Wegman observed last summer that climate scientists failed to involve statisticians to an appropriate degree in the work. Yesterday Simon Tett drew our attention to Brohan et al 2006 as an explanation of uncertainties in HadCRU3. Brohan et al, of which Tett is a coauthor, used the prominent statistician, Donald Rumsfeld, as an authority for […]
The Toronto Star has broken the embargo on the IPCC AR4. They give a short synopsis of the expected from the Summary for Policy Makers. One of the items in the short review was the relative attribution between solar and greenhouse. The article says: Rebutting one of the main arguments of climate change skeptics, it […]
I just noticed an excellent comment by Sonechkin (one of the Moberg authors) on the CPD submission of Bürger and Cubasch. I suspect that climateaudit readers will agree with everything that he says. The remarkable thing is that these claims, which we’ve been making for some time, should ever have been controversial.
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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 […]
One of the remaining things that needs to be fixed is LaTeX support on the blog, and I’d appreciate a little help to solve a problem.
OK folks, here’s a question – no peeking. In terms of the total number of hurricane-days (i.e. days at wind-speed gt 65 knots) west of 69W, where does 2005 rank in the league table including all years since 1851? Bonus points if you get the top five right regardless of order.
Here’s an interesting map of tropical salinity from Stott et al 2004. If you were Louis Hissink or a mining geologist looking at this map, you’d be interested in a core in the salinity bulls-eye at 120W and 20S. I haven’t been able to locate any relevant ocean sediment cores in this bullseye area (but […]
Google Earth really has some marvellous images. At the AGU convention, there were a number of exhibits showing sophisticated applications. I haven’t figured out any sophisticated applications, but I’ve enjoyed locating some of the sites discussed here on Google Earth. Today I’ve located the Dasuopu glacier and compared Google Earth to a sketch from Thompson’s […]
This is the 2nd Christmas for climateaudit. Right now I feel like I’ve probably more got more posts to write than I did when I started. And AR4 hasn’t hit the presses yet. We’re probably going to hear more next year about 12,000 years than 1,000 years – so there’s going to be lots to […]
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