I spent the last week at the annual Erice conference of the World Federation of Scientists, returning to Toronto late yesterday. I’ll write some reports on this later as, unfortunately, I get tired too quickly these days. There was a session on solar, cosmic rays on clouds, timely in view of the CERN article. Svensmark, […]
Update – Aug 26,2011: the article placed by Wallis has been resolved with information obtained by Andrew Montford under FOI – see here. It was the Richard Girling “poor Phil” piece.] We learned recently that the University of East Anglia retained Neil Wallis and the Outside Organisation to strike back at its critics. East Anglia […]
In today’s post, I’m going to discuss three articles on renewables by representatives of three green factions: (1) Hansen’s comparison of belief in renewables to belief in the Easter Bunny or the Tooth Fairy and his comparison of such policies to forcing his grandchildren to drink kool-aid. Hansen placed part of the “intellectual” blame for […]
Both Anthony Watts and Judy Curry have covered a new Science article by Svend Funder et al entitled “10,000-Year Record of Arctic Ocean Sea-Ice Variability—View from the Beach” SI here. Funder et al argued that driftwood travelled in sea ice across the Arctic Ocean during periods of less sea ice than at present and was […]
David Leigh of the Guardian has been added to the list of UK journalists who’ve engaged in phone hacking and other illegal/unethical conduct. Some of the more questionable conduct by UK journalists has involved their acquisition of information from police that police were not legally entitled to disclose either for payment or as a favour. […]
As is by now well-known, CRU lost or destroyed the “original” data that went into the construction of CRU station data. This doesn’t mean that analysis is totally compromised (though it is made more difficult.) Let me explain this through a comparison to GISS methodology. A given station may have a number of (what I’ve […]
Kevin Trenberth recently expressed his consternation at the breakdown in Team defensive zone coverage that enabled publication of Spencer and Braswell: “I cannot believe it got published,” said Kevin Trenberth, a senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research. Trenberth and Phil Jones were Cover 2 in the rock-solid IPCC AR4 defense. Readers will […]
New Scientist has used the occasion of CRU’s release of CRUTEM station data in response to the ICO’s rejection of CRU excuses to disseminate further disinformation about the Climategate dossier. Anyone can now view for themselves the raw data that was at the centre of last year’s “climategate” scandal. The Climategate dossier is about the […]
Obviously US federal spending is under a lot of pressure given budgetary problems. In the course of cutting curtailing federal spending, there will be great pressure to curtail even the most worthy programs, such as NOAA’s sponsorship of the display Pillars of Climate at the recent American Meteorological Society’s Applied Climatology and Climate Change Adaptation […]
In yesterday’s post, I discussed the inconsistency between the climate community’s desire to rebuild trust and CRU/East Anglia’s continuing refusal of FOI requests, most recently for the 2006 version of the Yamal regional chronology. The moral of that post was that providing such information – even if they didn’t “have” to – was the sort […]
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