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Feedback on the work of McIntyre and McKitrick

Science and Nature: Under fire for 'censorship'

May 1, 2005 – 3:27 PM

Another article which points out the blatently obvious (especially if your surnames are McIntyre or McKitrick) Two of the world’s leading scientific journals have come under fire from researchers for refusing to publish papers which challenge fashionable wisdom over global warming. A British authority on natural catastrophes who disputed whether climatologists really agree that the […]

By John A | Comments (11)

Comments on Hansen et al 2005: "the Smoking Gun"

May 1, 2005 – 4:26 AM

In the absence of timely technical support to fix our database issue, I thought I’d just a link to another site commenting on the recent paper by James Hansen, Gavin Schmidt et al purporting to show a smoking gun of "an imbalance between solar radiation and atmospheric emission" Luboà…⟠Motl : http://motls.blogspot.com/2005/04/earths-energy-balance.html If anyone knows of […]

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"We cannot make claims as to the 1990s being the warmest decade."

Apr 26, 2005 – 5:25 AM

Guess who recently said: "We cannot make claims as to the 1990s being the warmest decade."

By Stephen McIntyre | Comments (42)

Water vapor: The missing link

Apr 25, 2005 – 3:04 AM

For those who have been following the posts on water vapor and its relationship to climate change, here’s an article on water vapor, radiative modelling and the effects on the greenhouse effect: http://www.sron.nl/www/code/eos/atmos/h2o/PWMAY03.pdf

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Friends of Science: Climate Catastrophe Cancelled

Apr 25, 2005 – 2:50 AM

A new video presentation from the University of Calgary on climate change has been published on the "Friends of Science" website at this link It’s an overview of the current controversies in climate science from a skeptical point of view in a simple presentation. I’m not aware that any television station has broadcast it, however. […]

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Mother Jones: The Mann behind the Hockey Stick

Apr 21, 2005 – 5:37 AM

(deliberate pun in title) Michael Mann has been interviewed by yet another journalist who didn’t do the background reading. Read it all at Mother Jones Roger Pielke has done a good job of exposing the politicization of climate science on the Prometheus blog. I think its very wrong to equate a view on a particular […]

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More papers from the Canberra conference

Apr 12, 2005 – 11:05 AM

I thought it would be interesting to look up more details of presentations made by people at the recent conference in Canberra. I found some materials at this site. Of more relevance to the research of Steve McIntyre is this presentation by Dr Bob Carter of the James Cook University on the question of climate […]

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SMH: A cold, hard look at a hot topic

Apr 11, 2005 – 12:31 AM

As one of our correspondants has pointed out, there was a conference on global warming attended by skeptics in Canberra, recently: The Sydney Morning Herald reports: Although heavily outnumbered, global-warming sceptics believe the stakes are so high they must step up their fight, as Michael Duffy reports. Members of a species widely believed extinct – […]

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McKitrick: What the Hockey Stick Debate is About?

Apr 8, 2005 – 5:48 AM

Ross McKitrick has an engaging presentation of the Hockey Stick Debate presented on April 4, 2005. Here is the abstract: The hockey stick debate is about two things. At a technical level it concerns a well-known study that characterized the state of the Earth’s climate over the past thousand years and seemed to prove a […]

By Stephen McIntyre | Also posted in MBH98 | Comments (104)

Slashdot: McIntyre & McKitrick (2005) and open source science

Mar 22, 2005 – 11:28 AM

The work of McIntyre and McKitrick has been mentioned on slashdot (after an interminable wait, it seems) theidocles writes "The ongoing debate over the ‘hockey stick’ climate graph has an interesting side note. McKitrick & McIntyre (M&M), the critics, have published their complete source code and it’s written using the well-known R statistics package (covered […]

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