Monthly Archives: November 2011
Further Documentation Of Inappropriate Behavoir By A Subset Of Members Of The CCSP 1.1 Committee And The NRC Review Committee
The released e-mails provide a glimpse into inappropriate behavior by members of the CCSP 1.1 Committee and Phil Jones. The CCSP 1.1 report Temperature Trends in the Lower Atmosphere: Steps for Understanding and Reconciling Differences was published in 2006. My view of that … Continue reading
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Conflict Of Interest Process with Respect To An NRC Review Panel Of A Draft Of The CCSP 1.1 Report
As those of you who have followed my weblog know, I concluded that Tom Karl, the Editor of the CCSP Report “Temperature Trends in the Lower Atmosphere: Steps for Understanding and Reconciling Differences“, abused his position as Chair in preparing that report. I … Continue reading
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Comments by Gerhard Kramm On Nicola Scafetta’s Paper “A Shared Frequency Set Between The Historical Mid-Latitude Aurora Records And The Global SurfaceTemperature”
Let me start with a quotation of Eddy’s (1976) famous paper on the Maunder Minimum. In the section “Aurorae” of his paper Eddy stated: »Records of occurrence of the aurora borealis and the aurora australis offer an independent check on … Continue reading
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Documentation Of A Cozy Interaction Between An AMS BAMS Editor And Phil Jones
In one set of e-mails at Climategate 2 FOIA 2011 Searchable Database http://foia2011.org/index.php?id=5062 there is an exchange of e-mails between an author and an Editor of the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Association [Chet Ropelewski]. The paper was eventually published in Mahmood, R., … Continue reading
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An E-Mail Communication Between Phil Jones and Ben Santer Indicating Inappropriate Behavior By The US National Research Council
In Pielke Sr., Roger A., 2005: Public Comment on CCSP Report “Temperature Trends in the Lower Atmosphere: Steps for Understanding and Reconciling Differences“. 88 pp including appendices. and E-mail Documentation Of The Successful Attempt By Thomas Karl Director Of the … Continue reading
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Important Paper “Remote New Paper “Sensing Of The Urban Heat Island Effect Across Biomes In The Continental USA” By Imhoff Et Al 2011
There is a paper on the urban effect on temperatures that relates to the BEST claim regarding the role of urban areas in determining the global average surface temperature trend [h/t to Marshall Shepherd]. This paper shows how spatially variable temperature effects … Continue reading
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Tom Peterson Of NCDC And Climate Science Baloney
I have started to go through the new set of e-mails that have been made available. I have comments on one of them, which has a science issue focus. It also shows how Tom Peterson handles dissent from his views, which … Continue reading
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Interesting Quotes By Two Major Climate Scientists – John Nielsen-Gammon and Peter Gleick
UPDATE: John has sent me this response Roger – Sure! You can post this, thanks! First, assuming something is correct doesn’t make it so. I simply regard it as so much more likely to be correct than incorrect … Continue reading
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Another Excellent, Well-Explained Post By Bob Tisdale Titled “Satellite-Era SST Anomalies: Models Vs Observations Using Time-Series Graphs And 17-Year Trends”
I want to alert readers of my weblog to a post by Bob Tisdale on his weblog Bob Tisdale – Climate Observations. He has posted another effective analysis of multi-decadal global climate model predictions titled Satellite-Era SST Anomalies: Models Vs Observations … Continue reading
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Comments On The Physics Today Article “Communicating The Science Of Climate Change” By Richard C. J. Somerville and Susan Joy Hassol
Last week I posted on the first of two articles in the October issue of Physics Today (see). Today, I am commenting on the second article in that issue Richard C. J. Somerville and Susan Joy Hassol, 2011: Communicating the science of climate change. … Continue reading
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