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Another “climategate” whopper from McIntyre
By Deep Climate There’s been quite a stir about NCAR Senior Scientist Kevin Trenberth and his upcoming presentation at the American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting. Some of that spilled over here in a spirited discussion of Trenberth’s failure to blockquote … Continue reading
Posted in Climate science disinformation
Tagged IPCC, Kevin Trenberth, Phil Jones, Steve McIntyre
Revisiting TAR Figure 2-21, part 1: Another false claim from Steve McIntyre
In the “climategate” din, one accusation is shouted perhaps louder and more often than any other: the so-called “trick” supposedly played by IPCC lead author Michael Mann to “hide the decline” in Keith Briffa’s Northern Hemipshere extra tree-ring proxy-based reconstruction, … Continue reading
Posted in Climate science disinformation
Tagged IPCC, Steve McIntyre, Steven Mosher, TAR
McClimategate continues: Yet another false accusation from McIntyre and McKitrick
How do they get away with it? That’s the inevitable question as I examine one of the most specious – and despicable – “climategate” allegations from contrarians, namely the oft-repeated claim that climate scientists at East Anglia University’s Climate Research … Continue reading
Posted in Climate science disinformation
Tagged Climategate, CRU, CRU hack, Keith Briffa, Ross McKirick, Steve McIntyre, Tim Osborne
Steve McIntyre and Ross McKitrick, part 1: In the beginning
The well-timed release of the stolen CRU emails (a.k.a. Climategate) did much to enhance public awareness of self-appointed climate science auditor Steve McIntyre and his long-time co-author and promoter, economist Ross McKitrick. Indeed, the pair has finally recieved widespread coverage … Continue reading
McIntyre provides fodder for skeptics
[This post was updated on December 12 to provide additional context that strengthens the original analysis – see below for details.] This so-called Climategate is really getting out of hand, isn’t it? Steve McIntyre has published allegations – twice now … Continue reading
Posted in Climate science disinformation
Tagged Climategate, CRU Email, IPCC, Keith Briffa, Michael Mann, Steve McIntyre
Briffa teaches, but will McIntyre ever learn?
Recently we’ve discussed several aspects of the raging controversy around climate blogger Steve McIntyre and dendrochronologist Keith Briffa and the supposed destruction (once again) of the “hockey stick” temperature graph. A few commentators have suggested that more attention should be … Continue reading
Posted in Climate change "skeptics"
Tagged Keith Briffa, paleoclimatology, Steve McIntyre, tree-ring
Climate “auditor” Steve McIntyre: Yamal like “crack cocaine”
By now, anyone who follows the climate blog wars knows that a new battle is underway over the standard temperature reconstruction popularly known as the “hockey stick”. Although it has been declared thoroughly shattered many times, apparently it must be … Continue reading
Posted in Climate change "skeptics", Climate science
Tagged Keith Briffa, National Post, Ross McKitrick, Steve McIntyre, Yamal
Richard Muller Radio Rambles, part 1: Kochs “very deep”, “very thoughtful” and “properly skeptical”
A recent Canadian radio appearance by Berkeley Earth founder Richard Muller has shed additional light on the role of Charles Koch, a major funder of the Berkeley Earth effort (and arguably the top funder of climate contrarians over the last … Continue reading
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Tagged Berkeley Earth, Koch brothers, Richard Muller
Wegman and Said leave Wiley journal and Said disappears from GMU
The saga of statistician turned climate science critic Edward Wegman and his protege Yasmin Said has taken yet another strange turn. The pair’s tenure as editors-in-chief at the Wiley journal they founded three years ago quietly came to an unceremonious … Continue reading
