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| Russians Now Claim Their Climate Data Was Cherry-Picked | |||
| 2009-12-17 | |||
Climategate has already affected Russia. On Tuesday, the Moscow-based Institute of Economic Analysis (IEA) issued a report claiming that the Hadley Center for Climate Change based at the headquarters of the British Meteorological Office in Exeter (Devon, England) had probably tampered with Russian-climate data.
Analysts say Russian meteorological stations cover most of the country's territory, and that the Hadley Center had used data submitted by only 25% of such stations in its reports. Over 40% of Russian territory was not included in global-temperature calculations for some other reasons, rather than the lack of meteorological stations and observations.
The HadCRUT database includes specific stations providing incomplete data and highlighting the global-warming process, rather than stations facilitating uninterrupted observations. On the whole, climatologists use the incomplete findings of meteorological stations far more often than those providing complete observations.
The scale of global warming was exaggerated due to temperature distortions for Russia accounting for 12.5% of the world's land mass. The IEA said it was necessary to recalculate all global-temperature data in order to assess the scale of such exaggeration. Global-temperature data will have to be modified if similar climate-date procedures have been used from other national data because the calculations used by COP15 analysts, including financial calculations, are based on HadCRUT research. | |||
| Posted by: Anonymoose |
| #9 Wasn't there a deathmatch chess of sorts devised? - went something like 5 minutes Chess 5 minutes Cage Match, repeat until someone wins one or the other. Back in college we would have something similar. Losing a pawn was a 1/2 beer, losing a capital piece was a shot, queen was double-shot. Good game, great mental exercise, preferably without the previous mentioned variations. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2009-12-17 11:23 |
| #8 I play every Sunday, in Thunderdome style (two men enter, one man leaves). Real deathmatch chess sounds kind of cool. But like the man said, "Never go up against a Sicilian (Defense) when death is on the line". As for the climate numbers being rooski, it is irrelevant to the scientific fraud being commited. The things the HadCRUT boys have done to the scientific method would make P.T. Barnum weep with envy. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2009-12-17 11:07 |
| #7 I've become a huge chess fan living in Estonia. Paul Keres, who was one of the best chess players of the 20th century, is on one of their banknotes. I play every Sunday, in Thunderdome style (two men enter, one man leaves). My last game was epic, lasting more than 2 hours, even though I lost. The concentration needed lets you forget about all your other problems. Even though I lost, the game was so elegantly played, I talked about it for days. But I digress. The Russians are a oil-dictatorship. Copenhagen threatens their man export. It's in their interests to burst open Climategate. However, as Anonymoose says, I almost believe them this time. But the thing about Russians, they have the ability to think 3 moves farther than you do. But they're likely doing it while they pee on their own shoes. |
| Posted by: Mizzou Mafia 2009-12-17 10:22 |
| #6 the Rooskies have oil and gas to sell |
| Posted by: Frank G 2009-12-17 09:54 |
| #5 Hard to say, Kelly. Remember, these people play chess to relax. |
| Posted by: Cornsilk Blondie 2009-12-17 08:39 |
| #4 True, but it kinda makes you wonder what the Russians want. |
| Posted by: Kelly 2009-12-17 07:57 |
| #3 academic fraud and political treason |
| Posted by: Frank G 2009-12-17 06:08 |
| #2 When it rains it pours. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2009-12-17 05:07 |
| #1 HadCrud has been had. |
| Posted by: twobyfour 2009-12-17 04:07 |