Is this blog coming back or is it dead or perhaps just a permanent advertising platform for calendars and books?

I used to enjoy reading some of the (simplified / dumbed-down) technical stuff on here but....................

perhaps just a permanent advertising platform for calendars and books?

You're forgetting the hilarious cartoons.

Or having retired, have time on their hands and find a stimulating environment here

Stewgreen, thanks for the LOL, you're even funnier than Josh

ACK
Have to say I agree with you on that.

stewgreen
In my experience the only people who cannot ever raise a smile at cartoons poking fun at them are religious fundamentalists.

ACK

It used to be a stimulating environment, but it's become a minor chat room. I still drop in every couple of days, but find little to inspire comment.

Moi non plus.

Now that the world has stopped warming, and is starting to show signs of cooling...

I'm still waiting, ahead of it happening, for cli-sci to explain how global warming causes that. They are running out of time to come up with it and will have to post-hoc it as is usual.

Radical Rodent & ssat

Don't worry about the lack of warming, another model will be along in a moment, perhaps three together, to prove that cooling is caused by warming. Rather than the "Greenhouse Effect", it will be the "Gas Powered Fridge Effect". It is basic physics after all.

Climate Scientists will then want 30 years of funding to prove they are right, pointing out that the gas powered fridge was invented in 1858 by Ferdinand Carré, and anyone who disputes this must be stupid because you can still buy them.

Michael Mann will show that his graph, like his data works equally well upside down, in generating lucrative funding opportunities, and if sea levels drop too far, the English Channel may dry up, causing refugees seeking to flee the EU, to arrive in the new town of Goodwin Sands, by the campervan load.

Radical Rodent
You mean this sort of thing:
Perth (Australia) on track for coldest winter this century
Wet day, wet year for Sydney
Beartooth Highway Closed By Snow On NPS Centennial Day
Record Cold Highs set East of the Divide August 19th

Which as they don't fit the narrative never make into the MSM.

If there is one thing certain commenters despise, it's a pause/hiatus.

The fact is that we can't account for the lack of warming things to bitch about at the moment and it is a travesty that we can't.

http://web.archive.org/web/20130203114455/http://di2.nu/foia/1255352257.txt

Direct link

The CRU Mails

Like an Aristophanes satire, like Hamlet, it opens with two slaves, spear-carriers, little people. Footsoldiers of history, two researchers in a corrupt and impoverished mid-90s Russia schlep through the tundra to take core samples from trees at the behest of the bigger fish in far-off East Anglia. Stepan and Rashit don't even have their own e-mail address and like characters in some absurdist comedy must pass jointly under the name of Tatiana M. Dedkova. Conscientious and obliging, they strike a human note all through this drama. Their talk is of mundane material concerns, the smallness of funds, the expense of helicopters, the scramble for grants. They are the ones who get their hands dirty, and their vicissitudes periodically revived my interest during the slower stretches of the tale, those otherwise devoted to abstruse details of committee work and other longueurs. 'We also collected many wood samples from living and dead larches of various ages. But we were bited by many thousands of mosquitos especially small ones.' They are perhaps the only likeable characters on the establishment side, apart from the exasperated and appalled IT man Harry in the separate 'Harry_read_me' document, and I cheered up whenever they appeared. 'Slaves' is horseshit, and 'footsoldiers' insulting, but if scientists are allowed to put a creative spin on facts, I can certainly do so. They are respected scientists: in fact, it emerges, eminent or destined to be eminent. But they talk funny and are at the beck and call of CRU, are financially dependent on them; when the film is made they will be comedy relief, played by Alexei Sayle and the dopey one out of The Fast Show.

In the early parts of the story those who are to become the bigger players are not much better off, though. The mails start in 1996 when they have not yet attained world fame and the ear of statesmen, and often do not know where their next grant is coming from. There are moments of poignance:

As always I seem to have been away bullshiting and politiking in various meetings for weeks! I try to convince myself that this is of use to us as a dendrochronological community but I am not so sure how much that is really true these days.

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http://michaelkelly.artofeurope.com/cru.htm

Now that the world has stopped warming....

