{"id":3667,"date":"2009-11-27T09:08:07","date_gmt":"2009-11-27T17:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/?p=3667"},"modified":"2009-11-27T09:08:07","modified_gmt":"2009-11-27T17:08:07","slug":"sierra-snow-scientists-in-heated-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/2009\/11\/27\/sierra-snow-scientists-in-heated-agreement\/","title":{"rendered":"Sierra Snow: Scientists in Heated Agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"

Loot from the recent invasion of email servers at the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) in Britain has raised questions about whether scientists who dissent from the prevailing views of climate research are being muzzled by their colleagues.<\/p>\n

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Snow on Mt. Whitney. Photo: USFS<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

An interesting example of this arose this week in a report by Richard Harris<\/a> for NPR’s All Things Considered<\/em>. It’s worth a listen, if only for the back-and-forth between two climate scientists over snowfall in the southern Sierra Nevada mountains. John Christy<\/a> of the University of Alabama, Huntsville, tells Harris about trouble he’s had publishing research that appears to counter the mainstream view that the Sierra snowpack is endangered. For a response, Harris goes to Philip Mote<\/a> at Oregon State University, one of the scientists who reviewed Christy’s research.<\/p>\n

Also interviewed are Gavin Schmidt<\/a> of NASA and Judy Curry<\/a> from Georgia Tech.<\/p>\n

The head of the UN’s climate panel finally issued his own statement on the email flap<\/a>, which was part condemnation of the hackers, part defense of the science and peer review process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Snowfall in the southern Sierra: Scientists agree on the data but manage to make it controversial anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[22,387,509,524,646],"coauthors":[],"series":[],"affiliates":[],"programs":[],"collections":[],"interests":[],"class_list":["post-3667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thescience","tag-alpine","tag-npr","tag-sierra","tag-snow","tag-beliefs"],"acf":{"template_type":"standard","featured_image_type":"standard","is_audio_post":false},"yoast_head":"\nSierra Snow: Scientists in Heated Agreement | Climate Watch<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/2009\/11\/27\/sierra-snow-scientists-in-heated-agreement\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sierra Snow: Scientists in Heated Agreement | Climate Watch\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Snowfall in the southern Sierra: Scientists agree on the data but manage to make it controversial anyway.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"http:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/2009\/11\/27\/sierra-snow-scientists-in-heated-agreement\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Climate Watch\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2009-11-27T17:08:07+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2009\/11\/whitney_usfs_blog.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Craig Miller\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@voxterra\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Craig Miller\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/2009\/11\/27\/sierra-snow-scientists-in-heated-agreement\/\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/2009\/11\/27\/sierra-snow-scientists-in-heated-agreement\/\",\"name\":\"Sierra Snow: Scientists in Heated Agreement | Climate Watch\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2009-11-27T17:08:07+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2009-11-27T17:08:07+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/#\/schema\/person\/f7222c517400a6c4b0336fca3652c323\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/2009\/11\/27\/sierra-snow-scientists-in-heated-agreement\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"http:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/2009\/11\/27\/sierra-snow-scientists-in-heated-agreement\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/2009\/11\/27\/sierra-snow-scientists-in-heated-agreement\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Sierra Snow: Scientists in Heated Agreement\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/\",\"name\":\"Climate Watch\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/#\/schema\/person\/f7222c517400a6c4b0336fca3652c323\",\"name\":\"Craig Miller\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/dd8f4f4f978df3faac9db4c510939ea0\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/b91661df645e001a9cafe0861fa685f9?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/b91661df645e001a9cafe0861fa685f9?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Craig Miller\"},\"description\":\"Craig is a former KQED Science editor, specializing in weather, climate, water & energy issues, with a little seismology thrown in just to shake things up. 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