Monthly Archives: February 2009

Gavin’s Mystery Man

Feb 3, 2009 – 1:29 PM

On Sunday, Feb 1 at 4:41 pm Eastern (3:41 blog time), I published a post describing West Antarctic stations. In that post, I observed that there was a very limited amount of station data (6 stations) in the West Antarctica area re-interpreted by Steig et al, that one of the stations (Harry AWS) had an […]

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MM In Print

Feb 2, 2009 – 11:52 PM

A reader just sent me the MBH reply, which is amusing. It’s late more on this tomorrow. MM comment and MBH reply

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Dirty Harry 4: When Harry Met Gill

Feb 2, 2009 – 12:32 PM

Yesterday, I noted that Steig had criticised previous developers of Antarctic gridded temperature data for not having “paid much attention” to West Antarctica (e.g. the NASA GISS trend map left the area blank due to lack of data meeting their quality standards) and reproached his predecessors (including, it seems, even Hansen) for “calculating with their […]

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West Antarctic Stations

Feb 1, 2009 – 3:41 PM

As noted yesterday, the main enterprise of Steig et al is a re-interpretation of West Antarctica, saying that “no one really has paid much attention to” this area in the past and saying that their study improved over prior studies because previously: “People were calculating with their heads instead of actually doing the math,” said […]

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