Ed Begley Jr. goes ballistic on Fox News. We saw something similarly unhinged with Center for American Progress Dan Wiess, also interviewed by Stuart Varney on Fox News.
From the YouTube description: Ed gets into a shoutfest and can’t stop pointing his finger at Stuart Varney of Fox News: “You’re spewing your nonsense again …” says Begley. We’re talking about Climategate..the recent discovery of e-mails by global warming ‘scientists’ that suggest a cover up..thousands of e-mails and documents (verified by the New York Times) have been released showing scientists trying to cover up the recent decline in temperatures and ‘trick’ the public.
By Ed’s reasoning, excluding everyone who is “not a degreed climate scientist” that rather puts Dr. James Hansen out of the picture, and many others, including Al Gore.
Watch the video below. Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
And I was worried about the spread of swine flu (head slap)
The spread of “peer reveiwed” studies seems to be even more detrimental.
Look what peer reveiwed dogma did to Begly.
1. It is interesting how the H Team’s interior “peer reviewed” meme became exteriorised into the culture via journalists how interview them.
2. The actor is a hard core loon. He buys carbon offsets. Interview part:
…LAist: For those of us who have a big guilt complex about flying, what can we do to allay our guilt in that area?
Ed Begley, Jr.: I try to avoid it, it’s my last choice on my transportation list. If I have to be somewhere and I have to use a plane, when I buy my ticket I buy a TerraPass, which is a carbon-offset program that puts new clean green electrons in the energy grid and you really are offsetting the CO2 from that plane rid with electrons in solar/wind/geothermal. The more people that do it, the more renewables we will have – it’s a real pound-for-pound transaction for the CO2. You aren’t eliminating the emissions from the jet, that’s true, but when you buy the TerraPass you are totally offsetting the pollution from a power plant somewhere.
http://laist.com/2009/11/25/interview_ed_begley_jr.php
“That having been said, this fellow exhibits extreme asocial tendencies. ”
No, I think that’s overharsh. He’s just obsessed with his carbon footprint. He has his entire system filled with sensors hooked up to his computer. He can tell if his wife is taking too long in the shower even if he’s away from home because he logs into his home computer from his laptop. LOL
I’m not worried about her. I suspect when he complains about her long showers she just rolls her eyes and [self snip].
It would be incredibly expensive to live green like him. Not all of us can afford that, even if we wanted to – although I guess it will be out of our hands if the alarmists have their way. As for his ‘greenness’, well I too live a greener existence because I try to follow a paleo lifestyle – one that attempts a modern equivalent of the existence of hunter gatherer paleolithic man. It’s not easy and can be frustrating at times, but it also very rewarding healthwise. Unfortunately, at some point, the paleo lifestyle and the ‘green’ lifestyle diverge – this is the point where you need to check where your wallet is…
Ed Begley doesn’t get it, the emails show suppression of peer-reviewed papers!
“I can’t see either of these papers being in the next IPCC report. Kevin and I will keep them out somehow – even if we have to redefine what the peer-review literature is!” – Phil Jones, Director Climatic Research Unit (CRU)
Somebody might want to let Ed know that even still an extensive amount of skeptical peer-reviewed papers exist,
450 Peer-Reviewed Papers Supporting Skepticism of “Man-Made” Global Warming
Now if Ed wants to talk to someone with a degree in climatology he can talk to,
Patrick J. Michaels, Ph.D. Ecological Climatology, Research Professor of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia, Former State Climatologist for Virginia, Contributing Author and Reviewer, IPCC
I find it hillarious that he insults scientists with degrees in Physics as not qualified…
James Hansen, Ph.D. Physics
Joe Romm, Ph.D. Physics
Way too funny!
Invariant (13:25:58) :
I strongly recommend you read Poor Harry’s Diary closely. While you will benefit from his three years of effort, I’m sure there will be surprises no matter what you port to! Besides, I think Harry was porting to Sun/Solaris, so if you’re intent to port to Windows or Linux, expect problems. Harry ran into so big/little endian issues, so his code apparently started on a little endian platform.
I always found Coca-Cola worked better than coffee, but I do OS filesystem and networking development. Diagnostic programmers often use coffee and cigarettes. I don’t know scientific programmers use.
