Yearly Archives: 2007

Jones et al 1990, TR055 and GHCN

I have collated the Jones et al 1990 temperature data against annual average data from the TR055 data set, reviewing all 84 plots in the format shown below. Here is a plot for Shanghai. The Jones et al 1990 version was plotted first in black and the annual average from TR055 secondly in red. If […]

Dunde: Will the Real Slim Shady Please Stand Up?

One of my objectives in looking at both the Dulan tree ring data and Chinese station data is to take a fresh look at the Dunde ice core information, which is near Dulan and Delingha. twq says that he’s been analyzing low-frequency information from Dunde. A caveat for twq: the Dunde archiving situation is a […]

The Three-Core Chronology

As noted yesterday, Jacoby and Cook didn’t get the memo about not using the Dulan juniper chronology of Wang et al 1983 (also used in Crowley and Lowery 2000) and used it in a panel diagram in Gou et al [Ann Glac 2006]. Wang et al 1983 is unusual in a dendroclimatic publication, because they […]

Some China Comparisons

Here are a few plots of Jones et al 1990 China urban vs rural sites. Maybe one of our more computer-oriented people could make a little applet to yield 42 comparisons from the small data set which is now collated. For now, here are some very quick and non-prettied up comparisons. I started with a […]

A Reply to an Angry Dendroclimatologist

In a recent post, I challenged the Dendro Truth Squad to root out use of precipitation proxies in multiproxy studies (which the NAS Panel also encouraged avoidance of). Instead of illustrating this with bristlecones one more time (although they obviously occur in a high desert), I illustrated the challenge with the example of Dulan junipers, […]

Dulan Junipers and the Silk Road

When I was a teenager, I liked Joseph Conrad’s books (which bear re-reading as an adult). I remember reading Younghusband’s account of his travels in Sinkiang. These books undoubtedly were a reason why I traveled round the world when I was 20, going to some out of the way spots. The Dulan junipers, which we’ve […]

North American Upper Treeline #3

The next installment in our search for upper treeline proxies evidencing the AR4 SPM claim that : “Studies since the TAR draw increased confidence from additional data showing coherent behaviour across multiple indicators in different parts of the world” takes us to the Canadian Rocky Mountains, to a study mentioned in the Wilson and Luckman […]

What is "Consensus Science" for Proxies?

Scott Saleska agreed in cordial terms that this site was attempting to carry out “evidence-based” analysis without deferring to perceived authority. He then asked us to characterize, in our words, exactly what our position was – he agreed that we didn’t contest “basic science”, but then asked (politely) if it was reasonable to say that […]

More on "Naturally Orthogonal"

I realize that not all CA readers are interested in multivariate methods and that dendroclimatologists want to “forget the math”, but I find it interesting to try to relate dendro and paleoclimate recipes to known statistical methodologies that you can read about in texts. I commented the other day on the form of Principal Components […]

Hughes on Australian ABC

The Australian Broadcasting Corp. had an interview with Malcolm Hughes on Apr 5 when he once more attempted to blame the messengers for identifying the shortcomings of their own statistical methodology. We eagerly await the Dendro Truth Squad rebutting this “misinformation”.