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  New paper says climate scientists “greatly underestimated” uncertainty
Dec 8, 2010
A paper due to be published in March 2011 says that the 'hockey stick' graph showing global warming "is lacking in the data” and likely to be no more accurate than a “random series generated independently of temperature”.
  Nominations announced for 2010 Environmental Statistics Section
Nov 9, 2010
The nominations for the 2011 committee of the Environmental Statistics Section have been confirmed.  The Section's AGM takes place on Thursday 2nd December. 
  Can you help run a Society section?
May 26, 2010
Nominations are now open for new members to join the committees of the Society's sections from January 2011 onwards.
  Trio calls for IPCC reforms
Feb 1, 2010
Climatologist and statistician Hans von Storch is one of three prominent scientists who have called for major reform of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the resignation of chairman Rajendra Pachauri.
  Research Section Ordinary Meeting, February 2010
Dec 18, 2009

Research Section Ordinary Meeting on 'Stability selection' to be held at Errol Street on Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010, at 5pm.
  Anchoring Vignettes in Social Science Research
Nov 19, 2009
Call for Papers: 'Anchoring Vignettes in Social Science Research'. Meeting to be held on 17th November 2010 
  Dates for RSS Section AGMs confirmed
Oct 20, 2009

Four sections of the Society have confirmed the dates of their Annual General Meetings during November and December at which new committees will be elected to take forward their work into 2010.
  Spatial statistics
Jul 2, 2009

The Environmental Statistics Section and Southampton Statistical Sciences Research Institute jointly hosted a meeting on environmental and spatial statistics in June. The meeting was addressed by six speakers in three themed sessions and ended with a panel discussion in the style of the BBC's Question Time programme. Sujit K Sahu reports
  Environmental extremes
Jun 26, 2009

The Environmental Statistics Section and the East Midlands local group joined forces in April for a meeting on Extremes in the environment. The three talks all focused on weather-related extremes in the UK and generated plenty of discussion. Richard Chandler reports.