Update 6.30 pm Eastern: Access to the voting seems to be easier again. BA is more than 250 votes ahead tho. Bump. climateaudit is running a strong 2nd about 200 votes ahead of last year’s winner (Pharyngula) and about 500 votes behind Bad Astronomy. Polls close Nov 8. You can vote once every 24 hours. […]
In recent discussion of the Weblog 2007 Awards, several commenters at other blogs have argued that our criticisms of the Mannian parlor tricks have been “thoroughly refuted and discarded by climatologists, published in a credible journal”; that “other professionals in the field who also have “looked in great detail at the problem at hand” and […]
As a result of the Weblog Awards contest, I’ve been introduced to a number of blogs, such as Bad Astronomy and Pharyngula, of which I’d been previously unaware, although they are both popular and have a loyal following. Bad Astronomy has a set of links to what it calls Anti-Antiscience sites, which include their rival […]
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, […]
Climate Audit 