Tag Archives: Phil Jones

CRU’s Dr. Phil Jones on “the lack of warming”

Posted on November 30, 2011 by

“Tim, Chris, I hope you’re not right about the lack of warming lasting till about 2020″ Question: If warming really threatens to destroy human civilization, why was Jones hoping for warming? And if the world was still warming in 2009, … Continue reading →

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The CRU crew says: “what we really meant was…”

Posted on November 29, 2011 by

In all the hubub last week, I missed this press release from the University of East Anglia. In it, they try to explain away some of the first highlighted email phrases. But we’ve all moved well beyond those now. The … Continue reading →

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The Steve Zwick Guide to Defending the Indefensible

Posted on November 29, 2011 by

Guest post by James Padgett There have been several “defenses” to the rather damning emails in the latest release from FOIA. Some, having taken the lead from the CRU itself and cherry-picked their own emails to defend – and then … Continue reading →

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♫ You’ve got…that vexatious feeling ♫

Posted on November 28, 2011 by

It started out simple enough, a standard “righteous” FOIA request to UEA/CRU’s David Palmer, the FOI officer, from a researcher in Britain no less. This is email 0584.txt Dr. Phil Jones take on it didn’t seem to impress FOI agent … Continue reading →

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A response from Chris de Freitas

Posted on November 28, 2011 by

In the post: The tribalistic corruption of peer review – the Chris de Freitas incident Dr.  Chris de Freitas has left a response. Rather than argue his own position. Dr. de Freitas lets the director of the publication Climate Research … Continue reading →

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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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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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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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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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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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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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John L. Daly’s message to Mike Mann and The Team

Posted on November 23, 2011 by

Ric Werme writes in comments: When I realized the Climategate 2009 Emails went back many years, one of the first things that occurred to me was there might be Emails from John Daly. He died before I became involved in … Continue reading →

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Al Gore’s global warming claims on Kilimanjaro glacier – finally dead and buried in the Climategate 2.0 emails – even Phil Jones and Lonnie Thompson don’t believe it

Posted on November 22, 2011 by

Al Gore said in his AIT bag of BS that Mount Kilimanjaro was losing its snow/ice cover due to global warming. Here’s the Transcript of “An Inconvenient Truth”: Effects of Global Warming And now we’re beginning to see the impact … Continue reading →

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Climategate 2.0: Phil Jones and Tom Wigley – calling a scientist “the jerk” over his UHI discoveries in California

Posted on November 22, 2011 by

I’ve not had time to read through all these emails, but this one really, really Stick in my craw. Dr. Phil Jones and Dr. Tom Wigley respond to this graph published in BAMS in 1996: This is from Goodridge 1996 … Continue reading →

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Climategate 2.0 – NCDC: “Mr. Watts gave a well reasoned position”

Posted on November 22, 2011 by

It seems I’m in a number of the Climategate 2.0 emails. Here’s a couple. The first one confirms to me that this batch is absolutely real, because Thomas Peterson is responding to a joint radio interview I did with him … Continue reading →

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Climategate 2.0 emails – They’re real and they’re spectacular!

Posted on November 22, 2011 by

A link to where to download the new FOIA2011.zip file is posted below the fold – This will be a top post for a few days -NEW STORIES APPEAR BELOW THIS ONE -I’ve also reversed the order of the updates … Continue reading →

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Phil Jones does an about face on “statistically significant” warming

Posted on June 11, 2011 by

From the “make up your mind” department: Climate warming since 1995 is now statistically significant, according to Phil Jones, the UK scientist targeted in the “ClimateGate” affair. Last year, he told BBC News that post-1995 warming was not significant – … Continue reading →

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Quote of the week – Note to UEA and CRU: get a clue

Posted on April 26, 2011 by

You’d think that after all the pain and suffering caused by Climategate to the University of East Anglia and the Climate Research Unit, these guys would have a clue. You’d think that they’d want to get the monkey off their … Continue reading →

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