Comment on Pause (?) by Vaughan Pratt
Could you plot year-on-year temperature change vs. CO2? No. I use MATLAB/Octave, and Excel/CALC for that, each pairing being proprietary/open-source. MATLAB and Octave are more or less interchangeable,...
View ArticleComment on The wrong(?) conversation by Baa Humbug
De Ja Vu or Groundhog Day, call it what you will but all this has been done before. In fact 16 years ago and I alerted Judith to it about 12 months ago. (in fact I emailed Judith on Xmas day last year...
View ArticleComment on The wrong(?) conversation by Willis Eschenbach
Those good folks over at NOAA are really desperate on this “Climate Services” nonsense. They have wasted taxpayer dollars to collect a bunch of quotes from various yes-men and non-entitites about how...
View ArticleComment on Harmony of the climate: isolating the oscillations in many climate...
It’s bassless. Call Bootsy Collins. He will lead them. We need the funk.
View ArticleComment on Disinformation and pseudo critical thinking by hunter
Robert, You are notable only for your unoriginal, reactionary and incorrect interpretation of nearly everything you can possibly find to screw up.
View ArticleComment on Best of the BEST critiques by Bartemis
<i>"I doubt you will look at it because you do not appear to be that intellectually curious."</i> More diddling of you ego. This kind of thing really is unseemly in public. Not to mention...
View ArticleComment on Tol’s critique of the Ludecke et al. papers by MattStat
I haven’t seen any graphs inconsistent with a 50+ year progressive increase in ocean heat content, associated with the warming of about 0.6 C after 1950. Is that different from the 50 years that went...
View ArticleComment on Disinformation and pseudo critical thinking by hunter
And of course, Joshua, you and the AGW believers, being enlightened and all, are above any sort of error in this regard or any other for that matter.
View ArticleComment on Disinformation and pseudo critical thinking by Theo Goodwin
Brilliant essay! Enjoyed it immensely. I cannot disagree with a word you said. If we lived near one another I would greatly enjoy discussing these matters with you. If you want the classic (and all...
View ArticleComment on Tol’s critique of the Ludecke et al. papers by kim
I volunteer for the voyage of discovery, monkeys or bottles, I gotta know. ===========
View ArticleComment on Tol’s critique of the Ludecke et al. papers by dallas
I don’t disagree Doc, it is a very interesting puzzle. Just thinking of the scales involved is amazing. Before the solar UV surprise, solar TSI change might cause 0.1 degree change. With expect 4.5...
View ArticleComment on Tol’s critique of the Ludecke et al. papers by hunter
I think the more important question is not if the world has warmed but if it has warmed in a way that poses any more of a significant challenge than the climate of the past ~1000 years.
View ArticleComment on Tol’s critique of the Ludecke et al. papers by steven
Energy transport changes the weather. Changing the weather changes the albedo. You can have exactly the same forcing and have entirely different results should the transport of energy change. If a...
View ArticleComment on Tol’s critique of the Ludecke et al. papers by Bruce
http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/best/from:1950/to:2011/plot/best/from:1950/to:1977/trend/plot/best/from:1977/to:2002/trend/plot/best/from:2002/trend
View ArticleComment on Disinformation and pseudo critical thinking by David Young
This is interesting. I think Bertrand Russell’s History of Western Philosophy is excellent on this and traces the eclipse of reason by “feeling” to Rousseau and his latter day descendents. Anyway, the...
View ArticleComment on Disinformation and pseudo critical thinking by David Young
Theo, Russell has a great debunking of James that you would find humorous if it weren’t so serious.
View ArticleComment on Disinformation and pseudo critical thinking by tempterrain
Michael Larkin, “I don’t know how old Neven is, but I’m over sixty, and whilst I don’t think of myself as wise, I do think I’m wiser than I was twenty or thirty years ago.” Yes its odd how most climate...
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