Daily Archives: May 1, 2005

A Strange Truncation of the Briffa MXD Series

May 1, 2005 – 8:15 PM

Post-1960 values of the Briffa MXD series are deleted from the IPCC TAR multiproxy spaghetti graph. These values trend downward in the original citation (Briffa [2000], see Figure 5), where post-1960 values are shown. The effect of deleting the post-1960 values of the Briffa MXD series is to make the reconstructions more “similar”. The truncation […]

By Stephen McIntyre | Posted in IPCC, Multiproxy Studies | Tagged , , , | Comments (32)

Arking on NIR Water Vapor

May 1, 2005 – 8:08 PM

The theory of anthropogenic CO2 forcing is that outbound IR radiation is plugged up a little more in the atmosphere, causing a steeper lapse rate and warmer surface. The issue of inbound NIR water vapor absorption is that, if inbound NIR solar radiation is plugged up a little more in the atmosphere, then you would […]

By Stephen McIntyre | Posted in Modeling | Comments (2)

Science and Nature: Under fire for 'censorship'

May 1, 2005 – 3:27 PM

Another article which points out the blatently obvious (especially if your surnames are McIntyre or McKitrick) Two of the world’s leading scientific journals have come under fire from researchers for refusing to publish papers which challenge fashionable wisdom over global warming. A British authority on natural catastrophes who disputed whether climatologists really agree that the […]

By John A | Posted in News and Commentary | Comments (11)

Comments on Hansen et al 2005: "the Smoking Gun"

May 1, 2005 – 4:26 AM

In the absence of timely technical support to fix our database issue, I thought I’d just a link to another site commenting on the recent paper by James Hansen, Gavin Schmidt et al purporting to show a smoking gun of "an imbalance between solar radiation and atmospheric emission" Luboà…⟠Motl : http://motls.blogspot.com/2005/04/earths-energy-balance.html If anyone knows of […]

By John A | Posted in News and Commentary | Comments (25)