Anonymous on March 7, 2010 7:02 AM "Didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition." Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition! By Scott Osprey on March 7, 2010 1:13 PM It would be especiaally relevant to publicise a number of the methods used by Peter Stott and others working on Climate Change. In particular, the use of "Detection and Attribution", linking human activity to recent climate change ought to be highlighted in NS. These methods provide a quantitative account of the known mechanism forcing the climate. Reviewing papers you contributed to or that your clique helped produce is not valuable, except that it reveals those who are working together. There is suspect data and analysis. We know that. I have no idea how much mankind has impacted the climate though I suspect measurable alteration might go back at least 8000 years. (Hercynian forest, Tibetan plateau deforestation anyone?) There is evidence before us of what too many people have done. Farmland over much of the planet, plastics blanketing parts of the sea, the Newfoundland Cod population genetically altered by overfishing, ongoing overfishing, and on and on. We don't need this data to realise that we ought to change our behaviour. It would be interesting to explore whether the anthropogenic data generators considered this meltdown and the damage it would do to their seeming aims. Concerned people need to do what they can to reverse this "nest fouling". Lets move on and try to do good. By Charlie Mingas on March 8, 2010 1:18 AM I