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	<title>The Blackboard</title>
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		<title>UAH August: 0.511 Up from July!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Roy has posted the UAH temperature for August. Despite the death of El Nino, Augusts UAH recorded value rose relative to July. Also, August 2010&#8242;s recorded temperature exceeds August 2009&#8242;s temperature, making it the 2nd warmest August in the record, and lifting the 12 month average closer to an all time record for 12 month [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rankexploits.com/musings/2010/uah-august-0-511-up-from-july/</link>
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		<title>Hot Pepper Haiku: NH Ice. Open thread.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As summer grows old my red hot peppers ripen I need recipes! This summer the Chicago area has been a bit hot and amazingly humid. I live in the burbs, and sneak veggies into spots planting hot peppers, tomatoes and basil along the side of the house. All are doing just fine. I always grow [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rankexploits.com/musings/2010/hot-pepper-haiku-nh-ice-open-thread/</link>
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		<title>MoshTemp&#8211; new blog.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just wanted to give a quick shout out for MoshTemp, frequent climate blog commenter Steve Mosher&#8217;s new blog. He&#8217;s focusing on temperature reconstructions, providing code in R and discussing R issues in general. Welcome to blogging Steve!]]></description>
		<link>http://rankexploits.com/musings/2010/moshtemp-new-blog/</link>
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		<title>Hadley &amp; GISS July: Cooler &amp; Cooler.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[HadCrut and GISTemp have both reported their July anomalies. The HadCrut NH/SH anomaly of 0.529C represents a very slight drop from July&#8217;s 0.532; the GISTemp anomaly of 0.55C is a somewhat larger drop from July&#8217;s value of 0.58C. Below monthly anomaly values since 1980 are shown for HadCrut, and GISS respectively: There are several interesting [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rankexploits.com/musings/2010/hadley-giss-july-cooler-cooler/</link>
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		<title>Dog days in Nepal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A recent guest post by Willis Eschenbach over at WUWT addresses the temperature record in Nepal, with a focus on a particular line in the recent IPCC Fourth Assessment Report Working Group 2. In table 10.2.2, the IPCC reports that temperatures in Nepal have been increasing by &#8220;0.09°C per year in Himalayas and 0.04°C in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rankexploits.com/musings/2010/dog-days-in-nepal/</link>
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		<title>McK, McI and Herman: Congratulations.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Congratulations to Steve, Ross and Chad for * **McKitrick, Ross R., Stephen McIntyre and Chad Herman (2010) &#8220;Panel and Multivariate Methods for Tests of Trend Equivalence in Climate Data Series&#8221; in press at Atmospheric Science Letters. (in press). I downloaded today, and I&#8217;ve been reading discussions at various blogs. I&#8217;m rather glad I waited to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rankexploits.com/musings/2010/mck-mci-and-hermann-congratulations/</link>
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		<title>Let&#8217;s Give Roger a Naive Forecast.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today, Roger jr asks for a &#8220;naive forecast&#8221; for a mystery process providing us a data set and ask us how we would create the naive process. The only thing we know about the data is that observations have been made over some periods of time, our goal is to suggest what we would predict [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rankexploits.com/musings/2010/lets-give-roger-a-naive-forecast/</link>
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		<title>UAH : 2nd Hottest July in Record.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[UAH has posted the anomaly for July. At 0.489 C, July is the 2nd hottest July in UAH series 5.3,edged out by July 1998 set the July record at 0.510C. However, it&#8217;s still warmer than July 2009&#8242;s 0.429C. Those who watched the daily UAH TLT temperatures are not surprised to discover July&#8217;s anomaly was warmer [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rankexploits.com/musings/2010/uah-2nd-hottest-july-in-record/</link>
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		<title>August UAH bets</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Place your on the August UAH value that will be posted at Roy Spencer&#8217;s blog in early September bets here: The cut-off is set at &#8220;8/15/2010&#8243;. I still haven&#8217;t quite figured out whose time zone this is&#8211; I think the clock is local to Dreamhost, which is in California. The bets on UAH are now [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rankexploits.com/musings/2010/august-uah-bets/</link>
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		<title>More Blogging Issues: Trying something today.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today, I&#8217;m going to try something that may reduce the memory problems&#8211; but it may also make things worse temporarily. I am going to set &#8220;SuperCache&#8221; to create a preload cache of every blog post. This could reduce CPU and memory by eventually make the blog deliver static pages when people (and mostly &#8216;bots and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rankexploits.com/musings/2010/more-blogging-issues-trying-something-today/</link>
