Roger Pielke requested op ed’s from Mann and myself as to why anyone should care about the hockey stick. Mann refused to participate. I wrote one, Ross drafted a version. Because I’ve been travelling, I didn’t have time to try to reconcile our views, so we each send in versions which can be read Ross […]
I apologize for the interruption. The blog hit its storage maximum and it took a while to diagnose that this was causing the problem . There were then problems restoring which I won’t elaborate now, all of which was exacerbated by slow turn times from the hosting company. Some comments may not have survived the […]
A couple of months ago, after getting nowhere with Moberg on same peculiarities in some data sets (see right category Moberg et al ), I filed a Materials Complaint to Nature discussed here. There have been some developments on this. Readers may recall that, on a previous occasion, in connection with MBH98, Ross and I […]
A Concern: Ken Fritsch makes the following comment: While your efforts to avoid the implication of censoring of opposing views should be commended, I am not a little distracted by the noise levels that I find come from (a) personal debates that frequently do not add to the knowledge base of the specific topic at […]
Jones et al. [1998] makes the reasonable policy that proxies should be validated against gridcell temperatures as evidence that they are temperature proxies, noting that this is not always done. This policy is endorsed in Jones and Mann [2004], who note that not all multiproxy studies had observed this policy, presumably including MBH98, which included […]
I mentioned here that I would be presenting at a poster session at the U.S. Climate Change Workshop (Nov 14 evening, Crystal Gateway Marriott, Arlington Virginia). Poster pdf’s are supposed to be in tomorrow. Here’s a draft. I’d appreciate any comments. Obviously many of the points are ones that readers of this blog are familiar […]
Montgomerie and Birkenhead have an interesting discussion of scientific misconduct here (scroll to page 16), starting with Mendel. Bob Montgomerie and Tim Birkhead, 2005, A Beginner’s Guide to Scientific Misconduct, ISBE Newsletter, Vol. 17(1) May 2005, 16ff. URLhttp://www.behavecol.com/pages/pdf/Montgomerie&Birkhead_vol17%281%29.pdf
Yesterday we had an all-time record number of hits: 9,354. This broke the previous record of 6780 (set on October 22) and not just by a little bit. Unfortunately due to a computer problem, we don’t have a count for the first 10 days of October, but I’m sure that we were over 150,000 hits […]
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Op Eds at Pielke
Roger Pielke requested op ed’s from Mann and myself as to why anyone should care about the hockey stick. Mann refused to participate. I wrote one, Ross drafted a version. Because I’ve been travelling, I didn’t have time to try to reconcile our views, so we each send in versions which can be read Ross […]