But how do we actually know, and how much do we actually know, about historic and prehistoric temperatures? In this Climate Discussion Nexus “Backgrounder” video John Robson examines the uses,…
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Climate Audit: IPCC AR6 is Worse than you Thought
Steve McIntyre is at it again, dissecting questionable climate science. If you thought Michael Mann’s original climate hockeystick was interesting, with its intriguing apparent use of upside down proxies and…
Climate scientists’ motivated reasoning
Reposted from Dr. Curry’s Climate Etc. Posted on June 19, 2019 by curryja by Judith Curry Insights into the motivated reasoning of climate scientists, including my own efforts to sort…
Hot news, evolution cools!
Steve McIntyre has the scoop: According to the University of Victoria, Andrew Weaver says: the next generation of his climate model will address the influence of climate on human evolution—much like it’s…
On data losses -vs- geography in Cowtan and Way 2013: data dropout may account for most of the recent observed differences
At Climate Audit, Roman M. has a very interesting analysis that shows the surface grid cell losses from HadCRUT4 in C&W. It hones in on the issue of why the…
97% Undercooked uncertainty
Roman Murieka has a great statistical analysis of the Cook ‘consensus’ paper over at Climate Audit. There’s a surprise result:
The Stokes-Kaufman contamination protocol – a 'sticky' wicket
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…
Saturday Silliness: Tamino aka Grant Foster fracks himself
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…
McIntyre charges Grant Foster aka "Tamino" with plagiarism in a Dot Earth discussion
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…
Introducing the anti-hockey stick – 'The Scythe"
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…
Marcott's hockey stick uptick mystery – it didn't used to be there
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…
About Climate Audit
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…
McIntyre's triumph over Gergis, Karoly, and Mann
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…
Questions on the CRU email backup server.
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:…
McIntyre on Lewandowsky’s Fake Correlation
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.…
New isotope based temperature reconstruction using McIntyre's 'Starbucks hypothesis' tree core samples
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…
Josh's livetooning of Steve McIntyre's talk in London
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.
Backstory on the new surfacestations paper
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…
More on Koutsoyiannis and the homogenization of temperature data – plus some comments on blog review
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…
Another paper refutes the Mann made hockey stick – MWP was ≈1°C warmer than current temperatures
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…
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