One of the common operations in the types of analyses done here is simply counting things. I am constantly amazed by the tremendous productivity of the tapply function in R – I use it over and over – for producing interesting results at warp speed. There’s nothing particularly novel in how I use it, but […]
Here’s a post which I wrote last June but didn’t post up at the time because the NAS Panel report came out and I had other pressing matters to comment on. My post as then drafted started: Last week, through Chefen, Jean S and myself, here here here and here , we showed that MBH98 […]
A few people, most recently Jean S, have pointed out the interesting critique of the Stern Review (I should have posted up this thread earlier). Abstract:The Stern Review: A Dual Critique Part I: The Science Robert M. Carter, C. R. de Freitas, Indur M. Goklany, David Holland & Richard S. Lindzen Part II: Economic Aspects […]
There seems to be lots of interest in solar issues and lots of controversy among specialists. For now, let’s simply look at the millennial proxies for solar activity. For now, I don’t want to discuss issues like cosmic ray modulation or that sort of stuff on this thread – all in good time. Put it […]
Luboà…⟠Motl has kindly directed our attention to the following interest paper by S. Redner and M. Petersen, On the Role of Global Warming on the Statistics of Record-Breaking Temperatures, scheduled for publication in Phys Rev Letters E, presently online here with abstract: We theoretically study long-term trends in the statistics of record-breaking daily temperatures and […]
Continuation of Unthreaded. Continued by Unthreaded #3
Al Gore’s hockey stick is from Lonnie Thompson’s ice cores. [Update: subsequent to this, we discovered that Al Gore’s hockey stick is not “DR Thompson’s thermometer” but Mann’s hockey stick wearing a wig.] On previous occasions, we’ve talked about the Guliya ice core -Thompson’s failure to archive data; the use of three different and inconsistent […]
Here’s an interesting SST proxy from the Gulf of Mexico that I meant to report on last October, but is actually more timely now given our recent discussion of hurricanes. When I corresponded with Lloyd Keigwin around the time of the Juckes submission, he mentioned a “beautiful” unpublished high resolution core from Poore in the […]
Here is Bob K’s image of Cat 3 plus hurricanes in three 50-year tranches. Are the changes climatological or methodological?
Climate Audit 
Critique of Stern
A few people, most recently Jean S, have pointed out the interesting critique of the Stern Review (I should have posted up this thread earlier). Abstract:The Stern Review: A Dual Critique Part I: The Science Robert M. Carter, C. R. de Freitas, Indur M. Goklany, David Holland & Richard S. Lindzen Part II: Economic Aspects […]