Author Archives: Stephen McIntyre

Bristlecone Pines Again

Mann has recently provided some inaccurate information on his treatment of bristlecone pines.

Hits

Today we passed 100,000 hits since this site started on Feb. 7. On Feb. 14, after a front page article in the Wall Street Journal, we got just under 4,000 hits. We’ve just passed 4,000 hits today with slashdot traffic. New slashdot readers specifically interested in the MBH98 dispute should try the Categories tab at […]

Frankfurter Allgemeine

The coverage of the hockey-stick story continues in Germany.

BBC on "Hockey Stick Row"

Thanks to a couple of readers, who’ve pointed out both a discussion of the "Hockey Stick Row" and its inclusion as a question fo the week. The question of the week was here A row erupted this week over the so-called "hockey stick graph". What does this graph purport to show? A: The bending of […]

The Significance of the Hockey Stick

Recently, as the hockey stick looks more and more splintered, some climate scientists have argued that the hockey stick graph was merely incidental in Kyoto promotion.

Margaret Wente in The Globe and Mail, Toronto

Margaret Wente, one of my favorite columnists, had a column today leading with the words "Steve McIntyre… "

A Cook's Tour

Cook et al. [2004] is a “reconstruction of past drought across North America from a network of climatically sensitive tree-ring data”. It uses 835 sites in North American regions overlapping Mann’s PC network. I thought that it would be interesting to compare the two networks. Of course nothing is straightforward when you’re dealing with the […]

Cubasch in Das Erste

There is an article in Das Erste in which the view that the “two Canadians were right” is attributed to Cubasch. On Feb. 16, 2005, Das Erste (archive) included the following comment (translation courtesy of Joseph Potts): He [Cubasch] discussed with his coworkers – and many of his professional colleagues – the objections, and sought […]

MM05 Chosen as a GRL Journal Highlight

Our GRL article has been selected by AGU as a Journal Highlight.

Top Fifteen Reasons for Withholding Data or Code

Here are the current top fifteen climate science reasons for not disclosing data or code: