The Blackboard

Since “An Inconvenient Truth” was released, all sorts of companies are announcing plans to go carbon neutral.
The Wall Street Journal describes what this means, using Dell Computer as an example. Dell evidently has achieved carbon neutrality.
But what does this mean?
Here’s what the WSJ says Dell counts in its carbon footprint: [...]

Remember I previously showed slippers crocheted during football games?
Well, football continues. In self defense, I bought 6 skeins of Coats and Clarks Red Heart, armed my self with a crochet hook and started an afghan. I got a bit of a head start yesterday, and then continued working on the afghan today. [...]

Can you believe the temperature rose 61 F in 56 hours? According to WGN weather, the temperature at O’Hare airport was 0F at 6 am Thursday morning and 61F at 2:18 pm today. (The 61F is a record high for Dec. 27.) The 6″ of snow on my lawn had mostly melted over [...]

In comments on a previous post, JohnV asked how trends based on the AR4 model realizations would compare to observations if we selected a start date of 1990. This is a fair question, but I told him I would defer answering for a little while.
Here’s a portion of JohnV’s comment (click to read [...]

Butter and sugar,
eggs, flour, vanilla, salt.
Delicious cookies.
 
Merry Christmas!

It’s really cold out.
Jim watched the Bears play football;
I made some slippers.

I figure we need a non-contentious interlude. We have the big tv. Everyone comes over here to watch football. I think the game is boring, so I make these. Take my word that the brightness is an illusion cause by the autoscale feature [...]

In comments at Climate Audit Boris (#38) seems to suggest the
A tropical tropospheric hotspot is expected from any warming
Claiming that a response to any warming is a fingerprint of anthropogenic warming is twice as silly.
Well, this is an interesting accusation! Because if we believe claiming the hot spot is a fingerprint is silly, it [...]

In comments, Boris asked for clarification of yesterday’s Figure 4. I’ll provide that today. To support the discussion, I have extended time period to show the level of agreement both before and after 1999. (Yesterday’s graphs imitated Gavin’s choice of illustrating the comparison only after 1999.)
Here is a graph showing the IPCC model [...]

Yesterday, Bill Illis alerted me to Gavin’s most recent post saying “Interesting spaghetti-gram posted by Gavin on real climate today.”
It was, indeed and “interesting” spaghetti diagram. The tendentious twaddle surrounding it was even more interesting.
Let’s start with the spaghetti diagram which Gavin introduced thusly:
So just for fun, here is a comparison of the observations [...]

Two times I shoveled.
The cold white snow keeps falling;
Will it ever end?

I drove up to the northern suburbs yesterday. My friend Carolyn gave a talk in a sort of Catholic mass in Highwood, then I trecked over to Libertyville to see Mom. Then, I drove down to Glencoe to see my Carolyn.
She and I [...]