Shock news from 'Forecast the Facts' – "HadCRUT is not peer reviewed"

I’m sure Phil Jones will need to be notified right away that this paper on HadCRUT4 was never actually published.

Justin Templer writes on Twitter and provides screencaps:

Meet @ForecastFacts campaign manager and degreed environmentalist @emilyrsouthard clueless about HadCRUT

From her Twitter feed

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and then later, there was this gem:

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While some people might agree, I don’t think it means what she thinks it means. How embarrassing.

Who is Emily Southard? Her Linked in profile says:

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These are the sorts of low information activists that are bullying weathercasters and TV meteorologists into saying what the activists want them to say about climate.

Be sure to tell you own local TV weathercaster or meteorologist to watch out for these folks, since they are obviously clueless.

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Ken
July 11, 2013 6:45 pm

*blinks* Okay, I’m instantly lost. MoveOn.org is anti-HadCRUT ?

Ken
July 11, 2013 6:47 pm

And earlier today, David Suzuki declared himself to be anti-immigration. Did something cosmic happen today that I missed?

007
July 11, 2013 6:54 pm

I really don’t understand why you give exposure to irrational idiots like this.

Editor
July 11, 2013 6:57 pm

I suppose someone has to say it. Emily sounds like a real twit.
Sorry.

Janice Moore
July 11, 2013 6:57 pm

What a fool. Glad she’s on THEIR side, lol.

Editor
July 11, 2013 6:58 pm

007 says:
July 11, 2013 at 6:54 pm
> I really don’t understand why you give exposure to irrational idiots like this.
It’s not exposure, it’s documentation and ensuring that what you say on the ‘net lives forever.

Janice Moore
July 11, 2013 6:59 pm

Aw, come ON, Bond, James Bond (007 above) — that’s easy!
Because it is SO MUCH FUN! #[:)]

Janice Moore
July 11, 2013 7:00 pm

Okay, let’s see if Ric Werme and I post at the same time again….

Janice Moore
July 11, 2013 7:01 pm

Ric! Where were you?!

Michael Jankowski
July 11, 2013 7:08 pm

Maybe things have changed since she graduated, but Connecticut College seems to have a degree in “Environmental Studies,” not “Environmental Science.” Minor technicality in name, but it helps to get your major right when you’re trying to use it in an argument.
Doesn’t exactly read like a rigorous program in “climate science,” to say the least
http://www.conncoll.edu/academics/majors-departments-programs/academic-programs/environmental-studies/courses/
I am sure I’ve studied at least as much “climate science” during my environmental engineering degree programs. On top of that, I had rigorous math and stats courses – something clearly lacking from too many of the so-called “climate scientists.”
Her cluelessness regarding HadCRUT is quite amusing. I like how she found the means to attack it thanks to “I googled HadCRUT” and a write-up from SkepitcalScience.

Admin
July 11, 2013 7:12 pm

Actually she has a point – according to Phil Jones, nobody who peer reviewed his papers ever asked him to produce method or data. So in a very real sense, his papers have not been peer reviewed – pal reviewed maybe…
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18599-climategate-scientist-questioned-in-parliament.html

DGP
July 11, 2013 7:14 pm

Should they rename it to PushOver.org?

Editor
July 11, 2013 7:16 pm

And the Lord said, “Let there be crackpots.”
And there were crackpots.

JohnB
July 11, 2013 7:17 pm

“These are the sorts of low information activists that are bullying weathercasters and TV meteorologists into saying what the activists want them to say about climate.
Be sure to tell you own local TV weathercaster or meteorologist to watch out for these folks, since they are obviously clueless.”
They’re clueless ’cause they don’t check out WUWT, CA, B-H, JoNova, NFC,…
Aren’t you s’posed to know your enemy?

JohnB
July 11, 2013 7:19 pm

Bob Tisdale: … and there were crackpots…
..and it was good…for a laugh

Janice Moore
July 11, 2013 7:19 pm

Ahem. Mr. Worrall, #[:)]
We agree with her conclusion. We are ridiculing the irony of her saying it.
And sneering at her abysmal ignorance of the meaning of what comes out of her mouth.
Yes, yes, Mr. Worrall, she IS pretty… . (smile)

Myron Mesecke
July 11, 2013 7:20 pm

I think she has gotten datasets confused. We know that after all the adjustments and manipulations it is GISS that is bunk science.

Bill_W
July 11, 2013 7:20 pm

Most Environmental “Science” B.S. degrees are nearly worthless and almost all Environmental “Studies” B.S. programs are completely worthless. Maybe a step up from Communications or Business but not much. Usually they have very little in the way of real science of math courses and often are taught by extreme “watermelons” from the social sciences. I can’t speak to graduate programs in these areas. I’m sure they are a bit better but probably still not much science. Phil Jones can’t even fit a straight line in Excel so I am guessing his degrees are in Env. “Science”

July 11, 2013 7:20 pm

She hasn’t learned her lesson yet, I wonder how long she will continue before she experiences some peer review firsthand by her bosses at @ForecastFacts

Michael Jankowski
July 11, 2013 7:32 pm

Bill_W,
Conn College’s program actually has two different tracks: (1) natural science and (2) social science.
The natural science track has two different stat courses as math options.
The general ed requirements require either a 100-level comp sci class, a 100- or 200-level math class, a philosophy class, or a 12X frosh seminar class (currently limited to “robotics and problem solving”).
It appears that you can get a 4-yr environmental studies degree without taking a single math class (unless possibly one is a pre-requisite for a required class).

JEM
July 11, 2013 7:33 pm

Based on her educational and career background I’d say she’s chosen to marinate in deep stupid all her adult life and her ‘climate studies’ program was a couple years of crackpot catechism.

MikeH
July 11, 2013 7:34 pm

So, judging by her Linked In profile, one could safely say:
Those who can, do. Those who can’t, become Community Organizers for MoveOn, Green Corps. and O for A? With an added splash of “do as I say and not as I do” for good measure?
Question, do you think she took the Natural Science or the Social Science Track in Environmental Studies at Connecticut College? Plus, do you think it was the Major or the Minor route..
Hey, I studied Physics in tech. school, that doesn’t make me a Professor in Physics.
But I once stayed in a Holiday Inn, does that count?

Bruce of Newcastle
July 11, 2013 7:35 pm

And after all that Phil Jones could do, HadCRUT 4 is going down. Down, down, down. You know, “down”, as in “not up”. It’s almost like CO2 doesn’t matter much.
This cooling thing, what is causing it Mr IPCC? Could it be you are wrong? Could it be we don’t need to be inflicted with $trillions in tax servitude for a lie?

July 11, 2013 7:43 pm

HadCRUT4 was fabricated for one reason: because version 3 didn’t show sufficient global warming: see the difference?

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