Comments on: Cicerone Then and Now http://climateaudit.org/2010/02/04/cicerone-then-and-now/ by Steve McIntyre Tue, 21 May 2013 15:32:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Not really http://climateaudit.org/2010/02/04/cicerone-then-and-now/#comment-229111 Fri, 30 Apr 2010 15:55:51 +0000 http://climateaudit.org/?p=10131#comment-229111 Well, not really. Seitz is going to be remembered for going off the rails on the climate issue and being wrong.

]]> By: Neal McBurnett http://climateaudit.org/2010/02/04/cicerone-then-and-now/#comment-225711 Wed, 17 Mar 2010 05:06:15 +0000 http://climateaudit.org/?p=10131#comment-225711 Thanks for putting up a freely and openly available copy of the editorial by Ralph J. Cicerone in Science magazine “Ensuring Integrity in Science” at http://www.climateaudit.info/pdf/news/cicerone.2010.pdf

Note that the abstract is here:
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/summary/327/5966/624

]]> By: Judith, I love ya, but you’re way wrong … « Watts Up With That? http://climateaudit.org/2010/02/04/cicerone-then-and-now/#comment-223620 Thu, 25 Feb 2010 08:24:32 +0000 http://climateaudit.org/?p=10131#comment-223620 [...] And you still don’t seem to get it. You approvingly quote Ralph Cicerone about the importance of transparency … Cicerone?? That’s a sick joke. [...]

]]> By: Willis Eschenbach’s Reply to Dr. Curry « Things I Find Interesting http://climateaudit.org/2010/02/04/cicerone-then-and-now/#comment-223570 Thu, 25 Feb 2010 01:01:08 +0000 http://climateaudit.org/?p=10131#comment-223570 [...] And you still don’t seem to get it. You approvingly quote Ralph Cicerone about the importance of transparency … Cicerone?? That’s a sick joke. [...]

]]> By: Grumpy Old Man http://climateaudit.org/2010/02/04/cicerone-then-and-now/#comment-220716 Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:00:36 +0000 http://climateaudit.org/?p=10131#comment-220716 Dear Eric. This is the way bureaucrats are taught to write. It avoids the taking or giving of responsibility and allows the bureaucrat to maintain the fiction of being an advisor to the Executive rather than being an executive himself. This is why things happen in time-lines of glacial movement in bureaucracies. If a bureaucrat makes a decision, terms of reference have been overstepped.

]]> By: Weblog » The Passive Voice and ClimateGate http://climateaudit.org/2010/02/04/cicerone-then-and-now/#comment-220665 Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:59:14 +0000 http://climateaudit.org/?p=10131#comment-220665 [...] a comment of mine at Climate Audit about the President of the National Academy of [...]

]]> By: Eric Rasmusen http://climateaudit.org/2010/02/04/cicerone-then-and-now/#comment-220664 Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:55:59 +0000 http://climateaudit.org/?p=10131#comment-220664 Cicerone said, “Clarity and transparency must be reinforced to build and maintain trust.”

That’s a classic example of why the passive voice is bad writing style (sorry, scientists, I know you’re taught to write badly on purpose). It allows the writer to avoid saying WHO does the action. What we’d like to see is:

“Someone should reinforce Clarity and transparency to build and maintain trust.”

or, better,

“Authors of articles should reinforce clarity and transparency to build and maintain trust.”

or

“Journal editors should reinforce clarity and transparency to build and maintain trust.”

or, better,

“The National Academy of Sciences should reinforce Clarity and transparency to build and maintain trust.”

or, best,

“I should have reinforced clarity and transparency to build and maintain trust.”

]]> By: Another Layman Lurker http://climateaudit.org/2010/02/04/cicerone-then-and-now/#comment-220257 Sun, 07 Feb 2010 12:59:43 +0000 http://climateaudit.org/?p=10131#comment-220257 http://www.thegwpf.org/opinion-pros-a-cons/218-petr-chylek-open-letter-to-the-climate-research-community.html

]]> By: David L. Hagen http://climateaudit.org/2010/02/04/cicerone-then-and-now/#comment-220173 Sun, 07 Feb 2010 01:58:40 +0000 http://climateaudit.org/?p=10131#comment-220173 To understand Cicerone’s “clarity and transparency must be reinforced to build and maintain trust” see Terence Corcoran: If the IPCC were Toyota February 06, 2010 National Post

]]> By: Top Posts — WordPress.com http://climateaudit.org/2010/02/04/cicerone-then-and-now/#comment-220149 Sun, 07 Feb 2010 00:08:05 +0000 http://climateaudit.org/?p=10131#comment-220149 [...] Cicerone Then and Now Ralph Cicerone, President of the US National Academy of Sciences, has weighed in on the CRU and data sharing [...] [...]

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