For years, certain climate contrarians and self-styled skeptics have suggested that the temperature records have been contaminated by illegitimate adjustments, poor siting of instruments and the Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect, such that the increase in temperature observed during the past century is due, not to greenhouse gas associated warming, but to non-GHG factors, fudging […]
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Witch Hunts, Inquisitions and the Denialist Attack on Climate Science
October 3, 2011 
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Here’s a post by the American Tradition Institute (ATI) up at WTFIUWT about James Hansen “raking it in“. I guess that if you can’t destroy a scientist’s work, you can always try to destroy the scientist’s reputation and thus attempt via an ad hominem attack to cast a shadow of doubt in the public’s mind […]
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February 17, 2010 17 Comments
Over at Open Mind, Tamino has done it again – pointing out errors in the “skeptic” so-called science used to deny global warming. He reviews the work of Steven Goddard posted at Watts Up With That, which claims that it’s getting increasingly snowy over the Northern Hemisphere — an increase according to his data of […]
Continue readingTurtles all the way down
February 15, 2010 32 Comments
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 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 […]
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