Comments on: The Wegman and North Reports for Newbies

By: kim2ooo

kim2ooo — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 12:51:37 +0000

By: Pannell Discussions » 163 – ClimateGate part 1: Background

Pannell Discussions » 163 – ClimateGate part 1: Background — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 09:07:55 +0000

[...] all these points, and persisted in claiming that his analysis was valid. Eventually there were two official public inquiries in the U.S. – one consisting of scientists and one of statisticians. The scientist one concluded [...]

By: Kevin O'Neill

Kevin O'Neill — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 19:27:16 +0000

Hasn’t Wegman at this point been totally discredited? I would think that an update is appropriate to prevent readers from being misled into thinking Wegman’s an impartial, reliable, and/or expert source.

By: The American Spectator : AmSpecBlog : Elite Science's Selective Outrage

The American Spectator : AmSpecBlog : Elite Science's Selective Outrage — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 11:24:38 +0000

[...] Edward Wegman after he produced a report through George Mason University that criticized the methodology in Mann's hockey stick chart. Alarmists have accused Wegman of plagiarism in their efforts to prop [...]

By: Is the Western Climate Establishment Corrupt? Part 6 of 11: The Hockey Stick | Sovereign Independent

Mon, 16 May 2011 05:02:30 +0000

[...] For more on the hockey stick shenanigans, for the more forensically inclined, see the Wegman and North Reports for Newbies. [...]

By: Por qué no entendemos el clima. Milanovic. « PlazaMoyua.org

Por qué no entendemos el clima. Milanovic. « PlazaMoyua.org — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 08:37:10 +0000

[...] De la estadística ni hablemos, que ya sabemos desde el informe Wegman que una de las características de la ciencia del calentamiento global es que se trata de un pequeño grupo muy cerrado de autores que no utilizan ni aprenden de los especialistas en estadística. Vamos, que van a su aire. It is important to note the isolation of the paleoclimate community; even though they rely heavily on statistical methods they do not seem to be interacting with the statistical community. [-->] [...]

By: Michael Mann and Donald Kennedy | Watts Up With That?

Michael Mann and Donald Kennedy | Watts Up With That? — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 00:46:41 +0000

[...] North I can kinda understand, because he chaired an earlier (and also widely criticized) enquiry into Dr. Mann’s hijinks. So he was a friend of Manns, and he’d covered up for Mann [...]

By: Copygate « Climate Audit

Copygate « Climate Audit — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 21:41:56 +0000

[...] As readers know, Raymond Bradley’s allegation that “text was just lifted verbatim from my book and placed in the Wegman Report” has been widely publicized following Bradley’s interview with USA today. The allegation pertains to Wegman’s boilerplate section (2.1) describing proxies, a section in which neither MBH98-99 nor MM2003, 2005abcd are mentioned, and on which no Wegman conclusions depend. Nor does it affect the under oath endorsement of Wegman conclusions given at the House Committee hearings by Gerald North and Peter Bloomfield – see here. [...]

By: An Open Letter to Dr. Michael Mann | Watts Up With That?

An Open Letter to Dr. Michael Mann | Watts Up With That? — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 08:59:32 +0000

[...] were finally forced to reveal your methods, your novel result could be seen to came from a stupid mathematical error combined with using bristlecone pines, known to be an invalid temperature proxy. That made your [...]

By: The Climate Wars … ending? | Skeptical Swedish Scientists

The Climate Wars … ending? | Skeptical Swedish Scientists — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 20:07:01 +0000

[...] The Wegman and North reports were commissioned by the US government because the now very public debate was concerning US [...]