There have been a couple of recent mentions of Besonen et al 2008 (including Ray Bradley) which discusses varve sediment thickness in Lower Mystic Lake, New England as a hurricane proxy, reported as a “1,000-year, annually-resolved record of hurricane activity from Boston, Massachusetts”. Before discussing the article, I checked to see whether any of the […]
CSIRO has done the right thing in respect to the drought data used in its recent report and an archive is now available. David Stockwell reports here. Update: I’ve now done a quick look at their supposed data archive http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/droughtec/download.shtml and it is far from clear that this is anything like an adequate data archive. […]
Ofcom’s disposition of the IPCC Complaint is here page 43. There are many interesting aspects to this decision that are distinct from any of the others. Ofcom’s actual finding is extremely narrow. IT rejected 2 of 6 complaints. On 3 of 6, it determined that the producers had provided notice to IPCC but the notice […]
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Carl Wunsch, whose complaint is considered by Ofcom here page 70), is a distinguished scientist. Wunsch read a copy of our GRL paper prior to publication and commented favorably on it, though he was not prepared to provide any public support. A couple of his papers show the peculiar results that red noise series can […]
Ofcom interrupted their busy schedule ( In re: Sportxxxgirls was the next case on the docket) to consider a complaint by Sir David King, former U.K. Chief Scientist that the programme had broadcast a statement which exaggerated claims he had made in the past regarding the Antarctic, and attributed to him a statement about “breeding […]
Ofcom, the U.K. television regulator, has rendered a remarkable decision. People interested in what was actually decided will, unfortunately, have to consult the original judgment at Ofcom, rather than the BBC accounts (here, here) of the judgment. BBC stated: The Great Global Warming Swindle, a controversial Channel 4 film, broke Ofcom rules, the media regulator […]
In a post a few months ago, I discussed MBH99 proxies (and similar points will doubtless apply to the other overlapping series) from the point of view of the elementary calibration diagram of Draper and Smith 1981 (page 49), an older version of a standard text. Nothing exotic. One of the problems that arose in […]
I would like to draw readers’ attention to an extremely interesting discussion of the Wegman Report and the IPCC at the Global Administrative Law Blog on Apr 29, 2008, considering some of the issues from the perspective of administrative law. The author is Euan Macdonald of the Institute for International Law and Justice of New […]
NSIDC reported on July 17 what we at Climate Audit have been noticing since the beginning of July – 2008 is way behind 2007. Their daily extent number is even further behind 2007 than the JAXA daily numbers that we’ve been following. Despite the fact that they report over a million sq km more ice […]
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