Responding, Sort of, to the Wegman Report
Dean
I see that coincidentally (?) the team at at the RealClimate blog are now going on the offensive. While still not linking the the actual Wegman group's report, or directly addressing any of the important points in that report (croneyism, sloppy math, obfuscation, refusal to release code and data in a timely and transparent fashion, isolation of a tiny clique-ish community that controls all the funding, etc.) they're now angry because they've not gotten a response to a request they made of Wegman all of three weeks ago.
Meanwhile, the ClimateAudit folks note that they've been waiting three years for data that they've been asking for from the AGW proponents.
This is getting interesting to watch.
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I think the whole thing is fascinating. What we know, what we don't know, the way people behave, what they don't want us to know.
It's amazing how many assumptions it's possible to sweep under the carpet in the quest to publish studies. It's also amazing how much intelligent people can disagree upon. But the key is for those people to have a dialog and to work out their differences, rather than pick camps and then just sit there slinging slurs at each other.
Each side of this issue accuses the other of being discredited. The difference is that one side actually produces evidence, and the other relies on their reputation and status. I know which horse I'd put my money on in that race.