Mann cited Wahl and Ammann’s recently released paper at NAS (which was not available to us in time for the NAS panel, although I’d seen and reviewed an earlier draft.) After reading it, Per said that he thought that the reviewers had done a lousy job. Now I was only a reviewer for the first […]
I’m going to jump ahead a little and report on Hughes, who spoke on Friday morning. My notes on Hughes are decent by my standards. I’ll come back and describe our presentation next and then get to Mann’s. Neither Hughes nor Mann attended Thursday’s session or reception. I missed meeting Mann on Friday as I […]
My notes on Luterbacher and Hegerl are not very good. Hegerl, in particular, was very difficult to follow and it would have been hard for the panel to assimilate. She made one nice observation – someone asked her about confidence intervals with low correlations. She said that they would be from the floor to the […]
D’Arrigo presented their new study. I went over and introduced myself and said that I thought that their new study was much better than Osborn and Briffa and that it was too bad that they hadn’t received the same publicity. She said – Well, I guess that’s a compliment of sorts. I was trying to […]
Mann told the NAS panel: "I am not a statistician". No one on the panel contested that claim. A friend sent me Mann’s bio distributed as part of today’s Margolin Lecture at Middlebury College, which says that the focus of his research is "the application of statistical techniques to understanding climate variability and climate change […]
William Connolley, who tends to be a little truth-challenged when it comes to matters Mc, said over at Fleck: Incidentally, note that this “Hockey Team”stuff is a figment of McI’s. Now I’ll admit to having some fun with this, but the term originated over at realclimate (and it wasn’t just an incidental use). I think […]
When we were having all the site crashes in October, John A turned off the hit counter to economize on space. We were running about 5000 hits/day at the time. We’ve been running without hit information for a few months. John figured out some way of getting the counter back without using as much space […]
Another excellent post by David Stockwell here. Everyone having fun?
Let no one say that we at climateaudit do not contribution to coalition building. In the bibliography to Wahl and Ammann [Clim Chg 2006], we see the following citation: Wahl, E., Ritson, D. and Ammann, C. accepted, Reconstruction of century-scale temperature variations, Science If you can’t get accepted at GRL, you can always try Science.
For the first time, a member of the Hockey Team (Ammann and Wahl) has admitted that the verification r2 for the early steps of MBH98 are catastrophic. Results confirm our calculations – as we predicted. They have not explained the justification for issuing a press release that all our claims were "unfounded" and UCAR has […]
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