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Category: Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature
Pre-Prints and Pre-Data
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Folks have said that I’m far too hard on Dr. Richard Muller of the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature (BEST Project). So let me stick to…
Monday Mirthiness – the BEST team
Josh thinks climate science is BEST left to rough and tumble experts. The next installment may best this one.
The BEST whopper ever
I was over at Judy Curry’s place, reading her update to the Mail on Sunday story, and noticed she referenced URLs to the updated FAQs at the BEST website. I…
Uh oh: It was the BEST of times, it was the worst of times
Alternate title: Something wonky this way comes I try to get away to work on my paper and the climate world explodes, pulling me back in. Strange things are happening…
Explaining Muller vs. Muller: is BEST blissfully unaware of cosmic-ray-cloud theory?
Guest post by Alec Rawls Here is the puzzle, as noted by Nigel Calder and others: how can BEST insist that a modicum of additional evidence of late 20th century…
Singer's letter to WaPo on BEST
The scientific finding that does not settle the climate-change debate S. Fred Singer Letter to WashPost Oct 25, 2011** Before you write off Bachmann, Cain, and Perry as cynical diehards,…
Real Climate pans BEST and Muller
In a shocking development that may represent a singularity, I find myself in agreement* with parts of an opinion piece posted on Real Climate today called Berkeley Earthquake Called Off.…
What the BEST data actually says
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach My theory is that the BEST folks must have eaten at a Hollywood Chinese restaurant. You can tell because when you eat there, an hour…
Sunday Silliness – the new crop
Josh has a handle on the “best” practices for farming data and producing crops out of season. See below.
A preliminary assessment of BEST's decline
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach With altogether far too much fanfare for my taste, the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature (BEST) project has not released its preliminary results. Or at least…
My thanks to Mike Roddy for helping with BEST review
Eh, even when I try to get away from it on weekends it follows me via email. But, I decided I’d take a moment to post this comment from Joe…
World is warming. Pope is Catholic.
Guest post by Maurizio Morabito Quite an effort has been made by many people (including Dr Richard Muller) to portray the BEST pre-pre-pre-papers as some kind of death blow against climate…
BEST: What I agree with and what I disagree with – plus a call for additional transparency to prevent "pal" review
There’s lots of hay being made by the usual romminesque flaming bloggers, some news outlets and the like, over my disagreement with the way data was handled in one of…
A mathematician's response to BEST
Doug Keenan, who readers may remember doggedly pursued and won some tree ring data that Queens University held back, was asked to comment of the BEST papers by the Economist.…
Sceptical Berkeley Scientists Say, “Human Component Of Global Warming May Be Somewhat Overstated”
From Dr. Benny Peiser and the Global Warming Policy Foundation via email. The Observatory, 21 October 2011 David Whitehouse The Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature Project has released its preliminary findings…
Pielke Sr: No surprise about BEST
Dr. Roger pielke confirms a point made in comments in my earlier post on BEST about all data coming from a single source, which is the National Climatic Data Center.…
The Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature project puts PR before peer review
UPDATE: see this new story BEST: What I agree with and what I disagree with – plus a call for additional transparency to prevent “pal” review ======================================================= Readers may recall this…
Second BEST
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Professor Muller of the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature (BEST) project is always interesting, but he just keeps digging his personal hole deeper. He recently gave…
Some true journalism – my thanks to Tom Chivers
After a week of mostly stories of this flavor, “Scientist smacks down filthy climate change denier, film at 11“, this article in the Telegraph by Tom Chivers is refreshing and…
Quote of the Week – it's a doozy
Finally, a scientist gets it, speaks out about it, and a reporter in a major media outlet publishes the words that say in even stronger terms what I said last…
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