More on ‘Climategate’
December 11, 2009 at 11:59 am Tina Hay 1 comment
I’m a fan of FactCheck.org, a project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania. They do a good job of trying to sort out truth from fiction in many public policy debates, and I’ve found that on any given issue—be it the health-care debate or stimulus spending or immigration—they will painstakingly correct misstatements made by both sides.
So I was interested to see them weigh in yesterday on “Climategate,” the brouhaha involving several climate scientists (including Penn State faculty member Michael Mann). In a nutshell, FactCheck.org says:
Climate skeptics are claiming that they show scientific misconduct that amounts to the complete fabrication of man-made global warming. We find that to be unfounded.
If you’re interested in the issue, I really recommend taking the time to read their analysis carefully. It’s very thorough and thoughtful.
Tina Hay, editor
Entry filed under: College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, Controversy, Faculty research. Tags: Climategate, FactCheck.org, Michael Mann.
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1. tommoriarty | December 14, 2009 at 3:21 am
Here is a piece of code that tests the idea that Michael Mann’s incorrect centering of proxy data causes the Principal Componenet Analysis algorithm to find hockey sticks red noise…
Michael Mann Averaging Error Demo
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