Cubasch said: After all, Mann’s study appeared in NATURE, a renowned peer-revewied specialist journal. In such cases, the IPCC team has to rely on peer review. To check each publication used in the IPCC report would take far too long. Some more thoughts.
von Storch made the following new comments also in German from Technology Review, translation again courtesy of Benny Peiser, about Mann’s "shoddiness":
A number of readers here have complained about apparently legitimate posts being rejected at realclimate. If you happened to have saved them before being rejected, feel free to post them up in the comments to this post.
I will be making my first presentation on our 2005 papers to the Toronto Geological Discussion Group on Tues., March 1, 2005 4 p.m. at the Ontario Club, Commerce Court South, Toronto. Any readers in the area would be welcome to attend.
Jones and Mann [2004] states: However, a careful analysis (M. E. Mann et al., Critical flaws in a recent criticism of the Mann et al. [1998] study, submitted to Climate Change [sic], 2003) of the McIntyre and McKittrick [2003] result reveals that their anomalous 15th century warmth results from their elimination of over 70% of […]
I notice that the phrase "spaghetti diagram" is catching on a little. In connection with MM05, we archived 100 simulated PC1s, using the weird method of MB98. Just for fun, here’s a spaghetti diagram from 6 of these, chosen from the 100 at random, with 25-year smooths. You’ll see why I’m pretty unimpressed with spaghetti […]
It’s "interesting times" at realclimate.org where the authors feel the need suddenly to check their sources and the provenance of data in a way that they clearly didn’t before, and advise caution when the latest scare stories of global warming come in. For students of psychology, this points to an internal conflict of the psyche […]
Since the start of this blog on Feb 7, there have been nearly 27,000 hits. The biggest traffic was on Feb. 14, when there were nearly 4,000 hits (the link from the Wall Street Journal obviously caused this spike). Today is going to have the 2nd most traffic with over 2,500 hits in 20 hours […]
I’ve updated to the Categories on the right bar to distinguish comments on MBH98, Moberg [2005], News and Commentary, Post-1980 Proxies etc. , which cover the main current themes on this blog.
We’ve provided a recent non-technical overview of our results here . Webpages providing links and providing htm versions of this overview and links are at either of http://www.climate2003.com or Ross McKitrick You can contact me at smcintyre25 AT yahoo.ca. If you want to talk to me, I’ll email a cell #. This blog started on […]
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