Monthly Archives: January 2009

Tom Yulsman: The Gadfly and the Dim-Witted Horse

Jan 9, 2009 – 12:26 PM

I had a pleasant interview yesterday afternoon with Tom Yulsman of the Center for Environmental Journalism in Colorado. He also posted an article yesterday reporting on an interview with Roger Pielke Jr in which Yulsman described me as a “gadfly”. I don’t know whether this was posted before or after our interview; he didn’t mention […]

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R – the choice for serious analysis

Jan 8, 2009 – 4:40 AM

While Steve is a little “under the weather” (it must be all the snow that Al Gore sent him), I thought I’d mention an interesting article in the New York Times which sings the praises of the programming language R. R is similar to other programming languages, like C, Java and Perl, in that it […]

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Unthreaded #37

Jan 7, 2009 – 1:24 PM

It seems a bit mean that Dan Hughes had to post an interesting Unthreaded comment on a year-old thread with nearly 1000 comments.

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The Supra-Long Finnish Chronology #2

Jan 6, 2009 – 12:39 PM

This post is going to be a bit more interesting than my last one, where I was getting some preliminary information out of the way. The post here draws heavily on Mauri Timonen’s 2009 PPT, which explains how their 7500-year long chronology is obtained. I’m also going to get to some results which will intrigue […]

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The Finnish "Supra-Long" Chronology #1

Jan 5, 2009 – 10:21 AM

Over the past 30 years, Finnish dendrochronologists have developed a “supra-long” tree ring chronology now stretching back (Helama et al 2008) to 7600BP, well into the Holocene Optimum. Earlier versions of this chronology have been reported in many articles (e.g. Helama et al 2002, Eronen et al 2002 and references back into the 1990s plus […]

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Royal Meteorological Society Considers Data Archiving

Jan 5, 2009 – 8:09 AM

A little progress on this front since my last post on this issue. I received a pleasant note from Glenn McGregor acknowledging the changes to my note, in which he said that he would ask the publisher of IJC, the Royal Meteorological Society, to provide a statement of their data archiving policy. Given that the […]

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