One of the main accusations made by skeptics is that the temperature record is unreliable. Besides their focus on destroying the hockey stick graph and paleoclimate reconstructions, skeptics/contrarians and denialists alike have insinuated and outright claimed that the record has been corrupted, biased outright or by default, via invalid adjustments, homogenizations, and by the drop […]
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The Hockey Schtick
August 19, 2010 
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The hockey stick controversy is what drew me to climate science and here I am, several years later, still watching the skeptic blogs debate it and trying to break it as if it is a proxy for the whole issue of global warming. This recent paper by McShane and Wyner is a case in point. […]
Continue readingCurry curries no favour
August 17, 2010 23 Comments
Judith Curry has co-authored a new paper published in PNAS titled “Accelerated warming of the Southern Ocean and its impacts on the hydrological cycle and sea ice”. You can read a copy at her website. Hat tip to SteveF over at Rabett Run. I obtained a copy of it (yeah I paid $10) and have […]
Continue readingThe Eternal Return
August 15, 2010 41 Comments
Apparently, the hockey stick debate has been finally laid to rest, at least according to WTFIUWT. This is why I refuse to label some people as “skeptics’ – a true skeptic hasn’t already decided and is now only looking for evidence to support their position. They don’t latch onto every new paper that comes out […]
Continue readingWeekend Roundup – August 14, 2010
August 14, 2010 0 Comments
There’s so much gold on them thar climate blogs, whether climate science or denialist/skeptic, that a poor policy lass can hardly keep up! However, there were a few choice tidbits that I wanted to note. I read a lot of blogs, daily and some less often, and here is a round up of my response […]
Continue readingDeniersberggate, Molehills and other Denialist Amuse Bouche
August 8, 2010 25 Comments
Sometimes, you have to laugh or you’ll poke your eyes out with a rusty spork… I thought that, for fun, I’d do a bit of a summary of posts I found amusing, in the funny or satirical or farcical sense. My top two climate science “skeptic” bloggers, Anthony Watts and Steven McIntyre, provide much material. […]
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