Category Archives: General

Website update: Spam defenses improved

Noticing that some spam comments were getting through, I decided to upgrade the Spam Karma plug-in to version 2.1 (from 2.0) and Bad-Behavior plug-in to 1.2.4 (from 1.1.4).

24

Important stuff – 24 starts up again after the 2nd football game today. Last season ended with Jack Bauer’s death being faked in order to avoid an assassination attempt against Jack commissioned by the Vice President, acting as President while the President was incapacitated. Jack was also being sought by the Chinese for the attack […]

Temporary Holding Post

While I fix the database after the upgrade, this post will hold the comments to posts I have to delete/recreate.

Spaghetti Graph Data

Some of you are looking for digital versions of the multiproxy results. For convenience, here is a digital collation of major reconstructions used in spaghetti graphs. The collation text is here, and URLs to source data can be extracted from line items. It’s not been made user-friendly.

To Browsing Undergraduates

Our "blogfather", realclimate, has been celebrating their one-year anniversary (congratulations to them) and have been reflecting on their year. Kenneth Blumenfeld, who’s posted here once or twice, posted an interesting comment at realclimate, about how his undergraduates were now investigating climate change issues online, that they "very badly wanted to get behind RC", but wanted […]

A realclimate Advisory

Warning – a serious discussion has unexpectedly broken out at realclimate. See comments 84 and 85 here. I don’t think that the IID team is faring very well.

Merry Christmas

Some seasonal remarks – a few substantive and a few personal.

Weblog update: Recent comments

In response to a few complaints, I’ve expanded the recent comments from 5 to 10, because we now have them coming so thick and fast that some people (rather sad people in my view) are missing responses to comments. Of course the ultimate solution for those scientists out there who claim to be addicted to […]

Free Rasmus!!

Nothing from Rasmus for over a day; it’s all Gavin now. Soon it will be “sigh….” and they’ll put the figure skaters back on the ice. We want hockey, not sequins. We want Rasmus, we want Rasmus, we want Rasmus… Is Rasmus in lock-up? Should we start a petition for Gavin to free Rasmus? Free […]

The Sayings of Rasmus

Some of you accuse me from time to time of being sarcastic. It being the Christmas season, I will refrain the temptation to be sarcastic and present instead some sayings from Rasmus (Benestad), courtesy of our friends at realclimate, all conveniently taken from only one thread. There is much food for thought here. There is […]