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March 14, 2014 0

The Royal Society Answers Questions

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Monckton of Brenchley , Edinburgh   A:  In the early days of weather observations, there was rather poor coverage of the world, and most thermometers were in Europe and North America, and they were not necessarily well-sited using standardised enclosures. Interpreting the early data is therefore not straightforward, as there are various possible biases in the observations that should properly be allowed for, and there are also problems in dealing with the non-uniform spatial coverage.  Several groups routinely produce and maintain long-term estimates of global and regional temperature, and they all try to manage these difficulties in different ways

March 13, 2014 0

Early Footnoteology

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What struck me was Roger Pielke Jr’s attack of RealClimate’s sarcastic reaction to this sorry story , and his defense of Steve McIntyre, quoting him as follows: It is not my belief that Briffa crudely cherry picked. Fair enough, one might think.

March 11, 2014 0

Senate Mid-Term All Nighter on Climate Change

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Eli Rabett Eli Rabett Eli Rabett is a not quite failed professorial techno-bunny, a chair election from retirement, at a wanna be research university that has a lot to be proud of but has swallowed the Kool-Aid. The students are naive but great and the administrators vary day-to-day between homicidal and delusional. His colleagues are smart, but they have a curious inability to see the holes that they dig for themselves

March 6, 2014 0

Shameless self-promotion: on GoGreen America radio tomorrow 9 a.m. Pacific Time to talk climate divestment

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Eli Rabett Eli Rabett Eli Rabett is a not quite failed professorial techno-bunny, a chair election from retirement, at a wanna be research university that has a lot to be proud of but has swallowed the Kool-Aid. The students are naive but great and the administrators vary day-to-day between homicidal and delusional. His colleagues are smart, but they have a curious inability to see the holes that they dig for themselves.

March 2, 2014 0

Russian Troops Surround Two Military Bases in Crimea; Kerry Warns Russia Could be Expelled from G8

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The New York Times reports Ukraine Forces Are Ill Equipped to Take Crimea Back From Russia Crimea has always been a vital base for the Soviet and then Russian Navy, serving as the headquarters of the Black Sea Fleet, which has controlled the waters off southern Russia since 1783. After a period of tension following Ukraine’s independence when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, Russia got to keep its base in Crimea on a lease, extended until at least 2042 by the now-ousted president, Viktor F. Yanukovych