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From Climate Scepticism<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By\u00a0TONY THOMA<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There\u2019s nothing new about mainstream climate scientists conspiring to bury papers that throw doubt on catastrophic global warming. The Climategate leaks showed co-compiler of the HadCRUT global temperature series Dr Phil Jones emailing Michael \u201cHockey Stick\u201d Mann, July 8, 2004:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I can\u2019t see either of these papers being in the next IPCC report. Kevin [Trenberth, a colleague] and I will keep them out somehow \u2014 even if we have to redefine what the peer-review literature is!\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Thanks to a science whistle-blower, there\u2019s now documentation of a current exercise as bad as that captured in the Jones-Mann correspondence. This new and horrid saga \u2013 again involving Dr Mann \u2013 sets out to deplatform and destroy\u00a0a peer-endorsed published paper by four Italian scientists.<\/a>\u00a0Their paper in\u00a0European Physical Journal Plus<\/em>\u00a0is titled\u00a0A critical assessment of extreme events trends in times of global warming<\/em><\/a>\u00a0and documents that extreme weather and related disasters are not generally increasing, contrary to the catastrophists feeding misinformation to the\u00a0Guardian<\/em>\/ABC axis and other compliant media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The witch-hunt has Australian elements. Last September,\u00a0The Australian<\/em>\u2019s environment writer, Graham Lloyd,\u00a0highlighted the paper<\/a>\u00a0(paywalled) and its conclusion that the \u201cextreme events emergency\u201d was overblown.\u00a0Sky News Australia<\/a>, which twice\u00a0reported the study,<\/a>\u00a0picked up more than 400,000 views and thousands of comments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The green-left\u00a0Guardian<\/em>\u00a0countered\u00a0with a hit-piece<\/a>by in-house cataastrophist Graham Readfearn featuring professors Lisa Alexander and Steve Sherwood, both of NSW University. They alleged cherry-picking and misquoting. Their main specific complaint was that the Italians\u2019 paper had drawn on the 2013 5th<\/sup>\u00a0IPCC Report rather than the recent 6th<\/sup>Report. (The Italians say they submitted the paper before the 6th<\/sup>\u00a0Report emerged).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Guardian<\/em>\u2019s fuss caught the attention of Agence France-Presse\u2019s (AFP) Marlowe Hood, who modestly styles himself\u00a0\u201cSenior Editor, Future of the Planet\u201d<\/a>and\u00a0\u201cHerald of the Anthropocene<\/a>\u201d. He penned his own diatribe for\u00a0The Australian<\/em>\u00a0<\/a>(paywalled but also\u00a0<\/em>here<\/em><\/a>)<\/em>\u00a0against the Italians\u2019 paper. Jumping the gun on any editorial inquiry, AFP branded the study \u201cfaulty\u201d and \u201cfundamentally flawed\u201d, involving \u201cdiscredited assertions\u201d and \u201cgrossly manipulated data\u201d. This abuse was normal since AFP and\u00a0The Guardian<\/em>\u00a0are leaders of the Covering Climate Now (CCN) coalition of some\u00a0500 media outlets with reach to a 2 billion audience.<\/a>\u00a0These outlets signed the CCN pledge to hype catastrophism and rebut and censor any scepticism about our planet\u2019s forecast fiery fate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The whistle-blowers\u2019 documents reveal how this media pile-on \u2013 as distinct from reasoned scientific complaint \u2014 led the journal\u2019s owner, Springer, to demand \u201caction\u201d. Springer\u2019s aim was to force the editor to publish at least an erratum and, preferably, retract it altogether, restoring climate right-think.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The publishers have now decided on the retraction and the axe will fall any day now. But the process was ratbaggery in place of the normal rigorous and honourable protocols. Meanwhile, unabashed Italian authors Alimonti and Mariani successfully published last week\u00a0an updated version of their paper<\/a>, also peer reviewed and in a different scientific journal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chapter and verse on the controversy is available at\u00a0The Honest Broker<\/em>\u00a0blog of Dr Roger J. Pielke Jr.,<\/a>\u00a0a world-leading expert in monetary loss trends from extreme events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Noted\u00a0climatologist Dr Judith Curry tweeted<\/a>,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reprehensible behavior by journal editors in retracting a widely read climate paper (80,000 downloads) over politically inconvenient conclusions. Journal editors asked me to adjudicate, and my findings were in favor of the author.