The Blackboard

Zer0th, who is a day ahead of me, posted:
It’s Aug 1 here in blighty.
N’er mind the ante-Renaissance Vatican zeal of the new-model priesthood re keeping the holy tomes for their eyes only… what I REALLY want to know is: will we be having another UAH pool this month?
Well, why not? The [...]

Like a number of others, I jumped on the bandwagon and sent an FOI to CRU. I used this boilerplate suggested at Climate Audit:

Dear Mr Palmer,
I hereby make a EIR/FOI request in respect to any confidentiality agreements restricting transmission of CRUTEM data to non-academics involving the following countries: El Salvador, Honduras, [...]

At Climate Audit, RomanM wrote:
I was milling around the CRU ftp website looking for the mole when I ran into a “censored” directory.
The two files were not accessible, and I don’t think that they are necessarily related to the events of this thread, but I found their names amusing.
Here’s a screenshot:

I wonder who the [...]

As many of you are aware, the observed surface temperature anomalies have increased since January 1, 2009. I suspect many assume this means that hypothesis tests are getting closer to the border line for failing to reject the hypothesis the multi-model mean is equal to the observed trend to a confidence of 95%. [...]

I’ll admit to monitoring SST maps more closely that I ought to. I’m now fascinated by an almost certainly meaningly teensy-beensie two or three pixel wide blue spot off the coast of Ecuador.
Last week, there seemed to be one blue pixel off the coast of Ecuador (visit here On july 23… there [...]

Delicate flowers
sway in summers gentle breeze
and survive her storms.

 
Still no ripe tomatoes, but the flowers are brilliant! Of course this is an open thread. Haiku welcome.
Update July 27. Niels wanted to see the cone flowers:

I wasn’t going to read Influence of the Southern Oscillation on tropospheric temperature. My reason? Well, among other things, I suspected it would contain smoothing before computing correlations; (I was right about that.)
Unfortunately, over at Tamino’s someone wondered if I would comment. So, then I had to read the paper-du-semaine. I downloaded it [...]

Steve Mosher popped into comments to make this request:
Free the CRU data!
Lucia, I am hijacking your thread. sorry in advance.
head over here
http://www.climateaudit.org/?p=6623
And please make a request to CRU under FOI to free the data.
last time we did this we got the IPCC to post the comments on the AR4.
Anybody can do this. You don’t need [...]

Recently, David Stockwell has been examining Stefan Rahmstorf’s 2007 “A Semi-Empirical Approach to Projecting Future Sea-Level Rise” which discusses the effect of increasing surface temperatures on sea levels. In the conclusions of his paper, Stefan wrote:
A rise of over 1 m by 2100 for strong warming scenarios cannot be ruled out, because all [...]

Yesterday, I reported the June ‘09 anomaly in the most recent HadCrut update.
DG noticed the temperature for previous months had also changed and asked:
Is there a way to retrieve archived HadCRUT monthly records for all of 2009?
Well, it turns out there is at least one way to retrieve some historic values: Consult Change Detection.com [...]