I don’t often have open threads as there is quite a lot of slippage in threads on my blog due to very open moderation policy. There are a number of issues around the climate blogosphere: I note that McIntyre is bashing on about the UAE and the statute of limitations. WUWT is on about a […]
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One of these things is not like the other…
October 19, 2010 
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I’ve been away from blogging for quite a while, but I still read the climate blogs with relish. There have been a number of issues raised that almost drew me back, but this one clinched it. This post is still in progress and will be added to over the next few days as I get […]
Continue readingStation Drop Outs and Other Skeptic Tales
August 20, 2010 33 Comments
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 […]
Continue readingThe Hockey Schtick
August 19, 2010 33 Comments
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 […]
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The Policy Lass 
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