The paper is “Observed changes in top-of-the-atmosphere radiation and upper-ocean heating consistent within uncertainty” by Norman Loeb and others in the journal Nature Geoscience. I’m pressed for time, so for background on […]

This is an edited and expanded re-post from last September; it makes a natural and needed companion to last week’s series on how to statistically handle temperature time series, particularly Part V. […]

Epidemiology is nothing if not a productive field. All that is needed for success is a database (larger the better), a disease (any will do), and some minor facility with statistical software. […]

Doug Keenan was asked by The Economist to have a gander at the statistics developed by the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature (BEST) project. He did so. We must resist extensive quotation, except […]

Politics In one of the most asinine, self-promoting, sniveling, absurd, nakedly political moves Wolfgang Wagner has resigned, with trumpets blazing, his editorship of Remote Sensing. Why? Because the journal under his command […]

Update See also: Global Average Temperature: An Exceedingly Brief Introduction To Bayesian Predictive Inference Word is going round that Richard Muller is leading a group of physicists, statisticians, and climatologists to re-estimate […]