Author Archives: Stephen McIntyre

More bender and Willis on Emanuel

Here’s Willis’ most recent summary of the ongoing dialogue on the Emanuel story.

Bender on Hurricane Counts Continued

This continues the previous post which is overweight in comments.

An Esper Divergence Problem

The NAS Panel used Esper et al 2002 as a comfort series in their spaghetti graph, but did not perform any due diligence on it. As some of you may recall, I’ve had prolonged correspondence with Science, after being stonewalled by Esper, and, as a result of that, have obtained versions of the chronologies used […]

KTH, Stockholm Conference

On Sep 11-12, 2006, KTH (Royal Institute of Technology) in Stockholm, Sweden hosted an international seminar on climate variability (seminar website here). The seminar had 16 speakers from 14 countries and was attended by 120 people. It was organized by Peter Stilbs and Fred Goldberg, who extended great hospitality to the presenters. Anders FlodstràƒÆ’à‚⵭, President […]

Reply from Cicerone of NAS

On Aug 12, I wrote to Ralph Cicerone, President of NAS, asking him to request unarchived data from various authors relied upon by the NAS Panel as follows: I enjoyed the opportunity to chat with you during the most recent hearings of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. As I have previously written to you, […]

Water Vapor and Cloud Feedbacks

Is anyone interested in starting a separate thread on water vapor and cloud feedbacks? While it is of some relevance to the hurricane/global warming topic, the relevance is indirect and this topic certainly has enough scientific meat for its own thread (provided people are sufficiently interested. Comment by Judith Curry “¢’‚¬? 17 September 2006 @ […]

Warmest Month

I’ve transferred a discussion from Road Map to a separate thread here. Here’s a plot of monthly CET temperatures and a simple R script to download the data and make the plot. The warmest months are as follows: <><><><>< JAN 1916 FEB 1779 MAR 1957 APR 1865 MAY 1833 JUN 1846 JUL 2006 AUG 1995 […]

Back from Europe

I have just returned from Sweden and Holland and had an extremely enjoyable trip. I will post on scientific aspects of both visits in subsequent posts, but for now wish first to record my appreciation for the personal hospitality shown to me in Sweden by Fred Goldberg and in Holland by Marcel Crok of NWT. […]

Off to Europe

I’m leaving for a week in a few hours and will only be in intermittent contact. No fighting please. Anybody that feels like fighting – take a deep breath and don’t. Save it till I come back. If you’re suspended by John A while I’m away, too bad. TCO, this includes you. Maybe bender or […]

Another AGU Submission?

Judith Curry mentioned an AGU session on integrity in science. I’m thinking about sending in the following abstract. I’d need to do so by the end of the day. Any thoughts? If science articles and findings are communicated to the public with the possibility that they may influence policy, then scientists must be prepared for […]