There’s a new study by Hegerl et al. in this week’s Nature, which, among other things, describes the performance of something called the CH-blend, a secret blend of 12 proxies – a secret somewhere up there with the Caramilk secret. As I mentioned previously, I requested the identity of the sites in the blend as […]
Someone pointed out that Environmental Science & Technology, which published a scurrilous attack on us, was published by the American Chemical Society, whose Code of Conduct online here says that it “expects its members to adhere to the highest ethical standards.” One clause states: Public comments on scientific matters should be made with care and […]
Last week, the review of the second draft of the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report began. Some readers here are IPCC reviewers and may not be aware of the following provision of Appendix A to the Principles Governing IPCC Work http://www.ipcc.ch/about/app-a.pdf, which states that: "All written expert, and government review comments will be made available to […]
While the Hockey Team like to talk about "moving on", in most scientific disciplines, articles of substance usually remain of continuing interest, since there had to be some interesting insight to have created the substance in the first place. I’ve been backtracking through some of the tree ring literature to try to fully understand how […]
I’m actually looking into the WDCP updates page more regularly now to see if any new information has been archived. Five more Jacoby data sets have been archived in the past week: one from the Yukon, 4 from Mongolia. There are still far more that have not been archived than have been archived, but that […]
On Thursday, April 20, the BBC has a show on Overselling Climate Change. BBC radio attended the NAS Panel and taped lengthy portions of it, as well as interviewing me, Hughes and others. It will be interesting to get their take on it. The title of the show seems pretty unusual in a BBC context. […]
Last summer, after Paul Thacker published a critical article about me in Environmental Science & Technology (also try here) (ARCHIVE) , I contacted three of the people prominently quoted in the article – Mahlman, Trenberth and Famiglietti – to obtain confirmation of what they said. As you will see below, their responses are extraordinarily lame. […]
During the past 20 years, Jacoby and D’Arrigo had obtained over 45 RW series and at least 35 MXD series in North America. To the end of 2005, despite receiivng millions in grants, he had only archived a couple of North American RW series and no North American MXD series. I discussed this before here, […]
Paul Thacker, who wrote about me very unfavorably in Environmental Science & Technology last August, has written another unfavorable story for the SE Journal here. Thacker thinks that it’s a big deal that we were covered by the Wall Street Journal and that this is an anomaly pointing to bias. He ignores the fact that, […]
A nice favorable mention today in an article by Bob Carter in the Daily Telegraph today. Bob Carter is an Australian geologist, who has carried out extremely interesting analyses of clnmate variability over the past 3.6 million years. I showed one of his graphs here -scroll to the bottom. This is not an entirely unbiased […]
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BBC Radio: Overselling Climate Change
On Thursday, April 20, the BBC has a show on Overselling Climate Change. BBC radio attended the NAS Panel and taped lengthy portions of it, as well as interviewing me, Hughes and others. It will be interesting to get their take on it. The title of the show seems pretty unusual in a BBC context. […]