A project you can partake here. Rewriting some NASA GISS temperature record code in Python at first.
I’d go further and say things like these should not be volunteer efforts… government codes for something important like this should be open (and GISS is) with people being paid to update and keep them in good shape. Hopefully [...]
Archive for the ‘Climate’ Category
Clear Climate Code
Posted in Climate, Motivation, NASA, Science, tagged Climate, python, GISS, Code, Clear Climate Code on Tuesday 2009.12.08 | 1 Comment »
Apply a VERY ARTIFICAL correction for decline
Posted in Climate, Humor, idiocracy, tagged CRU, Deltoid, Lambert, Raymond, smoking gun on Tuesday 2009.12.01 | 3 Comments »
Tim Lambert examines one of the specific fraud claims in the CRU code.
“Hide the decline”
Posted in Climate, Journalism, idiocracy, tagged dendrochronology, tree rings on Monday 2009.11.23 | Leave a Comment »
And what it means in relation to tree ring proxies, by Hrynyshyn, reviewing a book.
That excerpt appears immediately above a graph that shows how temperatures inferred from tree-ring records since about 1850 (the “proxies”) are a pretty good match for actual temperature records derived from thermometers right up until the 1980s. After that, the tree-ring [...]
The Latest Fake Outrage Campaign
Posted in Climate, Demotivation, Journalism, Science, industry, tagged Climate, Mann, Outrage, Conspiracy on Saturday 2009.11.21 | 5 Comments »
Hack and get some climate researchers’ emails. Then point to some pretty reasonable stuff as evidence of a conspiracy if taken out of context.
It seems there are a few cases certain people latch onto.
There was a certain lousy paper pushed for publication in the journal called Climate Research. It was crap – the claims in [...]
Factory Built Powerplants
Posted in Climate, Energy, Motivation, Thorium, tagged Alabama, Decatur, Delta, nuclear, Thorium, ULA on Monday 2009.11.02 | Leave a Comment »
Kirk had some thoughts when touring the Delta IV factory in Alabama.
Lies, lies, lies
Posted in Climate, idiocracy, tagged global warming, Latif on Wednesday 2009.10.14 | 1 Comment »
Economics and the Price of Nature
Posted in Climate, Demotivation, Energy, Global, Journalism, Models, Nature, Science, idiocracy, tagged climate change, Cost, Costanza, Economics, Nature, Sagoff, Valuation on Thursday 2009.09.10 | Leave a Comment »
Assume a glacier that provides summer water for a billion people. What is its value, if it is destroyed by global warming? Since it currently provides services for free, it could be calculated as zero, according to some. Hence, a hypothetical economic activity by those people that gave them one dollar in total while destroying the glacier [...]
National Review Online
Posted in Climate, Science, idiocracy, tagged CO2 lag, global warming, National Review, Rand Simberg, Strawman on Thursday 2009.09.03 | Leave a Comment »
Jonah Goldberg posts a tired strawman argument in NRO:
Last month, in another study, also released in Science, Oregon State University researchers claimed to settle the debate over what caused and ended the last Ice Age. Increased solar radiation coming from slight changes in the Earth’s rotation, not greenhouse-gas levels, were to blame.
It’s total BS of [...]
Thorium Energy Alliance
Posted in Climate, Energy, Global, Motivation, Thorium, industry, tagged lftr, Thorium, Thorium Energy Alliance on Friday 2009.08.21 | 1 Comment »
A quick way to get up to speed on Thorium and LFTR, aimed at lay people.
I seriously doubt their cost and schedule stuff. One needs to do material science tests with this, so it’s going to take longer.
But otherwise. It is the industrial solution for the world. It is perhaps not [...]
Kinds of Denialism
Posted in Climate, Demotivation, Journalism, idiocracy, industry, tagged co2, coal, France, Germany, nuclear, Scorecard, WWF on Tuesday 2009.08.11 | Leave a Comment »
The Green Nuclear kind, be sure to read the comments in German.
To summarize, in WWF:s climate score cards, France is scoring pretty badly. Everybody knows that France has about 80% nuclear power in electricity production, much more than the neighbouring Britain and Germany which use mostly coal. So, since WWF and Allianz don’t like it, [...]
