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Bishop Hill
Personal blog · bishophill.squarespace.com/blogsciencepolitics
Bishop Hill is a personal blog at bishophill.squarespace.com about science and politics. Since 2009, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “A Summary of the Great CRU Data Hack Emails”. The last post was in 2019, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Climate-science blog that commenters link for coverage of the debate, including the leaked CRU emails and climate sensitivity, with links to sources from several sides.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Global warming and energy
Most-linked posts?
- A Summary of the Great CRU Data Hack Emails2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2009-11-21
- /blog/2008/8/11/caspar-and-the-jesus-paper.html2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-12-07
What Hacker News says?
Wahl and Ammann 2007 does not appear to adequately address gd1's points. It just applies a slightly different statistical approach using the same flawed premise. There are countless arguments and rebuttals to be found on both sides of the debate, but I've found the ones below to be particularly helpful: Pro Hockey Stick: [1] Original MBH98 paper (PDF): http://stephenschneider.stanford.edu/Publications/PDF_Papers...…
Comment linking /blog/2008/8/11/caspar-and-the-jesus-paper.html
on “Massive glacier collapse”Submitted A Summary of the Great CRU Data Hack Emails as a story · 24 points
HN discussionHis post is pure strawman: say the "enemy's" entire argument centers around one post, then downplay that, then announce that there's nothing to see here folks, move along, move along. It's far more devstating than that. Excerpt: At 09:41 AM 2/2/2005, Phil Jones wrote: Mike, I presume congratulations are in order - so congrats etc ! Just sent loads of station data to Scott. Make sure he documents everything better th…
Comment linking /blog/2009/11/20/climate-cuttings-33.html
on “Nate Silver on the Leaked Global Warming Emails”Submitted Data Analysis of Tree Rings: why open science is vitally important as a story · 1 points
HN discussionPossibly most readers know this but if you want to check the validity of this and all the other predictions, the parameter to look for is climate sensitivity. Notoriously difficult to estimate, key to the whole business, it's the degree of warming expected for a doubling of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Bishophill links to innumerable articles, papers and views (from all sides) on this. http://bishophill.squares…
Comment linking /display/Search?searchQuery=climate%20sensitivity&moduleId=1282578&moduleFilter=&categoryFilter=&startAt=0
on “Industrial civilisation headed for 'irreversible collapse'?”Best summary of the emails is here: http://bishophill.squarespace.com/blog/2009/11/20/climate-cu... I've been reading through them -- no smoking gun but lots of unscientific behaviour, and quiet admissions of weaknesses in the climate science.
Comment linking /blog/2009/11/20/climate-cuttings-33.html
on “RealClimate responds to the CRU hack”This is often asserted, but is it true? Most alarmism that I have seen is coming from the media or activist organizations; the few times I've seen scientist alarm has been when recent measurements have been worse in some way than their models predict. On the broad level of course its true. The rise of global warming alarmism over the past three decades has enormously increased the level of funding for research, and…
Comment linking /blog/2008/8/11/caspar-and-the-jesus-paper.html
on “Ask HN: Start formal group to peer review climate code?”Just a lone test-engineer? Sorry to be a bit rude but it does appear you're too lazy to bother to look at the arguments. There are plenty of people with distinguished careers in science whose sceptical positions are very well argued. There's Richard Lindzen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Lindzen and Judith Curry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Curry (chair of the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences…
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on “An Engineer’s Critique of Global Warming ‘Science’ (2011) [pdf]”
