The Blackboard

Steve McIntyre posted a climategate timeline of behind the blog activities he’s been able to confirm. (He consulted a bunch of us for accuracy). The current climategate series seems to be resulting in a progressive revelation of the email Gavin sent me soon after I posted the fact that the zip files were available at [...]

Part III of Courrielche’s Climategate series has been posted. Of course, I’ll post the bit that mention me. Once again, you get snippets of “the” email: As mentioned in Part I, Gavin Schmidt emailed Lucia Liljegren, providing “a word to the wise” in an apparent attempt to halt Climategate’s promulgation. The connectedness of these climate [...]

Well, Klotzbach et al (2009) has spawned a food fight in the climate blog wars. Roger Jr. posted a ‘final comment’ Gavin’s the post criticizing both Roger’s and their coauthors. Gavin edited Roger Jr’s comment also responding in line (a practice I find really pesky.) Roger posted the original comment at his own blog so [...]

One of my readers told me RC started no-following links to certain sites. He detected this after I mentioned the possibility of nofollowing links to “www.blogactionday.org” while still participating. When you link someone, using Nofollow will cause Google to not count that link toward the blogs or sites authority. (The linking practices of “www.blogactionday.org” that [...]

It seems everyone has blogged on Steve McIntyre’s explosive discussions of the Yamal tree rings. Because my understanding of tree-nometers does not extend beyond what I learned of tree rings in grade school, I’ve stayed out of this. But… then…. something got me steamed!* Yes. I am shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going [...]

Today, on the basis of a recent article about climate change induced sheep shrinkage appearing in Science, Gavin informed his flock the phenomenon might result in a climate feedback he dubs the “second sheep-albedo effect” which would extend the Team’s equally speculative “sheep-albedo effect”. I was saddened to see the tendency of the herd at [...]

Some of you are already aware of The Trouble with Harry (not the movie, the AWS in Antarctica.) This (evidently trivial) incident is now creating spin-off incidents. In the latest episode, Roger Pielke Jr. has posted a formal response to letters Gavin is alleged to have written CIRES and Roger. In these alleged letters, Gavin [...]

RyanO alerted me that he did some quick checking to see whether “Dirty Harry” made much of a difference to an AWS reconstruction. Though RyanO warns us he only downloaded R two weeks ago, he did apply it to the question of the day at climate blogs. He finds that reconstruction with new and old [...]

Warning: I will not be explaining Model E deals with heat from viscous dissipation. I don’t know. However, the topic came up in comments about some terms in Model E which evidently eventually was explained by some comment that included the words “the CHANGE of KE by DISSIP”. Various people wondering if such a thing [...]

In comments at Climate Audit Boris (#38) seems to suggest the A tropical tropospheric hotspot is expected from any warming Claiming that a response to any warming is a fingerprint of anthropogenic warming is twice as silly. Well, this is an interesting accusation! Because if we believe claiming the hot spot is a fingerprint is [...]