Some background from the original “hide the decline” from Steve McIntyre here Despite relatively little centennial variability, Briffa’s reconstruction had a noticeable decline in the late 20th century, despite warmer…
Month: November 2011
Just in time for Durban – new green technology promises big fuel savings, lower emissions
People send me stuff. We’ve spent so much time on Climategate that other more important things have fallen by the wayside. We’ve seen a lot of claims on how green…
Tying WWF, UEA, Fenton Communications and "commissioned research" all together
Here we have a press release in 1999 (email 3384) from Environmental Media Services (Fenton Communications, operator of RealClimate.org) sent on behalf of the WWF to help bolster the Kyoto…
First FOIA request launched after Climategate 2.0 – this one to the US Department of Energy
It appears that the focus of this has to do with the refusal to give up station data in and the DOE’s apparent complicity in that issue as revealed in…
Climategate 2.0 emails – thread #2
NOTE: Thread #1 (the original still available here) has gotten unwieldy due to size. Many browsers can’t complete the load now. So, I’m starting this second open thread on the…
The genesis of RealClimate.org appears in the Climategate emails, and surprise, the BBC's Roger Harrabin seems connected
This email in December 2003 shows what appears to be the genesis of the idea of setting up the RealClimate.org website. There a BBC (impartiality – ho ho) connection. Roger…
The worst kind of ugly climate propaganda: David Suzuki targets kids at Christmas in the name of climate change
Here’s the popup message solicitation you get when you visit the website for the first time:
CRU's Dr. Phil Jones on "the lack of warming"
“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…
Science at work: "Tuning may be a way to fudge the physics"
A collection of fudge from The Team, sweet! ClimateGate FOIA grepper! – Email 636 Solution 1: fudge the issue. Just accept that we are Fast-trackers and can therefore get away…
The Climategate email network infrastructure
Guest Post by David M. Hoffer Since both ClimateGate 1&2 there has been considerable confusion in regard to how the emails were obtained, how the FOIA requests were managed, and…
Stupid: Oregon Museum of Science and Industry cancels climate talk due to skeptics being on panel
I guess nobody wanted to “properly debate” skeptics. They couldn’t even get David Appell? From Oregon Live: The Oregon Museum of Science and Industry has pulled the plug on a…
Penn State to lecture on "climate ethics"
I got this late, but this must be the most clueless thing I’ve ever seen, especially coming on the heels of the biggest ethics scandal ever in the history of…
Getting the "right kind of people" onboard
This is a repost from Jeff Id’s Air Vent as it needed the wider circulation that WUWT can offer. I’ve also added the update from comment #9 he refers to.…
New Tool – all Climategate emails in order in Excel
Jeff Id writes: Buffy Minton who provided the email Mime data has produced a spreadsheet of Climategate 1 and 2 emails in chronological order. This should be an excellent tool…
The CRU crew says: "what we really meant was…"
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…
The Steve Zwick Guide to Defending the Indefensible
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…
Resemblances: Climategate and Penn State
Jim Tynen writes is his column at The Daily Herald Consider the resemblences between the Climategate and Penn State scandals. Climategate emails — leaked, not “stolen” — reveal the key…
♫ You've got…that vexatious feeling ♫
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…
The team trying to get "direct action" on Soon and Baliunas at Harvard
Direct Action at Harvard By Steve McIntyre Attention has been drawn today to Mann’s request to other Team members for suggestions as to how to take direct action at Harvard against…
A response from Jeff Severinghaus on why the trees don't make good thermometers after 1950 – "I did indeed feel at the time that Mike Mann had not given me a straight answer. "
I had a brief email exchange with Professor Severinghaus about Steve McIntyre’s recent post on his discussion with Mann and others about the divergence problem. I post it without comment,…
Senior NCAR scientist admits: "Quantifying climate sensitivity from real world data cannot even be done using present-day data…"
Whoo boy… just a few days ago it was argued in a new peer reviewed paper published in Science that climate sensitivity might be lower than the IPCC stated in…
A response from Chris de Freitas
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.…
Internal dissent: "Personally, I think that the tree ring records should be able to reproduce the instrumental record"
Severinghaus and “Hide the Decline” By Steve McIntyre One of the very first contributions to realclimate was an FAQ from Jeff Severighaus on Dec 3, 2004. A year earlier, Severinghaus attempted…
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