Category Archives: News and Commentary

Feedback on the work of McIntyre and McKitrick

Daily Telegraph

Apr 9, 2006 – 9:04 AM

A nice favorable mention today in an article by Bob Carter in the Daily Telegraph today. Bob Carter is an Australian geologist, who has carried out extremely interesting analyses of clnmate variability over the past 3.6 million years. I showed one of his graphs here -scroll to the bottom. This is not an entirely unbiased […]

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Supplementary Comments to NAS Panel

Apr 4, 2006 – 2:03 PM

We sent in the following two supplementary comments to the NAS Panel, one commenting on answers provided by Mann subsequent to our presentation and noting up points related to the revisions of Wahl and Ammann [2006] and rejection of the Ammann and Wahl submission to GRL here and the other responding to a question from […]

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New Scientist on the Hockey Stick

Mar 27, 2006 – 5:16 PM

New Scientist ran a lengthy article on the Hockey Stick. They seem to have talked to everyone involved except Ross and I. In 2004, even before our GRL article published, a freelancer for New Scientist had got interested in the story and spent a lot of time interviewing me on the telephone. It got to […]

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Two Editorials

Mar 26, 2006 – 4:59 PM

Some people, including some who are not particularly sympathetic to the thoughts expressed here, suggest that the way that I do things is ineffective and have a variety of suggestions on how I could get my views across better. Mostly they involve less blogging and more journal submissions. Maybe they’re right . However, I noticed […]

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Nature and Britannica: Round 2

Mar 25, 2006 – 3:36 PM

Nature has responded to Encyclopedia Britannica’s accusation of "sloppiness, indifference to basic scholarly standards, and flagrant errors" with a response like this: In our issue of 15 December 2005 we published a news article that compared the Internet offerings of Encyclopaedia Britannica and Wikipedia on scientific topics (“Internet encyclopaedias go head to head”, Nature 438 […]

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Inhofe, UCAR and NCAR

Mar 23, 2006 – 4:09 PM

Senator Inhofe has sent some questions to UCAR, which have riled Climate Watch and others. Climate Watch headlined: Senator Inhofe Launches Inquisition Probing Climate Research Organization. Googling will turn up a few references. I’m not doing a detailed note on this, but am giving a few takes on it, since we’ve talked here about UCAR […]

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Nature, Wikipedia and “The High Summer of Junk Science”

Mar 23, 2006 – 11:59 AM

Nature recently carried out an experiment on its own initiative supposedly comparing the accuracy of Wikipedia and Encyclopedia Britannica, reported here in the Register. The study concluded that the Encyclopedia Britannica had quite a few errors, nearly as many as Wikipedia. Here’s what’s reported: Nature magazine has some tough questions to answer after it let […]

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Sciencemag on NAS Panel

Mar 10, 2006 – 8:13 PM

Here’s a summary (archive)from Science of last week’s NAS panel. The heat was on a 12-person National Research Council committee last week as it tackled the politically charged debate over how scientists have gauged temperatures from the past millennium or two. Chair Gerald North of Texas A&M University in College Station kept the audience on […]

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Why peer reviewed publication is not enough

Mar 8, 2006 – 10:52 AM

Obviously Climate Audit has captured a small part of the zeitgeist of the scientific world, especially in regards to the obvious failures of peer review to detect bad practice and scientific misconduct. It has been asked by some climate scientists why access to original data and full disclosure is so important, as if proper audit […]

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Alley at the NAS Panel

Mar 6, 2006 – 9:09 AM

Richard Alley has been a prominent figure in climate change debate. Again we were told to expect a fire-and-brimstone presentation with warnings about tipping canoes. His presentation was lively, but, like Schrag, Alley expressed great caution about what could legitimately be expected from paleoclimate studies and made some very interesting remarks about the disconnect between […]

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