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Curry: The torque hypothesis 21 Aug 2013 | 07:29 am
Judith Curry has an interesting post. One of Curry important contributions has been her recognition and articulation that the IPCC ‘torques’ the playing field for science. Those new almost never manag...
Lewandowsky: Backdating 4 Aug 2013 | 03:27 am
Steve McIntyre has a post on the Lewandowsky affair. It is a key one and a summary might be useful. The notorious ‘Fury’ paper from the Lewandowsky group is in chronic ‘temporary withdrawal’¹. The ‘Mo...
Nonsense from Carbon Brief: the briefest of examples 18 Jul 2013 | 09:16 am
I watched with interest this video posted at Bishop Hill. The occasion is a hearing by a UK Commons committee where seated next to Andrew Montford was a representative from ‘Carbon Brief‘. The person ...
David Rose and the deep ocean PCC complaint 6 Jul 2013 | 09:10 am
I have almost never written on the science of global warming. The depth of pseudoscience and absurd nonsense to which the global temperature question has sunk to is mind-boggling. Take a look at this ...
Why the Cook paper is bunk: Part II 16 Jun 2013 | 05:30 pm
In the Cook group paper, the degree of acceptance of a ‘consensus’ in climate literature is measured. Here, I address a simple question that has hovered around the paper from the time it made its appe...
Why the Cook paper is bunk: Part I 8 Jun 2013 | 11:30 pm
In the Cook group paper, the ‘authors’ measure the degree of acceptance of a ‘consensus’ in climate literature. Remarkably enough, this is what they find: From 1991 to 2011, the fractions of papers ac...
The stuff that makes up the 97% of the consensus 5 Jun 2013 | 05:29 pm
Shown below is an abstract volunteers in the Cook 97% study read. NO is a key mediator of hypoxic vasodilation, but the precise role of RBC Hb remains controversial. In addition to established theorie...
Why the GWPF clicks 29 May 2013 | 11:06 am
The Global Warming Policy Foundation is pretty cool. This is Benny Peiser setting the ground for its discussion with the Royal Society: Integrity, openness and objectivity need to be introduced to the...
Cook et al 2013: Flawed search means ‘landmark study’ is incomplete 27 May 2013 | 04:18 pm
In a self-publicized Environmental Research Letters paper, Cook et al claim to have performed a climate consensus-hunting literature survey they call “the most comprehensive of its kind” using “the la...
The Consensus Project 19 May 2013 | 08:06 pm
A lot of hard work went into it, no doubt. The mountain has laboured and brought forth a mouse. Many venues have already written about the Cook et al Consensus project. The thing is, you can completel...
