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Lewandowsky’s Backdating 2 Aug 2013 | 07:19 am
In today’s post, I want to discuss Lewandowsky’s backdating of the blogpost in which he purported to “out” four skeptics, a claim that he re-iterated and embellished in a subsequent academic article, ...
Guy Callendar vs the GCMs 26 Jul 2013 | 11:21 pm
As many readers have already surmised, the “GCM-Q” model that visually out-performed the Met Office CMIP5 contribution (HadGEM2) originated with Guy Callendar, and, in particular, Callendar 1938 (QJRM...
Results from a Low-Sensitivity Model 22 Jul 2013 | 01:04 am
Anti-lukewarmers/anti-skeptics have a longstanding challenge to lukewarmers and skeptics to demonstrate that low-sensitivity models can account for 20th century temperature history as well as high-sen...
Met Office Hindcast 20 Jul 2013 | 01:47 am
In a recent post, I noted the discrepancy between the UK Met OFfice contribution to IPCC AR5 and observations (as many others have observed), a discrepancy that is also evident in the “initialized” de...
More Met Office Hypocrisy 18 Jul 2013 | 12:27 am
In yesterday’s post, I observed that Nature’s recent news article on Met Office decadal forecasts failed to show the most recent Met Office decadal forecast and that its inclusion would not have permi...
Nature Hides the Decline 15 Jul 2013 | 07:13 pm
Earlier this year, David Whitehouse of GWPF drew attention to a striking decrease in the UK Met Office decadal temperature forecast, that had been quietly changed by the Met Office on Christmas Eve. W...
Paul Nurse and his Big Boy Pants 13 Jul 2013 | 11:44 pm
As a change from my Briffa reconsideration, I was intrigued by the recent correspondence between Nigel Lawson and Paul Nurse, President of the Royal Society, discussed from time to time at Bishop Hill...
Evasions and Fantasy at Real Climate 10 Jul 2013 | 09:29 pm
Several readers have asked me to respond to recent comments about me at Real Climate: briefly, Osborn has made one misrepresentation after another and made statements with seemingly complete indiffere...
Treeline Changes and Altitude Inhomogeneity 7 Jul 2013 | 11:23 pm
The apparent inconsistency of ring width chronologies with analysis of changes in treeline elevation has long been an issue that I’ve urged specialists to address. Unfortunately Briffa et al 2013 fail...
CRU Abandons Yamal Superstick 29 Jun 2013 | 03:05 am
Unreported by CRU is that they’ve resiled from the Yamal superstick of Briffa 2000 and Briffa et al 2008 and now advocate a Yamal chronology, the modern portion of which is remarkably similar to the c...