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Month: November, 2009

Spin from Nature’s blog.

30 November, 2009 (16:32) | politics

The authors of Natures blog are apparently peeved that The Times reported Cru threw away raw temperture data as follows:
Scientists at the University of East Anglia (UEA) have admitted throwing away much of the raw temperature data on which their predictions of global warming are based.
The data were gathered from weather stations around the [...]

Does refusing 2% of data matter?

30 November, 2009 (10:30) | politics

Recently, Real Climate responded to the ClimateGate incident which revealed concerted efforts by Jones and Mann to keep data out of the public eye. They posted a list of climate and meteorological data that is available. As many climate blog addicts are aware, lots has been made available, and that is laudable. [...]

Alfredo Friday Haiku

28 November, 2009 (20:51) | Haiku

   
We had left overs.
What were we to do with them?
Turkey Alfredo!
   
(Bob “Is there fat in mustard?” Liljegren samples Turkey Alfredo to ensure the seasonings are properly balanced.)

 
Most American families are content to merely over eat on Thursday. But not mine!
When big sis and I returned to Illinois, we were faced with a dilemma. [...]

Applause for Judy Curry!

27 November, 2009 (09:18) | politics

Brava! Brava! As many know, I have had my disagreements with Judy Curry, (Chair of the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology) in comments at Climate Audit But not today. Today, she posted an open letter over at Joe Romm’s blog, which I will post in it’s [...]

Cranberries Popping Haiku

26 November, 2009 (09:11) | Haiku

Cranberries dancing
in boiling sugar water;
soon they will explode!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone, everywhere!

Von Storch Cru Reaction

25 November, 2009 (15:32) | politics

Hans Von Storch wrote up his reaction on reading the CRU files. I can’t figure out how to find permalinks to individual updates, so I’m going to quote liberally:
Going through the files, which due to the sheer size I can do only in a sampling mode, the mails begin in the [...]

CRU Hack News: Ten Links.

25 November, 2009 (11:44) | Data Comparisons

Some UK citizens have posted a petition to ask for an investigation of the leak: More here.
Willis posted a summary of the history of response to FOI and FOI requests at CRU posted at Maurice’s. (The history includes reactions of Jones group when FOIA came into being before any requests under FOIA has been made.)
People [...]

Met Office Prediction for 2010 & Betting on HadCrut.

24 November, 2009 (23:13) | Betting

This week is all about CRU so I’m going to start adding betting on HadCrut to the gambling line up. Before you bet, you should be aware that The Independent” reported the Met Office forecast for 2010:
The new forecast for 2009-2019 shows a range of possible outcomes for each year but the “central estimate” [...]

Godwin’s Law Alert: Fox News

24 November, 2009 (15:51) | politics

Yes the mustachioed gentleman in the lower right hand image is Hitler:

The Fox announcer doesn’t go so far as to actually say that climate scientists are Nazi’s. It seems to be: Stalin lied, Hitler lied, then rhetorical question about whether scientists would lie. Still… a bit mu
After the introduction there is an [...]

More crack reporting from Guardian UK.

24 November, 2009 (09:04) | politics

A Guardian UK article dated Tuesday 24 November 2009 closes with
In the political world, the email affair has elicited no comment and came as it was announced that 65 national leaders had so far pledged to attend the Copenhagen talks, almost a third of the total.
At the same time, the Wall Street Journal [...]