As many of you are aware, Anthony has stopped WUWT for two days, pending an announcement, which he describes as important. I have no idea what it is. However, no one can say that he doesn’t have good instincts for how to attract attention to the announcement. It will have to be pretty good to […]
From time to time, we hear from climate scientists that they are limited in their responses by the dignity of their profession. The dignity to which climate scientists aspire is nicely exemplified by the following remarks archive of a prominent real_climate_scientist: hey trolls who have been given marching orders to flood the comment threads here […]
On June 12, David Karoly stated of the then recently disappeared Gergis et al: The paper has been put on hold, while an issue with the data processing and methods that we have identified is checked. The paper has not been withdrawn nor has it been retracted. In a June 13 email to Gergis et […]
Andrew Montford’s FOI request for emails between the UEA and Outside Organisation ( who were represented by Neil Wallis, charged in the phonehacking scandal) has turned up a remarkable list of questions, the questions that should have been asked by one of the “investigations”, but were never answered. On February 22, 2010, Alan Preece, an […]
The Norfolk Constabulary report a “sophisticated and carefully orchestrated attack on the CRU’s data files, carried out remotely via the internet”. CA sources have learned that UK police believe that the plan was carried out by a “mindermast”. The insidious methods of a mindermast are revealed in the interview below. here Update: Police Q&A here. […]
The backup server has been returned to CRU. UEA informed the Information Tribunal today (in connection with my appeal of their refusal of the attachments to the notorious delete-all-emails). UEA stated to the Tribunal that: it confirms its intention to preserve the server in a secure manner for the time being. I doubt that it […]
Andrew Montford reports that the East Anglia police inquiry has closed. The police say that it was a hack, rather than a leak or inadvertent exposure, but did not provide details of why they arrived at that conclusion. Norfolk Constabulary has made the decision to formally close its investigation into the hacking of online data […]
Temperature stations are known to be affected by numerous forms of inhomogeneity. Allowing for such inhomogeneities is an interesting and not very easy statistical problem. Climate scientists have developed some homemade methods to adjust for such homogeneities, with Menne’s changepoint-based algorithm introduced a few years ago in connection with USHCN among the most prominent. Although […]
As CA readers are aware, David Karoly was a senior author of Gergis et al, which was withdrawn in June following criticism at Climate Audit. Despite (or perhaps because of) this experience, Karoly slagged me in a recent article reviewing Mann’s book, including an accusation that I was responsible for “promulgating misinformation”. I wrote Karoly […]
This is the title of a current op ed in EOS drawn to my attention by Leif Svalggard. The policies advocated in the op ed are obviously ones that I endorse. AGU actually does have data policies that, on paper, would deal with many of the disputes that I’ve had with paleoclimate authors. From time […]
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