Steve McIntyre reports that “the UK Met Office has released a large tranche of station data, together with code”. Notes: The Met Office says that this is not a complete set of data, but it is unclear what is missing. This is the processed data – the raw data is claimed to have been deleted. [...]
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Specifying Open Climate Science: A First Attempt
In my last post, I used lessons from the open source software community and the Creative Commons effort explore what we mean by “open climate science”. In this post I’m going to take the next step and propose a specification for open climate science. Finally, in the next installments I will look at the how [...]
Towards Open Climate Science
The events that have transpired (physically) at University of East Anglia and (virtually) around the globe have raised the important question of whether climate science is open and transparent enough. This has led, naturally, for a call for “open source” science. Personally, this discussion links two amateur passions of mine, climate science and open source. [...]
Temperature Data – “Worse than we thought”
The title may have led you to believe that the temperature is rising worse than expected, but the comment is about the data itself. The various sets of temperature data that we have to do climate modeling are not very good, especially as you go back in time. This shouldn’t be surprising, when we’re trying [...]
Don’t Miss It
If you haven’t seen the exploding comet yet, make sure you check it out. There’s a good history here.
Preschool Neutrinos
At my daughter’s preschool there’s a sign up at the end of every day with notes for the parents. It includes activities of the day, who napped, current illness in the class, etc. Last week the sign said “Ask your child about neutrinos”. Yep, they’re learning about subatomic physics earlier than I ever did, and [...]
