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The Hockey Team at Daily Kos

Jan 25, 2006 – 9:10 PM

realclimate recently advertised an interview at Daily Kos with Schmidt, Mann and Rahmsdorff. There has been an interesting exchange arising from the following posting by a reader. One thing that readers of this interview are missing is the fact that Dr. Mann’s dismissal of the criticism of the "Hockey Stick" science is papering over some […]

By Stephen McIntyre | Also posted in MBH98 | Tagged , | Comments (6)

Canadian Federal Election Results

Jan 23, 2006 – 11:15 PM

The Liberal government in Canada, the hosts of the recent Montreal COP conference, has been defeated. A Conservative minority government has been elected. It will be approximately: Conservatives 122; Liberals 103; Bloc Quebecois 50; NDP (Socialist) 32; Independent (a Quebec radio shock jock) 1. I’ve hardly ever discussed Kyoto on this blog although it’s the […]

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San Francisco Chronicle Op Ed: The Unholy Lust of Scientists

Jan 20, 2006 – 12:05 PM

Here’s an interesting op ed by philosopher David Oderburg, who says: I venture to suggest that contemporary science is now so corrupted by the lust for loot and glory that nothing less than root-and-branch reform can save it. For a start, although I distance myself wholly from his anti-rationalism and methodological anarchy, I share the […]

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11 Ammann Mentions in Mann's Barton Letter

Jan 13, 2006 – 11:15 PM

As I was writing up my note on Ammann at AGU, I re-read Mann’s reply to Barton, which mentions "ammann" no fewer than 11 times, usually as an "independent" scientist confirming his results. I’ve collected the mentions here, which make for some merry reading. Then I’ll discuss exactly how "independent" Caspar Michael Ammann (should we […]

By Stephen McIntyre | Also posted in Barton Committee, MBH98, Wahl and Ammann | Tagged , | Comments (6)

Houghton on M&M at the Senate

Jan 13, 2006 – 10:41 PM

I promise that I’ll get to Ammann’s answer. I’ve gotten sidetracked a little in documenting how Ammann’s unpublished work has been applied in the U.S. Congress. I’ll get to Mann’s letter to the House Energy and Commerce Committee in a minute. Meantime here is an interesting comment by Sir John Houghton to the testifying before […]

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A Shout Out to David Stockwell

Dec 16, 2005 – 10:48 PM

Regular correspondent David Stockwell has set up a new blog and has posted an interesting comment on Briffa, about which he says: Have become interested in checking out dendroclimatology from the ENM point of view – particularly evaluating the model used for functional responses of alpine trees to temperature. All studies in Briffa et al. […]

By Stephen McIntyre | Also posted in Multiproxy Studies | Comments (3)

More Rants from Volkskrant

Dec 12, 2005 – 7:14 PM

There is a long article in Volkskrant dated Dec. 10, 2005, in which journalist Martin van Calmhout, among other things, expressed his consternation at seeing an English translation and discussion of a previous article on Mann on climateaudit within a half day of publication (see here). We’ll try to be equally prompt this time. Here’s […]

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Wall Street Journal, Dec. 10, 2005

Dec 11, 2005 – 8:13 PM

The Wall Street Journal mentioned us editorially yesterday here . While it’s nice to be mentioned, they incorrectly say the following: The Canadians found that the Medieval warm period had indeed occurred, suggesting that periods of warming and cooling were natural trends unrelated to the number of SUVs on the road. Readers of this blog […]

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Op Eds at Pielke

Nov 18, 2005 – 12:04 PM

Roger Pielke requested op ed’s from Mann and myself as to why anyone should care about the hockey stick. Mann refused to participate. I wrote one, Ross drafted a version. Because I’ve been travelling, I didn’t have time to try to reconcile our views, so we each send in versions which can be read Ross […]

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Some more on von Storch and Zorita

Oct 31, 2005 – 2:38 PM

A number of people are citing the von Storch and Zorita paper as somehow showing that the erroneous MBH98 method did not "matter". I stated previously that the VZ paper indicated that they had inaccurately replicated the hockey stick algorithm – which made their results irrelevant. I have since had some correspondence with von Storch, […]

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