Yeah, right ... http://www.realclimate.org/images/gistemp_predJul16.png

Phil Clarke, the graph you linked to, starts at the end of the Little Ice Age. As Real Climate and Mann are linked, as are the Hockey Team, Pages2K, Gergis et al, and all the others in between, don't you think it is time to re-evaluate the scientific credibility of your sources?

As a Country Bumpkin, I was brought up to enjoy, respect and care for the environment. I still do. If the Green Environmentalism movement shifted to a more Lukewarmer position now, it would be more sustainable in the public's perception, in a changing political environment. As it is, the Green Environmentalism movement may be headed for a mass extinction event, by association with failed Climate Science.

Odd how the previous record of 1936 and the quite noticeable spike of the 1998 el Niño have both disappeared; it does make one wonder what the raw data would tell us…

For the 1930s, you're thinking of the US, the raw data is freely available, and globally shows more warming than the adjusted.

http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2007/08/1934-and-all-that/
http://variable-variability.blogspot.co.uk/2015/02/homogenization-adjustments-reduce-global-warming.html
https://judithcurry.com/2014/07/07/understanding-adjustments-to-temperature-data/
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2016/08/australian-silliness-and-july-temperature-records/

Zombie arguments indeed.

If you read the full email, you learn that Trenberth is actually informing fellow climate scientists about a paper he'd recently published, An imperative for climate change planning: tracking Earth's global energy (Trenberth 2009). The paper discusses the planet's energy budget - how much net energy is flowing into our climate and where it's going. It also discusses the systems we have in place to track energy flow in and out of our climate system.

Trenberth states unequivocally that our planet is continually heating due to increasing carbon dioxide. This energy imbalance was very small 40 years ago but has steadily increased to around 0.9 W/m2 over the 2000 to 2005 period, as observed by satellites. Preliminary satellite data indicates the energy imbalance has continued to increase from 2006 to 2008. The net result is that the planet is continuously accumulating heat. Global warming is still happening.
Next, Trenberth wonders with this ever increasing heat, why doesn't surface temperature continuously rise? The standard answer is "natural variability". But such a general answer doesn't explain the actual physical processes involved. If the planet is accumulating heat, the energy must go somewhere. Is it going into melting ice? Is it being sequestered deep in the ocean? Did the 2008 La Niña rearrange the configuration of ocean heat? Is it all of the above?
Trenberth wants answers!

So like an obsessive accountant, Trenberth pores over the energy budget, tallying up the joules accumulating in various parts of the climate. A global energy imbalance of 0.9 W/m2means the planet is accumulating 145 x 1020 joules per year. The following list gives the amount of energy going into various parts of the climate over the 2004 to 2008 period:

• Land:   2 x 1020 joules per year
• Arctic sea Ice:   1 x 1020 joules per year
• Ice sheets:   1.4 x 1020 joules per year
• Total land ice:   between 2 to 3 x 1020 joules per year
• Ocean:   between 20 to 95 x 1020 joules per year
• Sun:   16 x 1020 joules per year (eg - the sun has been cooling from 2004 to 2008)

These various contributions total between 45 to 115 x 1020 joules per year. This falls well short of the total 145 x 1020 joules per year (although the error bars do overlap). Trenberth expresses frustration that observation systems are inadequate to track the flow of energy. It's not that global warming has stopped. We know global warming has continued because satellites find an energy imbalance. It's that our observation systems need to be more accurate in tracking the energy flows through our climate and closing the energy budget.

https://www.skepticalscience.com/Kevin-Trenberth-travesty-cant-account-for-the-lack-of-warming.htm

We know global warming has continued because satellites find an energy imbalance.

Really! Do you have a link to satellite measurements that come close to Trenberth's 0.9W/m2, which, BTW, is now 0.6W/m2? By measurements, I mean the numbers obtained before the excuses were thought of that were formulated to support the adjustments necessary to match the model output.

http://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/v5/n10/full/ngeo1580.html

Didn't think so.

Radical Rodent, he does not need scientific evidence, but is content with the continued, regular and, (let's not deny it) very generous pay cheques.