Monthly Archives: November 2009

The Curry letter: a word about “deniers”…

Posted on November 28, 2009 by

This comment was sent to me in case it was not posted at all or in it’s entirety over at Climate Progress. It wasn’t, so I’m repeating it here because I think it is relevant to the discussion that Dr. … Continue reading →

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Posted in Climategate | 118 Comments

How “The Trick” was pulled off

Posted on November 28, 2009 by

by Steve McIntyre For the benefit of new readers, we discussed some aspects of the “trick” at Climate Audit in the past. Obviously, the Climategate Letters clarify many things that were murky in the past. On the left is a … Continue reading →

Posted in Climategate | 65 Comments

The Australian ETS vote: a political litmus test for cap and trade

Posted on November 27, 2009 by

Many here in the USA got their first inkling of the extraordinary events going on in Australia with the vote that was supposed to happen in parliament on Friday over “ETS” or Emissions Trading Scheme, with this WUWT post: Ripples … Continue reading →

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An open letter from Dr. Judith Curry on climate science

Posted on November 27, 2009 by

I asked Dr. Judith Curry if I could repost her letter which she originally sent to Climate Progress, here at WUWT. Here was her response: From: Curry, Judith A Sent: Friday, November 27, 2009 2:10 PM To: Anthony Watts – … Continue reading →

Posted in Climategate | 241 Comments

No, thank you Daphne

Posted on November 27, 2009 by

From Tips and Notes to WUWT this comment Daphne (20:11:58) I found this website a few months ago, while creating some graphics for a friend at NOAA. While searching for references of what a “MMTS sensor” looks like, I found … Continue reading →

Posted in Announcements | 102 Comments

Zorita calls for barring Phil Jones, Michael Mann, and Stefan Rahmstorf from further IPCC participation

Posted on November 27, 2009 by

From his web page: Why I think that Michael Mann, Phil Jones and Stefan Rahmstorf should be barred from the IPCC process by Eduardo Zorita, Scientist at the Institute for Coastal Research, specialist in Paleoclimatology, Review Editor of Climate Research … Continue reading →

Posted in Climategate | 85 Comments

Climategate protester pwn3d CBC on live TV

Posted on November 27, 2009 by

How interesting that it has now risen to this level. Climategate? Quel Climategate?

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UEA Climate Scientist: “possible that…I.P.C.C. has run its course”

Posted on November 27, 2009 by

This is a surprise. Professor Mike Hulme of the University of East Anglia suggests that the “I.P.C.C. has run its course”. I agree with him. We really need to remove a wholly political organization, the United Nations, from science. Republished … Continue reading →

Posted in Climategate | 157 Comments

More on the NIWA New Zealand data adjustment story

Posted on November 27, 2009 by

NIWA issued a response statement regarding the charges leveled by The NZ Climate Science Coalition here: http://www.niwa.co.nz/our-science/climate/news/all/niwa-confirms-temperature-rise They say: Warming over New Zealand through the past century is unequivocal. NIWA’s analysis of measured temperatures uses internationally accepted techniques, including making … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate data, Weather_stations | 313 Comments

Told ya so – more upside down data in Mann’s latest paper

Posted on November 27, 2009 by

I mentioned yesterday in the press release thread: So here’s the question, the press release below mentions sediments. Place your bets now on whether the Tiljander sediment series remains inverted or not. Peer review doesn’t seem to catch the problem … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate data, Paleoclimatology, Science | 129 Comments

Mann has a new paper: he apparently discovers the Medieval Warm Period

Posted on November 26, 2009 by

Sorry no graphics, no abstract or paper (not published yet, due Friday the 27th, I hate it when they do this) the Penn State press release was rather spartan. So I’ll provide this one showing Mann’s previous work where the … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate data, Paleoclimatology, Science | 234 Comments

IPCC reviewer: “don’t cover up the divergence”

Posted on November 26, 2009 by

Steve McIntyre writes: One reviewer of the IPCC 2007 Assessment Report specifically asked IPCC not to hide the decline. The reviewer stated very clearly: Show the Briffa et al reconstruction through to its end; don’t stop in 1960. Then comment … Continue reading →

Posted in Climategate | 102 Comments

McIntyre: The deleted data from the “Hide the Decline” trick

Posted on November 26, 2009 by

By Steve McIntyre from his camirror.wordpress.com site. For the very first time, the Climategate Letters “archived” the deleted portion of the Briffa MXD reconstruction of “Hide the Decline” fame – see here. Gavin Schmidt claimed that the decline had been … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate data, Climategate, FOI, Paleoclimatology | 158 Comments

Climategate: Stuart Varney “lives with Ed”

Posted on November 26, 2009 by

Ed Begley Jr. goes ballistic on Fox News. We saw something similarly unhinged with Center for American Progress Dan Wiess, also interviewed by Stuart Varney on Fox News. From the YouTube description: Ed gets into a shoutfest and can’t stop … Continue reading →

Posted in Climategate | 173 Comments

Climategate: Pielke Senior on the NCDC CCSP report – “strong arm tactics”

Posted on November 26, 2009 by

From Dr. Roger Pielke Sr. E-mail Documentation Of The Successful Attempt By Thomas Karl Director Of the U.S. National Climate Data Center To Suppress Biases and Uncertainties In the Assessment Surface Temperature Trends The release of the e-mails from Phil … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate data, Climategate | 89 Comments

Warwick Hughes shows how Jones selections put bias in Australian Temperatures

Posted on November 26, 2009 by

Jones et al 1986 methodical insertion of warming bias by Warwick Hughes Jones et al 1986 looked at 86 Australian stations and rejected 46 (25 Short term – 21 long term). Of the 40 they used 27 were short term … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate data, Climategate, Weather_stations | 80 Comments

Ripples of Climategate? Liberal MP’s desert Turnbull in Australia over emissions trading scheme

Posted on November 25, 2009 by

Wow, Australia’s parliament just imploded over discord due to emissions trading scheme being pushed by opposition leader Malcolm Turnbull (website here). Here’s the news from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Pretty heavy stuff when Liberal MP’s resign rather than vote for … Continue reading →

Posted in Carbon credits, Politics | 166 Comments

Climategate: CATO’s Pat Michaels and Center for American Progress Dan Weiss on Fox News

Posted on November 25, 2009 by

Dan Weiss from the Center for American Progress seems to have more than a little trouble with this interview. I wonder why they didn’t ask Joe Romm to be on? Left to right: Michaels and Weiss Here’s the video description … Continue reading →

Posted in Climategate | 106 Comments

Quote of the week #23 – calls for resignation in Climategate

Posted on November 25, 2009 by

Calls from the left for the resignation of Dr. Phil Jones from CRU continue to mount, and they are coming from surprising places. For the second time this week, George Monbiot called for the resignation of Dr. Jones saying:

Posted in Climategate, Quote of the Week | 158 Comments

Uh, oh – raw data in New Zealand tells a different story than the “official” one.

Posted on November 25, 2009 by

UPDATE: see the end of the article for a response. Reposted from TBR.cc Investigate magazine’s breaking news forum: New Zealand’s NIWA accused of CRU-style temperature faking The New Zealand Government’s chief climate advisory unit NIWA is under fire for allegedly … Continue reading →

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