Monthly Archives: September 2009

Kaufman et al: Obstructed by Thompson and Jacoby

Sep 12, 2009 – 9:40 AM

A CA reader sent me an email, noting the following entry in minutes of a meeting. M Loso inquired about Lonnie Thompson’s ice core data. These data are not presently available but will be investigated by Caspar. This comment is minuted in a meeting of PIs leading up to Kaufman et al 2009 – a […]

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Kaufman's Stick: Iceberg Lake Varves

Sep 7, 2009 – 11:24 PM

In the first post on Kaufman et al, I observed that, like other Team multiproxy studies, its HS-ness is contributed by only a few series. As shown below, a composite of 19 out of 23 Kaufman proxies does not yield an “unprecedented” late 20th century (tho it yields an elevated late 20th century.) A composite […]

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Sea Ice – Sept 2009

Sep 6, 2009 – 9:54 PM

Continued from here . On August 19, 2009, NSIDC published the following August forecast of sea ice minimums by the leading climate modelers around the world. The majority of modelers predicted that 2009 sea ice minimums would be below 2008 and one (Arbetter et al) even predicted that 2009 would break the 2007 record. The […]

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Kaufman and Upside-Down Mann

Sep 3, 2009 – 12:08 PM

Kaufman et al (2009), published at 2 pm today, is a multiproxy study involving the following regular Team authors: Bradley, Briffa (the AR4 millennial reconstruction lead author), Overpeck, Caspar Ammann, David Schneider (of Steig et al 2009), Bradley as well as Otto-Bleisner (Ammann’s supervisor and conflicted NAS Panel member) and “JOPL-SI authors” who are various […]

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Erice: The Feedback Session #1

Sep 1, 2009 – 6:53 AM

Today, I’m going to give the first of a series of reports on the Feedback Session at Erice: I’ll try to do a post on each of the presentations – Lindzen, Choi, Kininmonth and Paltridge. I’ll also try to do reports on the presentations by Essex and Swanson in a different session. I’ll do a […]

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