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<title>Daily Camera.com: : Butterfield: The trouble with geniuses - Boulder Daily Camera</title>
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<description>wgstrand rarely even approaches anything amounting to a real rational argument rather than disparagement and other troll like behavior. If there was any indication he even attempted substantive arguments rather than disruption, that would be different. I encourage substantive debate. I encourage those who are merely trying to annoy those who engage in substantive discourse to top wasting our time and recognize they make themselves and in this case NCAR look bad.  I have no connection to NCAR.. but despite disagreeing with some of the work coming out of there.. I understand and sympathize with their desire not to have their employees making climate research look worse by commenting on it in ways that undermine their credibility.  </description>
<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 07:48:49 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Daily Camera.com: : Butterfield: The trouble with geniuses - Boulder Daily Camera</title>
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<description>I mentioned the memo in case the poster had missed it or something or failed to comprehend it and would go back and read it.  What sort of &amp;quot;threat&amp;quot; is implied by mentioning it? Thats silly.. the poster is posting message on a public forum anyone there might run into, if the memo implied a threat to employees (I haven&amp;#039;t seen it to know).. that is NCAR&amp;#039;s issue, not mine.  </description>
<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 22:14:05 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Daily Camera.com: : Butterfield: The trouble with geniuses - Boulder Daily Camera</title>
<link>http://www.dailycamera.com/ci_13962504#IDComment47023661</link>
<description>Again, difficulty with reading comprehension on the part of the poster. NCAR sent out a memo.. not me.  </description>
<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 18:26:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Daily Camera.com: : Butterfield: The trouble with geniuses - Boulder Daily Camera</title>
<link>http://www.dailycamera.com/ci_13962504#IDComment47022605</link>
<description>I would suggest that commenting on this thread on posts re: climate emails is essentially commenting to the press. I heard that a memo went out at NCAR telling people there not to do so. The question is whether that troll had difficulty comprehending that just as apparently he has difficulty comprehending the fact that his comments on this page and elsewhere re: climate seem to serve no useful intent other than to waste peoples time   (ie, no actual argument made, but mere disparagement) and only serve to undermine the reputation of those claiming to be involved with climate work.  This comment I make here is disparaging of a post.. but it is done  due to a continuing pattern on the part of that poster of posting only trolls and wondering if the fellow will wake up and listen to what NCAR suggested rather than wasting time of those here on the climate topic.    </description>
<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 18:09:46 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Daily Camera.com: : Butterfield: The trouble with geniuses - Boulder Daily Camera</title>
<link>http://www.dailycamera.com/ci_13962504#IDComment46858118</link>
<description>This post further illustrates the point of my last post.. but I made the mistake of editing it to change just 1 number and the poor quality comment software sent if off for moderation so you may not see the post here.      Interestingly the columnist above also ignores the obvious variation on an idea she mentioned in a column recently. She cited a technology from a company in Boulder that sequesters CO2 from the atmosphere... and here ignores the potential to similarly address the issue of carbonic acid in the oceans through sequestering it or via substances to counterbalance it. Amusingly the columnist apparently had no clue she was describing geo-engineering at the time and was directly contradicting herself within the space of 3 sentences here:      &amp;quot;Our problem with burning fossil fuels really is the carbon dioxide, not just the climate havoc it creates, and this harm cannot be mitigated by geo-engineering.      Now, aren`t you ready for a little good news? How about a plan to reduce atmospheric CO2 at industrial scale in a safe and economically attractive scheme?&amp;quot;      I would have hoped she understood that to be at all useful &amp;quot;industrial scale&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;economically attractive&amp;quot; presumably must translate into the ability to be used widely enough to have a global impact.. ie geo-engineering. Geo engineering isn&amp;#039;t confined to using other techniques to alter climate but can simply involve reversing directly changes humans make like sequestering CO2, </description>
<pubDate>Sat, 12 Dec 2009 05:16:43 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Daily Camera.com: : Butterfield: The trouble with geniuses - Boulder Daily Camera</title>
