there is ’something’ to be found;
the widespread ‘religious interest’ is a phenomenon that can only be explained by this ’something’, and it can only be satisfied by this ’something’.”

Wee bit circular don’t you think? It’s “something” because we really really want it to be “something and that can only be because it’s really “something”.

(Tim) I provide…

…a limited number of high-quality data-sets.

An important part of my work is to develop climate data-sets. My intention is that these data-sets will then be used by researchers investigating the impacts of climate change. Here I provide access to these data-sets.

There are two groups of climate data-sets, intended for two different groups of researchers:

country averages, intended for researchers from the social sciences who are working on international scales, comparing one country with another;

high-resolution grids of monthly climate (observed and future), intended for researchers from the environmental sciences who wish to combine climate data with environmental models.

Alternatively, view all available data-sets in a single table.

Of course, there are other legitimate uses for these data-sets, and researchers are welcome to employ them in any legitimate way.

A more minor data-set is the length of the thermal growing season in Central England. Latest chart (up to 2002).

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This is what Harry was dealing with to make hadcru 3.0
Tim and a few others see references,
produced the datasets for OTHER researcher to use, after they had done all the things we see in the Harry file to produce it………………!!!

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link: http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/~timm/data/index-table.html

Table of climate grids and derived data-sets

IMPORTANT: This table is out of date. Please use the CRU HRG page instead

This table presents the complete set of high-resolution climate grids available through the Climatic Research Unit and the Tyndall Centre, and some data-sets based on those grids. Some data-sets are available from this website; others are available from the Climatic Research Unit. Following the proliferation of gridded data-sets and their by-products, we have developed a consistent form of identification for these data-sets to provide greater clarity to users. We recommend that any users of these data-sets should use these labels to refer to these data-sets.

You must cite the referenced paper in any publications.

data-set space time variety variables reference availability
CRU CL 1.0 0.5° globe 1961-1990 climatology pre, wet, tmp, dtr, tmx, tmn, vap, spc, cld, frs, wnd New et al, 1999 this site
CRU CL 2.0 10′ globe 1961-1990 climatology pre, wet, tmp, dtr, rhm, ssh, frs, wnd New et al, 2002 this site
CRU TS 1.0 0.5° globe 1901-1995 time-series pre, tmp, dtr, wet, vap, cld, frs New et al, 2000 this site, but superseded by CRU TS 2.0 except for wet and frs
CRU TS 1.1 0.5° globe 1996-1998 time-series pre, tmp New et al, 2000; extended this site, but superseded by CRU TS 2.0
CRU TS 1.2 10′ Europe 1901-2000 time-series pre, tmp, dtr, vap, cld Mitchell et al, 2003 this site
CRU TS 2.0 0.5° globe 1901-2000 time-series pre, tmp, dtr, vap, cld Mitchell et al, 2003 this site
TYN SC 1.0 10′ Europe 2001-2100 scenarios pre, tmp, dtr, vap, cld Mitchell et al, 2003 this site
TYN SC 2.0 0.5° globe 2001-2100 scenarios pre, tmp, dtr, vap, cld Mitchell et al, 2003 this site
TYN CY 1.0 country 1901-1998 countries pre, tmp, dtr, wet, vap, cld, frs Mitchell et al, 2002 superseded by TYN CY 1.1
TYN CY 1.1 country 1901-2000 countries pre, tmp, dtr, wet, vap, cld, frs, tmn, tmx Mitchell et al, 2003 this site
TYN CY 2.0 country 2070-2099 countries pre, tmp Mitchell et al, 2002; extended this site
TYN CY 3.0 country 2000-2100 countries pre, tmp, dtr, vap, cld Mitchell et al, 2003 this site

Please note that all data-sets are limited to the land surface only; the ocean grid boxes are left blank. The ‘global’ domain also excludes Antarctica.

Labelling convention

The identifying label is made up of:

Institution of origin
CRU = Climatic Research Unit
TYN = Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research
both at the University of East Anglia (UK)
Label denoting the type of data-set
CL = average climatology
TS = time-series
SC = set of scenarios
CY = set of country averages
Version number
Types of dataset

climate data-set nature purpose
CL (climatology) The average climate in the recent past. These are high-resolution grids. Allows spatial comparisons of environmental features; the dependency of certain features on climate may be assessed.
TS (time-series) Month-by-month variations in climate over the last century or so. These are high-resolution grids. Allows the comparison of variations in climate with variations in other phenomena.
SC (scenarios) A set of scenarios of possible climates in the future, using data from climate models. These are high-resolution grids. Allows environmental impact models to consider month-by-month changes in climate from the past, through the present, and into the future. Future uncertainties are represented through scenarios.
CY (countries) Country averages, based on aggregating grid cells together from the grids in CL, TS, or SC. Allows international comparisons to be made, in conjunction with socio-economic data such as GDP, population, land area, etc.

