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Originally Posted by XNN
I've been lurking for some time and thought a post might be in order. As background, I'm a climate scientist. I have a Ph.D. in climatology and am actively working and publishing in the field, although not on proxy climate reconstruction. That being said, I do work in a narrow area related to the use of statistical methods in climatology and have dealt in the past with numerical weather prediction models, as well as global and regional climate models and their output.
(Note: I'm a government scientist -- not in the States -- who has worked during the tenure of parties with very, very different viewpoints on climate change.)
I've tried to keep up with this and related threads on a couple of sites I frequent. It has definitely been interesting seeing the reaction to the UEA email leak. Responses from both "sides" of the debate are pretty amusing, actually.
I'm on my lunch break, so I can't linger long. I might pipe in with some thoughts on some of the comments I've read so far, but probably not until end of day. That being said, if anyone would like to ask some questions, I might be able to answer. There are definitely some misconceptions about what being a working scientist in this field is like, about publication/peer review, the relative importance of different radiative forcings on the climate system, the role of climate modeling, etc.
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Yeah! Thank you for de-lurking!