I asked KNMI what were the studies that had “refuted” our work. It seems to be Wahl and Ammann. I’ve never understood the traction of Wahl and Ammann with climate scientists. I doubt that any of them have worked through the details, but Wahl and Ammann issued a press release that all our claims were […]
I will be travelling to Europe in the week of Sept 9-15 to give presentations in Holland and Sweden. Two presentations in Holland on Sept 14 – a private presentation in the morning at KNMI and a public presentation at 7.30 in the evening at the Free University in Amsterdam presented by Natuurwetenschap & Techniek […]
Another interesting post from Willis: James Hansen of NASA has a strong defense of model reliability here In this paper, he argues that the model predictions which have been made were in fact skillful (although he doesn’t use that word.) In support of this, he shows the following figure: (Original caption)Fig. 1: Climate model calculations […]
Willis Eschenbach sent in the following information about the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP) project. I’ve not checked the analysis myself, but it is an interesting topic and well worth a separate thread. There are some other pretty good posts like this. If people want to suggest some back posts for individual threads, it just […]
Donald T. Rodbell et al 2002 (with overlaps to Mark et al and Abbott et al) , entitled " A Late Glacial–Holocene Tephrochronology for Glacial Lakes in Southern Ecuador" , here correlates glacial lakes in southern Ecuador according to widespread tephra (volcanic deposits). A couple of interesting points – some BIG differences between radiocarbon dates […]
George posted up the following link as supposedly supporting Lonnie Thompson’s views on Quelccaya: Early results on Reid Inlet, where Reid Glacier has now backed up out of the ocean, show that the glacier had retreated beyond where it is now more than 10,000 years ago, advanced to the sea by 8,000 years ago, again […]
Here’s bender’s plot of the number of hurricanes, showing the difference between plotting on an annual and boxed basis. There are statistical issues in fitting trend lines to spiky data like this, which bender is well aware of and pointed out in the predecessor thread. If Curry is unaware of these issues, what does that […]
We have an op ed in the National Post today about the Wegman Report. In addition, Terence Corcoran has a long article about a recent hatchet job published by the Globe and Mail about Tim Ball from a writer named Charles Montgomery. I had to laugh out loud at the following comments by Corcoran about […]
A while ago, I summarized an interesting article from the Venezuelan Andes. In that case, they concluded that the glaciers did not exist in the MWP. The post is worth re-reading in the context of Quelccaya. The authors used the continuous deposition of sediments in a proglacial lake to yield evidence of the discontinuous movements […]
Before Caspar Ammann started playing for the Team, he was a geologist who wrote the following serviceable discussion of glaciation in the “dry” Andes between 19 and 27S (Quelccaya is at 12S). Under current climatic conditions, no glaciers can exist in the high Andes of the Western Cordillera in the high Andes of the Western […]
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We have an op ed in the National Post today about the Wegman Report. In addition, Terence Corcoran has a long article about a recent hatchet job published by the Globe and Mail about Tim Ball from a writer named Charles Montgomery. I had to laugh out loud at the following comments by Corcoran about […]