Daily Archives: April 20, 2010

Prominent Climategate Figure Threatens Lawsuit over Spoof Video – No Cap-and-Trade Coalition Says “Bring it on”

PRESS RELEASE Tuesday, April 20th 2010 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Jeff Davis No Cap and Trade Coalition Washington, DC — Penn State University’s Michael Mann, one of the central figures in the Climategate scandal, has threatened legal action against Minnesotans for … Continue reading

Posted in Climategate, paleoclimatology | 175 Comments

Of Hawks and Handsaws

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach “I am but mad north-north-west: when the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw” William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act II, Scene ii Following on from my look at the USHCN temperature dataset, I … Continue reading

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Another indication of MWP and LIA being global

From CO2 Science, another peer reviewed paper with a paleoclimatology reconstruction based on cores containing plankton shells, show that both the Medieval Warm Period (MWP) and the Little Ice Age (LIA) can be seen in Indonesia. In the past, critics … Continue reading

Posted in paleoclimatology | 76 Comments

Doug Keenan finally gets the tree data

Climate sceptic wins landmark data victory ‘for price of a stamp’ Belfast ecologist forced to hand over tree-ring data describes order from information commission as a ‘staggering injustice’ by Fred Pearce The Guardian, Tuesday 20 April 2010 The Queen’s University … Continue reading

Posted in FOI, paleoclimatology | 177 Comments

Is Fossil Fuel CO2 Different From Volcanic CO2?

Guest Post by Steven Goddard We have all seen lots of pictures of the Eyjafjallajokull eruption now, with steam and ash billowing up in the air. The eruption started one month ago, and as the Guardian reports, The eruption of … Continue reading

Posted in Carbon dioxide, satire | 246 Comments