The Blackboard

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. [...]

A number of you may have heard of “someone called Ryan O”. Today he posted what appears to be his reconstructions of Antarctic temperature trends.
Check it out at Air Vent.

Cold Antarctica,
The peninsula has warmed.
Has the center cooled?

In case some of you don’t know, Jeff Id and Ryan have posted a discussion of their reconstruction of Antarctica. You can read it here I don’t know enough about applying these reconstructions to say whether they will hold up. However, they appear to be running [...]

UPDATE:

Earlier I had said that I didn’t think Harry would make much of a difference to Steig’s results. I added the caveat that I had concerns about the paper – they just weren’t with Harry. This post describes a portion of them.
R SCRIPT
ant_recon_names1 <–save this as “ant_recon_names.txt”
table-s1-inconsistencies
Steig’s Antarctica Part Two: AVHRR vs. AWS Reconstructions
My understanding [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]