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Suggest Links

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I feel the need to create a good links page to help people find “things”. Could people suggest their favorite climate change links. Here are some example categories:

  1. Monthly Surface Temperatures: NOAA, Hadley, GISS, RSS, UAH.
  2. Maps: GISS Surface Temp Maps.
  3. Sea Ice: Daily Arctic Sea Ice Extent Map.
  4. Sea Surface Levels.
  5. Ocean Heat Content. Argos Buoys
  6. Model Data: The Climate Explorer.
  7. Links to famous and/or infamous papers (peer reviewed):Hansen 1988
  8. Links to famous and/or infamous papers (private publication).
  9. Links to reports by famous or infamous groups: IPCC, Heritage, Copenhagen, US Government reviewed:
  10. Videos: Debates, interviews, movies etc.
  11. Other.

Ideally, I want the link to the actual data source itself. (So, for the GISS map tool, I want the link to the map tool, not a text filled GISS page with embedded links that maps, the link to the maps If you know any major handy online data resources, please post in comments. I’ll try to figure out a way to organize the information so people can quickly find what they seek (meanwhile, the links will also be in comments.)

29 thoughts on “Suggest Links”

  2. Thanks Zeke–
    That’s a start. I’ll look at those and edit a bit. (For example, people will want to know that UAH and RSS post regularly; the others post when they happen to run their analysis and write a paper.)

    I think people will want more stuff though. Maybe Santer’s Tropospheric temperatures ? Maybe Steig’s station information, etc. Anything online anyone can suggest would be worth including.

    I should add that links to GISSTemps top page are fine, but what I want is links closer to the actual thing people look for. I find it’s difficult to locate the thing I want reading some of the agencies ‘top’ page. (GISS can be particulary bad in this regard.)

  3. Lucia: I have an Excel spreadsheet, that I use as a database, with URL’s and references to published papers.

    I reference by 1 main topic, and up to 3 sub-topics.

    So far, I have over 600 references on global warming.

  5. Is there an RSS widget you can put on the side which will show the most recent entries from several RSS sites? Then you could show the most recent entries from among those data sites which offer RSS feeds.

  6. You can display the most recent RSS entries from a bunch of RSS feeds: If there isn’t already such an RSS aggregator widget, you can create a “Yahoo pipes” feed which reads a bunch of RSS feeds, sorts them by time, and then you can display the result as one RSS feed.

  7. Technology & ScienceVideo Blogs Mobile Newsletters ABC

    Bill Gates, the Hurricane Tamer?
    Microsoft Chairman and Others Listed as Inventors for Hurricane Modification Plan
    By KI MAE HEUSSNER
    July 13, 2009
    32 comments Font Size PrintRSSE-mailShare this story with friendsFacebookRedditTwitterStumbleUponMore
    It’s the ultimate man vs. nature face-off.

    Hurricane Ike is seen as it covers more than half of Cuba on Sept. 9, 2008, from aboard the International Space Station in this handout image provided by NASA.
    (NASA/Getty Images)Bill Gates, one of the most powerful men on the planet, appears to be taking on one of Mother Earth’s most fearsome forces: the hurricane.

    An application filed with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Jan. 3, 2008, lists Gates and 12 others as the inventors of a number of methods to control and prevent hurricanes.

    “Billions of dollars of destruction and damage is regularly attributable to hurricanes and hurricane-like tropical storms,” the document says. “Thus, great interest has arisen in controlling these powerful storms.”

    The document goes on to describe a process of using fleets of vessels to mix warm water from the surface of the ocean with colder water from greater depths in an effort to cool the surface of the water.

    Related
    Can We Control the Weather?Snow Business: China’s Man-Made FlakesWill Obama Have to Mess w/ Mother Nature?

    http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/Science/story?id=8055781&page=1

  8. Patrick–
    Notice he is not going to try to generate power at the same time. He is going to use power.

    He is also hoping the waves will be high enough to cause water to get dumped into the equivalent of a big bucket with a huge pipe at the bottom. This will only work if the waves are high enough to create a head in his bucket.

