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| '''Keith R. Briffa''' (* 1952) is a climatologist employed since 1977 by the ] at the ], of which he is currently deputy director.<ref>http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/people/</ref> In his professional work, he focuses on the ] in late ], with a special focus on northern portions of ] and ]. Briffa's preferred method is ], a set of procedures to decode the information about the past climate from the width of ]. Briffa helped develop data sets from trees from Canada, Fennoscandia and Northern Siberia which have been used in climate research.<ref>http://www.uea.ac.uk/env/people/facstaff/briffak</ref> | '''Keith R. Briffa''' (* 1952) is a climatologist employed since 1977 by the ] at the ], of which he is currently deputy director.<ref>http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/people/</ref> In his professional work, he focuses on the ] in late ], with a special focus on northern portions of ] and ]. Briffa's preferred method is ], a set of procedures to decode the information about the past climate from the width of ]. Briffa helped develop data sets from trees from Canada, Fennoscandia and Northern Siberia which have been used in climate research.<ref>http://www.uea.ac.uk/env/people/facstaff/briffak</ref> | ||
| == "Climategate" controversy == | |||
| Keith Briffa is one of the primary climate scientists involved in the "]" CRU emails. According to some sources, he was partly responsible for the scientifically questionable methods to erase the ] from the paleoclimatic charts. | |||
| Colleague ] summarized the issues, warning: | |||
| {{quote|"But Keith does seem to have got himself into a mess. ... But, more generally, (even if it *is* irrelevant) how does Keith explain the McIntyre plot that compares Yamal-12 with Yamal-all? And how does he explain the apparent "selection" of the less well-replicated chronology rather that the later (better replicated) chronology? ... And the issue of with-holding data is still a hot potato, one that affects both you and Keith (and Mann)."<ref>http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/11/the_evidence_of_climate_fraud.html</ref>}} | |||
| However, some independent observers have also described Briffa as one of the most ethically responsible members of the CRU unit which is also a reason why he has been speculated to have been the whistleblower who leaked the CRU documents and e-mails. See e.g. Australia's The Herald Sun. <ref>http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/climategate_which_one_blew_the_whistle/</ref> | |||
| == Selected publications == | == Selected publications == | ||
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Keith R. Briffa (* 1952) is a climatologist employed since 1977 by the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, of which he is currently deputy director. In his professional work, he focuses on the climate change in late Holocene, with a special focus on northern portions of Europe and Asia. Briffa's preferred method is dendroclimatology, a set of procedures to decode the information about the past climate from the width of tree rings. Briffa helped develop data sets from trees from Canada, Fennoscandia and Northern Siberia which have been used in climate research.
"Climategate" controversy
Keith Briffa is one of the primary climate scientists involved in the "Climategate" CRU emails. According to some sources, he was partly responsible for the scientifically questionable methods to erase the Medieval Warm Period from the paleoclimatic charts.
Colleague Tom Wigley summarized the issues, warning:
"But Keith does seem to have got himself into a mess. ... But, more generally, (even if it *is* irrelevant) how does Keith explain the McIntyre plot that compares Yamal-12 with Yamal-all? And how does he explain the apparent "selection" of the less well-replicated chronology rather that the later (better replicated) chronology? ... And the issue of with-holding data is still a hot potato, one that affects both you and Keith (and Mann)."
However, some independent observers have also described Briffa as one of the most ethically responsible members of the CRU unit which is also a reason why he has been speculated to have been the whistleblower who leaked the CRU documents and e-mails. See e.g. Australia's The Herald Sun.
Selected publications
- Osborn T.J. and K.R. Briffa (2006). "The spatial extent of 20th-century warmth in the context of the past 1200 years". Science. 311 (5762): 841. doi:10.1126/science.1120514. PMID 16469924.
- Briffa K.R.; et al. (2008). "Trends in recent temperature and radial tree growth spanning 2000 years across northwest Eurasia". Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B. 363 (1501): 2269–82. doi:10.1098/rstb.2007.2199. PMC 2606779. PMID 18048299.
{{cite journal}}: Explicit use of et al. in:|author=(help); More than one of|number=and|issue=specified (help) - Briffa K.R.; et al. (2002). "Unusual twentieth-century summer warmth in a 1,000-year temperature record from Siberia". Nature. 376: 156–9. doi:10.1038/376156a0.
{{cite journal}}: Explicit use of et al. in:|author=(help) - Briffa, K.R. (2000). "Annual climate variability in the Holocene: interpreting the message of ancient trees". Quaternary Science Reviews. 19 (1–5): 87–105. doi:10.1016/S0277-3791(99)00056-6.
References
- http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/people/
- http://www.uea.ac.uk/env/people/facstaff/briffak
- http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/11/the_evidence_of_climate_fraud.html
- http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/climategate_which_one_blew_the_whistle/
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