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Gore associate said to be named in brewing ethics scandal

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“Gore associate said to be named in brewing ethics scandal“. Anthony Watts is excited that a Republican operative is promising a scandalous revelation about a Gore Obama associate on talk radio today.

Update:

Surprising documents made available to this author reveal that Assistant Secretary of Energy Cathy Zoi has a huge financial stake in companies likely to profit from the Obama administration’s “green” policies.

Those “surprising documents”? Disclosure forms submitted by Zoi when she was hired by the Department of Energy. Ooooh, good sleuthing.

Predictions Of Global Mean Temperatures & IPCC Projections

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“Predictions Of Global Mean Temperatures & IPCC Projections“. A guest post by Girma Orssengo “B. Tech, MASc, PhD”. He’s created a mathematical model that predicts global cooling by about 0.42 deg C by 2030. Good work! Take the rest of the day off, everyone.

Uh oh, he doesn’t even know the name of the institution whose temperature data he has used. What is the “Climate Research Unit (CRU) of the Hadley Center”? CRU is part of the University of East Anglia. The Hadley Centre is part of the Meteorological Office.

Left unmentioned is the critical mechanism behind his “mathematical model”. What drives all this? I vote for mermaids. Wait, make that pirates. Or… pirates and mermaids, working together.

Update 2010/05/13: I must have rushed this post, here’s Dr. Orssengo’s evidence in chart form:

Not a great fit or even a prediction of declining temperature. Source: WUWT.

Inside The Eureka Weather Station

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“Inside The Eureka Weather Station“. Anthony Watts has an exposé on the suddenly notorious Eureka arctic weather station in Nunavut, Canada. OMG, that crazy temperature spike that Anthony and Co. were ranting about as obviously bad data was real! Oops.

The weather station manager has even provided photos and answered questions! They’re not idiots after all! But Anthony will no doubt have 300 nits to pick based on this new information.

This is looking like a pretty eager-to-please, open-door conspiracy.

Solar Dynamics Observatory – STUNNING first images and movies

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“Solar Dynamics Observatory – STUNNING first images and movies“. No argument from me on this one…

SDO First Images - Full Disk Multicolor. Source: NASA.

http://www.nasa.gov/sdo Go there!

Solar Dynamics Observatory first light images to be released today

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“Solar Dynamics Observatory first light images to be released today“. A NASA press release. The denialist line will undoubtably be to only trust observations from this new satellite, so we’ll have to wait for at least 100 years before we can have enough information to act.

Here’s the SDO’s dedicated NASA website.

Solar Dynamics Observatory satellite subsystems. Source: NASA.

Doug Keenan finally gets the tree data

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“Doug Keenan finally gets the tree data“. Anthony Watts declares “victory!” because Guardian writer Fred Pearce reports that “part-time climate analyst, Doug Keenan” who “admits he has no expertise in tree-ring analysis” has used a Freedom of Information request to force Queen’s University to give him proprietary Irish tree-ring study data that covers a 7000 year time span.

Keenan hopes to somehow prove that the Irish tree-rings are evidence of a widespread medieval warm period. Dr. Baillie has published a study with his colleagues showing that Irish oaks record temperature changes poorly, so good luck with that.

Anthony says “It will be interesting to see what independent analysis shows.” Wouldn’t that presumptive eventual Global Warming disproof be the actual “victory”? I think Anthony knows that this quick celebration will be all that he can extract from it other than the start of a new round of misrepresentation.

“Keenan has become notorious for pursuing a series of vitriolic disputes with British academics over climate data.” How unusual.

Ash cloud models – overrated? A word on Post Normal Science by Dr. Jerome Ravetz

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“Ash cloud models – overrated? A word on Post Normal Science by Dr. Jerome Ravetz“. Post Normal Science, a rather odd theoretical description of how scientific research is supposedly manipulated by authorities, has become a short-hand at WUWT for two things:

  1. Scientists cheating to get the results that support their prejudices.
  2. Unaccountable government figures suppressing the rights of the individual for their own purposes.

The flight ban imposed because of the dangers posed by the Iceland ash cloud is proving a fertile topic for denialists obsessed with government activity…

Clean air, a problem?

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“Clean air, a problem?” Anthony complains that those do-good tree hugging environmentalists have made Global Warming worse by removing all that useful air pollution. Except that Global Warming isn’t happening, right?

The LA Times’, Why cleaner air could speed global warming, which Anthony helpfully pastes into his post, is what has set him off.

Anthony, I hope you’re readers don’t realise that our efforts at reducing air pollution are a pretty good example of how we could mitigate Global Warming if we were serious about it…