Comments on: Gore Scientific "Adviser" says that he has no "responsibility" for AIT errors

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Thu, 10 Dec 2009 14:28:23 +0000

[...] of AIT’s Scientific Advisory Board, has made no effort to publicly correct the error. (See Gore Scientific ‘Advisor’ says that he has no ‘responsibility’ for AIT error….) With the simple trick of shading the space between the two lines and the horizontal axis with a [...]

By: güzel sözler

güzel sözler — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 00:29:46 +0000

Thompson's Thermometer" is not his seems to be no longer available at the link mentioned at #113, so there in fact is no record of this admission at the present time. güzel sözler güzel sözler güzel sözler sohbet odaları

By: çok güzel hareketler bunlar

çok güzel hareketler bunlar — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 10:17:30 +0000

The archiving lapse has been ongoing so long, it would take something seismic (ie, loss of funding) to get him to change his behavior, I expect. Or a change of heart? Stranger things have happened.

By: Hu McCulloch

Hu McCulloch — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 23:48:47 +0000

Re 113, 114, 118, the video of Thompson admitting that what Gore called “Dr. Thompson’s Thermometer” is not his seems to be no longer available at the link mentioned at #113, so there in fact is no record of this admission at the present time.

By: D Johnson

D Johnson — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 23:13:17 +0000

henry,
But it this case we know it really wasn’t Thompson’s work, it was Mann’s discredited work represented by Gore as Thompson’s work. Nevertheless, Thompson should archive his data.

By: henry

henry — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 21:27:03 +0000

If I wasn’t being snipped at Tamino’s, I’d post a reply as follows:

Comment [Response: Are you talking about the MBH98 hockey stick, or hockey sticks in general? Didn't “An Inconvenient Truth” get its hockey stick from the ice core studies of Thompson et al.? ….]

Reply: We really don’t know if it’s Thompson’s work or not, given his failure to archive his work…

By: Spence_UK

Spence_UK — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 21:20:56 +0000

So let me get this straight, that means Tamino is actually less sharp than Lambert?

Ouch. I wouldn’t want to put that on my CV.

I’ve been tempted to post over there but weighing into that debate looks nauseating. There is no authority on earth that could persuade them that a small change in data samples causing not only a change in conclusions, but a complete loss of significance in the one and only verification statistic that can be made to work, does not “recover” robustness, it reinforces a lack of robustness.

It is remarkable the story you can spin to people who don’t “get” statistics.

By: Gerald Machnee

Gerald Machnee — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 21:05:45 +0000

Re #118 – And the sheep in that pasture are unbelievable!

By: Steve McIntyre

Steve McIntyre — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 19:56:40 +0000

Dr Thompson's Thermometer strikes again. This time it has tricked the ever unwary Tamino, who rebukes a reader who said:

It is a little hard to believe that something with no bearing on the issue should have featured so prominently in both ‘An Inconvenient Truth' and in the IPCC reports.

as follows:

Response: Are you talking about the MBH98 hockey stick, or hockey sticks in general? Didn't “An Inconvenient Truth” get its hockey stick from the ice core studies of Thompson et al.? ....

Uh, no. "Dr Thompson's thermometer" is none other than the Mann hockey stick spliced with the Jones instrumental record. Thompson's known about the error for a very long time and claims to have notified Gore. Yet the error remains uncorrected, misleading the general public and now Tamino.

By: Peter D. Tillman

Peter D. Tillman — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 00:22:31 +0000

Re 116, Raven

Thompson has done some truly amazing work, and if he hadn’t pioneered the high-altitude ice-core drilling, my impression is the work may well not have ever been done. If you like scientific mountaineering high-adventure stories, THIN ICE (his biography) is your kind of book.

But he has blind spots, and bad habits. The archiving lapse has been ongoing so long, it would take something seismic (ie, loss of funding) to get him to change his behavior, I expect. Or a change of heart? Stranger things have happened.

Cheers — Pete Tillman
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