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RE: Climate change vs BANDits
I'm sorry, but that's nonsense.
And I stand by what I wrote as an accurate summation.
Unfortunately the response of all too many has been exactly as in this email -
sticking one's head in the sand and trying to pretend that nothing has really
happened.
If data was "apparently" available, why are so many of the emails in
Climategate about how not to share that data?
You've avoided the point that many of the requests were for the raw, unadjusted
and unmanipulated data. That certainly wasn't ever available and will never be
available now that it has been admitted it has "disappeared."
And really, to try and claim that illegal and unethical practices at one of the
most influential centres of climate research in the world is unconnected with
AGW I find extraordinary.
Can I just reemphasise to you that the charges of hiding data from independent
review are not new. They've become news only recently, but this disturbing
practice by a select coterie of climate scientists such as Phil Jones and
Michael Mann has gone on for a decade since Mann published his Hockey Stick
papers.
It effectively took the US Congress to force Mann to disclose his data and
algorithm (despite the publishing journal having a data archiving policy it
refused to enforce). Once disclosed it became very clear why he had acted like
somebody who had something to hide.
Here's Phil Jones' committment to free and open enquiry:
"Why should I make the data available to you, when your aim is to try and find
something wrong with it."
You can read what other climate scientists thought of that attitude here:
http://climateaudit.org/2008/05/30/climate-scientists-should-think-about-data-quality-more-often-says-jones/
Please correct me if I am wrong, but surely trying to find something wrong with
propositions is what the scientific method is all about?
Utopianism's "sole function is to allow its devotees to condemn what exists in
the name of what does not." Jean-François Revel
--- On Sat, 13/2/10, Jaime Headden <qi_leong@hotmail.com> wrote:
From: Ja
vs BANDits
To: maniraptor@yahoo.com, "Dinosaur Mailing List" <dinosaur@usc.edu>
Received: Saturday, 13 February, 2010, 9:34 PM
Grant Godsman wrote:
<With respect, it is you who fails to understand the import and gravity
of the Climategate emails. Certainly the office of the freedom of
information commission in the UK does not agree with you. They have
clearly stated that in their view breaches of the law took place. It is
only the fact that it is too late to prosecute under the relevant
legislation that those responsible will escape punishment.
And to gloss over the issue of data hiding - something that has gone on
for years among this group of people - and not reflect on what this
means for free and open scientific enquiry is especially worrisome.
The data that was eventually released was the highly adjusted and
manipulated data, not the raw data needed to evaluate whether or not
the adjustments etc were valid or not.>
Recently this list spent almost a month discussing the issues of what
journalism and science mean to one another. In this case, the above represents
a misconstruction of the facts in the case. Were the emails leaked, the
scientists at hand guilty of not revealing data that was already apparently
available, and were actually guilty of modifying the data apart from the need
to fit three to four completely different datasets together to form a
continuum, this would say nothing to the matters that affect anthropogenic
global warming, which is what Tom Holtz and others have already stated. The
nature of AGW (it's truth or not) and what happened at Climategate are
completely different issues, and it is inherently dishonest to assume that what
occured with the "scandal" has anything to do with the data involved that
argues for AGW.
I say this without having any opinion on the nature of AGW.
Cheers,
Jaime A. Headden
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> Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2010 05:02:11 -0800
> From: maniraptor@yahoo.com
> To: dinosaur@usc.edu
> Subject: Re: Climate change vs BANDits
>
> "I'm not aware of a country other than the US of A where manmade global
> warming is a political issue. Elsewhere, it's a _scientific_ issue. As in
> "peer-reviewed primary literature"."
>
> What? You should get out more! ;)
>
> It's a political issue everywhere, not just the USA, because at heart the
> IPCC is not a scientific body. It is run via the UN by member nations (they
> are the ones who appoint the chairman etc) and reflects their interests.
> Always has and always will.
>
> It is naive to think anything else.
>
> If you think this issue isn't political anywhere else, you haven't been
> anywhere near the UK or Australia recently.
>
> With respect, it is you who fails to understand the import and gravity of the
> Climategate emails. Certainly the office of the freedom of information
> commission in the UK does not agree with you. They have clearly stated that
> in their view breaches of the law took place. It is only the fact that it is
> too late to prosecute under the relevant legislation that those responsible
> will escape punishment.
>
> And to gloss over the issue of data hiding - something that has gone on for
> years among this group of people - and not reflect on what this means for
> free and open scientific enquiry is especially worrisome.
>
> The data that was eventually released was the highly adjusted and manipulated
> data, not the raw data needed to evaluate whether or not the adjustments etc
> were valid or not.
>
> And as the source code released by the hacker, (though there is in fact the
> possibility that
n), reveals, what we do see is an absolute mess.
>
> And now it transpires that the raw data has, er, "disappeared."
>
> Quite frankly, the various blogs at science.blogs have merely sought to
> defend the party line, almost without question. But events have left them
> behind and they have become virtually irrelevant to this debate.
>
> The lame response of 'nothing to see here, move along why don't you' is just
> not good enough.
>
> It may have been the hottest decade on record, not that that m
> ans terribly much, but, as Dr Phil Jones himself has admitted today, it was
> also a decade that saw no additional warming and that there was a slight
> cooling trend towards the end.
>
> What does all this mean? Really, who knows. Which is my basic point. We do
> not know enough to be stating with the kind of evangelical certainty that
> some have about what is going on, what is causing it and what the future
> holds.
>
> We should calm down and start trying to be cleverer about how we respond to
> climate change.
>
> Utopianism's "sole function is to allow its devotees to condemn what exists
> in the name of what does not." Jean-François Revel
>
>
> --- On Sat, 13/2/10, David Marjanovic wrote:
>
>> From: David Marjanovic
>> Subject: Re: Climate change vs BANDits
>> To: "DML"
>> Received: Saturday, 13 February, 2010, 8:19 PM
>>> I don't think the science
>> of man made global warming is as settled as
>>> birds are dinosaurs.
>>
>> You can't think about stuff you don't know. You should go
>> out less and read more. :-)
>>
>>> Too many ex vice presidents and environmental
>> loonies involved for a
>>> start.
>>
>>
>>
>> What do I care whether Al Gore is fat.
>>
>> I'm not aware of a country other than the US of A where
>> manmade global warming is a political issue. Elsewhere, it's
>> a _scientific_ issue. As in "peer-reviewed primary
>> literature".
>>
>>> Then there are so called scientists refusing to
>> publish their data
>>> and refusing to comply with freedom of
>> information requests.
>>
>> Climategategate: the scandal o
g an enormous
>> number of purloined e-mails and not even understanding what
>> the quote-mined snippets mean.
>>
>> For instance, the alleged refusal to publish data is a
>> misunderstanding of the following two facts: 1) the
>> scientist in question doesn't own the data and therefore
>> doesn't have the right to publish them -- addressing such
>> requests to him is simply a mistake; and 2) the data are
>> already in the public domain. Just downl
> here are
>> four independent series of measurements in the public
>> domain, and all show warming, warming, warming, warming.
>>
>> All this is documented in detail. For most of December and
>> January, there were several posts on it on http://scienceblogs.com per week,
>> and they all got a
>> lot of traffic.
>>
>>> Not to mention the coldest winter for decades.
>>
>> This decade is the warmest on record.
>>
>> I repeat: this decade is the warmest on record.
>>
>> More required reading: http://realclimate.org,
>> http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid, and first of all
>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7092614.stm
>> -- the latter explains how science itself is biased against
>> "climate skeptics".
>>
>
>
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