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== Publications == == Publications ==

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For other people named William Connolly, see William Connolly (disambiguation).

William Connolley
Connolley in May 2008
Born (1964-04-12) 12 April 1964 (age 60)
NationalityBritish
EducationM.A. (Oxon.), D.Phil. (Oxon.)
Alma materUniversity of Oxford
OccupationSoftware engineer
Known forBlog activity about climate change
Political partyGreen Party of England and Wales

William Michael Connolley (born 12 April 1964) is a British software engineer, writer, and blogger on climate science. Until December 2007 he was Senior Scientific Officer in the Physical Sciences Division in the Antarctic Climate and the Earth System project at the British Antarctic Survey, where he worked as a climate modeller. After this he became a software engineer for Cambridge Silicon Radio.

Connolley received national press attention over several years for his involvement in editing Misplaced Pages articles relating to climate change. Connolley was a member of the RealClimate website until 2007 and now operates a website and blog that discuss climate issues. He has also been active in local politics as a member of the Green Party.

Background

Connolley holds an undergraduate degree in mathematics and a DPhil from St Edmund Hall at the University of Oxford for his work on numerical analysis. He works as a software engineer for Cambridge Silicon Radio, designing embedded firmware. Connolley has two children.

Until December 2007, Connolley was Senior Scientific Officer in the Physical Sciences Division in the Antarctic Climate and the Earth System project at the British Antarctic Survey. His research focused on sea ice measurement and modelling, including the HadCM3 global climate model. Connolley also worked on the validation of satellite data against more direct upward looking sonar observations in the Weddell Sea area. He concluded that Bootstrap data produced a better fit than data produced by NASA and that GCM predictions are more realistic than previously thought.

Connolley served as a parish councillor in the village of Coton (near Cambridge, England) until May 2007. He was also a Green Party candidate for South Cambridgeshire District Council or Cambridgeshire County Council every year from 2001 to 2005.

Writing and editing

Connolley has authored and co-authored articles and literature reviews in the field of climatological research, including several concluding that a majority of scientific papers in the 1970s actually predicted warming, not global cooling. Connolley was a member of the RealClimate website until 2007, and he operates a website and blog that discuss climate issues.

Connolley has also been repeatedly cited as an example of an expert who edits and serves as an administrator on the online encyclopedia Misplaced Pages, especially in the area of climate change where his involvement gained occasional wide prominence in the media. He was cited by Nature as an example of an expert who edited, in their 2005 review of the reliability of Misplaced Pages. Nature again cited Connolley in 2006, as saying that "some scientists have become frustrated with Misplaced Pages" but that "conflict can sometimes result in better articles". In July 2006 a New Yorker article described him as briefly becoming "a victim of an edit war over the entry on global warming"; Connolley told the magazine that Misplaced Pages "gives no privilege to those who know what they’re talking about". Two internal disputes at Misplaced Pages also gained a degree of reporting. A 2005 Misplaced Pages climate change dispute involving breaches of etiquette rather than bias was cited by a paper in the Journal of Science Communication as an example that "resonated deeply as it highlighted what can befall respected experts who wade into controversial wiki-waters", the paper noting that Connolley did "not suffer fools gladly". The same paper noted a subsequent 2009 dispute in which Connolley had used administrator rights to his own advantage in content disputes, and these rights were removed.

Publications

References

  1. Connolley, William M. (1989). "Preconditioning of iterative methods for linearized or linear systems. — D. Phil Thesis" (Document). Oxford: Oxford University Numerical Analysis Group. p. 208. {{cite document}}: Unknown parameter |url= ignored (help)
  2. Connolley, William. Profile of Connolley at his blog Stoat, accessed 8 December 2010
  3. "Dr William Connolley / Senior Scientific Officer / Climate Modeller / Physical Sciences Division". British Antarctic Survey. Retrieved 24 October 2010.
  4. Connolley, William M. "Sea ice concentrations in the Weddell Sea: A comparison of SSM/I, ULS, and GCM data" (PDF). Retrieved 26 October 2010.
  5. Internet Archive copy of Coton Parish Website
  6. The Green Party South Cambs
  7. William Connolley (24 January 2005). "The global cooling myth". RealClimate. Retrieved 30 December 2009.
  8. William M. Connolley (2005). "Was an imminent Ice Age predicted in the '70's? No". Retrieved 2007-12-16.
  9. Peterson, Thomas C. (2008). "The Myth of the 1970s Global Cooling Scientific Consensus". Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 89 (9): 1325–1337. doi:10.1175/2008BAMS2370.1. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
  10. Connolley, William M. (6 December 2004). "William M. Connolley Filed under: * Contributor Bio's — william @ 6 December 2004". RealClimate. Archived from the original on 2007-08-16. Retrieved 2010-02-09.
  11. Connolley, William (1 December 2007). "Goodbye to all that" – announcement of departure from RealClimate. RealClimate. Retrieved 26 October 2010.
  12. William Connolley's personal website. wmconnolley.org.uk. Retrieved 26 October 2010.
  13. Stoat Taking science by the throat..." Connolley's personal blog
  14. "Connolley's webpage analysing papers relevant to a modern Ice Age". Wmconnolley.org.uk. Retrieved 22 July 2010.
  15. Giles, Jim (15 December 2005). "Internet Encyclopaedias Go Head to Head". Nature. 438 (7070): 900–01. doi:10.1038/438900a. PMID 16355180.
  16. Giles, Jim (October 5, 2006). "Misplaced Pages Rival Calls in the Experts". Nature. 443 (7111): 493. doi:10.1038/443493a. PMID 17024058.
  17. ^ Schiff, Stacy (31 July 2006). "Know It All: Can Misplaced Pages Conquer Expertise?". The New Yorker. Retrieved 26 October 2010.
  18. ^ Mathieu O'Neil: "Shirky and Sanger, or the costs of crowdsourcing". Journal of Science Communication, Volume 09, Issue 01, March 2010, International School for Advanced Studies
  19. Keen, Andrew. The Cult of the Amateur: How Today’s Internet is Killing Our Culture, p. 43. New York: Doubleday, 2007. ISBN 0385520808
  20. "William M. Connolley's page about Fourier 1827: MEMOIRE sur les temperatures du globe terrestre et des espaces planetaires". Wmconnolley.org.uk. Retrieved 2010-07-22.

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