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Zeke asked for a new thread for station drop out analyses.
In that thread, Zeke described a simple model to spatially grid and weight temperature data, and has asked for help improving it”
The latest source code is available here:
The folder name is Temp_Analysis v0.3.zip.
It should easily support importing either GHCN or USHCN data [...]

The first email I read this morning announced the earthquake in Chile. It hit 8.8 on the Richtermoment magnitude scale and triggered a tsunami. The reports I read say at least 76 dead. Those of you who pray, pray it won’t be many more. For news: Times Online,hawaii247 and Reuters.

Time to bet on the UAH TTL anomaly for February, 2010. The winner is the one who come closes to guessing the global value Roy Spencer will post on at his blog, as he does every month.
Bets close as the clock rolls over to the first of March. Enter your bet below: [...]

In comments, a reader asks me to comment on Tamino’s recent posts about surface temperatures. My first response is that I have been skimming them. The reason is that, while I am interested in the quality of the surface temperature records, I have never been interested in actually doing all the tedious work required [...]

In some sort of deluded attempt to do… something, a commenter here, and one at Bishop Hill have gotten it into their heads to create metaphors that go like this:
Climate scientists losing public trust == Jodie Foster being gang raped after getting drunk and dancing provocatively.
This is ridiculous. Obviously climate scientists have not [...]

In comments, visitors have been wondered how many Australians visit the Blackboard. I answered pointing to Alexa.com (which is quite approximate.) Then someone wanted to know how many Swiss visit? I suspect many regular readers are little curious. I’ll show you my google analytics counts.
Google analytics tracks when the script [...]

HadCrut_NH&SH has been posted. January’s temperature anomaly was 0.47C. Dinner is in the oven, I’m getting ready to eat, so I’m only going to show a plot of the temperatures since 1980:

January temperature are highlighted with blue circles. This is the sixth warmest January in that plot. El Nino is still on, and [...]

Today, Dr. Judy Curry posted On the Credibility of Climate Research, Part II: Towards Rebuilding Trust at her web site. She invited a number of bloggers to use her post as a jumping off point for discussion. Today, I am going to discuss structural changes in archiving of research results that might prevent [...]

By way of Watts Up with that I learn that the Met office is going to re-do HadCRUT. Good.
Like the Met office, I do expect the new record to show roughly the same amount of warming over the 20th century as the old record. The bullet points says”
The new effort, the [...]

In comments, FrankBi drew my attention to Lambert’s blog discussing a hate email campaign which has also been discussed by Clive Hamilton.
I think nearly everyone disapproves of hate email, (the exceptions being those who send it.) In his post, Clive Hamilton suggested those who receive these missives should store the emails; it might be [...]