Yesterday, I blogged about the game of telephone skeptics have been playing with a fabricated quote from Sir John Houghton. Apparently someone dug up an old interview from 1995 in which Sir Houghton talks about religion and his beliefs in God as proof that while he may not have actually said the words attributed to […]
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Turtles all the way down
February 15, 2010 
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One of the favorite claims of ‘skeptics’ — and I’m growing more and more hesitant about using that term without scary quotes because there just doesn’t seem to be any real ones around, at least as far as I can see — is that NASA or NOAA or CRU or other climate researchers selectively alter […]
Continue readingHot off the press: Skeptic game of telephone
February 15, 2010 2 Comments
H/t to Eli Rabett, such a quick little bunny: “Fabricated quote used to discredit climate scientists” — in the Independent. Here’s an excerpt: For climate sceptics it was a key piece of evidence showing that the scientists behindglobal warming could not be trusted. A quotation by one of the world’s most eminent climate scientists was supposed to […]
Continue readingFirst Published Article on Global Warming
February 14, 2010 2 Comments
Well, here it is — my first published article on global warming: “Mysterious Source of Global Warming Identified”. I think it worked out pretty well. Comments welcome!
Continue readingA GHCN Analysis
February 14, 2010 1 Comment
Over at Open Mind, Tamino has an analysis of GHCN station data that looks quite interesting to this layperson’s eyes. I’m going to start a post on this to examine his analysis and most importantly, the next post which he promises will be a response to skeptics and their criticism of GHCN. Here’s an excerpt […]
Continue readingPhil Jones Q&A at the BBC
February 13, 2010 35 Comments
The BBC has an article up which includes a Q&A session with Phil Jones of the CRU: Let’s start with the most important: E – How confident are you that warming has taken place and that humans are mainly responsible? I’m 100% confident that the climate has warmed. As to the second question, I would […]
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