Climategate: The Ongoing Search for Peer Review

By: Neil Stevens (Diary)  |  January 26th at 06:44 PM  | 

I hear they’re telling a joke at the International Panel on Climate Change: Knock knock. Who’s there? Peer Review. Peer Review who? Your guess is as good as mine. But seriously, I thought it was bad enough when a single reference to a piece of speculative fiction about Himalayan glaciers made it into a “peer-reviewed” IPCC report. But it turns out to be a trend. | Read More »

Longest recorded streak of sunspot inactivity broken

By: Neil Stevens (Diary)  |  September 2nd at 01:58 PM  | 

Via Slashdot comes the report that The Sun has broken a 95 year old record. Quoting the Daily Tech: The sun has reached a milestone not seen for nearly 100 years: an entire month has passed without a single visible sunspot being noted. The event is significant as many climatologists now believe solar magnetic activity – which determines the number of sunspots — is an | Read More »