BBC has an article up titled “Climate data “not well organized”. Here’s an excerpt: Phil Jones, the professor behind the “Climategate” affair, has admitted some of his decades-old weather data was not well enough organised. He said this contributed to his refusal to share raw data with critics – a decision he says he regretted.
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Independent Inquiry Into Climate Emails — News
February 11, 2010 
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Here’s a bit of a news roundup concerning the Independent Review. According to an article in The Guardian, the ICCER will not “audit” the scienific conclusions of the CRU scientists and their work. It will instead focus on issues relating to the alleged abuses of power made against them based on the CRU emails. Here’s […]
Continue readingPost-Normal or a return to normal?
February 11, 2010 4 Comments
Note: This post is a work in progress. Expect some revision as the time goes by. ~~~ Some interesting discussions around the climate blogosphere re: post-normal science. Watts Up With That has a guest post by Jerome Ravetz himself titled: “Climategate: Plausibility and the blogosphere in the post-normal age”. Here is an excerpt: Climategate is […]
Continue readingThe Guardian — Climate Scrum: Document on the CRU Emails
February 9, 2010 41 Comments
The Guardian is creating a public document letting anyone who wants, anonymously or not, edit it. In a unique experiment, The Guardian has published online the full manuscript of its major investigation into the climate science emails stolen from the University of East Anglia, which revealed apparent attempts to cover up flawed data; moves to prevent […]
Continue readingTrolls, drawing and quartering, and other vexatious characters
February 9, 2010 16 Comments
A bit of a roundup of interesting posts of late: An interesting post over at Rabett Run — one of my favorite parts of the climate briar patch — reposting Jorg Zimmerman’s post on the nature of trolls, and in particular “concern trolls”. Here is an excerpt: In internet jargon, there is the English term […]
Continue readingInteresting Note on the FOIs
February 8, 2010 8 Comments
Eli Rabett has a great post over at Rabett Run on the FOI requests and the CRU data issue. Here, for old time’s sake, is the link to the CA thread on the CRU data, in which Steve McIntyre urges people to issue FOI requests for confidentiality agreements. Here is McI: Let me review the […]
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