November 23, 2009 – William M. Briggs

This just in!

Breaking story Sarah Palin has not denied being the CRU email hacker!

The CRU “climategate” proxy code: a primer

I'm just getting into the CRU code: it's a lot of material and everything I say here about it is preliminary. Some of you will know what I'm going to…

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