User talk:SlimVirgin/Fred Singer

Ref

SB, what's the issue with this ref? [1] SlimVirgin ^{talk contribs} 00:52, 19 May 2010 (UTC)

It doesn't support the statement "Also in 2007 he collaborated on a study that found tropospheric temperature trends of 'Climate of the 20th Century' models differed from satellite observations by twice the model mean uncertainty." It was written in published in 2004, not 2007; it's about a different topic (difference in temperature trends between the surface and upper atmosphere); and it uses different models (the 20C3M simulations hadn't even been run at the time the paper was written). As mentioned in my edit summary it possibly could go somewhere else, though it's not a noteworthy paper -- according to ISI it has only been cited nine times since publication, and three of those are self-cites. Short Brigade Harvester Boris (talk) 01:12, 19 May 2010 (UTC)

Sorry, I don't follow. I'm only going by what was already in the article btw:

In 2007 he collaborated on a study that found tropospheric temperature trends of 'Climate of the 20th Century' models differed from satellite observations by twice the model mean uncertainty. A paper by Benjamin Santer and colleagues argued that Singer had erred in neglecting the effects of inter-annual temperature trends, and that it used an inappropriate statistical measure that erroneously made data sets appear to disagree, even for data sets that had been purposefully specified to agree with one another.

There's a 2007 Singer paper followed by a 2008 Santer criticism. Is the Santer criticism about something else? SlimVirgin ^{talk contribs} 01:18, 19 May 2010 (UTC)

No, no, no... yes. Let's see: The first ref (to Douglass et al. 2007) is the one you want. It's the Douglass et al. (2004) paper that is about something else, as I explain above. Santer et al. (2008) is in part a response to Douglass et al. (2007). So it's only the 2004 paper that is the odd one out. The other two are OK. Short Brigade Harvester Boris (talk) 01:22, 19 May 2010 (UTC)

Okay, thanks, I'll remove it. SlimVirgin ^{talk contribs} 01:27, 19 May 2010 (UTC)

OR

So which were the parts you felt verged on OR? SlimVirgin ^{talk contribs} 01:29, 19 May 2010 (UTC)

Citation request

"Singer accepted a professorship in Environmental Sciences at the University of Virginia in 1971, a position he held until 1994, where he taught classes on environmental issues such as ozone depletion, acid rain, climate change, population growth, and public policy issues related to oil and energy."

Sourced to Scheuering, p. 118: "In 1971 he became a professor of environmental sciences at the University of Virginia, where for the next twenty-three years he would teach classes on global environmental issues like ozone depletion, acid rain, global climate change, the economic impacts of population growth, and public policy issues surrounding oil and energy economics." SlimVirgin ^{talk contribs} 02:17, 19 May 2010 (UTC)

Source removed

I removed this, as it's not clear what the source is or says:

Danish journalist Øjvind Hesselager found that twelve of the listed signatories denied having signed the Leipzig Declaration, with two stating that they had never even heard of it.

Sourced to this. SlimVirgin ^{talk contribs} 07:10, 20 May 2010 (UTC)

Yes? And what would be wrong with that reference? Dagbladet Information is a very respected Danish newspaper. The information that Information is giving, is from a documentary program on the background of Kyoto called "Med kloden som indsats" produced by DR1 (danish equiv to the BBC) [broadcasted 27 nov 1997] by investigative journalist Øjvind Hesselager].

If you want passages translated or have any specific questions on what the reference says - i'll be delighted to help. --Kim D. Petersen (talk) 07:45, 20 May 2010 (UTC)

You just added a raw URL without any citation information. I'm trying to make clear in this draft what all the sources are. If you can add byline, publication, and date, it'll be fine. SlimVirgin ^{talk contribs} 08:15, 20 May 2010 (UTC)

Sorry, it wasn't you, it was SB. [2] SlimVirgin ^{talk contribs} 08:17, 20 May 2010 (UTC)

Citations would be:

• Hesselager, Øjvind (26 november 1997), Et lærestykke i manipulation, Dagbladet Information {{citation}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
• Øjvind Hesselager (27 november 1997). Med kloden som indsats (TV Documentary) (in Danish). DR1. {{cite AV media}}: Check date values in: |date= (help) --Kim D. Petersen (talk) 08:29, 20 May 2010 (UTC)

Thanks, I've restored it with the citations. [3] SlimVirgin ^{talk contribs} 09:44, 20 May 2010 (UTC)