The growth of the technical skeptical blogosphere (pioneered by Steve McIntyre) has challenged traditional notions of expertise, i.e. credentials and sanctity of journal publications, through Climate Audit’s blogospheric deconstruction of…
Tag: Keith Briffa
The truth about 'We have to get rid of the medieval warm period'
In the thread Intelligence and the hockey stick commenter “Robert” challenged a well known quote about the MWP from 2006 by Dr. David Deming in his statement before the Senate EPW…
A hilarious view of Climategate I've never read before
Scientific understanding and faith simultaneously on display: ‘For climatologists, the search for an irrefutable “sign” of anthropogenic warming has assumed an almost Biblical intensity.’ – Fred Pearce, New Scientist, October…
Hey Ya! (mal) McIntyre was right – CRU Abandons one tree Yamal Superstick
This must be personally satisfying for Steve McIntyre, though I doubt the folks at RealClimate will have the integrity to acknowledge that he was right, and they were wrong. It…
Mann's hockey stick disappears – and CRU's Briffa helps make the MWP live again by pointing out bias in the data
Shock, awe. Untruncated and unspliced data used in a new paper from Briffa and Melvin at UEA restores the Medieval Warm Period while at the same time disappears Mann’s hockey…
Make your own Michael Mann hockey stick at home
Following yesterday’s first look at emails from the 2 year effort to get NOAA to release emails from FOIA requests, where we learn that some scientists felt ‘Hit on the…
The sum of Yamal is greater than its parts
This post will be a sticky top post for a day or two, new stories will appear below this one. Climategate Continues By Andrew Montford & Harold Ambler May 24,…
A first hand report on Dr. Michael Mann's embarrassing Disneyland episode
Elevated from a comment. Roger Sowell describes first hand what led up to Mann denying a TV interview about his work. Apparently, for Dr. Mann, Disneyland is not “the happiest…
The question put to Dr. Mann at Disneyland today
UPDATE: 12:55PM Dr. Mann ducks a TV station reporter who requested an interview afterwards, see below. Steve McIntyre recently published a new graph on his website Climate Audit. Alerted to…
Chronology: CRU's Yamal Deception
I’ve already made my case for the Yamal deception by CRU previously on WUWT, and my suspicions were confirmed by the shonky behavior of Dr. Michael Mann, who can’t even…
An example of a different ethos when you have access to private documents
While many websites are deriding me for my mentions in the Fakegate emails distributed by Dr. Peter Gleick, and many now (including Dr. Gavin Schmidt) are coming down on Dr.…
Editorial – In support of Dr. Michael Mann and open debate
UPDATE: Lubos Motl has a poll running on whether this is the right stance to take or not. Feel free to take it here – Anthony This is an editorial…
FOI victory against Phil Jones, CRU, and UEA
Excerpts from Bishop Hill: A major FOI victory This post is a jointly written effort by myself and Don Keiller. Readers may remember the Information Commissioner’s ruling last year that UEA…
Mann of the people
Tom Nelson spots another Climategate zinger. Email 2743, Sept 2009, Michael “Robust Debate” Mann: “So far, we’ve simply deleted all of the attempts by McIntyre and his minions to draw…
The behind the scenes bumbling of the hockey stick
Mann oh Mann. Tom Nelson continues to wade through the 5000+ Climategate 2 emails. I’ve selected a few he’s highlighted in the vein of behind the scenes discussion of Dr.…
Mann hockey stick co-author Bradley: "it may be that Mann et al simply don't have the long-term trend right"
Tom Nelson spots a gem in the Climategate 2 emails: Hockey stick co-author Ray Bradley: “it may be that Mann et al simply don’t have the long-term trend right”; “I…
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 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…
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…
Climategate 2 email – Rob Wilson replicates McIntyre & McKitrick – produces hockey sticks out of noise
Reader Crosspatch writes in comments: 4241.txt is where Briffa Rob Wilson apparently believes he recreates what McIntyre is talking about the hockey stick showing up no matter what data you…
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