Last night anybody who watched TV or surfed the web was assaulted with all manner of red/blue maps. There were states, counties, cities, dots, and graphs. Your green channel of the RGB system on your TV or LCD could have gone completely out and you wouldn’t have missed a thing.
Thanks to the election, we are now all red/blue color sensitized. So it seemed the perfect time to introduce this map.
I’ll have more on this later, but behind one of those dots lies a very interesting story.
Did one of the red dots record a record high temperature as it was engulfed in wildfire? (Is that bad taste? If so then I apologise.)
Off topic: “BBC SHUNNED ME FOR DENYING CLIMATE CHANGE”
FOR YEARS David Bellamy was one of the best known faces on TV.
A respected botanist and the author of 35 books, he had presented around 400 programmes over the years and was appreciated by audiences for his boundless enthusiasm.
Yet for more than 10 years he has been out of the limelight, shunned by bosses at the BBC where he made his name, as well as fellow scientists and environmentalists.
His crime? Bellamy says he doesn’t believe in man-made global warming.
Here he reveals why – and the price he has paid for not toeing the orthodox line on climate change.
Full story: http://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/69623
It’s a tracking map for Bill Clinton’s “White House visitors”. Size, shape and color have values similar to Hugh Hefner’s star system.
Bruce gave it away…not sure what the interesting story behind one of the dots is.
Old Coach:
Thank you! 8<)
Pierre Gosselin (02:25:53) :
“One of the great AGW skeptics has died, and hardly a peep in this forum!!
Why did I get up this morning and expect some sort of tribute to Micheal Crichton here?
How naive of me. ”
Pierre…it was mentioned numerous times on a few other posts on this site.
Very sad indeed.
Jim
As for the map, I think Anthony just spilled his evening bowl of Space Balls ice cream dots, and one spot just happened to land on Chico…
Jim
Very sad about Crichton.
From CNN: “He was an avowed skeptic of global climate change,”
No, he wasn’t. He was an avowed skeptic of ANTHROPOGENIC global warming, not of the fact that climate changes. Spin spin spin little birdie.
The map must be Baja Oregon.
hmmm..its probably the CO2 secret police’s audit map…..they base it off of shape, color and size to figure out where to send the greenpeace volunteers first to vandalize your house
O/T, but still important !! Rest in peace, Dr. Crichton !! As a young lad, I watched “The Andromeda Strain”, and it had a profound effect on me. Enjoyed all his books. I was wondering why he had backed away from “The Debate”, and now I know why. Cancer. After releasing “State of Fear”, he suffered some severe abuse at the hands of Pro- AGW zealots ( as have all who dared question publicly). He and Dr. Richard Lindzen were close friends from their Harvard days, so he had access to some accurate science on the subject. Dr. Crichton thoroughly researched every subject of his books. I learned much from this man. One of my heroes!!
Maybe:
http://icecap.us/index.php/go/political-climate
Is this some kind of Rorschach inkblot test?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rorschach_inkblot_test
I think I see a naked charlatan . . .
Speaking of CO2, what is up with AIRS? When are we going to get a plain jane daily view of CO2 that isn’t buried somewhere on the web site, takes FOREVER to download, and then when you pull something up, its July’s data?
A measure of readership (and commenters):
No comments: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2007/05/30/draw-your-own-conclusion-from-this-map/
13 comments: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2007/11/30/a-new-paper-on-california-climate-variability/
38 comments (so far): this page
And we don’t even know what the main point (pun intended) is!
In other news, Al Gore labels Socialism “Sustainable Capitalism”.
George Orwell would understand.
Ric Werme:
What, you haven’t connected the dots yet? (Robt shakes his head sadly.) 8<)
Darn…
Spend all day in meetings, waiting to get home and see what the mystery was…
and NUTTIN!
Jim
ONE of the dots has a story…
…maybe its the whacky location for some sensor(s): located in a desert trailer park some inches (a few feet) above some large rocks (heat sinks) and a few feet from a community barbeque pit.
Clearly such a location creates a sort of ‘urban heat island effect’ of an extreme & distorting nature.
I wish I could recall the site presenting that tidbit of insight, with photo.
Maybe a geologic map of these mineral deposits…
“Scientists say a rock can soak up carbon dioxide”
http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSTRE4A59IB20081106?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews&rpc=22&sp=true
It’s an Ishihara Test.
And if you weren’t all colorblind, you’d see it’s “42”!
The different dots represent humans kidnapped by aliens (the colour and shape defines the type of alien eg small blue aliens = small blue dots) and probed up the er… exhaust pipe. They tell the unfortunate probee that they’re emitting too much methane and CO2 and the planet will be destroyed if they don’t reduce their emissions.
The dot with the triangle at 36.5 by –117.1 is the interesting story. The alien admitted it had all been a big joke and they really didn’t expect mankind to take them seriously. In fact they had bet Al Gore (really Algore, a large red sweaty alien) and his friend James Hansen (or Han Senn, a green slimy one) that man wouldn’t waste billions trying to reduce CO2. He added that he could persuade us to act, even as he steadily increased his own carbon foot print year on year.
The aliens said “No, wayyyy!”
Algore said “WAY.”
Now the aliens are worried that they’re going to lose the bet and Algore will be so SMUG.
Am I right?
You’ve now worked out the UHI correction factors for the state of California with 95% confidence (???) so this can be amplified to the global record set
That is how California voted, blue Obama red Mc Cain
The young man was literally sweating while taking a test he was not prepared for.
Noticing some drops of sweat on his paper, he circled these spots and labeled them “Sweat”.
When he received his test back, with an F, he noticed some new circles on the test.
Each was labeled “Tears”.