Reuter-wash: A division of the IPCC PR machine? « JoNova

News of ClimateGate is running riot on the web. The word came into existence a week ago, and there are 5 million hits on the term today. Do the Reuters team think that no one will notice how much they risk their journalistic reputations on this?

Or could it be that since Reuters was taken over by Thompson Financial, a company that provides market news to financial corporations, that the conflict of interest that was feared has already arrived?

The Volokh Conspiracy » Blog Archive » Data Sharing and Climate Change Research

As I understand, and please correct me if I’m wrong, the CRU researchers apparently refused to share the underlying raw data that was the basis of their research. Is that so? If so, is there a scientifically acceptable justification for this refusal, especially when the topic is as important as this one?

Climategate Update: Lord Monckton On The Corbett Report - Minnesotans For Global Warming

Mann09 Analog vs Digital « the Air Vent

In Mann08 a correlation screening process was used to eliminate offending series for a composite plus scale reconstruction. It provided an easy method for the scientists to choose which data makes the best hockey stick. It was very simple to demonstrate the completely bogus and biased selective choice of information which was in my opinion done with the intent of creating a false signal. This blog has been quite vocal about the intent issue win Mann08 and now we are faced with the same kind of result in Mann09. Yet they didn’t use screening this time.