Plait's Non-Symetric Rules of AGW Science

Plait's First Rule:
It is OK if a person receives millions in funds for research about catastrophic anthropogenic global warming (CAGW), if (and only if) he supports the CAGW theory – a person critical about the CAGW theory on the other hand is not allowed to receive money for research about anthropogenic global warming.

Plait's Second Rule:
It is OK if a person writes about CAGW, if (and only if) he supports the CAGW theory – a person critical about the CAGW theory (no matter whether in parts or whole) on the other hand is not allowed to write about CAGW.

Plait's Mother Teresa Rule:
The funds of a person with pro-CAGW views are of no interest – a person critical of the CAGW theory on the other hand must be funded by the devil the oil industry.

Corollary to Plait's Rules:
The proficiency of the person is of no interest: A stupid person can be as loud mouthed about his pro-CAGW views and spread scientific falsehoods as much as he likes, while a CAGW critic is not allowed to state his views even in a civilized manner.

Medieval Warm Period vs. Current Warm Period

Craig Loehle takes Michael Mann smear piece "The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars" apart – and does it while remaining very politely and calm at that.

vureel.com pushes etypesetup.exe adware

Just watched a video on Vureel.com and the website tried to push etypesetup.exe "Somoto" Adware onto my computer – Fuckers.

Oh, that's good

Willis Eschenbach on Tricksy Scientists:

Dang, I didn’t expect that rise in CO2 that started about 6,000 BC. I do love climate science, it always surprises me … but the big surprise was not what the ice core records showed. It was what the Shakun2012 authors didn’t show.

I’m sure you can see just what those bad-boy scientists have done. Look how they have cut the modern end of the ice core CO2 record short, right at the time when CO2 started to rise again …

I leave the readers to consider the fact that for most of the Holocene, eight centuries millennia or so, half a dozen different ice core records say that CO2 levels were rising pretty fast by geological standards … and despite that, the temperatures have been dropping over the last eight millennia …

And I leave everyone to ponder how far climate “science” has fallen, that a tricksy study of this nature can be published in Nature, and can get touted around the world as being strong support for the AGW hypothesis. The only thing this study supports is the need for better peer review, and at a more basic level, better science education.

After hide the (treemometer proxy) decline, we now have hide the (CO2 proxy) increase…

Free-market Think Tank asks Nanny State for Help

The Heartland Institute has assembled a top-notch legal team and is asking the government to pursue criminal charges against Peter Gleick and his accomplices, as well as preparing to file civil suits against Gleick and his accomplices on behalf of Heartland and the scientists who have come under attack because of his actions.

I think it is amusing when a free-market think tank runs to the nanny state for help. But well, they are right to sue the hell out of Gleick, but they are wrong in their believe in free-markets…

Data fudging the prime cause of global warming

After "Models the prime cause of global warming" we bring you "Data fudging the prime cause of global warming":

And of course there’s this famous animation where the middle 20th century got cooler as if by magic. Watch how 1934 and 1998 change places as the warmest year of the last century. This is after GISS applied adjustments to a new data set (2004) compared with the one in 1999:

Science at the gates of plagiarism

Steve McIntyre:

There’s another plagiarism incident around the same time that I’d meant to document and more serious. A longstanding Climate Audit technique has been to illustrate proxy weights by plotting circles with area proportional to the weights. I’d observed that proxy weights could be extracted from the linear algebra, even for RegEM. The points had been revived in CA posts at this period concerning Steig and I reported that I’d tweaked the RegEM algorithm to extract the weights. The same technique was applied in Mann et al 2009 (Science); Mann’s language closely tracked the CA language. But more importantly the concept was identical to the concept written up at CA, both in the extraction of weights and the illustration in a graphic.