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Bishop Hill
Bishop Hill HSI - big in Hawaii
Aug 2, 2010 Books Climate: HSI Another review from the Pacific - this time from the Hawaii Reporter, an online newspaper.
...deserves a prominent place in your library.
Reader Comments (21)
Thats extremely encouraging. And there is another new and significant endorsement, introducing the Judith Curry intervention, here:
http://www.examiner.com/x-9111-Environmental-Policy-Examiner~y2010m7d30-The-Burning-Woman-Festival-of-Global-Warming-Step-up-to-the-stake-Ms-Curry?cid=exrss-Environmental-Policy-Examiner
Ive felt from the start this book is destined to be one of the classics of science.
Another excellent and deserved review. It's going global.
A thorougly engaging read from cover to cover. HSI is a primer in paleoclimatology, the perfect read for a newbie wanting to understand the debate.
Those folks who've taken to critiquing the book without cracking its spine assume too much. Your treatment, while sympathetic to McIntyre, cannot be characterized as "piling on" the Team. I would (and will) encourage folks from both side of the debate to invest the money and time.
Bravo
Abslourely wonderful for you Andrew Montford, your family at home, and your family out here.
I honestly believe that this book, your book, is destined to have an honoured place in our history. Things happen slowly. There are so many appropriate quotations to place here and some are quoted frequently as is this one from Gandhi;
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.” – Mahatma Gandhi
this one:
I never guess. It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts. — Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Scandal in Bohemia
And one final one for now:
Respect those who seek the truth, be wary of those who claim to have found it." - Mark Twain
It is getting to be pretty obvious that the so called scientists behind this appaling scam that they are getting more and more desperate by the day.
I have said before, stay strong all of us, confound the so called "scientists" and their supporters and you and we will see them crumble.
We will dance on their (metaphorical) graves.
I salute you.
Peter Walsh
Phew.
Followed the link given by Pharos to the Judith Curry comments, and then some links from that to others etc. etc. - you get the point.
I was, frankly, shocked at the vitriol that has been unleashed at her. On one blog, my 50th comment followed 49 proponents of AGW. I'm not sure how the 'scientific' world (the irony is that ten years ago I would never have thought to put that in quotes) is viewing her current stance, but the rabid AGW's appear to regard her as a quisling.
So, well done Judith, keep up the good work of bringing science back to where I will never again think of putting quotes around the word 'scientist'.
Just my 2 cents..
That could have (and should have) been written to read better, but I'm sure you will decrypt it just fine.
OK. One more post and I'll leave you all alone.
How does one register in order to login?
If it is hidden in plain sight then I declare myself beaten.
congrats bish -
wonder what the following say!
Плохие времена для "потепленцев"
inoСМИ.Ru - 2 days ago
На прошлой неделе Эндрю Монтфорд (Andrew Montford), автор книги "Иллюзия хоккейной клюшки: Климатгейт и коррупция в науке" (The Hockey Stick Illusion ...
http://www.inosmi.ru/world/20100801/161737142.html
Les techniques des carbocentristes
Chrétienté.info - 4 days ago
La semaine dernière, Andrew Montford, auteur de The Hockey Stick Illusion: Climategate and the Corruption of Science, a révélé sur son blog (Bishop Hill ...
http://www.chretiente.info/201007295900/les-techniques-des-carbocentristes/
I wonder where they got the review copy, being that HSI is so hard to get in America? But no matter, the beat goes on.
Now maybe someone will start printing it in the colonies.
Good Show!
pat:
It seems they're both translations of Christopher Booker's "Desperate days for the warmists". I do like translator Benoît Rittaud's coining of carbocentristes as a translation of 'warmists' however!
"OK. One more post and I'll leave you all alone.
How does one register in order to login?
If it is hidden in plain sight then I declare myself beaten."
August 2, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterDennis
Me to Dennis!
BTW, Congrats Bish! You will soon no longer need the "Oil Money" ;-)
Maybe this is not the correct place for this but here is an example of climate science being undertaken correctly http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/08/02/arctic_treering_cooling_research/ as well as going against what passes for 'normal' climate science thinking.
Alarms win headlines quickly, and of course disturb us. Alarmism thrives on this fact.
Good sense and careful analyses gain attention more slowly and with more difficulty.
So the Hockey-Stick got pushed and promoted with astonishing success, another triumph for the plotters within and around the IPCC.
While the Hockey Stick Illusion has had no such easy ride, no massive PR-machine to push it. No Society of 'Environmental' 'Journalists' to sing its praises.
But it is getting there. Excellent reviews on Amazon were but the start. Now we have seen several in the printed and online media that are giving the book some of the credit it deserves, and some, like the one from Hawaii, pack a punch or two of their own.
The political denouement of the 'climate workers' (some days I cannot bring myself to call them scientists) who produced and promoted the hockey-stick is surely coming closer. As the man says on Instapundit, 'Faster Please!'.
It's still a great read, and more people should read it to understand the background. It's a fine testament to the Bishop's skill that so many reviews describe it as a page turner. Don't usually see that for science books and if we did, maybe more people would read them. Also like the Stieg Larsson comparison quote :)
I've added a link to your book in my sidebar. Great to see your book is doing well.
P Gosselin
Thanks!
pat those articles are both just translations of this article by Christopher Booker.
An excellent review of an excellent book, he has obviously read it carefully. He doesn't mince his words does he. Real straight from the shoulder stuff. Most refreshing..
Bishop,
Steve McIntyre (posted Aug 3, 2010 at 1:09 PM) just gave you a nice compliment under the blog The No-Dendro Illusion:
"There’s obviously a longstanding need for observations made in real time to be packaged for people that don’t want to wade through the threads. If I could clone myself, I would do so. I’m sorry about that, but I have only so much time and energy and most of it goes into topical posts. Some of these episodes have been written up, even in books – see The Hockey Stick Illusion, The CRUTape Letters, The Climate Files. The Tiljander episode would make a nice piece for another Andrew Montford or Montford-style essay along the lines of Caspar and the Jesus Paper, if and when he ever gets time."
I have just bought the book and have been riveted to it ever since, usually burning the midnight oil way past my bedtime! What a great story. I'll be passing it round as soon as I have finished it. Thanks AM - do M&M get any royalties or do I have to go to Climate Audit to make a donation?
Some Guy -
thanx for explaining...