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The controversy turns on how the IPCC 6th<\/sup>\u00a0Report is interpreted, as it seems to place two bob each-way\u00a0on trends in extremes<\/a>. In all fairness, you can read\u00a0a detailed argument here<\/a>\u00a0by an advocate for the paper\u2019s retraction. But even Andy Revkin, a leading US journalist of warmist persuasion, has\u00a0explained<\/a>,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite headlines and spin, it\u2019s still tough to disentangle global warming and natural variability in long-term heat wave patterns in the United States. That might seem surprising but was a clear conclusion of both the last U.S. National Climate Assessment and IPCC reports.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ll now background the Italian defendants in this politicised fracas. They enjoy prestigious reputations, but that doesn\u2019t mean, of course, that they\u2019re right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2666\u00a0Professor Gianluca Alimonti, Milan University<\/a>, and senior researcher, Italy\u2019s National Institute of Nuclear Physics. Many of his papers\u00a0involve work on the 7000-tonne ATLAS detector<\/a>\u00a0at CERN\u2019s Large Hadron Collider. He lists 300+ publications and presentations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2666 Renato Angelo Ricci, Padova University, Padua. He\u2019s worked with Legnaro National Laboratories, one of the four major research centers of the Italian\u00a0National Institute for Nuclear Physics<\/a>(INFN).[1]<\/sup><\/a>He\u2019s of such prestige that INFN\u00a0dedicated to him<\/a>\u00a0its\u00a0tenth annual Varenna Conference on nuclear reaction mechanisms<\/a>.[1]<\/a>\u00a0The corrupted\u00a0Wikipedia Italy<\/a>dismisses him as a climate sceptic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2666 Luigi Mariani, Milan University, also of INFN. He\u2019s with the Lombard Museum of Agricultural History and has\u00a0published 137 papers<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2666\u00a0Franco Prodi,<\/a>\u00a0National Academy of Science, Verona and\u00a0Italian National Research Council<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0<\/strong>Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate. 193 publications, 2300 citations:\u00a0\u201c<\/strong>Main fields of interest are physics of clouds and precipitation, hail and precipitation growth, aerosol physics, atmospheric radiation, severe storm studies and radar-meteorological investigations, satellite meteorology and nowcasting [very short term weather forecasting].\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Guardian<\/em>\u00a0noted that three of the four Italians had signed a \u201cno emergency\u201d\u00a0sceptic declaration<\/a>\u00a0last year, as if that disqualified them from proper research.\u00a0The Guardian<\/em>\u00a0didn\u2019t mention that the same declaration, with its 1600 signatories, was led by two Nobel Laureates in Physics,\u00a0John Clauser (2022<\/a>) and Ivar Giaever (1973).[2]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The comments of Michael \u201cHockeystick\u201d Mann, of Pennsylvania University, about Alimonti and Ricci are illuminating. He described their journal article as<\/p>\n\n\n\n

another example of scientists from totally unrelated fields coming in and naively applying inappropriate methods to data they don\u2019t understand. Either the consensus of the world\u2019s climate experts that climate change is causing a very clear increase in many types of weather extremes is wrong, or\u00a0a couple of nuclear physics dudes in Italy are wrong.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mann himself is a connoisseur of wrong (and self-evidently in need of remedial courtesy classes). His notorious 1999 Hockeystick paper purportedly proved unprecedented 20th century global heat. His 1000-year graph was used as a corporate logo by the IPCC in its 2001 Third Report[3]<\/a>, which subsequently downplayed it to near-invisibility in its Fourth Report six years later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mann had committed the scientific no-go of furtively patching measured global temperatures from 1961 to his proxy-reconstructed temperature graph derived from tree ring sampling.[4]<\/a>\u00a0This was done, in the Climategate words of Dr Phil Jones (Nov 16, 1999) to \u201chide the decline\u201d of the 20th century proxy trend, which threatened to render Mann\u2019s entire temperature reconstruction spurious.[5]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Australia\u2019s top catastrophist is Macquarie University\u2019s Distinguished Professor of Biology Lesley Hughes, whose specialty is entomology e.g.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0ant-tended butterfly ejaculations<\/a>, though more recently she\u2019s been publishing on\u00a0Lethal consequences: climate change impacts on the Great Barrier Reef<\/a>. (It\u2019s had\u00a0record coral cover<\/a>\u00a0for the past two years). Her Climate Council colleague and dud prophet Tim Flannery is a mammologist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Italians\u2019 desk review spends 20 pages arguing from 82 relevant papers. Their English is well expressed though the syntax is slightly unusual. It\u2019s their conclusions (below) that have generated such recursive fury[6]<\/a>\u00a0among the anointed climate crowd:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From the Second World War, our societies have progressed enormously, reaching levels of well-being (health, nutrition, healthiness of the places of life and work, etc.) that previous generations had not even remotely imagined. Today, we are called to continue on the path of progress respecting the constraints of economic, social and environmental sustainability with the severity dictated by the fact that the planet is about to reach 10 billion inhabitants in 2050, increasingly urbanized.