This is a scathing and revealing comment from another scientist regarding the Marcott et al affair. The context of it all has an odor of hydrogen sulfide about it.
Month: March 2013
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup
The Week That Was: 2013-03-30 (March 30, 2013) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project ################################################### Quote of the Week: The first principle is that…
Marcott issues a FAQ on their paper
This is from Real Climate, who played the “he who must not be named” game again in not pointing out criticisms. Gavin dissapoints. UPDATE: McIntyre responded earlier today with The…
Easter puzzle: the Chinese Egg
By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley Since this is the time of year for Easter eggs, here is a Chinese puzzle. The object is to break the egg into nine pieces,…
The Mail on Sunday takes on the CCC
David Rose of the Mail on Sunday is having a go at the Committee on Climate Change for their denial of the points raised in his article last week and…
“Global warming predictions prove accurate”– Guardian
Guest post by Paul Homewood http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/mar/27/climate-change-model-global-warming The Mail on Sunday ran an article by David Rose a couple of weeks ago, pointing out just how woeful most climate models had…
The Pitfalls of Data Smoothing
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Since we’ve been discussing smoothing in datasets, I thought I’d repost something that Steve McIntyre had graciously allowed me to post on his amazing blog ClimateAudit…
Crowdsourcing the WUWT Paleoclimate Reference Page – Continued
Image Credit: Photobucket.com – GISP2 – Moberg – Keigwin – HadCRUT3 By WUWT regular “Just The Facts” During the first crowdsourcing thread for the under construction WUWT Paleoclimate Reference Page,…
Dr. Michael Mann, Smooth Operator
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach People sometimes ask why I don’t publish in the so-called scientific journals. Here’s a little story about that. Back in 2004, Michael Mann wrote a…
James Hansen Says Coal Is Greening The Planet!?!
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach There’s an interesting measure of atmospheric CO2, called the “airborne fraction”. The airborne fraction is the fraction of the CO2 emitted each year which remains…
Gore to speak at Stanford – open to the public
From Al Gore to Speak at Stanford March 21, 2013 Former Vice President Al Gore will give a lecture on climate change on Tuesday, April 23, in honor of former…
The puzzle: why have rising temperatures been on a 'Twenty-year hiatus"?
Not sure that “sceptical fringe” would apply here, but I’ll take the press where we can get it. See my comments below. – Anthony Twenty-year hiatus in rising temperatures has…
Antarctic summer effect confined to peninsula
From the British Antarctic Survey , at least they didn’t pull a Steig and try to claim the observed effect on the Peninsula affects the entire continent. The peninsula is…
Newsbytes: The Met office blunders again – warm bias in forecasting
From The GWPF and Dr. Benny Peiser Met Office Apologises For Wrong Forecast – And Makes Another One Warm Bias: The Met Office’s Disastrous Track Record Met Office apologises for…
A misinterpreted claim about a NASA press release, CO2, solar flares, and the thermosphere is making the rounds
I loathe having to write this story because I truly dislike giving any attention to the people who are known as the “slayers” from the “Slaying the Sky Dragon” book.…
Second Lewandowsky conspiracy theory paper delinked from journal
I’ve been waiting to get some confirmation on this since yesterday , and now that I have it, I can state that the link to the second Lew paper Recursive fury:…
Spencer, Ridley, and Gavin on Fox tonight
Readers may recall that Dr. Mann had an unprofessional visceral reaction to the invitation. Kudos to Dr. Gavin Schmidt for taking the invitation and to follow through with it in…
Almost Friday Funny – rotten to the core
Josh writes: Apologies for the lack of cartoons this month but I have been snowed under (!) with the day job. Even sadder when the Climate Blogosphere has had so…
McIntyre's dissection of the Cook-Lewandowsky "Lying/deceiving/incompetence" complex
You don’t need a degree in psychology to figure this one out, you simply need to be an astute observer. Steve McIntyre writes: Last fall, Geoff Chambers and Barry Woods…
Cold cities use more energy than warm cities
From the Institute of Physics , comes this piece of research that suggests all the summer energy we use on air conditioning in warm climates doesn’t compare to the energy…
Howler of the day – pure comedy gold from Greg Laden
Note to Greg, Tom Nelson found it for me, no crystal ball or Oz powers needed.
Climate Craziness of the Week – the new climate forcing
Taxes are the new climate forcing. I kid you not. From the NYT, columnist Gail Collins:
Newsbytes: Britain Blocks Climate Change From G8 Agenda
From the GWPF and Dr. Benny Peiser Climate Sceptics Promoted To Key Government Positions The UK’s lead G8 negotiator rejected moves from Germany and France to make climate change a…
TAO Rain, Sea, and Air Data
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I got to thinking about the effect of thunderstorms on the surface air temperature. So I figured I’d wander once more through the TAO buoy…
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