The Blackboard

It appears RyanO has requested data from NCAR/UCAR, the request has been refused, and RyanO may now be embarked on dealing with the same sort of run-around treatment exhibited by CRU. (See Data Stonewalling Resumes.) In light of these recent events, it’s worth reviewing some of the findings vis-a-vis CRU’s intransigence with respect to disseminating [...]

On of the fun things about reading Monckton’s writing is his love of florid language; with some frequency he uses fancy words correctly. However, I’m a bit puzzled by a new-to-me word in the following paragraph: I looked up “defalcations”, and found several definitions. This is Wikipedia’s definition of defalcation: A defalcation is an amount [...]

Josh of “Cartoons by Josh” and I have been discussing our theories about Monckton’s next step. Specifically, Monckton ended his Response to John P. Abraham, with a demand for an apology, removal of Dr. Abraham’s video from University of St. Thomas’s servers and donations from U. of St. Thomas and Dr. Abraham to a worthy [...]

Monckton has responded to Abraham. It’s long, long, long! I sent Abraham three questions. They are Do you plan to respond to Monckton’s “Response to John Abraham”? I notice your presentation is still hosted on U of St. Thomas’s server here. Has the University Administration exerted any pressure to persuade you to remove it? What [...]

I’m tweaked my personal “troll control” plugin. The tweak was motivated by two visitors who are changing their “name” and “email” to comment. Once does so frequently; one less frequently. The former person tends to post what I consider very trollish comments and many versions of his “name” and “email” were already entered into Troll [...]

This from Chris Horner at PJ Media: Spain’s Dr. Gabriel Calzada — the author of a damning study concluding that Spain’s “green jobs” energy program has been a catastrophic economic failure — was mailed a dismantled bomb on Tuesday by solar energy company Thermotechnic. Professor Calzada called a terrorism expert in to handle the package. [...]

At WUWT, Anthony proposed a yellow badge for skeptics: He follows with this request: “Maybe somebody can come up with a theme variation specific to climate skeptics.” I hunted around and found these three possible alternatives: source. source. source. Anthony also corrected me on my history: Stasi were the East German secret police, not Nazi [...]

Nick Barnes at CCC invited me to encourage people to sign a petition to open up the IPCC. The petition describes both motivations and methods to facilitate the process of opening the IPCC to make the process more transparent. I’m going to run the preface for the letter, the full letter is here We have [...]

I was collecting together my thoughts on the PNAS paper “Expert credibility in climate change” when Anthony Watts clanged the Godwins Law Climate Gong by referring to what appears to be a blacklist of scientists as “A stasi-esque master list” and posing the rhetorical question “Will we have to wear yellow badges to climate science [...]

In an interesting development, Tamino has deleted his post discussing the uninvited visitor to Anthony Watt’s office. He has posted a discussion here. Based on the comments thread at my blog, I was aware that Greg Goodknight has sent some complaints of Terms of Service (TOS) violations to WordPress. I’m not familiar with everything in [...]