Variable abbreviations

label variable units
cld cloud cover percentage
dtr diurnal temperature range degrees Celsius
frs frost day frequency days
pre precipitation millimetres
rhm relative humidity percentage
ssh sunshine duration hours
tmp daily mean temperature degrees Celsius
vap vapour pressure hecta-Pascals
wet wet day frequency days
wnd wind speed metres per second

References

Mitchell, T.D., Hulme, M. and New, M., 2002: Climate data for political areas. Area 34, 109-112
WHOLE PAPER AS PDF

Mitchell, T.D., Carter, T.R., Jones, P.D., Hulme,M., New, M., 2003: A comprehensive set of high-resolution grids of monthly climate for Europe and the globe: the observed record (1901-2000) and 16 scenarios (2001-2100). Journal of Climate: submitted (August 2003)

New, M., Hulme, M. and Jones, P.D., 1999: Representing twentieth century space-time climate variability. Part 1: development of a 1961-90 mean monthly terrestrial climatology. Journal of Climate 12, 829-856
ABSTRACT (AND WHOLE PAPER FOR SUBSCRIBERS)

New, M., Hulme, M. and Jones, P.D., 2000: Representing twentieth century space-time climate variability. Part 2: development of 1901-96 monthly grids of terrestrial surface climate. Journal of Climate 13, 2217-2238
ABSTRACT (AND WHOLE PAPER FOR SUBSCRIBERS)

New, M., Lister, D., Hulme, M. and Makin, I., 2002: A high-resolution data set of surface climate over global land areas. Climate Research 21
ABSTRACT
Conditions of use

These datasets are provided for all to use, provided the sources are acknowledged. Acknowledgement must include the citation of the paper referenced. The website can also be acknowledged if deemed necessary. I will endeavour to update the majority of the data pages at timely intervals although this cannot be guaranteed by specific dates.

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How independent are the datasets (Hansen, Cru, GISS)…. These are the three lots of date sets… other climate researcher use and depend on…
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There are three centres which calculate global-average temperature each month.
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link: http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/climatechange/science/explained/explained5.html

•Met Office, in collaboration with the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia (UK)
•Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), which is part of NASA (USA)
•National Climatic Data Center (NCDC), which is part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) (USA)

These work independently and use different methods in the way they collect and process data to calculate the global-average temperature. Despite this, the results of each are similar from month to month and year to year, and there is definite agreement on temperature trends from decade to decade (Figure 1). Most importantly, they all agree global-average temperature has increased over the past century and this warming has been particularly rapid since the 1970s..”

“…Each of the three global temperature centres uses different observation sets, although there are large overlaps in the information used. Each centre also has its own methods for checking and processing data, as well as for making the final calculation.

The HadCRUT3 record, which is produced by the Met Office in collaboration with the Climatic Research Unit, takes in observations from about 2,000 land stations each month. The figures for each one are checked both by computer and manually to find and remove any problems. Sea-surface temperature observations come from about 1,200 drifting buoys deployed across the world’s oceans and around 4,000 ships in the Voluntary Observing Ship programme. There are also numerous moored buoys in the tropics and in coastal regions, principally around the US. Together they take around 1.5 million observations each month. These are checked by computer and any obviously inaccurate readings are excluded.

For all three global average temperature records, the 2009 value is based on data from January to October only…”

It is no longer a novelty to think of the western world today as being ‘religious’; this may be seen in the widespread interest in:
extraterrestrials,
the occult,
Eastern religions,
‘New Age’.
This ‘religious interest’ clearly suggests that despite our unprecedented standards of living and our scepticism about any ultimate meaning in life, people today are still seeking for something in life deeper than material things, and more permanent than the here and now.
Of course, the fact that people are looking does not mean that there is necessarily something to be found, but I unashamedly claim that:

there is ‘something’ to be found;
the widespread ‘religious interest’ is a phenomenon that can only be explained by this ‘something’, and it can only be satisfied by this ‘something’.
This ‘something’ is presented to us in what has historically been called Christianity, which is based on two things:

a person,
a book.
The person is Jesus Christ, who is revealed to us in a book, the Bible.
To understand the message of the Bible about Jesus Christ, it is necessary to realise that the Bible starts from the assumption that God exists. No-one in the Bible attempts to prove the existence of God, although there is an abundance of evidence presented that shows that He does exist.

The Bible begins with the declaration that it was God who created the entire universe. This God, being ruler of the universe, does not exist merely in:

philosophies and religions,
the spirits of people,
books.
In fact, far from requiring humans in order to exist, it is He Himself who grants to humans life, breath and everything else that we require.
Having created a single race of humans, it is this God who has fixed the times, places and events of every individual’s life, carefully giving them opportunity to seek Himself. For He genuinely desires that each individual should seek and find Himself, coming into a personal relationship with Himself.

