I’ve upgraded the site, and experimented with a few themes (which I’m not completely happy with – suggestions please), implemented a new spam plug-in (Spam Karma 2) and threaded comments. There’s still some extra stuff I want to put on (including a comment verification CAPTCHA to get rid of automated spam) but it’ll have to […]
"The time has come", the Walrus said, "To talk of many things: Of shoes and ships and sealing wax, of cabbages and kings" – Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, 1872 The time has arrived to upgrade the WordPress software to the latest version (1.5). Amongst the new features will be […]
I’m going to be up at Georgian Bay for a few days. John A. will clear posts – so everyone be on good behavior: please reserve taunts and quarrelsome comments until I get back. John replies: Gosh! Thanks Steve. Having lit the blue touch paper stand well back….
Roger Pielke has an interesting article here. I’m going to be offline for a few days and don’t have time now. There’s an interesting row between the UK National Academy (Lord May) and on the one hand the Russian National Academy and on the hand the U.S. National Academy, where the latter two have distanced […]
For people with stock market experience, "consensus" is not something that usually is a strong buy signal. Here are some interesting examples – two from Enron showing how fragile a "consensus" can be, one from a geologist surveyed in one of the surveys supposedly showing a consensus among scientists.
Continuing my industrious typing from old IPCC reports, here is an extended excerpt from IPCC 1995 (SAR) dealing with climate change and variability. If you recall from IPCC 1990, it left an important oustanding question as to the impossibility of attributing the portion of present warming that it is due to human influences, when the […]
This site will have about 72,000 hits in June, up slightly from May. Yesterday, there were most hits (just under 3,000) for a Sunday since the start-up of the site in February. The same may have been true for Saturday as well. There has been a curious change in browsers. In April, there were more […]
I’ve re-read section 7 of IPCC 1 [1990], which contains the graph used in the WSJ editorial. I highly recommend that everyone interested in this topic take a look at IPCC 1. First of all, here is a scan of Figure 7.1 together with the original caption. Original Caption: Figure 7.1. Schematic diagrams of global […]
Today’s Nature has an editorial criticizing two researchers issuing a press release merely when they submitted a paper for review. Apparently scientists in the field have been protesting. Has anybody seen any climate scientists protesting about Ammann and Wahl’s press release? I guess it depends upon whose ox is being gored. But the manner in […]
There’s a front page story, complete with an eyecatching picture, in the National Post today asking Is De Guzman Alive? I’ve posted up some comments on Bre-X before in connection with audit procedures, consensus, skeptics etc. at Bre-X #1, Bre-X #2 and Bre-X #3. De Guzman is the geologist at the heart of the salting […]
Climate Audit 
Some News and Comment
Roger Pielke has an interesting article here. I’m going to be offline for a few days and don’t have time now. There’s an interesting row between the UK National Academy (Lord May) and on the one hand the Russian National Academy and on the hand the U.S. National Academy, where the latter two have distanced […]