William M. Briggs

Dec 13 2009

Pajama’s Media: Global warming accelerating once again

6 responses so far

6 Responses to “Pajama’s Media: Global warming accelerating once again”

1. dearieme says:

   14 December 2009 at 7:09 am

   You got to accelerate the positive
   Decelerate the negative
   Larch on to the affirmative
   And don’t fail to Hide the Decline.
2. Briggs says:

   14 December 2009 at 7:37 am

   dearieme,

   I like it!
3. DAV says:

   14 December 2009 at 9:11 am

   Maybe Ban Ki-moon has come to realize the decline is real and a change in direction requires acceleration? Of course, a decline could mean that current policies are working and is excited by the belief that much more of the same would be better.

   OTOH, “worse than we thought” might mean: temps have been going down and it’s going to make convincing harder so the global warming case has accelerated before it’s too late.

   I saw the Blitzer/Friedman thing. My take is Blitzer ate the whole thing.
4. Mike D. says:

   14 December 2009 at 1:00 pm

   Don Briggs?

   Frankly, I preferred Emperor Briggs.
5. a jones says:

   14 December 2009 at 8:16 pm

   Or to put it more succinctly, as an aged professor said to me many years ago over something else but not unlike except in scale: ‘Their fond hope is that over the entire series the positive errors will cancel out the negative ones leaving a true value. Some hope!’

   Kindest Regards
6. Steven Mosher says:

   15 December 2009 at 2:46 am

   http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/ushcn/

   Fun reading, espcially if you look at all the raw data documents

   you’ll like this

   Menne, M.J., and C.N. Williams, Jr., 2009: Homogenization of temperature series via pairwise comparisons. J. Climate, 22, 1700-1717.