Eh, even when I try to get away from it on weekends it follows me via email.
But, I decided I’d take a moment to post this comment from Joe Romm’s Climate Progress somebody sent me that popped up on my phone. I got a huge belly laugh out of it. I startled Kenji when I laughed so hard:
Meet Mike Roddy, whose picture has previously appeared here.
[Update: Image from Mike’s movie PR: http://northwardho.blogspot.com/2008/09/polar-cities-go-hollywood-2112-hopes-to.html ]
Mike has always been a class act at Climate Progress, as you can see below:
It stems from this piece Roddy wrote about me, see the “corrections” at the end, which he apparently agrees with:
http://www.webcitation.org/5x0pgZdgl
Heh. Quite something that Mike Roddy, but I’m not sure what.
But, see here’s the thing, kicking and bestiality aside, in science, replication is King, and if other scientists can’t replicate a paper’s work, well then it often doesn’t get to pass peer review when peer review works correctly and isn’t “pal” review.
That might be a minor detail with BEST, since they to put PR before peer review in a media blitzkrieg. Even so, there are many things I do agree with in their other papers. The one on quality of station siting, not so much.
But, as Steve McIntyre demonstrates, the BEST work with my station siting quality isn’t replicable. The devil is in the details. He says boldly:
I have looked at some details of the [BEST] Station Quality paper using a spreadsheet of station classification sent to me by Anthony in August 2011 and cannot replicate their results at all.
Gosh, I feel pretty good after all that kicking. Kinda reminds me of this:
BEST is at the starting line in the cartoon above. Will they survive?
Jeremy says:
October 23, 2011 at 9:02 am
Paul Coppin says:
October 23, 2011 at 6:45 am
It way past time to start spanking the potty-mouthed children.
It is often those who can afford to start a fight who are actively trying to start one. IOW, those with decent lawyers are more likely to try to goad Anthony into a legal battle. Best to avoid it if you can.
And sometimes all turning the other cheek does is make you dizzy.. Sometimes the best defence is is a cracking good offence.
Poor Mike Roddy just does not seem to understand the many messages sent with pre-peer-reviewed BEST papers. He doesn’t see that Muller made no effort to attribute the warming to any force, natural or man made. He doesn’t see that BEST shows a decrease in storminess…with a temperature rise of 2°C since 1800. And come to think of it, an awful lot of warming occurred without any help from Republican SUVs. Can someone remind me of just when the natural warming that started in 1800 stopped and CAGW took over? Be careful what you embrace, Mikey, it may not help your case…
Let’s assume that mean Global Temperature has meaning. (Which I doubt!)
So, we have an increase in GT of about 0.7°C over a century.
That’s a drift of about 0.2%!
I wish my central heating was that good!
Can someone remind me why people are hyperventilating over this?
DaveE.
Ripping Yarns; School Bully anyone?
Mike Roddy says:
October 22, 2011 at 6:28 pm
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Mods,
Is this really Mike Roddy, making these comments ?
REPLY: Yes, Anthony
Hey guys, don’t be so hard on Roddy – he might change for the better when he grows up.
PS I’m old and white, including my hair.
Mike Roddy says:
October 23, 2011 at 8:04 am
“I only wish that more of you would focus on Muller’s WSJ editorial.”
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“A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, – a mere heart of stone.”
Charles Darwin
“He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.”
Leonardo da Vinci
Careful what you wish for, you may get it.
Mike Roddy says:
October 22, 2011 at 6:28 pm
“Global warming is so serious an issue that we all need to have fun once in a while.”
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Warning to the Mods,
I plan to “go off” on stupid statements like this tonight, tell me when to stop.
“By your actions shall ye be judged.”
Anthony comes out very impressively indeed.
Mike Roddy, a little less so…
Mike Roddy’s revealing notion of what constitutes “fun” makes him seem rather pathetic. pity.
Roddy appears to be a poster child for NPD.
Mike Roddy says:
October 23, 2011 at 8:04 am
“I only wish that more of you would focus on Muller’s WSJ editorial.”
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Hey Mikey … According to the learned folk on WUWT (real scientists among them), Muller’s work failed to clear the first hurdle. So out with your ‘scope and focus on Uranus.
Sorry AW, couldn’t help having some fun 😉
Beesaman says:
October 22, 2011 at 2:10 pm
Well I guess that scientists do peer reviews, while primadonnas do press reviews….
Larry says:
I think scientists d experiments, art critics do (they think) peer reviews, prima donnas do press releases.
I’m a bit confused, Dr. Muller has produced a graph showing a steady rise in temperature, in fact a 2C rise in temperature since around 1815. Is that the same as the HadCrut temperature graph? I don’t believe so. Further he goes on to say that now nobody could be sceptical about global warming. There maybe people who are sceptical about global warming, but I’ve yet to meet, or even hear from, one. I know there are plenty of people who are sceptical about whether it is all, mostly, or partially caused by CO2 emissions, and his graph gives succour to this group, because right there for all to see it’s been warming since 1815, and by 2C. So what caused the warming pre-1950 Mr. Roddy? Dr. Muller doesn’t claim to know, in fact they say in there papers that the human contribution to global warming may have been overestimated, so why is Mr. Roddy crowing about the paper, it doesn’t support his position at all.
Mike Roddy says:
October 20, 2011 at 9:33 pm
Muller and I have mutual friends at Berkeley-he is an opportunist, and was once Nobelist Louis Alvarez’ lap dog. He has become a little weird, but is still a smart scientist.
I think Muller was gaming Koch and Watts the whole time. He knew about the NOAA study, of course, and all of the suspense about postponing the BEST results until “all the data are in” was just a way to milk the Kochs out of more money, which amounted to a lot compared to a professor’s salary……
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Given the fact the BEST data has been used for a media blitz, I think the up coming United Nations Climate Change Conference from 28 November to 9 December 2011 is a much better reason. A month is about the right timing to make the information the most useful as propaganda, especially if the peer review and publication is delayed
All the pot shots we are seeing taken against Anthony here and elsewhere in an attempt to brand him (and skeptics) as liars is part of the campaign too.
It explains the whole idiocy over “Anthony and skeptics denied it was warming and now they are lying and saying they didn’t…”
I just googled to find out more about Dr. Michael Roddy and the first thing I hit was
“Dr. Michael Roddy and his wife Wendy Sue were arrested on Sunday. The couple was taken into custody at the Embassy Suites in Huntsville and charged…..” http://www.waff.com/story/12191964/arrested-psychiatrists-practice-remains-open?redirected=true
OOPS, I think that is the wrong Roddy but the second hit ( the correct Roddy) was not much better. http://buffalobeast.com/?p=1237
Gail;
Yep, and his autobio there explains all: