[glebe digital]

It is a shame Lord Monkton is making this into a Right/Left issue and not a Right/Wrong one. He is making it too easy for people to dismiss what he is saying.

Very good point.
I just took it as 'obvious' that everyone knew about the CRU fraud since it broke in Novemember......despite the MSM's best efforts to discredit any/all scientific argument on the matter.

Oh well, soldier on as always!

Here's something far more reasonable from the man:

Christopher Monckton discusses with a Lady from Greenpeace.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuj_tlRRQdQ

[Sheik]

JD, are you still working on that temeraturemap application? (no, you are hard at work on the SU plugin, I know )
What could be interesting wold be a visual comparison of NASA, UAH (University of Alabama at Huntsville) and RSS (Remote Sensing Systems.) data.
NASA data may not be all that accurate...
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/02 ... rmometers/

Finding any truth will be next to impossible as data is being manipulated (probably both ways).

It is pretty evident that from a scientific perspective this is a scam, one way or the other, but the truth about climate change remains unknown.

[glebe digital]

@Sheik
That's marvelous thank you.

Peace&Love
orkneylad

[tom]

Sorry, are we talking about Solastalgia?
http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/007906.html

[glebe digital]

I say NO to big PHARMA

Peace & Love
orkneylad

[Bubbaloo]

Sorry, are we talking about Solastalgia?
http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/007906.html

Interesting.

[glebe digital]

I wouldn't touch it with a ten-foot pole mate.

Peace & Love
orkneylad

[glebe digital]

In the words of Brian Blessed:

"I wouldn't touch it with yours!"

Peace & Love
orkneylad

[JDHill]

Hi Shiek - I really haven't stolen any time for this since I last posted, mainly due to reasons which you mention. I don't think I'll try to extend the scope to include non-NASA data either; I am not concerned here with any possible problems in the data itself - my aim is not to determine its absolute value - the intention is simply to give one a way of directly visualizing the actual data, hands-on, rather than relying on the anecdotal graphical representations you will typically get elsewhere. I know of no other tool that would allow a person to do such a thing.

Regarding this:

there was a leak of e-mails (hacked) some time ago

In my opinon, it looks to be the opposite of anything a hacker would be able to produce - don't take my word (or anyone else's) for it though; get your hands on that zip file and look for yourself. Ultimately, you are the one who payed for it - find out for yourself whether you think those files show your money being used in a professional manner (hint: the emails, though popular with the press, are virtually a non-factor).

[glebe digital]

Looking forward to the results JD

Peace & Love
orkneylad

[Bubbaloo]

Looking forward to the results JD

Peace & Love
orkneylad

Thank you for typing something coherent.

[x_site]

Looking forward to the results JD

Peace & Love
orkneylad

Thank you for typing something coherent.

these latest rantings are the best indication yet that climate change IS happening... there's definitely something odd in the air around the Orkneys!

[Sheik]

It is strange how hard it was to find scientific answers to Moncktons arguments. It seems 99% of the responses on his argumentation are just ad hominem, but I found it relieveing to finaly find some scientific argumentation.
http://altenergyaction.org/Monckton.html

[glebe digital]

Climategate goes American: NOAA, GISS and the mystery of the vanishing weather stations

"For those who haven’t seen it, here’s a link to US weatherman John Coleman’s magisterial demolition of the Great AGW Scam. I particularly recommend part 4 because that’s the one with all the meat. It shows how temperature readings have been manipulated at the two key climate data centres in the United States – the NASA Goddard Science and Space Institute at Columbia University in New York and the NOAA National Climate Data Center in Ashville, North Carolina. (Hat tip: Platosays)
http://www.kusi.com/weather/colemanscor ... 83352.html
This is a scandal to rank with Climategate.

What it shows is that, just like in Britain at the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) temperature data records have been grotesquely distorted by activist scientists in order to exaggerate the appearance of late 20th century global warming. They achieved this – with an insouciant disregard for scientific integrity which quite beggars belief – through the simple expedient of ignoring most of those weather station sited in higher, colder places and using mainly ones in warmer spots. Then, they averaged out the temperature readings given by the warmer stations to give a global average. Et voila: exactly the scary “climate change” they needed to persuade bodies like the IPCC that AGW was a clear and present danger requiring urgent pan-governmental action.

The man who spotted all this is a computer programmer called EM Smith – aka the Chiefio. You can read the full report at his excellent blog. In the 70s, the Chiefio discovered, GISS and NOAA took their temperature data from 6,000 weather stations around the world. By 1990, though, this figure had mysteriously dropped to 1500. Even more mysteriously this 75 per cent reduction in the number of stations used had a clear bias "

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/james ... -stations/

[glebe digital]

Climate e-mails inquiry under way:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8510498.stm

Speaking at the launch of the inquiry, Sir Muir, who is chairman of the Judicial Appointments Board for Scotland, said: “We are free to pursue and follow any line of inquiry that we wish.”