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| ], writing for '']'' after it was revealed ] who had been chosen by the ] to head |
], writing for '']'' after it was revealed ] who had been chosen by the ] to head a Science Assessment Panel set up to conduct an inquiry into the scientific integrity of the ] at UEA, 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> - sentence fragment, no obvious meaning --> | ||
| A post on the blog led to the resignation of ], the editor in chief of '']'' from the |
A post on the blog led to the resignation of ], the editor in chief of '']'' from the Independent Climate Change Email Review headed by Sir Muir Russell.{{Specify|date=April 2010}} 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 Guardian2">{{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> | ||
| Paul Dennis, a scientist and Head of ''Stable Isotope and Noble Gas Geochemistry Laboratories''<ref name="Orlowski_2010-02-05_Register" /> at the ] who was questioned by the police over the controversy posted his account of the interview on Montfords blog, Bishop Hill. He said, "they thought I might have some information on the basis that I had sent a copy of a paper I had exchanged emails with Steve McIntyre over the leak/hack"<ref name="The Guardian3">{{cite web|url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/feb/04/climate-change-email-hacking-leaks|title=Detectives question climate change scientist over email leaks|last=Leigh|first=David|coauthors=Charles Arthur and Rob Evans|date=4 February 2010|newspaper=The Guardian|accessdate=7 April 2010|location=UK}}</ref> Dennis had also refused to sign a petition supporting ] saying "science isn't done by consensus".<ref name="Daily Mail">{{cite news|url=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1248740/Climategate-Police-question-scientist-email-leak-scandal.html|title=Police question global warming 'sceptic' scientist over 'Climategate' email leak|newspaper=Daily Mail|accessdate=11 April 2010}}</ref><ref name="The Guardian3" /> | Paul Dennis, a scientist and Head of ''Stable Isotope and Noble Gas Geochemistry Laboratories''<ref name="Orlowski_2010-02-05_Register" /> at the ] who was questioned by the police over the controversy posted his account of the interview on Montfords blog, Bishop Hill. He said, "they thought I might have some information on the basis that I had sent a copy of a paper I had exchanged emails with Steve McIntyre over the leak/hack"<ref name="The Guardian3">{{cite web|url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/feb/04/climate-change-email-hacking-leaks|title=Detectives question climate change scientist over email leaks|last=Leigh|first=David|coauthors=Charles Arthur and Rob Evans|date=4 February 2010|newspaper=The Guardian|accessdate=7 April 2010|location=UK}}</ref> Dennis had also refused to sign a petition supporting ] saying "science isn't done by consensus".<ref name="Daily Mail">{{cite news|url=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1248740/Climategate-Police-question-scientist-email-leak-scandal.html|title=Police question global warming 'sceptic' scientist over 'Climategate' email leak|newspaper=Daily Mail|accessdate=11 April 2010}}</ref><ref name="The Guardian3" /> | ||
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| Type of site | Blog |
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| Created by | Andrew Montford |
| URL | http://bishophill.squarespace.com/ |
Bishop Hill is a widely-read blog operated by Andrew Montford, author of The Hockey Stick Illusion. The blog was founded on November 21, 2006. At first focusing on British politics, Montford, after following a link from a blog posted by Tim Worstall to Climate Audit changed the blog's focus to Climate Change from a skeptical viewpoint. Montford`s layperson's explanations of the Hockey Stick debate have received favorable comment from readers such as Anthony Watts, Roger A. Pielke, Jr. and in The Spectator, specifically his summaries of posts from Climate Audit which he called "Caspar And The Jesus Paper" and "The Yamal Implosion"
Climate change advocacy
Andrew Orlowski, writing for The Register after it was revealed Lord Oxburgh who had been chosen by the University of East Anglia to head a Science Assessment Panel set up to conduct an inquiry into the scientific integrity of the Climatic Research Unit at UEA, actually had a leading role in a global warming campaign network called Globe International. This was quickly picked up by climate skeptic blogs.
