Category Archives: General

Tip Jar now available

In order to help defray Steve’s costs in moving the hosting of the blog to a virtual private server, I have setup a Paypal tip jar on the left hand side. The suggested amount is just a suggestion – you can put as much or as little as you like. The currency is Canadian dollars […]

Collation of Proxy Data

I’ve added a “page” – see left column – with links to various proxy data collations that I’ve archived here. I’ll try to archive some read scripts at some point.

Dan Hughes on Software Validation

I [Dan Hughes] posted a short discussion of some software Verification and Validation issues on another thread. Here are some additional thoughts. I have a few questions for anyone who have answers. I consider these issues to be essentially show-stoppers as far as use of the results of any of the AOLBCGCM codes and all […]

Osborn Finally Identifies MXD Sites

A miracle has occurred. Osborn has provided identification of the sites used in the various Osborn and Briffa MXD studies. See his webpage here. He notified Craig Loehle and I today. These use various subsets of the large Schweingruber collection made in the late 1980s and early 1990s. They only cover the period after 1400, […]

Weblog Update: November 2006

I thought I’d give a brief overview on what’s happening with the weblog, the changes that were made, the problems encountered/fixed and the future of Climate Audit. Statistics Figures for the month of November show a big jump from all previous months. The number of hits climbed steeply to around 1.7 million.

Al Gore's Letter to the Telegraph

here . Gore has much to say on the hockey stick.

Elephant Seals and PNAS Bias

Ralph Cicerone, President of NAS, personally reviewed Hansen’s recent article, which is available for free at the PNAS website here. George Denton, a very distinguished paleoclimatologist of the older school – one whose work will undoubtedly long survive that of the Team, recently contributed an article entitled Holocene elephant seal distribution implies warmer-than-present climate in […]

Monbiot v Monckton

For those who missed this, George Monbiot penned his reply to Monckton’s two part articles here dipping his metaphorical pen in concentrated sarcastic acid. I can’t say I’m impressed with Monbiot’s arguments because they appear to be of the distinctly strawy kind. He does mention asking Gavin Schmidt about blackbodies (in relation to Monckton’s use […]

Cornell University, Nov. 17, 2006

I’m going to Cornell University on Nov. 17 at the invitation to give a lecture to Sinan Unur’s economics policy class on my adventures in climate. Oddly enough, I’ve never given a presentation to a university class in my life. It wasn’t something that you did in math classes in the olden days. My only […]

Weblog update imminent

Steve has received yet another note about the vulnerability of our software from the webhost and somehow we are being used as a spam relay of some kind. So I’m going to update the software after first making sure I’ve got a good backup or three. So if CA disappears or looks peculiar, try not […]