Climate Skeptic: Sorry Dr. Schmidt, But I am Not Feeling Guilty Yet (Part 1)

OK, fine, I have no problem with this. However, and I am sure that Schmidt would deny this to his grave, but he is FAR more supportive of open inspection of measurement sources that disagree with his hypothesis (e.g. Argo, UAH) than he is willing to tolerate scrutiny of his methods. Heck, until last year, he wouldn't even release most of his algorithms and code for his grid cell analysis that goes into the GISS metric, despite the fact he is a government employee and the work is paid for with public funds. If he is so confident, I would love to see him throw open the whole GISS measurement process to an outside audit. We would ask the UAH and RSS guys to do the same. Here is my prediction, and if I am wrong I will apologize to Dr. Schmidt, but I am almost positive that while the UAH folks would say yes, the GISS would say no. The result, as he says, would likely be telling.

Climate Skeptic: Responses to Gavin Schmidt, Part 2

As a final note, the last little dig on Steve McIntyre (the bit about FOIA requests) is really low. First, it is amazing to me that, like Hogwarts students who can't say the word Voldemort, the GISS folks just can't bring themselves to mention his name. Second, Steve has indeed filed a number of FOIA requests on Michael Mann, the GISS, and others. Each time he has a pretty good paper trail of folks denying him data (Here is the most recent for the Santer data). Almost every time, the data he is denied is taxpayer funded research, often by public employees, or is data that the publication rules of a particular journal require to be made public. And remember the source for this -- this is coming from the GISS, which resisted McIntyre's calls for years to release their code (publicly funded code of a government organization programmed by government employees to produce an official US statistic) for the GISS grid cell rollup of the station data, releasing the code only last year after McIntyre demonstrated an error in the code based on inspection of the inputs and outputs.

At the end of the day, Hansen and Schmidt are public employees who like having access to government budgets and the instant credibility the NASA letterhead provides them, but don't like the public scrutiny that goes with it. Suck it up guys. And as to your quest to rid yourself of these skeptic gadflies, I will quote your condescending words back to you: Good Luck. You'll need it.