Daily Archives: October 23, 2010

Suspends State law that requires greenhouse gas emissions be reduced to 1990 levels by 2020, until California’s unemployment drops to 5.5 percent or less for four consecutive quarters. http://ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php/California_Proposition_23_(2010) I have figured out how this works in California. Unemployment is … Continue reading →

The Dalai Lama has been busy studying the science, and has come to the conclusion that humans control the climate. “These tragedies are not natural disasters, they are human disasters. They are man-made tragedies,” he said when explaining the impacts … Continue reading →

http://montaraventures.com/energy/2007/05/02/windmill-humor/ Many fields of science and engineering use Monte Carlo techniques, where random numbers are generated to model real world behaviour. This technique works because when working with large samples, errors tend to form symmetrical Gaussian distributions and average out … Continue reading →

There has been a lot of discussion overnight about the MWP meeting last month in Lisbon. The symposium web site has the graph below on their front page, which is a composite of temperature reconstructions and modeled temperatures.

From Scientific American : Judith Curry acknowledges that the IPCC is corrupt and that skeptic blogs are technically savvy.

Note, all NSIDC maps below have been modified with new colour schemes to make them easier to understand. I did some more analysis of the NSIDC maps. The graph above shows the progression of ice over the past year. The … Continue reading →

http://mwplisbon2010.fc.ul.pt/pdf/Abstracts.pdf Evidence from 180 proxy records of widespread Northern Hemisphere warmth in the 9th to 11th centuries