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Exclusive: Dr. George Woodwell sets the record straight

March 9, 2010 by Joseph Romm
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The response to the [email] vandals is to bury them with the data and experience of a century of scholarly research and analysis. The information that is important in making the decisions as to how to manage our world is unequivocal and must be advanced, not as questions at the edge of scientific knowledge where scientist like to... [read more]

Tempest, Meet Teapot (Climategate)

December 6, 2009 by Michael Tobis
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Tempest: Richard North's idea is to take the ratio of Google web hits to Google News hits; he gets 22.5 million web hits vs. 46,025 news hits for Tiger Woods (a ratio of 489), and compares some other topics (some of them a bit UK-centric): 1. Climategate: 28,400,000 – 2,930 = 96932. Afghanistan: 143,000,000 – 154,145 = 9283. Obama: 202,... [read more]

Exclusive audio of press call today with Michael Mann, Gavin Schmidt, and Michael Oppenheimer on “Climate Science: Setting the Record Straight”

December 4, 2009 by Joseph Romm
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Memo to Climate Science community:  When illegal email hackers give you lemons, make some lemonade. In a Physics World article, “Publicize or perish,” I pointed out “The scientific community is failing miserably in communicating the potential catastrophe of climate change.“  Of course, that isn’t entirely the scientific... [read more]

Nature editorial: “Nothing in the e-mails undermines the scientific case that global warming is real — or that human activities are almost certainly the cause.”

December 2, 2009 by Joseph Romm
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Stolen e-mails have revealed no scientific conspiracy, but do highlight ways in which climate researchers could be better supported in the face of public scrutiny. The e-mail archives stolen last month from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia (UEA), UK, have been greeted by the climate-change-denialist... [read more]

Mulling Over ClimateGate

December 1, 2009 by Scott Edward Anderson
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"It's Sunday evening, I've worked all weekend, and just when I thought it was done I'm hitting yet another problem that's based on the hopeless state of our databases. There is no uniform data integrity. ..." That quote comes from the log of a computer expert known as HARRY_READ_ME, which documents his struggle to make sense of a... [read more]

Those leaked emails, and the politicization of climate science

November 30, 2009 by Lynne Kiesling
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If you have not been following the story of leaked emails and documents from the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit after their computers were hacked, Maggie Koerth-Baker’s Boing Boing post provides an overview with lots of supporting links. A couple of good overview stories are from the Economist’s most recent issue and... [read more]

What the insurance industry thinks about climate change and sea level rise, and it’s not pretty

November 28, 2009 by Tyler Hamilton
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WWF International and insurance giant Allianz have released a report called “Major Tipping Points in the Earth’s Climate System and Consequences for the Insurance Sector.” I find reports from the insurance industry quite informative because nobody knows risk better than the people who stand to lose a lot of money from those very risks.... [read more]

Climatologist Michael Mann updates the world on the latest climate science climate and responds to the hacked emails

November 28, 2009 by Joseph Romm
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Michael Mann, one of the country’s leading climatologists, has coauthored a recent paper on climate science since the 2007 IPCC report.  Mann, Director of Pennsylvania State University’sEarth System Science Center, is much attacked by the anti-scientific disinformers because of his work on the paleoclimate “hockey stick”... [read more]

Talk about playing "gotcha"

November 20, 2009 by Michael Tobis
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Talk about playing "gotcha."  Regular readers are likely to be aware of the release of a huge mass of illegally obtained emails among leading climate scientists of the observational stripe. RealClimate, I think, handled it nicely.A lot of attention is being placed on Phil Jones'Once Tim’s got a diagram here we’ll send that either... [read more]