What is ironic in Mann’s citation of Cook as authority that paleoclimatologists need not provide a range of verification statistics is that Cook et al. [2004] actually provide a suite of verification statistics, headed by the R2 statistic, which Mann et al. now object to.
There has been extensive coverage of our research in the National Post, a leading Canadian newspaper, over the last few days. The entire article from Natuurwetenschap & Techniek was re-printed in two installments, together with a National Post editorial, all of which are online: Breaking the hockey stick The lone Gaspé cedar Let the science […]
I’ve set up this blog at the suggestion of John A., of England, a computer consultant interested in climate change. I had posted some thoughts at http://www.climate2003.com, but it was difficult to post up comments on that layout. So John located a more appropriate host, converted past musings to blog layout and set up the […]
We (McIntyre and McKitrick) are profiled in the cover story of the Feb. 1, 2005 edition of Natuurwetenschap & Techniek (NWT), a prominent European science magazine (both Dutch and English versions at http://www.natutech.nl ). The cover story is based on two new peer-reviewed papers being published in the well-known science journals Geophysical Research Letters and […]
Here is a postscript version and pdf version of the graphic showing simulated PC1s with a hockeystick shape and the MBH98 Northern Hemisphere reconstruction. Can you find the “real” MBH98 hockeystick?
[Climate Audit was started on Jan 31, 2005. Prior to its startup I had some notes at a prior website http://www.climate2003.com, which John A transferred to the CA blog at its start-up.] The AGU conference is unbelievably big. I’m told there were over 10,000 people there. The printed program is 512 pages long and for […]
[Climate Audit was started on Jan 31, 2005. Prior to its startup I had some notes at a prior website http://www.climate2003.com, which John A transferred to the CA blog at its start-up.] The Dec. 4 post “False Claims” refers to an article by Mann and his associates [Rutherford et al. 2004], supposedly discrediting our work. […]
[Climate Audit was started on Jan 31, 2005. Prior to its startup I had some notes at a prior website http://www.climate2003.com, which John A transferred to the CA blog at its start-up.] If 2 PCs are used in the AD1400 North American network along with conventional (centered) PC calculations, we argued in our Nature submissions […]
[Climate Audit was started on Jan 31, 2005. Prior to its startup I had some notes at a prior website http://www.climate2003.com, which John A transferred to the CA blog at its start-up.] Mann and some of his colleagues have set up a blog at the above address. A couple of Mann’s first postings have been […]
[Climate Audit was started on Jan 31, 2005. Prior to its startup I had some notes at a prior website http://www.climate2003.com, which John A transferred to the CA blog at its start-up.] There’s a difference between the underlying proxy data, source code and supporting calculations, and the situation is different for each category. Proxy data: […]
Our research covered in the National Post
There has been extensive coverage of our research in the National Post, a leading Canadian newspaper, over the last few days. The entire article from Natuurwetenschap & Techniek was re-printed in two installments, together with a National Post editorial, all of which are online: Breaking the hockey stick The lone Gaspé cedar Let the science […]