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{{cquote|[Santer] John Christy is not a good scientist. I'm not a religious man, but I'm sure willing to thank some higher authority that Dr. John Christy is not the"gatekeeper" of what constitutes sound science.

{{cquote|[Santer] John Christy is not a good scientist. I'm not a religious man, but I'm sure willing to thank some higher authority that Dr. John Christy is not the"gatekeeper" of what constitutes sound science.

[Christy]

[Christy] This gets to the issue that the "consensus" reports now are just the consensus of those who agree with the consensus. The government-selected authors have become gatekeepers rather than honest brokers of information. That is a real tragedy, because when someone becomes a gatekeeper, they don't know they've become a gatekeeper - and begin to (sincerely) think the non-consensus scientists are just nuts (... it's more comfortable that way rather than giving them credit for being skeptical in the face of a paradigm).[http://tomnelson.blogspot.com/2011/11/john-christy-gets-to-issue-that-reports.html]}}

> This gets to the issue that the "consensus" reports now are just the

> consensus of those who agree with the consensus. The

> government-selected authors have become gatekeepers rather than honest

> brokers of information. That is a real tragedy, because when someone

> becomes a gatekeeper, they don't know they've become a gatekeeper - and

> begin to (sincerely) think the non-consensus scientists are just nuts

> (... it's more comfortable that way rather than giving them credit for

> being skeptical in the face of a paradigm).[http://tomnelson.blogspot.com/2011/11/john-christy-gets-to-issue-that-reports.html]}}

{{cquote|Thanks Mike

{{cquote|Thanks Mike

It seems to me that this "Kinne" character's words are disingenuous, and he probably

It seems to me that this "Kinne" character's words are disingenuous, and he probably

Still awaiting from you a revised draft to comment for IDAG.

Still awaiting from you a revised draft to comment for IDAG.

As for your email, there was some press activity related to this skeptic [Timo Hämeranta?] below, but managed to talk the BBC out of doing anything.[http://tomnelson.blogspot.com/2011/11/phil-jones-2004-was-some-press-activity.html]}}

As for your email, there was some press activity related to this skeptic [Timo Hämeranta?] below, but managed to talk the BBC out of doing anything.[http://tomnelson.blogspot.com/2011/11/phil-jones-2004-was-some-press-activity.html]}}

==Solar Warming==

==Solar Warming==

{{cquote|Simon Tett and I went to conference that the press releases relates to. This was in Tenerife last week. The conference was entitled solar variability and climate, but climatologists were very thin on the ground...Many in the solar terrestrial physics community seem totally convinced that solar output changes can explain most of the observed changes we are seeing. The far-sighted ones are begining to doubt with the rapid rate of recent warming, however.

{{cquote|Simon Tett and I went to conference that the press releases relates to. This was in Tenerife last week. The conference was entitled solar variability and climate, but climatologists were very thin on the ground...Many in the solar terrestrial physics community seem totally convinced that solar output changes can explain most of the observed changes we are seeing. The far-sighted ones are begining to doubt with the rapid rate of recent warming, however.