Monthly Archives: November 2011

SST data “so unreliable we don’t know GMT for that period”

Posted on November 27, 2011 by

Email 536 An excerpt of email from David Thompson of Colorado State to Phil Jones: …As for the dip in 1945. After iterating with John Kennedy, it appears that the dip in 1945 corresponds to a sudden drop in US … Continue reading →

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BREAKING: Canada to pull out of Kyoto Protocol

Posted on November 27, 2011 by

CTVNews.ca Staff Date: Sun. Nov. 27 2011 10:08 PM ET Canada will announce next month that it will formally withdraw from the Kyoto Protocol, CTV News has learned.

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The tribalistic corruption of peer review – the Chris de Freitas incident

Posted on November 27, 2011 by

From New Zealand Climate Change, this goes beyond “noble cause corruption”. This is outright malicious interference with the scientific process, and it’s damned ugly. I can’t imagine anyone involved in professional science who could stand idly by and not condemn … Continue reading →

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Climategate 2 – “Impartiality” at the BBC

Posted on November 27, 2011 by

Guest post by Barry Woods It was only last weekend that the BBC’s Environment Analyst Roger Harrabin and Dr Joe Smith of the Open University made headlines in the Mail on Sunday newspaper. This was because their jointly run - Cambridge Media and … Continue reading →

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Andrea Rossi and the magic coffee pot reactor

Posted on November 27, 2011 by

I allowed Ric Werme to post a couple of entries on the E-Cat “power reactor” by Andrea Rossi in the past, mainly to spur debate on whether this idea had any merit at all. I shut down comments on the … Continue reading →

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Climate Craziness of the Week – occupy Durban

Posted on November 27, 2011 by

You know it had to happen. What better place could there be for the great unwashed to protest? Gotta love the dead green tree growing out of the Earth. Here’s their message: ============================================================== #OccupyCop17: Climate Justice General Assembly Governments of … Continue reading →

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Newsbytes: BBC In Cahoots With Climategate Scientists, prime minister “green guru” publicly doubts climate change.

Posted on November 27, 2011 by

Steve Hilton, the Prime Minister’s director of strategy and ‘green guru’, is the latest person to admit to doubts about climate change. ‘I’m not sure I believe in it,’ he announced at a meeting of the Energy Department, prompting one … Continue reading →

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An Open Letter to Dr. Phil Jones of the UEA CRU

Posted on November 27, 2011 by

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Dear Dr. Jones: You and I have been interacting, albeit at a distance, since I first asked you for your data some five years ago. I asked for your data in part because I was … Continue reading →

Posted in Climategate, Opinion | Tagged , , , , , , , | 317 Comments

Pheesiks? We don’t need no steenkin’ pheesiks!

Posted on November 26, 2011 by

With apologies to The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, here’s a a comment worth repeating from the Hit and Misses thread. Dennis Ray Wingo says: November 26, 2011 at 10:44 am What I find interesting about the entire email corpus … Continue reading →

Posted in Climategate, Humor, satire, Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , , | 220 Comments

Uh oh, “…organized and deeply committed environmental activism has long been an important part of the UNFCCC process…”

Posted on November 26, 2011 by

Maybe this is why the US bailed out of the UNFCCC “Green Climate Fund” this week.The science has been “McKibbenized” for quite some time. Email 340.txt date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 11:13:20 -0500 from: “Tom Jacob” <Tom.Jacob@USA.dupont.com> subject: REFLECTIONS ON … Continue reading →

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Why all the cloak and dagger stuff if this is all settled science…?

Posted on November 26, 2011 by

Reader “just the facts” writes in comments: Here is an example of Phil Jones trying to avoid a FOIA request, but he apparently struggles with the implementation…:

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Hits and Misses for the week of November 20-26

Posted on November 26, 2011 by

I’m trying out a new feature, “Hits and Misses” which will highlight some of the on-target and brightest things in science and climate juxtaposed with some of the off-target and silliest things in the past week. Hit: Almost two years … Continue reading →

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Newsbytes: Durban & The New Wait-And-See Diplomacy

Posted on November 26, 2011 by

Newsbytes from Dr. Benny Peiser at The GWPF Climate Realpolitik: Durban & The New Wait-And-See Diplomacy Behind closed doors, these strategic delaying tactics are not altogether unwelcome by many if not most of the key non-EU nations. What is altogether … Continue reading →

