The Smoking Code, part 2

Climategate Code Analysis Part 2 From Cube Antics, by Robert Greiner There are three common issues that have been raised in my previous post that I would like to officially…

Improved dendroclimatology techniques may help end climatic speculation related to tree ring analysis

For all the hubub surrounding Dr. Michael Mann’s hockey stick, the MWP, and throwing out data past 1960 because it didn’t seem to calibrate against the instrumental record, here is…

Scientists behaving badly – part 2

Viewers won’t remember but one thing about this interview: that a UEA scientist called a skeptic an “assh*le” on live television. It reveals just how rattled they are there at…

UK Met Office to release data and code

While this is encouraging news, releasing a subset will fuel some suspicion. A better choice would be to release the entire set. It may be too little, too late, the…

The Weekly Standard: Scientists Behaving Badly

An excellent summary and editorial, well worth the read. Note that Hayward apparently reads WUWT, as he references the “CRUtape Letters”, first published here after being coined by Steve Mosher.…

UK Met office announces a do-over: entire global temperature series – 160 years worth

Quite a bit different from their November 24th statement, which you can read here. For those that still think Climategate has no significant impact on  climate science, this revelation tells…

Climategate: CRU looks to "big oil" for support

One of the favorite put-downs from people who think they have the moral high ground in the climate debate is to accuse skeptics with this phrase: “You are nothing but…

Houston: we have a problem – it's snowing!

From the “it’s weather not climate department” – I never thought I’d see this today on the header of the Houston Chronicle: The snow is the earliest on record. Of…

Gropenhagen: Prostitutes Offer Free Climate Summit Sex

You just can’t make this stuff up. The Hookers Union fights back. MORE NEWS FROM COPENHAGEN – – Prostitutes Offer Free Climate Summit Sex Copenhagen Mayor Ritt Bjerregaard sent postcards…

A devastating response to "There's nothing to see here, move along"

Guest post by John A The usual armwaving denial that we should not trust our own lying eyes was delivered by a Harvard Professor in the Boston Globe: James McCarthy,…

Climategate: The Smoking Code

NOTE: Part 2 of this story has been posted: see The Smoking Code, part 2 The Proof Behind the CRU Climategate Debacle: Because Computers Do Lie When Humans Tell Them To…

Jo Nova finds the Medieval Warm Period

From Jo Nova a look at how the MWP looks when other data is used, not just a few trees in Yamal. These maps and graphs make it clear just…

"You wouldn't accept that at a grade 9 science fair…" – CBC finds a moment of clarity on Climategate

Wow, just wow. What an editorial. The CBC’s Rex Murphy on Climategate. h/t to WUWT reader David Davidovics

Some posts of interest

So much is being written about Climategate and the fallout from it, it is tough to cover it all. Here I’m just going to point out a coupe of posts…

If I had a subscription to Nature, I'd cancel it

It is really too bad that I don’t have a subscription. I’m a bit late to commenting on this editorial that appeared in Nature magazine yesterday, but I feel it…

ClimateGate: So, where's the "Oh, Snap!" email?

Guest post by Christopher Horner, Planet Gore at National Review Online One thing about “ClimateGate” nagging at the back of my mind is the absence of any discussion by ringleader…

Gore cancels on Copenhagen lecture – leaves ticketholders in a lurch

It seems the uncertainty about Copenhagen is growing. When Al baby pulls the plug, you know it’s hosed. From Berlingske: Al Gore cancels lecture during COP15 Former U.S. vice president…

Mann throws Jones under the bus

It has started – the infighting begins in the court of public opinion. Climategate: Phil Jones accused of making error of judgment by colleague Here’s an excerpt: One of the…

Climategate external review chair picked

from the BBC Sir Muir Russell will head an independent review into the e-mails leaked from the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) in Norwich, UK. Sir Muir, a former civil servant,…

Climate Science's PR disaster

From Steve McIntyre’s hometown newspaper: Academic spats, name-calling, data-massaging and cozy peer review by friends are not exactly rare in the world of science. You’ll find them anywhere that careers,…

CSIRO climate researcher resigns rather than be censored

From news.com.au it seems bullying those who have an unpopular opinion about climate issues isn’t limited to the Climategate actors. Clive Spash resigns from CSIRO after climate report ‘censorship’ SCIENTIST…

NOAA launches new website: climate.gov

While still carrying the label “Development Prototype”, the website looks mostly functional. www.climate.gov It is the effort of the new NOAA Climate Services division – your tax dollars at work. …

UAH global temperature anomaly for November, up again

From the “WUWT never reports warm events” department: After a drop last month, this is not unexpected, given the time of year. With an El Nino present the tropics and…

Michael Mann Responds to Climategate Allegations

This video from the AccuWeather website. Since Dr. Mann is in the same city, it is easy for them to get an interview, which they did.