Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 02/18/2010 6:37:28 AM PST by mattstat
The other day, I asked Phil Jones and other climate scientists to rebuke some of their foaming-at-the-mouth colleagues for their inappropriate use of language. While I’m still awaiting a response—it should come soon, surely—I cannot neglect Mr Jones’s return challenge.
He doesn’t like that people are picking on him about the data he lost, nor does he enjoy upstarts critiquing his conclusions. Rather than squabbling and nyah-nyah-nyahing, Jones asked of critics, “Why don’t they do their own [temperature] reconstructions?”
Here is an open letter to Mr Jones.
Dear Phil,
I accept!
The chance to sort out the global temperature record and accurately note its uncertainty is too important to ignore.
Here is what I shall require. Keep in mind that these requests are put forth in the name of fairness and good science. Surely you would agree that just as much effort should be taken to investigate alternate theories of climate as have been taken to prove the man-made harmful global warming theory.
My list:
* Money, and lots of it. Way I figure it, you’ve been at this for twenty or so years, with a sizable staff at the institute level. I need to duplicate that structure over a relatively short period. Conferences aren’t cheap, either. It’s going to cost, and I don’t have enough personal funds to cover the tab....
(Excerpt) Read more at wmbriggs.com ...
Tell him you'd be happy to the analysis just as soon as he provides the original data...oh, that's right, he "lost" it. Was that the dog ate it thing or just the "I'm incompetent" thing?
Good article.
As I recall (probably wrongly) Phil Jones got about 26 million dollars to do his reconstruction.
I could do it for way less, mainly because I wouldn’t waste time manipulating the data to fit a pre-conceived conclusion.
Hell, if he just published what he had, enough clever people would work on it for free to get some value out of it, even if all they came up with was ‘this data is worthless’.
You’ll like this one.
Good article...comments add to it.
chuckle of the day.
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