In December 2009, Acton sent Muir Russell an email agreeing that Muir Russell would lead the inquiry. The language of the email is not definitive, but gives the impression that a budget of £ 40,000 was contemplated. (Excerpt below, see link for “full” agreement.) As noted in correspondence on the earlier thread, Acton referred to […]
Apparently the U of East Anglia paid the Muir Russell inquiry nearly £300,000. David Holland has requested information on the contractual basis of these payments. Situation normal – the UEA has refused to provide the information and it looks like another appeal to the ICO. .
Excellent post by Shub Niggurath at his blog here discussing replication problems. It’s interesting to see how the same excuses play themselves out in different fields. Statisticians criticize authors for non-replicability of their results. The authors complain that the statisticians failed to replicate a previously unreported (and usually questionable) methodological procedure. We’ve seen this movie […]
I draw CA readers’ attention to UEA’s continued stonewalling of David Holland – their most recent refusal is online (together with the original request and accompanying correspondence here.)
NOAA’s news release on the IG report contains the following misrepresentation of NOAA’s repudiation of FOI requests: The report questions the way NOAA handled a response to four FOIA requests in 2007. The FOIA requests sought documents related to the review and comments of part of an Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report. NOAA […]
Although NOAA were minor players in the Climategate letters, the recent report from the Inspector General of the US Department of Commerce (re NOAA) is the first report to date in which the investigators made any effort to crosscheck evidence from Climategate correspondents against independent sources. It does not list the emails that it investigated […]
New light today on Phil Jones’ notorious request that Mann, Briffa, Wahl and Ammann “delete any emails”.
Huge comment traffic at Judy Curry’s discussion of Hide the Decline here and here
Here is a longer excerpt from the July 19, 2000 Raymond Bradley Climategate email posted earlier today: [……At this point Keith Alverson throws up his hands in despair at the ignorance of non-model amateurs…] But there are real questions to be asked of the paleo reconstruction. First, I should point out that we calibrated versus […]
Here is an excerpt from a troubling Climategate email that hasn’t been discussed much (if at all) – from Raymond Bradley to Frank Oldfield of PAGES (172. 0963233839.txt) on July 20, 2000. I’m presenting only an excerpt today, but will discuss more from this email on another occasion. Bradley stated of MBH98-99 results: in the […]
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