Daily Archives: Dec 1, 2009

Gerry North Doesn’t Understand the “Trick”

Gerry North told the Washington post that the NAS panel did exactly the same thing as Phil Jones’ trick. (Dec. 1, 2009) North is talking through his hat. North: We put the tree ring record on the graph and stuck the instrument record on for the last 50 years in exactly the way [Phil] Jones […]

Mann: "Dirty Laundry" from MBH98-99

The Mann et al 1998-99 reconstruction had “steps” (grandiosely called “experiments” by Mann), but the results of the individual steps were never archived, only the splice of 11 steps. For statistical analysis, one needs to have the residuals, which we requested in 2003. Mann refused. At this point in 2003, contrary to North’s allegations, Mann […]