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According to PSU's Mann, that statistical "trick" that Jones refers to in one e-mail - which has been trumpeted by skeptics - simply referred to the replacing of proxy temperature data from tree rings in recent years with more accurate data from air temperatures. It's an analytical technique that...
As for Mann and Jones' apparent effort to punish the journal Climate Research, the paper that ignited his indignation is a 2003 study that turned out to be underwritten by the American Petroleum Institute. Eventually half the editorial board of the journal quit in protest. And even if CRU's...
It's true that the e-mails reveal CRU climate scientists were dismissive of skeptics, often in harsh terms, but that's not unusual for scientists. Science is a rough arena, as anyone who has ever survived a doctoral examination knows, and scientists aren't shy about attacking ideas they...
What's going on? Part of it is the fact that "gold's gyrations are the Dow Jones index of anxiety," as this magazine put it three decades ago amid the last big gold fever. When investors are scared - about inflation, about political turmoil, about financial breakdown - they return to...
Just a minute after that penalty expired, the Gophers again were sent to the box, but Minnesota remained aggressive offensively. Junior Emily West stole the puck in Harvard territory and almost pushed it in, and after Raty saved a Ryabkina slapshot, it took a diving stop by co-captain Kathryn...