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.
Fun on new years Eve…
Go to Google ngram viewer
Select time period from 1500 to 2000
Set smoothing to 30 years
Enter the phrase “hockey stick”
Hit search
Happy New Year!
Happy new decade everyone.
Room temperature super-conduction is waiting for academia to let go of shoddy reasoning, will the professors be able to protect their sacred cows for another decade??
Now that 2010 is over in terms of data ingest/analysis, my unofficial calculations shows December 2010 near-surface temperature being about -0.0544 C below the 1979-2008 mean. That’s right, December 2010 is a below average month…
Margaret
Those are the old figures but because the BOM audit was not actually a reanalysis (BOM was not provided with the raw data) the revised figures are much the same, so plotting them would not make a difference to the big picture.
The next trick is to extract the BOM’s full report from NIWA because they have not released it, they only included the cover letter. A spreadsheet with the revised figures similar to the one linked would be useful too. I’ll post a link if I stumble on it.
Happy New Year! ~ctm and all. Best wishes for health and prosperity.
My current weather in eastern Washington state is single digit bitter cold plus a major power outage for approximately 25% of my town. We are living the dream of the Al Gore and the global coolers.
http://www.couriermail.com.au/ipad/green-police-cars-are-too-small/story-fn6ck51p-1225976191898
Just too delicious…make sure to give a good look at the pictures. 🙂
It is possible that C-Span and PBS will just use the new conserviative house and the hearings they plan as an excuse to shut down coverage of the hearings. They will do so I’m sure to save energy.
ps
Why pray tell do these CO2 on faith city goverments keep the flood lights on all their water towers/tanks/above ground storage? If they care all that about saving eletricity that needs to be shut down post haste. But, alas common sense .
Congrats to WUWT for another excellent year.
Next year lets vow to fight the utility companies that are more than eager to use EPA mandates to raise our utility bills because they are guaranteed a 10 % rate of return on whatever they build. I have heard that that the US administration is trying to bypass the state utility commissions which are supposed to represent the public’s interests.
It’s less than and hour before the new Year here in NE Alabama. 2010 sure went out with a bang. ice, snow, and a warm spring like day at the end for the last day of the month. Pray we that 2011 will be just as eventful and beautiful. The variability makes for such beautiful seasons on this blue/green planet.
Happy New Year to each and every one,
Bill Derryberry
Feeling anxiety rather than fear, TV adventurer Bruce Parry found himself caught in the Arctic ice.
‘As I looked around me, the water surrounding the boat was freezing solid in front of my eyes. I’ve never seen anything like that before – it was like a movie special effect.’
It’s enough to take your breath away.
Here’s a quote from The Good Society by Walter Lippmann than sums up the kind of people we are up against in the climate/environmental movement:
In their modes of thinking, the intellectuals who expound what passes for “liberalism,” “Progressivism,” or “Radicalism” are almost all collectivists in their conception of the economy, authoritarian in their conception of the state, totalitarian in their conception of society.
Happy new year everyone.
Happy New Year from Atlanta, GA.
To Anthony, and everyone in WUWT, a Happy New Year.
Here’s a couple of quotes re climate & politics…
“A grain of truth has been embedded in a sea of nonsense.” (Nigel Lawson)
“Blue Planet in Green Shackles”. (Vaclav Klaus)
Thank you all for helping me seeing the whole picture, even if I understand only some of it.
From the Dutch sector of the North Sea,
Chris
Feliç any nou!
Happy New Year!
…to Anthony & family, mods, and all the regular readers and posters at WUWT.
I have learned a lot these past few months reading this site – best site discovery of the year for me. Thank you one and all for my ongoing education – the posts are as informative as the articles.
A happy and prosperous New Year to all 🙂
Thanks to everyone who hasn’t wished me a Happy New Year! 🙂
Lessee, what’s next? Ah yes, Perihelion Day!
