Creeping climate realism from former climate modeller [and Wikipedia propagandist] William M. Connolley: Is he losing his religion?

Sea ice: how to describe the possibility of a record? Stoat [William M. Connolley]

...Well, there you go: a clear prediction of a new minimum this summer. No? Well, no. Because the text then gets a bit smaller and says: We have computed in this year's first prognosis that the ice cover of the Arctic Ocean will lie at the end of the summer with at least 28 % probability under that of 2007 - the year with the lowest-ever measured ice extension. Put simply, "is to be expected in the late summer of 2009" is wrong. It should be "has an approximately 1-in-4 chance in the late summer of 2009", based on their model. Or you could read a bit further on and find that Hamburg say: We estimate a probability of 7 % that this year will fall below the negative record of 2007.

Foaming at the mouth with Joe Romm : Stoat

Romm has an audience, I suppose, that wants to be fed this tripe. But it does him no credit. I'm certainly not listening to him any more. For those that *are* listening to him: why? What was the last useful thing you learnt from him?

[Hmm - mt sounds a bit doubty - perhaps he needs to prepare for a visit from the climate police?]

Stoat : About

I'm a software engineer, working on embedded firmware for Cambridge Silicon Radio. One day I'll start blogging about that. Until then...

I was a climate modeller specialising in Antarctica; you'll find out more about me from here.

If you're interested in my past, my old blog is mustelid.blogspot.com

January '06: Stoat: Wikinews

A few snippets from wikipedia... I'm now an admin, and hence have ultimate power to CRUSH ALL MY ENEMIES HA HA HA HA!!! . Sadly no: the rules prohibit me from abusing my powers and there are always other people watching anyway.

July '08: Wikipropaganda by Lawrence Solomon on National Review Online

Holding the far more prestigious and powerful position of “administrator” is William Connolley. Connolley is a software engineer and sometime climatologist (he used to hold a job in the British Antarctic Survey), as well as a serial (but so far unsuccessful) office seeker for England’s Green party.

And yet by virtue of his power at Wikipedia, Connolley, a ruthless enforcer of the doomsday consensus, may be the world’s most influential person in the global warming debate after Al Gore. Connolley routinely uses his editorial clout to tear down scientists of great accomplishment such as Fred Singer, the first director of the U.S. National Weather Satellite Service and a scientist with dazzling achievements. Under Connolley’s supervision, Wikipedia relentlessly smears Singer as a kook who believes in Martians and a hack in the pay of the oil industry.

Wikipedia is full of rules that editors are supposed to follow, and it has a code of civility. Those rules and codes don’t apply to Connolley, or to those he favors.

“Peisers crap shouldn’t be in here,” Connolley wrote several weeks ago, in berating a Wikipedian colleague during an “edit war,” as they’re called. Trumping Wikipedia’s stated rules, Connelly used his authority to ensure Wikipedia readers saw only what he wanted them to see. Any reference, anywhere among Wikipedia’s 2.5 million English-language pages, that casts doubt on the consequences of climate change will be bent to Connolley’s bidding.