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 […]
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Interesting Note on the FOIs
February 8, 2010 
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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 […]
Continue readingThe Guardian on “Climate Consensus Under Strain”
February 7, 2010 30 Comments
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 […]
Continue readingAnatomy of a Story: Africagate
February 7, 2010 3 Comments
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 […]
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