Eduardo Zorita has an interesting post at Klimazweibel containing a very counter-intuitive analysis on the impact of melting of Arctic ice caps on northern hemisphere sea level. Drawing on Mitrovica et al, Nature 409, 1026 (2001), he observes that ice caps have a gravitational influence on sea level. Should the Greenland ice cap melt, this [...]
Look, I’m all in favor of verifying studies and claims. However, when I do this sort of exercise, I try to carefully quote whatever it is that I’m analyzing and to replicate their analysis as best as I can as part of the commentary. I quote extensively and carefully from the original study. In contrast, [...]
In honor of the G20 conference which is closing down our downtown, we just had a small earthquake in Toronto. I’ve never been in an earthquake before and was wondering what was happening. Not large enough to disrupt internet service, but a definite shake.
It’s hard to restrain snark when considering an email like the following: Oxburgh – “We all understood how and why this happened”. OK, then wouldn’t it have been worthwhile reporting how and why this happened? Isn’t that would inquiries are supposed to do? Oxburgh: “it’s just not fair to blame this on CRU!” Boo hoo. [...]
Andrew Montford has succeeded in prying some important documents from the Oxburgh “inquiry”. These raise several important issues. The attachments here include Michael Kelly’s notes – see page 81 on. These offer a few glimpses of sanity that were suppressed by Oxburgh in the “report”. Here is an interesting comment about IPCC (leaving aside, for [...]
While considerable attention has been paid by me and others to the cozy UK “inquiries”, Climategate is featuring prominently in another not-so-cozy forum in the US, though the connection has not been articulated to a larger audience. A June 18 article in the New York Times reports: Three judges issued an order (pdf) Wednesday that [...]
Questions have begun to be raised about supposed refusal by EPA of Dutch offers to supply large skimmers to help at the Gulf (reversed only recently.) Here are links to a May 4 article about the Dutch skimmers (the earliest reference that I’m aware) blaming the refusal on EPA. I’ve also heard stories blaming the [...]
http://reviewipcc.interacademycouncil.net/IACIPCCMontreal.html Christy’s remarks are at about 2:30. He mentions the proprietor of CA favorably.
Desmog, without carrying out any due diligence of their own, spread false information derived from Brian Angliss here. Angliss alleged that I had “made a number of claims that are not supported by the published record”. His second such allegation arose from comments in a CA post on the Commons Select Committeee here. Towards the [...]
