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Strange Scholarship in the Wegman Report V1.0 09/26/10
#[BRA2007] Allan M. Brandt, The Cigarette Century- The Rise, Fall, and
Deadly Persistence of the Product that Defined America, 2007.
It is very difficult to understand the history of anti-science in the USA
without understanding cigarette wars that trained people and think tanks in
the methods. See Index for ―more doctors smoke Camels‖ and
―Controversy constructed by tobacco industry.‖
*[BRA2010] Philip Bratby, Memorandum to Parliament (CRU 17),
www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200910/cmselect/cmsctech/memo/c
limatedata/contents.htm
*[COF2009] Jerry Coffey, comments on blog 10/24/09
Coffey was the link to Wegman, as per[SAI2007, p.3]::
―Dr. Edward Wegman was approached by Dr. Jerry Coffey on 1 September
2005 concerning possible testimony in Congress about a statistical issue
associated with paleoclimate reconstruction.
– This approach was based on independent recommendations from Dr. Fritz
Scheuren, ASA 100th President and from the National Academy of Science
where Dr. Wegman chaired CATS.‖
This is not how NAS does official NRC panels, [NOR2006] , so the NAS
reference above seems strange. Likewise, the reference to Scheuren seems
strange. If Congress wanted to work through Scheuren, it could have asked
him to talk to Wegman, but instead, the approach was indirect. I do not
know whether Congress selected Wegman, and then asked Coffey to
approach him, or whether they asked Coffey to suggest someone.
GMU hosts the website of the Washington Statistical Society, in which
both Coffey and Wegman have been involved, as well as Fritz Scheuren:
scs.gmu.edu/~wss/02book.pdf
science.gmu.edu/~wss/index.html
Coffey has clear views on politics and AGW:
www.rpvnetwork.org/profile/DrJerryLCoffey
www.personalliberty.com/news/study-suggests-gun-possession-may-notprotect-against-assault-19409715/#comment-40161
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―I guess the best evidence of that is the Gore global warming boondoggle (in
the early 1980s I was the reviewer for the US climate change program).‖
www.personalliberty.com/news/study-suggests-gun-possession-may-notprotect-against-assault-19409715/#comment-40314
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―My favorite short read on global warming is Lawrence Solomon‘s ―The
Deniers.‖ I particularly enjoyed the chapter on Ed Wegman since I had a
ringside seat when Ed‘s analysis got started. Others books you might enjoy are
the last couple by Patrick Michaels; Fred Singer and Dennis Avery on the 1500
year cycle; and Spencer‘s latest. … But there may still be hope. My money (if I
had any) would be on the latest iteration of the Svensmark Galactic Cosmic
Ray theory and the CLOUD experiment at CERN.‖
Covers of several of these books appear in [WEG2007, p.4], although the
slides themselves have an odd history, A.4.
Given a long association, perhaps they had discussed the AGW topic.
+[BRA1999] Raymond S. Bradley, Paleoclimatology – Reconstructing
Climates of the Quaternary, Second Edition, 1999. This is a famous,
widely used book, cited in the WR as Bradley (1999).
#[DEE2009] Deep Climate, ―Contrarian scholarship: Revisiting the
Wegman Report,‖ 12/17/09.
deepclimate.org/2009/12/17/wegman-report-revisited/
#[DEE2009a] Deep Climate, ―Wegman (and Rapp) on tree rings: A
divergence problem, part 1,‖ 12/22/09.
deepclimate.org/2009/12/22/wegman-and-rapp-on-tree-rings-a-divergenceproblem-part-1
#[DEE2009b] Deep Climate, ―A Comparison of (WR) 2.1 p.13-4 and
(Bradley) section 10.2,‖ 12/22/09. Newer file uses highlighting:
deepclimate.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/wegman-bradley-tree-rings-v2-
1.pdf
deepclimate.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/wegman-bradley-tree-rings.pdf
#[DEE2010] Deep Climate, ―Wegman (and Rapp) on proxies: A
divergence problem part 2,‖ 01/06/10.
deepclimate.org/2010/01/06/wegman-and-rapp-on-proxies-a-divergenceproblem-part-2
#[DEE2010a] Deep Climate, ―A comparison of (WR) section 2.1, p14-5
and (Bradley) 5.1,5.2,6.8‖ 01/06/10. Filesv2 and v31 use highlighting:
deepclimate.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/wegman-bradley-ice-corescorals-v31.pdf