CRU: How to stifle scientific debate
[NB Author's note: I am not the Devil, merely a minor minion]While DK is on the road, I'll take the liberty of pointing readers in the direction of two unmissable posts on the unfolding Climategate scandal. First up is a superb piece at Climate Skeptic which warns of the dangers of the monoculture or groupthink that has grown up around AGW. In particular, Warren considers the idea of "peer review", which alarmists constantly brandish as proof of the indisputabil

More CRU code updates
Your humble Devil is still on the road with work: it's entirelytypical, of course, that I should be near incommunicado at such anexciting time.However, Bishop Hill is collating revelations from the CRU data. Do gohave a look.More later...DK

Reporting the CRU to the Information Commissioner
Further to the excellent and intriguing work the Devil and others have been doing digging through the leaked/hacked CRU emails, Kitchen readers may be interested to know that the TPA are reporting Prof Phil Jones and colleagues to the Information Commissioner for what appears to be a deliberate attempt to breach the Freedom of Information Act. Our full post on the importance of defending FoI, and how it applies to this case is here.If anyone is found to have deliberately destroyed information after an FoI request was made, the law states that they may be subject t

Data horribilia: the HARRY_READ_ME.txt file
With the CRU emails having been examined, it seems that some people—mainly techies—are really starting to dig into the data files. These files are, as far as we can tell, temperature data, modelling results and other such useful files, i.e. these are the files produced and worked on by the CRU teams, as well as considerable amounts of information on—and code from—the actual computer modelling programmes themselves.In other words, these are the guts of CRU's actual computer models—the data, the code and the applications.And they are, by all accounts, a total bloody mess.++++ START INSERT ++++So, come with me on a wonderfu

Planning or coincidence?
The Global Warming Policy Foundation logo…EU Referendum's round-up makes it clear that the MSM are just starting to pay attention to the CRU documents and coincidentally,