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'''Bishop Hill''' is ] operated by ], author of ]. The blog was founded on November 21, 2006. At first focusing on British politics, Montford, after following a link from a blog posted by ] to ] changed the blog's focus to ] from a ]. Montford`s layperson's explanations of the Hockey Stick debate have received comment in the media, specifically his summaries of posts from ] which he called the "Caspar And The Jesus Paper" <ref name="Andrew Montford1">{{cite web|url=http://bishophill.squarespace.com/blog/2008/8/11/caspar-and-the-jesus-paper.html|title=Caspar and the Jesus paper|last=Montford|first=Andrew|date=August 11, 2008|publisher=bishophill.squarespace.com|accessdate=14 April 2010}}</ref><ref name="Matt Ridley">{{cite news|url=http://www.spectator.co.uk/print/politics/all/5749853/the-global-warming-guerrillas.thtml|title=The global warming guerrillas|last=Ridley|first=Matt|date=3RD FEBRUARY 2010|publisher=www.spectator.co.uk|accessdate=9 April 2010}}</ref>

==Climate change advocacy==

] writing for the ] on when the Parliamentary Committee investigating the ] published their findings said, skeptics on the website ridiculed the MPs' findings. One asked: "Is it April fools already?" With another commenting, "No-one with half a brain cell will view this conclusion as anything other than a hasty and not very subtle establishment cover-up." <ref name="Roger Harrabin ">{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8595483.stm|title=Climate science must be more open, say MPs|last=Harrabin |first=Roger |date=31 March 2010|publisher=news.bbc.co.uk|pages=1|accessdate=12 April 2010}}</ref>

Bradly Fikes, a reporter for the '']'' wrote "The truth that the Greenpeace fanatics (and some at the New York Times) can’t process is that opposition to global warming alarmism is a decentralized guerrilla campaign against global warming extremism. There is no central command of large corporations directing anti-warmist blogs such as Watts Up With That?, or EUReferendum or Bishop Hill, etc" <ref name="Bradley Fikes">{{cite news|url=http://www.nctimes.com/app/blogs/wp/?p=8640|title=Greenpeace Thug Threatens Global Warming Skeptics “We know where you live”|last=Fikes|first=Bradley |date=April 4, 2010|publisher=www.nctimes.com|pages=1|language=Engish|accessdate=12 April 2010}}</ref>

], writing for '']'' after it was revealed ] who had been chosen by the ] to head its inquiry into Climategate, actually had a leading role in a global warming campaign network called Globe International. This was quickly picked up by climate skeptic blogs.<ref name="Andrew Orlowski">{{cite news|url=http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/03/26/uea_oxburgh_statement/|title=Anglia defends Oxburgh's eco network ties|last=Orlowski |first=Andrew |date=26 March 2010|publisher=The Register|accessdate=12 April 2010}}</ref> With Bishop Hill writing "GLOBE – a vehicle for avoiding ]" <ref name="Andrew Montford">{{cite web|url=http://bishophill.squarespace.com/blog/2010/3/24/globe-a-vehicle-for-avoiding-foi.html#comments|title=GLOBE – a vehicle for avoiding FoI|last=Montford|first=Andrew|date=March 24, 2010|publisher=bishophill|accessdate=12 April 2010}}</ref>

A post on the blog led to the resignation of ], the editor in chief of '']'' from the panel. In an interview with Chinese state radio when asked about the controversy, Campbell said that he believed nothing untoward had happened. The Guardian newspaper commented "The interview, posted on the Bishop Hill blog run by the climate skeptic Andrew Montford and shown on Channel 4 News, risked undermining Muir's claim that the inquiry team was impartial" <ref name="The Guardian">{{cite web|url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/feb/12/climate-change-climategate-nature-global-warming|title=Climate emails review panellist quits after his impartiality questioned|last=Batty|first=David|coauthors=David Adam|date=12 February 2010|publisher=www.guardian.co.uk|accessdate=7 April 2010}}</ref>

== Traffic ==
As of April 2010, Bishop Hill was unranked at Alexa, a website which measures web traffic.<ref name=alexia>http://www.alexa.com/search?q=bishophill.squarespace.com&r=site_site&p=bigtop</ref>

As of April 2010, Quantcast, a website which also measures web traffic, ranked the site, with what it said was an estimate, was unranked in websites viewed in the US. Quantcast stated that Bishop Hill receives about 3,000 views a month from people in the US.<ref name = quantcast>http://www.quantcast.com/bishophill.squarespace.com</ref>

==Comments and Criticism==

Richard Littlemore writing on his ] said, "In a desperate effort to distract attention from the real issue, Steve McIntyre and one of his more loquacious acolytes (Bishop Hill) have renewed their attack on the fabled hockey stick" and finished his article with the question "Have you any legitimate criticism of all the other science that supports Mann's work? Any criticism at all?" <ref name="Richard Littlemore">{{cite web|url=http://www.desmogblog.com/this-is-not-a-hockey-stick|title=This is not a hockey Stick|last=Littlemore|first=Richard|date=13 August 08|publisher=www.desmogblog.com|language=English (US)|accessdate=12 April 2010}}</ref>

] in his '']'' blog wrote "Fortunately the great Bishop Hill has been doing some digging" when the blog found out that George Marshall, founder and director of projects at the Climate Outreach and Information Network had been funded to the tune of £700,000 over two years by ].<ref name="The Telegraph1">{{cite news|url=http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100017912/climategate-how-they-all-squirmed/|title=Climategate: how they all squirmed|last=Delingpole|first=James|date=November 25, 2009|publisher=www.blogs.telegraph.co.uk|accessdate=12 April 2010}}</ref> And "Breaking news from the splendid Bishop Hill. It seems the AGW establishment has launched an urgent damage limitation exercise in order to whitewash the Climategate scandal in time for Copenhagen."<ref name="James Delingpole1">{{cite web|url=http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100018144/climategate-the-whitewash-begins/|title=Climategate: the whitewash begins|last=Delingpole|first=James|date=November 27th, 2009|publisher=The Telegraph|language=English|accessdate=20 April 2010}}</ref> He has also commented on his personal blog saying, "Bishop Hill has unearthed a jaw-dropping critique of the IPCC’s Fourth Assessment Report. His post’s so delightful there’s no need for embellishment" <ref name="James Delingpole2">{{cite web|url=http://jamesdelingpole.com/blog/ipcc-fourth-assessment-report-is-rubbish-%E2%80%93-says-yet-another-expert-775/|title=IPCC Fourth Assessment Report is rubbish – says yet another expert|last=Delingpole|first=James|date=February 11, 2010|publisher=jamesdelingpole.com|accessdate=13 April 2010}}</ref>

] wrote on his ] blog of Bishop Hill, "let me say that he is a succinct and careful writer who has earned praise from many (including myself and Steve McIntyre)" <ref name="Anthony Watts">{{cite web|url=http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/11/22/bishop-hills-compendium-of-cru-email-issues/|title=Bishop Hill’s compendium of CRU email issues|last=Watts|first=Anthony|date=22 11 2009|publisher=wattsupwiththat.com|language=English (US)|accessdate=13 April 2010}}</ref>

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