Author Archives: Stephen McIntyre

CA Mirror

The performance of the CA server is ridiculously slow. Last March, I considered moving to a wordpress account, but was persuaded that there were so many embedded links to CA and to CA graphics to move. Thus, we continued on using our own server, which has now collapsed under a load much more modest than […]

CRU Refuses FOI Request

Given the tumultuous events of the past few days, the receipt of yet another refusal to provide station data pursuant to an FOI request may seem a little uneventful. But the chronology of this most recent refusal is, to say the least, interesting.

CRU Correspondence

Words fail me. CA is VERY slow right now, but WUWT, Jeff Id and Lucia are all less affected. Tom Fuller picked up the story here http://www.examiner.com/x-28973-Essex-County-Conservative-Examiner~y2009m11d19-Hadley-CRU-hacked-with-release-of-hundreds-of-docs-and-emails.

WSJ Europe

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Salzer et al 2009 – A First Look

Salzer, Hughes et al (PNAS 2009) is in the news. It reports that “unprecedented” high-altitude bristlecone growth, citing increased growth at Sheep Mountain, Mount Washington and Pearl Peak, but especially Sheep Mountain. pdf PNAS SI Salzer SI CA readers are obviously familiar not just with bristlecones, but with Sheep Mountain. As pointed out in the […]

Miracles and Strip Bark Standardization

A CA reader has provided a link to an extremely interesting presentation by dendro Brian Luckman of U of Western Ontario (Rob Wilson’s thesis supervisor) at the 2008 Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists. Reader Erasmus de Frigid draws attention to the inhomogeneity in the tree ring record created when the tree was scarred by a […]

Is Yamal Homogeneous? An Esper-Style Answer.

Starting with the first of my recent posts on Yamal, I raised the issue of whether the CRU 12 actually came from a homogeneous population to the subfossil population. Although Briffa’s online response to my Yamal posts stated that CRU has “stressed” potential problems arising from “inhomogeneous” sources” in their “published work”, I have been […]

Unthreaded #42

Continues http://www.climateaudit.org/?p=7360

Finnish Transcript (and Video) Online

New (Nov 11) – online version with English subtitles. Transcript available here.   https://dotsub.com/view/19f9c335-b023-4a40-9453-a98477314bf2  CA readers will recognize some of the graphics. [Jean S adds: The official online version is here (for the next seven days): http://areena.yle.fi/video/541468 (Nov 17, removed) BTW, this is the post number 2000! Congratulations, Steve!] See https://web.archive.org/web/20091113155332/http://ohjelmat.yle.fi/mot/taman_viikon_mot/transcript_english  

RCS Homogeneity- Esper in Jaemtland

Starting with the first of my recent posts on Yamal, I raised the issue of whether the CRU 12 actually came from a homogeneous population to the subfossil population. This issue was related to the surprisingly small sample size of the supposedly “highly replicated” Yamal chronology, but is distinct. In his online response to Yamal […]