Thanks to Ron Cram’s link to a Guardian article: “Climate consensus under strain”. You can read it in its entirety but I thought I’d post a few comments from various writers and open it up for discussion. Here is the roundtable question: We ask a range of experts: what damage has been done by recent […]
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Anatomy of a Story: Africagate
February 7, 2010 
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There’s a new IPCC “gate du jour” circulating in the blogosphere. It’s called “Africagate”. Here’s the bottom line: there is continuing debate about the effects of global warming on Africa. It’s a large continent and current research and modeling suggests that some areas will benefit from warming and increased rainfall and others will experience increased […]
Continue readingLies, Damned Lies and Statistics
February 6, 2010 4 Comments
I’ve always been a fan of Mark Twain and Benjamin Disraeli, and this is one of the first concepts we learned in University level statistics course. It’s interesting to see how people play with statistics, using them to make claims that those in the know can tell are really deceitful. Let’s look at an example […]
Continue readingSanter – Douglass Smackdown/Matchup
February 4, 2010 50 Comments
ETA: I’ve revised the headline to reflect that this is still … still … still ongoing as we are waiting for Douglass et all to provide a peer-reviewed reply. ~~~~ Yet another chapter in the continuing saga “As the Denialists Spin” for your reading enjoyment: Here’s a copy of the Douglass and Christy et al article […]
Continue readingMann Exonerated
February 3, 2010 13 Comments
Penn State issued the findings of its inquiry into the conduct of Dr.Michael Mann in response to allegations raised by the CRU Email hack/leak. The inquiry investigated four allegations: 1. Did you engage in, or participate in, directly or indirectly, any actions with the intent to suppress or falsify data? 2. Did you engage in, […]
Continue readingMore Questionable IPCC Sources
January 30, 2010 48 Comments
Now, this is really silly… According to a report in the Telegraph, the IPCC AR4 included references to a climber’s magazine article and an MA Thesis to support its claims about glacier loss and global warming impacts. The IPCC WG2 report, Chapter 1, Section 3.2 on “Observed effects due to changes in the cryosphere cites […]
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