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2009-12-05 Science

Slow News Day: Climategate on Front Page of WaPo

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Posted by Bobby 2009-12-05 09:07|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 "value-added data"

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2009-12-05 10:08|| 2009-12-05 10:08|| Front Page Top

#2 are data from any humans ever "not" skewed to someones agenda. People are like that , in love with their own ideas.

Posted by 746 2009-12-05 10:24|| 2009-12-05 10:24|| Front Page Top

#3 Gee, I guess sales of parkas in hell must be brisk these days.

Posted by badanov 2009-12-05 11:15|| http://www.freefirezone.org]">[http://www.freefirezone.org] 2009-12-05 11:15|| Front Page Top

#4 are data from any humans ever "not" skewed to someones agenda.

A good scientist sets up his experiments to remove or test his agenda, 746*. A good scientist wants to know if his hypothesis is true, because he doesn't want to become a sad example in the textbooks later as yet another gullible fool who wasn't intelligent enough to discern the cold underlying reality of the universe. It's very much a Darwinian competition for rank in the hierarchy, where rank is assumed to strongly -- not exactly true, as pattern recognition, also thought of as insight, is not a result of raw intelligence but a complement to it, knowledge versus wisdom, if you will. I rather imagine the snickers are getting louder in certain quarters, as the list of revelations gets longer. I mean, the poor dears actually believed what they were selling, not the contradictory accumulating data, contradictions strong enough to overcome the skews deliberately introduced into the data collection. The Watts Up With That bloggers have an entire paged devoted to documenting biased sensor placement, with photos.

*While not a scientist myself, although I did research for an amusing few years, I am the child and wife of scientists, and grew up in the milieu.

Posted by trailing wife">trailing wife 2009-12-05 14:34|| 2009-12-05 14:34|| Front Page Top

#5 These are the facts:
I smell BS...
After an increase in 1998, the world has been historically warm, but
...and now I see it. Is this the history where there was no Medieval Warm Period?
its average temperatures have not climbed steadily.
Which indicates nothing: 10 years is an instant in the eyes of gods or nature
Does that mean climate change has stopped?
In other words, have I stopped beating my wife?

This is a small, sordid example of the kind of misleading, baiting, and obfuscation we are going to see from Big Media: I strongly recommend that anything they write be initially presumed false- including 'and' and 'the.'

Posted by Free Radical 2009-12-05 16:51|| 2009-12-05 16:51|| Front Page Top

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