Email 202: Schneider on McKitrick: "idiot...bozo...unbelievably incompetent"

[2003] from: Stephen H Schneider <shs@stanford.edu>
subject: Re: Fw: New Study Questions Kyoto Global Warming Data
to: apetsonk@environmentaldefense.org

Hello all. Ah ha--the latest idiot--McKitrick--reenters the scene. He and another incompetent had a book signing party at the US Capitol

...It was a scream. He argued there is no such thing as global temperature
change, just local--all natural variablity mostly. ...THe freshman was smarter than this bozo. It is improtant to get
that op-ed to simply tell all reporters how unbelievably incompetent he is, and should not even be given the time of day over climate issues, for
which his one "contribution" is laughably incompetent.

email 798: Ed Cook weighs in 

Fred Singer was here on Monday and gave a rather uninspired talk criticizing
global warming, etc. He did show an example of the mis-use of statistics in
the greenhouse attribution debate and it was one of Wigley's papers. It was
the one in which Tom tried to show that the autocorrelation function of
instrumental temperatures was far greater than the acf of temperatures from
unforced OAGCM models, therefore "proving" that greenhouse gases were
forcing instrumental temperatures. It was a pathetically poor paper that
had Mark Cane, Yochanan Kushnir, Upmanu Lall, Balaji Rajagoplan (all good
maths/stats people), and me just shaking our collective heads wondering
what the fuck Wigley was trying to do. Needless to say, Singer quite easily
showed how hopelessly flawed and ridiculous the analysis was, and everyone
agreed with him for once. Other than that he pretty much fell on his face.

FOIA HARRY_READ_ME.txt

ARGH. Just went back to check on synthetic production. Apparently - I have no memory of this at all -
we're not doing observed rain days! It's all synthetic from 1990 onwards. So I'm going to need
conditionals in the update program to handle that. And separate gridding before 1989. And what TF
happens to station counts?


OH FUCK THIS. It's Sunday evening, I've worked all weekend, and just when I thought it was done I'm
hitting yet another problem that's based on the hopeless state of our databases. There is no uniform
data integrity, it's just a catalogue of issues that continues to grow as they're found.