Monthly Archives: April 2014

Turney in the Climategate Dossier

Apr 23, 2014 – 10:36 PM

Today’s post finalizes some notes made earlier this year on appearances in the Climategate dossier by Chris Turney, the leader of the Ship of Fools and an alumnus of the University of East Anglia (an affiliation featured in his Google avatar over his PhD instiution – see left). Although it attracted no notice at the […]

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Radiocarbon calibration and Bayesian inference

Apr 17, 2014 – 10:04 AM

A guest post by Nic Lewis   On 1 April 2014 the Bishop Hill blog carried a guest post ‘Dating error’ by Doug Keenan, in which he set out his allegations of research misconduct by Oxford University professor Christopher Bronk Ramsey. Professor Bronk Ramsey is an expert on calibration of radiocarbon dating and author of […]

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The “Ethics Application” for Lewandowsky’s Fury

Apr 7, 2014 – 3:28 PM

In today’s post, I will discuss the ethics application and approval process for Fury.

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Frontiers Issues Statement on Lewandowsky

Apr 4, 2014 – 11:05 AM

Following a variety of untrue allegations by Lewandowsky and his supporters, Frontiers have issued a new statement stating that they received “no threats” and that they had received “well argued and cogent” complaints, including mine here and here. (I did not report or publicize this complaint at Climate Audit or invite any public pressure on […]

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SH Proxies: Peru d18O

Apr 1, 2014 – 8:20 PM

One of the hidden assumptions of proxy reconstructions, as carried out by IPCC authors, is that each “proxy” has a linear relationship to temperature plus relatively low-order red noise. Under such circumstances, the noise will cancel out in a linear combination of proxies (reconstruction) and a “signal” will emerge. However, I’ve never seen any author […]

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