Monthly Archives: March 2005

von Storch on MBH "Shoddiness"

von Storch made the following new comments also in German from Technology Review, translation again courtesy of Benny Peiser, about Mann’s "shoddiness":

German Translation of Marcel Crok's Article With New Comments

Marcel Crok’s article on us from Natuurwetenschap & Techniek, available here in English translation, has now been translated into German by Technology Review here. It includes comments by Cubasch, von Storch, Mann, Latif and an interview with Stefan Rahmsdorff. I’ve posted up Benny Peiser’s translation of Cubasch’s comments and will post up Peiser’s translation of […]

Cubasch on MBH "Can of Worms"

Ulrich Cubasch is Professor of Meteorology at the Free University in Berlin and a co-author of the 2007 IPCC Report. He reports that they are currently working on replicating Mann’s work and that his Ph.D. student "promptly found a can of worms".

Rejected realclimate Posts

A number of readers here have complained about apparently legitimate posts being rejected at realclimate. If you happened to have saved them before being rejected, feel free to post them up in the comments to this post.

Spot The Hockey Stick #7: The International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme

I know what you’re thinking: Who, they? Me too. According to the website: IGBP is an international scientific research programme built on interdisciplinarity, networking and integration. It addresses scientific questions where an international approach is the best or the only way to provide an answer. We add value to a large number of individual, national […]

Data and Source Code: American Economic Review Policy

In our E&E article, we referred to the fact that the American Economic Review (AER) has adopted a policy for requiring authors to archive source code and data at the time of submission. These policies are online and worth looking at in detail.

The MWP and LIA in Kenya and South Africa

In contrast to the claims of the Mann et al "Hockey Stick", practically all proxy records around the world show large scale multi-decadal and century-scale climatic variation. As another example, here are some of the results from a study by Tyson, Holmgren et al (2000,2001) of Lake Naivasha in Kenya and a well documented stalagmite […]