Over on Dr Roy Spencer’s site, Roy has updated his thread on his response to Desslers rebuttal paper in press at GRL.

UPDATE: I have been contacted by Andy Dessler, who is now examining my calculations, and we are working to resolve a remaining difference there. Also, apparently his paper has not been officially published, and so he says he will change the galley proofs as a result of my blog post; here is his message:

“I’m happy to change the introductory paragraph of my paper when I get the galley proofs to better represent your views. My apologies for any misunderstanding. Also, I’ll be changing the sentence “over the decades or centuries relevant for long-term climate change, on the other hand, clouds can indeed cause significant warming” to make it clear that I’m talking about cloud feedbacks doing the action here, not cloud forcing.”

Update #2 (Sept. 8, 2011): I have made several updates as a result of correspondence with Dessler, which will appear underlined, below. I will leave it to the reader to decide whether it was our Remote Sensing paper that should not have passed peer review (as Trenberth has alleged), or Dessler’s paper meant to refute our paper.

Reactions to this development in comments on that thread and the WUWT counterpart are interesting. They range from anger to joy. Two examples:

JJ says: September 8, 2011 at 9:47 PM Dr. Spencer: Next time, consider not responding to the preprint. Let the arrogant @#$% and his dishonest, disrespectful teammates publish their rush to poor judgement, then let them take their lumps in the literature. Pissants who whine about you ‘forcing others to correct your serial mistakes’ do not deserve your patient assistance in keeping their agenda driven incompetance and shoddiness off the record. JJ

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Steven Mosher says:

September 8, 2011 at 9:47 pm

Kudos to Dessler for working with people who he disagrees with.

Kudos to Spencer for working with people he disagrees with.

If you want to see more of it, encourage it. put the knives down and encourage it.

Spencer and Dessler communicating to sort things out in a businesslike, dispassionate, scientific way is making Trenberth look really, really bad right now.

What a shame. 🙂

I’m all for Dessler ‘coming over the wall’ and I’m happy to see Spencer holding out a steadying hand to him.

Velvet revolutions begin in this way.

The Team members are looking at each other right now and wondering who gets to be Ceaucescu.