Monthly Archives: June 2014

Alarmists keep telling me to use the peer review process. I am all for that. Journals should send me articles for review, and I will restore the climate peer-review process to respectability. Once the process becomes legitimate, then I will … Continue reading →

US July maximum temperatures have plummeted since the 1930s. Over the same period, US July minimum temperatures have increased. The difference between maximum and minimum temperatures has dropped by more than 15%. This is very indicative of urban heat island … Continue reading →

People who try to guess what temperatures should have been in the past are not thinking clearly. A change in elevation can cause temperatures to either increase or decrease. Along the Colorado Front Range, temperatures in the foothills are almost … Continue reading →

One of the most fundamental mistakes which wannabee scientists make, is to attempt to apply precision to a problem which hasn’t been sanity tested for accuracy. It should be obvious to everyone that the current data set is not sane. What … Continue reading →

I started the day with Anthony Watts sending an E-Mail to an alarmist saying that I am worse than Michael Mann, because I use only raw, untampered  data. Then Zeke stopped by and said that my objection to using anomalies … Continue reading →

2. Quality control: Continually adjusting a process to compensate for variations in its output. If the variations are within the control limits of a stable system (and all stable systems have variations) then tampering invariably makes things worse. Only a … Continue reading →

He needs to be banned for life.

Intelligent scientists in legitimate professions understand that when working with large data sets, error distributions tend to be quite random – and the best way to deal with them is to assume that they average out to zero. This understanding also provides … Continue reading →

We know that there is no such thing as a government conspiracy, because the IRS was not targeting conservative groups – and they found lots of WMDs in Iraq. Watergate did not happen, and that Gulf of Tonkin attack was … Continue reading →

He’s hopelessly stubborn, worse than Mann at being able to admit mistakes IMHO. Did NASA/NOAA Dramatically Alter U.S. Temperatures After 2000? – Hit & Run : Reason.com My response ; Dear Skeptic, If rural station data is being progressively lost, … Continue reading →