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since its origins, the human species has been confronted with the negative effects of the climate; historical climatology has repeatedly used the concept of climate deterioration in order to explain negative effect of extreme events (mainly drought, diluvial phases and cold periods) on civilization. Today, we are facing a warm phase and, for the first time, we have monitoring capabilities that enable us to objectively evaluate its effects.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fearing a climate emergency without this being supported by data, means altering the framework of priorities with negative effects that could prove deleterious to our ability to face the challenges of the future, squandering natural and human resources in an economically difficult context, even more negative following the COVID emergency. This does not mean we should do nothing about climate change: we should work to minimize our impact on the planet and to minimize air and water pollution. Whether or not we manage to drastically curtail our carbon dioxide emissions in the coming decades, we need to reduce our vulnerability to extreme weather and climate events.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Leaving the baton to our children without burdening them with the anxiety of being in a climate emergency would allow them to face the various problems in place (energy, agricultural-food, health, etc.) with a more objective and constructive spirit, with the goal of arriving at a weighted assessment of the actions to be taken without wasting the limited resources at our disposal in costly and ineffective solutions. How the climate of the twenty- first century will play out is a topic of deep uncertainty. We need to increase our resiliency to whatever the future climate will present us.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We need to remind ourselves that addressing climate change is not an end in itself, and that climate change is not the only problem that the world is facing. The objective should be to improve human well-being in the twenty-first century, while protecting the environment as much as we can and it would be a nonsense not to do so: it would be like not taking care of the house where we were born and raised.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

While a tad sentimental, it\u2019s not over the top compared with say, the IPCC\u2019s UN head Antonio Guterres announcing last month that we\u2019re now suffering \u201cglobal boiling\u201d. And the late Professor Will Steffen, who steered Australian federal climate policy for two decades, alerted the Royal Society that climate change might well\u00a0end the Homo Sapiens species<\/a>.[7]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Guardian<\/em>\u2019s attack piece quoted Professor Lisa Alexander, a UNSW rainfall-extreme specialist, saying that, contrary to the paper\u2019s \u201cselective and biased\u201d claims, \u201cthere is definitely an increase in precipitation extremes\u201d and it\u2019s \u201cattributed to human activity\u201d. The paper had \u201ctotally misrepresented\u201d her own papers\u2019 findings, she said. She wanted the paper rejected or heavily revised.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So far so trenchant, but when you look up one of her two co-authored papers cited by the Italians, you discover that\u00a0it messed up its Figures 2,3,4,5,7,8 and 9 \u2013<\/a>\u00a0which is all but three of its ten Figures.[8]<\/a>\u00a0The journal had to run a corresponding erratum and update. An unkind critic might mention pots calling kettles black. Incidentally, Alexander\u2019s UNSW team, led by Andy Pitman (famed for his inadvertent candour that\u00a0\u201cwarming doesn\u2019t cause droughts\u201d<\/a>) attracted a giant ARC taxpayer grant of\u00a0$32,134,273<\/a>, no less. Her other paper, with no corrections, was supported by an ARC grant of only\u00a0$356,402<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In both papers, Professor Alexander commendably stresses the massive data uncertainties in her field of rainfall extremes, caused by unreliable rain recording, missing data across swathes of entire continents, and too-short records. As she warned,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite our best efforts, there are still parts of the world where data are sparse or the temporal coverage is inadequate for a data set designed for long-term monitoring \u2026 Efforts are underway to augment current global collections of data to improve the data available for all users.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As for allegedly misrepresenting her work, I don\u2019t see it. In the Italian paper\u2019s first reference, it accepts her conclusion about rain generally increasing.