Search Results for: autocorrelation

Odd Introduction to a New Paper

The Rabett has an interesting post about a paper that appeared recently in Climate of the Past on temperature trends in data measured at the Mauna Loa Observatory (MLO). Most of us are very familiar with the data on CO2 … Continue reading

Learning from Bastardi’s Mistakes

For the sake of those with the guts to face hard science, who are willing to invest enough actual thought to learn something more complicated than soundbites and platitudes, we’ll address some of the mistakes in Joe Bastardi’s comment. There … Continue reading

Can Bastardi Learn?

Joe Bastardi was so kind as to grace us with a comment on a recent post. I congratulate him on an impressive achievement that few others could surpass: it would be difficult to squeeze more fallacies into a single comment … Continue reading

Cumulative Sums

Robert Grumbine has a post in which he takes an unusual look at global temperature data. I’m afraid I must take exception to his methodology.

How Not to Analyze Tide Gauge Data

There’s another paper about sea level rise in the Journal of Coastal Research by P. J. Watson (2011, Is There Evidence Yet of Acceleration in Mean Sea Level Rise around Mainland Australia?, Journal of Coastal Research, 27, 368–377). According to … Continue reading

Trend and Noise

A commenter recently linked to a post by Steve Goddard claiming that “GISS Shows No Warming Over The Last Decade.”

So What?

Those who deny the reality of global warming are, once again, overly excited about a recent paper by Houston & Dean. Why is it that they think every paper which strengthens the case for global warming is some kind of … Continue reading

Fooled Yet Again

In the previous post I discussed the refutation of LeMouel et al. (and a companion paper) by Legras et al. Now it seems that LeMouel et al. have responded to their critics (which is actually part of the discussion, not … Continue reading

Fooled Again

A recent post on RealClimate discusses how easy it is to get fooled when analyzing data. It focuses on two recent papers, which critique other papers that go astray in assessing the relationship between solar activity and climate. I’d like … Continue reading

Phil Jones was Wrong

There. I said it. Wrong about what, you wonder? During an interview for the BBC he was asked, “Do you agree that from 1995 to the present there has been no statistically-significant global warming?” Jones replied, “Yes, but only just.”