Global warming: A return to normal science? Major announcement from the Met Office

One tip for the Met Office, should they proceed with this very good idea--solicit the input and ideas of those who have been critical of your work in the past. For five years, statisticians, software engineers and physical scientists have been talking amongst themselves about the deficiencies of current database efforts in the world of global warming and have been exchanging ideas on how it could be done better.

The Reference Frame: Met Office: datasets to be built from scratch

I believe that this decision could be viewed as a nice partial victory of Steve McIntyre and the Climate Audit community - whose extension incorporates this blog, too. Partial congratulations. But the full congratulations will only arrive once a better product is available. ;-)

GISS Goulash at Gladstone « JoNova

Does no one have any shame any more? Did they assume that because no one was paid to check their figures that no one would?

Maps of Medieval Warm Period | The SPPI Blog