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Bishop Hill was founded on November 21, 2006 by Andrew Montford author of The Hockey Stick Illusion. At first focusing on british politics Montford, after following a link from a blog posted by Tim Worstall to Climate Audit turned his focus to Climate Change from a Skeptical Viewpoint. Montford`s layperson's explanations of the Hockey Stick debate have won wide acclaim specifically his summaries of posts from Climate Audit which he called "Caspar And The Jesus Paper"

Involvement in "Climategate" controversy

Roger Harrabin writing for the BBC on when the Parliamentary Committee investigating the Climategate Controversy published their findings said, sceptics 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."

Bradly Fikes, a reporter for the North County Times 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"

Andrew Orlowski, writing for The Register after it was revealed Lord Oxburgh who had been choosen by the University of East Anglia to head its enquiry 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. With Bishop Hill writing "GLOBE - a vehicle for avoiding Freedom of information"

A post on the blog led to the resignation of Philip Campbell, the editor in chief of Nature 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 sceptic Andrew Montford and shown on Channel 4 News, risked undermining Muir's claim that the inquiry team was impartial"

Comments and Criticism

Richard Littlemore writing on his DeSmogBlog 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?"

James Delingpole in his Telegraph 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 DEFRA. 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"

Anthony Watts wrote on his Watts Up With That 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)"

References

1. ^ Montford, Andrew (Aug 11, 2008). "Caspar and the Jesus paper". bishophill.squarespace.com. Retrieved 14 April 2010. Cite error: The named reference "Andrew Montford" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
2. Ridley, Matt (3RD FEBRUARY 2010). "The global warming guerrillas". www.spectator.co.uk. Retrieved 9 April 2010. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
3. Harrabin, Roger (31 March 2010). "Climate science must be more open, say MPs". news.bbc.co.uk. p. 1. Retrieved 12 April 2010.
4. Fikes, Bradley (April 4th, 2010). "Greenpeace Thug Threatens Global Warming Skeptics "We know where you live"" (in Engish). www.nctimes.com. p. 1. Retrieved 12 April 2010. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)
5. Orlowski, Andrew (26th March 2010). "Anglia defends Oxburgh's eco network ties". The Register. Retrieved 12 April 2010. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
6. Batty, David (12 February 2010). "Climate emails review panellist quits after his impartiality questioned". www.guardian.co.uk. Retrieved 7 April 2010. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
7. Littlemore, Richard (13 August 08). "This is not a hockey Stick" (in English (US)). www.desmogblog.com. Retrieved 12 April 2010. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)
8. Delingpole, James (November 25th, 2009). "Climategate: how they all squirmed". www.blogs.telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 12 April 2010. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
9. Delingpole, James (February 11th, 2010). "IPCC Fourth Assessment Report is rubbish – says yet another expert". jamesdelingpole.com. Retrieved 13 April 2010. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
10. Watts, Anthony (22 11 2009). "Bishop Hill's compendium of CRU email issues" (in English (US)). wattsupwiththat.com. Retrieved 13 April 2010. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)

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