Jan Esper, prominent in
early Climate Audit posts as an adamant serial non-archiver, has joined with 17 other tree ring specialists, to publish «Ranking of tree - ring based temperature reconstructions of the past millennium» (pdf).
As to the issue of choosing series ex post, this has been a longstanding concern, originating with my first encounter with Jacoby and D'Arrigo, discussed in one of
the earliest Climate Audit posts in Feb 2005 here https://climateaudit.org/2005/02/06/jacoby-1-a-few-good-series/.
What is new in the present article (for the IPCC crowd) is the point that I made in
the earlier Climate Audit post — that the Folland et al schedule for bucket - engine inlet transition was highly implausible and the adjustments used in all IPCC histories are almost certainly incorrect.
Not exact matches
I believe this characterization is unfair, as Steve McIntyre publicly posted on
Climate Audit early in this process that he felt it should not be surprising that the Antarctic was warming along with the rest of the world, and his goal was to determine if the method used by S09 was appropriate.
David Smith, whose use of the term was cited with interest by Lucia in 2008 (see http://rankexploits.com/musings/2008/lukewarmer-new-word/#comment-1874), had previously used the term from time to time in comments at
Climate Audit, his
earliest use being on August 23, 2006 http://climateaudit.org/2006/08/23/benders-plot-of-hurricane-count/#comment-61576.
The vote follows a report released
earlier that day by the cross-party House of Commons Environmental
Audit Committee calling for a ban on fracking due to the risks it poses to Britain's efforts to tackle
climate change.
One of my introductions to the strange world of climatism was a discussion at
Climate Audit, where Steve McIntyre and his colleagues were trying to puzzle out the effect of a changeover in the
early 20th century from leather to oaken buckets for gathering water samples for measuring ocean temperature.
Nonetheless, as it happens, in the
early days of
Climate Audit, I posted on both Bre - X and Enron.