You may remember reading about my surfacestaions.org project and the climate monitoring station at Detroit Lakes, MN surveyed by Don Kostuch. There were two air conditioners within feet of the station, and a big jump in temperature the same year they were placed next to it. I surmised the A/C units had something to do with that, and the “usual warming suspects” went nutty with criticisms. The resulting hullabaloo they created attracted a lot of attention, and statistics expert Steve McIntyre of Climate Audit noticed that there was another reason for the jump.
It was bad data handling by NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) . They fouled up at the year 2000 in joining data sets. As a result of McIntyre’s work, NASA was forced to revise the data, and the result was that the much touted year 1998 formerly known as “the hottest year on record in the USA” fell to a close second behind 1934 during the peak of the dust bowl years.
The Weblog Awards are the world’s largest blog competition, and Climate Audit has been nominated as a finalist for “Best Science Blog. Note that Climate Audit and Mr. McIntyre are also responsible for proving the “Hockey Stick” was based on faulty analysis of tree ring data, and thus was minimized in the latest IPCC report.
A blog with this magnitude of contribution deserves to win over blogs that just report things and accept commentary. I provide the hosting server for Climate Audit, (after the traffic from the latest discover took it down) so voting for it is also indirectly a vote for me too.
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Well, gosharootie. Climate Audit loses by less than 40 votes.
Didja hear that? LESS THAN 40 VOTES.
Fancy that.
Guess I’ll post my little clip again, just for good measure. I clipped it off Bad Astronomy.
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PRESENTING:
“# The DoLittleon 02 Nov 2007 at 4:50 pm
“Well, I just cheated for ya… [i.e., for Bad Astronomy]
“I have 20 computers here in the lab, so you got at least 20 more votes from me.
“I’m not going to be in lab tomorrow, but I’ll be cheating again on Sunday.
“…and no I don’t live in Chicago!”
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And no response whatever to this, O, my apparently broken-fingered brethren.
Yup, as of this entry, Climate Audit loses by less than 40 votes.
Outrage, anybody? Mere contempt won’t do.
Now, I want to to picture DoLittleton right now.
As he breaks out the champagne.
As he high-fives his buddies.
As he pats himself on the back for a job well done.
Imagine the grin on his face, the warm feelings of triumph and superiority he is feeling RIGHT NOW.
Hear that? He’s laughing at you, RIGHT NOW.
Bask in the contempt he feels for you, RIGHT NOW.
Swallow THAT.
I SAID, OUTRAGE ANYBODY?
I say “let’s get back to the science”. This whole thing is not even wrong.
It would take some cleaning up to be a popularity contest.
I mean, am I the only one who noticed that they “made adjustments” until they got the answers they wanted?
Where have we seen that before?
Can’t I have just a–little–outrage? #B^1
\Where have we seen that before?\
” They are night zombies. They are my neighbors. The have returned from the dead. Aaaaah.”
“I-L-L-I-N-O-I-S”