More...this regarding Wikipedia:
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thegoodlocust
Yeah well in wikipedia the truth doesn’t matter too much. It is filled with obstructionist pseudo-intellectual morons and enabled by admins who are in on the carbon credit scheme.
Yeah – I’m serious – check this out:
http://pediawatch.wordpress.com/2010/04/21/administrative-conflict-of-interest/
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Wikipedia Watch
Climate Change Antics of Note at Wikipedia
Posted by: thegoodlocust | April 21, 2010
Administrative Conflict of Interest?
I was browsing the climate change enforcement page, a place where a set of sanctions apparently designed to make it easier to ban POV’s contrary to the wikipedia party line are enforced and I noticed a post from Bozmo, where he states:
“Six years ago I was responsible for Gas, Electricity and Carbon permit trading (plus a billion dollars of other stuff).”
Bozmo is one of the major admins involved in harassing editors skeptical of climate change – his former (current?) professional interest in the subject comes as no great surprise.
Also, on the same page, the famously hard-assed admin “Nuclear Winter” amusingly opined that the climate change pages would be better administrated by climatologists – apparently forgetting that the kook they claim is a climatologist, Will Connolley, was such a horrible admin (blocking people who disagreed with him) that he had to be relieved of his authority by the ruling body of wikipedia.
It seems like the only difference between philosopher-kings and philosopher-tyrants is that the former has a nice title to hide behind.
Minor Update: Bozmo (Andrew Cates) apparently frequents Connolley’s blog, “Stoat,” and I’m sure that has nothing to do with Bozmo consistently defending Connolley from sanctions under the Climate Change probation at wikipedia. Considering how often enforcement requests come up against Connolley then you’d think Bozmo would recuse himself – especially if he has a financial interest in the carbon credit market, but this sort of conflict of interest is pretty typical in this area since the administrators who police the climate change articles have volunteered to do so.
Of course, I suppose I could get really paranoid and mention that he lives near the University of East Anglia – and near William Connolley as well. Perhaps these two mathematicians have met up for tea?
This guy seems to know something about the equipment:
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tim channon
The Antarctica AWS stations are not good. Stay with this a twist is coming.
The Harry data led me to start looking and what turned up was not good.
Turns out the AWS hardware is problematic.
Then I found what I am quite sure is a bus error and then lots of instances of hardware malfunctions. To make it worse, the radio links are awful, inadequate error detection. Try a 20C jump in a matter of minutes and then back.
Cutting that part of the story short, I had the high resolution data when BAS were fiddling around with their web published public version so I could back calculate, all highly amusing. Antarctica Treaty and BAS omitted to say they have to give the data to others and they make it available to the public.
Hence I discovered the hardware errors in the real data.
What’s this to do with the Arctic, surely they are poles apart?
Seeing that ancient mil spec A/D are likely or similar and being a former equipment designer I took a guess, grab calculator.
” The temperature jumps from 6.9 to 13.0 and back to 7.4 at 10:00 hrs and again 9.5 to 13.7 and back to 7.2 at 17:00 hrs. ”
Only takes condensation to do this, given it happens at room temperature.
13 – 6.9=6.1C not interesting. But this is american equipment.
6.1*9/5 = 10.98 and that looks likely, is basically internally F, the higher numeric resolution. Kind of things folks do.
13-7.4*9/5=1008
13.7-9.5*9/5=756
13.7-7.2*9/5=1170
Bet that unlike the BAS stuff which appears to use an old BCD interface this is binary and a duff bit, 1024, bit 9, 2^10
Is about right on resolution. Wouldn’t be surprised if 1.024 or 10.24 is the internal reference
Look for jumps around 5.7C
If a higher bit is dodgy, might get 22.8C jump.
However on looking at some of the examples, could be at least 3 bits playing games
11.4
11.4+5.7=17.1
One of the plots shown might have several instances where actually the temperature variation was rather boring.
It gets worse, the reading are probably averaged and faults are noisy so anything is possible.
Might not be the only pattern and so the entire record is suspect, other malfunctions are possible. The equipment housing probably has an air leak.
The above is guesswork so I might be very wrong.
Relating to post #21...and from comments to the original article:
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Sean Peake
Anthony, here’s what’s Wikipedia says now:
“I re-inserted the deleted statement. The claim is readily verifiable by Environment Canada and the actual METAR obs show a high of 20.9C. The website expressing concerns about its strongly opposed to climate science and thus cannot be used as a source of controversy without violating Wikipedia’s overarching goals at achieving a neutral point of view in its articles. The claim itself does not strike me as “obviously wrong”; the station in question is adjacent to the Arctic Ocean. Small changes in wind direction can lead to large temperature changes in the summer. A quick glance at some other days shows that the temperatures frequently oscillate with even minute changes in wind direction. There is no evidence of any temperature sensor malfunction. 72.240.53.216 (talk) 15:58, 23 April 2010 (UTC)”
This thread just keeps getting better!