Bishop Hill Apr 19, 2010 Climate: Sceptics Media This is a guest post by Barry Woods.
The number of people contributing to online climate change articles and the various blogs has shot up since the Climategate story broke. One strategy for dealing with sceptics, seen on a 'climate change' lobby group website, might explain why.
Bishop Hill Apr 18, 2010 Climate: Curry Judith Curry has set the cat among the pigeons, posting once again at RealClimate. Her points are all rather exciting for me:
there are people making politically motivated attacks against climate research (Marc Morano and Myron Ebell come immediately to mind). And then there are people questioning many aspects of climate research and the IPCC process and making arguments based upon evidence (e.g. Steve McIntyre, Andrew Montford).
Bishop Hill Apr 18, 2010 Climate: Oxburgh One vindication looks like good fortune. Two vindications look like a careful arrangement.
Adapted from an idea by reader, Bob Layson, in the comments.
Bishop Hill Apr 18, 2010 Climate: Curry Climate: Oxburgh Judy Curry continues her tireless efforts to bring down abuse on herself from all sides.;-) I'm reproducing her comments from the earlier thread here because they are important and because they seem to be attracting some interest around the blogosphere. Real Climate's Gavin Schmidt has weighed in here with a typically robust response.
The primary frustration with these investigations is that they are dancing around the principal issue that people care about: the IPCC and its implications for policy. Focusing only on CRU activities (which was the charge of the Oxbourgh panel) is of interest mainly to UEA and possibly the politics of UK research funding (it will be interesting to see if the U.S. DOE sends any more $$ to CRU).
Bishop Hill Apr 18, 2010 Climate: other Swedish mathematician Claes Johnson has some interesting criticisms of one of the basic postulates of the AGW hypothesis. The earlier articles he cites seem to be worth checking out too.
Bishop Hill Apr 18, 2010 Climate: CA Climate: Oxburgh Climate: Sceptics With George Monbiot backing out of Climategate reporting in disgust, the reins at the Guardian seem to have been handed over to Robin McKie, the science editor, who weighs in today with an amusing piece entitled "Doubt climate change - just don't deny it".
Bishop Hill Apr 17, 2010 Climate: Russell David Holland writes with the latest update on the bizarre attempts by the Russell inquiry to withhold publication of his evidence.
The Russell ICCER emailed me again yesterday. Unfortunately I left early this morning and was not able to report this until now.
Dear Mr Holland,
Thank you for your reply.
Bishop Hill Apr 17, 2010 Readers may be interested in this conversation, which was overheard recently in the Reform Club in London. The speaker appeared to be a senior civil servant..
Bishop Hill Apr 16, 2010 Climate: Oxburgh Over the course of the day I've made several telephone calls to the Royal Society, without being able to get a response to the simple question of who it was within their ranks who selected the eleven CRU papers for Lord Oxburgh's panel to examine. These papers, you will remember "were selected on the advice of the Royal Society".
Just after 4pm I finally got through to the person responsible and seconds later an emailed response arrived as well. This was fortuitous because I was able to ask some questions on the contents.
Bishop Hill Apr 16, 2010 Climate: other Matt Ridley makes the very interesting observation that, the skies being clear of contrails for the next couple of days, we should be in for some nocturnal cooling.
Bishop Hill Apr 16, 2010 Climate: Oxburgh Royal Society Steve McIntyre has followed up on the intriguing question of who selected the eleven papers for the Oxburgh panel to assess.
Oxburgh didn’t disclose how they selected their supposedly “representative” and “fair sample”. “Fair sample” and “representative” are statistical terms – terms were used in a report coauthored by a very senior professional statistician in a context where statistics are very much at issue. So I presume that the Royal Society took some care to ensure that the eleven publications actually were “representative” and a “fair sample” – and not ones that were pre-selected by UEA, rather than the Royal Society.
Bishop Hill Apr 15, 2010 Climate: other FOI Doug Keenan has won his long battle to force Queen's University Belfast to release their tree ring data to him. Another long story of university academics blocking legitimate requests and flouting the law, apparently with impunity.
Full story here.
Bishop Hill Apr 15, 2010 Climate: HSI Media Does anyone else find it a bit odd that almost all of my big media appearances have been in what would generally be considered left-wing outlets?
There have been citations in right wing outlets - Spectator, Telegraph, and so on - but the interviews and reviews have all come from the left. Isn't that strange?
Bishop Hill Apr 15, 2010 Climate: Surface John Graham-Cumming, who found what appeared to be an error in HADCRUT a couple of months ago, has had confirmation from the Met Office that his observations are correct. The effect is relatively minor, narrowing the error bands slightly IIRC, but it is another powerful demonstration of the power of audit.
Bishop Hill Apr 15, 2010 Climate: CRU Climate: HSI The link for the live debate is here. Unfortunately my login information hasn't arrived yet. I hope this gets sorted in the near future!
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Wow, that was pretty intense. Do you know, the time I put in in my first job learning to touch-type came in really handy there.
I think that was OK.
