From the truth is stranger than fiction department…
From the Independent By Roger Maynard in Sydney
Scientists are seeking the help of the Australian and US navies to repel Somali pirates who are threatening one of the world’s key climate monitoring programmes.
With about a quarter of the Indian Ocean currently off-limits to marine experts, Australian researchers have asked the navies to help them plug a critical gap in their study of international weather patterns.
They hope to deploy about 20 robotic instruments in a no-go area north of Mauritius. The instruments, which record ocean heat and salinity patterns, are programmed to submerge and eventually resurface to upload their data to satellites.
But with piracy in the western Indian Ocean making it too dangerous for commercial or research vessels to deploy the robotic devices, Australia’s government research department, the CSIRO, hope naval forces will help them out.
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full story here
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Just more proof that Big Oil is behind the Somali Pirates.
I heard the head Pirate has 1/2 interest in a Mobil on the Run if Mogadishu.
Or proof, due to the correlation, that the IPCC is funding the pirates.
OMG I can’t believe they made an article from a joke made up by Pasterfarians. The graph is a unashamed copy.
You should probably mention this is taken from the church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster before you upset the Pasterfarians.
http://www.venganza.org/
Is that Pirate number raw or adjusted for rising sea level?
Note that the last point on the chart is for the year 2000 and there were an estimated 17 pirates. In the past decade, the number of pirates has been increasing (Somalia) and global warming has stalled.
They had better go in there and wipe out those pirates before we plunge into another NH glaciation, eh? ;o)
Is it a question of real scientists or are they just afraid of competition …? [ Sorry, couldn’t resist … ;o) ]
x axis needs looking at
Since the EU has taken command of the Royal Navy in the pirate patrols it has applied a human rights law into the patrols. Ergo the RN are no longer allowed to sink the pirate boats which was a great deterrant. Now pirates find it more profitable and can afford bigger, faster boats which don’t get sunk by the RN. They run home and then the RN is not even allowed to shell them from sea. Agressive treatment of pirates is against their human rights. Typical EU left wing liberal rubbish.
I would expect the US Navy will still sinking them.
A much more accurate correlation:
http://joannenova.com.au//globalwarming/graphs/us_post_causes_global_warming_lrg.jpg
My god… I think you’re on to something…. Climate scientists are reformed pirates!!! The ones that didn’t reform want revenge… It ALL makes sense!
Now they know how WE feel.
I’m appalled that the WUWT community has risen as one to condemn the implied death threats against the climate scientists who go into harms way to deploy these much need probes. 🙂
Oh, these must be Argos floats, of course. There are thousands out out there, they probably don’t even send an engineer to deploy them any more, let alone a bona fide climate scientist.
This does have me thinking – how hard would it be for a pirate to go looking for, capturing and holding an Argos float for ransom?
“Fork over the money or we’ll decalibrate its salinity sensor!”
It would make for an interesting “Float of the Month” column at the Argos website.
Or a wall decoration in a Somali cantina.
That´s older than dirt.
This is a more recent and funnier study:
http://xkcd.com/925/
Paul Nottingham says:
July 18, 2011 at 2:20 am
> x axis needs looking at
No it doesn’t, note the label says “approximate”. Well, in that sense, it deserves looking at.
It reminds me of PDQ Bach’s sheet music saying “1807-1742?” which is cleared up(?) at his official biography http://www.schickele.com/pdqbio.htm . One of the greats of the 18th, 19th, 20th, or 21st centuries. Or maybe not.
Those unfamiliar with PDQ may want to start with Prof. Schickele’s Bio available at the same website, which means it’s hard to start there unless you know about http://www.schickele.com/profbio.htm which says in part:
One of my few music CDs that failed over time is a PDQ Bach disk! Next time I’ll paint the edge with a green marker.
I note the X-axis on the graph is logarithmic. This should have been labeled as deciArrrrs.
This is old post and joke from the Flying Spghatti Monster site, a very funny site that lights up alot of things.
http://www.venganza.org
this looks like the source of this “story”,eleven days prior to the Independent piece:
5 July: MSNBC Live Science: Charles Q. Choi: Somali Pirates Thwart … Climate Research?
“The piracy is impacting our ability to make measurements over the ocean that have been going on for well over 100 years in a lot of cases,” said researcher Shawn Smith, a research meteorologist at Florida State University in Tallahassee…
The scientists detailed their findings in the July 5 issue of the journal Eos..
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43648715
If pirate boats are not being sunk is this a form of redistribution of wealth and support for the pirates at the expense of everyone else.
so our CSIRO wants to give the pirates some target practice?
isnt that nice of us taxpayers to be funding this…
whats wrong with ARGO?
ah yes it isnt producing the results they want is it…
The “Cuban consumption function” is my favorite example for meaningless correlations. 😉
http://blog.qtau.com/2010/08/food-for-thought-meaningless.html
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I thought that when pirates retired they became Peers. Or did retired Peers become pirates. Gilbert and Sullivan plots can be so hard to unravel…
*** Fight Global Warming, Become a Pirate! ***
Found it, the original inverse plot of pirates to global temp, enjoy:
http://www.venganza.org/about/open-letter/
John Marshall
July 18, 2011 at 2:50 am
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No way! Holder would have the Captain and crew court martialed, with the NY Times cheering on.
http://www.idaratmaritime.com/wordpress/?p=246
[snip]
The claimants were the owners of two parcels of bio-diesel, with a declared value of over US$13 million, which had been shipped onboard the vessel. The defendants were their insurers. Masefield’s primary claim was for an actual total loss (“ATL”) in the sum of US$7 million, representing their net loss after giving credit for the proceeds from the disposal of the recovered cargo at Rotterdam. The claimants asserted that an ATL occurred when the vessel was hijacked because, in terms of s57(1) of the Marine Insurance Act 1906, they had been “irretrievably deprived” of the cargo, notwithstanding its ultimate recovery. In the alternative, Masefield claimed on the basis of a constructive total loss (“CTL”) within the terms of s60(1) of the 1906 Act, contending that the cargo had been reasonably abandoned because its actual loss appeared to be unavoidable.
Brad Wardell did a correlation between pirates and Global Warming several years ago. It still works after all this time! Correlation is not causality.