Alex Trbek: Your Double Jeopardy category today is Iowa. Connect each quotation to Iowa. (Info Note: Jeopardy is long-running quiz show hosted by Alex Trbek.) For $400, please connect the following quotation to Iowa: You’re all doomed to perdition. You’re all goin’ to the painful, stinkin’, scaldin’, everlastin’ tortures of a fiery hell, created by […]
Obviously it’s impossible to avoid the old chestnuts on our TV sets these days. I saw the original version of Miracle on 34th St for the umpteenth time the other day, noticing something for the first time that is a sign of the times. The judge’s political handler, advising him of the political risks of […]
Merry Christmas to all of you. And to Mike, Gavin, Jim, Ben and and all those who have worked so hard to provide us with interesting statistical entertainment during the past year.
One of the interesting by-products of the GISS screw-up in October was that we learned the names and locations of quite a few Siberian weather stations – that are glaring “hot spots” on temperature anomaly maps. However, most of these places are among the coldest places on earth. One of them was Verhojansk, about which […]
I’d like to finish off our discussion of the supposed “strong visible anticorrelation” between the Q5 (Oman) and D1 (Socotra) speleothems (as supposedly evidenced in Figure 9), before discussing millennial issues. Again, I preface these remarks by saying that there is much of interest in speleothems and I’m just discussing one statistical issue here that […]
Ross and I submitted a comment on Mann et al 2008 on Dec 8, 2008 within the 3 month time period for comments permitted by PNAS. The comment, pursuant to PNAS rules, was less than 250 words and had 5 (or less) references (one of which was Mann et al 2008 itself). The 250-word limit […]
In its land surface temperature calculations, NASA GISS is little more than a distributor for NOAA GHCN. As Gavin Schmidt explained, they spend no more than 0.25 man-years on this product, which permits negligible (if any) quality control. Although there are 7280 stations in the GHCN network, only a fraction of these occur as up-to-date […]
Today, I’m posting up plots comparing the MSU gridded data and the NOAA land-sea gridded data. On an overall basis, MSU (GLB) is running about 0.2 deg C cooler than NOAA land-sea gridded in October 2008. These differences are quite volatile and this discrepancy is not unusual. First here is October MSU (centered on 1980-2000) […]
For several months, the words Obama and McCain have not been allowed in posts here. I’m declaring a one-day moratorium on this policy. This was not because I’m uninterested in the U.S. election – quite the opposite. I thought that this particular election was an important one. And, quite aside from the importance of the […]
While we were in Italy this summer, my wife and I did the usual tourist things in Rome, visiting the Roman Colliseum and Forum and the Vatican. I noticed something at St Peter’s which is reported first here at Climate Audit.
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