Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 03/08/2009 8:49:33 AM PDT by nysuperdoodle
UK Telegraph -- The NSIDC somewhat shamefacedly admitted that a problem had developed with one of its satellites. The data for the previous 45 days was found to be so faulty that it had been withdrawn. But inevitably this provoked the question as to why quality control seemed to be so poor on one of the world's leading official sources of climate data that it had taken an outside observer to point out that something was wrong. This is by no means the first time that data on which the official case for global warming rests have had to be corrected, some of the more notorious instances involving temperature data supplied by Dr Hansen's GISS. Yet this is one of the four official sources of temperature data on which the IPCC itself relies. When politicians plan measures to "combat climate change" costing tens of trillions of dollars, we can at least expect them to ensure that their figures are halfway believable.
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Scientists believe what they want to believe. They always seem to find the results that they expected, probably because they ignore data that don’t fit their expectations.
The nature of the evidence is irrelevant; it's the seriousness of the charge that matters. 100% bullcrap.
“Scientists believe what they want to believe. They always seem to find the results that they expected, probably because they ignore data that don’t fit their expectations.”
No, that’s what politicians and other less educated folks do. Scientists (real ones, that is) are objective and form opinions based on “objective reality” (what a concept).
Many of the global warming types seem to be more of the “I don’t let those pesky facts interfere with my beautiful theories” school. ;-)
As Micheal Crichton pointed out in his excellent book “State of Fear”, scientific funding ought to be blind - in other words scientists should have no idea who’s funding their research. We’re a long ways from that today.
Global warming seminars are being cancelled because of terrible weather! How poetic is that? Somewhere God is enjoying a big laugh!
Scientists do not do this...politicians do.
Real science is hard against global warming, but the new McCarthy, Algore, and McCarthyist lackeys aren’t going to give up their scam. At least the real McCarthy had the benefit of being right. The new McCarthyism of global warming is 100 percent wrong, like most liberalism.
NWS/NOAA formerly the Weather Bureau have always search for more data. One way to get more data points is to have more surface observations. They train individuals the proper technique (scientific method) of observing, recording and transmitting surface observations. Notice in this picture, they are using a standard white vented shelter, that si good. So many observations are tainted with improper placement and technique. There is a website that is dedicated to exposing how these bad observations tend to bias the data stream by injecting erroneous data.
If we could have a data point every kilometer square, the surface model forecasting predictability rate would be near prefect. But we don’t so you get what you get and you don’t pitch a fit.
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