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<description>The columnist seems to be suffering from a major misunderstanding at the core of her article which seems to imply those involved in the work released (likely by a whistleblower) from CRU are geniuses.       Stephen Hawking would be considered a genius. However not all scientists are geniuses.. and certainly as those emails serve to illustrate the relevant climate scientists like Phil Jones, Michael Mann et al show no signs of being anywhere near that level.. nor would you expect them to be. The degree of difficulty of different types of scientific activities varies wildly and a real genius would be bored out of their minds wasting their time measuring tree rings or dealing for years with whatever paperwork, data collection, tweaking, etc is involved with gathering temperature data. This isn&amp;#039;t quantum physics they are dealing with.      The columnist apparently failed to learn anything about the nature of how science as a human process works which the climategate folks were apparently hoping to undermine (re: influencing the peer review process). Science approaches truth over time through various hypotheses and theories being proposed and tested and critiqued . That process  is undermined by working to prevent critique and hiding data&amp;amp;algorithms needed to confirm (or refute) conclusions. Its usually 2nd tier folks and not geniuses who will feel the need to hide their data from critique and to make the peer review processes based less on merit and more on politics and agreement with the status quo views.      I just posted a comment dealing with the lack of basic scientific understanding on the part of the columnist who seems not to have understood high school chemistry, but the buggy comment software system just swallowed my post and sent it off for moderation despite there being nothing but innocuous words in it. I many not take time to figure out the bug in the comment software to get it to post but wait and hope a moderator actually gets to it.      I&amp;#039;ll merely note for now that in real chemistry quantities and reaction rates matter as does understanding of all the other processes involved in a real world situation which may counterbalance/buffer the 1 chemical process mentioned (production of carbonic acid). eg, Throw that 1 piece of chalk into the ocean, will it have a noticeable impact?   Soda water is made by putting carbon dioxide into water.. since only 0.003 percent of it becomes carbonic acid.   The oceans are alkaline and are at most incredibly slowly becoming less alkaline (which is technically becoming more acidic.. but that doesn&amp;#039;t mean they are acidic yet.. if ever due to buffering and counterbalancing effects such as some that sequester the carbon), and there is dispute over which way it impacts growth of certain life such as coral which some studies show it benefits. </description>
<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 06:16:19 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Daily Camera.com: : Butterfield: The trouble with geniuses - Boulder Daily Camera</title>
<link>http://www.dailycamera.com/ci_13962504#IDComment46729004</link>
<description>I&amp;#039;ve been too busy lately to comment more on the climategate stuff. However this column shows the Camera&amp;#039;s level of bias in choosing to print such nonsense that its difficult not to comment on it.    It appears the columnist failed to learn incredibly basic aspects of chemistry and science in high school despite her attacks on others. Merely mentioning one chemical process is rather useless without mentioning the quantities involved and the other reactions and processes which go on at the same time which may counterbalance the effect (or not, the point is that its not as simple as its made out to be).    First of all, most carbon dioxide added to water remains as carbon dioxide, eg soda water is made by adding carbon dioxide to water:    &lt;a href=&quot;http:\/\/www.wiley-vch.de\/vch\/journals\/2002\/press\/200005press.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wiley-vch.de/vch/journals/2002/press/200005pr...&lt;/a&gt;&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;www.wiley-vch.de/vch/journals/2002/press/200005pr...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  &amp;quot;The carbonation leading to the lovely bubbles in our champagne and soda water is usually attributed to carbonic acid. However, this is not entirely accurate. It is actually carbon dioxide (CO2) that was formed during fermentation or forced into the beverage. A mere 0.003 perccnt; of the dissolved gas is present in the form of carbonic acid (H2CO3).&amp;quot;    The NOAA woman added one stick of chalk to the glass, lets add one stick of chalk to the ocean. Would that make a noticeable difference? Obviously not. To keep perspective, according to this (haven&amp;#039;t checked the figures but sounds right):    wattsupwiththat.com/2009/01/31/ocean-acidification-and-corals/  &amp;quot;Estimated mass of the oceans: 1.37&amp;times;10^21 kg  Estimated mass of the atmosphere: 5.1 x 10^18 kg  That means there is about 270 times more mass of ocean than atmosphere, and remember the interface between the two is a very very small portion of the two.  Simple arithmetic shows that &amp;ldquo;our&amp;rdquo; contribution of CO2 to the oceans is approximately 1/195,714,285 the mass of the ocean, or written out that is about one two-hundred-millionth.