I'll just post my twits here.
Here's my first one: "Um. Well. I don't really know what to say, here. Ah, just, ah. I guess that's it."
I hope I didn't go over the limit. Did everyone read that? Check back soon for more.
Also, check out my cool pages on MyFace and SpaceBook.
...Canadian scientists Stephen McIntyre and Ross McKitrick have uncovered a fundamental mathematical flaw in the computer program that was used to produce the hockey stick. In his original publications of the stick, Mann purported to use a standard method known as principal component analysis, or PCA, to find the dominant features in a set of more than 70 different climate records.
But it wasnt so. McIntyre and McKitrick obtained part of the program that Mann used, and they found serious problems. Not only does the program not do conventional PCA, but it handles data normalization in a way that can only be described as mistaken.
Now comes the real shocker. This improper normalization procedure tends to emphasize any data that do have the hockey stick shape, and to suppress all data that do not. To demonstrate this effect, McIntyre and McKitrick created some meaningless test data that had, on average, no trends. This method of generating random data is called Monte Carlo analysis, after the famous casino, and it is widely used in statistical analysis to test procedures. When McIntyre and McKitrick fed these random data into the Mann procedure, out popped a hockey stick shape!...McIntyre and McKitrick have found numerous other problems with the Mann analysis...
"Nice company you have there; it would be a shame if something were to happen to it."
Re:your first sentence is technically flawed
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I sat in a boardroom circa 1980, in which the participants considered the 8086, 68000, and Z8000 for our new product.
The 8086 won in that meeting, most likely for the same reason as for IBM and everyone else; the other chips were 6 months further from coming to market. Companies like ours that waited for the superior chips to be available would be at a disadvantage in terms of market presence.
Make solar panels with the individual cells pointing in all directions (except down).
And build in a bunch of mirrors into every little space to reflect the light onto the cells.
HEY: crinkly solar panels instead of flat. With mirrored edges. What the fuck; it's obvious. Picks up light from all directions.
Another good idea: solar cells on rotating disco balls. Finally some use for those pieces of shit.
I guess whatever it's "pathetically lacking" I don't need. I had never heard of Microsoft Boob until recently because in 1995 up to the present I've been using Unix and Linux because of what "Windows" was pathetically lacking, and still is.
This directive came from above the head of the sender of the memo. Microsoft owns the US government. Supporting the software company with the most number of employees is simply good politics.
That is typical. In other words; "Don't argue with us; we are right. Case closed".
There were no political attacks on the science. There were political attacks on the politics. If you can't keep those two straight, then it's no wonder that you are an acolyte in the Church Of Global Warming.
Maybe this will help (http://www.ocregister.com/common/printer/view.php?db=ocregister&id=234092):
ClimateGate - This scandal began the latest round of revelations when thousands of leaked documents from Britain's East Anglia Climate Research Unit showed systematic suppression and discrediting of climate skeptics' views and discarding of temperature data, suggesting a bias for making the case for warming. Why do such a thing if, as global warming defenders contend, the "science is settled?"
FOIGate - The British government has since determined someone at East Anglia committed a crime by refusing to release global warming documents sought in 95 Freedom of Information Act requests. The CRU is one of three international agencies compiling global temperature data. If their stuff's so solid, why the secrecy?
ChinaGate - An investigation by the U.K.'s left-leaning Guardian newspaper found evidence that Chinese weather station measurements not only were seriously flawed, but couldn't be located. "Where exactly are 42 weather monitoring stations in remote parts of rural China?" the paper asked. The paper's investigation also couldn't find corroboration of what Chinese scientists turned over to American scientists, leaving unanswered, "how much of the warming seen in recent decades is due to the local effects of spreading cities, rather than global warming?" The Guardian contends that researchers covered up the missing data for years.
HimalayaGate - An Indian climate official admitted in January that, as lead author of the IPCC's Asian report, he intentionally exaggerated when claiming Himalayan glaciers would melt away by 2035 in order to prod governments into action. This fraudulent claim was not based on scientific research or peer-reviewed. Instead it was originally advanced by a researcher, since hired by a global warming research organization, who later admitted it was "speculation" lifted from a popular magazine. This political, not scientific, motivation at least got some researcher funded.
PachauriGate - Rajendra Pachauri, the IPCC chairman who accepted with Al Gore the Nobel Prize for scaring people witless, at first defended the Himalaya melting scenario. Critics, he said, practiced "voodoo science." After the melting-scam perpetrator 'fessed up, Pachauri admitted to making a mistake. But, he insisted, we still should trust him.
PachauriGate II - Pachauri also claimed he didn't know before the 192-nation climate summit meeting in Copenhagen in December that the bogus Himalayan glacier claim was sheer speculation. But the London Times reported that a prominent science journalist said he had pointed out those errors in several e-mails and discussions to Pachauri, who "decided to overlook it." Stonewalling? Cover up? Pachauri says he was "preoccupied." Well, no sense spoiling the Copenhagen party, where countries like Pachauri's India hoped to wrench billions from countries like the United States to combat global warming's melting glaciers. Now there are calls for Pachauri's resignation.
