Siberian temperatures are an interesting case study in CRU gatekeeping. As reported a few days ago here, in an email of Mar 31, 2004, Jones advised Climategate correspondent Michael Mann that he had “gone to town” in his rejection reviews of submissions criticizing CRU’s handling of Siberian temperatures. Today, in a Climate Audit exclusive, we […]
Fox News is running a one-hour special on climate tonight at 9 p.m. (which is being re-aired on Wednesday, I think.) I mentioned a couple of weeks ago that I was interviewed in Toronto by Fox News when they were in Toronto for the Munk Debates (Dec 1) – Nigel Lawson and Bjorn Lomborg v […]
Climategate correspondent Michael Mann has published an editorial in the Washington Post. As a CA reader observed in another thread, the more interesting aspect of the editorial is the overwhelming opposition to Mann’s editorial in the comment thread. Readers were not distracted by Mann’s efforts to deflect attention to Sarah Palin. Mann’s editorial commences in […]
Lawrence Solomon has an interesting column in the National Post today on William Connolley’s climategatekeeping role at Wikipedia. See also an article last year. Connolley was one of the nine realclimate founders, but posted little at realclimate. This has notoriously not been the case at Wikipedia. Solomon reports that Connolley “created or rewrote 5,428 unique […]
Pete Holzmann has written an excellent Firefox-Greasemonkey add-on that provides comment capability from the old site for Firefox users (which I use BTW). Go to https://climateaudit.org/ca-assistant/ and try. It will make commenting easier. Thanks, Pete. [You’re welcome!–MrPete] Update: the CA Assistant page has been updated with hints on enabling/disabling GreaseMonkey, enabling the script for other […]
One of the Climategate texts that has attracted considerable commentary is: The other paper by MM is just garbage …I can’t see either of these papers being in the next IPCC report. Kevin [Trenberth] and I will keep them out somehow – even if we have to redefine what the peer-review literature is ! The […]
On Mar 31, 2004 Jones wrote to to Mann as follows: Recently rejected two papers (one for JGR and for GRL) from people saying CRU has it wrong over Siberia. Went to town in both reviews, hopefully successfully. If either appears I will be very surprised, but you never know with GRL. Climategate emails show […]
In the MIT Climategate Forum, Ronald Prinn trotted out what has become one of the standard “move along” memes in the climate science community: that while the “tone” of the Climategate emails was “unprofessional”, they did not succeed in their “endeavour” to prevent publication of articles in journals or mentions in IPCC. Prinn at around […]
Anthony reports that DOE has sends a “litigation hold notice” regarding CRU to employees – asking to “preserve documents”. DOE funded Phi Jones at CRU for 25 years. I think that I recall Jones saying somewhere in the Climategate Letters that he hopes no one finds out. See details at Anthony’s. Update: As mentioned by […]
For OT links and non-topical points. Editorially, I prefer that readers stick to short points and not try to solve all the problems of the world in 3 paragraphs or prove or disprove the entire apparatus of climate science in 4 sentences. Try to avoid using adjectives. A whole lot of comments containing adjectives end […]
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