Climatologist Michael Mann responds to CRU hack

Baltimore Examiner by Steven Andrew | Nov. 25, 2009 (Interview)

The reference to "hide the decline" is referring to work that I am not directly associated with, but instead work by Keith Briffa and colleagues. The “decline” refers to a well-known decline in the response of only a certain type of tree-ring data (high-latitude tree-ring density measurements collected by Briffa and colleagues) to temperatures after about 1960. In their original article in Nature in 1998, Briffa and colleagues are very clear that the ... Full Story »

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Skepticism in the truest scientific sense of the word is good and is indeed essential to science. Skepticism should not be confused, however, with contrarianism that does ... More »

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How to Forge a Consensus

Wall Street Journal | Nov. 26, 2009 (Editorial)

"Perhaps we should encourage our colleagues in the climate research community to no longer submit to, or cite papers in, this journal. We would also need to consider what we ...

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Climate change data dumped

The Times by Jonathan Leake | Nov. 29, 2009 (News Report)

SCIENTISTS at the University of East Anglia (UEA) have admitted throwing away much of the raw temperature data on which their predictions of global warming are based. So not ...

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Stephens: Climategate: Follow the Money

Wall Street Journal | Dec. 1, 2009 (Opinion)

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Climate Science and Global Warming

Wall Street Journal by Richard S. Lindzen | Dec. 1, 2009 (Editorial)

(The) scandal...is, in my opinion, considerably greater than that implied in the hacked emails from the Climate Research Unit (though perhaps not as bad as their destruction ...

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Climate change 'fraud'

dailyexpress.co.uk by John Ingham | Dec. 2, 2009 (News Report)

THE scientific consensus that mankind has caused climate change was rocked yesterday as a leading academic called it a “load of hot air underpinned by fraud”. Professor ...

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Media Nation by Dan Kennedy | Dec. 3, 2009 (News Analysis)

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Met Office to re-examine 160 years of climate data

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