Anthony is traveling and offline for another day or too. So [insert witty ctm like comment here] here’s another open thread for fun and amusement.
Anthony is traveling and offline for another day or too. So [insert witty ctm like comment here] here’s another open thread for fun and amusement.
This is waaay off topic. It finally turned cold with snow here in Colo. Springs. My wife and I both have nasty colds — we’re both hacking and sneezing. I wonder if the medical community has ever conducted a study to determine whether a forced two-week trip to Hawaii would decrease the longevity of the common cold. Just wondering — with all the stimulus funds available, I think this is a very important study for which funds should be awarded by NSF. And we would volunteer to take part in the study .
Happy New Year all — cough – cough.
Thanks to all of you at WUWT for providing an island of sanity in a world where logic, facts, and common sense about Nature seem obsolete. No matter where the climate may wander in 2011 (and for once I’m less disappointed not to be in Queensland), I know I can come here for an objective view. Best wishes in the New Year.
My heartfelt thanks to Anthony Watts and his band of noble moderators for all they have given us through 2010. This site has become something of an oasis for me.
Best wishes for a Happy and Prosperous New Year for all my “extended family” here at WUWT.
Dave
Happy New Year to all.
The days… they are longer than expected…
http://notrickszone.com/2010/12/31/german-public-television-1972-projections-for-2000/#comment-7984
Happy new year to Anthony, the moderators and everyone else at WUWT! Thank you for a fantastic 2010, I trust 2011 will be likewise!
We are well past midnight over here, and so is the CAGW hypothesis…
Happy New Year to all.
Happy New Year everyone.
Best wishes for health, happiness and prosperity.
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap101231.html
An interesting photo/composition that’s inspiring for the moment.
When a green economist tries lecturing on climatology and peddling that the cold winter results from global warming in the Canadian Globe and Mail, the result brings laughs and a collector item:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/opinion/and-now-the-weather-nasty-and-brutish/article1853702/
Fortunately,
Antonio San 4 detailed comments send this green peddler to school!
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/opinion/and-now-the-weather-nasty-and-brutish/article1853702/comments/
This is good:
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/12/30/botched-environmental-forecasts/
Happy New Year
R. de Haan says:
December 31, 2010 at 4:30 pm
“We’re all going to die
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/dinosaurs/8234135/Man-could-create-new-mass-extinction.html
”
From the article:
“She suggests that maintaining Earth’s ecosystems would be helped by focusing efforts and resources on the protection of a new species generation. ”
Thankfully, the Japanese come to the rescue:
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iQZW1g61ojWXEOoV5zHV6pWQaMYQ?docId=CNG.fb7c634db68c10a8419a5de9e7e476e1.471
I’ll contribute a couple of bucks to that study.
Happy new year to Everyone interested in climate. And for 2011, fasten your seat belts, it’s going to be a bumpy ride.
pat says:
December 31, 2010 at 5:22 pm
“happy new year folks. here’s one to make your blood boil!
30 Dec: SF Chronicle: Peter Gleick: The 2010 Climate B.S.* of the Year Award
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/gleick/detail?entry_id=80061
”
I don’t know. Phil Jones wins. Why should that make my blood boil? Congrats, Dr. Jones!
[we can’t all be perfect all the time ~ac]
More engine damage from excessive ethanol fuel in the mix?
Happy New Year to all, especially the unseen mods your efforts are truly appreciated.
You may be interested in BH’s latest:-
“Now available for 2011, the University of East Anglia Naked Calendar.”
http://www.bishop-hill.net/blog/2010/12/31/the-naked-climatologist.html?lastPage=true#comment10999255
On a serious note, St Johns is a good cause, so please spread the word if possible.
Regards and have fun, enjoy life
Happy New Year to everyone on WUWT – here’s to a fun year ahead!
Happy New Year from NE Oregon 9F currently and we aren’t in the coldest spot in the
area. Mecham up in the Blue Mtns, had -13F this AM Burns, near Seneca, -23…
Reminds me of the 60’s….
hmmm…
I’m just wondering who is going to be first out of the traps with a 2010 hottest year on record news statement. On your marks get set….
Just in time for the second bit of cold hard reality (ie Winter) to hit us all.
And with that pondering, Happy New Year!
Happy New Year to all.
Anthony and all
A happy and interesting 2011
A challenge to the Climate Conversation Group, Climate Science Coalition, Hot Topic, Open Parachute and NIWA.
1) Plot a 15 year moving average of the 7SS NZTR composite actual temperatures 1909-2009
http://www.niwa.co.nz/__data/assets/excel_doc/0011/99965/NZT7_Data_FINAL.xls
Excel: Copy the 7SS composite actuals to A1
Tools – Add Ins – Data Analysis – Moving average – A1:A100 to B1
Insert Chart B15:B100
What do you see?
2) De-trend the 7SS actuals for the normal warming since 1850 that the latest science shows to be 0.5 C/100 yr that is accounted for by solar variation and climatological causes or use the IPCC figure of 0.45 C if living in the past is your preference.
Excel:
Create a column 1850 to 2009 (A1) [Start the series 1850 1851 1852 then extend using the bold + bottom right corner of the last entry]
Create a column 0 to 159 (B1) [Use the bold + as before]
Create a column (C1) =0.005*(B1)+13.6 [Use the bold + again to extend to row 160]
Now copy in the 7SS composite actuals from row 59 to 159 (D60)
Calculate the anomaly (E60) =(C60-D60)*-1 and extend to row 160
Plot a 15 yr moving average using the technique in 1).
What do you see?
3) Perform a linear regression on the 15 year moving average de-trended anomaly data.
Excel: Tools – Data Analysis – Regression
For 1923 (E74) to 1953 (E104)
What do you see?
For 1953 (E104) to 1963 (E114)
What do you see?
For 1963 (E114) to 2009 (E160)
What do you see?
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Note: the column:row addresses have not been checked on an actual spreadsheet so you’ll have to check for yourself. The jump is more likely 1952 to 1962 than 1953 to 1963 so something to check.
BTW, the hand-holding is not for the benefit of WUWT.
Richard North tells us that the Chairman of UK Met Office has been awarded CBE1. It’s “For public service.”
It’s a public service to squander taxpayer funds and to put millions of lives at risk.
How wrong does one have to be before one doesn’t get a civil service gong? How many people have to suffer from the consequences of ineptitude under a quasi-religious sect?
The Australian Climate Madness blog has more.
1.Commander of the Order of the British Empire
Re “A challenge”
Should add to 3)
For 2000 (E151) to 2009 (E160)
What do you see?
Happy New Year everyone. Here’s to 2011 being the “Goldilocks” uneventful weather year. Not too hot nor too cold but juuuust right. Not to wet nor too dry but juuuuust right. Not too much Arctic ice nor too little, bur juuuust right. All metrics right at the average value!
Richard C
Are these the new revised 7 station figures — or the old ones — I could only find a graph when I was looking for numbers -but perhaps I didn’t look hard enough. (Actually it took ages to even find the graph on the NIWA site. They were hardly making it top billing.)
Don’t forget to eat black eyed peas and other lucky legumes. Cabbages, hog jowls or ham tomorrow. Drink socially and responsible. Watch where you point your fireworks, guns.
Happy new year, to all Wuwuters!