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Global Warming Bombshell (Moonbat Mathematics Revealed)
MIT Technology Review ^ | 15 October 2004 | Richard Muller

Posted on 10/15/2004 2:39:25 AM PDT by Goat Locker Freeper

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Standby for Moonbat hysteria! (And, of course, IT'S ALL BUSH'S FAULT!)
1 posted on 10/15/2004 2:39:25 AM PDT by Goat Locker Freeper
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to marktwain


2 posted on 10/15/2004 2:56:23 AM PDT by riverrunner
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To: Goat Locker Freeper

As I have been saying for years, there is no such thing as "earth sciences."


3 posted on 10/15/2004 2:57:39 AM PDT by CasearianDaoist
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Thanks for the article. Here is the critical analysis http://www.uoguelph.ca/~rmckitri/research/fallupdate04/update.fall04.html


4 posted on 10/15/2004 2:58:55 AM PDT by AdmSmith
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To: Goat Locker Freeper

*cough* ice age *cough*

But apparently thats not enough evidence that the Earth has its own global cycle.


5 posted on 10/15/2004 3:01:08 AM PDT by Crazieman (Islam. Religion of peace, and they'll kill you to prove it.)
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To: Goat Locker Freeper

....and Haliburton's


6 posted on 10/15/2004 3:04:46 AM PDT by kb2614 ( You have everything to fear, including fear itself. - The new DNC slogan)
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To: Goat Locker Freeper
This improper normalization procedure tends to emphasize any data that do have the hockey stick shape, and to suppress all data that do not.

The writer implies that those writing the program didn't know what they were doing, but perhaps they knew EXACTLY what they were doing, i.e., cooking the books in their favor.

7 posted on 10/15/2004 3:13:06 AM PDT by libertylover
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Application of statistical methods to climate modeling may be a useful tool for limiting the parameters to deal with, and when no important aspect is overlooked, may be expected to yield reproducible results.

But to get the results that fit the observations, there is something introduced called a "finagle factor", that when applied, voila!, the "right answer" magically appears. This is a universal practice that runs throughout ALL scientific endeavor, when there are more unknowns than knowns, the human tendency to build myth as an explanation.

In integral calculus, the process is the reverse of differential calculus, but to cover variations in outcome, there always has to be room for the "jigger factor", expressed as k, from the German word konstant.

8 posted on 10/15/2004 3:20:40 AM PDT by alloysteel
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To: kb2614

and Cheney's


9 posted on 10/15/2004 3:20:59 AM PDT by TeddyCon
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To: Goat Locker Freeper

Marking for later reading.


10 posted on 10/15/2004 3:32:59 AM PDT by Blue Eyes (Operating behind enemy lines in Pajamastan.)
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To: AdmSmith
It seems someone posted a similar article a few hours earlier:
Global Warming Bombshell: A prime piece of evidence ... turns out to be artifact of poor math.
11 posted on 10/15/2004 3:35:29 AM PDT by PatrickHenry (Hic amor, haec patria est.)
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To: libertylover

Junk science at its best. One of our Objectivist or Sovietologist friends here ought to comment on the parallels with what Soviets did during the last century. Namely, trying to use political ideas to achieve scientific results.

IIRC, it had something to do with communist ideology and wheat crops. The result being failed crops and starving people. As the first premise was ideological rather than scientific, the failure was explained in communist ideological terms and the failures repeated.

The upshot here is that these moonbat "scientists" are in a headlong, mad rush to crush modernity and send us all back to their medievel agrarian society.

And, they'll lie, cheat, fudge facts, skew data, and whatever else is necessary to achieve the desired end result.

Anyone care to theorize on the nexus of fascist islam, radical environmentalists, and socialism?


12 posted on 10/15/2004 3:36:24 AM PDT by Goat Locker Freeper ("Si vis pacem, para bellum.")
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These guys probably are NOT deliberately fudging the data. Although I only have the math necessary to finish a degree in chemistry, and not the PhD in stat alot of these people have, I DO have some experience with this type of programming, having mucked around in the financial markets for years, and having worked as an environmental engineer.

Normalizaton of data (or "curve fitting") is also a real problem when you are trying to analyze data from the financial markets or environmental trends. You are looking for patterns of linear regression (is there market price behavior there that repeats itself with enough regularity that I should buy/sell, say, soybean futures at THIS point in the graph?). I call it the technological equivalent of reading chicken entrails to determine the future.
Anyway, the problem comes from the following.

1) The data is random
2) Within that random data are clear patterns

These seemingly contradictory statements have led some of the best minds and fastest computers and biggest players in the markets to crunch MOUNTAINS of data looking for a way to disprove item #1 above.

The lure is so strong that one is always tempted to look for a mathematical formula that will explain and predict the future. The problem is, that usually the formula only explains PAST patterns and is totally worthless to predict future behavior.

Though some folks who hawk environmental models have the same level of sleazy technoshysterism as the hacks bawling out their wares in Techical Analysis magazine, most of em are just blind to their own prejudiced conclusions. Therefore, they find patterns that TRULY ARE THERE, they are just curve fitted and not very useful.

Peer review is a great way to shut this stuff down as noted here.


13 posted on 10/15/2004 3:51:14 AM PDT by chronic_loser (Yeah? so what do I know?)
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To: Goat Locker Freeper

Hockey stick? I thought the NHL players were locked out.


14 posted on 10/15/2004 4:00:05 AM PDT by aardvark1 (Something was seared in my memory but I forgot what it was.)
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"1) The data is random "

As a fellow chemist, I must point out that "the data ARE random" is the correct usage.

15 posted on 10/15/2004 4:08:11 AM PDT by Wonder Warthog (The Hog of Steel)
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To: Goat Locker Freeper

Read Gross & Levitt's 'Higher Superstition' or 'Fight From Science and Reason' or Noretta Koertge's 'House Built on Sand' or, best of all, Alan Sokal's essay 'Transgresing the Boundaries'. It'll all be clear.


16 posted on 10/15/2004 4:09:32 AM PDT by dhuffman@awod.com (The conspiracy of ignorance masquerades as common sense.)
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To: Goat Locker Freeper

Environmental Wacko Ping!


17 posted on 10/15/2004 4:10:09 AM PDT by elephantman96
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To: Goat Locker Freeper

18 posted on 10/15/2004 4:19:30 AM PDT by MonroeDNA (In Islam, a woman can be married at any age even when she is a newly born baby.)
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What took MIT so long??

John Daly debunked Mann and his "Hockey Stick" more than four years ago. For his efforts, Daly was crucified by the global warming advocates. Too bad he didn't live to see this.

Well done John....


19 posted on 10/15/2004 4:21:56 AM PDT by daylate-dollarshort
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Is this what they are talking about with "fuzzy math"?


20 posted on 10/15/2004 4:36:37 AM PDT by Reaganghost
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