Monthly Archives: May 2011

Peter Gleick and the Fourth Horseman

May 11, 2011 – 4:10 PM

In 2009, Peter Gleick wrote: “Fear is an effective tool.” A lesson, it seems, that was not lost on Gleick himself, who used the occasion of the recent tornado outbreak to prophesy “accelerating” “death and destruction”. While Gleick’s opportunistic attempt to exploit the tornado event has been criticized (e.g. Pielke here, it seems to me […]

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The UK Government Tricks the SciTech Committee

May 9, 2011 – 11:44 AM

Bishop Hill reports that the UK government response to the SciTech Committee is now online here. The UK government submission “tricked” (TM- climate science) the SciTech Committee with untrue and/or deceptive assertions that the Muir Russell and Oxburgh reports were carried out ‘independently of Government and Government had no role in informing how these reviews […]

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Nature Publishes Another Chladni Pattern

May 8, 2011 – 11:07 PM

Anthony Watts draws attention to a new Nature article (LI et al 2011) purporting to reconstruct El Nino activity. The Supplementary Information shows a very obvious Chladni pattern, that went unnoticed by the Nature reviewers. The eigenvector shown here is what one would expect from principal components carried out on spatially autocorrelated data on a […]

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Mutual Fingerpointing

May 5, 2011 – 9:53 AM

When David Holland sought information from the University of East Anglia on their contract with Muir Russell, they refused (see CA here) The University does not consider that there was a contractual relationship with Sir Muir Russell or the inquiry team; it was by way of a public appointment (as is commonplace in these circumstances). […]

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