The Blackboard

Early morning sun
illuminates apple pie
on Thanksgiving Day.

Regular readers may have noticed a gap in posting. I work part time; projects come in batches. A batch came up last week (and it had a deadline.) That’s mostly under control, but owing to the upcoming Turkey-fest, slow posting is likely to persist. (That is, unless I decide to post [...]

Vincent Guerrini Jr posted images of Sea Surface Temperatures (SST) from NOAA’s SST Anomaly resource. He said: “if this ain’t a picture of a massively cooling world I don’t know what it is..”
The SST’s showed lots of blue and yellow, indicating slight positive and negative anomalies. I have to admit I always have [...]

In my quest to make sure the blog covers the $14/month or so cost for hosting, I looked around for Sponsorships. I thought I’d found something, which I will describe. The visitors can tell me what they think, in comments and by poll.

Sponsorship
Social Spark (SS) lets bloggers find temporary sponsors for their [...]

As many readers know, I like to compare observations to projections rotating through various methods. Some statistical methods have more power (meaning they correctly detect statistically significant differences between a theory and data using smaller amounts of data.) Other methods have less power. Simply comparing the observations of global mean surface temperature [...]

It appears that some scientists somewhere may be considering the possibility of a phenomenological cause for the apparent stall in the rise of global temperatures. As is: Some honest to goodness scientist associated with the United Nations Environment Program may be attributing a cause and effect relationship other than “weather noise” to the stall. [...]

The HadCrut3 anomaly for October is out. The most recent release indicates October’s anomaly is 0.440 C; this represents a rise since September’s current Hadcrut3 anomaly of 0.371C.
Other changes in recent temperatures include:

September got colder during October, dropping from 0.376 to 0.371. In contrast at GISS, September got 0.1 C warmer [...]

http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/tabledata/GLB.Ts+dSST.txt in its various November incarnations.
So, shall we spin this as “October really was warm”, or “GISS really overestimated on that first try.”
The important question is: Can I win brownies by guessing the October anomaly when it’s published in December?

Money. Everyone always wants more money.
During the brou-ha-ha regarding the “Does Siberia get cold in winter? ” glitch in the October GISSTemp anomaly, John Mashey suggested the obvious QA problem at GISSTemp could be solved by increasing funding at GISS. Gavin estimated that GISStemp is allocated 0.25FTE of NASA staff time, [...]

Readers will recall I posted the GISSTemp October Anomaly on Nov. 10, and mentioned that it was always fun to check the Google cache for changes. Little did I know they values would change twice between Nov 10 and Nov 12.
So, now I find myself posting the values I showed Nov. 10 and [...]