  11. Lucia: These are some of my bookmarks. Unfortunately, the URL did not copy across…subject is in BOLD

    CO2

    Trends in Carbon Dioxide
    Mauna Loa monthly CO2
    Monthly CO2 Values
    Greenhouse gas emission trends and projections in Europe 2008 – English – EEA
    : Notes and Sources for Table H.1cco2
    USA CO2 emissions from fossil fuel: 2002 (Project Vulcan)
    Fossil-Fuel CO2 Emissions by Nation

    Ice

    Ice Anomaly by Basin
    Monitoring the Arctic Sea Ice
    n_plot_hires.png (PNG Image, 1260×720 pixels) – Scaled (82%)
    s_plot_hires.png (PNG Image, 1260×720 pixels) – Scaled (82%)
    Sea Ice Index: Most Recent Daily Images
    SH Ice area last 365 days w/anomaly
    NH Ice area last 365 days w/anomaly
    global.daily.ice.area.withtrend.jpg (JPEG Image, 1592×612 pixels) – Scaled (62%)
    Observation System — Arctic ROOS
    ssmi1_ice_ext.png (PNG Image, 800×600 pixels)
    Rutgers University Climate Lab :: Global Snow Lab
    IJIS Web Site
    Daily Arctic Sea Ice Maps

    Energy

    Electric Power Monthly – Table 1.1. Net Generation by Energy Source

    Sea Level

    Index of /current

    Temps

    Arctic Temps
    U.S. Daily Highest Min Temperature Records set on October 29, 2008
    UNITED STATES Climate Summary
    Weekly Mean Temperature and Total Precipitation
    Canada's National Climate and Weather Data Archive
    GISSTemp
    HADCRUT3 Temps
    NCDC US Temps and Precip
    UAH Temps
    RSS
    Canadian Temperature and Precipitation in Historical Perspective
    3-month global ocean heat content
    Radiative Forcing of Climate Change: Expanding the Concept and Addressing Uncertainties
    Wood for Trees: Interactive Graphs

    Misc

    Ozone Hole Watch
    Carbon Capture and Sequestration Technologies @ MIT

  12. Climate Change Reconsidered, 2009 report of the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change
    http://www.nipccreport.org/ or
    http://www.climatechangereconsidered.org/

    Climate Change Program, Air Resources Board
    California Environmental Protection Agency
    http://www.arb.ca.gov/cc/cc.htm

    Climate Depot
    http://www.ClimateDepot.com

    Copenhagen Consensus Economic cost/benefit ranking of major global projects
    http://www.CopenhagenConsensus.com

    The Oil Drum
    http://www.theoildrum.com/

    Roy Spencer
    http://www.drroyspencer.com/

  13. A web site which I have used on numerous occasions is

    http://ingrid.ldeo.columbia.edu/

    It contains a large variety of data sets on all sorts of climate variables along with graphic representations. The downloads of the data can be customized by choice of variables and time periods.

    In some cases, clicking on a graphic takes you to a window where you can customize the graph as well or download the data from it.

  16. I’m working on a structured database to make it easy for people to:
    1) Enter links providing in categories.
    2) Let people generate pages based on categories to find links in the categories they care about and
    3) Let people enter a description so later I can let the people search those descriptions.

    It sounds like “Hockey Stick” may need to be a category.

  18. I think your top old posts should be one category. Several times I find myself going through your posts in order to search for something. I’ll try and come up with a list.
    The Rahmstorf smoothings are a start.

  19. MikeN– You mean top posts for my blog? I can add a “key Blackboard posts” category. But then we have to decide which they are! 🙂

  20. Concrete, Not Just for Nuclear Energy
    How to Obfuscate: Forget to mention volcanoes.
    Page Charges The Problem. Can you suggest a solution?
    The nominal IPCC AR4 ‘best estimate trend’ reject another way.
    With All Due Respect: Ain’t Gavin a Hoot?
    Why ‘failure to reject’ doesn’t mean much:Type 2 error.
    Journalistic Balance as Global Warming Bias:Oh, Really?
    L’Affaire Santer:The purpose of FOI.
    Year End Trend Comparison:Individual model runs 2001-2008.
    How Model E deals with heat from viscous dissipation.
    Gavin Spins with Spaghetti Diagrams!
    WHO Expects a Tropical Tropospheric Hot Spot
    Ehrmm… Debra’s Facts Look Mostly Correct.
    Is the Santer 17 ‘d’ test too liberal?
    SD or SE: What the heck are ‘beaker’ and the others talkingabout?
    What Forcings Did Hansen Use?
    Ordinary Eyeball: How did Hansen’s Predictions Do?
    Real Climate Tries to Spin Pielke:A curious lesson 2.
    When were the models used in the TAR frozen?
    Raniers or Maraschino?Accusations of Cherry Picking
    Spatial Variations in GMST II :Eli Rabbett vs Dr. Pielke Sr.

