What’s Up?

When it comes to humankind’s influence on global climate, we should pay more attention to what’s really up.

On Thin Ice

When it comes to sea ice, especially in the arctic, the stooges have been very busy.

It wasn’t very long ago Shemp and Moe told us that Arctic sea ice was “about to hit normal.” Curly got in on the act too. Meanwhile Shemp desperately clings to the belief that the disappearance of arctic sea ice is “more of a marketing event than a climatological event,” and seems to think he can estimate sea ice volume better than the pros. I’m skeptical.

It’s the Trend, Stupid

Sometimes, one can’t help but be entertained by blog posts on WUWT. Like this one.

Silence

On a recent post titled “Your right to say it,” there were some comments from someone who posts under the name “Greg Goodknight.” He and I don’t seem to like each other.

Friday I found that I was unable to post, delete posts, or edit posts on my blog, and found this message on the dashboard when logging into my wordpress blog:

Warning: We have a concern about some of the content on your blog. Please click here to contact us as soon as possible to resolve the issue and re-enable posting.

After contacting wordpress personnel, I received this message:

Hi,

Please remove all posts and all comments that either name or allude to a Mr Goodknight

The only exception to this is where you absolutely make it clear it is your opinion or you can prove legally that what you say it true.

Thank you.

The post in question was one in which I defended the right of my most heated “internet adversary” to express his opinion without harassment. How ironic.

How Low Can You Go?

Anthony Watts has decided to question my patriotism. Eli Rabett’s too.

Watts ends a post about flying his flag on memorial day with

I wonder if “Tamino” or Eli Rabbet bothers to fly a flag on memorial day? Here’s to hoping that they do.

There’s no reason imaginable to say such a thing except to imply we’re not sufficiently patriotic.

This just might be the most loathsome thing Watts has yet done with his blog.

One of his readers notices — and gets the blatantly obvious implication:

Brad Johnson says:
May 31, 2010 at 10:39 am

Ha ha! Bloggers critical of you must hate America!

Sea Level Rise: What the Data Actually Shows

Someone recently pointed to a post by Norman G. Purves at “Climategate Country Club” about sea level rise.

Regression

It sometimes happens that we have only limited access to direct measurements of some variable of interest, but we have abundant data on some other, related variable. In such cases we can use the “other” variable as a proxy for our target variable. We attempt to determine the relationship between them, then use the measurement of one as input to that relationship in order to estimate the other. Voila! Of course such indirect estimates will be imperfect, but at least they’re an approximation, we hope a useful one. Why, such practice has even been applied to climate science.

Goddard’s Folly

As many of you are already aware, Steve Goddard contributed a post to WUWT about the planet Venus. The theme was that the extreme temperatures on our neighbor planet aren’t due to the greenhouse effect, but due to the extremely high pressure of the Venusian atmosphere. He followed it up with another post in order to add “a few ideas which should make the concepts clear to almost everybody.”

Monckey Business

As often happens, Eli Rabett has yet another fascinating post, this time about how Barry Bickmore has solved some of the mysteries created by Christopher Monckton. Monckton responded to the expose of his misdeeds the way he usually does: by threatening Bickmore. But you can read about that from the Rabett (honor among bloggers and all that).

Open Thread

Another open thread. Enjoy!