Tag Archives: overpeck

Overpeck’s “Hammer”

Apr 11, 2010 – 9:23 PM

One of the curious aspects of IPCC peer review procedure is that the ultimate authority for accepting or rejecting comments by peer reviewers rests with the IPCC authors, as opposed to the Review Editors. Review Editors are supposed to see that authors respond to Review Comments, but don’t follow up to see that it’s actually […]

By Steve McIntyre | Posted in climategate, IPCC | Comments (17)

“More and more concerned about our statement”

Apr 8, 2010 – 6:56 PM

In a previous post, I reported that Coordinating Lead Author Overpeck wanted to “deal a mortal blow to the misuse of supposed warm period terms and myths in the literature”. The MWP was one such target; the Holocene Optimum was another. Overpeck said that there was “no need to go into details on any but […]

By Steve McIntyre | Posted in climategate, Holocene Optimum | Also tagged | Comments (43)

“Dealing a Mortal Blow” to the MWP

Apr 8, 2010 – 7:59 AM

There has been a considerable amount of speculation over the past few years about which “leading” climate scientist told David Deming that we have to “get rid of” the Medieval Warm Period, including speculation (e.g. ukweatherworld) that it was Jonathan Overpeck (recently one of two Coordinating Lead Authors of AR4 chapter 6). While the identity […]

By Steve McIntyre | Posted in climategate | Comments (93)

IPCC and the Law Dome Graphic

Apr 5, 2010 – 12:38 PM

Re-reading Climategate and AR4 Review Comments, I noticed an interesting discussion about handling the Law Dome O18 record – a series used in Mann and Jones (2003) and Jones and Mann (2004) with a very elevated MWP.

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Overpeck’s Enigmatic Tuq(?)

Sep 22, 2009 – 2:46 PM

In fairness to Kaufman, he and his students actually did useful field work. Elsewhere I’ve noted that their MSc theses contain many helpful details on the Alaskan lakes. The situation is entirely different with the Greenland lakes, where Jonathan Overpeck was the point man for the ARCUS2k lake project collection. Kaufman et al 2009 contains […]

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