SternGate - One excuse for imposing worldwide climate crackdown has been the U.K.'s 2006 Stern Report, an economic doomsday prediction commissioned by the government. Now the U.K. Telegraph reports that quietly after publication "some of these predictions had been watered down because the scientific evidence on which they were based could not be verified." Among original claims now deleted were that northwest Australia has had stronger typhoons in recent decades, and that southern Australia lost rainfall because of rising ocean temperatures. Exaggerated claims get headlines. Later, news reporters disclose th
Ooops; that statement is perhaps more religion than science.
We don't manufacture CO2. The CO2 released into the atmosphere when coal is burned for instance, was orginally in the atmosphere millions of years ago, and was absorbed by the plants that formed the coal. It's a cycle; CO2 is absorbed; CO2 is released.
Here's an abreviated excerpt from a Science Daily article (the link is below but you should Google for the more in depth info):
Most of the carbon dioxide emitted by human activity does not remain in the atmosphere, but is instead absorbed by the oceans and terrestrial ecosystems. In fact, only about 45 percent of emitted carbon dioxide stays in the atmosphere.
However, some studies have suggested that the ability of oceans and plants to absorb carbon dioxide recently may have begun to decline and that the airborne fraction of anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions is therefore beginning to increase.
Many climate models also assume that the airborne fraction will increase. Because understanding of the airborne fraction of carbon dioxide is important for predicting future climate change, it is essential to have accurate knowledge of whether that fraction is changing or will change as emissions increase.
To assess whether the airborne fraction is indeed increasing, Wolfgang Knorr of the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Bristol reanalyzed available atmospheric carbon dioxide and emissions data since 1850 and considers the uncertainties in the data.
In contradiction to some recent studies, he finds that the airborne fraction of carbon dioxide has not increased either during the past 150 years or during the most recent five decades.
Between jpegtran, exiftool, and ImageMagick you could probably do all of those things. The nice thing is that you can use them from the command line; no GUI bloat necessary, although ImageMagick has a GUI.
Slashdot Mirror
what?
Lot of faithful here.
www.payclick.com.au
From TFS: launched in Australia
More info: http://financial.tmcnet.com/news/2010/06/25/4869782.htm
"Offending members". He he.
I'll just post my twits here.
Here's my first one: "Um. Well. I don't really know what to say, here. Ah, just, ah. I guess that's it."
I hope I didn't go over the limit. Did everyone read that? Check back soon for more.
Also, check out my cool pages on MyFace and SpaceBook.
We definitely need a tax on politically active scientists.
Oberg,in TFA, thought that it was suspicious that they would launch in the same week.
In fact, they launched within 52 minutes of each other.
...Canadian scientists Stephen McIntyre and Ross McKitrick have uncovered a fundamental mathematical flaw in the computer program that was used to produce the hockey stick. In his original publications of the stick, Mann purported to use a standard method known as principal component analysis, or PCA, to find the dominant features in a set of more than 70 different climate records. But it wasnt so. McIntyre and McKitrick obtained part of the program that Mann used, and they found serious problems. Not only does the program not do conventional PCA, but it handles data normalization in a way that can only be described as mistaken. Now comes the real shocker. This improper normalization procedure tends to emphasize any data that do have the hockey stick shape, and to suppress all data that do not. To demonstrate this effect, McIntyre and McKitrick created some meaningless test data that had, on average, no trends. This method of generating random data is called Monte Carlo analysis, after the famous casino, and it is widely used in statistical analysis to test procedures. When McIntyre and McKitrick fed these random data into the Mann procedure, out popped a hockey stick shape! ...McIntyre and McKitrick have found numerous other problems with the Mann analysis...
http://www.technologyreview.com/printer_friendly_article.aspx?id=13830&channel=energy§ion=
"Nice company you have there; it would be a shame if something were to happen to it."
I sat in a boardroom circa 1980, in which the participants considered the 8086, 68000, and Z8000 for our new product.
The 8086 won in that meeting, most likely for the same reason as for IBM and everyone else; the other chips were 6 months further from coming to market. Companies like ours that waited for the superior chips to be available would be at a disadvantage in terms of market presence.
Make solar panels with the individual cells pointing in all directions (except down).
And build in a bunch of mirrors into every little space to reflect the light onto the cells.
HEY: crinkly solar panels instead of flat. With mirrored edges. What the fuck; it's obvious. Picks up light from all directions.
Another good idea: solar cells on rotating disco balls. Finally some use for those pieces of shit.
I guess whatever it's "pathetically lacking" I don't need. I had never heard of Microsoft Boob until recently because in 1995 up to the present I've been using Unix and Linux because of what "Windows" was pathetically lacking, and still is.
To each their own.
By any chance U.K. If so, same thing.
Assuming they're not in the pocket of MS already
They are.
This directive came from above the head of the sender of the memo. Microsoft owns the US government. Supporting the software company with the most number of employees is simply good politics.
