Over on Warwick Hughes’ blog, a new article by Lars Kamél on the GISS adjusting temperatures for an apparent “urban cooling effect” that mysteriously happens to some small Swedish towns but not others nearby. I wonder how deep this “adjusting key data for unlikely causes” rabbit hole actually goes…
Noticing that some spam comments were getting through, I decided to upgrade the Spam Karma plug-in to version 2.1 (from 2.0) and Bad-Behavior plug-in to 1.2.4 (from 1.1.4).
While I fix the database after the upgrade, this post will hold the comments to posts I have to delete/recreate.
In response to a few complaints, I’ve expanded the recent comments from 5 to 10, because we now have them coming so thick and fast that some people (rather sad people in my view) are missing responses to comments. Of course the ultimate solution for those scientists out there who claim to be addicted to […]
Recently one of our correspondents asked: Could we get some feature so that one can see the date or date/time of last post to a thread? Or so that one can go back and check for any threads that have had recent posts? It’s not just for unreasonable things like me going back through last […]
I’ve modified the Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) for the Weblog Theme so that the comment box is no longer the width of the screen, but is 80% of it. I’ve also fixed the irritating look of the font size of the subcategories being bigger than the categories. Let me know in the comments below if […]
This article was brought to my attention by Larry Huldén. It is a memorandum written by Professor Paul Reiter to the UK House of Lords on the widely disseminated idea promoted by the IPCC that climate change will produce increased ranges for mosquito-borne diseases such as malaria and dengue fever. If people are in any […]
On Tim Lambert’s weblog, our regular correspondent per was making interesting points on the R2 statistic in the thread called "McIntyre’s Irrational Demands" when suddenly // all// some [updated – SM ] of per’s comments vanished. Was it Spam Karma or just per’s karma? To be fair, Spam Karma has reacted strangely to some people’s […]
“Lasciate ogni speranza, voi ch’entrate…” If you look at the footer of any page, you’ll see the current statistics on how many spam comments have been dealt with by Spam Karma 2 since I installed it on the 9th of July. As you can see, managing even a moderately successful weblog like this one would […]
At Steve’s request, I’ve turned off the threaded comments and reinstated the “numbered comments”. This means that if comments are held up for moderation or deleted, references to comment numbers will go astray. I’m also experimenting with a new plug-in to enable commenters to preview their comments prior to submission. This should help all of […]
Climate Audit 
Adjusting for urban cooling in Sweden
Over on Warwick Hughes’ blog, a new article by Lars Kamél on the GISS adjusting temperatures for an apparent “urban cooling effect” that mysteriously happens to some small Swedish towns but not others nearby. I wonder how deep this “adjusting key data for unlikely causes” rabbit hole actually goes…