[9]<\/a>\u00a0In the second reference, the Italians show concern \u2013 as she does \u2014 about data quality for extreme downpours. (The Italians mention\u00a0inter alia<\/em>\u00a0that bugs often climb into the gauges and their corpses upset the mechanism).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AFP\u2019s Marlowe in his hit piece quotes Richard Betts (UK Met Office)\u00a0bagging the Italians<\/a>. In a masterpiece of bitchy innuendo the AFP snarked, \u201cBetts stopped short of calling for withdrawal, drawing a distinction between cherry-picking data and outright fraud.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other critics quoted were Friedericke Otto, of UK\u2019s Grantham Institute, along with Stefan Rahmstorf from the dark-green Postdam Institute. Otto complained the Italians were writing \u201cin bad faith\u201d \u2014 whatever that means. Rahmstorf\u2019s gripe was that the research was published in a physics journal rather than a climate one (the latter, of course, 97 per cent captured by the catastrophe crowd as peer reviewers). \u201cI do not know this journal, but if it is a self-respecting one it should withdraw the article,\u201d Rahmstorf said. Otto agreed, demanding that it be withdrawn \u201cloudly and publicly\u201d, presumably to scapegoat the authors. An Exeter University professor said he wouldn\u2019t go that far, fearing bad publicity about censorship \u2013 a good point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now for the whistleblower\u2019s documentation:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

September 29, 2022<\/strong>. Christian Caron of Springer Nature and the editorial manager of the Italian Physical Society, Barbara Ancarani (why her?) contacts Alimonti\u00a0et al<\/em>. to let them know that, based on the two media stories, an investigation had been opened of their paper. She cc\u2019d the journal\u2019s co-editor-in-chief, Beatrice Fraboni:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We are sure you and your co-authors are already aware of the public dispute this has generated. Included in these reports are numerous concerns of scientists who are considered highly expert in this subject. As a result of these circumstances it is now necessary that the journal carry out an investigation to assess the validity of these concerns, in line with good practice when concerns of this type are brought to a journal. An editorial note on the homepage of the above mentioned article will be added stating:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Readers are alerted that the conclusions reported in this manuscript are currently under dispute. The journal is investigating the issue.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

September 30, 2022<\/strong>. Fraboni, co-chief-editor, contacts the associate editor responsible for handling the review process of Alimonti\u00a0et al<\/em>., Jozef Ongena.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c. . . we are facing some issues with a paper in your area. The publishers have asked the Editors to take action.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ongena immediately responds:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The article has undergone the usual peer review. There should be no blame and shame\u2026 Peer reviewing is the common practice. That there is a discussion seems not abnormal and seems a very healthy thing\u2026I would invite the colleagues that have objections to send in their objections and to pass them on to the authors. To start a discussion in the press as they already did is certainly worse than publishing a critical paper. They could later also be invited to publish a comment. We should as a journal not refrain or be afraid from a scientific discussion, but it should be in a correct way.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

October 4, 2022<\/strong>. Author Alimonti:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dear Dr. Caron, after confronting [sic] with the other authors, we believe a possible correct way to criticize a scientific paper would be to write a detailed summary about what is supposed to be not correct and complete it with references; in other words a paper with precise counter arguments or at least a detailed report\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026the authors of the criticized paper may give detailed answers and the journal may decide further steps. Have Springer or [the journal] been somehow formally contacted with a detailed counter analysis? If so, please forward us any comment so that we can properly answer; if not, we believe that considering \u201cunder discussion\u201d a scientific paper that underwent a peer review process just on the basis of interviews appeared on online newspapers or blogs, even if authoritative, is not what a scientific method requires\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026Prof. Prodi, a distinguished climatologist, not just \u201ca nuclear physics dude\u201d, reminds me that he also served as Editor of Springer for many years: criticizing himas author would be a critic[ism] to Springer in selecting reviewers and editors. The Publisher should defend its scientific integrity in a resolute way, in order not to lose prestige itself, by moving at the request of newspapers or by denying its role.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Co-chief-editor Fabroni initially appears to have accepted this proposal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

