SkS Weekly Digest #22
Posted on 31 October 2011 by John Hartz
SkS Highlights
For the second week in a row, the findings of the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature study (BEST) were again the primary topic of discussion on SkS with the publication of two additional SkS articles, Bad, Badder, BEST and Yes, It's Still Us, and It's Still Bad. In addition, the recent dialogue between SkS and R. Roger Pielke Sr. was wrapped-up in Pielke Sr. and SkS Dialogue Final Summary.
Toon of the Week

The Week in Review
Here's a list of aticles posted on SkS during the past week.
Coming Soon
Here's a list of articles that are in the SkS pipeline. Most, but not necessarily all, will be posted during the week.
- Extreme Events to Increase with Global Warming (Rob P)
- Sorting out Settled Science from Remaining Uncertainties (Dana)
- Watts, Surface Stations and BEST (logicman)
- Singer's comments on BEST results: a debacle (Riccardo)
- Baked Curry: The BEST Way to Hide the Incline (Dana)
- Eschenbach's BEST? (Rob Honeycutt, Dana, Glenn, Kevin C)
- Economic Growth and Climate Change, Part 1 (perseus)
- Is there a case against human caused global warming in the peer-reviewed literature? Part 1 (James Powell)
- The Last Interglacial: Part Five - A Crystal Ball? (Steve Brown)
- New tool clears the air on cloud simulations (John H)
SkS in the News
Yes, It's Still Us, and It's Still Bad was re-posted by TreeHugger.
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Plenty of accusations against him of lying and dishonesty - all being allowed to stand.
Lots of belief that McIntyre is going to sort all of it out - he's auditing the BEST data as we speak, don't you know.
And Curry is now referring to the BEST team as "they". Not "us". Can she get any more slippery ?
Even a brief skim of their sites should have been enough to demonstrate that Watts and (to a lesser extent) Curry are bad jokes, rather than 'heroes'. He either didn't look or didn't care... and now he's paying the price. He angered many in the scientific community by repeating denier fiction... and now he has alienated the denier community by repeating scientific facts.
And Watts might want to keep an eye on some of his sycophants. Some of their guff is skirting toward libel.