Climategate 2.0: world renowned climatologist can’t even plot a trend in Excel

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Joe Romm would call this a “head exploding moment“. If this were a skeptic, Taminoaka Grant Foster, would sharpen his invective ginsu knives and launch a fusillade of cutlery in a blog post claiming how stupid and inept skeptics are for not being able to work a simple program like Excel.

But this is professional climate science, so none of that will happen.

Over at Climate Audit, Steve McIntyre writes:

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Phil Jones spends much of his time looking down his nose at the heathen, but then confesses to Bob Ward that he is unable to calculate a trend on his own, as in this hilarious exchange at Bishop Hill:

I’m not adept enough (totally inept) with excel to do this now as no-one who knows how to is here.

 

Nor it seems in Matlab, R, ODL, Fortran or any other language. No wonder that he regarded someone who could calculate principal components (like Mann) as a sort of computational prodigy.

Last year, Phil was ranked one of England’s top 100 scientists. Just imagine the ranking that he could have achieved if he knew how to calculate a trend by himself.

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This is from FOIA2011 email 1885.txt

Don’t worry Dr. Phil, help is on the way!

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Maybe that is why he asked Michael Mann to do his magic!