Monthly Archives: November 2009
A Myth About The Surface Temperature Record Analyses Perpetuated On Dot Earth By Andy Revkin
On the weblog Dot Earth today, there is text from Michael Schlesinger, a climatologist at the University of Illinois, that presents analyses of long term surface temperature trends from NASA, NCDC and Japan as if these are from independent sets of … Continue reading
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Comment On The Inaccurate Response By Gavin Schmidt Of Real Climate On The Role of Land Use Change On Temperature Trends
UPDATE: December 1 2009 Gavin Schmidt responded to this post with the following [thanks to Bob Thompson for alerting us to this!] From Real Climate 990 whatAboutBob says: http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2009/11/the-cru-hack-conte=xt/comment-page-20/#comment-145828> 30 November 2009 at 8:21 AM Gavin, Your response in comment … Continue reading
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The Economist Magazine Gets It Wrong Again On The Climate Issue
The Economist magazine issue of November 29th has an article titled “ Mail-strom – Leaked e-mails do not show climate scientists at their best“ [subscription required] which is an example of a media outlet that is seeking to trivialize the importance of … Continue reading
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A New Paper On Landscape Effects On The Climate System – Ballhorna Et Al 2009
There is a new paper of revlevance to the role of landscape change on the climate system (and thanks to Marcel Severijnen to alerting us to!). The paper is Uwe Ballhorna, Florian Siegerta, Mike Mason and Suwido Limin, 2009: Derivation of burn scar … Continue reading
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News Release In The Sunday Times By Jonathan Leake – Climate Change Data Dumped
There is a news release in the Sunday Times by Jonathan Leake titled “Climate change data dumped” [Note: the Roger Pielke referred to in the article is Pielke Jr]. This startling disclosure means that climate scientists will be unable to assess the mathematical methodology … Continue reading
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Further Comment On The Surface Temperature Data Used In The CRU, GISS And NCDC Analyses
In my post An Erroneous Statement Made By Phil Jones To The Media On The Independence Of The Global Surface Temperature Trend Analyses Of CRU, GISS And NCDC I discussed that Phil Jones implied that the GISS and NCDC surface temperature data … Continue reading
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E-mail Documentation Of The Successful Attempt By Thomas Karl Director Of the U.S. National Climate Data Center To Suppress Biases and Uncertainties In the Assessment Of Surface Temperature Trends
E-mail Documentation Of The Successful Attempt By Thomas Karl Director Of the U.S. National Climate Data Center To Suppress Biases and Uncertainties In the Assessment Of Surface Temperature Trends The release of the e-mails from Phil Jones further confirmed the … Continue reading
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An Erroneous Statement Made By Phil Jones To The Media On The Independence Of The Global Surface Temperature Trend Analyses Of CRU, GISS And NCDC
In the news today, there is an erroneous statement by Phil Jones regarding the surface temperature data sets that are used to diagnose global warming In Harrabin’s Notes: E-mail impact it is reported “Professor Andrew Watson, a long-term colleague of the researchers at the … Continue reading
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Protecting The IPCC Turf – There Are No Independent Climate Assessments Of The IPCC WG1 Report Funded And Sanctioned By The NSF, NASA Or The NRC – A Repost Of And Comment On A January 13 2009 post
On January 13 2009 I posted “Protecting The IPCC Turf – There Are No Independent Climate Assessments Of The IPCC WG1 Report Funded And Sanctioned By The NSF, NASA Or The NRC”. In this post, I concluded that There are no … Continue reading
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Beware Saviors! By Demetris Koutsoyiannis
Guest weblog by Demetris Koutsoyiannis (http://www.itia.ntua.gr/dk/) Hydrological engineering is my scientific field and it is closely related to climate. In the last decade, I have been concerned about the state of research in climate and its detrimental influence on hydrology. … Continue reading
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