Comments on: Back Online

By: Pai hotels

Pai hotels — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:12:28 +0000

Welcome back Steve…Thank you for information

By: theoldhogger

theoldhogger — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 01:01:47 +0000

rephelan…..Thankyou for replying. My son was christened in your friend’s cathedral. I showed my wife your comment and she says we’ll go to Alabat next time, but we have to take a boat from Atimonan. Last time we took the boat from Gumaca to Quezon, Quezon, just for a day trip. Abot retirement, I think that if you live “in the province” (translation-out in the country, away from Manila)you can have everything you need except peace and quiet. Warning…the sound of roosters crowing 24/7 can get on your nerves. Anyway, the Philippines is the most English Language friendly foreign country I’ve ever experienced. Good luck!
Sorry, Steve, about OT.

By: Anthony Watts

Anthony Watts — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:45:19 +0000

I should mention that I didn’t make my goal of swapping the CA server by Steve’s return. Events in my business conspired to prevent me from dedicating the time needed.

However, it will be forthcoming.

Anthony

By: rephelan

rephelan — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 04:14:58 +0000

Re: theoldhogger (#20), Mabuhay! Just before the Revolution I had dinner with the Bishop of Gumaca in Alabat. May decide to take my social security and retire there.... fresh fish, San Miguel (ito ang beer!), calamansi, and macapuno ice cream.

By: rephelan

rephelan — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 04:08:05 +0000

Steve:

glad you’re back and you could wrest control of the website away from those guys who were having way too much fun with it. Lotta people go to the Far East and decide not to come back. Malaria? I spent 14 years in South China without anti-malarials… my problem was recurring dysentery… but enough of the local beer first will take care of that. I’m actually trying, even as we speak, to put together a malaria paper, but that is probably a better topic for Anthony or Jeff Id since my statistics will probably be nothing more sophisticated than percents, ratios, and pearson’s r.

What you do, you do VERY well and I’m looking forward to learning more.

By: Billy Ruff'n

Billy Ruff'n — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:50:56 +0000

I’m wondering whether it’s just a coincidence, but I noticed that Real Climate was without new posts for the period Steve was away in SE Asia. Funny that? When the cat’s away they have nothing to say.

By: theoldhogger

theoldhogger — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 17:11:44 +0000

Welcome back Steve…..We put our son through Grade 5 in the Phillipines a few years ago, and typically Canadian, I brought a thermometer and mounted it on our verandah. I checked the temperature faithfully every day at 6am and 1pm, and I can verify that 3 degrees Celsius difference. At sea level, near Gumaca, Quezon Province,(try Google Map)the high was usually 35-36C and the low was 32-33C. The hottest day I experienced was 38C, much lower than our own, dry Okanagan. The humidity was very high, but 3 showers a day(no hot water necessary) really helped. When all the drugstores ran out of antimalarials, we went to our local Doctor (who got her degree in a university near Sarnia, Ontario, btw)she laughed and said there was no malaria around our area, at all. We didn’t get Malaria, so I guess she was correct. Anyway, good times! Now, back to lurking.

By: VG

VG — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 06:39:46 +0000

Should have been Jones (Hadley), “Evans” as I mentioned in #17 who has been pushing the AGW for some time. Is .16C of significance?, recent trends do not follow (refer Lucia’s Climate blog “Falsification of IPCC trends ect” Cheers LOL

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 02:01:04 +0000

Re: VG (#17), Er, well, not quite. Remember, China is land, which has a higher rate of warming than SST. Based on the abstract, I estimate a per decade starting warming rate of .26 degrees per decade, which after the .1 per decade correction should come out to .16 degrees per decade. That's about the global land and sea trend, except its entirely over land and under the brown cloud no less! So, yes, that's a huge effect, but, no, the warming doesn't disappear entirely. Some parts of the abstract (and paper) are schizophrenic, though. But enough of this! Let's get back to congratulating Steve on a good trip!

By: VG

VG — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 01:37:43 +0000

Andrew: http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2008/2008JD009916.shtml I think this was discussed at length either here or at WUWT. Basically Evans (from Hadley, believe it or not)) has debunked (himself)… the AGW warming by saying that in China UHI accounted for 0.1C per DECADE which is enormous (more than the IPCC AGW)!