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Two separate examples show 2007 NRC review panel was stacked, except for a “token” skeptic and worked to supress dissenting science

Posted on November 25, 2011 by

This is pretty ugly. In 2007 the NRC was setup to review the state of climate science. The usual players were involved. Today we have two separate examples of inappropriate behavior designed to squash any scientific dissent. First from Dr. … Continue reading →

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Briffa asks for email deletion becuase FOIA is a “time sink” and an “inconvenient subsequent distraction”

Posted on November 25, 2011 by

0058.txt date: Thu Oct  9 17:56:17 2008 from: Keith Briffa <k.briffa@uea.xxxx> subject: Re: Tom Giverin – IN STRICT CONFIDENCE to: “Toumi, Ralf” <r.toumi@imperial.xxxx> Ralf [[[redacted: reference]]] Finally, might I ask that you note and then erase this email. I have … Continue reading →

Posted in Climategate | Tagged , , , , , | 30 Comments

New Climategate 1 and 2 combined search engine

Posted on November 25, 2011 by

Jo Nova writes (and I’m repeating here to get he word out) Behind the scenes, I’ve been playing with a new neat tool for hunting hypocrisy, corruption, bias and unprofessional behaviour and I’m pleased to announce its ready to share … Continue reading →

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Photoshopping in the “worseness”

Posted on November 25, 2011 by

Readers may recall that we caught NOAA NCDC red handed putting in a photoshopped flooded house a couple of years back for an official government report. Image above taken directly from the CCSP report. Read more here Then there’s the … Continue reading →

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Climategate 2.0 email – Mike Mann characterized as “crazy” over MWP and “serious enemy”

Posted on November 25, 2011 by

Edward Cook tells Phil Jones that Mike Mann is “serious enemy” and “vindictive”. Mike Mann had criticized his work. Apparently Mann went “a little crazy” over a paper showing the Medeival Warm Period exists. 4101.txt cc: k.briffa@uea.xx.xx date: Thu, 7 … Continue reading →

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New study in Science shows climate sensitivity overestimated

Posted on November 25, 2011 by

From Oregon State University  some news the team and especially Kevin Trenberth just really don’t want to hear. I covered this on a tip from Dr. Pat Michaels back on Nov 9th titled: Climate sensitivity- lowering the IPCC “fat tail” and … Continue reading →

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Caribou supposedly roasted by global warming found unharmed

Posted on November 24, 2011 by

Another one for the Climate FAIL file… USA Today/Associated Press, in 2009: “They believe the insidious impact of climate change, its tipping of natural balances and disruption of feeding habits, is decimating a species that has long numbered in the … Continue reading →

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Just in time for Durban: US backs off on UN Green Climate Fund

Posted on November 24, 2011 by

Thanks perhaps in part to Climategate 2, it is looking less like success and more like FAIL at Durban. The US has backed off and now refuses to agree to structure and funding of the United Nations Framework Convention on … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate News, Durban Climate Conference | Tagged , , , , , , , | 63 Comments

Chicken Little of the Sea Visits Station ALOHA

Posted on November 24, 2011 by

Guest post by David Middleton Introduction My never-ending search for actual observational data that support the hypothesis of catastrophic anthropogenic ocean acidification (Chicken Little of the Sea) has taken me to offshore Hawaii and Station ALOHA.

Posted in Alarmism, Environment, oceans | Tagged , , , , , , , | 35 Comments

BBC’s Kirby admission to Phil Jones on “impartiality”

Posted on November 24, 2011 by

Climategate 2.0 email 4894.txt shows just what Alex Kirby of BBC thinks of climate skeptics as he conveys it to Dr. Phil Jones. Clearly, there an incestuous relationship between climate science and the BBC. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ date: Wed Dec  8 08:25:30 … Continue reading →

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“FOIA2011″ and Climategate – A Chinese-POTUS connection?

Posted on November 24, 2011 by

Reader JoeFromBrazil writes Greetings, Sorry, but is this just a coincidence ?

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CRU’s Dr. Phil Jones, world renowned climatologist, can’t even plot a trend in Excel

Posted on November 24, 2011 by

Joe Romm would call this a “head exploding moment“. If this were a skeptic, Tamino aka Grant Foster, would sharpen his invective ginsu knives and launch a fusillade of cutlery in a blog post claiming how stupid and inept skeptics … Continue reading →

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