&amp;quot;    Of course I&amp;#039;ve seen it claimed it takes 300 years or so for CO2 to disperse through the ocean (unlike its quick dispersal through the atmosphere) and so obviously concentrations vary by depth and a temporarily larger concentration in surface layers might be achieved which effects ph. I say in theory since again of course the amounts matter as do the other processes going on that effect ph, which tend to counterbalance the changes. In actual fact the ocean remains alkaline.. and is only growing less so, no actual climate scientist even on the columnists side claims it is &amp;quot;acidic&amp;quot;.. only at most that since it is becoming less alkaline then technically that means it is becoming more acidic, and the rate has been slow:    wattsupwiththat.com/2009/01/31/ocean-acidification-and-corals/  &amp;quot; The ocean currently has a pH of 8.1, which is alkaline not acid. In order to become acid, it would have to drop below 7.0. According to Wikipedia &amp;ldquo;Between 1751 and 1994 surface ocean pH is estimated to have decreased from approximately 8.179 to 8.104.At that rate, it will take another 3,500 years for the ocean to become even slightly acid. One also has to wonder how they measured the pH of the ocean to 4 decimal places in 1751, since the idea of pH wasn&amp;rsquo;t introduced until 1909.&amp;rdquo;    Though the 3500 year figure wasn&amp;#039;t accurate (ph not being a linear measure but logarithmic), it serves to illustrate the point that reaction rates, concentrations, and other things matter despite the simplistic posturing in the column above trying to claim that a toy demonstration shows anything useful.    There is also some controversy over measurements of ph and its variation with depth as well as over the flow of carbon within the ocean and between the ocean and the air. The degree of absorption of CO2 in part depends on surface area of the ocean, ie the area of contact available to transfer CO2 from atmosphere to ocean.. and that is effected by waves which are effected by wind, etc.    In addition despite only one side presented above there are conflicting studies as to the effect of CO2 in the ocean on entities that may sequester the carbon as you&amp;#039;ll note in the disagreements within the comments on that page (not all of which are cogent or reliable of course.. some even less so than the column above, but include PhD scientists, eg a chemist, who don&amp;#039;t find the argument as appealing as the columnist above claiming a high school grad should understand it... but instead illustrate that perhaps the problem is that many high school grads like the columnist above think they understand things far more than they actually do since the world isn&amp;#039;t as simplistic as they wish it to be). </description>
<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 05:43:50 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Daily Camera.com: : Send Amendment 54 packing - Boulder Daily Camera</title>
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<description>re: the notion of &amp;quot;next time it might be your ox that is gored&amp;quot;    Yup, thats why it is tricky to be careful not to over stretch the federal constitution (which is the relevant one, not the state constitution) to mean things that weren&amp;#039;t intended by its language. The constitution should be amended.. rather than ignored.    However as I noted below in a reply, to some extent if there is real ambiguity in language it makes sense to hope that the broadest rationally consistent view of the language protecting rights is taken. </description>
<pubDate>Fri, 4 Dec 2009 20:03:18 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Daily Camera.com: : Send Amendment 54 packing - Boulder Daily Camera</title>
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<description>I&amp;#039;m assuming the argument being made is that the US constitutions&amp;#039; fourteenth amendment&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;equal protection&amp;quot; clause (or the &amp;quot;privileges or immunities clause&amp;quot;, less likely) protects first amendment rights from being abridged by states. It reads in Section 1: &amp;quot;No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.&amp;quot;   I tend to be concerned about the powers of the federal government growing through unjustified overly broad interpretation of the constitution. I&amp;#039;m someone on the fence but tend to think  that  grants of power should be read narrowly and the protections of rights interpreted more broadly. Here were a couple of quick explanations from top google hits, not necessarily the best ones but match what I&amp;#039;ve read:   &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.answers.com/topic/fourteenth-amendment-to-the-united-states-constitution&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;www.answers.com/topic/fourteenth-amendment-to-the...&lt;/a&gt; Contrary to the expectations of some of the amendment&amp;#039;s framers, the Supreme Court held that it did not overrule Barron v. Baltimore (1833) to require states and local governments to respect the guarantees of the Bill of Rights.   