Phil Jones’ first instinct on learning about Climategate was that it was linked to the Yamal controversy that was in the air in the weeks leading up to Climategate. I had speculated that CRU must have done calculations for Yamal along the lines of the regional chronology for Taimyr published in Briffa et al 2008. [...]
Sorry for both the radio silence and the lack of notice. No one reason, but a combination of things. As I mentioned in passing about five weeks ago, I was sick for a while. Nothing serious, just a seasonal cold/flu. But it totally sapped all my energy for about two weeks. I’d mostly recovered about [...]
The Northern Virginia reporter for the Washington Post discusses the current state of the ATI FOIA case here. Lat fall, Mann decided that the University of Virginia was not protecting his interests vigorously enough and moved to be added as a party to the case. Subsequently, the university sent the dossier to Mann, who is [...]
Prior to the publication of McIntyre and McKitrick (2003), there are two references to me in the Climategate 2 dossier. June 2003 In June 2003, Timothy Carter, a Climate Research editor then embroiled in the Soon-Baliunas dispute, sent Jones (CG2 – 2064) a copy of my June 15, 2003 post at a climate chat group [...]
Dr UK writes in about an interesting article about ad hominems in the Climategate emails Ad hominem arguments in the service of boundary work among climate scientists By Lawrence Souder, Furrah Qureshi In their conclusions, Souder and Qureshi contrast the behaviour of climate scientists revealed in the Climategate emails with that of gravity wave scientists [...]
Anne Jolis of WSJ has a sensible review of Mann’s book here. Also an online video here. She aptly refers to Mann the climate warrior as a “climate kamikaze”. She neatly summarizes the book as follows: But rather than a chronicle of research and discovery, it’s a score-settling with anyone who has ever doubted his [...]
In 2006-7, officers and/or agents of Hewlett Packard were separately charged under California and federal law for their role in a “pretexting” scandal, a scandal in which an investigator impersonated HP directors and reporters in order to establish responsiblity for leaks of non-public information that appeared to originate from company directors. Gleick’s impersonation of a [...]
We are approaching the 40th anniversary of the original Watergate burglaries. Although everyone has heard of the scandal, most people have either forgotten or are too young to remember that the purpose of the Watergate burglaries was to copy documents listing donors to the Democratic Party and their financial contributions, either hoping or expecting to [...]
Despite its acclaim among the climate community, the recent Virginia decision (linked from article here) that public agencies are not subject to the Virginia Fraud Against Taxpayers Act (FATA) is hardly one that resolves any real issue. The decision was not based on a rational consideration of whether Cuccinnelli had sufficient grounds to investigate Mann [...]
Lynn Truss‘ book on punctuation “Eats, Shoots and Leaves” received astonishing coverge. The title of the book is based on the following joke: A panda walks into a café. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and proceeds to fire it at the other patrons. ‘Why?’ asks the confused, surviving waiter amidst [...]
