Yearly Archives: 2011

UC on Mannian Smoothing

Jan 7, 2011 – 8:03 PM

Two comments from UC on smoothing CET using Mannian smoothing, a technique peer reviewed by real climate scientists (though not statisticians). I think these coldish years do matter, maybe now there will be some advance in smoothing methods. mike writes (1062784268.txt) ( I think this is somewhat related to CET smoothing (?) ) The second, […]

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More Data Refusal – Nothing Changes

Jan 6, 2011 – 8:10 PM

Phil Jones and his coauthors in the recent multiproxy study (Neukom et al 2011, (Climate Dynamics) Multiproxy summer and winter surface air temperature field reconstructions for southern South America covering the past centuries) did not archive proxy data in the Supplementary Information. Many proxy series used in the study are not otherwise publicly archived. I […]

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Crowley’s Apology

Jan 4, 2011 – 10:26 PM

Tom Crowley has asked that the following apology be published at Climate Audit for his 2005 EOS article, as well as a similar interview on BBC, both of which contained numerous untrue and damaging allegations against me. See the original EOS article is here , my rejected reply here, the underlying correspondence here with some […]

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The C.E.T.

Jan 4, 2011 – 10:12 PM

December values of the longest instrumental record in the world (CET – Central England) are just in. December 2010 was the second-coldest December in the entire history dating back to 1659 (including the Little Ice Age.) Only Dec 1890 was colder (by a slim 0.1 deg C). [Update” Paul Hudson While 2010 worldwide is nudging […]

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