A Happy New Year to All, as Earth and Solar Systems tilt! Great thanks to Anth, the due mods and bloggers – wherever you are…..http://www.die.net/earth/
Best blog by far.
Almost midnight here in the desert southwest of the US and it is about 32 deg F. Cool, but well within the norm.
Happy New Year to everyone! Stay skeptical and enjoy the nice weather – sometimes referred to as Global Warming!
Happy New Year everyone! Anthony, thank you for the unbelievably hard work over the past year (like those before it, and even moreso) and for the fascinating reading it has provided.
And to everyone out there–may your hens get very fat and may your sheep lay an abundance of eggs. Have a great 2011, one and all!
Geoff Alder
Happy New Year to all!
Thanks to WUWT for all the invaluable information.
Keep going, the winter 2010/11 is still good for great surprises,
for example, the sea-ice-conditions in Northern Europe are quite advanced
as per 30 December;
__see Denmark, Skagerrak etc : here http://www.2007seatraining.de/Archiv/images/dec2b_2_10.jpg
__entire Baltic Sea (PDF from FMI): http://www.2007seatraining.de/Archiv/pdf/dec2_4-10.pdf
__Text here: http://www.2007seatraining.de/
A great big New Years “thank you” to Hansen and the TEAM from Canada! Every nail you guys can pound into the coal “carbon” coffin is another barrel of tar sands oil we ship to the good old US of A. You’ve got the biggest coal reserves in the world, but instead you are importing the most expensive oil in the world, using money borrowed from China. Is it any wonder that Canada and China are booming, while the US is in recession? Special mention to Gore and partners for making it all possible. Just maybe all the CO2 will let us grow something more than ice 11 months of the year. Looking forward to seeing the IPCC model the law of unintended consequences.
ATTENTION: *Brilliant* Idea Alert!!!
@ur momisugly son of mulder, h/t and thank you for a very original and useful idea! (with apologies to any others that did it sooner because I am so stealing this).
We always hear the warmies use carefully chosen UN-SCIENTIFIC words to convey extra meaning (e.g., … since the instrumental record; … since the satellite record; … etc.), deception and propaganda is the only purpose of such phrasing since an exact date is available. Well we can all play this game as well, can’t we?
It is simple to completely overwhelm their propaganda using pop-culture references that everyone understands immediately. For example: ‘You mean lowest summer ice extent since Jimmy Carter’ or ‘… since Khomeini seized control in Iran’ or ‘… since Super Bowl XIV’, or ‘… since Led Zeppelin’s last concert’, etc.
But wait, there’s more! As a bonus we get to use the same tools that the enemy has corrupted right back against them, for example …
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1979
… which as you might expect supplies a practically infinite number of factoids to suit your taste. Yum. Feel free to change the year at the end of that URL to any other date required, for example 1880, just sayin’ 😉
Shoving the enemy propaganda right back down their throats sounds like one heck of a good New Year’s Resolution to me. If you think I am exaggerating, just wait until this winter is over and they really begin laying it on thick in a last ditch effort to save themselves from the devastating snowball that mother nature threw in their faces.
P.S. Happy New Year to (almost) all the WUWT contributors, to the article authors, to the stable of overworked moderators, and especially to Anthony and his family.
One thing i learned from this and other sites:
The quality of results given by a computer model are linearly inverse to the complexity of the data presented.
Happy New year to all!! Thanks to Mr. Watts for his web site and all who help keep it humming.
I hope to learn a great deal here in the coming year, special thanks to E.M. Smith for taking notice of a newbie.
Meanwhile, spending the holidays with the in-laws in Marion, MT and it’s currently -0.2F. Looks like McGregor Lake will freeze over 3-4 weeks early this year. Must be Global Warming, obviously.
I have learned so much in the past couple of years.
Thank you Anthony; thank you contributors and posters.
A happy New Year to everyone. 2011 is going to be VERY interesting.
Kia ora, kia kaha.
Be well and be strong.