CA reader and contributor Neal J. King got a bevy of questions answered related to the June 14th posting of Parker 2006: An Urban Myth? and they are posted here in order. Thanks to Neal and Dr. Parker for making this available to all for reading and consideration. – Anthony Questions to Parker, Part 1: […]
I’m going to be a bit spotty online in the next 10 days as I’m visiting family and friends in Phoenix and Colorado Springs. Don’t ask me why a Canadian would leave a lake in Ontario for Phoenix in July. I have no answer other than perhaps Rumpole’s. I’m probably going to see at least […]
The cat has finally dragged in Mann et al, Robustness of proxy-based climate field reconstruction methods, url 😉 Supplementary info. This article was first cited by the rather bilious 😈 Referee #2 for Burger and Cubasch , as though Burger should have been aware of its findings. The coauthors are the “independent” authors: Wahl, Ammann […]
Anthony Watts writes in about 4 more USHCN stations:
John A writes: After a brief search, I found the paper “Global Warming: Forecasts by Scientists versus Scientific Forecasts” This paper came to my attention via an article in the Sydney Morning Herald. It concerns a paper written by two experts on scientific forecasting where they perform an audit on Chapter 8 of WG1 in […]
I caught the start of the Al Gore concert last night in Sydney. It opened with a fat guy with white makeup beating his own drum. And it wasn’t even Al Gore. The form of the concert reminded me of last weekend, Princess Diana concert except that it’s BIGGER, its consumption is more conspicuous and […]
In a recent post, I’ve indicated that IPCC authors seems to have invented a “test” for long-term persistence that is nowhere attested in any statistical literature and, if I’ve interpreted what they’ve done correctly, appears to be a useless test. Jean S and I have made a few references to the Review Comments on the […]
Continuation of Unthreaded #13
In calibration problem we have accurately known data values (X) and a responses to those values (Y). Responses are scaled and contaminated by noise (E), but easier to obtain. Given the calibration data (X,Y), we want to estimate new data values (X’) when we observe response Y’. Using Brown’s (Brown 1982) notation, we have a […]
Today, I’d like to discuss an interesting problem raised recently by Joe d’Aleo here – has the temperature of New York City increased in the past 50 years? Figure 1 below is excerpted from their note, about which they observed. Note the adjustment was a significant one (a cooling exceeding 6 degrees from the mid […]
Climate Audit 