My sincere thanks to Dr. Pielke for calling a spade a spade (or in this instance a hatchet a hatchet). Unfortunately, this is not the first instance in which Trenberth has mustered a team of truth-distorters in order to promulgate a fact-free “reconstruction” that is tantamount to a hatchet job.
I’m still waiting to see the retraction and apology from Trenberth, Mann, Schmidt, Mandia and Tobis for their January 2011 co-written “reconstruction” of Chris Landsea’s 2004 withdrawal from participation in AR4.
Details at Kevin Trenberth: false memory syndrome?
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Richard M says:
It appears that Trenberth is extremely angry. Now why would that be? If, as he says, Spencer has made obvious mistakes then you would think he would be happy. All he has to do is point them out in a comment to the journal and he would embarrass Spencer and all should be just fine. But, that’s not what happened.
In my experience when I see someone as angry as Trenberth it means he realizes that Spencer just may be right. It’s agonizing for him to consider that he may have been wrong all these years. His travesty of an energy budget and missing heat probably had him in a stressful condition. And now, the realization that he might be wrong is just too much for his ego to take. So, he reverts to his basic instincts and attacks.
Trenberth has made a huge mistake. He has let his emotion control him. He has essentially admitted that even he knows Spencer has good points.