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		<title>July NH Sea Ice.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As some will recall, the bet-challenge for July Sea Ice was to forecast the average JAXA sea ice recorded for the July 18-July 31 inclusive. The results are now in&#8230; and the winner is&#8230;. DonB who, owing to the small number of betters too all the quatloos! Here are the more detailed results: Winnings in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rankexploits.com/musings/2010/july-nh-sea-ice/</link>
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		<title>Blogging Issues: Server Errors</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Frequent commenters have noticed that the blog is throwing a lot of server errors lately. I have not been able to identify the precise cause. Communicating with Dreamhost, it appears that something launches a process that loads a large amount of memory. This causes Dreamhost to start killing processes to keep my from taking down [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rankexploits.com/musings/2010/blogging-issues-server-errors/</link>
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		<title>RyanO FOI to watch: Will NCAR try to pull a CRU?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It appears RyanO has requested data from NCAR/UCAR, the request has been refused, and RyanO may now be embarked on dealing with the same sort of run-around treatment exhibited by CRU. (See Data Stonewalling Resumes.) In light of these recent events, it&#8217;s worth reviewing some of the findings vis-a-vis CRU&#8217;s intransigence with respect to disseminating [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rankexploits.com/musings/2010/ryano-foi-to-watch-will-ncar-try-to-pull-a-cru/</link>
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		<title>HadCrut&#8211;2nd Warmest June in Record</title>
		<description><![CDATA[HadCrut June data are in. I don&#8217;t know if I missed the alert earlier, or if I just happened to catch this before the alert arrived. Either way, the temperature anomaly was 0.534C making it the 2nd warmest HadCrut June anomaly, exceeded by June 1998. Temperature anomalies since 1980 are shown below with June anomalies [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rankexploits.com/musings/2010/hadcrut-2nd-warmest-june-in-record/</link>
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		<title>The GISTemp Land Fraction</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Much digital ink was spent over the weekend castigating GISTemp for the supposed sin of mixing up the land and ocean areas of the earth. Frank Lansner (and Bob Tisdale, in a somewhat more nuanced post) both points out that to successfully replicate the global land/ocean GISTemp record requires a weighting ratio of around 70% [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rankexploits.com/musings/2010/the-gistemp-land-fraction/</link>
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		<title>The GHCN adjustment puzzle</title>
		<description><![CDATA[GHCN contains two main data files on their server: v2.mean, which is the unadjusted data from CLIMAT reports (with minimal QC) and v2.mean_adj, which is the adjusted data. GHCN adjusted data isn&#8217;t actually used in many places; GISTemp and HadCRUT take in the raw data and do their own adjustments. We had assumed, however, that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rankexploits.com/musings/2010/the-ghcn-adustment-puzzle/</link>
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		<title>Channel 5 Anomalies: Hot but not record breaking.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Something I&#8217;ve been hoping for happened: the AMSU-A now displays a baseline mean, max and min to the data reported for AQUA Channel 5. You can now request a plot that shows data for years 2002-now, the record high, record low and average. I don&#8217;t know if the average is for a baseline period, or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rankexploits.com/musings/2010/channel-5-anomalies-hot-but-not-record-breaking/</link>
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		<title>Word of the Day: Defalcation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On of the fun things about reading Monckton&#8217;s writing is his love of florid language; with some frequency he uses fancy words correctly. However, I&#8217;m a bit puzzled by a new-to-me word in the following paragraph: I looked up &#8220;defalcations&#8221;, and found several definitions. This is Wikipedia&#8217;s definition of defalcation: A defalcation is an amount [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rankexploits.com/musings/2010/word-of-the-day-defalcation/</link>
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		<title>NOAA: Hottest June in Record.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[NOAA/NCDC reported their June Surface Temperature Anomalies for June: 0.6763 C. This is very slightly higher than May 2010 and represents the warmest June in the NOAA record. The temperatures with June highlighted are show below: Because many readers are interested in whether or not we reached a record 12 month average during this El [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rankexploits.com/musings/2010/noaa-hottest-june-in-record/</link>
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		<title>New work on temperature reconstructions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mosh and I have a new post up on WUWT presenting his version of the ye olde land temp reconstruction. It systematically goes through all the different choices one can make when creating a temperature reconstruction and does a first pass at quantifying the magnitude of each. http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/07/13/calculating-global-temperature/]]></description>
		<link>http://rankexploits.com/musings/2010/new-work-on-temperature-reconstructions/</link>
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