In a shocking development that may represent a singularity, I find myself in agreement* with parts of an opinion piece posted on Real Climate today called Berkeley Earthquake Called Off.…
What the BEST data actually says
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach My theory is that the BEST folks must have eaten at a Hollywood Chinese restaurant. You can tell because when you eat there, an hour…
Big CME hits earth, low latitude auroras possible
From the Rice University Spaceweather listserv Our space weather alert system is in level yellow, and the CME input of energy to the Earth’s magnetosphere still continues. So, if you…
Tisdale on the new "hide the decline" version of ocean heat content data
Introduction To The NODC Ocean Heat Content Anomaly Data For Depths Of 0-2000 Meters by Bob Tisdale The National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC) recently posted a new Ocean Heat Content (OHC)…
Rina becomes a hurricane
I said yesterday to keep an eye on this storm, and now it has grown into a hurricane rather quickly. The big question is whether or not it reforms after…
Climate change to flood link – no evidence
Another climate FAIL. Add this to tornadoes and hurricanes not being linked either, and you find that the entire Joe Romm / Bill McKibben alarming industrial complex of doubtful linkages…
Quote of the Week – Grist thinks spontaneous human combustion might be a convincing bit of evidence for AGW
There’s been some wild claims out there the past few days since BEST released their results in a media blitzkrieg on October 20th prior to peer review. But this one…
WWF in denial over Donna Laframboise's new book
So upset they issued a press release. That’ll show ’em. Funny how they couldn’t delineate the title of the book in the text. You can get the full story here…
Unadjusted data of long period stations in GISS show a virtually flat century scale trend
Temperature averages of continuously reporting stations from the GISS dataset Guest post by Michael Palmer, University of Waterloo, Canada Abstract The GISS dataset includes more than 600 stations within the…
Keep an eye on Tropical storm Rina
BULLETIN TROPICAL STORM RINA ADVISORY NUMBER 2…CORRECTED NWS NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL AL182011 1100 PM EDT SUN OCT 23 2011 CORRECTED DISCUSSION SECTION …DEPRESSION STRENGTHENS INTO A TROPICAL STORM…
Not Alarmist Enough
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Normally, I might not deal with a four year old paper by James Hansen, the NASA doyenne of serial doomcasters. However, I note that this…
Sunday Silliness – the new crop
Josh has a handle on the “best” practices for farming data and producing crops out of season. See below.
A preliminary assessment of BEST's decline
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach With altogether far too much fanfare for my taste, the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature (BEST) project has not released its preliminary results. Or at least…
My thanks to Mike Roddy for helping with BEST review
Eh, even when I try to get away from it on weekends it follows me via email. But, I decided I’d take a moment to post this comment from Joe…
World is warming. Pope is Catholic.
Guest post by Maurizio Morabito Quite an effort has been made by many people (including Dr Richard Muller) to portray the BEST pre-pre-pre-papers as some kind of death blow against climate…
Weekend open thread
I’ll be offline most of this weekend, as I got virtually no work done for myself this week thanks to the BEST “PR before peer review shenanigans” and the compliant…
The Public Trust – Climate
Guest post by William McClenney This piece is advisory in nature to the many state Attorneys General, Eric Holder and any attorneys that may be involved in joining any…
BEST: What I agree with and what I disagree with – plus a call for additional transparency to prevent "pal" review
There’s lots of hay being made by the usual romminesque flaming bloggers, some news outlets and the like, over my disagreement with the way data was handled in one of…
A mathematician's response to BEST
Doug Keenan, who readers may remember doggedly pursued and won some tree ring data that Queens University held back, was asked to comment of the BEST papers by the Economist.…
Sceptical Berkeley Scientists Say, “Human Component Of Global Warming May Be Somewhat Overstated”
From Dr. Benny Peiser and the Global Warming Policy Foundation via email. The Observatory, 21 October 2011 David Whitehouse The Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature Project has released its preliminary findings…
Friday Funny – This is London: "make China bend to our will"
Josh writes: There was a debate last night at the Royal Society entitled “London’s Policy on Climate Change Should begin in Beijing“. Event info: If a windmill is about to…
The Durban ramp-up begins – now the Earth only warms by hemispheres, and not simultaneously – until now
From Lund University, a new way to blame modern man. Look for more nuttiness like this as the Durban climate conference approaches. Read the conclusion of the paper below, which…
California commits business suicide
A mass exodus of business and jobs out of California will be the likely result of this madness. From the San Franscisco Chronicle:
Dr. Ben Santer speaks on climate modeling, and everything else
Today is a day I got not one thing done for myself due to the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature release sucking all the oxygen out of the climate debate with…
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