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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.
Tweet Some things which caught Eli’s Eye, but, it being summer, only a few comments from the meadow are likely. – A really interesting paper in Climate of the Past Discussions, a collaboration between the PAGES2K (turbo proxy reconstructions) and PIMP3 (modeling of the past) groups " Continental-scale temperature variability in PMIP3 simulations and PAGES 2k regional temperature reconstructions over the past millennium " which will not bring smiles in certain quarters. Â Warning, it is another Hansen, et al seventy pager
Tweet Recently Doug Keenan has again taken up the cudgels against the Met Office with backing from the usual suspects and indeed, the Met Office has taken a decision not to engage further.  While the Met Office thinks  that some things Keenan says are interesting and very brave, with the greatest respect and they will hear what he says and bear it in mind, well, they choose not to devote further time to dealing with him.  A feature of these attacks are Keenan’s claims that the best time series analysts tend to be in finance ( see comment ).
Many have remarked about how hot the world is this year. Â Not too surprising given the shift to a strong El Nino, with the global temperature anomaly moving up.
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