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More Commentary: Jerry Pournelle

Feb 19, 2005 – 8:18 AM

Jerry Pournelle writes at Chaos Manor I had refrained from commenting on the "hockey stick" because I couldn’t understand how it was derived. I’ve done statistical analysis and prediction from uncertainty much of my life. My first job in aerospace was as part of the Human Factors and Reliability Group at Boeing, where we were […]

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A quick mention in slashdot

Feb 18, 2005 – 6:01 PM

A quick post to say that the weblog has been mentioned in comments in slashdot. Prepare to repel boarders! I was a little unsure as to whether to post an article on slashdot, as I was afraid that being "slashdotted" would use up the bandwidth we’re allowed for the next year…this might be a little […]

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Dutch TV

Feb 18, 2005 – 11:12 AM

I’m off to be interviewed by the Dutch television program Netwerk, on the station KRO. It airs this evening Dutch time. Update: this is online here. I was on television on Tuesday for the first time in my life – ROB TV in Toronto online here about halfway throught the show (Squeeze Play), so this […]

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Climateaudit.org mentioned as science resource!

Feb 16, 2005 – 7:29 AM

Well, almost… (if you follow me). There’s a new piece of open source software for Web browsers called "Site Bar" which you can find at this link If you install it (and it’s as simple as clicking a link) you’ll get a sidebar full of links to interesting sites. If you select "Sience" then you’ll […]

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Global TV (Canada) – Feb. 13, 2005

Feb 14, 2005 – 6:17 AM

Ross McKitrick was on Global TV yesterday and gave an excellent presentation, especially in comparison to the Canadian Environment Minister, Stephane Dion.

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Wall Street Journal – Feb. 14, 2005

Feb 13, 2005 – 11:17 PM

There’s going to be an article about the work of M&M in tomorrow’s Wall Street Journal. (Update: Here’s a url Here’s what’s on the online coverpage: Climate Graphic Faces Attack Since it was published four years ago, the "hockey stick" temperature graph has been used by hundreds of environmentalists, scientists and policy makers to make […]

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Ross McKitrick on Canadian TV

Feb 12, 2005 – 3:43 PM

Ross will be on the Global television network in Canada at 6:30 pm Eastern time. Stephane Dion, Minister of the Environment in Canada, will be doing one interview. Ross will be doing another. (It was taped today.)

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A Trifecta

Feb 11, 2005 – 7:52 AM

I can’t complain about news coverage in senior journals with a trifecta of Nature, Science and the Economist. Here’s link to the Economist article. The Science and Nature are pay-per-view, but I quoted from them here and here. While none of them are exactly throwing rose petals as we walk, neither is there a knee-jerk […]

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Science – Feb. 11, 2005

Feb 10, 2005 – 6:17 PM

There’s a combined discusison of MM05 (GRL) and MàƒÆ’à‚ⵢerg et al [2005] in tomorrow’s Science, together with a new spaghetti diagram that differs from the MàƒÆ’à‚ⵢerg rendering of proxy data a few posts ago. Figure 1. Spaghetti Diagram, Kerr, Science

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Feb 9, 2005 – 11:46 AM

The articles that were cited earlier, have now gone into the National Post archive (where you have to pay to read them). However, the pdf for the English version of the Dutch article in Natuurwetenschap & Techniek (which is virtually identical to the National Post version) is at Ross McKitrick’s site at this link . […]

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