Another major area of expansion of the Fourteenth Amendment was in the application of the Bill of Rights to the states. As early as 1908, in Twining v. New Jersey, the Court suggested that some Bill of Rights guarantees might limit the states through the Due Process Clause. In Gitlow v. New York(1925), the Court began to apply guarantees of speech, press, assembly, religion, and counsel to the states. The guarantees applied to the states were those the Court considered essential to ordered liberty (Palko v. Connecticut, 1937). A majority of the Court thought that many rights in the Bill of Rights&amp;mdash;trial by jury and the privilege against self‐incrimination, for example&amp;mdash;did not meet that test. The incorporation of the Bill of Rights accelerated under the Warren Court. By 1969 most Bill of Rights guarantees had been incorporated as limits on state power.   &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.krusch.com/real/14th.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;www.krusch.com/real/14th.html&lt;/a&gt; But only three years later, however, the Court did an about-face, and began to institute the &amp;quot;trickle-down&amp;quot; theory of constitutional jurisprudence, better known as the incorporation doctrine. Under this view, the language of the First Amendment was to be &amp;quot;incorporated&amp;quot; - added into - the text of the Fourteenth Amendment, as if it were already present there. The Court decided not to use the privileges or immunities clause for this purpose (the more justifiable clause), but rather the more expansive due processclause (which extends protection not just to &amp;quot;citizens&amp;quot;, but to &amp;quot;any person&amp;quot;), even though &amp;quot;due process&amp;quot; under the First and Tenth Amendments explicitly allowed for State regulation of speech! In Gitlow v. New York, the Court decided that  For present purposes we may and do assume that freedom of speech and of the press - which are protected by the 1st Amendment from abridgment by Congress - are among the fundamental personal rights and &amp;#039;liberties&amp;#039; protected by the due process clause of the 14th Amendment from impairment by the states.[3]  Six years after Gitlow, the Court anchored this view, stating in Near v. Minnesota that &amp;quot;It is no longer open to doubt that the liberty of the press and of speech is within the liberty safeguarded by the due process clause of the 14th Amendment from invasion by state action.&amp;quot;[4]  This, of course, was a dramatic change to the meaning of the Constitution. Prior to 1931, the absolutely written First Amendment was defensible from attack from those who would throw out legitimate hypothetical situations to defend their view that the Amendment should be disobeyed. Prior to 1931, defenders of the First Amendment could claim, accurately, that those hypothetical situations could be regulated at the State level, thus successfully meeting these objections.  After 1931, however, this defense of the First Amendment was no longer available. Under this new interpretation, no State or Federal government could regulate speech in any way, shape, or form.    As Judge Black expressed the supposedly reigning view, &amp;quot;the Fourteenth Amendment applies the First, with all the force it brings to bear against the Federal Government, against the States.&amp;quot;[6] As Judge Douglas put it,  There has been debate over the meaning of the First Amendment as applied to the States by reason of the Fourteenth. Some have thought that at the state level the First Amendment was somewhat &amp;#039;watered down&amp;#039; and did not have the full vigor which it had as applied to the Federal Government. See Roth v. United States, 354 U.S. 476, 502-503 . . . So far, that has been the minority view. See Malloy v. Hogan, 378 U.S. 1, 10 . . .[7]  </description>
<pubDate>Fri, 4 Dec 2009 19:48:24 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Daily Camera.com: : NCAR: Researchers\&#039; leaked e-mails don\&#039;t undermine climate science - Boulder Daily Camera</title>
<link>http://www.dailycamera.com/science-environment/ci_13862492#IDComment44942166</link>
<description>You don&amp;#039;t claim to be working in the field, it wasn&amp;#039;t address towards you. You are attempting to look into it, which is different. Whereas many folks out there know nothing beyond sound bites heard on TV news and think they know just based on  that what the science is and cry &amp;quot;denier&amp;quot; without even understanding whether the person might have a point  Oh, and the generic point was after seeing another local model guy on climateaudit.org who failed to understand the basic need for validation against the real world and some other basic issues, and at least one other ncar person posting here.   re: tactics, eg, If someone handwaves at a large document without citing or explaining the relevance.. and I don&amp;#039;t see anyor when finally posting clips posts scientific/mathematical discussion which isn&amp;#039;t even relevant to the point..   It was also aimed at the current leaked emails and those hiding from FOI requests. Its frustrating when &amp;quot;denier&amp;quot; is the level of argument used at times, and when as you can see in those letters there is frustration at the mere existence of people trying to get data and critique their work.       </description>
<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 19:14:36 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Daily Camera.com: : NCAR: Researchers\&#039; leaked e-mails don\&#039;t undermine climate science - Boulder Daily Camera</title>
