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But although Prof Curry is the second named author of all four papers, Prof Muller failed to consult her before deciding to put them on the internet earlier this month, when the peer review process had barely started, and to issue a detailed press release at the same time.

He also briefed selected journalists individually. ‘It is not how I would have played it,’ Prof Curry said. ‘I was informed only when I got a group email. I think they have made errors and I distance myself from what they did.

‘It would have been smart to consult me.’ She said it was unfortunate that although the Journal of Geophysical Research had allowed Prof Muller to issue the papers, the reviewers were, under the journal’s policy, forbidden from public comment.

Prof McKittrick added: ‘The fact is that many of the people who are in a position to provide informed criticism of this work are currently bound by confidentiality agreements.

‘For the Berkeley team to have chosen this particular moment to launch a major international publicity blitz is a highly unethical sabotage of the peer review process.’

In Prof Curry’s view, two of the papers were not ready to be published, in part because they did not properly address the arguments of climate sceptics.

As for the graph disseminated to the media, she said: ‘This is “hide the decline” stuff. Our data show the pause, just as the other sets of data do. Muller is hiding the decline.

Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the "wet streets cause rain" stories. Paper's full of them.
In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.”
― Michael Crichton

The IPCC has been around for 22 years and has been awarded a Nobel Peace Prize. And yet my newly published book is the first time anyone has taken a close, critical look at this organization. After two years of research, I've discovered that almost nothing we've been told about the IPCC is actually true. Rather than being written by a meticulous, upstanding professional in business attire, it turns out the Climate Bible is being produced by a slapdash, rule-breaking, not-to-be-trusted teenager.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2011/11/ ... z1d3n4mPe7

When Esbjorn Wilmar, of Infinergy, which builds and operates [wind] turbines, introduced himself to the Duke [of Edinburgh] at a reception in London, he found himself on the end of an outspoken attack on his industry.

“He said they were absolutely useless, completely reliant on subsidies and an absolute disgrace,” said Mr Wilmar. “I was surprised by his very frank views.”

themanintheseersuckersuit wrote:http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/12/12/k ... or-canada/

etaoin22 wrote:

themanintheseersuckersuit wrote:http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/12/12/k ... or-canada/

I do not understand the choice of my government to leave the Kyoto accord, given that the accord had already been butchered into meaninglessness by the Great Powers. The action will not change any other government''s point of view, nor the plans of any state, nor will it be remembered at all in five years when the next risible attempt at international negotiation takes place. What it will do is increase the burden on small business, trying to export to the world, but stymied by the Canadian reputation of environmental laggardism.

And if the so-called experts have 'proven' that 'global warming is a myth', why, nowadays, is my Port of Montreal wide-open and ice-free every winter? With the gold-headed cane traditionally awarded to the first ocean-going ship of the spring, being awarded every year on the first of January?

This book is a scientific analysis of the soil and climatic factors affecting wine grape production, and thus, ultimately, wine itself. It provides a reasoned basis for the term 'terroir', and critically examines the science of climate change and how it could affect viticulture and winemaking. Dr John Gladstones is an internationally recognised authority on climate and viticulture, and among other achievements was instrumental in the establishment of the Margaret River wine district in Western Australia.

themanintheseersuckersuit wrote:Wine, Terroir and Climate Change

This book is a scientific analysis of the soil and climatic factors affecting wine grape production, and thus, ultimately, wine itself. It provides a reasoned basis for the term 'terroir', and critically examines the science of climate change and how it could affect viticulture and winemaking. Dr John Gladstones is an internationally recognised authority on climate and viticulture, and among other achievements was instrumental in the establishment of the Margaret River wine district in Western Australia.

We check the main predictions of the climate models against the best and latest data. Fortunately the climate models got all their major predictions wrong. Why? Every serious skeptical scientist has been consistently saying essentially the same thing for over 20 years, yet most people have never heard the message — here it is, put simply enough for any lay reader willing to pay attention.

Bob Juch wrote:New federal map for what to plant reflects warming

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/env ... 52787142/1

BackInTex wrote:Maybe its just that the plants are evolving.

MarleysGh0st wrote:

BackInTex wrote:Maybe its just that the plants are evolving.

Are you conceding that evolution is true?

Ritterskoop wrote:Is this the longest epitaph ever?

silvercamaro wrote:

Ritterskoop wrote:Is this the longest epitaph ever?

Maybe, but some o' them sumbidges are harder to kill than others.

themanintheseersuckersuit wrote:Still trying to talk myself to ten pages

http://www.Real-Science.com/google-aban ... al-warming

Bob78164 wrote:

themanintheseersuckersuit wrote:Still trying to talk myself to ten pages

http://www.Real-Science.com/google-aban ... al-warming

I'll give you some help, with the help of 255 members of the National Academy of Sciences. --Bob