A Climate Audit reader in Australia drew CSIRO’s attention to criticism of their data stonewalling here at CA. CSIRO promptly told the Australian reader that the “appropriate CSIRO climate scientists and Communications team have responded accordingly to Stephen McIntyre and David Stockwell directly, in order to address their concerns” and that “some of the direct […]
Here’s another interesting aspect to the exchange between David Stockwell and CSIRO, which provides an interesting example of a promotional press release, that would daunt the most adventurous stock promoter, followed by mealy-mouthed and untrue excuses by the government department. Again, let’s start with David’s request for data supporting the Australian drought report: I am […]
A new study in PNAS links global warming with an increase in cases of nephrolithiasis. From one of the many press releases: UK Telegraph Researchers say that as temperatures rise, the driest parts of the US could see a 30 per cent increase in kidney stone disease…warmer temperatures could extend America’s existing “kidney stone belt”, […]
David Stockwell has been providing an interesting report at his blog on his efforts to obtain for a recent lurid report on Australian drought, only to be stonewalled on grounds of “Intellectual Property Rights”, a pretext familiar to CA readers. For a full account, consult David’s always excellent blog. Briefly the new drought report proclaimed: […]
Briffa et al (Phil Trans Roy Soc London 2008) is a relatively new emanation from the Team, not previously discussed here, which is another example of the discrepancy between what the Team professes at its PR challenge and what they actually do. While AGU journals (for example) have a category for “data” papers in which […]
The Trieste PR Challenge conference has an interesting “White paper on tree rings submitted by Keith Briffa and Ed Cook, entitled “What are the Sources of Uncertainty in the Tree-Ring Data: How can They be Quantified and Represented? Good questions. I urge readers to read this candid paper in full. I detect a lot of […]
The multiproxy world has been a little quiet since AR4. Eerily quiet. But the Team has plans to liven things up in the June 2008-9 year with plans for a: Broad announcement of [PR] Challenge to paleo, modeling and statistics communities (e.g., EOS, BAMS, PAGES, CLIVAR, PaleoList, AmStat, EGGS, Nature Reports). They didn’t mention Climate […]
Lewis Richardson’s famous 1920 climate science paper ‘The supply of energy from and to Atmospheric Eddies’ was neatly summarized by the poem: Big whorls have little whorls That feed on their velocity, And little whorls have lesser whorls And so on to viscosity. Isn’t that a brilliant description of turbulence? So climate scientists have, from […]
Yesterday, in a passing comment, I mentioned an article by Osborn et al, Annually resolved patterns of summer temperature over the Northern Hemisphere since AD 1400 from a tree-ring-density network, as an example of abuse of terms like “rigorous” or “conservative” to arm-wave through proper methodological description. Here’s an example of their use of “rigorous”: […]
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