An interesting take on the controversy from the leading Swiss newspaper.
Some time ago, I posted up some information on data archiving policy of the U.S.Global Change Research Program (USGRCP) and its guidelines to various agencies. I’ve identified 4 other policy statements from other institutions, including the National Science Foundation, which pertain to present matters.
In 2002, the House Energy and Commerce Committee held hearings on the topic: The U.S. National Climate Change Assessment: Do the Climate Models Project a Useful Picture of Regional Climate? Statements are online here. Witnesses include Thomas Karl, Roger Pielke Sr. (who refers to these hearings at his new blog. )
Hughes’ letter to Barton says that NSF issued him an opinion that he was in compliance with all NSF and US government obligations regarding access to data. Why would NSF go out of its way to issue such an opinion letter? I wonder what due diligence that NSF did before issuing the opinion letter. Here […]
A little relief from Mann source code (but don’t worry, I’m not finished with it.) In my post on IPCC 1990 arising out of the controversy about the WSJ editorial, I referred to the following quote from the Executive Summary to chapter 7 (p. 200), which stated (having the Younger Dryas in mind): We conclude […]
Tim Lambert was quick to pounce on Ross McKitrick’s programming error in calculating cosine(latitude) in a paper not involving me, so it’s ironic to see Lambert’s apparent failure to understand Mann’s erroneous use of cosine(latitude) in his temperature PC calculations, even when brought to his attention. Ed Snack has had an interesting exchange with Tim […]
The Hill News, described as the newspaper "for and about Congress", says the following: It is decidedly odd to suggest that Barton, who as Energy Committee chairman is tasked with helping shape the nation’s energy policy, should not have any oversight of the science increasingly used to justify “¢’¬? indeed demand “¢’¬? a radical change […]
Just for reference: here’s the code excerpt where Mann calculates the cross-validation R2 statistics and then writes it to file. You can see the original code at ftp://holocene.evsc.virginia.edu/pub/MANNETAL98/METHODS/multiproxy.f.{Update – http://www.meteo.psu.edu/holocene/public_html/shared/research/MANNETAL98/METHODS/multiproxy.f ] Search down using corrnhem or verif1,out. There is no "if" as to whether he calculated the cross-validation R2 statistic.
In a recent post, I showed that MBH had calculated cross-validation R2 statistics, but this information had been excluded from their summary of cross-validation statistics in their Supplementary Information here. We had surmised this in our original article, but had previously been unable to absolutely prove it. The House Committee requested information from M,B and […]
Mann has just(July 2005) archived a fortran program at ftp://holocene.evsc.virginia.edu/pub/MANNETAL98/METHODS/multiproxy.f. {Update: see here] Here are my first thoughts on this.
Climate Audit 
Neue Zürcher Zeitung (Swiss) Coverage
An interesting take on the controversy from the leading Swiss newspaper.