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credentials
Jeff Condon is an Aeronautical Engineer. [1]
Background
Patrick (Jeff) Condon, who previously went by the Pseudonym “Jeff Id,” is a climate change skeptic who runs the contrarian blog the *Air Vent*. [2]
The Air Venthosts pages that supposedly debunk Michael Mann's “Hockey Stick” graph and cover the event known as “Climategate.” The blog also regularly posts articles and comments favouring a view skeptical of climate change, including a number of posts suggesting that arctic sea ice is not retreating.
Stance on Climate Change
“Right now, nothing, and I mean really NOTHING, indicates that AGW is anything but moderate or even beneficial.” [3]
Key Quotes
“The media and propaganda blogs like DeSmog should be proud to have the [CRU] dataset on line and pleased that Heartland would invest that money for the common good.” [4]
Key Deeds
2011
The Air Vent was one of three blogs to receive information released in a criminal hacking of climate scientists' emails in 2011. Roger Tattersall, the operator of a skeptical blog titled *Tallbloke's Talkshop* and Condon had both received messages from a hacker who identified himself as “FOIA.”
Condon later received a “formal request” by the US Department of Justice's criminal division on December 9 to preserve “all stored communications, records, and other evidence in your possession” related to their own blogs as well as to Climate Audit, a climate skeptic blog run by Steve McIntyre.
December, 2010
Published a “rebuttal” of a paper by Steig et al which had concluded that Antarctic warming was not localized to the Antarctic Peninsula, but also strongly affected the West Antarctic. Steig's paper had been published in Nature.
The rebuttal paper, titled “Improved Methods for PCA-Based Reconstructions: Case Study Using the Steig et al. (2009) Antarctic Temperature Reconstruction” was sent to the Journal of Climateon February 3, 2010 and accepted November 25, 2010. The authors were Ryan O’Donnell, Nicholas Lewis, Steve McIntyre, and Jeff Condon.
Many climate skeptic blogs, includingSteven McIntyre's own *Climate Audit*present the study as a refutation of the Steig study. McIntyre also suggests that their difficulty in having the study published in the Journal of Climate was due to a “abusive peer review process” in which one of the reviewers supposedly made attempts to “suppress the article” that “went far beyond an unconflicted reviewer.”[5]
Condon himself said that he was “quite satisfied that the review process was fair and equitable,” although he too claimed that “excessive deference was paid to this one particular reviewer at the beginning of the process.”[6]
Affiliations
- The Air Vent— Owner/blogger.
- :{Steve McIntyre:(style="font-weight:700"):}: — Study co-author.
Publications
- O’Donnell, Ryan, Nicholas Lewis, Steve McIntyre, Jeff Condon, 2011: Improved Methods for PCA-Based Reconstructions: Case Study Using the Steig et al. (2009) Antarctic Temperature Reconstruction. J. Climate, 24, 2099–2115. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/2010JCLI3656.1
Resources
- Jeff Condon. “Where's the Media?”, the Air Vent, July 19, 2009.
- Jeff Condon. “Id's Out,”the Air Vent, February 4, 2010.
- Jeff Condon. “Dogs, Puppies and True Skepticism,” the Air Vent, April 10, 2012.
- Jeff Condon. “Hey Media – Skeptics are Scientists Too,” the Air Vent, February 16, 2012.
- Steve McIntyre. “O’Donnell et al 2010 Refutes Steig et al 2009,” Climate Audit, December 2, 2010.
- Jeff Condon. “Doing it Ourselves,” The Air Vent, December 1, 2010.
- David Leigh, Charles Arthur, and Rob Evans. “Detectives question climate change scientist over email leaks,” The Guardian, February 4, 2010.
TAGS:
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- ## Blogs I read
- Autonomous Mind
- Bishop Hill
- Bob Tisdale
- ChiefIO
- Climate Audit
- Climate Skeptic
- Digging in the Clay
- IceCap
- JoNova
- Judith Curry
- Lubos Motl
- Lucia – Blackboard
- My View – Bart Verheggen
- Nick Stokes
- Ross McKitrick
- Roy Spencer
- ScienceofDoom
- Statpad
- TallBloke's Talkshop
- Tom Fuller 3000quads
- Tom Nelson
- Watts Up With That
- WordPress.com
- ## Recent Posts
1/11
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I'm dismayed to see this, but not at all surprised. People (like Jeff, like me) who own businesses and are self employed while trying to raise family have it tough in this economy. If I didn’t have guest posters, and help with moderation, I couldn’t keep WUWT alive. I also understand Jeff’s frustrations with unruly posters. My only saving grace is that I had 25 years experience in TV news dealing with the public and the inevitable emotional BS that comes with highly charged debate.
Jeff has made a powerful contribution to the climate discussion, the most important of which is the publishing of a solid rebuttal of the Steig et al paper which used mangled Mannian math to smear warming on the Antarctic peninsula all over the continent, giving a false impression of continent wide warming. Even Steig himself agrees with the rebuttal.
Let’s not forget the pivotal role TAV played in Climategate as well.
Please take a moment to wish Jeff well, and to thank him for his contribution here.
Jeff, the door at WUWT is always open to you. I give my sincerest wishes for health, happiness, and success to you and to your family. Enjoy your retirement.
– Anthony Watts
Here is his post:
Posted by Jeff Id on January 21, 2011
Update:
There is a lot more I could say about this group of people who have read and commented here. I know of very few unmoderated blogs which have been able to maintain such a civil tone through such controversial subjects. That says a lot about the quality of this group. Of all things, I think that is what makes tAV special. The world is a rough place and when I sat down one sunny Saturday morning to start this blog just over two years ago, I expected very little. In the end, tAV contributed more to the discussion on a truly global scale than I had ever imagined.
I may be back after some time off but it is better to let readers know where I’m at.
Best regards to all.
On the SOP thread we got into too heated a discussion. I’ve had more than my fair share of the public lately and don’t know when tAV will be back.
Of all the elements of the periodic table stupididium is the most abundant. The idiots pushed me over the edge tonight. I’ve had well enough of people who think they know — well anything — yet don’t have a clue. The blog has been very much entertaining and I’ve appreciated the technical contributors very thoroughly. I may continue someday in coming years but at this point… I’m done.
I’ve spent two years of my life in climate science, digging fairly deeply – I think you’ll agree. My conclusion is that those who believe they know believe for unknowable reasons. This includes BOTH sides. In what I believe is the rarest of cases, the middle ground is the correct ground and that is where the climate battle lies.
I don’t know if I will post again here, it has been fun though. Thanks to all who have been supportive and thanks to the guests.
Jeff Condon
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