“… that there is practically no reliable tropical data for most of the time period, and without knowing the tropical sensitivity, we have no way of knowing how cold (or warm) the globe actually got. (And similarly, without knowing the tropical sensitivity for the LGM, we don’t know what it’s global cooling was, and without knowing it for 2xCO2, we don’t know what the future sensitivity would be.) It cannot be reconstructed with any confidence from the extratropical response, even if we were to know that well, because the extratropical response is partly driven by in situ feedbacks, so can occur with a variety of tropical responses….” Continue reading Climategate 3.0: NASA scientist on hockey stick: ‘what Mike Mann continually fails to understand, and no amount of references will solve, is…’
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Climategate 3.0: Jones to Mann, May 20, 2005 — ‘The skeptic pillars are tumbling!’. Turns out to be counting chickens…
Counting the chickens way before they hatched, no? Continue reading Climategate 3.0: Jones to Mann, May 20, 2005 — ‘The skeptic pillars are tumbling!’. Turns out to be counting chickens…
Climategate 3.0: Jones advises Mann and others on FOIA requests — ‘Leave it to you to delete as appropriate!’
“Don’t any of you three tell anybody that the UK has a Freedom of Information Act!” Continue reading Climategate 3.0: Jones advises Mann and others on FOIA requests — ‘Leave it to you to delete as appropriate!’
Climategate 3.0: Jones to Mann: ‘I’ll delete the file rather than send to anyone’
“[McIntyre and McKitrick] have been after the CRU station data for years. If they ever hear there is a Freedom of Information Act now in the UK, I think I’ll delete the file rather than send to anyone.” Continue reading Climategate 3.0: Jones to Mann: ‘I’ll delete the file rather than send to anyone’
Climategate 3.0: Mann to Revkin — ‘McIntyre and McKitrick paper is pure scientific fraud’
Unlike the notion of estimating global temps 1,000 years ago to within tenths of a degree by analyzing tree rings? Continue reading Climategate 3.0: Mann to Revkin — ‘McIntyre and McKitrick paper is pure scientific fraud’
Climategate 3.0: Phil Jones tries and fails to have skeptic Dick Lindzen’s comments removed from draft IPCC chapter
“I didn’t succeed in getting some of Dick Lindzen’s comments removed.” Continue reading Climategate 3.0: Phil Jones tries and fails to have skeptic Dick Lindzen’s comments removed from draft IPCC chapter
Climategate 3.0: Climategaters used hockey stick controversy to ask for more funding
“The skeptics seem to be building up a head of steam here! Maybe we can use this to our advantage to get the series updated! Continue reading Climategate 3.0: Climategaters used hockey stick controversy to ask for more funding
Climategate 3.0: Mike Hulme intends to ‘paint the global [vs. regional climate] picture in case there are any skeptics in the audience’
A Robbin’ Hood: Tom Friedman’s carbon tax would redistribute fossil fuel levy as lower tax rates
With some skim for the government, too. Continue reading A Robbin’ Hood: Tom Friedman’s carbon tax would redistribute fossil fuel levy as lower tax rates
Climategate 3.0: UEA bids for 10 million pound government grant to help the IPCC
With science apparently settled in 1999, the bid was to work on “solutions.” Continue reading Climategate 3.0: UEA bids for 10 million pound government grant to help the IPCC
Climategate 3.0: MetOffice rebukes UEA for claiming global warming causes extreme weather
“There seems to be little robust evidence either of any change to date, or of a significant change in the future.” Continue reading Climategate 3.0: MetOffice rebukes UEA for claiming global warming causes extreme weather
Climategate 3.0: After Fred Singer debunks Wigley paper, Climategaters ask ‘what the f*ck Wigley was trying to do’
“Needless to say, Singer quite easily showed how hopelessly flawed and ridiculous the analysis was…” Continue reading Climategate 3.0: After Fred Singer debunks Wigley paper, Climategaters ask ‘what the f*ck Wigley was trying to do’