MWP. There is also an accusation that New Zealand’s temperature records have seen “adjustments”.
So I – as a non scientist – read all these stories now emanating from COP15 and then look at the various indices on the Internet.
So we are subject to “run-away warming”. Looking at http://www.drroyspencer.com/latest-global-temperatures/ I will simply claim that there has been no warming this Century. It may be the warmest “on record” (their records) per Met Office and NASA but that is only because they start in 1880 and there is an accusation that efforts have been made to reduce the peak temperatures in the 1930s. Hundreds of “peer reviewed” research lend credence to the claim that it was warmer globally 1000 years ago. The main point is that temperatures have stopped rising this century when CO2 continues to rise.
So the heat is in the oceans. The Maldives and Tuvalu will disappear within the next couple of decades etc. Apart from Mr Moerner’s assurances to the president of the Maldives http://www.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/5595813/why-the-maldives-arent-sinking.thtml there is no evidence of any heat build-op in the oceans per the ARGO site http://www.argo.ucsd.edu/global_change_analysis.html They actually state “Domingues et al (2008) and Levitus et al (2009) have recently estimated the multi-decadal upper ocean heat content using best-known corrections to systematic errors in the fall rate of expendable bathythermographs (Wijffels et al, 2008). For the upper 700m, the increase in heat content was 16 x 1022 J since 1961. This is consistent with the comparison by Roemmich and Gilson (2009) of Argo data with the global temperature time-series of Levitus et al (2005), finding a warming of the 0 – 2000 m ocean by 0.06°C since the (pre-XBT) early 1960’s.”
Recent information on ocean sea levels also kind of support Mr Moerner’s contention about the safety of the Maldives http://sealevel.colorado.edu/current/sl_noib_global.jpg Despite “runaway global warming” sea levels have stopped rising since 2006. Normally that would signify no hearing of ocean (lack of expansion) and/or no smelting of land based ice in Antarctica and Greenland.
Well, if you look at http://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/images/daily_images/S_timeseries.png you can see that at least the sea ice surrounding Antarctica is above the 1979-2000 average. All the talk is about west Antarctica peninsula. They forget about the vast east Antarctica, where the ice is. A couple of years ago during the 2007 summer minimum predictions from the likes of Gore and Hansen indicated that the Arctic summer ice will be gone in five years. They are now talking about 2030. Convenient because their predictions will have been forgotten. Here is the reason why it is now 2030 http://www.ijis.iarc.uaf.edu/en/home/seaice_extent.htm The summer sea ice recovered in 2008 and even more so in 2009 and it is doing fine.
So this century has been relatively stable temperature wise. There is no heat build-up in the oceans, sea levels have stopped rising and N/S sea ice is doing not badly. Meantime CO2 is continuing to rise http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/trends/
I am sure that you also know well that their climate computer models have so far struggled to predict reality. So why should they be any better at it now?
Please understand that people like me are not “deniers”, “flat earthers” and whatever other expressions are hurled at us because we just look at the official data and cannot get it to connect with all the “alarmist” propaganda that is “emitting” from Copenhagen now. Throwing such accusations about makes me suspicious that they lack real arguments. So I – like many others – are still to be convinced. Swear words will not do. We need convincing arguments based on facts.
You and your colleagues are paid for by people like me and we expect realistic and fact based reporting. Hope you are enjoying Copenhagen. I lived there over 40 years ago. Watch out as there are predictions that cold weather is on its way from Sweden. ”
It won’t have any effect but at least he should get the message that some of the BBC license payers are tired of the endless stream of “propaganda”. If they could provide real scientific evidence of “man made global warming” I would convert from being a “sceptic” to “believer” in next to no time.
Has anyone got the Steve McIntyre CNN video interview or know where it can be found?
REPLY: Try scrolling down.
Update: it can be viewed here
http://nygoe.wordpress.com/2009/12/08/climategate-rationalists-hold-counter-conference-in-copenhagen/
Cant wait to check out the weather site!
Oregon Scientific Wireless Weather Station