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BEST is fun

stoat | October 30, 2011
When I said BEST is boring I was primarily thinking of the science. I'm not too surprised to find that many other people aren't. For such folk, there is much fun to be had, so I suppose I'll join in too. I was going to take the piss out of Watts (h/t KK) for Nature pans BEST and Muller PR antics, prints letter from Dr. Singer, which he wrote in response to a Nature editorial that said Global warming is really happening -- really. There was no conspiracy or cover-up. Peer review did not fail and the scientists who have spent decades working out the best way to handle and process data turned…

Another "Hide the Decline" moment?

User Image illconsidered | October 30, 2011
The fallout from the BEST project results continues, with the denialosphere frantically trying to disown and defame Richard Muller. Marc Morano is at his shrillest pitch ever, and believe me that is as shrill as shrill gets! I guess it works at some level, because he did make me look at his website. That high pitched squeaking broke down all my intellectual safeguards and I followed a link from his almost daily inbox spamming. Today's (approving) hysteria was about an article in the DailyMail which gives you the general flavour of the treatment Muller is receiving. Given his own rather…

The Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature algorithm

User Image tlambert | October 22, 2011
The Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature algorithm seems to work quite well, with coverage by the Economist, the BBC, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the London Telegraph, the Daily Mail, the Los Angeles Times, US News and World Report, the Guardian, the Washington Post, the Independent and CNN. Here is the BEST algorithm: State that "reported global warming may be biased by poor station quality". Collect funding from Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation. Make the utterly predictable finding that warming is not a product of poor measurement. Brief reporters. If only I had used…

BEST is boring

stoat | October 20, 2011
Apparently the BEST stuff is out; Tamino has the story so I won't bother. Summary: the global temperature record is just what we thought it was. Remind me again why they bothered to do this? Refs * mt at P3 * Schmidt on Muller via QS * BA * Moyhu * Deltoid is jealous. * RC is late.