...in another country
How about levying the tax against the manufacturer of the operating system affected.
That is typical. In other words; "Don't argue with us; we are right. Case closed".
There were no political attacks on the science. There were political attacks on the politics. If you can't keep those two straight, then it's no wonder that you are an acolyte in the Church Of Global Warming.
Maybe this will help (http://www.ocregister.com/common/printer/view.php?db=ocregister&id=234092):
ClimateGate - This scandal began the latest round of revelations when thousands of leaked documents from Britain's East Anglia Climate Research Unit showed systematic suppression and discrediting of climate skeptics' views and discarding of temperature data, suggesting a bias for making the case for warming. Why do such a thing if, as global warming defenders contend, the "science is settled?"
FOIGate - The British government has since determined someone at East Anglia committed a crime by refusing to release global warming documents sought in 95 Freedom of Information Act requests. The CRU is one of three international agencies compiling global temperature data. If their stuff's so solid, why the secrecy?
ChinaGate - An investigation by the U.K.'s left-leaning Guardian newspaper found evidence that Chinese weather station measurements not only were seriously flawed, but couldn't be located. "Where exactly are 42 weather monitoring stations in remote parts of rural China?" the paper asked. The paper's investigation also couldn't find corroboration of what Chinese scientists turned over to American scientists, leaving unanswered, "how much of the warming seen in recent decades is due to the local effects of spreading cities, rather than global warming?" The Guardian contends that researchers covered up the missing data for years.
HimalayaGate - An Indian climate official admitted in January that, as lead author of the IPCC's Asian report, he intentionally exaggerated when claiming Himalayan glaciers would melt away by 2035 in order to prod governments into action. This fraudulent claim was not based on scientific research or peer-reviewed. Instead it was originally advanced by a researcher, since hired by a global warming research organization, who later admitted it was "speculation" lifted from a popular magazine. This political, not scientific, motivation at least got some researcher funded.
PachauriGate - Rajendra Pachauri, the IPCC chairman who accepted with Al Gore the Nobel Prize for scaring people witless, at first defended the Himalaya melting scenario. Critics, he said, practiced "voodoo science." After the melting-scam perpetrator 'fessed up, Pachauri admitted to making a mistake. But, he insisted, we still should trust him.
PachauriGate II - Pachauri also claimed he didn't know before the 192-nation climate summit meeting in Copenhagen in December that the bogus Himalayan glacier claim was sheer speculation. But the London Times reported that a prominent science journalist said he had pointed out those errors in several e-mails and discussions to Pachauri, who "decided to overlook it." Stonewalling? Cover up? Pachauri says he was "preoccupied." Well, no sense spoiling the Copenhagen party, where countries like Pachauri's India hoped to wrench billions from countries like the United States to combat global warming's melting glaciers. Now there are calls for Pachauri's resignation.
SternGate - One excuse for imposing worldwide climate crackdown has been the U.K.'s 2006 Stern Report, an economic doomsday prediction commissioned by the government. Now the U.K. Telegraph reports that quietly after publication "some of these predictions had been watered down because the scientific evidence on which they were based could not be verified." Among original claims now deleted were that northwest Australia has had stronger typhoons in recent decades, and that southern Australia lost rainfall because of rising ocean temperatures. Exaggerated claims get headlines. Later, news reporters disclose th
Two?
You're drinking the wrong Kool-Aid
By who?
Must be someone who thinks MSWin is an OS. But I think his post should have been modded funny rather than troll.
Hi!
We don't manufacture CO2. The CO2 released into the atmosphere when coal is burned for instance, was orginally in the atmosphere millions of years ago, and was absorbed by the plants that formed the coal. It's a cycle; CO2 is absorbed; CO2 is released.
Here's an abreviated excerpt from a Science Daily article (the link is below but you should Google for the more in depth info):
Most of the carbon dioxide emitted by human activity does not remain in the atmosphere, but is instead absorbed by the oceans and terrestrial ecosystems. In fact, only about 45 percent of emitted carbon dioxide stays in the atmosphere.
However, some studies have suggested that the ability of oceans and plants to absorb carbon dioxide recently may have begun to decline and that the airborne fraction of anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions is therefore beginning to increase.
Many climate models also assume that the airborne fraction will increase. Because understanding of the airborne fraction of carbon dioxide is important for predicting future climate change, it is essential to have accurate knowledge of whether that fraction is changing or will change as emissions increase.
To assess whether the airborne fraction is indeed increasing, Wolfgang Knorr of the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Bristol reanalyzed available atmospheric carbon dioxide and emissions data since 1850 and considers the uncertainties in the data.
In contradiction to some recent studies, he finds that the airborne fraction of carbon dioxide has not increased either during the past 150 years or during the most recent five decades.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/12/091230184221.htm
Between jpegtran, exiftool, and ImageMagick you could probably do all of those things. The nice thing is that you can use them from the command line; no GUI bloat necessary, although ImageMagick has a GUI.
Check Mimas out: http://totallylookslike.com/2008/09/05/mimas-totally-looks-like-the-death-star/