Mail 681 Saturday July 2, 2011
CRUTEM3
July 2, 2011 6:53 PM
UK academic wins right to climate change data
(AP) LONDON — Britain’s information watchdog says a closely guarded dataset held by the university at the center of the “Climategate” scandal must be disclosed.
Britain’s Information Commissioner says that the University of East Anglia must hand over a selection from its database of world temperatures records, called CRUTEM3, which draws on readings dating back more than 160 years.
The dataset is one of several which maps global temperature changes over the years and climate change skeptics have long demanded access to it.
In an incident known as Climategate, a series of e-mails stolen last year from the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit in Britain showed climate scientists stonewalling skeptics and discussing ways to keep opponents’ research out of peer-reviewed journals.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/07/02/ap/tech/main20076431.shtml
HM
As the data come out we may yet learn more about this. I would still doubt the accuracy of an average annual Earth temperature to a tenth of a degree even for the present year, and I know no evidence at all that we have 1/10 degree accuracy for the year 1800 or even 1890; but at least it will be interesting to see the data.
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Global Temperature sources, Arctic
Jerry:
Reading the latest information, here in Chaos Manor, about how to ‘see’ where the numbers come from, for the Average Global Temperature, I remembered how much the DC-3 bush pilots, flying out of Resolute Bay, NWT, trusted the Aviation Weather Forecasts, in the Arctic.
They did NOT. Because there were very, very few Weather Reporting Stations in the High Arctic.
Before flying out to our Seismic Camp (which was on giant sleigh runners), they would Radio, and speak with our Crew Manager, to get a Real Time Weather Report. Since he had a Thermometer on his Office Trailer, and an Anemometer and a Recording Wind Vane, on a pole above his Office Trailer, he was easily able to tell the truth. If our conditions were good, and were not deteriorating, the DC-3 supply-flight would come out west, from Resolute Bay, to our location on the Arctic ocean ice.
We were working an area between Mackenzie King Island; Lougheed island; the north tip of the Sabine Penninsula of Melville Island, and down the west side of the Sabine Penninsula. Our Airstrip was simple to build – just about 3/4 of a mile-long, 200 feet wide snowplowed clean by 2 D6 Cats. The edges of the cleared ice were marked, every 100 steps, by a black plastic garbage bag wrapped around a 3-surveyors’ lath tripod. Three extra black plastic-on-a-lath-tripod arrangements were placed across each end, and, to mark an extended centre-line, past both ends of the ice strip, we put up about an half-mile of Flags, made triple-height, (just combine lath in a 4; 3; 2; 1: sequence, nailed flat to each other) with a black plastic garbage bag pulled down, with the open end towards the ground, and tie the top end to the lath, then bunch a bit of the bottom edge that is touching the doubled lath, and tie that off, as well. the wind not only blows the garbage bag out like a flag, some of the wind gets into the open bottom, and slightly inflates the whole thing. I inspected the setups, from out Bell Jetranger helicopter, after each new DC-6 snowplowed ice stip was marked, and the extended centreline flags were easy to see, plus the edge & end markers also showed up well. snow never stuck to any of them, because the rippling caused by the winds made the snow fall off!
The Seismic Crews, working in the High Arctic, worked from October thru mid-December, then returned in late January (after the worst of the storms had gone). We still had a weeks worth of emergency food in each vehicle, due to the danger of a Blizzard making it impossible to see well enough to drive. And I have driven into the base of a 90-foot-tall cliff, when I strayed off of a previously-driven trail, on Banks island. My Rolligon’s headlights suddenly stopped glowing thru the flying snowflakes, and the 6-cylinder ford diesel tractor engine stalled. I started the engine, and backed up, gazing in wonder at a perfect imprint of the grille-guard, in the snow-covered cliff-face – until a big chunk of the snow-cornice arrive from on high!
I do wonder how good Climate Forecasts can be, when Weather Forecasts suffer from wildly-variable spacing of Weather Reporting Stations. I have looked up the number, and placements, of Weather Stations which launch at least one Weather Balloon a day, and see the scanty numbers as not being enough for coverage. The Arctic, the Antarctic, the pacific ocean, and Africa, all do not have many Weather Stations, and the ones that are there are not evenly spaced, either!
Regards,
Neil Frandsen
in Lethbridge, Alberta, where the Chinook Winds _blow_. or not… Grin.
Ah but they are doing it the easy way, determining the average temperature of the entire Earth. Much simpler than in your case.
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I got a .50 ’cause they don’t make it in .51
http://www.guncrafterindustries.com/
J
“In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.”
Dwight David Eisenhower
I will stay with the Colt Government Model myself.
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Where in the Constitution does it say that anything harmful to minorities is illegal?
Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette said today he will appeal a court ruling that overturned the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative, which bans the use of race and gender preferences in college admissions and government hiring and contracting.
Schuette said he will make a formal request for a rehearing with the appeals court, a move that will keep the civil rights initiative — known as Proposal 2 — in place at least temporarily.
“MCRI embodies the fundamental premise of what America is all about:
equal opportunity under the law,” Schuette said in a statement.
“Entrance to our great universities must be based upon merit, and I will continue the fight for equality, fairness and rule of law.”
A federal appeals court today overturned Proposal 2, saying the voter-approved measure harms minorities and is unconstitutional.
From The Detroit News:
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Most Respectfully,
Joshua Jordan, KSC
Bill Buckley was fond of saying that we need a new Constitutional Amendment. It should say “nor shall any state for reasons of race or sex deny to any person the equal protection of the laws, and this time we damned well mean it.” Of course that can never happen.
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Sarkozi — who is not French but Royal Hungarian — had two aids who posted about Strauss-Khan on Twitter vis-a-vis the alleged rape 30 minutes before the arrest happened. How would they know? Well, it’s a set up right? Their excuse was they had spies following him and that is how they knew. It’s in google. It is worth knowing. It happens all the time, but this is a great public event where normal people can take 10 minutes of time and learn something. Maybe you could write a view on it?
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Most Respectfully,
Joshua Jordan, KSC
I expect DSK told them. One possible story: he was seduced and accepted the offer. He was then warned by someone in the DA’s office of the coming auto de fe in his honor. He sent his story to aides. Of course that’s just a story, but it’s a lot more likely than the one told by the maid.
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Afghanistan logistics not yet dumb enough
They’re even talking air. Uncle Sam wept.
Gregory Cochran
U.S. turns to other routes to supply Afghan war as relations with Pakistan fray
What are you, an isolationist?
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Libertarian Republican: Bachmann – Palin Mud Wrestling match?
Jerry,
Perhaps this would be the proper method for the Republican Party to nominate a Presidential candidate? May be even make it pay per view to fund the campaign?
http://www.libertarianrepublican.net/2011/06/bachmann-palin-mud-wrestling-match.html
Jim
I do not think either would participate. For perhaps different reasons. But I can think of other interesting mud wrestling matches. Think of Pelosi—
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going John Galt
Message Body:
Dear Doctor Pournelle,
I’m in a bad mood today, but it seems to me John Galt was right.
Since we are punitively taxing the rich, and since we are now going after the means of creating wealth, I am serously considering saying to hell with it and just voting democrat. If that’s want people want, if we have to crash everything in order to rebuild it in a more rational manner … then let’s go ahead and get it over with. The best way to crash everything at the moment seems to be to vote democrat.
I know, “despair is a sin,” and all that.
Jim
Sounds like IWW logic.
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