The Blackboard:

Trends for the Global Means Surface temperature for five groups (GISS, HadCrut, NOAA/NCDC, UAH/MSU and RSS.) were calculated from Jan 2001-June 2008 using Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) using the method in Lee & Lund. to compute error bars, and Cochrane-Orcutt and compared to the IPCC AR4’s projected central tendency of 2C/century for the trend [...]

I admit I am the queen of typos. I suspect every single comment or post I have ever published contains spelling errors, missing words, duplicate words and any mistake you can name. I’ve noticed others are often annoyed by these sorts of pesky errors.
They don’t annoy me. I rarely notice the in other [...]

My sea ice bet of a summer NH ice extent of 7.4 million km2 is doing ok! (Recall, started all this; Atmoz bet 7.7 million km2; he’s still in the running too. The bet is over the number that will appear in the summer column in the table at the Cryosphere [...]

I know very little about James Hansen’s tax plan. One of the reasons is that Hansen himself said very little about it during his recent well publicized speech commemorating his 1988 presentation to Congress. He blew his powder on more explosive sound bites, distracting everyone from actions he is proposing.

Still, Boris did [...]

In comments at “In it for the Gold”, David Duff claimed it was now colder than when James Hansen gave his first presentation 20 years ago, basing his claim on data from the UAH MSU.
David Benson responded with
And Roy Spencer’s graph is simply wrong.
So, I wondered what Jim Hansen’s own graph would [...]

Evidently, I must be wearing those butterfly wings and using them to propel myself on a flight of fancy inspired by the recent announcement that the official sea surface temperatures. You know, the little snafu over switching from buckets and engine inlets during and after WWII? Visiting

As many are aware, Congressional leaders exercising their jaws about the need for action on carbon limits continually finding reasons why they need not act. Today, the Online Wall Street Journal reports this is too much for Representative John Dingle (Democrat), the WSJ reports:
If the conclusion on CO2 is desperately self-evident for the [...]