October 9, 2022<\/strong>:\u00a0After having received various feedbacks we have decided to contact the colleagues who expressed concern on the paper to provide a scientific comment that we will then send out to independent reviewers. If and when the Comment will be approved by them, we will share it with the authors so that they will be able to address the issues raised. Also their reply will be peer-reviewed.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

None of the eight critics (including UNSW\u2019s Alexander and Sherwood) come good with considered rebuttals. However, the investigation proceeds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

November 17, 2022<\/strong>. Alimonti emails Fabroni to ask for an update on the investigation. Fabroni responds<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The reply has been drafted with the assistance of the Springer Research Integrity Department, after carefully taking into consideration the feedbacks received from the colleagues who criticised the paper in the media. Thank you very much for your patience \u2013 we have analyzed the case now in-depth. While we acknowledge that the media coverage has certainly made the case temporarily bigger than necessary, it has also uncovered a clear weakness of your paper that we believe must eventually be addressed.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The \u201cclear weakness\u201d is the failure to reference the IPCC Sixth Report, which the authors say was not published when they submitted their article. The Italians were given an ultimatum to prepare an \u201cerratum\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1\/<\/strong>\u00a0You will submit an Erratum taking the final, published version of AR6 into account, where the above criticism is explicitly addressed and any conclusion that needs to be revised will be detailed. This Erratum paper, where we expect ample references to the published AR6, will be thoroughly assessed by also involving scientists from the cited parts of AR6. The Erratum has to be submitted before Dec 31st, 2022.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2\/<\/strong>\u00a0If you decide not to submit such an Erratum or the Erratum is not submitted by the above deadline, the journal will publish an Editorial where we summarize our findings, very much as outlined above and the present Editorial Note on your article will be changed to a permanent Editorial Expression of Concern that will refer to this Editorial.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

November 23, 2023<\/strong>. Alimonti writes, quoting Springer guidelines, that it should be an \u201cAddendum\u201d not an \u201cErratum\u201d. They lodge it and it goes out to four reviewers, with a fifth as \u201cadjudicator\u201d. The reviewers are 3:1 in favour of publishing the Italians\u2019 addendum, but for some reason the Adjudicator is forwarded only one favourable review (which says the piece is quite consistent with IPCC 6th<\/sup>) and one review damning it. That review includes, strangely,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Especially considering that typical readers of EPJP [Physics] journal are not climate experts,\u00a0I think editors\u00a0should seriously consider the implications of the possible publication<\/strong>\u00a0of this addendum<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/em>(emphasis added).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So much for science integrity. The third reviewer wrote:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The original article is a straightforward recitation of credible, key data about several types of extreme weather events. I find nothing selective, biased, or misleading in what they present. While there\u2019s hardly anything written that isn\u2019t well-known to experts, it\u2019s useful for non-experts to see the underlying data, which are most often obscure in the IPCC reports. . .<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The addendum is an on-point discussion of the extent to which the original paper agrees with the IPCC on three types of extremes. The document is up to professional standards -specific, detailed, and with citations.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reviewer 4 wrote:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The most important contribution of the authors is to look further back into the climate record (including early 20th century), when many types of extreme events were comparable to today. The paper doesn\u2019t specifically focus on the attribution (cause) of any trend (or lack thereof).<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I don\u2019t see any grounds for criticizing this work. Further, most of their conclusions are supported by the IPCC AR6 WG1.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0The Adjudicator exceeds his\/her terms of reference by bagging the original paper, as distinct from the draft addendum, calling for its retraction and, therefore, the binning of any proposed addendum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