There may be multiple compilers involved. From HARRY_READ_ME.txt:
**sigh** WHAT THE HELL’S GOING ON?! Well, time to ask the compiler. So I recompiled as follows:
g77 -o update -Wall -Wsurprising -fbounds-check programs/fortran/update.for
So, Gnu Fortran for one.
I also suggest you move this discussion over to E.M. Smith’s blog, http://chiefio.wordpress.com/ as I’d expect him to be one of the first to start compiling things. He started his blog in part to take a closer look at some GISS code.
Carsten Arnholm, Norway (15:29:40) :
From E.M. Smith:
There was a request that some of the actual code be put up where folks could see it. OK, a quick ‘wc */*/*’ kicked out about 80,000 lines of code… Not something I’m going to get pasted into WordPress real quick… So I picked one of the shortest programs I could find in the ‘linux’ directory. The program that turns Excel pages into FORTRAN output. This looks to be used to turn Chinese temperature spreadsheets into data files, but could be used on any temperature spreadsheet, so ‘who knows’.
My general assessment of it is that Tim Mitchell has generally good ‘style’. It is readable and he even ‘pretty prints’ with things lined up for both looks and readability. An indication of someone who ‘keeps a tidy mind’ and a very good habit. The use of ‘implicit none’ to prevent the default (‘implicit’) declaration and typing of variables indicates a cautious approach to FORTRAN defaults and a desire to have ‘accidental declaration of variables’ flagged for proper handling.
It starts with an identification block: Who wrote it. What it does. Date written. And includes the assumptions the program makes so you know what to feed it. All very good stuff. It is clearly written in the ‘f90’ dialect (comments start with a ‘!’ instead of the depricated ‘C’. Lower case. Use of ‘::’ and other f90 constructs.
The program is clearly structured, with a nice understandable series of subroutine calls. Each subroutine is clearly demarked with a comment bar. Each subroutine is short and clear. There is a notable absence of comments in the subroutines describing the reason they are set out as a subroutine, the function of the subroutine, and how the method used was chosen. Being fairly simple routines, this is somewhat understandable, but a note or two would be ‘nice to have’.
There is fairly little stated as to why one would choose one input value over another; in the ’select’ routine, for example. The various ‘use [filename}’ directives are left opaque.
The inclusion of the proper compiler directive as a comment showing the other source files needed to build the runnable program is also a very nice touch.
Bounds and validity checking is minimal, but probably OK for a personally run ‘hand tool’. There is a functional, but slightly hokey, call to the Unix environment to run ‘word count – wc’ on the file to find out the lines to process before quitting. Yeah, it works, but… is there some reason not to just read the file one line at a time and when you get the last one, do your ‘EOF – End Of File’ branch handling? Then there is the ‘year check’ that tells you to edit the source code if it finds fault. Somewhat tacky.
Note the reference to running wc – that won’t work on Windows, I don’t know if it will work under cygwin.
I was at Digital during that transistion and know some of the compiler folk. I worked for DEC, Compaq, and HP all from the same cube! When Alpha CPU development was shut down, Compaq sold some of the compiler group to Intel, who continued working on compilers from their same office space. They’re still there – HP sold the building and consolidated the Alpha Servers US presence in Massachusetts.
BTW, they’re a very good crew. It was really tough to write better assembler code than the compiler can generate.
Well if you search far and wide you may now find colleges ofering degree porograms in “climate science.” No doubt they are a hodge-podge of units borrowed from other fields… as they should be. It is an area of study that crosses several fields of science.
That being said, these degrees certainly weren’t around 20-30 years ago when all the so called “climate experts” were doing their schooling. So by Ed’s definition there are NO climate scientists at all with any experience in the field contributing to the IPCC bible and other such publications.
But then, as Ed said, don’t listen to actors…
National Geographic is peer-reviewed?
Keep yelling Ed. You’re making your side look bad.
God bless ClimateGate!
Ed Begley want peer-reviewed climate scientists? Roy Spencer and Richard Lindzen.
We’re not laughing. This isn’t a joke Ed.
Ed Bagley; never heard of him before. Having seen the video, though, he really doesn’t make much sense. One wonders if he forgot his brain at home before he went to the studio.
