Good work Julie Bosman! I hope she stays interested.

IOW, he’s not one of the cogniscenti and thus can be ignored. I don’t buy it. There’s nothing keeping anyone with the inside scoop from posting here to explain what Steve is deficient in. Such guidance, however, has clearly not been given. Nor, for that matter, has such reproof been offered in the supposed ‘refutations’ of M&M in the peer-reviewed press. If you’re an expert in tree-ring climatology, feel free to let him know what he’s missing.

This topic was fully aired on Is It Karma? I received complaints from some reputable people (lurkers) about that thread, so I closed the topic down. You made your points and were not denied access to this blog; but the topic had become a flame war. Again, please don’t hijack this or other threads with discussion of exclusion policies at your blog or other unrelated hobbyhorses; it becomes hard to differentiate from being spammed by poker sites.

The same goes for everyone. Please – no more criticisms of Lambert on this thread.

If there is a groundswell that anyone feels absolutely obliged to further discuss Lambert’s exclusion policies, please post a request on an open thread related to Lambert (Lambert on Cosine Latitudes) and I will re-open Is It Karma as a sort of industrialized zone for behaviour between consenting adults in semi-private cubicles. In the meantime, I would prefer that there be no flashing in public threads, where there are some innocent civilians.

Tim, I don’t see why you would make assertions about something about which you have no knowledge. I reported being blocked from Mann’s FTP site a long time ago.

Hans, I do not believe that it was the IT staff of the university for the following reason. Sometime after the FTP directory containing MBH98 proxy data suddenly materialized in November 2003 after publication our first EE article, I asked the university IT department when this directory first appeared in the publicly indexed part of Mann’s FTP site. (There are private areas of the FTP site, which are not publicly indexed and inaccessible without knowing the exact file name in advance. If a directory is moved from unindexed to public indexed, the data does not change. I noticed this with the transfers of the MANNETAL98 directory which was in an unindexed part of the sdr directory and later moced to the pub directory without a change.) In repsonse to my inquiry, the IT staff of the university said that they had nothing to do with Mann’s FTP site and could not comment. It seemed odd as the site contained the reference *.virginia.edu, but that’s what they said.

Some of my neighbours are interested in my debates. I asked one of them to check and he was blocked as well. I’m on a cable network, which (I think) works as a high-speed party line and it’s possible that we don’t have unique IP addresses from the point of view of the outside server. I don’t know this, but it’s hard to explain his exclusion otherwise. I do not wish anyone to discuss Mann’s blocking on this thread either. I’ve got an old thread on this topic More Mann Deletions and I request that people use this thread if they wish to pursue a further discussion of Mann’s blocking policy.