After being called out by WUWT on the fake biotelemtery readings presented as “live” but were actually from March 8th looping repeatedly, Team Catlin had changed the website to say:
“Biometrics – Data for March 8th 2009
Status: Operational”
This is what it originally showed:
I think it is the most honest description yet.
Of course they could just end the farce and remove it. Because, well, who needs demonstrational biotelemetry anyway?
UPDATE: they also posted this at the bottom of the main page:
An apology
We’d like to apologise to anybody who felt misled by our recent biometric data. The data was initially displayed in error in a way that gave the impression that it was live. The intended qualification and explanation that it was, in fact, delayed information, was at first missing. We have subsequently corrected this with specific information concerning the above data. We apologise for the errors and to anyone who may have found the data misleading.
The real question is: how long would they have let that “live” impression go on had WUWT not called them on it? Originally the URL for the “biotelemetry” was
http://www.catlinarcticsurvey.com/live_from_the_ice.aspx
Now that URL if typed in your browser is automatically redirected to:
http://www.catlinarcticsurvey.com/latestfromtheice
So with the words “telemetry” and “live_from_the_ice.aspx” it is clear what the original intent was. The apology is about saving face, nothing else.
Color me unimpressed. They should take down their farcical “biometrics” and call the team home, there’s no science being done here, only public relations, and even that is poorly done.
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@ur momisugly Frederick Michael
The Producers…..LOL
I was thinking ‘The Truman Show’ or ‘Capricorn One’
Just curious but has the expedition actually confirmed that there is in fact ice up there?
Mike Bryant (20:04:20) :
Catlin Artic Ice Survey bio telemetry status: “fabricational”
Wonderful but a couple of superfluous words crept in!
Catlin Arctic Ice Survey status: “fabricational”
DaveE
Very nice work Anthony.
Let’s see how this develops.
If these people return safe from their escapades and reality sinks in there is always a chance that they switch their point of view to become extremely motivated skeptics.
Who knows.
I think it’s very hard to support Global Warming with a frozen brain.
Richard DeSousa,
‘The ends justify the means’ lying and gross deception is thought to acceptable for those who believe their cause is just.
They started off adjusting the data here and there to fit the models and they are now telling outright lies to cover up not only the fake data and adjusted models but to hide new data that directly contradicts the whole basis for AGW.
Like all flawed belief systems the temptation to hide from reality becomes unavoidable, the more actual reality comes knocking on their door the greater desire to deny that reality with ever more fantastic excuses.
They have the media access and they dominate it with a fanatical determination, once they lose their media dominance they know they will lose the whole debate, the science rapidly becomes secondary to the prime political motive, the science is only useful as a belief verification tool.
Next they will accidentally drop their auger bit and extensions down one of the ice holes into the ocean below and that will be it for the “Scientific” aspect of this expedition. Then there would be no excuse to not lift these bozo’s from the ice.
It would be interesting in PR terms of what would be broadcast if sites such as WUWT had not kept a very watchful eye on this soiree. Any future AGW PR stunt will need to be very careful – they are being watched
John H (21:52:53) :
Just curious but has the expedition actually confirmed that there is in fact ice up there?
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What on earth were you thinking John?? It’s been scientifically proven and presented by a Nobel Laureate recently, that the ice is not going to disappear until December, 2013.
I’m thinking that if we can get some of that ice real quick before it melts, and wrap it around that hidden pipeline of heat, we can SMOOTH out the curve a bit and anthropogenically slow down the anthropogenic climate change. Any takers ?
I guess we need to find the pipeline first though !!
RO BUSTED!!
So, this is Science, eh?
I’m from a generation where science wasn’t a form of social advocacy. Scientists did science out of curiosity, and mostly it was pretty cheap. Scientists, and science students, went out into what passed for reality in those times, and looked at stuff. Then, they fiddled with stuff. And changed some stuff. Then when they figured something out, they wrote some stuff up. Some peers, who were remarkably like the aforementioned scientist, looked at it and said, this is some good stuff. But why is this stuff important? And the scientist says, Because this means we can do this stuff betterfastercheapersmallerlarger, or maybe in New Mexico, where the smell won’t be so noticeable. And life was good.
I must be seeing things, but everytime I read “Bad Science” as BS, I keep thinking someting completely different, a sort of “bovine faecal” moment! Sorry must be just little old me. It almost reminds me of those wonderful LEDs on my car’s on board computer, as if I really need one more electronic thing to tell me what I’ve already worked out for myself – the damned sensor has failed – again, the ABS & Electronic Stability Programme is still working just fine! I have computer feedback because “we can”, not because I need it!
Now, Capricorn One, that was a great movie, went for every conspiracy theory in the book apart from Global Warming simply because it hadn’t been invented then! Now I await the revealing autobiography from Neil Armstrong about how hot it was in that studio under the lights! As if the moon’s surface is all grey, what kind of cheese is all grey I ask you???????
About low temperature: I had an uncle whose temperature was 35.6 instead of 36.7 as the rest of us when in health. He died age 92 and was very mild mannered and universally esteemed ( these last comments because somebody posted something about psychopaths and low body temperatures).
