I don't think you need to torture the Senator for Tel Aviv East to find out who he's working for. I wonder if he'd have banned Ben Gurion's or Begin's blogs if they'd had such things when terrorism was used to found his favourite rogue state?
More concerning is the poor firewall configuration. Badly patched servers can be put down to laziness, or unwillingness to fully regression test servers running bespoke software. Badly configured firewalls can only indicate incompetence.
Margin of error is a statistical concept, is it? Funny - when I was taught science, error calculations were an essential part of the reporting of data. Things must be different in the weird world of "climate science", which mainly appears to be drawing conclusions based on models which assume the conclusions as axioms. Still, whatever makes you happy...
My problem is the derivation of the "raw, unrounded data". Reporting an average temperature of 14.971 degrees based on an estimation of isotope ratios in a borehole sample is just plain silly. 14.9 +/- 0.2 would be sensible (assuming the measurement error is as small as 0.2 degrees, which I doubt).
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The target audience, when all is said and done, turn out to be politicians and the media, both groups in which scientific education is sadly lacking. They make their living drawing unfounded conclusions, and they deserve better data and advice.
See that big shiny thing up there? You know - the Sun? It doesn't output energy at a constant rate. Even our limited records show more variation in the contribution of solar output to global temperature than anything CO2 can be blamed for. Please play again.
If you're worried about Russian servers, and interested enough to read the emails, then here is the Zip file. On the other hand, they might not show the geography lecturers and assorted eco-loons in a good light, so maybe you'd be better not knowing.
One of the "stolen" emails contains some data from a borehole in NZ(going back to 900AD) that quotes the annual temperature to 3 decimal places. Funnily enough, the temperatures from the 1700s were higher than the 1900s. There was some chatter about whether or not to include this data - surprise, surprise. But 3 decimal places? Haven't these idiots heard of error bounds?
My prediction is the exact opposite - things will not be as bad as feared, and AGW denial will likely be illegal in some countries, just as "holocaust" denial already is. The whole thing is far too political to be left to science, and far too serious to allow dissent.
A hell of a lot of people have rejected the IPCC assessment. They are, in the main, not climate scientists, but then most of those claiming to be "climate scientists" aren't scientists either. They are geographers, wildlife buffs, meteorologists - all observers whose models have not succeeded in proving any significant man-made change. No experiments can be done to prove AGW as a hypothesis, and that suits those who profit from it just fine.
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Even the latest IPCC report shies away from the AGW hypothesis - noting that over the next few decades, natural variation will outweigh any man-made contribution.
Is there a reason to cut our use of fossil fuels? Yes, but it has nothing to do with any notional harm due to CO2 emissions, and everything to do with an increasing population and finite resources. The impositions of the climate change advocates are, if anything, contributing to the downfall of the very technological societies which could solve the problem, while putting the developing nations (who are surprisingly exempt from the strictures about cutting carbon emissions) at the head.
The whole thing is a political guilt trip, and if AGW advocates could get their fat heads out of their quinoa fed asses, they'd see that they have been taken for suckers.
Tell you what, Doc - why not try reading the emails for yourself and then decide whether the science is honest or not. I've just read 20 or so at random, and can already see a pattern of hiding inconvenient results, obsession with grant funding and even some weird millenarian Christian tendencies.
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Jones and his fellow geography lecturers are on thin ice (sic) and they know it.
If you think he's got a romantic attachment to the idea of an unchanging English, may I suggest his book "The Stories of English", which relates the changing story (stories, since language diverges both geographically and demographically) of English from Anglo-Saxon times to the present.
Richard Feynman took them seriously enough to research them when he took a short sabbatical from physics - here is a paper he co-wrote at CalTech in 1961.
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If it was good enough for Feynman, it's good enough for me.
And what is a phage but a biological nanomachine dedicated to killing bacteria, anyway?
More for all the hearing people out there who don't know sign language, so that a deaf person can quickly and efficiently communicate with them. Not a huge market, but one worth a look.
How about sign language input? Surely MS could find it in them to develop an interface to turn signing into text? Not sure how good this Kinect thing is (don't game or use Windows), but that's one useful project they could support.
When I was at university (30 years back), the Hong Kong kids always put gravy on fish and chips. I was mortified - until I tried it. Gravy on fish is really, really good!
