The review of referee #2 for Bürger and Cubasch’s article in Climates of the Past is posted up here . From the style, can anyone doubt that the anonymous reviewer was Mann himself? Take a read. The reviewer makes reference to this being the "2nd attempt by the authors to publish this flawed manuscript" – […]
One bit of housekeeping that I want to tidy up before more NAS postings: a couple of months ago, Eduardo Zorita kindly sent me comprehensive data from ECHO-G, on which, unfortunately, I’ve so far not been able to spend as much time on so far as I would have liked. So much to do, so […]
Readers of this site are familiar with our concern over the use of bristlecones/foxtails in MBH98-99 and other multiproxy studies. The NAS Panel found in one place that "strip-bark samples" (which Graybill sought out in his bristlecone collections) should "not be used". They also reported that the MBH results were "strongly dependent" on "Great Basin […]
In the NAS press conference, Bloomfield said that you could get a Hockey Stick from an average of the proxies. This was a pretty misleading comment. You CAN’T get a HS from averaging the MBH98 proxies. We showed this to the NAS panel on our presentation as follows: The simple mean of the Mann et […]
I had a unique and busy day with reporters yesterday, although I obviously didn’t change anyone’s mind. Boston Globe here and here ,New York Times, USA Today, Greenwire. Ross talked to San Francisco Chronicle. Back to usual today. When I was checking the Boston Globe, a completely different story caught my eye- the closing of […]
As a test, a couple of changes have been made to the blog as a result of some pathetic pleading by our commentators: 1. If you cast your eyes to the right hand side, you will see that the recent comments are sorted into threads. This is to prevent one popular thread from flooding the […]
We’ve had a few new posters fail to negotiate the Spam Karma filter, possibly because of using the same domain for e-mail as spammers use. Also, if you see the comment numbers appear to desynchronize from the quoted comment numbers, its much more likely to be because Steve or myself have restored a comment or […]
I’ve posted up a little treat from the past – Enron’s climate change policy as downloaded in October 2002. I knew that Enron was favor of Kyoto before I knew of Michael Mann. In 1998, Enron received the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Climate Protection Award for its “exemplary efforts and achievements in protecting the global […]
A big story today is the guilty verdict on Enron executives Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling. There are many interesting issues involved in this, but the one that I wish to draw to attention of readers here is that Lay and Skilling were not found guilty of stealing money or looting the treasury, but of […]
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Boston Globe (and Filene's Basement)
I had a unique and busy day with reporters yesterday, although I obviously didn’t change anyone’s mind. Boston Globe here and here ,New York Times, USA Today, Greenwire. Ross talked to San Francisco Chronicle. Back to usual today. When I was checking the Boston Globe, a completely different story caught my eye- the closing of […]