The work of McIntyre and McKitrick has been mentioned on slashdot (after an interminable wait, it seems) theidocles writes "The ongoing debate over the ‘hockey stick’ climate graph has an interesting side note. McKitrick & McIntyre (M&M), the critics, have published their complete source code and it’s written using the well-known R statistics package (covered […]
This was sent to me by Ross McKitrick, a man who knows how to ruin an Englishman’s afternoon with a single e-mail. The Canadian Government, fresh from doubling its estimate of how much the Kyoto Protocol will cost the Canucks, and without a clue as to what to do about crashing the Canadian economy mitigating […]
There are many regional proxies from around the world that do show the existence of a warm period (warmer than today in most places) called the "Medieval Warm Period" or "Medieval Climate Optimum" roughly from 900-1350AD and a "Little Ice Age" roughly from c.1450 to 1850AD. Amongst the strongest evidence of this is a study […]
In human behavior, when people have stated a position that they believe to be true, they are subsequently loath to admit error, even in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary. To be wrong, is in a sense, to sense shame or failure. But the fact is, we’re all wrong from time to time. […]
Here on climateaudit, it never fails to amaze us how many different ways that the Hockey Stick appears in various guises. But on the other hand, its use in the context of "greenhouse warming", "anthropogenic climate change" or the Kyoto Protocol appears almost universal. For all the bleating about "other studies" which "confirm the Mann, […]
It’s been too long since our last round of Spot the Hockey Stick! but despite the impressive backpedalling of some that the Mann, Bradley and Hughes study is sooo old hat and soooo last millennium, it’s still being cited at breathtaking pace as the best thing in climate science since the thermometer. Thus we come […]
One of our correspondents has brought my attention to another article (Jan 24, 2005 link ) by Hans von Storch on the current state of climate science and the political climate of “Global Warming”. How Global Warming Research is Creating a Climate of Fear By Hans von Storch and Nico Stehr The polar ice caps […]
Our former sticky notes "Overview", "Due Diligence" and "Bring the Proxies up to date" have been disappeared (by the WordPress software) from the top of the page. As they’re important, I’ve put them as links in the "Favorite Posts" list in the sidebar. They’re still current, so if you want to add comments to them, […]
Here’s a blast from the past. This particular site was used zillions of times on Usenet whenever global warming was "discussed". I use the "scare quotes" because to describe what goes on on Usenet as "discussion" is like describing global thermonuclear war as "a mild case of suntan" Anywho, here’s the graph of temperature and […]
I know what you’re thinking: Who, they? Me too. According to the website: IGBP is an international scientific research programme built on interdisciplinarity, networking and integration. It addresses scientific questions where an international approach is the best or the only way to provide an answer. We add value to a large number of individual, national […]
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Slashdot: McIntyre & McKitrick (2005) and open source science
The work of McIntyre and McKitrick has been mentioned on slashdot (after an interminable wait, it seems) theidocles writes "The ongoing debate over the ‘hockey stick’ climate graph has an interesting side note. McKitrick & McIntyre (M&M), the critics, have published their complete source code and it’s written using the well-known R statistics package (covered […]