  21. Lucia – Yes, it’s hard to rate articles by quality or popularity. You might be able to identify posts which have the most hits or comments, and use those as a measure of popularity.

    And as long as you’re looking at using a database and links, consider adding an article categorization database. Without categorization it’s hard to find related stuff on the site. Stuff vanishes into the archives except for vague memories and those who stumble across stuff during searches. You don’t need to populate it all at once. Start categorizing new stuff. Oh…and have an Uncategorized category stuffed full of the old stuff so one can grab a few of those for categorizing.

  22. Lucia, why not go the whole hog and put up a wiki explaining the climate skeptic position?

    It appears that there are many keen people out there who can write lucidly, create R scripts and whatnot.

  24. The problem is of course that there isn’t any single “position” or even agreement on just who is and is not “skeptical” as it were.

    However, broadly, there are those who are alarmed, those who are on the fence, and us deniers. The middle category includes everything from “Catastrophic AGW is probably real, but I’m not sure and not too worried” to “AGW is probably mostly or entirely wrong, but maybe it isn’t” and everything in between.

    “Deniers”-like myself-also are a broad group-everything from the extreme-“Global warming is a hoax” to my own view, which is that the evidence against catastrophic AGW is so overwhelming that one can’t properly be called “skeptical” if one accepts it-one is a “denier” (I was inspired by this: http://wrko.everyzing.com/m/audio/24111309/richard-lindzen-global-warming-denier.htm incidentally)

    Lucia’s position, which seems reasonable to me, is that a modest amount of warming seems likely (correct me if I’m wrong?) and models predicting a rather large amount seem to be off. This is called “lukewarming”.

    As for the alarmed, well, then can safely be put into one box, because they wouldn’t have it any other way!

  26. There are many things to be skeptical about, things to believe, things to disbelieve, and things to know as unknown. I started out being skeptical only about things in my field of expertise, then learning how obviously bad claims in my field were based upon poor work in other fields. Along the way it was easy to spot many exaggerations and other failures.

  27. Sure, climate skeptic position is like saying the atheist position and is not really a particular point of view and instead the rejection of a point of view.

    The thing about a wiki is that you wouldn’t have to administer it, nor would anyone in particular. A group could form and collect links and arguments that question the IPCC and more extreme views.

    It can also be done for free. The site wikidot allows people to host wikis for free. You think up a name and start one. One I started briefly is at:

    http://informedskeptic.wikidot.com/

    If anyone would like to join and become an editor that’d be great, or if someone has a better name and wants to start another that would also be great.

    Unfortunately my math isn’t strong enough for much of what the blackboard crowd and the climate audit folk do, I’m just a coder. But I’d like to help.

  28. Pedro S–
    If the wiki is run under my domain, it will be seen as associated with my blog and seen as reflecting my positions. This will happen even if I studiously avoid administering and tell people that I neither endorse nor dispute any particular position taken at the wikiSo, to some extent,if I set up a wiki, I have to involve myself in disputes.

    So, if people want a skeptic wiki, they are going to have to collect together 5 or 6 core members interested in getting the wiki started. (At this point in time, I don’t see how anyone can get critical mass going on a wiki by themselves.)

    Meanwhile…. if you read William Connolley’s blog, you’d be aware he’s got himself embroiled in some sort of wiki war at “the wiki of all wikis’, Wikepedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Abd-William_M._Connolley

    I don’t understand half the wiki-legal terms, and … I just don’t have the inclination to learn that. I don’t want to think about whose piss smells sweeter or who can piss further. So… no wiki’s for me!

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