Category Archives: NAS Panel

News and views on the NAS Panel 2006 chaired by Gerald North

Letter to NAS on Panel Composition and Balance

Feb 17, 2006 – 12:05 PM

The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) has presumably been criticized in the past for the composition of panels (from the evidence of the mere existence of the 1997 law on committee balance and composition). This law and resulting policies provide for a comment period on proposed committees. Ross and I have exercised our rights under […]

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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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MBH98 and Correlation

Jan 12, 2006 – 10:46 AM

Continued from Part 1, Part 2 One more bit of review before we get to Ammann’s answer. As an excuse for not answering the request of the House Energy and Commerce Committee about the R2 statistic, Mann told them that his “colleagues and [himself] did not rely on this statistic” in the following terms: The […]

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