Comment on Berkeley Surface Temperatures: Released by Tilo Reber
Does GISS treat the Arctic ocean as “not land”? If so, why do they give us coverage by extrapolation from land? I don’t pretend to know the answer to what Berkely is doing. That is why I’m asking. So...
View ArticleComment on Berkeley Surface Temperatures: Released by Kermit
Thanks Zeke, I didn’t notice that, is it a simple moving average or exponential? And do you know why they use 10 years and not 5 or 8 or 20? My first experience with moving averages was in the stock...
View ArticleComment on Berkeley Surface Temperatures: Released by steven mosher
Devil is in the details. 1. Modis500 was calibrated on a training dataset that used cities in excess of 100K. 2. Modis picks out “built” not urban. A golf course or city park will register as Rural,...
View ArticleComment on Berkeley Surface Temperatures: Released by Tilo Reber
Okay, let me repeat what I just said to Omnologos: No effect for UHI simply doesn’t pass the smell test. But let’s try a thought experiment. Let’s say that in 1900 you have a thermometer that is...
View ArticleComment on Berkeley Surface Temperatures: Released by omnologos
OTOH there was no obligation to stick to all that “noisy data”. And given what is known about the well-known places (such as Tokyo) one would have expected a little more humility and questioning of...
View ArticleComment on Berkeley Surface Temperatures: Released by Jim in SC
. I read the BEST Station Quality tentative paper from the link over at Watts site. I suppose I was unclear as to my doubts so let me rephrase my concern on station readings. lets say I take data from...
View ArticleComment on Laframboise on the IPCC by Brian Dodge
What year did the International Panel on Global Warming change its name to the International Panel on Climate Change?
View ArticleComment on Berkeley Surface Temperatures: Released by Tilo Reber
Buzz: I looked through the paper. I don’t see how it answers any of the questions. Comparing the 16000 least urban against the entire 39000 doesn’t answer the questions that I asked above. If you think...
View ArticleComment on Berkeley Surface Temperatures: Released by AK
If I’m going to second-guess the experts, I have to use my own intuitions based on their data, methods, intermediates, and conclusions. I’ll admit it isn’t “pound on the table” proven, but when, for...
View ArticleComment on Berkeley Surface Temperatures: Released by DocMartyn
Steve, I have always thought that places that have been known to have had changes in the period of interest should be used as a positive control. USAAF/USAF bases that swelled in WWII, then had runway...
View ArticleComment on Berkeley Surface Temperatures: Released by Tilo Reber
No Mosher, that is not their definition. I thought you read the paper. Their definition is that urban environments are those that are “dominated” by a built environment. Nothing says that you couldn’t...
View ArticleComment on Does the Aliasing Beast Feed the Uncertainty Monster? by David Young
Fred, Thanks for your comments. In fact, I have contacted several climate scientists privately and given them some references. They have promised to read them with “great interest.” We’ll see what...
View ArticleComment on Berkeley Surface Temperatures: Released by Bob Tisdale
Same comment I just left over at Lucia’s: Based solely on a quick glance, (all I have time for), the paper “Decadal Variations in the Global Atmospheric Land Temperatures” appears to be a statistical...
View ArticleComment on Berkeley Surface Temperatures: Released by AK
It just occurred to me, Steven… You’re looking for built-up areas encroaching on the station, but isn’t the Urban Heat Island effect dependent on lots of buildings? We’re not talking about the station...
View ArticleComment on Berkeley Surface Temperatures: Released by Rattus Norvegicus
Since they were just trying to construct the evolution of LST’s why would they try to do attribution?
View ArticleComment on Laframboise on the IPCC by M. carey
Why pay $5 bucks for Laframboise’s book when I can get her opinion of the IPCC at her site for free: http://nofrakkingconsensus.com/ Laframboise’s site says the IPCC’s authors can’t be trusted on...
View ArticleComment on Laframboise on the IPCC by M. carey
I think Martha was commenting on Donna Laframboise. Given http://nofrakkingconsensus.com/, I agree with Martha.
View ArticleComment on Berkeley Surface Temperatures: Released by Vince whirlwind
“…warming from 1910 to 1942 with an increase in emissions from … cooling from 1942 to 1975 … disproving any possible correlation between CO2 emissions and global warming…” It doesn’t disprove anything...
View ArticleComment on Berkeley Surface Temperatures: Released by Rattus Norvegicus
Retract that last comment, I had just looked at the press releases and comments from Rohde about attribution w/o looking at the decadal variation paper yet.
View ArticleComment on Laframboise on the IPCC by kau
Brian Angliss, I don’t think you are in any position to be accusing others of hypocrisy. Judith’s original comment seems quite consistent with the evidence. Do you honestly believe given the content of...
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