Monthly Archives: March 2005

Margaret Wente in The Globe and Mail, Toronto

Margaret Wente, one of my favorite columnists, had a column today leading with the words "Steve McIntyre… "

A Cook's Tour

Cook et al. [2004] is a “reconstruction of past drought across North America from a network of climatically sensitive tree-ring data”. It uses 835 sites in North American regions overlapping Mann’s PC network. I thought that it would be interesting to compare the two networks. Of course nothing is straightforward when you’re dealing with the […]

von Storch: How Global Warming Research is Creating a Climate of Fear

One of our correspondents has brought my attention to another article (Jan 24, 2005 link ) by Hans von Storch on the current state of climate science and the political climate of “Global Warming”. How Global Warming Research is Creating a Climate of Fear By Hans von Storch and Nico Stehr The polar ice caps […]

Cubasch in Das Erste

There is an article in Das Erste in which the view that the “two Canadians were right” is attributed to Cubasch. On Feb. 16, 2005, Das Erste (archive) included the following comment (translation courtesy of Joseph Potts): He [Cubasch] discussed with his coworkers – and many of his professional colleagues – the objections, and sought […]

MM05 Chosen as a GRL Journal Highlight

Our GRL article has been selected by AGU as a Journal Highlight.

Top Fifteen Reasons for Withholding Data or Code

Here are the current top fifteen climate science reasons for not disclosing data or code:

Overview et al

Our former sticky notes "Overview", "Due Diligence" and "Bring the Proxies up to date" have been disappeared (by the WordPress software) from the top of the page. As they’re important, I’ve put them as links in the "Favorite Posts" list in the sidebar. They’re still current, so if you want to add comments to them, […]

Spot the Hockey Stick #8: The Freeserve Brighton Website

Here’s a blast from the past. This particular site was used zillions of times on Usenet whenever global warming was "discussed". I use the "scare quotes" because to describe what goes on on Usenet as "discussion" is like describing global thermonuclear war as "a mild case of suntan" Anywho, here’s the graph of temperature and […]

Cubasch #3

Cubasch said: After all, Mann’s study appeared in NATURE, a renowned peer-revewied specialist journal. In such cases, the IPCC team has to rely on peer review. To check each publication used in the IPCC report would take far too long. Some more thoughts.

Cubasch #2 and Replication #12

Bernd StràƒÆ’à‚⵨er commented that Cubasch told a German radio station about incorrectly located series in MBH98. Does this sound familiar?