It’s Christmas and a good time to visit Tiny Tim. The visit compares Atlantic storms in two periods and uses Tiny Tims to help in the comparison. One is a modern period (the last twenty years, 1988-2007). This is a period of good (and ever-improving) detection tools, like advanced satellites, improved recon devices, denser buoy […]
We’ve heard a lot recently from RC about whether solar can account for temperature variations in the 20th century. While my primary interest in these ruminations is the possibility of pinning down a set of standards by which they agree that a study is “bad” – since it’s hard for me to determine any sins […]
In areas where I specialize e.g. proxies, I read comments and can moderate the discussion. The “brand” here has been primarily established through such analyses, leavened with occasional forays into topical matters. But I try to keep policy discussions off the blog and am determined to adhere to this policy. I repeatedly ask people not […]
An amusing farce with French protagonists is currently playing at realclimate here. The main protagonist is Raymond Pierrehumbert, the second line of whose CV proclaims that he is a Chevalier of some sort, a term which I will adopt in this post. He mocks another set of French authors, whom he labels as being Chevaliers […]
Roger Pielke Sr and JR have both returned to blogging action after brief retirements, Sr here more recently than JR here.
Pielke Jr satirizes senior U.K. science adviser David King’s plea to women “who find supercar drivers “sexy”, adding that they should divert their affections to men who live more environmentally-friendly lives. King said: “I was asked at a lecture by a young woman about what she could do and I told her to stop admiring […]
Ray PH reported at RC an AGU session describing the very interesting recent discovery of organic material disgorged from a retreating glacier N of 70N on the east coast of Greenland, with radiocarbon dates around the MWP. To put things in perspective, I should first mention the talk by Tom Lowell, on work in collaboration […]
This is not a topic that I follow, but I was intrigued by some comments in a poster by Penner and Andronova, both leaders in their field, and spent some time at this poster. The abstract stated: A transient change in the balance between the incoming and outgoing radiation is an important indicator of the […]
CA may have gone down for some of you. (It hasn’t for me.) We think that we’ve fixed the problem which was due to DNS pointing.
Climate Audit 