tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post6414699397439338591..comments2024-02-12T15:25:44.028+11:00Comments on HotWhopper: What's not at WUWTSouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08818999735123752034noreply@blogger.comBlogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-74417890514090911712015-03-21T18:33:33.716+11:002015-03-21T18:33:33.716+11:00The frightening strength of cyclone Pam captured i...The frightening strength of cyclone Pam captured in 4 photographs:<br />https://twitter.com/SamBolitho/status/578306494363348992/photo/1Marconoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-76707797360610463392015-03-18T13:50:02.160+11:002015-03-18T13:50:02.160+11:00Indeed. And I note in Trenberth's comments ab...Indeed. And I note in Trenberth's comments about the NE US blizzards this winter, he gave the press a quantified estimate of how much AGW contributed to those storms in terms of moisture relative to a climatological mean. By and large, the WHUTTers consider such nuance to be nit-picking or hair-splitting -- something that drives me to endless distraction when I recall all the (continuing) hoopla over Yamal.Brandon R. Gateshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17031044715994785956noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-1846318073861879152015-03-18T07:03:29.938+11:002015-03-18T07:03:29.938+11:00On the conflation issue, note: just as it's tr...On the conflation issue, note: just as it's true that climate is not responsible for any single weather event, it's also true that no weather event is uninfluenced by climate. Trenberth has noted this on a number of occasions.climatehawk1noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-31228172691613186182015-03-18T00:23:35.691+11:002015-03-18T00:23:35.691+11:00What's not at WUWT?
Anything pertaining to th...What's not at WUWT?<br /><br />Anything pertaining to the election of the Board of Directors of the Open Atmospheric Society, the formation of a membership committee and the appointment of an editor of their Journal (all of which were due before 1/1/2015), or any indication of the publication date of the inaugural edition of said journal.<br /><br />Not that I was holding my breath, mind.Frank Dnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-52066404220862274352015-03-17T22:08:45.831+11:002015-03-17T22:08:45.831+11:00The 'honest broker' would really like to m...The 'honest broker' would really like to move on, <a href="https://archive.today/Otbxd#selection-2233.0-2275.16" rel="nofollow">but is finding it somewhat difficult.</a>rubiginosahttps://twitter.com/rubiginosanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-77765784659620284632015-03-17T21:55:05.188+11:002015-03-17T21:55:05.188+11:00Oh there might be some announcement of 'game c...Oh there might be some announcement of 'game changing' results to coincide with the next climate talks, all to disappear into oblivion shortly after the talks fail to deliver anything anyway.<br /><br />If not that, I guess the hackers are trying right now to steal some emails that can be misrepresented.Millicentnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-7874350612036115142015-03-17T21:11:14.784+11:002015-03-17T21:11:14.784+11:00I presume that it was archived for giggles?I presume that it was archived for giggles?Bernard J.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-33821743508042721832015-03-17T20:04:08.315+11:002015-03-17T20:04:08.315+11:00What's not at WUWT? The Watts et al 2012 game-...What's not at WUWT? The Watts et al 2012 game-changing paper in its final form. The link to the "work page" that "has been established for Watts et al 2012 for the purpose of managing updates." leads nowhere. Methinks Watts et al 2012 has gone beyond an event horizon and it will never be seen again. George Montgomeryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07042191140401441348noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-70501940098004593662015-03-17T17:51:14.997+11:002015-03-17T17:51:14.997+11:00*When I said "capitulate", I was going t...*When I said "capitulate", I was going to say "fold like a rotten deckchair at an origami class", but is has to be said that some deniers are too stupid to recognise when they're defeated.<br /><br />That industrial grade of denier folds the same way that tempered glass does - and responds the same way way as tempered glass when fact finally does penetrates their understanding (I use the term generously)...Bernard J.https://www.blogger.com/profile/16299073166371273808noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-32848724552612358132015-03-17T17:46:32.224+11:002015-03-17T17:46:32.224+11:00This all reminds me of the MIT students that took ...This all reminds me of the MIT students that took on the Casinos with a mathematical advantage to win at Blackjack. The casinos knew that there was a problem with card counters. <br />When this group of students started betting big they were showered with freebies. When they kept winning big, they got 'investigated'. This then led to intimidation and expulsion from all the worlds casinos. <br />They should have got out before they were spotted.<br />Just because you are totally correct does not make it valid in our distorted Universe!<br />I see the inexplicable variations of weather as a chaotic system that can be determined over longer time scales. We call this climate! Bert<br />Bert from Elthamnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-88200803527889737272015-03-17T17:27:30.189+11:002015-03-17T17:27:30.189+11:00Hey, this might be a good idea! Is here f.e. any s...Hey, this might be a good idea! Is here f.e. any spectroscopy on WUWT? Of course there's a profound lack of links to research articles, but that's just to be expected. What basic science is missing from the site? This might even be a competition among the WUWT- debuggers (likely a job with no end)!Oalehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14032383453035968859noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-51227102503083619212015-03-17T16:32:33.750+11:002015-03-17T16:32:33.750+11:00Jr unfriended climate because climate wouldn't...Jr <i>unfriended</i> climate because climate wouldn't play nicely with his ideology. Ideology might be a bully, but like all bullies in capitulates* in the face of inevitable and implacable greater strength.<br /><br />I'm sure that if Jr (and the rest of the denialati) could somehow <i>block</i> climate they would...Bernard J.https://www.blogger.com/profile/16299073166371273808noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-52731716256025959602015-03-17T15:57:45.830+11:002015-03-17T15:57:45.830+11:00Marke, thanks for the prompt - I've added an a...Marke, thanks for the prompt - I've <a href="http://blog.hotwhopper.com/2015/03/whats-not-at-wuwt.html#addendum" rel="nofollow">added an addendum</a> with number of events from Munich Re. <br /><br />There's also <a href="http://blog.hotwhopper.com/2014/10/the-red-cross-world-disasters-report.html" rel="nofollow">an article</a> I wrote last October.Souhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08818999735123752034noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-67397536587780716792015-03-17T14:37:46.729+11:002015-03-17T14:37:46.729+11:00Surely a lousy metric: Humanitarian disasters.