<link>http://www.dailycamera.com/science-environment/ci_13862492#IDComment44937866</link>
<description>I&amp;#039;ve attempted to address your issues.  Oddly you weren&amp;#039;t concerned about the indignance wgstrand showed bringing up the flat earth analogy to begin with.. or his other tactics.  The indignance is towards wgstrand (just expressed making a generic point) who fails to make any point and whose tactics seem to be to avoid doing so but merely wasting peoples time and disparaging critics or pointing to irrelevant pages and expecting us to read the whole thing only to discover they are irrelevant. those on eg climateaudit.org try to have patience with critics posting on their site as do wattsupwiththat but they also tired of the inability of wgstrand to make relevant points and seeming to fail to either read or comprehend posts he replies to. Those on climateaudit.org complained about wgstrand failing to be able to answer basic questions about the models he is supposed to have some connection to.    I have never said that anyone who takes the AGW position must be incompetent or lying, far from it. Mostly I have suggested that most simply are either working on their own little bit of the field and haven&amp;#039;t examined the big picture issues or the concern over the models or are simply human and trusting of others in the field not questioning whether there are gaps between even what the honest scientists say and the policy makers.. or whether there is a healthy scientific culture/process going on which science relies on. Look up &amp;quot;paradigm&amp;quot; shift or change and read about the human process of science and how it goes astray and consider whether there are signs of issues in this one.   In other fields where its possible double blind studies are done taking into account the issue that there can be even unintended bias leaking into things if not careful. Its an assumption that science is conducted by fallible humans since anyone can make a mistake.. which is why the data and processes need to be audited. There can be bias simply through lack of being skeptical enough about their own conclusions, or refusing to consider that critics might have a point.  The problems with freedom of information acts being ignored at NASA and CRU are an issue re: not simply opening up the sources of data used by others to critique.   </description>
<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:56:01 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Daily Camera.com: : NCAR: Researchers\&#039; leaked e-mails don\&#039;t undermine climate science - Boulder Daily Camera</title>
<link>http://www.dailycamera.com/science-environment/ci_13862492#IDComment44753142</link>
<description>Its interesting that you bring up the idea of facts vs. &amp;quot;feeling whatever you want&amp;quot;.         People can &amp;quot;feel&amp;quot; that the current averaged global temperature makes sense to them. However   science can be counterintuitive and even though they may feel its a useful metric to be thinking about.. that doesn&amp;#039;t change the questionable characteristics of the way one is calculated now. Really what should be used is the energy contained within the atmosphere rather than temperature. However people have more of a gut &amp;quot;feel&amp;quot; for temperature so what people find convenient is used rather than what actually makes sense which would be either energy or a different calculation of a &amp;quot;real&amp;quot; global temperature which is higher when the heat content in the atmosphere is higher and lower when its lower.      What all these &amp;quot;forcings&amp;quot; deal with is changing the energy, the heat content of  eg a grid cell of  atmosphere.. which will translate to a different temperature change depending on the pressure and water vapor of that cell. To illustrate the point, if you took  the energy required to heat 1 cup of water to boiling and applied it to 2 cups of water. it wouldn&amp;#039;t boil, more energy would be required.      A day  X with a higher global temperature day Y could  actually have lower heat content and therefore be cooler than day Y.If all the air  in the averaged grid cells at a point in time somehow were mixed in a huge container somewhere so it was all at an equal temperature, pressure and water vapor content then  that temperature would *not* equal the global average temperature as calculated now.  Though to be able to rationally compare global temperatures on 2 different days which might have 2 different water vapor contents it could be adjusted to what the temperature would be if it were dry air.  That would provide data   whose values would correlate with   the energy  content of the atmosphere and would have the same order.. ie  when there is more &amp;quot;heat&amp;quot; (ie, warmer) the global temperature will be higher (warmer) and when the heat content is less (colder) the global temperature will be less (colder). The day X  referenced before  could have a &amp;quot;real global temperature&amp;quot; lower than day Y even if the &amp;quot;current global temperature&amp;quot; is higher.         I hadn&amp;#039;t done the analysis.. for all I know a more reasonable approach to  global temperature figured from that would be a proxy for the heat content of the atmosphere (which determines whether its warmer or cooler) might show more warming (or less).. but at least it wouldn&amp;#039;t have the possibility of indicating a year is warmer when its is  actually cooler heat content wise. </description>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 06:51:53 +0000</pubDate>
