Archives for June, 2010
Deep Climate on McIntyre’s trick
Posted by Tim Lambert on June 29, 2010 Deep Climate investigates Steve McIntyre’s claim that, in the IPCC TAR, Michael Mann used a “trick” to “hide the decline” in Briffa’s tree-ring proxy. You will be shocked, just shocked, to discover that: So, once again, the accusation that Mann “truncated” or “chopped off” the data set is proven to be utterly false.
Open Thread 50
Posted by Tim Lambert on June 25, 2010 Special half century edition.
Climate Denial Crock on stolen CRU emails
Posted by Tim Lambert on June 23, 2010 Peter Sinclair’s latest video is a wrap on the stolen CRU emails
Leakegate: Corrections needed from …
Posted by Tim Lambert on June 21, 2010 Following the Sunday Times‘s retraction of the fraudulent Jonathan Leake story, there are a whole bunch of people who relied on Leake’s story that would seem to need to make corrections. Most notably, The Australian reprinted Leake’s story, so you’d think they’d have to retract too, but you never know with The Australian. But there’s…
Sunday Times shamed by bogus Jonathan Leake story, retracts it
Posted by Tim Lambert on June 20, 2010 Kudos to Simon Lewis for forcing a retraction from the Sunday Times of the bogus Jonathan Leake story: The Sunday Times and the IPCC: Correction The article “UN climate panel shamed by bogus rainforest claim” (News, Jan 31) stated that the 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report had included an “unsubstantiated claim” that…
McIntyre’s trick
Posted by Tim Lambert on June 18, 2010 Steve McIntyre claims: One version of the trick is used in IPCC TAR. In this version, Mann replaced post-1960 values of the Briffa reconstruction with instrumental values, then did a smooth, then truncated the Briffa reconstruction back to 1960. Post-1960 instrumental values affected the smooth by the arithmetic of the smoothing filter. Steven Mosher claims…
Mike Hulme says Lawrence Solomon story was phoney
Posted by Tim Lambert on June 16, 2010 In his latest column Lawrence Solomon misrepresented an article by Mike Hulme, claiming that Hulme wrote that the IPCC consensus was phoney. Of course it was Solomon’s story that was phony, as Hulme explained: “I did not say the ‘IPCC misleads’ anyone – it is claims that are made by other commentators, such as the…
Africa Not Fighting Malaria
Posted by Tim Lambert on June 13, 2010 Ed Darrell has been looking at what Africa Fighting Malaria spends its money on: Looking at the IRS Form 990s for the organization from 2003 through 2008 (which is organized in both the U.S. and South Africa), it seems to me that the major purpose of AFM is to pay Roger Bate about $100,000 a…
How to figure out what the stolen CRU emails mean
Posted by Tim Lambert on June 9, 2010 Steve Mosher and Steve McIntyre have alleged that the stolen CRU emails prove that Keith Briffa had violated IPCC rules in when working on the 4th Assessment Report. They can’t point to any particular IPCC rule and rely on a creative interpretation of an email from Jonathan Overpeck, which Mosher claims means that Briffa “should…
Blogging on climate change – a job for the brave
Posted by Tim Lambert on June 6, 2010 CSIRO’s ECOS magazine has published an article on climate blogging by Graeme Readfern. Featured are Deltoid, Skeptical Science and Climate Shifts. Hat tip: Ove Hoegh-Guldberg.