I haven’t had a chance to read the FoI materials on this yet, but Climate Audit and Bunyipitude dissect the Karoly/Gergis Hockey Stick debacle, on-hold, correction, retraction, withdrawal or whatever it really was. Prof Bunyip has an ongoing series of… Read More ›
Archive for October 2012
Coffee with Jo and David
Lovely to catch up with Jo Nova and Dr David Evans in North Sydney last week. Jo and David were in Sydney for a couple of conferences and kindly agreed to meet up for a coffee during their busy schedule…. Read More ›
Mann claims he was 'awarded Nobel peace prize'
According to a court document lodged in Michael Mann’s ill-judged defamation action (ill-judged because the process of discovery will force Mann to release of a whole bunch of stuff he has been trying to keep out of reach of FoI for years),… Read More ›
Gergis Hockey Stick 'withdrawn'
Watts Up and Jo Nova are reporting that the Gergis/Karoly Hockey Stick paper has been withdrawn. You will recall the original story, widely covered by the lame-stream media, that a new analysis of proxy data showed the warming in the… Read More ›
The debate is over: climate models work on Mars
Therefore they should work on Earth too, right? And we should trust their projections to base trillions of dollars of spending which could otherwise be directed towards real problems, right? Computer models have accurately forecast conditions on Mars and are… Read More ›
Lewandowsky: ethical considerations for "moon landing denier" paper
UPDATE 2 [Tuesday 16 October]: Further research has unearthed the specific procedure for amending an ethics approval at UWA. It can be found here. It states, inter alia: When would a new ethics application be required? Should a request for an… Read More ›
Lewandowsky FoI: substantial last minute changes to project waved through by UWA Ethics Committee
UPDATE: Bizarrely, a paper exists which is roughly in accordance with the original ethics application: “In a large experiment, participants extrapolated global climate data, presented graphically either as share prices or temperatures.” (Link) So it looks (allegedly) as if Lewandowsky,… Read More ›
Snowfalls in New South Wales – in October…
Another from the Weather Isn’t Climate Department. October is Spring down here in Oz-shire. Snow isn’t unheard of, but it’s pretty rare. Global warming sure is tricky – as we all know it can cause any weather phenomenon you care… Read More ›
What have the Romans ever done for us?
UPDATE: WUWT reports that the climate angle was spliced in at the last minute… “Apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?” * Given… Read More ›
Climate talks set to fail – yet again
The latest in the merry-go-round of lavish climate talks will take place next month in Doha, and we should thank the Brazilians for making it crystal clear well in advance that there won’t be any progress – just like there… Read More ›
