The Blackboard

As many know, one of the reasons for slow blogging is related to Dad. The other is… given the due to the sudden onset of business, I sort of thought, “I’ll wait for HadCrut to post their temperatures before I pick up an analysis I was interested in.” Usually, they usually [...]

Tom Fuller has posted “Examiner.com’s First Annual Survey on Global Warming”. Of course no web based poll is scientific, but they are worth answering anyway. So, here are 5 reasons you should take the survey:

It’s organized to put climate change in perspective. It includes questions about economics, health care and foreign policy. [...]

My Popsie-Wopsie
won’t smile for the camera.
What a grumpy Gus!

For those wondering, Dad is all settled in Highland Park. I visited him on Thursday. He was willing to pose for a picture. When I told him to smile, he decided to pull a face. (I have an even worse photo by asking him to show [...]

The final date for betting on October’s UAH temperature anomaly is fast approaching. Above, you can see my (now familiar) graph showing the Channel 5 AMSU readings for October to date.

The trick yourself into cherry picking thread is too long. I’m opening this one!
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This post is a mix of blatant commercialism and a request for advice. The two links are from an affiliate program (i.e. blatant commercialism). The advice request is: Do any of you readers any experience with LED lighting? I’d like to replace light fixtures in our guest bedroom, and outside. We [...]

I’ve taken over;
made myself comfortable.
Now buy me some toys!
 

Are any of you wondering what happened to the cat that broke in through our cat door early this month?
I sent out email to a vast network of neighbors. Judy who lives near here reported that she visits her house too. (In fact, [...]

Did you know you can cherry pick without knowing it? It works like this:

You speculate there “some trees” are temperature proxies, but “other trees aren’t. (So far, you’re actually ok.)
Then, instead of trying to do a real calibration study to discover what sorts of trees are temperature proxies and which aren’t, you just [...]

Time to bet on October’s Temperature Anomaly which will be reported by Dr. Roy Spencer the first few days in November. Visitors from blog action day are welcome to try guessing the anomaly along with the rest of us. Regular readers know that we have some advance warning on this based on daily [...]

Yesterday’s post got me thinking about bunnies. So, I wandered over to Eli’s warren and discovered that our furry friend seemed hoppin’ mad that “The Lorax” had gone missing. He had made this important discovery reading “Jimmy’s” comment over at Tim’s blog where Jimmy posted this:
Re #41 and the related comments about the absence [...]