Academia
Feb
Groups for and against Michael Mann rally at Penn State
Almost 100 people rallied on Penn State’s University Park Campus Friday. Groups for an against were there. For complete coverage this go to WJACTV.com, where there is also a video of a TV report WJAC did.
Feb
The full BBC Q&A of Phil Jones
Yesterday, BBC environment analyst Roger Harrabin interviewed Phil Jones, director of the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia (UEA). The interview has entered the public domain now, so we at ease publishing the 23 questions and answers here, for the record, and for your comments.
Feb
BBC’s Roger Harrabin questions Professor Phil Jones
BBC’s Roger Harrabin does a Q&A with the University of East Anglia’s Phil Jones, who is at the center of the Climategate scandal.
Feb
IPCC co-chair Chris Field loses his cool with Roger Pielkie, Jr
On this BBC television show, co-chair of the IPPC Working Group Chris Field expresses regret for errors in the AR4 Report, and gets a bit upset during his interchange with professor of environmental studies at the University of Colorado Roger Pielkie, Jr. Pielkie sets the record straight on how the IPCC had distorted his views.
Feb
BBC Radio now admits it’s time to talk to skeptics
On the BBC iplayer, it is a recording of Thursday’s ‘The Gabby Logan Show’, a UK lunch time national talk radio show, (at 11:42 through 34:00) with Mike Hulme, Professor of Climate Change in the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia (UEA), Richard North, journalist and skeptic and the BBC’s Roger Harrabin discuss UEA investigation and broader issues.
Feb
Phil Jones wants your pity
Professor Phil Jones told The Sunday Times that he had thought about killing himself several times. The Times says of the scientist at the center of the Climategate scandal: The incident has taken a severe toll on his health. He has lost more than a stone in weight and disclosed he is on beta-blockers and [...]
Feb
Has the climategate email leaker been found?
Climategate can now put a name to its heroic whistleblower. Our man on the inside appears to be top scientist, Paul Dennis, Head of Stable Isotope and Noble Gas Geochemistry Laboratories of the University of East Anglia (UEA).
Feb
Former IPCC Leader Says Climategate Scientists “Manipulated data.”
Dr. William Sprigg is research professor of atmospheric sciences at the University of Arizona and was head of the International Technical Review Panel for IPCC’s first report. The distinguished doctor slams the conduct of some of his global warming colleagues and accuses fellow IPCC scientists of “too much hubris.” He also told the Arizona conference, “climate data has been withheld and manipulated ”and that it is clear that “someone took out information.”
Feb
BREAKING! Penn State finds Michael Mann innocent of suppressing or falsifying data
Penn States internal enquiry has found that Mann did not “participate in, directly or indirectly, any actions with an intent to suppress or to falsify data”.
Feb
Penn State’s inquiry into Michael Mann advances to an investigation
An internal inquiry by Penn State into the research and scholarly activities of a well-known climate scientist Michael Mann will move into the investigatory stage, which is the next step in the University’s process for reviewing research conduct.