Two gems and a question for Dr Belgie:
1) One of these papers which was published in the journal Climate Research turned out to be so badly flawed that the scandal resulted in the resignation of the editor-in-chief.
I wonder if this is the same guy that was railroaded out by Jones and Mann.
2) When it comes to his handling of Freedom of Information requests, Professor Jones might struggle even to use a technical defence. If you take the wording literally, in one case he appears to be suggesting that emails subject to a request be deleted, which means that he seems to be advocating potentially criminal activity. [...]
I feel desperately sorry for him: he must be walking through hell. But there is no helping it; he has to go, and the longer he leaves it, the worse it will get. He has a few days left in which to make an honourable exit.
This handwringing reminds me of the scot-free sentence that a certain friend from Boston days advocated for any and every crime. You know who you are, and despite Polansky's gilded prison, it's a bad day to be you! So fucking Seethe!
3) Hey Tecs! Since you're an expert on the Frenchy language, is Monbiot the French word for moonbat?
[Add pic of George "the Great Moonbat" Monbiot, kicking and screaming while trying to make a citizen's arrest, in typical Pepe-off-his-meds fashion. -- Tecs]
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Didn't we talk about this article one or two days ago? I have a sense of deja vu (if you dig my French). At any rtae, how come you never comment on the more substantive postings I made on the subject -- those about the nitty-gritty of the data-massaging these bozos been doing? Ultimately, that's the most damning thing of all in this sordid business, methinks.
I have commented on that here. DId I miss something else?
Another point, if these guys really thought they were doing legit science in the lab (and most would have to beieve that), they wouldn't be publishing results of something that came out of a "very artificial correction".
No way they'd be that brazen for fear that a programming drone grad student would blow the whistle on them--perhaps that's what happened, but the briffa code's 10 years old--seems unlikely.
You're starting to make some progress on the stoopid coding part. BTW, why even write such idiotic code when you can do this kind of mindless manipulation in Excel, or any other dozens of off-the-shelf packages?
On the other hand, you didn't say anything substantive about the graphing stuff. Is this anything more than Show[graph] or something? Jeepers, 25 millions in grant money don't go very far with this sorry crew.
What else can be said about the Kiwis? At least they didn't destroy the data so that the straight graph could be redone. You're shocked that this nonsense infected them too? You've heard of the internets, right?
About the $25M, it must be expensive to go out and collect the tree-ring and the glacial ice core samples, etc.
I wonder if all the legit data that do exist now and that cost all that money to get are being destroyed right now by these cretins.
Some more of the $25M must've been spent on flying around to dumb conferences, endowing chairs in bullshit semimoralist pseudoscience, and expense-accounting booze with cute programmer girls that look like good prospects for a beej or better, a sequence of regular beejes for 6 years of Ph D training.
I guess it's not any worse than endowing chairs in women's studies and Wittgenstein. Those subjects don't even provide for the solid potential of beejes for PIs, but it's all stupid in the end.
We're a doomed Idiocracy.
Tecs, using Excel makes it look like you're not doing real science!
Duh. You need to go out and commission specialty, custom software in order to get big grants and make what you're doing inscrutable.
Also, while you explain this dumb commandline code to hot programmer girl-drones, you the PI can accidentally crash into a boob and see if that gets yo a date to expense-account some booze and lead you to a beej.
Jeez, mathematicians don't know shit about science.
Hey, man, you look like an expert at this game. Why not put things into practice?
While at it, here is more on all this Kultursmog. Add it to the smorgasboard.
A fun comment from the Kultursmog piece:Michael Mann, "I think we have to stop considering Climate Research as a legitimate peer-reviewed journal,"
Sound familiar?
Sounds like something that the Dear Leader of the Free World said about Foxnews.
Hah! Good point, had not made the connection. But yes, it's all making sense now.
Hey Tecs! You never answered whether monbiot is French for moonbat. Well?
Hayseed guy pisses on the party.
I think Monbiot means "My Biot number". FYI:
The Biot number (Bi) is a dimensionless number used in non-steady-state (or transient) heat transfer calculations. It is named after the French physicist Jean-Baptiste Biot (1774-1862), and gives a simple index of the ratio of the heat transfer resistances inside of and at the surface of a body. This ratio determines whether or not the temperatures inside a body will vary significantly in space, while the body heats or cools over time, from a thermal gradient applied to its surface.
Is that the same Biot as the one in the Biot-Savart law. you biot-savant?
It's the same Mon Biot as this pinko clown.
Awesome, Tecs! I hadn't made the connection to Moron Biot!
Well hell, there's realy a suicide watch at the Guardian now! The mec's been unstable for a while!
Citizen's arrest. Hilarious! Wonder if Taranto made the connection...
This is priceless, pinko discourse! Try to grab people you don't agree with. Get al emotional when your schmucks get caught with their pants down...
This guy needs sedation. Maybe even like John Muhammed's, but I digress...
OK, you cheered me up.
Time for a glass of red.
Monbiot need not worry.
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