I think I might be making a mistake in thinking that the recent newsy posts have been taking up a significant amount of time that might otherwise have been used for something more, umn, mathsy. In fact, thinking about it, they’re not going to take as much of Steve’s time as a statistical analysis, even if the comments take as long to read – the posts must be more as-well-as than instead-of.

I did hear a suggestion that Steve’s not superman, but that’s clearly an unjustified ad hominem attack instigated by the CRU

My hope is that the large newspapers will follow suit — they have been largely silent on Climategate thus far.

http://factcheck.org/2009/12/climategate/

“If the Daily Mail features such a story then you know climate skepticism has gone mainstream.”

The Daily Mail is a conservative newspaper so I wouldn’t quite say that. I’m in Australia where the media coverage is just awful.

The debates on CNN, etc., and the British press? I guarantee you there’s been no comparable coverage on national TV here. Some of the smaller radio shows, sure.

But the Daily Mail has a wide readership and it is an excellent start. Other news organizations will have to address it, eventually.

It s good to see that you have been following some of Steve’s threads in some detail. I apologise for having a go at you just before. I can sympathise with you impatience. I suspect if we are prepared to admit it, we are all a little impatient to see this stuff dealt with? But, it takes a great deal of time and effort to get to the bottom of what has been going on. Ther are still some like Eric Steig who link we should just ‘move on as there is nothing to see here’.

Well sorry Eric but we’d just like to have a look ourselves just on the off chance that there might be something to see here. After all if Steve and Ross hadn’t been of an inquisitive nature and Michael Mann hadn’t just told them what Eric Steig has just told me to do on a different web site, then most likely we’d have never found out that Mann’s claim that the warming trend towards the latter part of the 20th century is ‘unprecedented in the last thousand years’ was not robust. Steve would have been able to do other things in his spare time and perhaps by now he could have been a World squash doubles champion. Fortunately world squash’s loss was our gain. So thanks Eric and Michael but no thanks. We’ll move on when we are good and ready because as far as we are cooncerned there is still plenty to see here.

KevinUK

Steve: There were levels and levels of squash players better than me.