Someone should tell Mr. Ed that the proper name for climatology peer-review is mirror-review–as in when a climatology apostle gazes upon a document and he sees heresy, burn the offending idol and the heretic.
Ric Werme (18:46:34) :
Ric, I’m not entirely certain, but it looks like a poster at Bishop Hill actually got a code fragment to run.
Peer review is supposedly a key factor in determining whether a published opinion or article can be accepted as valid.
Questions:
What is a peer?
Do I need to return to academia and earn a degree in peering?
Isn’t any web posting that allows for, and generates a discussion of that posting, being peer reviewed?
Only take climate change advice from degreed climatologists.
Well, if that’s approximately what Ed said, I’d argue that he has ruled himself out of being allowed to say anything about climate science, including what he just said. He’s trying to give us climate change advice.
“Peer Review” seems to be little more than a “right on” from very close friends and colleagues. There doesn’t appear to be any attempt at verification. Would anything that they disagreed with pass so-called peer review as things stand now?
Why would any real scientist object to someone trying to find something wrong with their work. That is what the scientist himself should be doing. That is his fellow scientists should be doing too. If they won’t do it then someone else has to.
Sounds like the FORTRAN angle is being worked, but how is the team doing with the IDL code I’ve heard mention of?
‘Cause I’ve been crunching numbers with IDL pretty regularly for about 20 years, if anybody needs a hand decyphering that stuff. (Before that I used FORTRAN.)
I don’t know where anyone ever got the idea that Peer Review was designed or warranted to produce the ‘given truth’. Even if asserted by the Climate Scientists to do so, their peer reviewers haven’t done it! Instead, they have only proven what we all used to know – that data and methods have to be available to as wide a range of interested people as possible, and maybe even to ‘everyone and their mother’.
As has been clearly proven again by this pitiful mess called “Climate Science”, the real Peer Review starts after a study is published.
Melanie Philips made a valiant attempt last night on BBC1 Question Time. You could sense the peer review “rebuttal” coming a mile off from the idiot at the other end of the panel. Someone who either didnt have the sense to read the emails pre program or did, but assumes the whole country is illiterate and didnt read them either. Sprinkled with a hefty topping of “If we dont do anything and its true people could die! Think of the children!”. Really, and wrecking the planetary economy for a lie is going to bring about a death free utopia is it?
Begley is typical of the AGW Terrorists: You have the right to free speech just so long as you agree with me.
What a pillock! (another English colloquialism)
Begley was frothing at the mouth so much it made me fear for Mr Varney’s health. Do TV news presenters get a course of rabies shots as a precaution?
Isn’t ‘climate scientist’ an oxymoron?
What about Dr. Richard S. Lindzen of MIT?
Yes, Begley rolls out the talking points — but you know what?
Every talking point can be refuted with a powerful answer and supporting argument.
This item may amuse someone.
How does the American public react to the biggest scientific fraud in history?
Gore Flees in Panic from Chicago Book Signing
Snake Oil Salesman Run Out of Town
November 25, 2009 (LPAC)—Not since Henry Kissinger fled a team of LaRouche organizers, in the back of a delivery truck in New York City’s Central Park in the early 1980s, has an obese fascist moved so fast to escape an angry crowd, as Al Gore did today in Chicago. Appearing at a bookstore in the downtown Loop, Gore was confronted by a team of demonstrators from a grass roots group called “We Are Change,” as he was signing his latest fascist screed on the global warming swindle. Gore bolted from the bookstore, raced down an alley, jumped into a waiting car, and tried to speed off, with protesters chasing after him and banging on the car. Midwest LYM organizers, who were also on the scene to confront the global warming swindler, provided an eyewitness account of Fat Albert’s flight of fear.
Make no mistake about it. This little encounter is typical of the kinds of things going on all over the country, as the fascists who brought you the near-destruction of the United States and an onrushing global Dark Age, are no longer walking the streets, smug in the belief that they are literally getting away with murder. The mass strike dynamic is playing out in thousands of ways, every day, and the recent revelations about the “smoking gun” emails from the East Anglia University global warming propaganda center, have made Al Gore’s life a little more miserable.
As Percy Shelley wrote in “The Mask of Anarchy,” “We are many, they are few.”
…Looks like the writing is on the wall for “Global Warming” fraud.