While I was working up some other notes, I checked Mann’s reference to a presentation by Jolliffe, supposedly justifying de-centered uncentered principal components analysis. (It doesn’t, but that’s for another day.) Anyway, the hyperlink has disappeared. Chasing up the directory chain, the Jolliffe presentation had been previously stored by the Climate Systems Analysis Group of […]
I wasn’t sure whether there would be any interest in these comments, although M&M is getting quite a bit of publicity right now. Yesterday this site got 1426 hits from 819 users – so I guess I’ll keep blogging for a while anyway. M&M got a couple of references in major publications this week . […]
I’m just learning how to do this, with the admirable help of John A. Comments are lightly moderated – which is really only aimed at spam. I just learned how to put the comments through. I’ll try to have comments cleared at least twice a day.
I throw this in for reasons that should be obvious. “The fallibility of methods is a valuable reminder of the importance of skepticism in science. Scientific knowledge and scientific methods, whether old or new, must be continually scrutinized for possible errors. Such skepticism can conflict with other important features of science, such as the need […]
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 […]
[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.] 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.] We are sometimes asked about other multiproxy studies which are held to somehow support Mann. A couple of comments. First, if Mann’s calculations […]
Ok, I see you’re just regurgitating WMO policy. I thought we were discussing what should be done, which is to measure the temperature of the spherical slice of atmosphere. I never realized when I was walking through the forest that I was actually walking through land. I should have been like a Horta and screamed […]
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