I received the following notice today: On Thursday, 13 December AGU will hold an event at the Fall Meeting to honor those AGU members who participated in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Winning the Nobel Peace Prize is a wonderful recognition of the importance of their hard work, and AGU would like to congratulate […]
This is something that I should write up, but others are volunteering. Pete T asked for this thread. I don’t promise to accept or use anything. WordPress formerly had a Sticky button and I used to have a Road Map post as a sticky. An old one is here . I’m increasingly using the Pages […]
Doug Nychka’s fields package in R is really excellent. Among its nice functions is a command world() that draws an outline of the continents. I wrote him today inquiring whether there was an option in which land could be colored. Unfortunately there wasn’t. However by the end of the day, there was. Doug sent me […]
I then compared verification statistics for the different reconstructions as shown below. OLS yielded much the “best” fit in the calibration period, but the worst fit in the verification period. If OLS is equivalent to ICE, it actually finds the best fit (minimizes calibration residuals), and in proxy-temperature case makes the most obvious overfit. Let […]
I’ve already received my first condescending comments from the dendro world about the mysteries of standardization. Just to pre-empt some further pontification presuming that I know nothing about these mysteries, I’m posting up some notes that I wrote in 2004 on standardization – which was what I would have been working on had people just […]
As a result of the migration between servers, specialized characters in old posts are now being rendered as garbage quotes. The characters that are affected are mainly “, -, ‘, …, , ü , … Each of these renders into long garbage strings. To fix the problem, one needs to do a bulk find-and-replace over […]
bender writes: Maybe Steve M wants to set up a thread on the paper? JEG provided this url: Click to access 2007-LNA-TeA.pdf moshpit, when I can’t compute exact solutions, I simulate it. As for autocorrelation, given the sparseness of the data points in the time domain, maybe the autocorrelation is very weak? If autocorrelation is […]
As most of you now know, Climate Audit has been declared co-winner of the 2007 Weblogs Award for Best Science blog (together with Bad Astronomy.) This decision was made with the agreement of all parties. Some of you have been understandably a little puzzled and seeking to interpret the matter. Here’s a bit of the […]
OK, the voting is over. The vote (at closing) was CA 20,242; BA 18,993, but scrutinizing is still taking place. Thanks to everyone who supported Climate Audit. Both blogs obtained an incredible number of votes today and can walk away with both satisfaction and amazement. The volume in the Science blog today seems to have […]
Update 6.30 pm Eastern: Access to the voting seems to be easier again. BA is more than 250 votes ahead tho. Bump. climateaudit is running a strong 2nd about 200 votes ahead of last year’s winner (Pharyngula) and about 500 votes behind Bad Astronomy. Polls close Nov 8. You can vote once every 24 hours. […]
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