Chris de Freitas

James Annan writes that their paper debunking McLean, De Freitas and Carter has been published and: Amusingly, the comment will be published alone, without the customary Reply. Why? Because...McLean et al couldn't muster a reply that was publishable (and not for want of trying, either - it was simply rejected). I'm sure Energy and Environment will publish it quick smart. Ove Hoegh-Guldberg is less kind: 1) Will McLean et al. retract the paper (and will Bob Carter admit fault or even discuss the errors publicly)? 2) Will the denial0sphere and the MSM give this story (a climate change scandal…

John McLean, the guy who kept guiding Andrew Bolt off cliffs, has this time taken Bob Carter and Chris de Freitas with him. As tamino explains, they say that recent warming trends can be attributed to natural variation, but their analysis removed the trend from the data. See also McLean's defence and Robert Grumbine's lucid post. James Annan exposes another error - they fit a step function to that data and conclude that there is step in the data merely because there is a step in the fitted step function. John Lott made the same mistake in his "more guns, less crime" argument, as I showed…