Red Faces & Arses At NASA Over Climate-Change Blunder

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D. Spencer Hines

Red Faces & Arses At NASA Over Climate-Change Blunder

Legg inn av D. Spencer Hines » 14 aug 2007 20:36:28

Red faces at NASA over climate-change blunder

Agency roasted after Toronto blogger spots `hot years' data fumble

Aug 14, 2007 04:30 AM
DANIEL DALE
STAFF REPORTER
The Toronto Star

In the United States, the calendar year 1998 ranked as the hottest of them
all – until someone checked the math.

"Checking the math" is ALWAYS a Good Idea -- as we saw recently with
reference to the egregious gaffe by J. S. Plant in the _Calculating The
Joint Probability Of False Paternity Events [FPE]_ thread. Dies Irae. --
DSH

After a Toronto skeptic tipped NASA this month to one flaw in its climate
calculations, the U.S. agency ordered a full data review.

Hilarious! You can be sure that ashes were hauled and performance
evaluations downgraded. -- DSH

Days later, it put out a revised list of all-time hottest years. The Dust
Bowl year of 1934 now ranks as hottest ever in the U.S. – not 1998.

Who would'a thunk it. <g> _Grapes Of Wrath_ was right. Kudos to John
Steinbeck and John Ford. -- DSH

More significantly, the agency reduced the mean U.S. "temperature anomalies"
for the years 2000 to 2006 by 0.15 degrees Celsius.

NASA officials have dismissed the changes as trivial. Even the Canadian who
spotted the original flaw says the revisions are "not necessarily material
to climate policy."

But the revisions have been seized on by conservative Americans, including
firebrand radio host Rush Limbaugh, as evidence that climate change science
is unsound.

Said Limbaugh last Thursday: "What do we have here? We have proof of
man-made global warming. The man-made global warming is inside NASA ... is
in the scientific community with false data."

However Stephen McIntyre, who set off the uproar, described his finding as
"a micro-change. But it was kind of fun."

A former mining executive who runs the blog ClimateAudit.org, McIntyre, 59,
earned attention in 2003 when he put out data challenging the so-called
"hockey stick" graph depicting a spike in global temperatures.

This time, he sifted NASA's use of temperature anomalies, which measure how
much warmer or colder a place is at a given time compared with its 30-year
average.

Puzzled by a bizarre "jump" in the U.S. anomalies from 1999 to 2000,
McIntyre discovered the data after 1999 wasn't being fractionally adjusted
to allow for the times of day that readings were taken or the locations of
the monitoring stations.

HILARIOUS! Rat feces in the data. -- DSH

McIntyre emailed his finding to NASA's Goddard Institute, triggering the
data review.

"They moved pretty fast on this," McIntyre said. "There must have been some
long faces."

And throbbing, bruised, lacerated rear ends -- from the kicks they received.

DSH

Lux et Veritas et Libertas

Deus Vult

Weatherlawyer

Red Faces as Dispenser Hines faces the truth.

Legg inn av Weatherlawyer » 15 aug 2007 01:20:55

On Aug 14, 8:36 pm, "D. Spencer Hines" <pant...@excelsior.com> wrote:
Hilarious use of the word 1998. Hilarious use of the term NASA
Hilarious use of hilarity. I can't stop laughing.
Ha ha ah, ah, ah ho ho.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lew6DS9wEyI&NR=1

Nice to see Dispenser Hines facing up to <s>hil</s>reality.

The Highlander

Re: Red Faces as Dispenser Hines faces the truth.

Legg inn av The Highlander » 15 aug 2007 02:36:49

On Tue, 14 Aug 2007 17:20:55 -0700, Weatherlawyer
<Weatherlawyer@hotmail.com> wrote:

On Aug 14, 8:36 pm, "D. Spencer Hines" <pant...@excelsior.com> wrote:

Hilarious use of the word 1998. Hilarious use of the term NASA
Hilarious use of hilarity. I can't stop laughing.
Ha ha ah, ah, ah ho ho.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lew6DS9wEyI&NR=1

Nice to see Dispenser Hines facing up to <s>hil</s>reality.

I thought it was an excellent summary because it was the truth and
nothing but the truth. Of course people like Hines who have never been
in combat have only "The Dirty Dozen" and all the other US-glorifying
films as a cross-check for what a war is really like.

Armchair Commanders are as useless as three tits on a bull, to
paraphrase an old Canadian saying.

The Highlander
Tilgibh smucaid air do làmhan,
togaibh a' bhratach dhubh agus
toisichibh a' geàrradh na sgòrnanan!

Peter Jason

Re: Red Faces as Dispenser Hines faces the truth.

Legg inn av Peter Jason » 15 aug 2007 03:11:24

"The Highlander" <micheil@shaw.ca> wrote in
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On Tue, 14 Aug 2007 17:20:55 -0700,
Weatherlawyer
Weatherlawyer@hotmail.com> wrote:

On Aug 14, 8:36 pm, "D. Spencer Hines"
pant...@excelsior.com> wrote:

Hilarious use of the word 1998. Hilarious
use of the term NASA
Hilarious use of hilarity. I can't stop
laughing.
Ha ha ah, ah, ah ho ho.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lew6DS9wEyI&NR=1

Nice to see Dispenser Hines facing up to
s>hil</s>reality.

I thought it was an excellent summary
because it was the truth and
nothing but the truth. Of course people
like Hines who have never been
in combat have only "The Dirty Dozen" and
all the other US-glorifying
films as a cross-check for what a war is
really like.

Armchair Commanders are as useless as three
tits on a bull, to
paraphrase an old Canadian saying.

The Highlander
Tilgibh smucaid air do làmhan,
togaibh a' bhratach dhubh agus
toisichibh a' geàrradh na sgòrnanan!

Can you translate these weird glyphs for us?

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