re: #269 LudwigVanQuixote

ON what do you possibly base this? The source data was checked an rechecked by the entire scientific community. The National Academy has vindicated it as kosher. That is a much higher standard of proof than exists in any court of law. So is looking out the window in Texas. Care to explain the droughts for the last decade?

As to the so called fake controversy ginned up by climategate there was absolutely nothing - repeat nothing that showed any sort of misbehaviour on the part of the scientists.

Also for the record, if the ginned up false charges made by the right wing by taking quotes out of context is what you are using to doubt Mann then it should be pointed out that Mann is at Penn State - not East Anglia where the climategate mails came from. It doesn’t affect him one bit.

You are something of a fool.

I wasn’t trying to make any claims. The original post mentioned climategate and I simply stated that _I_ got the impression at the time, when browsing through the emails, that data was passed back forth without much apparent control.

I presume that the droughts in Texas are caused by Anthropomorphic Global Warming. That’s what a consensus of scientists tell me. What that has to do with the process of recording, storing and sharing of data I don’t know.

My entire original point was based on my impression of reading through some of the climategate emails.

We all go to a restaurant and have dinner. We all agree the food is delicious. I happened to see the head chef go to bathroom and not wash his hands. He may have washed them in the kitchen instead of the bathroom, I don’t know, I’m not allowed in the kitchen, but I did see him leave the bathroom without washing his hands. I happen to mention this the next day and everyone tells me it doesn’t matter because the food was delicious and nobody got the shits.

Are you telling me you’ve never been surprised about somebody’s process? You’ve never thought, wow, I can’t believe you’re using Excel to track that?

That was the impression I got browsing through the climategate emails, basically, “hmmm, I thought the data would be a bit more tightly controlled.”

I guess it doesn’t matter as long as nobody gets the shits.