I’ve collated some hurricane track data in flat text files so that they are more usable (at least for me) and have posted up the working files since there seems to be interest in this data. I’m also posting up some notes on fiddly format issues while they are fresh in mind.
Earth to climate scientists: no one uses Fortran punchcards anymore. When you put data onto the web, it doesn’t have to fit onto 80 columns as though it were a punchcard. Also when home computers have 100 GB of memory, you don’t have to squish multiple records onto one line. Hurricane track data as archived […]
Willis writes: Well, looking at these studies is giving me a headache. My latest one is High frequency variability in hurricane power dissipation and its relationship to global temperature, James B. Elsner et al.
Here are Judith Curry’s Comments on the Wegman Report. I appreciate these sorts of contributions and am obviously relying on such contributions (Willis, bender, etc.) more and more.
I’m quite happy to publish other people’s criticisms of topical and semi-topical papers. Judith Curry has sent in the following comments on Klotzbach et al, (mentioned on roadmap), abridged by her from a previous post on the tropical listserv, responding to specific talking points on the Klotzbach paper that were posted on Gray’s website.
Climate Audit has been considered – at least as a phenomenon – in a couple of courses. Kenneth Blumenfeld’s students had a different reaction than the Georgia Tech students. Earlier this year, I wrote a short comment about a post that Kenneth had made at realclimate about this, which I am re-posting in its entirety. […]
UKweatherworld has a thread where people don’t comment but simply contribute references on the Holocene Optimum. I’m going to start doing things like this as a way of keeping track of things. People have contributed data but it’s impossible to keep track of. This thread is going to consist only of scripts and data relevant […]
Last year, when Moberg was published, I pointed out witha slightly arched eyebrow that one of the two most important contributors to any 20th century HS-ness in Moberg was the increasing percentage of subpolar foraminifera (G. Bulloides) in the Arabian Sea – intuitively not a direct indicator of warming. Having visited the foraminifera literature in […]
Willis writes in: While researching ocean drill cores at the WCDC, I stumbled across Mann’s borehole data. One of the proxies used for historical temperature reconstruction is "borehole temperature", the temperature down in the ground. In 2002, Michael Mann et al. published a study called Optimal surface temperature reconstructions using terrestrial borehole data. It is […]
Thanks to Judith Curry for sending along these candid comments from a couple of her students about climateaudit. There has been discussion at the other thread wshich I’d prefer move to this thread. Here is the report from the Georgia Tech hurricane class discussion on the climateaudit hurricane threads. Two students were assigned to make […]
Climate Audit 