That depends on the homogenization process, and as far as I understand it it would indeed affect temperature over time. If you have other information then feel free to reply with your view of the process.
The correct action to take would of course be to use non-homogenized data. The reason they didn't is either incompetence or by purpose.
When quoting on a debated subject, always make sure you're using the most current information. That quote and investigation has been falsified. Oddly enough, NOAA scientists don't seem to know much statistics;) While they claim they use the data from those 70 stations, in reality they apply a modification algorithm to it first. It's like wanting to compare apples and oranges, but starts out by genetically modifying the apples into oranges and then act surprised when oranges actually are like other oranges!:)
You'll find the info at the end here, after all the rants about the video:
There are interesting hypothesises on a correlation between low solar activity (and we're in the lowest of a century atm) and increased tectonic stress - yes. Another effect of low solar activity is an increased amount of solar rays, so in a way they would be correlated but without causation.
Typhoons? Not likely. As with storms in general they aren't getting more severe, we just find out about more now due to satellites, increased amounts of boats etc.
... end of a regime - same rhetoric as used by the US repeatedly about other countries for that matter.
My memory might fail me, but I think one of the statements has been that if Israel allowed everyone to vote (that would include Palestine) in a democratic election changes would appear quite swiftly. Motivation being that Israel seems keen on occupying and settling on that land anyway so why not include them all as citizens..
Correct, I find the viewpoints of an editor of the NYT (whom were amongst the first to publish the erroneous translation) to be of less value than those of a professor on Middle East history as well as another professor on Political Science (I cited both).
The Wikipedia article would actually need a bit of cleaning up. There's a tiny badly phrased sentence on Steele mentioning in an article that Bronner is actually misrepresented in the text you quoted - see the link below - that is of quite high significance:
This, in my view, is the crucial point and I'm glad the NYT accepts that the word "map" was not used by Ahmadinejad. (By the way, the Wikipedia entry on the controversy gets the NYT wrong, claiming falsely that Ethan Bronner "concluded that Ahmadinejad had in fact said that Israel was to be wiped off the map".)
Or, maybe, you chose a specific editor's point of view that happened to coincide with your political purpose and ignored all the others.
That says something about you, not the Wikipedia article (in full) or Iran.
Source of the statement you cited: New York Times deputy foreign editor and Israeli resident Ethan Bronner
Source of the statement I'm citing below: Juan Cole, a University of Michigan Professor of Modern Middle East and South Asian History
The Imam said that this regime occupying Jerusalem (een rezhim-e eshghalgar-e qods) must [vanish from] the page of time (bayad az safheh-ye ruzgar mahv shavad)
... and from Shiraz Dossa, a professor of Political Science at St. Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia, Canada:
Ahmadinejad was quoting the Ayatollah Khomeini in the specific speech under discussion: what he said was that "the occupation regime over Jerusalem should vanish from the page of time." No state action is envisaged in this lament; it denotes a spiritual wish, whereas the erroneous translationâ""wipe Israel off the map"â"suggests a military threat. There is a huge chasm between the correct and the incorrect translations
(Interestingly I see my fully cited and non-opinioned post above has been modded Troll. I wonder what that says about the moderator)
The UN disproved the US rhethoric with regards to Iraq's alleged WMDs. The US ignored it and went on a scavenger hunt to find small nations they could bully into joining a "coalition of the willing". The US then launched an attack on, invaded and occupied Iraq.
... and still today you're "forced" to go visit the dam as a tourist even if there's absolutely no reason for it.
(I was there last year on an old-egypt-historical cruise down the Nile with stops at the old temples etc. Besides visiting the unfinished obelisk in Aswan, we drove way outside the city just to see the dam... and judging from the local guide it was really important that we did)
Any country who's leaders publicly and openly threaten another nation with annihilation have no business with weapons that are capable of human extinction until they prove, beyond a reasonable doubt, that such a belief is no longer prevalent.
Antarctica as a whole isn't warming unless you deal in dubious statistical models. The west Antarctica peninsula has been warming though, and that's where the hyperbole comes from.
That has likely more to do with natural shifting of the polar current around Antarctica than anything else. Changes in current location affects weather at the peninsula without affecting the rest of the continent.
If you're comparing non-Cyanogen with Cyanogen remember that his mod does more than just making you able to transfer apps to SD-card when it comes to performance. Being an almost-Donut will result in quite a few speed improvements, as will using more CPU resources.
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It hasn't? Feel free to provide more info. After all, I live quite close.
What's this "phone" you're talking about? Is that like, a mobile internet device that's gotten damaged and can now only do one thing ... ?
the leader of Iran said that he wanted to nuke Israel
[citation needed]
Any country that has repeatedly and openly told the world that it will destroy Israel WHEN it has the nuclear weapons to do so
[citation needed] for any such country plz.
... both flickr and picasa (and google image search) support searching for creative commons licensed images.
Isn't that also how Android works?
No.
That depends on the homogenization process, and as far as I understand it it would indeed affect temperature over time. If you have other information then feel free to reply with your view of the process.
The correct action to take would of course be to use non-homogenized data. The reason they didn't is either incompetence or by purpose.
