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 should [...]

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. He [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 automatically translated. Sort [...]

In late May, I mentioned blog had been the victim of a script injection attack which I cleared up. Tetris had noticed that the WUWT and CA had been attacked during the year and thought the attacks might be politically motivated. I doubted that theory. The reason tetris notices sites he visits are attacked is [...]