© Pielke 2014, NOAA
Despite the fact that he's "given up on climate writing" thanks to the
bizarre treatment he got writing at Nate Silver's "538",
Dr. Roger Pielke Jr. has done one very important climate thing today - he's updated his now famous graph of hurricane drought.He writes on Twitter:
Earlier today, I got one of those pleading "boo-hoo, shame on you" style comments from the irascible David Appell regarding the hurricane drought saying I'm too scared to discuss what he sees as an invalidation of this graph and record of 4001 days, he
wrote:
Funny, that David, in his odd way of thinking. For the record, I don't have any problems discussing science with Mr. Appell, I only have problems with you when you are being a jerk about differences of opinion. That's why his comments get held for moderation, because he has a history of behaving in a less than cordial manner here and elsewhere. Despite that, his comments do get published when they meet site policy.
Regarding his
link to the paper, here it is:"
The Arbitrary Definition of the Current Major Hurricane Landfall Drought," Robert E Hart et al, BAMS (2015). I read it this afternoon, and boy, what an effort to make this hurricane drought go away. It's worthy of the statistical machinations we saw in
Marcott et al and
Karl et al to make "the pause" disappear.
We live in interesting times.
Comment: Unwilling to be censored and sacrifice academic truth for popularity, Pielke has been chastised and smeared by MSM for his more common sense views of weather, in conflict with the party line of global warming and gross misinformation.
Comment: Unwilling to be censored and sacrifice academic truth for popularity, Pielke has been chastised and smeared by MSM for his more common sense views of weather, in conflict with the party line of global warming and gross misinformation.