July 13, 2023.<\/strong>\u00a0Editor Fabroni advises handling-editor Ongena that the paper will be retracted in full, citing the Adjudicator\u2019s view.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After an in-depth consultation with the publishers we came to the conclusion that a retraction is inevitable, a decision fully backed by the publishers.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In my opinion, no reputable science journal, let alone top publisher\u00a0Springer Nature<\/em>, should be concerned for one second about big-shots moaning in the media about a non-conformist climate paper. But follow the money: Springer\u2019s revenue is solidly from the left-captured academic sector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As top UN official Melissa Fleming put it last September about climate, \u201cWe own the science<\/a>, and we think that the world should know it.\u201d Her unspoken sub-text, relevant to the censorship of Professor Alimonti, \u201cRock the boat and you\u2019ll regret it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ll borrow\u00a0Mark Steyn\u2019s book title<\/a>\u00a0and say this is all \u201ca disgrace to the profession\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tony Thomas\u2019s new book from Connor Court is\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>Anthem of the Unwoke \u2013 Yep! The other lot\u2019s gone bonkers<\/strong>. $34.95 on-line from Connor Court\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>here<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[1]<\/a>\u00a0\u201cProf. Ricci was alumnus of one of the most prestigious University Institutions in Italy, the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, and after graduation completed his studies under Louis De Broglie and Frederic Joliot-Curie. He introduced in Italy the experimental study of nuclear spectroscopy\u2026 He was one of the leaders of the experiments made at CERN with the antiproton beams and started there the relativistic heavy ion physics. Not less important has been his activity as Administrator of Science, as President of Italian and European Physical Societies, as Director of Legnaro National Laboratories, as Vice-President of the National Institute of Nuclear Physics and Chairman of many other important Institutions and Committees.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a>\u00a0There were 166 Australian signatories, mainly professionals rather than academics, and including myself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a>\u00a0The \u201chockey stick\u201d conveniently erased the awkward Medieval Warming and Little Ice Age from the record, which could then show 1000 years of stability followed by a 20thC uptick from CO2 emissions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a>\u00a0See Steyn, Mark. \u201cA Disgrace to the Profession\u201d Stockade Books. Kindle Edition. From P37.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a>\u00a0UEA\u2019s Phil Jones: \u201cI\u2019ve just completed Mike\u2019s [Michael Mann\u2019s]\u00a0Nature<\/em>\u00a0trick of adding in the real temperatures to each series for the last 20 years (i.e. from 1981 onwards) and from 1961 for Keith\u2019s [Keith Briffa\u2019s] to hide the decline.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a>\u00a0\u201cRecursive\u201d just means \u201crepeated\u201d. The term \u201crecursive fury\u201d became a meme from the title of a bizarre climate paper by psychologist Dr Stephen Lewandowsy\u00a0which his editors had to retract<\/a>\u00a0.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a>\u201cThe ultimate drivers of the Anthropocene if they continue unabated through this century, may well threaten the viability of contemporary civilization\u00a0<\/em>and perhaps even the future existence of Homo sapiens.\u201d<\/em><\/a>\u00a0Will Steffen, et al., \u201cThe Anthropocene: Conceptual and Historical Perspectives,\u201d\u00a0Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences\u00a0369, no. 1938 (2011): p862.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a>\u201c<\/strong>Erratum: In the originally published version of this article the uncertainty range in panel c of Figures 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, and 9 was incorrect. In all cases the uncertainties were shown for the full dataset rather than the subset from which the time series have been calculated\u2026 the equivalent panels have been updated in the supplementary information. There is no change to the conclusions drawn in the paper.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> Alimonti: \u201cGlobal observational datasets indicate an increase in total annual precipitation which appears at first sight consistent with the increase in global temperatures and the consequent increase in precipitable water stored in the atmospheric reservoir\u2026the diagram in Fig. 4 shows that global rainfall is increasing since about 1970.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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