Comments on: Recent Climate Observations: Disagreement With Projections

By: Jack Jones Jeans

Jack Jones Jeans — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 12:46:17 +0000

nice post

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Niche Modeling » A semi-empirical approach to sea level rise — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 21:03:14 +0000

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By: Wayne

Wayne — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:58:40 +0000

Anyone silly enough to think global warming exist, please go to www.drroyspencer.com soon.

By: Ian Castles

Ian Castles — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 11:25:06 +0000

David,

Yes, please do (and this one too)

By: davids99us

davids99us — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 08:23:11 +0000

Ian: Its possible to edit or remove comments after you have submitted them. I'll remove them comments if you wish.

By: Ian Castles

Ian Castles — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 07:16:52 +0000

I meant I posted the comment ABOVE here in error. I'll get this right in the end.

By: Ian Castles

Ian Castles — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 07:15:17 +0000

Sorry David,
I posted a comment below in error. It should have gone to the “More Fishy …” thread on Lucia's blog.

By: Ian Castles

Ian Castles — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 02:09:38 +0000

David, Your #15514.

Just to clarify. I wrote to Kevin Hennessy in March 2006 to point out the error in the Whetton et al (2005) CSIRO Research Paper, of which Kevin was a co-author. He replied that “I agree with you. The error will be corrected”, copying his email to eight colleagues at CMAR Aspendale (Greg Ayers, Chris Mitchell, Penny Whetton, Ian Watterson, Roger Jones, Kathleen McInnes, Paul Holper and Simon Torok).

When the error had not been corrected after about six months, I raised the issue with another co-author of the paper, Roger Jones, with whom I was having an exchange on John Quiggin’s blog. Roger’s reply indicated that there’d been a stuff-up of some kind so I assumed that, the matter having again been brought to notice, a correction would finally be issued. But it hasn’t been.

The IPCC didn’t come into my correspondence with CSIRO people, because it never occurred to me that a non-peer-reviewed work would be cited in an Assessment Report – but in fact Whetton et al (2005) WAS cited in WGII Chapter 11, of which Kevin Hennessy was Coordinating Lead Author. I would have thought that the fact that the report had been cited by the IPCC strengthened the case for the CSIRO issuing a correction, but I can only assume that the powers-that-be in the CSIRO thought otherwise.