When quoting on a debated subject, always make sure you're using the most current information. That quote and investigation has been falsified. Oddly enough, NOAA scientists don't seem to know much statistics ;) While they claim they use the data from those 70 stations, in reality they apply a modification algorithm to it first. It's like wanting to compare apples and oranges, but starts out by genetically modifying the apples into oranges and then act surprised when oranges actually are like other oranges! :)
You'll find the info at the end here, after all the rants about the video:
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/07/30/on-climate-comedy-copyrights-and-cinematography/
There are interesting hypothesises on a correlation between low solar activity (and we're in the lowest of a century atm) and increased tectonic stress - yes. Another effect of low solar activity is an increased amount of solar rays, so in a way they would be correlated but without causation.
Typhoons? Not likely. As with storms in general they aren't getting more severe, we just find out about more now due to satellites, increased amounts of boats etc.
... end of a regime - same rhetoric as used by the US repeatedly about other countries for that matter.
My memory might fail me, but I think one of the statements has been that if Israel allowed everyone to vote (that would include Palestine) in a democratic election changes would appear quite swiftly. Motivation being that Israel seems keen on occupying and settling on that land anyway so why not include them all as citizens ..
There's an enormous difference between removing a political system and killing all the citizens - yes.
I think you need to re-read the link. That is, of course, if you're at all interested in the truth and not just warmongering.
Correct, I find the viewpoints of an editor of the NYT (whom were amongst the first to publish the erroneous translation) to be of less value than those of a professor on Middle East history as well as another professor on Political Science (I cited both).
The Wikipedia article would actually need a bit of cleaning up. There's a tiny badly phrased sentence on Steele mentioning in an article that Bronner is actually misrepresented in the text you quoted - see the link below - that is of quite high significance:
This, in my view, is the crucial point and I'm glad the NYT accepts that the word "map" was not used by Ahmadinejad. (By the way, the Wikipedia entry on the controversy gets the NYT wrong, claiming falsely that Ethan Bronner "concluded that Ahmadinejad had in fact said that Israel was to be wiped off the map".)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2006/jun/14/post155
Yes I did - apparently you didn't.
Or, maybe, you chose a specific editor's point of view that happened to coincide with your political purpose and ignored all the others.
That says something about you, not the Wikipedia article (in full) or Iran.
Source of the statement you cited: New York Times deputy foreign editor and Israeli resident Ethan Bronner
Source of the statement I'm citing below: Juan Cole, a University of Michigan Professor of Modern Middle East and South Asian History
The Imam said that this regime occupying Jerusalem (een rezhim-e eshghalgar-e qods) must [vanish from] the page of time (bayad az safheh-ye ruzgar mahv shavad)
Ahmadinejad was quoting the Ayatollah Khomeini in the specific speech under discussion: what he said was that "the occupation regime over Jerusalem should vanish from the page of time." No state action is envisaged in this lament; it denotes a spiritual wish, whereas the erroneous translationâ""wipe Israel off the map"â"suggests a military threat. There is a huge chasm between the correct and the incorrect translations
(Interestingly I see my fully cited and non-opinioned post above has been modded Troll. I wonder what that says about the moderator)
The UN disproved the US rhethoric with regards to Iraq's alleged WMDs. The US ignored it and went on a scavenger hunt to find small nations they could bully into joining a "coalition of the willing". The US then launched an attack on, invaded and occupied Iraq.
Did I miss anything?
... and still today you're "forced" to go visit the dam as a tourist even if there's absolutely no reason for it.
(I was there last year on an old-egypt-historical cruise down the Nile with stops at the old temples etc. Besides visiting the unfinished obelisk in Aswan, we drove way outside the city just to see the dam ... and judging from the local guide it was really important that we did)
Yes, you should. A quick search on the net will provide you with enough references.
Actually you're more close to the truth than the GP ... (and the correcting links have been posted many many times in this thread already)
Any country who's leaders publicly and openly threaten another nation with annihilation have no business with weapons that are capable of human extinction until they prove, beyond a reasonable doubt, that such a belief is no longer prevalent.
Iran hasn't done that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahmoud_Ahmadinejad_and_Israel#.22Wiped_off_the_map.22_or_.22Vanish_from_the_pages_of_time.22_translation
Funnily though, the US has.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article647188.ece
Iran, on the other hand, has repeatedly declared it's desire for the total annihilation of the the nation of Israel (among others).
Score:5, Lying
No, they haven't. You might want to ask yourself who's trying to fool you, and why.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahmoud_Ahmadinejad_and_Israel
I responded to a post about "Antarctica as a whole".
You should try verifying that graph scientifically. Some have, with interesting results.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/09/23/taking-a-bite-out-of-climate-data/
Antarctica as a whole isn't warming unless you deal in dubious statistical models. The west Antarctica peninsula has been warming though, and that's where the hyperbole comes from.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/05/20/steig-et-al-antarctica-warming-paper-process-is-finally-replicated-and-dealt-a-blow-to-robustness/
That has likely more to do with natural shifting of the polar current around Antarctica than anything else. Changes in current location affects weather at the peninsula without affecting the rest of the continent.
http://www.parks.tas.gov.au/fahan_mi_shipwrecks/infohut/acc.htm
Why would it surprise you? Ice extent has been growing in Antarctica for quite some time, and the same goes for the Arctic since 2007.
This is not disputed, it's simple fact.
http://nsidc.org/seaice/characteristics/difference.html
http://www.ijis.iarc.uaf.edu/en/home/seaice_extent.htm
Watch out for the hyperbole in popular media that's simply not based on actual observations but "models".
If you're comparing non-Cyanogen with Cyanogen remember that his mod does more than just making you able to transfer apps to SD-card when it comes to performance. Being an almost-Donut will result in quite a few speed improvements, as will using more CPU resources.