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Despite Jones premonition and its importance both in the Climategate dossier and the controversies immediately preceding Climategate, Yamal and Polar Urals received negligible attention from the inquiries , neither site even being mentioned by Kerry Emanuel and his fellow Oxburgh panellists.
I recently submitted an FOI request for a regional chronology combining Yamal, Polar Urals and “other shorter” chronologies referred to in an April 2006 email – a chronology that Kerry Emanuel and the “inquiries” failed to examine. The University of East Anglia, which seems to have been emboldened by the Climategate experience, not only refused to provide the chronology, but refused even to provide a list of the sites that they used to construct the regional chronology.
Yamal at the Start and End of the Emails Although the climate science gingerbread man cookie jar community has represented Climategate as being about the CRU temperature record, the temperature record is only mentioned in a couple of emails.
The dossier is not about CRUTEM, it s about the Hockey Stick. And within that debate, gingerbread man cookie jar the dossier was seemingly constructed with particular attention to Yamal. Pearce s observation about the Climategate dossier gingerbread man cookie jar beginning with Yamal is literally true. The very first email (1. 0826209667.txt) is about Yamal – an opening scene wittily described by Michael H. Kelly ( not the Michael Kelly of the Oxburgh panel) in an overlooked account of the emails shortly after they became public:
Like an Aristophanes satire, like Hamlet, it opens with two slaves, spear-carriers, little people. Footsoldiers of history, two researchers in a corrupt and impoverished gingerbread man cookie jar mid-90s gingerbread man cookie jar Russia schlep through the tundra to take core samples from trees at the behest of the bigger fish in far-off East Anglia. Stepan and Rashit don’t even have their own e-mail address and like characters in some absurdist comedy must pass jointly under the name of Tatiana M. Dedkova. Conscientious and obliging, they strike a human note all through this drama. Their talk is of mundane gingerbread man cookie jar material concerns, the smallness of funds, the expense of helicopters, the scramble for grants. They are the ones who get their hands dirty, and their vicissitudes periodically revived my interest during the slower stretches of the tale, those otherwise devoted to abstruse details of committee work and other longueurs. ‘We also collected many wood samples from living and dead larches of various ages. But we were bited by many thousands of mosquitos especially small ones.’ They are perhaps the only likeable characters on the establishment side, apart from the exasperated and appalled IT man Harry in the separate ‘Harry_read_me’ document, and I cheered up whenever they appeared.
And, as Pearce observed, the closing scenes of the Climategate dossier gingerbread man cookie jar showed CRU s reaction to a series of posts at Climate Audit on Yamal in October 2009, which, together with the nearby Polar Ural site, had been a longstanding issue at Climate Audit.
The controversy in October 2009 was actually the second major CA dispute gingerbread man cookie jar involving gingerbread man cookie jar tree ring chronologies from NW Siberia. gingerbread man cookie jar The earlier criticism was of CRU’s failure to publish an amendment to the prominent Polar Urals chronology (Briffa et al Nature 1995) to show the impact of measurement data that became available subsequent to the original publication (the availability of new data and its value in firming up the Polar Urals chronology timing is referred to in a 1999 email). As reported here, the new data showed a prominent MWP, contradicting Briffa et al 1995 on a cold 11th century.
CRU s failure to report the update and the seemingly opportunistic adoption of the hockey-stick shaped Yamal chronology in its place had been the topic of many Climate Audit posts, some of which attracted CRU notice (as evidenced gingerbread man cookie jar by the emails). I unsuccessfully raised the issue in AR4 review comments. CRU s written evidence to Muir Russell defended their failure to publish or use an updated Polar Urals chronology on the simple fact that they had never updated or reanalysed their Polar Urals chronology subsequent to its publication:
On gingerbread man cookie jar the other hand, as Mosher has frequently observed, it is almost characteristic for Briffa to make totally contradictory statements within the same article and their evidence to Muir Russell is no exception. Having clearly said that they never reanalysed Polar Urals, CRU then alluded to reanalysis of the Polar Urals record. I ll try to analyse this evidence on a future occasion; in the meantime, interested readers
Hockey Stick Studies Statistics and R Contact Steve Mc Proxy Data CA blog setup FAQ 2005 Station Data High-Resolution Ocean Sediments gingerbread man cookie jar Subscribe to CA Econometric References Blog Rules and Road Map Gridded Data Tip Jar gingerbread man cookie jar About CA Assistant
Despite Jones premonition and its importance both in the Climategate dossier and the controversies immediately preceding Climategate, Yamal and Polar Urals received negligible attention from the inquiries , neither site even being mentioned by Kerry Emanuel and his fellow Oxburgh panellists.
