James' Empty Blog

Jim Hansen isn't right about everything these days - this paper has rightly had a rough ride (ignoring the delusional nonsense) and I ...

Since Bayesian priors seem to have come up on a couple of blogs recently... A few weeks ago I got a rather spammy email about a “clim...

So someone asked Andrew Gelman about Nic Lewis' work on climate sensitivity. And he replied : “Despite what the Wikipedia entry says...

Gavin sent me a nice message yesterday with the curious title, "Stay Dry". Then I remembered that he is an American these days a...

This one has been the front page picture on my iPad ever since... The next morning, James and I climbed the nearest dune peak. The w...

So for some reason I got invited to participate in the latest Bray and von Storch survey of climate scientists, having not (IIRC) been aske...

Last stop on our tour was somewhere we have managed to not visit on several occasions, due to it being a bit out of the way: Great Sand Dun...

Just like those artsy fartsy "creatives", for scientists to write, they also need to find their  muse  mews. James seems to have ...

After Hovenweep, we crossed over into Colorado and headed up a dirt road out of Durango. There in a patch of trees live two people I'd ...

There's been longstanding debate over the way in which manuscripts are handled by the EGU/Copernicus journals. The current system is th...