Tag Archives: Climate Audit

The Stokes-Kaufman contamination protocol – a ‘sticky’ wicket

Posted on May 1, 2013 by

Over at Climate Audit, Steve McIntyre has found yet another unexplainable inclusion of a hockey stick shaped proxy in the PAGES2K paper. What is most interesting about it is that when you look at the proxy plot panel, it reminds … Continue reading →

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Saturday Silliness: Tamino aka Grant Foster fracks himself

Posted on April 6, 2013 by

People send me stuff. This morning my inbox had a forwarded Twitter item about a Tammy post where supposedly none of what McIntyre discovered about the dating problems in Marcott et al hockey stick “matter”, because “Tamino” has proven otherwise, … Continue reading →

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McIntyre charges Grant Foster aka “Tamino” with plagiarism in a Dot Earth discussion

Posted on April 1, 2013 by

Reader “pottereaton” submitted this on 2013/04/01 at 2:28 pm McIntyre/Tamino Feud brewing: First McIntyre at DotEarth: Steve McIntyre Toronto, Canada Andy, The ideas in Tamino’s post purporting to explain the Marcott uptick,http://tamino.wordpress.com/2013/03/22/the-tick/ which you praise as “illuminating”, was shamelessly plagiarized … Continue reading →

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Introducing the anti-hockey stick – ‘The Scythe”

Posted on April 1, 2013 by

We already are well familiar with the shape of the hockey stick, so familiar in fact it has become an icon. Josh writes: It has already been concluded by Marcott et al that their results should now show no modern … Continue reading →

Posted in Humor, Marcott et al proxy paper, Satire | Tagged , , | 52 Comments

Marcott’s hockey stick uptick mystery – it didn’t used to be there

Posted on March 14, 2013 by

At Climate Audit, Something odd has been discovered about the provenance of the work associate with the Marcott et al paper. It seems that the sharp uptick wasn’t in the thesis paper Marcott defended for his PhD, but is in … Continue reading →

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About Climate Audit

Posted on February 2, 2013 by

UPDATE: I’m happy to report that Steve writes in with an update on the tragic accident that sent him to New Zealand. It is good news. – Anthony UPDATE2: Steve asked me to intervene, saying he had issues with the … Continue reading →

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McIntyre’s triumph over Gergis, Karoly, and Mann

Posted on October 31, 2012 by

I’m a bit late in covering this due to other issues of interest taking precedence, but I want to make sure this is widely known. We’ve covered the issue of the Gergis et al paleoclimatology paper this past summer, as … Continue reading →

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Questions on the CRU email backup server.

Posted on October 7, 2012 by

Over at Climate Audit, Steve reports on the Update for the FOI for the Wahl Attachments He’s wondering about the use of that mailserver and why there are inconsistencies, for example: I have a quick question for the technically-inclined about backup … Continue reading →

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McIntyre on Lewandowsky’s Fake Correlation

Posted on September 19, 2012 by

Steve McIntyre takes Lewandowsky’s statistical screed to task and writes: Lewandowsky’s most recent blog post really makes one wonder about the qualifications at the University of West Anglia Western Australia. Lewandowsky commenced his post as follows: The science of statistics … Continue reading →

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New isotope based temperature reconstruction using McIntyre’s ‘Starbucks hypothesis’ tree core samples

Posted on September 11, 2012 by

A new paper in GRL published Sep 6th Secular temperature trends for the southern Rocky Mountains over the last five centuries makes use of some tree core sample data gathered by Steve McIntyre and Mr. Pete. Readers of WUWT and … Continue reading →

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Josh’s livetooning of Steve McIntyre’s talk in London

Posted on August 16, 2012 by

Josh writes via email: Here are the cartoon notes from Steve’s talk – it went very well, a great turnout too. All the best.  Josh Enjoy the humor.

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Backstory on the new surfacestations paper

Posted on July 29, 2012 by

I’m a bit burnt out, so this is a just a few notes to quench some speculations about Steve McIntyre’s role and to help everyone understand what this week has been like. Evan and I have been working on this … Continue reading →

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More on Koutsoyiannis and the homogenization of temperature data – plus some comments on blog review

Posted on July 20, 2012 by

First, correcting an error that originated with the blog The Hockey Schtick about not giving appropriate credit. Marcel Crok writes on De staat van het klimaat One of the basic principles of blogging is to give credit when credit is … Continue reading →

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Another paper refutes the Mann made hockey stick – MWP was ≈1°C warmer than current temperatures

Posted on July 17, 2012 by

This new paper uses a rather unique proxy; high-resolution samples micromilled from archaeological shells of the European limpet, Patella vulgata. Mr. Limpet would be proud. A paper published this week in the journal Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology finds that the Medieval … Continue reading →

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See if you can find the ‘legal threat’ to David Karoly

Posted on July 14, 2012 by

Steve McIntyre has posted his letter to David Karoly regarding Karoly’s book review, covered by WUWT here. Karoly responds with a suggestion he’s been given a ‘legal threat’. After reading McIntyre’s letter, I’m reminded of the non-existent death threats towards … Continue reading →

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Mannhandled: from data to demonization

Posted on July 6, 2012 by

Over on Climate Audit, there’s an interesting thread going on about Lonnie Thompson and his wife Ellen, who Steve McIntyre describes as “serial non-archivers” due to their overt refusal to put their ice-core data online is spite of grant rules … Continue reading →

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Lucia takes on the Gergis et al hockey stick screening fallacy

Posted on June 19, 2012 by

This is an excerpt of a larger post that deserves the wider attention WUWT can bring to it. The image at left is from my article: A look at treemometers and tree ring growth – Anthony Screening: Now with good+bad treenometers. … Continue reading →

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The longest, most high resolution, most inconvenient paleoclimate data that hasn’t been published

Posted on June 12, 2012 by

Read on for a new Josh cartoon. What’s wrong with this image? Well if you are part of The Team (RealClimate and friends), it goes against everything you’ve been publishing. You want the Medieval Warm Period to disappear, and you … Continue reading →

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Jo Nova chronicles the snapping of the Gergis hockey stick

Posted on June 9, 2012 by

Note: I’m reposting this excellent essay from Jo Nova to give it a wide as an audience as possible. Be sure to bookmark her site if you have not already. – Anthony 300,000 dollars and three years to produce a … Continue reading →

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American Meteorological Society disappears withdraws Gergis et al paper on proxy temperature reconstruction after post peer review finds fatal flaws

Posted on June 8, 2012 by

UPDATE: It appears the paper has been withdrawn and credit acknowledgement given to Steve McIntyre, see below: There was yet another recent “hockey stick” being foisted on the public. Gergis et al. It says: The average reconstructed temperature anomaly in … Continue reading →

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