It’s difficult–but important–to acknowledge quality work from the other side of the fence. It’s a bit easier with blog writers–when I awarded Gavin Schmidt Blogger of the Year a couple of years ago, nobody on the skeptic side even grumbled.
It’s tougher with commenters, as the odds are that you’ve sparred with them more than once.
But this year’s winner deserves the award. He comments prolifically–but doesn’t spam the same comments across the blogosphere.
He’s (usually) not vitriolic, although like all commenters (including myself when I’m at other venues) he can be a bit acerbic at times.
He’s usually on point–he doesn’t go after personalities very much. His usual tactic–asking for sources from those he opposes–is something we could use a little bit more of here in the climate blogosphere.
The gentleman’s name is Hank Roberts. I think he very much deserves the award for 2014 Climate Commenter of the Year. I hope that’s at least one thing we agree on this year.
I’ll leave you with one of his most recent comments on Real Climate, where the topic is ‘Thoughts On Ongoing Temperature Trends”.
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Ah, Victor?
Victor, did you ever talk to a reference librarian? The questions you ask are good — but asking them of the wind, or typing them into the computer, does not get you the help for which you appear to be crying out.
Talk to someone near you who understands statistics.
Please. Otherwise you may — as appears so far — mistakenly convince yourself that ignoramus necessarily means ignorabimus.
At Azimuth, the topic that Jan Galkowski points to, ends with:
Working out these kinds of details is the process of science at its best, and many disciplines, not least mathematics, statistics, and signal processing, have much to contribute to the methods and interpretations of these series data. It is possible too much is being asked of a limited data set, and perhaps we have not yet observed enough of climate system response to say anything definitive. But the urgency to act responsibly given scientific predictions remains.
3000 Quads 
Hank appears unimpressed with the honor.
Hank Roberts
hankroberts.wordpress.com
2015/01/30
“3000 Quads” is a lukewarmer promoting the climate conspiracy books. Eschew.
🙂
How are you, Paul?
Doing well, thanks. Good to have you back in the sphere. Hank’s decision to eschew is his loss. It’s funny. You and he mostly agree on the science, save for the pace of warming and severity of impact. You probably agree on 90 – 100% of the policy. Yet, you must be ignored. Tis a sad thing.