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<description>er, your comment doesn&amp;#039;t change the fact that the facts are not yet determined re: who released the emails. It is known they showed up on a russian server.. not whether an inside whistleblower was involved in releasing them and trying to potentially keep their job by letting people think it was an outsider. It doesn&amp;#039;t change the fact that there appears to be evidence (is, a court is what determines whether the evidence is real/sufficient..if they bother pursuing it) of folks in the UK attempting to illegally circumvent FOI requests and delete relevant information.       </description>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 06:28:50 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Daily Camera.com: : NCAR: Researchers\&#039; leaked e-mails don\&#039;t undermine climate science - Boulder Daily Camera</title>
<link>http://www.dailycamera.com/science-environment/ci_13862492#IDComment44742136</link>
<description>Strange to see the flat earth analogy brought up since if you look at the behavior it shows AGW folks acting like  flat earth folks presumably would  if they claimed any scientific argument for their view. They would  need to hide their data at all costs and scream at the &amp;quot;deniers&amp;quot;.. because the science would of course be bad science given the evidence out there they are wrong.  Science also can be indeterminate or incomplete.. and claiming its complete or accurate without justification isn&amp;#039;t any more scientific than flat earth folks blindly believing something without justification.   What is truly a shame are the pseudo-scientists posers who eg work in the climate field but aren&amp;#039;t scientists and their niche doesn&amp;#039;t require a full understanding of the big picture (any more than say a secretary in a climate research field would.. even if a specialist understands their little piece of it). Some seem to have a questionable grasp on the scientific process and on some basic science and yet oddly are hoping apparently that some folks are fooled into thinking someone working &amp;quot;in the field&amp;quot; must be right without question.. rather than most with any scientific bent understanding that  scientists (and non scientists) need to make rational arguments and can&amp;#039;t expect anyone to just blindly accept what they say just due to who signs their paychecks (if anything those who have a vested interest in the level of funding for climate research driven by fears of catastrophe have a vested interest in keeping their funding and jobs).    </description>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 05:59:08 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Daily Camera.com: : NCAR: Researchers\&#039; leaked e-mails don\&#039;t undermine climate science - Boulder Daily Camera</title>
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<description>You have my sympathies for being attacked by the NCAR troll above. I prefer to avoid drawing his attention by replying to him directly but figured for anyone else reading this I&amp;#039;d rewrite the fellows post to show the real issues.    Its interesting that all these folks were so defensive about their work they tried to hide it from freedom of information act requests so its natural to wonder if they had something to hide. Just as CIE has now filed suit for NASA refusing 3 years worth of FOIA requests here in the US re: climate research.   What I don&amp;#039;t care for are the smears and slurs against anyone who attempts to act like real scientists do and critique and try to verify or replicate findings. Of course the budgets for AGW related stuff is in the several $tens of billions or more and the politicians wish an excuse to have more power over people, they have powerful interests driving them to raise an alarm about AGW and to be threatened by any folks wishing to do real science and get the relevant data if they might critique their views  and won&amp;#039;t have their funding cut or be fired. Its interesting they are threatened by miniscule press coverage granted those who ask questions or the myriad who write peer reviewed articles counter to aspects of AGW theory despite indications in the emails confirming the attempt to prevent skeptics from having a say.  They have already found nefarious individuals who have written emails potentially indicating efforts to hide from FOI requests and indicating a preference to delete things rather than handing them over which I believe is considered a criminal act in the UK. I don&amp;#039;t know what the whistle blower situation is over there re: amnesty (or even lack of criminality perhaps) if there is a rogue employee whistleblower as seems likely who got tired of the game playing there and released what should have been released under FOI acts already (or ones submitted now knowing more of what might have been hidden), since of course the email was from work machines and not some sort of personal email account. I have to wonder if these week there has been any deleting of  NASA climate emails and other information on government computers that might be considered subject to FOI  Some are looking into  whether amidst other questionable acts there has been grant money given based on (or leading to) data that was inappropriately  fudged and whether there are legal issues involved.    </description>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 05:38:01 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Daily Camera.com: : NCAR: Researchers\&#039; leaked e-mails don\&#039;t undermine climate science - Boulder Daily Camera</title>
