Continuation of Unthreaded #23
climateaudit is running strongly in these awards – thanks to voters. When I looked this morning, we were in third place, less than 20 votes behind last years winner, Pharyngula, and within 300 votes of the current leader, Bad Astronomy. Both Pharyngula and (update: commenters at) Bad Astronomy have bad-mouthed Climate Audit. Pharyngula wrote I’m […]
A new and interesting paper by Carl Wunsch is online here (thanks again to Eduardo Zorita for the reference and link). The abstract says: The human eye and brain are powerful pattern detection instruments. Coupled with the clear human need to perceive the world as deterministic and understandable, and the often counter-intuitive results of probability […]
The Weblog Awards are the world’s largest blog competition, with over 525,000 votes cast in the 2006 edition for finalists in 45 categories. Nominations for 49 categories ended October 17, 2007 and voting is scheduled to begin November 1, 2007. Final results will be announced November 8, 2007 at the BlogWorld & New Media Expo […]
I’ve had a few requests to comment on Eli Rabett’s recent post, observing that he was unable to observe a Medieval Warm Period in the bristlecone chronology reported in Salzer and Hughes 2006. Looking at the tree ring index one can clearly see many large eruptions, the little ice age, but no European Warm Period, […]
I recommend that CA readers visit UC’s blog for some interesting discussion. (BTW UC visited Toronto recently and we had a nice dinner.) UC posted the following interesting figure on Unthreaded as follows: BTW, got interesting result when I replaced Temperature PCs with solar in MBH98 algorithm. Similar RE values as in the original, and […]
David Black and associates have just (Oct 2007) published a new paper showing a reconstruction of SST from Cariaco sediments using Mg-Ca for the period 1221-1990 (thanks to Eduardo Zorita for alerting me to the study.) In this case, I am happily able to report that the relevant data was archived at WDCP contemporary with […]
With October nearly done circling the drain, I figure it is about time to bring out the broom : Northern Hemisphere tropical cyclone activity is at historically low levels . In fact, September 2007 suffered the lowest ACE since 1977 ! Even scarier, so far 2006 and 2007 have the lowest October ACE since 1976 […]
In our recent discussion of the Arabian Sea G Bulloides series, I noticed a remarkable increase in the coarse fraction percentage in the top 1.3 cm of the critical RC2730 core. Willis has also commented on this. In core 2730, there is a correlation of 0.91 between the fraction of coarse particles and the percentage […]
Gerry North will be back in Boulder on Nov 2, 2007 delivering a lecture at CIRES at 4 pm on climate over the past 1000 years. The announcement says A variety of evidence points to a gradual cooling of the planet from about 1000 AD to a few hundred years ago when it bottomed out. […]
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