Bob Tisdale writes:
I just uploaded a narrated video to YouTube titled “We Now Control Weather – Extreme Heat Events, Dirty Weather, Climate Disasters”.
The first five minutes are basically a lead-in. Then I present the realities—the differences between models and observations. Unfortunately, it’s long, but if people are gonna watch another 24-hour Gore-A-Thon, 15 minutes is nothing, so I’ll hopefully attract a chunk of them.
The following are links to the two posts referred to in the video:
A Blog Memo to Kevin Trenberth – NCAR
And:
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about El Niño and La Niña…
Don’t be concerned by the title. I haven’t returned to my days-gone-by beliefs in manmade global warming.
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* Rated RR for Reposte to the Ridiculous
Bob thank you. That was a brilliant piece of
propagandareturn to true science basics. Very helpful to those who can only take tiny chunks of reality at a time. One detail: when you read the sentence on ENSO it would have been good to have said “El Nino Southern Oscillation, commonly called ENSO” to help folk acquire those two basic bits of vocabulary.Al Gore talks about “dirty weather” only to complain in the same sentence about climate misinformation?
Oh, my. My irony detector just went up in smoke.
Brilliant Bob, so clear cut and easily understandable for anyone not fimiliar with the factors at play.
Halfway through the book, its also brilliant.
Great, easy to follow presentation with falsifying predictions from the hypothesis roughly that CO2 = AGW = specific amount and pattern of CO2 driven sst warming: If A, then B. Not B, therefore not A on both counts. Nice voice.
Thanks, Bob. Science gained a true friend, when you began poking into the data in your sensible and pragmatic manner.
I tend to use different standards for judging science, and have always tended to fly-off-the-handle when faced with certain “adjustments” on the part of Hansen and Mann. I may not have understood all their math, but I knew darn well when history was being “revised.” When the blazing heat of the Dust Bowl, or the MWP which allowed Vikings to harvest barley in Greenland, was erased by revisionist history, I’d blow a fuse. At certain times, (when we occasionally inhabited the same territories of the blogosphere,) you were always the voice of reason, facing me with facts, telling me to calm down.
Therefore it means something that you have become as critical of Climate Scientists as you have become. Whereas, in my case, criticism was in some ways intuitive, in your case it involves careful observations, painstaking observations, and dealing with all sorts of math and data I can’t stand.
It means more, coming from you.
I love you accent Bob! Not at all what I pictured what you accent would be like. Thanks for the video. It was really informative and I found it enjoyable. I just wished you closed by saying “Y’all have a nice day.” (Maybe you can do that in part 2)
Great job! Good to be ahead of the Gore – a – propaganda – thon.
OT: Bob, your voice sounds a lot like Mike Hawke’s. WUWT?
Very interesting. Well done, Bob. Great voice.What accent is that?
Clear, articulate and easier to absorb with a voiceover than some of your posts (not that this is a criticism). Thanks for your hard work Bob!
Robin Kool says: “What accent is that?”
San Quentin and Leavenworth
This is a great condensation of the central points of your book Bob. Thanks for this… I will be sending the YouTube link to lots of folks.
alexwade says:
October 3, 2012 at 4:15 pm
“I love you accent Bob! Not at all what I pictured what you accent would be like. Thanks for the video. It was really informative and I found it enjoyable. I just wished you closed by saying “Y’all have a nice day.” (Maybe you can do that in part 2)”
Please keep the accent as neutral as possible – many Australians react strongly (in a negative way) to an extreme USA accent, particularly those in the laté sipping left of the political spectrum. What you have done so far is good IMHO – no, better than good – great.
I am curiously waiting for The Lazy Teenager or R Gates et al to point us to some definitive sources of data that refute what you have said – I’m sure Anthony and mods will allow them to speak. Unlike SKS, Tamino, RC and all the rest that I no longer visit because I was abused or black-holed for asking simple questions. Where are you guys? We are all waiting!
@Bob Tisdale:
Love it. Just love it. The accent reminds me of some time spent with family down south… The droll way a stiff truth is slid in under the radar 😉
I see you have more videos up too. I’ll be working through the YouTube chain, but might you have an index posting listing your videos? Seeing it in film with clear narration is just so much better than reading “Peer Reviewed Papers”…
E.M.Smith: Only the last two videos were narrated, sorry. Also, I haven’t put together an index, but there is a listing:
http://www.youtube.com/user/BobTisdale1?feature=watch
The titles explain the content and there are brief descriptions.
