William Connolley

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Connolley in 2008

William Michael Connolley (born April 12, 1964 ) is a British computer scientist, author and blogger. Until 2007 he was employed as a climate modeler for the British Antarctic Survey .

background

Connolley graduated from the University of Oxford with a degree in Numerical Analysis.

Political activities

Connolley was a councilor for Coton near Cambridge until May 2007 and applied through the Green Party to the District Council of South Cambridgeshire .

activities

In the field of climate research, Connolley pointed out, among other things, that as early as the 1970s, most climate predictions predicted global warming and not a new ice age. Until 2007 he was an active contributor to the RealClimate blog.

His work as a climate expert at Wikipedia was mentioned in Nature 2005 , among others . According to Connolley, frustrations were inevitable, but existing conflicts also add to item quality. In July 2006, Connolley and his collaboration with Wikipedia were discussed in an interview with The New Yorker , including restrictions imposed on him such as the withdrawal of his admin function and occasional editing requirements.

Harsh criticism, including the claim that Connolley was largely responsible for manipulating opinion in climate-related articles on English-language Wikipedia, was expressed by Lawrence Solomon in the conservative National Review .

Publications (excerpt)

  • Vaughan, DG, GJ Marshall, WM Connolley, JC King and R. Mulvaney. 2001. Climate change - devil in the detail. Science , 293, 1777-1779. Abstract: September 7, 2001
  • Tom A. Lachlan-Cope, William M. Connolley, and John Turner, The Role of the Non-Axisymmetric Antarctic Orography in Forcing the Observed Pattern of Variability of the Antarctic Climate, Geophysical Research Letters , 2001, v28 no 21, pp 4111– 4114.
  • J. Turner, SA Harangozo, JC King, W. Connolley, T. Lachlan-Cope, and GJ Marshall. 2003. An exceptional winter sea ice retreat / advance in the Bellingshausen Sea, Antarctica. Atmos. Ocean 41 (2) 2003, 171-185.
  • Marshall, GJ, PA Stott, J. Turner, WM Connolley, JC King and TA Lachlancope (2004), Causes Of Exceptional Atmospheric Circulation Changes In The Southern Hemisphere, Geophys. Res. Lett. 31 (14): Art. No. L14205 July 30, 2004

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Connolleys Blog 2009 ( Memento of the original from December 23, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / scienceblogs.com
  2. ↑ Connolleys Blog 2010 ( Memento of the original from February 3, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / scienceblogs.com
  3. ^ A b William M. Connolley: Preconditioning of iterative methods for linearized or linear systems. - D. Phil Thesis . Oxford University Numerical Analysis Group. 208. 1989. Retrieved December 18, 2010.
  4. ↑ a b Welcome to Cambsgreen - work in progress - www cambsgreen (The Green Party South Cambs) , Homepage to jonqin at homepage.ntlworld.com. Archived from the original on October 1, 2007. Retrieved February 8, 2010. "William Connolley - Cambridge University programmer and climate modeler, webmaster Eastern Region & gp-southcambs. William is the Green Party South Cambs District electoral agent. " 
  5. ↑ COTON PARISH COUNCIL , cotonpc.org.uk. Archived from the original on August 29, 2007. Retrieved on August 29, 2007. 
  6. ^ William M. Connolley: William M. Connolley Filed under: * Contributor Bio's - william @ 6 December 2004 . RealClimate . December 6, 2004. Archived from the original on August 16, 2007. Retrieved on February 9, 2010.
  7. ^ William Connolley: The global cooling myth . RealClimate. January 24, 2005. Retrieved December 30, 2009.
  8. ^ William M. Connolley: What about the imminent Ice Age predicted in the '70's? No . 2005. Retrieved December 16, 2007.
  9. ↑ Connolley, William M. "Sea ice concentrations in the Weddell Sea: A comparison of SSM / I, ULS, and GCM data", Geophysical Research Letters , VOL. 32, April 2, 2005 (PDF; 356 kB)
  10. ↑ Connolley's webpage analyzing papers relevant to a modern Ice Age
  11. ↑ Goodbye to all that goodbye at Realclimate
  12. ↑ a b Jim Giles: Internet Encyclopaedias Go Head to Head . In: Nature . 438, No. 7070, December 15, 2005, pp. 900-01. doi : 10.1038 / 438900a . PMID 16355180 .
  13. ↑ a b Jim Giles: Wikipedia Rival Calls in the Experts . In: Nature . 443, No. 7111, October 5, 2006, p. 493. doi : 10.1038 / 443493a . PMID 17024058 .
  14. ↑ a b Stacy Schiff: Know It All: Can Wikipedia Conquer Expertise? . In: The New Yorker , July 31, 2006. Retrieved December 10, 2009. 
  15. ^ Wikipedia: Arbitration / Requests / Case / Abd-William M. Connolley . Retrieved January 28, 2010. 
  16. ^ William Connolley personal website
  17. ^ Thomas C. Peterson, William M. Connolley, and John Fleck: The Myth of the 1970s Global Cooling Scientific Consensus . In: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society . 89, No. 9, 2008, pp. 1325-1337. doi : 10.1175 / 2008BAMS2370.1 .
  18. ↑ Wikipropaganda ( June 19, 2010 memento in the Internet Archive ), Lawrence Solomon, April 8, 2008
personal data
SURNAME Connolley, William
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Connolley, William Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British computer scientist, author, blogger, climatist
DATE OF BIRTH April 12, 1964