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2007-08-10 Science & Technology

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Posted by DarthVader 2007-08-10 09:27|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 The effect on the US global warming propaganda machine will be nothing, zip, zero.

That particular machine doesn't run on science or truth, it runs on money, fear, and hysteria.

I don't look to see this affect them in the least.
They will simply ignore this fact like so many others that don't fit their agenda.

But it's good to know we arent gonna die before the next presidential elections.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2007-08-10 11:21|| 2007-08-10 11:21|| Front Page Top

#2 Global warming hockey stick now broken

I was reading somewhere recently (Here's a related link) about the infamous hockey-stick graph: the data was cherry picked and manipulated, but it still didn't give the "correct" answer, so the source code of the model was "fixed" to make it fit. The resulting model will generate a hockey-stick graph for nearly any random data set.

Posted by xbalanke 2007-08-10 13:49|| 2007-08-10 13:49|| Front Page Top

#3 But that's all OK, because at least the scientist in charge wasn't a) wearing diapers, b) in some sort of fantasy love-triangle, or c) drunk on his ass when he manipulated the data (maybe on second thought, as a geek, data was ALL he could manipulate....)

Posted by USN, Ret. 2007-08-10 15:18|| 2007-08-10 15:18|| Front Page Top

#4 USN, These folks are an insult to geeks. Be nice.

This was apparently a 2-man team effort at that NASA office (one of whom has previously filed a complaint about politicization of scientific data!!). Reference: Thread on Michelle Malkin's site today.

Posted by Throger Thains8048 2007-08-10 19:15|| 2007-08-10 19:15|| Front Page Top

#5 Link to MM site.
www.michellemalkin.com/2007/08/09/hot-news-nasa-fixes-flawed-temperature-data-1998-was-not-the-warmest-year-in-the-millenium/

Hope this doesn't blow some formatting rule.

Posted by Throger Thains8048 2007-08-10 19:22|| 2007-08-10 19:22|| Front Page Top

#6 Here's the link to the debunking site for the hockey stick. I posted it a while back but it's always a good read.

http://www.john-daly.com/hockey/hockey.htm

Sorry, couldn't make it direct link, cut and paste:S

Posted by Silentbrick">Silentbrick 2007-08-10 19:28|| 2007-08-10 19:28|| Front Page Top

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