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This has been a social trend over the last two decades. Having had a society founded on probity for many decades, someone has decided that spin and halls of mirrors are a much better option. Everything is now ‘sold’ to the public with as little in facts as possible.
We will soon end up in a Soviet situation, where the official description of the nation and its people bore no relation whatsoever to real society and real people. One of many jokes about this went, “the government pretends to pay us, and we pretend to work”.
Needless to say, the Soviet hall of mirrors finally collapsed.
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Demonstrat ion Al.
“The whole thing is starting to remind me of “The Producers.”
“Springtime for Hikers” indeed.”
Recall their hair-brained scheme was so hilarious – it became a big hit. Piltdown, Nessi, Yetti, Caitlin… The hits just keep on comin’
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The most important thing is to get this in mainstream media – that the expedition is a farce. Can everyone write to the media – newspapers and TV – and explain the situation, especially the BBC who have morally underwritten this saga. Christopher Booker is a good supporter who may assist.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/5028380/The-Global-Warming-Three-are-on-thin-ice.html
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Demonstrational?
The Mirriam Webster dictionary has this:
4: a public display of group feelings toward a person or cause
— dem·on·stra·tion·al
Which seems apt somehow.
Time for a hug everyone. 🙂
I will buy someone a cheeseburger of they crack that site and change “demonstrational” to “delusional”
In any case there isn’t even any such word as “demostrational”. I believe it should be “demonstrative”.
They should have gone with light sabers and ewoks if they needed more gimmicks to make an awe-inspiring impression on their financiers and the public. A Flash animation of heart beats is just not going to cut it.
We can now add a new entry into the dictionary.
Main Entry: catlin
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: mislead; be dishonest
Synonyms: bamboozle*, beat, beat out of, beguile, betray, bilk, buffalo, burn, cheat, circumvent, clip, con, cozen, cross up, defraud, delude, disappoint, double-cross, dupe, ensnare, entrap, fake, falsify, fleece, fool, gouge, gull, hoax, hoodwink, hook*, humbug, impose upon, lead on, outwit, play joke on, pull fast one, put on, rob, scam, screw, sell, skin, suck in, swindle, take advantage of, take for, take for ride, take in, take to cleaners, trick, victimize
Antonyms: be honest
I think there is already a word with a similar definition:
http://thesaurus.reference.com/cite.html?qh=deceive&ia=lexrog
I would make a longer post but my catlin is peeping. (alternative usage)
When these “Idiots” finally get back to the UK, they’ll be on the BBC as “Heroes”, and the Data will be displayed for us ALL to cut our Carbon Footprint.
Who is ultimately footing the bill for this pointless jaunt? If it’s the British taxpayers I’m demanding a refund…
I see they have at least issued an apology for the error.
In climate science it seems people are jubilant to accept results and data as accurate, even pasting them on the front pages of Nature – until they are shown to be rubbish. Then all one hears are denials, accusations, fretting, name-calling etc. until it gets completely indefensible – then you get (if you’re lucky) apologies.
Ed Snack (20:21:12) :
Fake but “accurate” !
rather; Fake but “robust”!
If Catlin are going to change their web site you would think that they would at least make the attempt to do it right.
Today’s education page says
http://www.catlinarcticsurvey.com/education_resources.aspx
“Arctic Survey Education enables students to access live data, recorded data and useful tools to help analyse that data in a ‘real world’ context.”
Today 15th April 2009 students can access live data.
It’s not even “demonstational”. When you demonstrate something you are still showing something real. What they are showing isn’t even simulated; it’s a mock-up (I won’t say fake).
And to risk repeating something I wrote a few days ago: this expedition won’t be a failure for the team on the ice. They are extreme sportsmen; all they ever wanted was a jolly time trekking on the ice. That is expensive so they needed sponsors. They found them long ago. Mission accomplished. If the team members have been required to utter silly things about climate along the way and drill a few holes, small price. It’s the sponsors who want to spin this jaunt as proof of something.
One has to wonder about the ‘busted’ Spite radar. Maybe is wasn’t busted at all. Perhaps the readings they were getting were of sea ice that was too thick for the AGW community to accept. It could be that the dramatic pick up and fly back to England for repairs was nothing more than a farce to hide the fact that sea ice was far more thick than they expected to come across. After all, the whole purpose of this mission was to find out ‘how much longer until it all melts away’. I’m sure data contrary to their expectations may have brought on frustration.
“Four point five meters again?! Stupid radar! Why ain’t you working ri…OOPS! Cable snapped…(whistles)…I guess we won’t be needing this anymore. Now, where’s that drill…”
45 minutes later…
“Damn, I still haven’t drilled through this ice yet…”
From the other side of a pressure ridge
“Hey Pen, come take a measurement from over here…”
“Wow, Ann! You found a several week old fracture we can skate down. First let me take this depth measurement.”
Drilling commences…
“Hmmm…One point six meters. That’s more like it. Ann, put that in the log and let’s get going. We drifted backwards half a kilometer in the last 12 hours.”