Esper et al [2002] divides trees into "linear" and "nonlinear" trees depending on their growth – a classificaiton that is idiosyncratic to this publication as far as I can tell. Esper at al. [2002] provides a citation to a publication "in press" that supposedly explains this, but I can’t locate any explanation in the publication. […]
Esper considered three different methods of standardizing tree ring widths and concluded: For the Gotland TRW data, the resulting three different chronologies do behave differently in the late 19th and 20th centuries. Such difference would influence one’s interpretation of the climate history represented by these chronologies.
Sunday usually has about half the traffic of a weekday, but yesterday we had the most hits ever – over 6200. There were a lot of hits on Labor Day as well, so our audience may be changing a little. The hit count probably isn’t apples and apples to hits earlier in the year, since […]
Last year, I presented a paper at the AGU Fall Meeting (December 2004) which was the core of our GRL paper. I’ve just submitted an abstract for the 2005 Fall Meeting for session PP-19 co-chaired by Hans von Storch.
I’ve modified the Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) for the Weblog Theme so that the comment box is no longer the width of the screen, but is 80% of it. I’ve also fixed the irritating look of the font size of the subcategories being bigger than the categories. Let me know in the comments below if […]
I’va added a number of new categories in the frame at right and have indexed a lot of old postings. For example, I’ve indexed comments pertaining to Jones et al; Crowley; IPCC; bristlecones; geological proxies; modeling; satellite and gridcell temperatures and a few others. The format needs to be tidied a little.
It’s pretty hard to have a blog on climate issues and not comment on Hurricane Katrina and the devastation of New Orleans and Mississippi. On the other hand, most comments to date emanating from climate circles seem very tasteless and suggest any comment from someone interested in climate will be pretty risky.
For the several people who’ve asked that the autocorrelation comments be collected, I’ve added a Category labelled “Spurious” in the right sidebar. When I get some time, I will update the Categories as they are a useful way of keeping track of things.
The National Post has a big feature on Hugo Chavez, President of Venezuela, who’s much in the news as a result of a fatwa on him by Pat Robertson. This post has nothing to do with climate. I happened to be in Caracas during the Chavez coup attempt in 1992 and this is just a […]
The Boston Globe has an interesting puff piece on Ray Bradley.
Climate Audit 