New Year is the time to re-evaluate, and model predictions are no exception. Andrew Bolt has a list of how 10 climate predictions fared in 2008. Too triumphal for my taste, but worth a read, even if for the last line.
CommentsA grader rolled over on to its side on an embankment after the right side ram of the grader was activated by the laser guided blade control system.
Starting this post is a poll of readers view’s on a CO2 emissions target for Australia, announced recently by the Prime Minister. Please take a moment to respond, before moving on to the rest of the post.
A forum has been added using the software phpBB (link on menu bar above). This is a message board/community forum for landshape related issues.
CommentsYesterday, the UN suspended a firm responsible for 50% of carbon-offset certifications, after a spot check carried out in early November at the firm’s headquarters revealed serious flaws in project management.
CommentsWhat affects global warming? We have been developing experiments to examine what affects greenhouse warming. To counter intuitive certitude, I have asked people to guess the results of simple experiments before they are done. Finally, we’ll evaluate the relevance to stratospheric and tropospheric forcing if at all.
CommentsLast months RSS global temperature data results are in. Lucia is first off the block. Contrary the majority of expectations, the temperature of the lower troposphere increased. Isn’t truly independent prediction frustrating? Glad we aren’t stock-picking.
CommentsOne of the main assumptions of linear regression is, ahem, linearity. Here is an example drawn from dendroclimatology, the reconstruction of past climates using tree rings, of the trouble one can get into by blindly assuming linearity. This subject was dealt with some time ago at ClimateAudit Upside-Down Quadratic Proxy Response.
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