Of course, He is not actually far from any of us – after all, it is only by His minute-by-minute supply of life to us that we live! Thus we must not think of this God as being anything less than a living Person, nor of ourselves as being anything less than people created for a satisfying relationship with Him.
God has been merciful in telling us all this in the Bible, for we could never have found it out ourselves, and we do not deserve to know. For all of us have spent our lives rebelling against His authority and failing to obey His moral law. Now He commands every man, woman and child to ‘repent’ (to change one’s mind, purpose, and life) of their ‘sin’ (their rebellion and disobedience), for He has appointed a day in which He will judge the world, including every individual that has ever lived.

The standard by which He will judge the world will be a man – Jesus Christ – and that man will Himself be the judge. God has openly declared this, and assured us of its truth by raising Jesus Christ from the dead.
For having lived a perfectly righteous life in Palestine early in the first century AD, Jesus Christ was executed on a Roman cross on the orders of the Roman governor of Judea (a man by the name of Pontius Pilate), and his corpse was placed in a nearby cave. However, being God Himself, death could not hold Him, and He was raised from the dead, taking up life again with the body which previously had laid cold in the tomb.

Thus God has assured us that death is not the end of an individual’s existence, that He is in control of all events on this earth, and that He will one day call us to give an account of our actions.

However, this same Jesus Christ freely offers to all a way of escape from suffering the punishment due to us for our sins, and it is this that forms the central teaching of Jesus Christ himself and the entire Bible!

All this may prompt fury, astonishment or delight in you.

If you want to email me a comment or question, I will be delighted to reply as best I can. Alternatively, you may like to follow through an (offsite) web course that aims to explain Christianity simply. “

Sublime.

Professor John Mitchell was Tim Mitchell’s PHD supervisor whilst tim was at CRU.

Tim Mitchell – Harry_Read_me.txt fame. (harry struggling with what tim did)

What was Tim Mitchell’s first degree was, comp science, statistics, mathematics, physics, meteorology.?

Geography:
“At Oxford University I read geography (1994-1997, School of Geography). My college was Christ Church. At Oxford I developed a special interest in the study of climate change.”

Think about Tim’s labyrinthine software suites… he ‘apparently’ wrote a LOT of code doing the hadcru datasets? (harry file)

http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/~timm/personal/index.html

Tyndall centre:
NO LONGER IN POST

I left my position in the Tyndall Centre at the end of February 2004. I am no longer able to answer requests for data or information on the climate data-sets I have produced. all data enquiries should now be directed to the Climatic Research Unit at the same institution (UEA). The contact details you should use are as follows:

cru@uea.ac.uk
http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/data/hrg.htm (opens in a new window)
Climatic Research Unit, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, NR4 7TJ, UK.
If you are contacting us to request information about, or access to, one of the data-sets, then please go to the data-set request page.

Training

I was brought up and schooled in London.

At Oxford University I read geography (1994-1997, School of Geography). My college was Christ Church. At Oxford I developed a special interest in the study of climate change.

In 1997 I moved to Norwich to carry out the research for a PhD at the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia. My subject was the development of climate scenarios for subsequent use by researchers investigating the impacts of climate change. I was supervised by Mike Hulme and by John Mitchell (Hadley Centre of the UK Meteorological Office). The PhD was awarded in April 2001.

Current Affiliation

Since 2000 I have worked at the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research. The Tyndall Centre is a consortium of research centres in the UK, set up to complement CRU and the Hadley Centre by investigating potential responses to climate change. I am based at Tyndall Headquarters, at the University of East Anglia.”

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There has been a lot of comment about quality of computer code, data handling, intregity and manipulation of data, inthe Harry_read_me.txt file…

How qualified – what computer programming standards, do you need fulfill individually and as a deprtment (at CRU) to write code for climate change research.

After all, If you are recieving government funding, surely the code, should be developed, audited, controlled as per HM governments standards for software development:

also wrote this:

Same Tim Mitchell:

“…Although I have yet to see any evidence that climate change is a sign of Christ’s imminent return, human pollution is clearly another of the birth pangs of creation, as it eagerly awaits being delivered from the bondage of corruption (Romans. 19-22).
Tim Mitchell works at the Climactic Research Unit, UEA, Norwich, and is a member of South Park Evangelical Church.

For an enhanced version of this article, with extra diagrams and links to further information, visit the website: http://www.uea.ac.uk/~f709762/climate/en-article.htm”

http://www.e-n.org.uk/p-1129-Climate-change-and-the-Christian.htm

manbearpig – south park connection as well – maybe the universe does have a sense of humour..

It is true that academics work long hours, and often out of normal working hours, at night, on weekends, and on holidays, but this is just par for the course. This is what you often do in academia if you are a serious researcher – you tend to keep no set hours. But to describe any of this like Pittman has done, when in fact he collected grants for his work on the IPCC reports and was collecting his regular salary and was being paid all expenses when on IPCC business, is misleading and an outright lie.

No doubt, many have told him so. Still, the man remains unconvinced and continues to deny he lied. Perhaps, this should not surprise us about the likes of him and Flannery. If they believe their alarmism, they will believe anything. Haven’t these junkies been taught about climate history in high school?

Also, couldn’t you somehow get a court order to get the info? I wonder why that’s not the case.