Monday
Feb072011
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Bishop Hill
Bishop Hill Gloves come off
Feb 7, 2011 Climate: RC Climate: Surface Ryan O'Donnell, who always seemed to be the icy cool leader of the team behind the rebuttal of the Steig et al Antarctic paper, shows that he can be pushed too far. His response to Steig's latest posting at Real Climate is a withering rebuke, the likes of which I don't think I have ever seen before.
It's up at Climate Audit and WUWT. Take your pick.
Reader Comments (58)
I liked this comment on WUWT from 'stupidboy':
"Historians of science will be savage when they come to write about the disingenuous conspiricies surrounding AGW and its proponents, especially if they’re having to write by candlelight in the freezing cold because the wind isn’t blowing."
some comedy (off topic)
Super model - jet lagged from all the flying she is doing to fight global warming..
http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/christensen_says_she_flies_too_much_to_stop_global_warming/
It'll be interesting to see if climate science can put it's own house in order after this.
....and they think it's a communication thing.... <rolleyes>
I find it quite remarkable that a peer reviewer on an articleX (author Ryan O'Donell, RO10) ,article which is a critique on another articleY (S09 , author Eric Steig) , is actually the author of articleY ??
tell me this is a joke
Who "organised" the allocation of the peer reviewers in this case?
Of course AuthorY should be involved in the peer review process, but as an outsider who answers questions , in the open, for all to read. Not as a protegee insider who makes life difficult for AuthorX...
What does Paul Nurse think about this .. James Delingpole..Susan Watts.. Horizon & the march of the BBC dunces..
I am sure that Bob Ward travelled to Norway confident he had the answer to all the AGW problems that they are there to discuss.
Jolly good show by Steig, to give them something fresh to justify their travel costs and carbon foot print.
Presumably the Team are hoping that Fred Pearce will again paraphrase his reports, because the actual facts are too damning, this time
As a hobby, I write and publish fiction, mostly Irish Fairy Tales. However, I have been involved in several main stream fiction efforts and I tell you that a plot based on this crap would never make it -- nobody would believe it. Not even Ewings of the old Dallas TV series could come up with such outrageous skulduggery as is reported above.
This was a fun read, mostly because I believe that the situation will correct itself as it has many times in the past. This is just another replay of the Trofim Denisovich Lysenko travesty. This is just another example of when politics and religion gets involved into science.
"The reason academic politics are so vicious is because the stakes are so small." -- attributed to Henry Kissinger but I think I heard it elsewhere decades ago.
crusty
well kissinger is decades old. if not centuries.