Mo...Surely a lousy metric: Humanitarian disasters.<br /><br />More people, and wealthier people, building many more structures, and more expensive higher tech structures, in more places, and in more vulnerable places.<br /><br />Perhaps a metric focusing on the physical records of the events themselves may get the message across more clearly and convincingly. markehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06387629308058823374noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-29932896558642817972015-03-17T12:28:56.725+11:002015-03-17T12:28:56.725+11:00"After the hottest year on record (2014) and ..."After the hottest year on record (2014) and the second hottest January on record, the world has just had the second hottest February on record. It's also just had the second hottest summer/winter on record (DJF)."<br />___________________ <br /><br />Last 12 months were the warmest consecutive 12 months in the GISS record too, if it hasn't already been pointed out.DavidRnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-76363570981278186632015-03-17T10:01:57.803+11:002015-03-17T10:01:57.803+11:00Jr has unfriended climate. Please refer all enquir...Jr has <i>unfriended</i> climate. Please refer all enquiries to Curry J.PGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10807913317731807617noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-12680023516131381422015-03-17T09:43:44.622+11:002015-03-17T09:43:44.622+11:00If it seems to you that major humanitarian emergen...<i>If it seems to you that major humanitarian emergencies are happening more often, you're right. Extreme weather events like the one that devastated Vanuatu on Saturday are on the rise. Since 2000, the average number of climate-related disasters each year has been 44 per cent higher than between 1994 and 2000 and well over twice the level during the 1980s, a data-based managed by Brussels-based Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters shows.</i><br /><br />Has Pielke Jr weighed in yet? Doesn't this contradict his insistence that climate change doesn't affect extreme disasters?Tony Leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01793245303802414316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-41046213912762501542015-03-17T09:09:48.131+11:002015-03-17T09:09:48.131+11:00Its quite possible that one of dbS's sockpuppe...Its quite possible that one of dbS's sockpuppets comes from Barcelona.Millicentnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-49687917210318877922015-03-17T09:05:12.407+11:002015-03-17T09:05:12.407+11:00Fawlty logic?Fawlty logic?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-71963450353955608602015-03-17T08:32:31.729+11:002015-03-17T08:32:31.729+11:00Whatever you do Tisdale don't mention CA. I me...<i>Whatever you do Tisdale <b>don't mention CA</b>. I mentioned it once but I think I got away with it. Thankfully I've got dbS to remind me</i>.PGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10807913317731807617noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-15442678320787441282015-03-17T07:33:23.364+11:002015-03-17T07:33:23.364+11:00"You'd think that Anthony Watts lived in ..."You'd think that Anthony Watts lived in Timbuktu for all the attention he gives his home state. And you'd never know that he used to be a weather announcer."<br /><br />Let's make Anthony Watts announce the weather in California for eternity as his punishment in Hell. Timnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-67525089140035139972015-03-17T07:27:07.930+11:002015-03-17T07:27:07.930+11:00Sou,
Here in the lovely San Francisco Bay Area, w...Sou,<br /><br />Here in the lovely San Francisco Bay Area, we've been enjoying the relatively mild winter and I have been mightily resisting the urge to make much ado about it lest I succumb to conflating weather and climate. But that DJF anomaly graph for the whole state is pretty hard to ignore, not just for blasting right past the all-time instrumental record which had only been set last winter, but for the long-term trend within which only an inveterate cherry-picker could find a flat spot and call it meaningful.<br /><br />A good friend of mine is fond of noting that the fog is burning off earlier in the day than it did in his youth. I am fond of teasing him for his confirmation bias. Imagine my surprise when I happened across a paper cited over at Willard's which confirmed my friend's anecdotal observations over the decades. The WHUTTers are occasionally good for something I s'pose.Brandon R. Gateshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17031044715994785956noreply@blogger.com