Monthly Archives: August 2009

A 2002 Request to CRU

Aug 6, 2009 – 1:17 PM

In May 2008, I collated correspondence requesting CRU station from various parties commencing with Warwick Hughes’ correspondence in July 2004. See here. On a couple of occasions, I’d referred to some correspondence with Phil Jones in pre-Hockey Stick days (fall 2002). At that time, I was surprised by the promptness of the response and the […]

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The Steig Corrigendum

Aug 5, 2009 – 8:17 PM

US. federal policy defines plagiarism as follows: Plagiarism is the appropriation of another person’s ideas, processes, results, or words without giving appropriate credit. Here is a discussion of the topic from Penn State, where Michael Mann of Steig et al has an appointment. In an entirely unrelated development, Steig et al have issued a corrigendum […]

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Dr Phil, Confidential Agent

Aug 4, 2009 – 1:29 PM

Recently, Philip Jones of CRU (Climatic Research Unit) claimed to have entered into a variety of confidentiality agreements with national meteorological services that prevent him from publicly archiving the land temperature data relied upon by IPCC. Unfortunately, Jones seems to have lost or destroyed the confidentiality agreements in question and, according to the Met Office, […]

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