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Feedback on the work of McIntyre and McKitrick

A Reader's Comment about Principal Components

Feb 24, 2005 – 2:32 PM

Here’s an interesting comment from an applied statistician about principal components:

By Stephen McIntyre | Comments (6)

Mann on BBC4

Feb 24, 2005 – 2:05 PM

A few comments on Mann’s interview on BBC4 in which Ross McKitrick and I were discussed. Given the seeming efforts to backpedal on the role of the hockey stick in promoting Kyoto, it was interesting to hear the BBC reporter state that it was "hard to over-estimate how influential that study [MBH98] and that image […]

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WSJ: Hockey Stick "on ice"

Feb 23, 2005 – 4:30 AM

The Wall Street Journal published this editorial last Friday, on the Hockey Stick controversy and the work of Steve McIntyre: Hockey Stick on Ice Politicizing the science of global warming. Friday, February 18, 2005 12:01 a.m. EST On Wednesday National Hockey League Commissioner Gary Bettman canceled the season, and we guess that’s a loss. But […]

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Sci-Am: Mann and the Hockey Stick

Feb 22, 2005 – 2:25 PM

“Hagiography” according to Wordnet, at Princeton University means “a biography that idealizes or idolizes the person (especially a person who is a saint)”. Now that you know this, try reading here this Scientific American article written by David Appell about Michael Mann, creator of the Hockey Stick. I’ve quite a strong stomach, but it’s difficult […]

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Hendrik Tennekes, retired Director of Research, Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute

Feb 22, 2005 – 12:14 PM

I received this email today from Hendrik Tennekes, retired Director of Research, Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute stating the following positions on Kyoto: “1. The IPCC review process is fatally flawed. 2. IPCC willfully ignores the paradigm shift created by the foremost meteorologist of the twentieth century, Edward Lorenz. 3. The behavior of Michael Mann is […]

By Stephen McIntyre | Comments (1)

More Commentary #5: realclimate

Feb 21, 2005 – 5:16 PM

Gavin Schmidt and Caspar Amman of realclimate have written a "Dummies’ Guide" giving their take on the dispute: Due to popular demand, we have put together a ‘dummies guide’ which tries to describe what the actual issues are in the latest controversy, in language even our parents might understand.Link I’ll comment more on this later, […]

By Stephen McIntyre | Also posted in MBH98 | Comments (4)

Sci-AM: Confirming the importance of MBH 99

Feb 20, 2005 – 7:38 AM

A new profile of Michael Mann appears in the March edition of Scientific American (on the grounds that you can never have too many profiles) Update: the author of the profile is David Appell. Isn’t it a small world? You’ll have to pay real money to see all of it, but here’s a rather revealing […]

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More Commentary #4: Wall Street Journal Editorial

Feb 19, 2005 – 8:53 AM

Further to the lengthy article by Antionio Regalado on Feb. 14, 2005, the Wall Street Journal on Feb. 18, 2005 had an editorial referring to the present matter: Mr. Mann’s chart was both a scientific and political sensation. It contradicted a body of scientific work suggesting a warm period early in the second millennium, followed […]

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More Commentary #3: Melanie Phillips

Feb 19, 2005 – 8:28 AM

Melanie Phillips says: so many people have made huge reputations from all this rubbish. What an astonishing scientific scandal this is, and growing by the day. Link

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More Commentary #2: Kevin Vanes

Feb 19, 2005 – 8:24 AM

Kevin Vanes writes at Roger Pielke’s site: The WSJ highlights what Regaldo and McIntyre says is Mann’s resistance or outright refusal to provide to inquiring minds his data, all details of his statistical analysis, and his code. The WSJ’s anecdotal treatment of the subject goes toward confirming what I’ve been hearing for years in climatology […]

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