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Sir Humphrey and the Boehlert Questions

Mar 5, 2006 – 6:39 PM

Yes, Minister was a wonderfully funny British comedy of a generation ago, (some info here and here or google yes minister humphrey) which featured Sir Humphrey Appleby as a senior civil servant (deputy minister) "managing" the Minister, his nominal boss, but who was always outwitted by Sir Humphrey. Each episode would start off with the […]

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Pollack and Schrag at the NAS Panel

Mar 5, 2006 – 11:35 AM

I know that many of you want to hear our take on Mann (and on ourselves). I’ll get to that. I want to set down some notes on the other speakers while my notes are relatively fresh in my mind; my notes on the morning session are not great, but I’ll give a gist of […]

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Von Storch at NAS

Mar 4, 2006 – 12:46 PM

Back from Washington and quite tired. Lots to report, but don’t have much time today. Anybody hoping that we would be sent home with our tails between our legs will be disappointed. I don’t think that I’ll say much about the panel, at least for now, but I will talk about some of the presentations. […]

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One observer's report on the NAS panel

Mar 4, 2006 – 4:51 AM

I thought this was too good a report to be buried in a comment thread but deserves a wider audience:

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NAS News and Schedule

Feb 24, 2006 – 5:40 PM

Here’s the appearance schedule. There are 10 presentations. Hughes and Mann each get a separate speaking slot while Ross and I are combined into one. It’s a pretty blue-chip set of speakers. We get the last speaking spot on Thursday at the end of a long day, just before cocktails. Hughes and Mann get to […]

By Stephen McIntyre | Also posted in Barton Committee | Comments (215)

BBC hypes climate modelling scare again

Feb 14, 2006 – 4:11 PM

In the last few days the issue of funding the BBC was recently discussed on Slashdot. There is a proposal to tax personal computers on the off-chance that they might use the BBC’s online resources and even watch streaming video rather than watch TV. I’m pretty sure that such a tax would fall foul of […]

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National Academies Panel on Temperature Reconstruction

Feb 7, 2006 – 5:53 PM

The National Research Council of the National Academies has empanelled a blue-chip committee to study "Surface Temperature Reconstructions for the Past 1,000-2,000 Years". The chairman will be Gerald North. The request came from the House Science Committee – I presume that they are trying to assert possession over this piece of turf. 8-10 speakers are […]

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Adjusting for urban cooling in Sweden

Feb 3, 2006 – 7:12 AM

Over on Warwick Hughes’ blog, a new article by Lars Kamél on the GISS adjusting temperatures for an apparent “urban cooling effect” that mysteriously happens to some small Swedish towns but not others nearby. I wonder how deep this “adjusting key data for unlikely causes” rabbit hole actually goes…

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The Tip of the Hockey Stick

Feb 2, 2006 – 9:08 AM

This is pretty much the one-year anniversary of our two 2005 articles in GRL and E&E. There’s a very interesting assessment of the status of the debate at Europa Tribune here. About one year ago, January 2005, an article of Steve McIntyre and Ross McKitrick was published in the Geophysical Research Letters with harsh criticism […]

By Stephen McIntyre | Also posted in MBH98 | Comments (1)

Mann and Schmidt have a Hissy Fit

Jan 31, 2006 – 6:37 PM

I’m trying to use "hissy fit" purely descriptively and not in an ad hominem sense. I can’t think of any other way to describe today’s postings at Daily Kos – scroll down. A reader posted up a pretty sensible and mundane question about RegEM – the new magic bullet from the nomadic Hockey Team. I […]

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