The Corner (Free subscription) | yesterday
More from the tree-ring circus of Climate Research Unit "peer-reviewed" computer code : Specify period over which to compute the regressions (stop in 1960 to avoid the decline that affects tree-ring density records) Hmm. All sounds very scientific. By the way, the CRU may be in East Anglia but it gets money from the US Department of Energy and the EPA - which means you, Mr and Mrs America....
The Corner (Free subscription) | yesterday
Jay, re the Orange County Christmas tree , here's another one for the bulging files: Two Cambridge academics have voiced their dismay at the news that all references to Christmas have been dropped from the switching-on ceremony for Dundee’s festive lights. Instead of the traditional Christmas Lights switch-on, The Times newspaper reported that residents will be attending the 'Dundee Winter Light...
The Corner (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Jonah, your reader is right. It's not just the e-mails, which are open to "interpretation", but the computer code, which isn't : Plots (1 at a time) yearly maps of calibrated (PCR-infilled or not) MXD reconstructions of growing season temperatures. Uses “corrected” MXD - but shouldn’t usually plot past 1960 because these will be artificially adjusted to look closer to the...
The Corner (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Mark Steyn update his earlier post with an email from a reader: A quibble. You say "It's not just the e-mails." But, if similar e-mails had been released for a business, wouldn't the authors be getting subpoenas to appear before SEC and congress and state attorneys-general? Sigh. I know, different rules for us and for them. But, how can anyone read the e-mails and not assume they are evidence...
The Corner (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
On the Warmergate scandal, the Settled Scientists seem to be settling on Phil Jones, head of the Climate Research Unit, as the designated fall guy. George Monbiot in The Guardian : It’s no use pretending this isn’t a major blow. The emails extracted by a hacker from the climatic research unit at the University of East Anglia could scarcely be more damaging. I am now convinced that they...
The Corner (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
The approval numbers of renowned moron Sarah Palin and global colossus Barack Obama are about to meet . Oh, my. Maybe the White House should call in the Climate Research Unit to (as the settled scientists say) " hide the decline ".
The Corner (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
The view from post-"reset button" Europe. A headline from Der Spiegel : Obama's Nice Guy Act Gets Him Nowhere on the World Stage This presidency is shaping up as a tragedy - for America, and the world.
The Corner (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
I'm surprised this man didn't go mad. It's a remarkable and sobering tale : A man thought by doctors to be in a vegetative state for 23 years was actually conscious the whole time, it was revealed last night.
The Corner (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
The paper's position on those revelations of "climate change" shenanigans I wrote about earlier: The documents appear to have been acquired illegally and contain all manner of private information and statements that were never intended for the public eye, so they won’t be posted here. (Please note: This policy does not apply to Republican candidates showing any signs of life in the...
The Corner (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
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The Corner (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
It all depends on how you look at it. From The Boston Herald : In an embarrassing blow to the movement to combat global warming, hackers have posted hundreds of e-mails from a world-renowned British institute that show researchers colluding to exaggerate warming and undermine skeptics. From The Guardian : The alleged emails illustrate the persistent pressure some climatologists have been under from...
The Corner (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Polar bears are falling from the skies . Don't worry, I'm sure this is all peer-reviewed data with a side-order of tree rings from the First Church of the Settled Scientist .
The Corner (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
I was reading Mark Steyn , always one of the happiest things in life to do, and I thought of something when reading this line: “[Khalid Sheikh Mohammed had] been brought before a military commission, and last December indicated he was ready to plead guilty, and itching for the express lane to the 72 virgins.” This reminded me of something a public official once told me, something that...
Townhall.com (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
David Frum is -- yes, I must use school yard names -- a loser. His statement is right up there with those who blame the woman for appearing attractive when she is raped. Well, Mark Steyn had a thing or three to say abou
The Corner (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Unlike Al Gore, pulling numbers from wherever he's stuck his char-broiled thermometer , Stephen McIntyre of Climate Audit likes to look 'em over first. He's profiled today by The Wall Street Journal Europe : In September, he revealed that a famous graph using tree rings to show unprecedented 20th century warming relies on thin data. Since its publication in 2000, University of East Anglia professor...
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