A post on the blog led to the resignation of Philip Campbell, the editor in chief of Nature from the Independent Climate Change Email Review headed by Sir Muir Russell. 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"
Paul Dennis, a scientist and Head of Stable Isotope and Noble Gas Geochemistry Laboratories at the University of East Anglia who was questioned by the police over the controversy posted his account of the interview on Montfords blog, Bishop Hill. He said, "they thought I might have some information on the basis that I had sent a copy of a paper I had exchanged emails with Steve McIntyre over the leak/hack" Dennis had also refused to sign a petition supporting Professor Phil Jones saying "science isn't done by consensus".
Comments and criticism
Dr Judith Curry in an interview with Keith Kloor when asked about the Criticisms of the Oxburgh report said "When I first read the report, I thought I was reading the executive summary and proceeded to look for the details; well, there weren’t any. And I was concerned that the report explicitly did not address the key issues that had been raised by the skeptics. "Upon reading Andrew Montford’s analysis, I learned: “So we have an extraordinary coincidence – that both the UEA submission to the Select Committee and Lord Oxburgh’s panel independently came up with almost identical lists of papers to look at, and that they independently neglected key papers like Jones 1998 and Osborn and Briffa 2006.”" 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. 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." 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)"
Steve McIntyre on his blog Climate Audit wrote "Reader Perry writes in reporting an interesting narrative of the Caspar Ammann affair at Bishop Hill’s blog. It is a detailed narrative written in a lively style of a story that’s been followed here for a few years and re-visited last week with the release of the Ammann SI. The article is very flattering to the proprietor of this blog, I appreciate the interest and the thought. Most readers of the blog will enjoy the story, I did."
References
- Webster, Ben (2010-03-23). "Lord Oxburgh, the climate science peer, 'has a conflict of interest'". timesonline.co.uk. The Times. Retrieved 2010-04-22.
Andrew Montford, a climate-change sceptic who writes the widely-read Bishop Hill blog, said that Lord Oxburgh had a "direct financial interest in the outcome" of his inquiry.
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|coauthors=(help) - Watts, Anthony (30 09 2009). "A must read: The Yamal Hockey Stick Implosion in laymans terms". Watts Up With That. Retrieved 19 April 2010.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - Pielke, Jr., Roger A. (30 SEPTEMBER 2009). "Has Steve McIntyre Found Something Really Important?". Roger A. Pielke, Jr. Retrieved 19 April 2010.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - "Casper and the Jesus paper". http://bishophill.squarespace.com. Retrieved 1 April 2010.
{{cite web}}: External link in|publisher= - Ridley, Matt (3 February 2010). "The Global Warming Guerrillas". The Spectator. Retrieved 9 April 2010.
- Montford, Andrew (September 29, 2009). "The Yamal implosion". Bishop Hill. Retrieved 19 April 2010.
- Orlowski, Andrew (26 March 2010). "Anglia defends Oxburgh's eco network ties". The Register. Retrieved 12 April 2010.
- 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) - Orlowski, Andrew (2010-02-05). "Climategate witchhunt fingers scientist Police quiz tests the faith". theregister.co.uk. The Register. Retrieved 2010-04-22.
Paul Dennis, Head of Stable Isotope and Noble Gas Geochemistry Laboratories at UEA, at Bishop Hill blog.
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|coauthors=(help) - ^ Leigh, David (4 February 2010). "Detectives question climate change scientist over email leaks". The Guardian. UK. Retrieved 7 April 2010.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|coauthors=ignored (|author=suggested) (help) - "Police question global warming 'sceptic' scientist over 'Climategate' email leak". Daily Mail. Retrieved 11 April 2010.
- Kloor, Keith (April 23, 2010). "An Inconvenient Provocateur". www.collide-a-scape.com. Retrieved 23 April 2010.
- Delingpole, James (November 25, 2009). "Climategate: how they all squirmed". www.blogs.telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 12 April 2010.
- Delingpole, James (November 27, 2009). "Climategate: the whitewash begins". The Telegraph. Retrieved 20 April 2010.
- Delingpole, James (February 11, 2010). "IPCC Fourth Assessment Report is rubbish – says yet another expert". jamesdelingpole.com. Retrieved 13 April 2010.
- 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) - McIntyre, Steve (August 12, 2008). "Bishop Hill: Caspar and the Jesus Paper". Climate Audit. Retrieved 21 April 2010.