The Blackboard

Today, Rasmus Benestad explained why Nicola Scafetta should share code to reproduce the results of Scafettas 2006 GRL paper. Rasmus gives some background, explains why he wants the code and relates:
…So I asked him to post his code openly on the Internet so that others could repeat our test with their code. That [...]

Many of us have noticed the habit of Real Climate authors to not answer questions they are actually asked. I posted an example yesterday, in which eric steig claims his “answer” to Andrew Revkin’s question is the “right” answer. The difficulty is that eric’s answer did not address the question Andrew Revkin actually asked. [...]

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 [...]

Have any of you noticed the nifty “robo-translation” feature plugin I installed several weeks ago? I thought it would be fun to give the Global Translator Plugin a whirl. The plugin lets me place an icon with loads of little flags somewhere on my blog; people can click and the page is [...]