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Article on M&M Wins Dutch Science Journalism Award

Oct 6, 2005 – 12:09 PM

Marcel Crok’s article on M&M in the Dutch science magazine Natuurwetenschap & Techniek , published in their February 1, 2005 issue, has won a prestigious Dutch prize (Glazen Griffioen) for science journalism from the Free University (VU) in Amsterdam, together with the VU Medical Center and Hogeschool Hindesheim. The shortlist of three finalists all consisted […]

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UCAR, Ammann and Wahl and GRL

Sep 29, 2005 – 11:03 PM

Several years ago, there was a great controversy at the journal Climate Research regarding the publication of an article by Soon and Baliunas. Three editors, including Hans von Storch, felt that the peer review leading to acceptance of this article was flawed and resigned in protest. I want to compare some of these events to […]

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Crichton at Senate EPW Committee

Sep 29, 2005 – 9:15 AM

Michael Crichton made very intelligent testimony to the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee here. He mentioned certain hockey stick critics favorably. It looks like he read Top 15 Reasons for Withholding Data at climateaudit. Go to minute 41:20.

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Legates Op Ed

Sep 20, 2005 – 2:44 PM

An Op Ed by David Legates of the University of Delaware in today’s National Post, entitled Where’s the data?: Holding science to prospectus standards would stop climate researchers from launching misrepresentations like the ‘Hockey Stick’ By: David Legates

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Von Storch and the Mighty Ducks

Sep 1, 2005 – 11:24 AM

In the ES&T article, Jerry Mahlman, rather than using ad hominem techniques like discussing biases in principal components methodology, spurious significance of RE statistics or the validity of bristlecone pines as temperature proxies, described us simply as "quacks". We start our consideration of the use of the technical term "quack" in climate science through the […]

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ES&T #2: Media Coverage

Sep 1, 2005 – 7:32 AM

One of the points made by ES&T to supposedly marginalize the Wall Street Journal article was: Although most other U.S. newspapers, with the notable exception of the New York Times, also provide minimal coverage of climate change studies in science journals, ES&T found no other newspaper that reported on the McIntyre and McKitrick article. The […]

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Environmental Science & Technology Article

Aug 31, 2005 – 7:24 PM

There’s a long article in Environmental Science & Technology about the proprietor of this blog (thanks to Dano for the reference) .

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Mosquitos, malaria and the IPCC "consensus"

Aug 30, 2005 – 1:52 AM

This article was brought to my attention by Larry Huldén. It is a memorandum written by Professor Paul Reiter to the UK House of Lords on the widely disseminated idea promoted by the IPCC that climate change will produce increased ranges for mosquito-borne diseases such as malaria and dengue fever. If people are in any […]

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Science Editorial

Aug 27, 2005 – 10:35 AM

Science has recently weighed in with an editorial in which the editor of Science, Donald Kennedy, stated that he is “outraged” by the Barton Committee inquiring into processes for due diligence and disclosure in connection with science being applied for large-scale public policy. I thought that people might be interested in an account of my […]

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Neue Zürcher Zeitung (Swiss) Coverage

Jul 27, 2005 – 3:21 PM

An interesting take on the controversy from the leading Swiss newspaper.

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