Today we published Clear Climate Code GISTEMP release 0.2.0. This is a major milestone in a pro-bono project I've been engaged on, intermittently, for more than a year. I believe it is a significant step, albeit on a long journey, towards improving public confidence in climate science results ( Read more... )

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Here. Pictures here. Merry Christmas, one and all.

Kevin and I just drew at chess, in our fourth online game. We both made silly mistakes early, but it's the end which is particularly comical.

It's taken us about a year to pull our collective fingers out, but here is the Clear Climate Code website. The code is in GoogleCode, and there's also a mailing list.

My brother Kevin defeated me in a close-fought chess game last night, to secure the Haines Chess Medal (a chess award that our father Roger Haines won at school - the Blue School in Wells - in 1950/51). Well done, Kevin. For the record, here is the game:

White:Nick Barnes ( Read more... )

Global sea-level is forecast to rise a metre or so over the next century. In the spirit of dumb-ass geo-engineering proposals to combat global warming, we should consider the most obvious geo-engineering approach to sea-level: pump sea-water into endorheic basins (that is, areas which don't drain into the global ocean), such as the basins of the ( Read more... )

The "conservative base" in the US is disintegrating. They are going off the deep end, and the "movement" is certain to tear itself apart. How can I be so sure? How can I tell, absolutely and for certain, that these are the End Times for the Know-Nothings?
This is how. Conservapedia, a site mocked since its start by sensible people everywhere, ( Read more... )

A stylistic return to form, but plot holes you could drive a multiverse through.

What ever happened to Free Speech Zones?