Suggestive correlations between the brightness of Neptune and Earth's temperature

Geophysical Research Letters ^ | 19 April 2007 | Hammel & Lockwood

[roaddog727]

My error- it’s been a while.

degrees of freedom (df) is a measure of the number of independent pieces of information on which the precision of a parameter estimate is based. The degrees of freedom for an estimate equals the number of observations (values) minus the number of additional parameters estimated for that calculation. As we have to estimate more parameters, the degrees of freedom available decreases. It can also be thought of as the number of observations (values) which are freely available to vary given the additional parameters estimated.

In fitting statistical models to data, the vectors of residuals are often constrained to lie in a space of smaller dimension than the number of components in the vector. That smaller dimension is the number of degrees of freedom for error.

[PackerBronco]

If the sun was causing all the Earth’s changes, then why is it that the Sun is farther from Earth in the summer, and closer to Earth in the winter?

Crickey mate! A little Northern Hemispheric-centric aren't we now?

[SunkenCiv]

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[AndrewC]

Words like "suggestive" in describing the relationship between the model and the data have no place in a scientific report.

It is probably a P.C. thing. They want to keep their day jobs.

[roaddog727]

“If changing brightnesses and temperatures of two different planets are correlated, then some planetary climate changes may be due to variations in the solar system environment.”

Say it isn’t so!

DUH!