Osama bin Laden: USA tuhoaa ympäristöäQuite some irony...
translation: USA is destroying the environment
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Showing posts with label Climate. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Climate. Show all posts
Saturday, 30 January 2010
Osama Bin Laden and the environment
Seems like Greenpeace and the rest of the climate warming/change movement have an unlikely hero according to a report on Finland's MTV3 channel.
Saturday, 5 December 2009
A few links to ClimateGate...
Just for reference:
Need to go through these in more detail later...especially the code snippets
- http://www.samizdata.net/blog/archives/2009/11/a_few_thoughts_1.html
- http://www.neuralnetwriter.cylo42.com/node/2421
- http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/11/25/uh-oh-raw-data-in-new-zealand-tells-a-different-story-than-the-official-one/
- http://www.scribd.com/doc/23379965/Harry-Read-Me
- http://www.devilskitchen.me.uk/2009/11/data-horribilis-harryreadmetxt-file.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A%20TheDevilsKitchen%20%28The%20Devil%27s%20Kitchen%29
Need to go through these in more detail later...especially the code snippets
Monday, 30 November 2009
Where's the data?
With the Copenhagen Climate Summit around the corner and more and more alarmist predictions ... it seems like the World is going to heat up faster and faster every week ... there seems to be a problem with the data that this is all built upon...its missing.
Apart from that, any simulation is only as good as the data put in, the algorithms that work upon it and the final interpretation of the results - simulating complex systems such as software is almost impossible, climate on the other hand is many magnitudes more complex again. And without the original data nor access to the simulations and their parameters I get awfully worried about the quality of the results and whether those results actually mean anything at all.
But then there's the very troubling question of why was the original data lost? Ok, it could really be because it was old and not considered worthy of keeping. In which case why does this old, presumably reconstructed (how?!) get used in making predictions?
These emails are deeply troublsome
Finally, if this is interpreted as being against the "proof" of Global Warming, sorry, climate change, then in all of these matters (and one of the fundamental tenets of science) is to be skeptical. If the proof and data stand up to a detailed review and all the questions a skeptic can ask then the data and proof will be accepted, if not....?
- http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article6936328.ece
- http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100017977/climategate-the-scandal-spreads-the-plot-thickens-the-shame-deepens/
- http://briefingroom.typepad.com/the_briefing_room/2009/11/the-biggest-scandal-of-all-is-this.html
- http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125883405294859215.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
Apart from that, any simulation is only as good as the data put in, the algorithms that work upon it and the final interpretation of the results - simulating complex systems such as software is almost impossible, climate on the other hand is many magnitudes more complex again. And without the original data nor access to the simulations and their parameters I get awfully worried about the quality of the results and whether those results actually mean anything at all.
But then there's the very troubling question of why was the original data lost? Ok, it could really be because it was old and not considered worthy of keeping. In which case why does this old, presumably reconstructed (how?!) get used in making predictions?
These emails are deeply troublsome
Finally, if this is interpreted as being against the "proof" of Global Warming, sorry, climate change, then in all of these matters (and one of the fundamental tenets of science) is to be skeptical. If the proof and data stand up to a detailed review and all the questions a skeptic can ask then the data and proof will be accepted, if not....?
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