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Originally Posted by pmaust
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Ah yes... good ole Rog Pielke. I have encountered his name before in another GW debate thread where he said the following in conclusion to the link I provided:
Climate Science: Roger Pielke Sr. Research Group News » NOAA Cover Up Of US Historical Climate Network Surface Station Photographs
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This is clearly a procedure to avoid making these photographs available. Indeed, in the papers that have been published with photographs of these HCN sites, care was taken to not publish the address or name of the observer.
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The new NOAA policy is a deliberate attempt to avoid presenting this information for scrutiny.
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The references, IMO, don't warrant that conclusion, and I am inclined to agree with and accept the response Roger Pielke Sr received via email from NOAA which stated the following:
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Originally Posted by Email from NOAA to Roger Pielke, Sr.
The policy is an attempt to protect volounteers from harrassment by the kind of conspiracy nuts that Surface Stations is likely to inspire.
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There's also this (fancy that... he's a political scientist, not a climatologist):
Roger Pielke Jr - SourceWatch.
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During congressional hearings on political interference with government scientists by members of the Bush Administration, Pielke testified that Bush's actions are not different from prior administrations. It was later revealed that his testimony had been sought by Republicans on the committee.
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Pielke is regularly cited by conservative activists to undercut the science on global warming and policies that might mitigate climate change.
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A study he published in the journal Proceedings of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society contains numerous references that were not peer-reviewed.
The main citation for the paper is a study that Pielke published in the skeptic journal Energy and Environment which not carried in the ISI listing of peer-reviewed journals. A review of the paper finds that Pielke cites the Energy and Environment study four different times in his latest paper.
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At the 2007 Fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union, Pielke Jr. gave a joint presentation on hurricanes and climate change with global warming skeptic Stephen McIntyre.
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McIntyre's is another name favored by skeptics and thoroughly debunked by experts in the field. However, to his credit, he did find an error in a data point regarding temperature in the early 20th century and he contacted NASA to have it corrected. The rest of his work, unfortunately, is wrought with falsehoods and misrepresentations.
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Originally Posted by pmaust
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You'll notice that this was never published in a peer reviewed journal. That should be your first clue to it's validity (or lack thereof).
Cheers.
