Another Brick in the Wall
After years of effort, the chronologies of Briffa et al 2001 were recently made public, although the date on which these became public is itself clouded in mystery. [Update - this minor mystery is...
View ArticleGlenn McGregor: Data Archiving not required by the International Journal of...
After nearly 2 months and several inquiries, the editor of the International Journal of Climatology has finally said that they do not require authors to provide supporting data. Given that funding...
View ArticleNature Reports on CRU Stonewalling
Nature reported today on the CRU data requests. I was interviewed at length last Thurs, followup Friday by Olive Heffernan of Nature. They even asked for a photograph. I haven’t seen the article yet....
View ArticleNAS Report on Data and Methods Disclosure
Jeff Id on the Air Vent has written a post pointing out the recent publication online of a report by the Committee on Ensuring the Utility and Integrity of Research Data in a Digital Age from the...
View ArticleHow To Publish A Scientific Comment in 123 Easy Steps
is an engaging account by Rick Trebino of Georgia Tech on his experience in trying to publish a scientific comment in a field far less controversial than climate science. Readers can doubtless think of...
View ArticleSciencemag Enforces Data Archiving
As I surmised, Science has taken a dim view of Kaufman’s failure to provide data that was supposedly “publicly available” and most of the problems have now been dealt with. There are still a couple of...
View ArticleICO Submission to Parliamentary Committee
The presentations to the UK Parliamentary Committee are online and many are very interesting. Take a look at the submission by UK Information Commissioner Richard Thomas here who adhere nicely to the...
View ArticleCrowley Tries to Get Data from Jacoby
In 2004, prior to starting Climate Audit, I tried to get data from both Gordon Jacoby and Tom Crowley – neither experience being very pleasant. Climategate-2 emails provide an interest vignette in...
View ArticleMann on Irreproducible Results in Thompson (PNAS 2006)
Michael Mann’s new book, The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars, discusses my comment [SMc note - this post is by Hu McCulloch] , “Irreproducible Results in Thompson et al., ‘Abrupt Tropical Climate...
View ArticleThompson Gets New NSF Grant
Thompson and Gabrielli Lonnie Thompson, senior research scientist at Ohio State University’s Byrd Polar Research Center, and his colleague Paolo Gabrielli, have just been awarded a three-year $588,000...
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