GISS Web Site Has Been Down For Nearly A Month

15 Responses to GISS Web Site Has Been Down For Nearly A Month

1. roger says:

   February 12, 2013 at 11:47 am

   O/T but has another satelite gone tits up?
   http://arctic-roos.org/observations/satellite-data/sea-ice/ice-area-and-extent-in-arctic
   Other sources show no such drop.

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2. squid2112 says:

   February 12, 2013 at 12:11 pm

   In the meantime, sit back and watch some Science Guy (ROFLMAO). This guy just can’t get any dumber.

   http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/post/bill-nye-the-science-guy-fumbles-storm-explainer/2013/02/11/685cdd04-7465-11e2-95e4-6148e45d7adb_blog.html

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3. Ray says:

   February 12, 2013 at 12:59 pm

   Which URL are you using?

   This one works for me:

   http://www.giss.nasa.gov/

   Data here:

   http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/

   They were down for a week or so but have been working for a while.

   Maybe what you are seeing is a cached version?

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   • stevengoddard says:

     February 12, 2013 at 1:04 pm

     Interactive content is not working, like I mentioned in the post.

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     • Ray says:

       February 12, 2013 at 1:44 pm

       Sorry, I took your headline, that the website was down, too literally.

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4. sunsettommy says:

   February 12, 2013 at 2:34 pm

   LOL,

   I can tell you that it does not take a month to fix a technical problem with a server.Not only that they can just try another server if the current one not getting it fixed within 3 days time as it would be the case 99.99% of the time.

   I think GISS is deliberately blocking the access and hoping we are too dumb to fall for their excuses.

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   • squid2112 says:

     February 12, 2013 at 4:19 pm

     We operate within 5-9’s … that is .. 99.999990% up-time. This is standard industry practice for any high visibility or mission critical system.

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     • Ben says:

       February 12, 2013 at 6:55 pm

       Five nines is 99.999% up time, which allows 8 hours 45 minutes per year of unscheduled downtime.

       Seven nines would allow just a smidge over 5 minutes of downtime per year.

       http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_nines

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   • RealOldOne2 says:

     February 12, 2013 at 11:21 pm

     I agree sunset, the “technical problems with the GISS webserver” for a month now does seem a little disingenuous. If they were a private for-profit business, they’d be out-of-business by now. There is no excuse for it taking this long to fix whatever technical problem existed.
     Also, I noticed that prior to it going down, when you accessed the station data in table form, the data only went to 2006 or 2007.

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   • tckev says:

     February 13, 2013 at 3:49 am

     Can’t find anyone at GISS with the technical knowledge to repair the fault.

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5. Pathway says:

   February 12, 2013 at 3:23 pm

   It takes time to alter the data.

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   • Mike says:

     February 12, 2013 at 10:33 pm

     or accidentally erase inconvenient data.

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6. Paul Homewood says:

   February 12, 2013 at 5:49 pm

   All the publications seem to be behind a paywall too. They used to bge accessible on line.

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7. sunshinehours1 says:

   February 12, 2013 at 9:11 pm

   Climate At A Glace seems late this month.

   http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/cag3/cag3.html

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8. Will Nitschke says:

   February 12, 2013 at 11:40 pm

   Maybe they’re snowed under at work?

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