Over the past several years I've written a few pages about climate. they don't really go together, but they're not completely independent, either. There's a good chance I'll write more or split the climate change page into sections, so I decided to write this home page now instead of later.
This list is for things I've written, sorted by interest and importance level as of the last edit.
There is a big gap over the last 6-7 years (it's 2021 today). I've been busy and distracted. We also haven't learned very much about climate, though people have managed to make it a Big Deal. Interest wanes when people talk about how much "fixing" the climate will cost.
The following are documents I've written to various organizations in response to announcements of public hearings or to explain my views to public figures.
The following are the very best of the best external sites about climate science. I do intend to write a page to host a wider selection of links, but these deserve recommendation here, probably even after I write that other page. All three of the authors once felt that global warming was human-caused but after into the subject found that is likely not the case.
There are other important blogs and sources, but their important stories wind up here within hours. Making this your daily starting point will keep you up up-to-date.
One shortcoming of the blog host, Wordpress, is that they offer no good way to browse months of articles. I've made a bit of a start at that with a Table of Contents for WUWT.
In November 2015 I received a request asking if I had a copy, because someone couldn't find it on the web. While I'm sure there must be many copies around, I simply uploaded my copy here. When I later tried searching for a copy on the web, I couldn't find it myself. A first level search for the name was swamped by pages referring to it. Even searching for a string from within the file came up dry. Perhaps it was gone, perhaps Google doesn't index large text files.
At any rate, it lives on here. As it should! If you're a software engineer, don't start reading it close to bedtime. It kept me up to 0300 that first night. Keep in mind this data, ready or not, is now in the HADCrut climate database.
It's one of my favorite pieces to share with detractors of atomic energy.
Fire and Ice: The climate is warming, cooling, warming, cooling,
changing.
I included a link to this 2006 article in my Science, Method, Climatology, and Forgetting the
Basics. It's a good collection past claims of warming and cooling and I was very
disappointed when my link to it failed. I went looking for it again in 2023 and was thrilled
to find this in a
college course
site.
I intend to mostly preserve it as a historical state-of-the-art site. So far I haven't had time to do anything with it, so I guess I'm succeeding! He dabbled in a lot of things, and there have been many cases where that 2004 snaphot has been useful.
It turns out all those maps are archived at NOAA's US Daily Weather Map Collection, or so I thought. They're in three different areas:
1871 - 1968
April 15, 1968 - December 31, 2002
September 1, 2002 - present
The last is at Weather Prediction Center and they say:
A six month archive will be kept here. Older PDF files are available via the Daily Weather Map CD. Click here for further Information.
That link says:
Subscriptions to the Daily Weather Map in printed and CD format are no longer being accepted. The publications will continue to be produced in both black and white and color versions. The publications are available at no charge at the following web site:http://www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/dwm/dwm.shtml
and that loops back to the six month archive site. Hey guys, storage is cheap. Really cheap. I could probably host all of them on my home systems. Aughh!
USHCN site at Grants Pass OR in 2022: Possibly the worst sited station in the US Historical Climate Network.
IIRC, this is a radio station. The station engineer volunteered to help site this MMTS unit more sensibly, but the offer was refused. The link is an extract of page 25 from the 2022 Surface Stations Report
The 97% Consensus, Examining the Scientific Consensus
on Climate Change
One thing that has become a bit of a running joke in the climate field is that there is a
97% consensus among scientists that we caused the current climate change. The very first
reference was a poll from 2008 by Maggie Kendal Zimmerman and Peter Zoran that was distilled
to 79 active research climatologists and found that 75 of 77 thought that "human activity is
a significant contributing factor." There is no mention of CO2, so it's an easy poll to
critique.
One reference to an EOS article, http://tigger.uic.edu/~pdoran/012009_Doran_final.pdf, timed out today, so I saved a copy from the Wayback Machine here. I see it is also available at an EOS article abstract. See the text of the questions in the poll why the paper reported 75 of 77 and not 75 of 79, the correct ratio. Notes about the poll implementation by Peter Doran are still at Survey: Scientists Agree Human-Induced Global Warming is Real at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
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Last updated 2023 May 30.