<link>http://www.dailycamera.com/science-environment/ci_13862492#IDComment44723010</link>
<description>The problem with that comment is of course  that the  &amp;quot;facts&amp;quot; are in dispute and the article was mostly about the opinions of people and weighted heavily towards those defending the status quo views vs. those trying to play watchdog on them. It is a &amp;quot;fact&amp;quot; that there were freedom of information act requests made prior to this but that wasn&amp;#039;t reported, and the emails contain references to people talking about finding ways to hide from those requests. I don&amp;#039;t have the reference offhand but I think there is a quote about preferring to delete some things vs. handing them over.    </description>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 01:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Daily Camera.com: : NCAR: Researchers\&#039; leaked e-mails don\&#039;t undermine climate science - Boulder Daily Camera</title>
<link>http://www.dailycamera.com/science-environment/ci_13862492#IDComment44722799</link>
<description>The problem with that comment is of course the article is the opinions of many people.. but simply mostly those on one side of the issue. The &amp;quot;facts&amp;quot; are in dispute. (just as with climate theory.. the only problem is that most journalists don&amp;#039;t understand science and many folks in the public rely on them too easily.  </description>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:58:09 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Daily Camera.com: : NCAR: Researchers\&#039; leaked e-mails don\&#039;t undermine climate science - Boulder Daily Camera</title>
<link>http://www.dailycamera.com/science-environment/ci_13862492#IDComment44696743</link>
<description>Also re: &amp;quot;Hackers breached a computer server at the Climatic Research Unit of the University of East Anglia in England and published about 1,000 e-mails -&amp;quot;      What the reporter doesn&amp;#039;t bother to tell people is that many feel this was a whistle blower who leaked the information and merely tried to make it look like an outsider. It was a dump of data, software, etc, which had been requested by freedom of information act in the UK for a long time.. with indications within the emails of attempts to prevent the information from being released. Other emails seem to paint the reasonable possibility that some of this information would be deleted rather than being provided in response to FOI requests.  Based on the information leaked new FOI requests have reportedly been again been made.  Many people are cautioned in general about not doing personal email on work accounts, and especially on computers used for government related business.  </description>
<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:16:59 +0000</pubDate>
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<description>There were already myriad comments when the Camera had an AP story with Trenberth defending his story, here:  &lt;a href=&quot;http:\/\/www.dailycamera.com\/archivesearch\/ci_13847260&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dailycamera.com/archivesearch/ci_13847260&lt;/a&gt;&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;www.dailycamera.com/archivesearch/ci_13847260&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/a&gt;    You&amp;#039;ll note again the bias in the story where there was one overbroad comment from a skeptic..  with much more from those defending themselves in part from  a cherry picking of a couple of just a a couple of the  points the reporter only got one sides impression of. Rather than playing watchdog for the public and being as skeptical as possible in the spirit of investigative journalism to be sure they aren&amp;#039;t missing something.. the journalists these days are playing lapdog. </description>
<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:55:39 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Daily Camera.com: : Warming\&#039;s impacts have sped up, worsened since Kyoto - Boulder Daily Camera</title>
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<description>btw, if someone has managed to re-write the nature of heat capacity and temperature and heat content.. then that&amp;#039;d undermine a huge chunk of physics and would be a major discovery and it seems doubtful some people posting quick comments re: the issue of global temperatures did manage to undermine some rather basic physics, and alot of engineering based on it which somehow works.  </description>
<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:27:23 +0000</pubDate>
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