Bishop Hill Nov 26, 2009 Climate New Zealand Climate Science Coalition finds evidence that temperature records in that country have been adjusted to show warming. It never rains, but it pours eh?
Bishop Hill Nov 25, 2009 Willis Eschenbach, who started the Freedom of Information requests to CRU back in 2005 has a summary of his experiences up at WUWT. Truly amazing.
Bishop Hill Nov 25, 2009 Several people have written nice things about me recently. One article called me "heroic", which was very kind but perhaps excessive praise for the writing of a blog post.
James Delingpole is kind enough to refer to me as "the great Bishop Hill" which again is very flattering, but unfortunately is about a guest post written by Andrew K. I'd tell James myself, but I've never managed to get a confirmation email out of the Telegraph website so I can't post there. No doubt word will filter through.
Bishop Hill Nov 25, 2009 Climate This is a guest post by Andrew K.
There is a piece on the Guardian's Comment is Free today by one George Marshall.
The heading and strapline say it all really:
Leaked email climate smear was a PR disaster for UEA
There was no evidence of conspiracy among climate scientists in the leaked emails – so why was the University of East Anglia's response so pathetic?
According to the profile on CiF, "George Marshall is the founder and director of projects at the Climate Outreach and Information Network. He posts regularly to the blog climatedenial.org"
This set me digging.I discovered that COIN was a registered charity, so my next port of call was the Charity Commission, to have a look at their accounts.
None have yet been filed, as the organisation is newly registered: Mem and Arts were incorporated on 21st December 2007 and they were registered with the Charity Commission on 26th March 2008 (though according to their own website they were founded in 2004).
Its charitable objects are listed on the Charity Commission website as "to promote any charitable purposes at the discretion of the trustees concerning climate change and its impact".
Their objects look rather more political on their "about us" page. The contact was listed as a Mr Tim Baster of Oxford. Additionally there are two trustees.
Googling Mr Baster's name came up trumps. The buggers are getting close on £700,000 from DEFRA over two years.
According to DEFRA's press release this is to "profoundly change the attitude of rank and file union members; generating visible collective reduction action, establishing a social norm for personal action, and creating a persuasive synergy and cross over between personal action, work-placed programmes such as 'Greening the workplace', and the emissions reduction targets of employers."
Bishop Hill Nov 25, 2009 There's a petition up to encourage the government to set up a public inquiry into the CRU. Sign here.
Bishop Hill Nov 25, 2009 Climate A must-read review of Climategate by Demetris Koutsouyannis. Demetris is professor of hydrology at the University of Athens. He looks as if he has been on the receiving end of some of the Hockey Team's attempts to keep non-orthodox views out of the literature.
Bishop Hill Nov 24, 2009 Climate I've been updating the code thread. Some readers, particularly Mark (thanks Mark), have been doing a fantastic job of uncovering juicy titbits. There's some, ahem, extraordinary comments on that code. Take a look.
Bishop Hill Nov 24, 2009 Media Channel Four just did a classic foot in the mouth moment. Sniggering at `ignorant American' Glenn Beck for garbling the location of the CRU ("East Angerleer"), they became yet another in the long list of failures to falsify Muphry's law: just moments after their moment of mirth at Mr Beck's expense, they managed to interview someone called "Benny Peisner" from Liverpool John Moores University.
Bishop Hill Much rejoicing over Monbiot's apology for having meekly accepted everything the scientists had been telling him for the last twenty years. He goes as far as saying that Phil Jones should retire.
But given that Monbiot has, by his own admission, failed in his primary duty as a journalist, can his own position be very secure?
Bishop Hill Nov 24, 2009 Climate "I'm just a humble scientist trying to do research"
Phil Jones, interviewed by the BBC's Freedom of Information correspondent, Martin Rosenbaum. A second career as a stand-up comedian beckons, IMHO.
Bishop Hill Nov 23, 2009 Climate This is a new thread for updates on the analyses of the data and code freed from CRU.
Everybody, I'm sinking under weight of things to do here. I need you to post one or two line analyses of what you are finding in which bits of code. I'll transfer these to the main post as they come in. It needs to be in layman's language and to have a link to your work.
CRU code
Bishop Hill Nov 23, 2009 Climate Is this the moment when reputable climatologists start to distance themselves from the Hockey Team? Judy Curry's piece at Climate Audit was the start of it, but now Hans von Storch has called for Mann and Jones to be barred from taking part in future IPCC reviews.
Who else is brave enough? Now's the moment ladies and gentlemen.
Bishop Hill Nov 23, 2009 Climate Yes, a miracle has happened. Roger Harrabin did a piece on the CRU hack that was not a complete whitewash. It did manage to avoid most of the issues though.
UK listeners can hear it here, starting at 19 mins, 15sec.
It includes calls for a public inquiry from both sides of the debate.
Bishop Hill Nov 23, 2009 Climate It there nobody honest working at the Guardian? Nobody at all?
They have a post up there at the moment saying that there was no evidence of a conspiracy in the CRU emails, this based on the word of several of the perpetrators. I posted a response as follows:
Ah, so if Real Climate says there was no conspiracy, there was no conspiracy. The fact is, this is the same bunch of people implicated in the emails. Why should we accept their word?
There is clear evidence of conspiracy to remove from post journal editors who allowed publication of papers that questioned the "consensus". See http://www.anelegantchaos.org/cru/emails.php?eid=484&filename=1106322460.txt
I'm sorry, but this article is blatant disinformation. Truly shameful.
And now it's gone. Dissent is Deleted.
Bishop Hill Nov 23, 2009 Climate I'm still adding new email summaries to the bottom of my earlier post. If you haven't done so, you might like to check it out again.