I had an issue upgrading from version 2 (Bridgend Boyo) to the latest, Dagenham Dustbin. Next year's Emphysemic Escort is supposed to fix it, but I suspect I'll be disappointed till Z-Car Zodiac is finally released.
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You're just thor. Thtupid thod.
Blair's involved in similar jiggery-pokery in Rwanda - all above board, of course.
Are you Ed Balls in disguise? You certainly talk the talk...
Thanks for that - very informative. I was indeed labouring under the misapprehension that everyone was going to be running modified stock engines ;-)
I don't think you need to torture the Senator for Tel Aviv East to find out who he's working for. I wonder if he'd have banned Ben Gurion's or Begin's blogs if they'd had such things when terrorism was used to found his favourite rogue state?
With stock engines that are heavier and less powerful than the 2011 units? I doubt it, though maybe the extra weight will suit some frames...
I think the warmist was a sufficient proxy for most climatologists. I hope they like Durban - it might be the last big freebie they get for a while.
More concerning is the poor firewall configuration. Badly patched servers can be put down to laziness, or unwillingness to fully regression test servers running bespoke software. Badly configured firewalls can only indicate incompetence.
Margin of error is a statistical concept, is it? Funny - when I was taught science, error calculations were an essential part of the reporting of data. Things must be different in the weird world of "climate science", which mainly appears to be drawing conclusions based on models which assume the conclusions as axioms. Still, whatever makes you happy...
May I suggest Light Absorbing Diode? LADs could make even the Kindle cool.
You could at least have said "Oh no - they're Finnished" in a first post!
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The target audience, when all is said and done, turn out to be politicians and the media, both groups in which scientific education is sadly lacking. They make their living drawing unfounded conclusions, and they deserve better data and advice.
See that big shiny thing up there? You know - the Sun? It doesn't output energy at a constant rate. Even our limited records show more variation in the contribution of solar output to global temperature than anything CO2 can be blamed for. Please play again.
If you're worried about Russian servers, and interested enough to read the emails, then here is the Zip file. On the other hand, they might not show the geography lecturers and assorted eco-loons in a good light, so maybe you'd be better not knowing.
One of the "stolen" emails contains some data from a borehole in NZ(going back to 900AD) that quotes the annual temperature to 3 decimal places. Funnily enough, the temperatures from the 1700s were higher than the 1900s. There was some chatter about whether or not to include this data - surprise, surprise. But 3 decimal places? Haven't these idiots heard of error bounds?
My prediction is the exact opposite - things will not be as bad as feared, and AGW denial will likely be illegal in some countries, just as "holocaust" denial already is. The whole thing is far too political to be left to science, and far too serious to allow dissent.
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Even the latest IPCC report shies away from the AGW hypothesis - noting that over the next few decades, natural variation will outweigh any man-made contribution.
Is there a reason to cut our use of fossil fuels? Yes, but it has nothing to do with any notional harm due to CO2 emissions, and everything to do with an increasing population and finite resources. The impositions of the climate change advocates are, if anything, contributing to the downfall of the very technological societies which could solve the problem, while putting the developing nations (who are surprisingly exempt from the strictures about cutting carbon emissions) at the head.
The whole thing is a political guilt trip, and if AGW advocates could get their fat heads out of their quinoa fed asses, they'd see that they have been taken for suckers.
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Jones and his fellow geography lecturers are on thin ice (sic) and they know it.
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I think you'll be pleasantly surprised.
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If it was good enough for Feynman, it's good enough for me.
And what is a phage but a biological nanomachine dedicated to killing bacteria, anyway?
More for all the hearing people out there who don't know sign language, so that a deaf person can quickly and efficiently communicate with them. Not a huge market, but one worth a look.
How about sign language input? Surely MS could find it in them to develop an interface to turn signing into text? Not sure how good this Kinect thing is (don't game or use Windows), but that's one useful project they could support.
When I was at university (30 years back), the Hong Kong kids always put gravy on fish and chips. I was mortified - until I tried it. Gravy on fish is really, really good!
I had an issue upgrading from version 2 (Bridgend Boyo) to the latest, Dagenham Dustbin. Next year's Emphysemic Escort is supposed to fix it, but I suspect I'll be disappointed till Z-Car Zodiac is finally released.
And the submitter is a certain Hugh Pickens - any relation to Slim? Can just imagine someone riding one of these mofos as it plummets towards Qom...