No, it’s not that collaboration we’ve all been waiting for. Instead, Monckton is at it again. Nothing new. Although one interesting tidbit is that he is still insisting that his article was peer-reviewed, even though it obviously wasn’t. In his response he writes:

Schmidt, unlike the Professor of Physics who peer-reviewed my paper, did not read Hansen’s paper with sufficient attention.

It is regrettable that Schmidt neither has his blogs scientifically reviewed as thoroughly as my paper was…

Unfortunately for him, the person who reviewed his article has already stated that it wasn’t peer-reviewed. New Scientist: Is climate scepticism the new flat Earth theory?
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I’ve been moving this last week and have been without Internet access, so I’ve been reading a little more. The latest is Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time by Michael Shermer. Last night I came across this quote by Max Planck which I haven’t heard before and thought it was interesting.

An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: it rarely happens that Saul becomes Paul. What does happen is that its opponents gradually die out, and that the growing generation is familiarized with the ideas from the beginning.

Yesterday I was messing around with the temperature time series, again. It’s kind of a fun thing to do, even if it is mostly a big waste of time. This time it was triggered by a post by a post at Climate Progress, Eighth warmest June on record means Great Ice Age of 2008 is STILL over. The monthly report that was released recently was published by NOAA, not NASA. While I started looking at the NOAA data, it became evident that the NASA data was more interesting. I wanted to present the temperature data in a way besides the typical time series.

First I needed a couple sample time series that looked similar to the temperature time series that we’re all familiar with. I’ve plotted those below. The top panels and bottom left panel are time series with a prescribed slope but with differing levels of white noise. The bottom right panel is a time series with no slope, with a 12 ‘month’ periodic signal and white noise.
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Whew. Yesterday was a busy day, and I don’t mean with work. I got zero actual work done. Nope, yesterday I signed my new lease. I’ll be moving 10 miles to the northeast by east. So I spent the entire morning dealing with that. And the afternoon was spent waiting in a doctor’s office. Not a pleasant experience; plus I get to go back on Monday. Woohoo.
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