I recently submitted an FOI request for a regional chronology combining Yamal, Polar Urals and “other shorter” chronologies referred to in an April 2006 email – a chronology that Kerry Emanuel and the “inquiries” failed to examine. The University of East Anglia, which seems to have been emboldened by the Climategate experience, not only refused to provide the chronology, but refused even to provide a list of the sites that they used to construct the regional chronology.
Yamal at the Start and End of the Emails Although the climate science gingerbread man cookie jar community has represented Climategate as being about the CRU temperature record, the temperature record is only mentioned in a couple of emails.
The dossier is not about CRUTEM, it s about the Hockey Stick. And within that debate, gingerbread man cookie jar the dossier was seemingly constructed with particular attention to Yamal. Pearce s observation about the Climategate dossier gingerbread man cookie jar beginning with Yamal is literally true. The very first email (1. 0826209667.txt) is about Yamal – an opening scene wittily described by Michael H. Kelly ( not the Michael Kelly of the Oxburgh panel) in an overlooked account of the emails shortly after they became public:
Like an Aristophanes satire, like Hamlet, it opens with two slaves, spear-carriers, little people. Footsoldiers of history, two researchers in a corrupt and impoverished gingerbread man cookie jar mid-90s gingerbread man cookie jar Russia schlep through the tundra to take core samples from trees at the behest of the bigger fish in far-off East Anglia. Stepan and Rashit don’t even have their own e-mail address and like characters in some absurdist comedy must pass jointly under the name of Tatiana M. Dedkova. Conscientious and obliging, they strike a human note all through this drama. Their talk is of mundane gingerbread man cookie jar material concerns, the smallness of funds, the expense of helicopters, the scramble for grants. They are the ones who get their hands dirty, and their vicissitudes periodically revived my interest during the slower stretches of the tale, those otherwise devoted to abstruse details of committee work and other longueurs. ‘We also collected many wood samples from living and dead larches of various ages. But we were bited by many thousands of mosquitos especially small ones.’ They are perhaps the only likeable characters on the establishment side, apart from the exasperated and appalled IT man Harry in the separate ‘Harry_read_me’ document, and I cheered up whenever they appeared.
And, as Pearce observed, the closing scenes of the Climategate dossier gingerbread man cookie jar showed CRU s reaction to a series of posts at Climate Audit on Yamal in October 2009, which, together with the nearby Polar Ural site, had been a longstanding issue at Climate Audit.
The controversy in October 2009 was actually the second major CA dispute gingerbread man cookie jar involving gingerbread man cookie jar tree ring chronologies from NW Siberia. gingerbread man cookie jar The earlier criticism was of CRU’s failure to publish an amendment to the prominent Polar Urals chronology (Briffa et al Nature 1995) to show the impact of measurement data that became available subsequent to the original publication (the availability of new data and its value in firming up the Polar Urals chronology timing is referred to in a 1999 email). As reported here, the new data showed a prominent MWP, contradicting Briffa et al 1995 on a cold 11th century.
CRU s failure to report the update and the seemingly opportunistic adoption of the hockey-stick shaped Yamal chronology in its place had been the topic of many Climate Audit posts, some of which attracted CRU notice (as evidenced gingerbread man cookie jar by the emails). I unsuccessfully raised the issue in AR4 review comments. CRU s written evidence to Muir Russell defended their failure to publish or use an updated Polar Urals chronology on the simple fact that they had never updated or reanalysed their Polar Urals chronology subsequent to its publication:
On gingerbread man cookie jar the other hand, as Mosher has frequently observed, it is almost characteristic for Briffa to make totally contradictory statements within the same article and their evidence to Muir Russell is no exception. Having clearly said that they never reanalysed Polar Urals, CRU then alluded to reanalysis of the Polar Urals record. I ll try to analyse this evidence on a future occasion; in the meantime, interested readers
