Tag Archives: baliunas

Hide-the-Decline Plus

Dec 1, 2011 – 12:11 AM

A few days ago, we discussed the unresponsive answers provided to climate scientist Jeff Severinghaus in February 2003 when he inquired about the validity of tree ring widths as proxies due to the inconsistency (divergence) between temperature and ring widths, answers characterized by Severinghaus here as not being a “straight answer”. In first quarter 2003 […]

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Direct Action at Harvard

Nov 28, 2011 – 3:21 PM

Attention has been drawn today to Mann’s request to other Team members for suggestions as to how to take direct action at Harvard against Soon and Baliunas. Not noticed thus far is that Kevin Trenberth reverted almost immediately with suggestions and that Mann followed up on these suggestions. Later, Soon’s supervisor has a small cameo […]

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Treydte, Moberg, Soon and Baliunas

Apr 27, 2006 – 8:47 AM

Several people have written to me about today’s article in Nature by Treydte et al (including Esper) announcing that the 20th century is the wettest period in the millennium. Treydte et al state: Comparison with other long-term precipitation reconstructions indicates a large-scale intensification of the hydrological cycle coincident with the onset of industrialization and global […]

By Stephen McIntyre | Posted in Esper et al 2002, Moberg [2005], Multiproxy Studies | Also tagged , | Comments (144)

UCAR, Ammann and Wahl and GRL

Sep 29, 2005 – 11:03 PM

Several years ago, there was a great controversy at the journal Climate Research regarding the publication of an article by Soon and Baliunas. Three editors, including Hans von Storch, felt that the peer review leading to acceptance of this article was flawed and resigned in protest. I want to compare some of these events to […]

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