James from Arding says: “I am curiously waiting for The Lazy Teenager or R Gates et al to point us to some definitive sources of data that refute what you have said…”
I’ve presented exactly what the HADISST data and the CMIP3 multi-model mean show for those two regions.
zootcadillac said “If you have any difficulty getting to grips with the conversion bob, just ask here, I’m sure many will be happy to help. Sometimes a little reformatting is required to get a perfect conversion but I’ve done literally thousands of books, it’s simple once you get into it.”
Zoot, as I stated above I have converted Bob’s book from PDF to MOBI for my Kindle and it is readable – but it could be better. Whilst I’ve tried to see if Calibre will allow some editing it seems to only allow editing of metadata not the body of the book or article.
Do you have any advice on how this can be achieved – if it’s not too onerous I may be able to spend some time on Bob’s book to see if I can make it acceptable for the Kindle which should widen the audience as it were.
John
James from Arding says: “This is a great condensation of the central points of your book Bob.”
This video just glanced at the book–the last couple of minutes. Part 2 of the video will get into more detail about ENSO. Also I did not like how the animation of East Pacific vs the Rest-of-the-World sea surface temperatures showed in the video.
http://bobtisdale.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/east-pac-row-97-98-el-nino-98-99-la-nina.gif
Masterpiece. Wouldn’t know where to begin to look for a way to improve it. The clarification Lucy suggested explaining “ENSO” came to mind, but that’s not serious. (General rule, tho’: watch out for taking acronyms for granted; they are taken as arrogant opacity by those not in your particular “loop” if not expanded the first time or two they’re used. In every presentation or article.)
Excellent video Bob. Many thanks. Another nail in the GHG coffin.
Lucy Skywalker & Brian H: Thanks for the kind words. Regarding ENSO, I had explained the acronym in one draft, but I must’ve clipped that portion during editing. Sorry. It will be discussed in part 2.
You make the case perfectly Bob. Great video!
Thanks Bob! The clearest explanation yet of why the climate models fail to work.
johnbuk says:
October 4, 2012 at 1:49 am
I believe Foxit reader allows editing of .pdf
DaveE.
johnbuk Hi John. I’m not able to go into specifics as i have not purchased a copy of Bob’s latest opus as I was kinda hoping for a kindle / mobi version ( and here we are at the point ;)) but when I have tackled pdf conversion before it’s been a bit trial and error ( I’m usually changing from mobi to epub to LIT or variations thereof ) and edit the original in either word or adobe acrobat professional depending upon the format & the permissions.
Like you I’d be happy to help with a commercial conversion ( gratis of course ) to mobi & epub formats but it would depend upon having an unprotected PDF to work from otherwise it’s just a whole heap of copy & paste work.
But really that’s my thing, copy, paste & format. Calibre just creates the final book from that, there is little you can do with it regarding editing. Much of what needs to be done is by understanding the structure detection of Calibre & creating ( reformatting) the work so that the results are readable.
It can be a lot of work and when it’s for a piece that you are only going to read yourself then you will put up with ‘readable’. For commercial redistribution there is a bit of work involved if the heuristic conversion is not up to scratch and i don’t know of a way to edit it after the fact so getting it right in the edit before conversion is the only way I know how, but it can be done in an evening over a couple of beers. I don’t have to proof-read, right? 😉
Zoot, thanks for responding. I bought Bob’s book and therefore have the PDF. I have converted this to the MOBI format and sent to my Kindle, the result is readable but far from perfect. Gaps every two lines etc. I can’t see a method in Calibre of editing the MOBI file direct, the ereader within Calibre doesn’t seem to allow editing. Currently I’m playing around with converting to HTMLZ which is a zipped file containing an Index.html file, CSS file and Images folder.
I’ve opened the index.html file in a word processor (Libre Office) and can edit from that. The problem as I see it is whilst I can change this file I have no idea what it would look like when converted to MOBI onto my Kindle again! From your description there is quite a bit of trial and error which I’m happy with but it seems inefficient if others have already passed down this road and can point me in the right direction as it were.
@Bob Tisdale: Brilliant.. the title will attract warmists, and then give them something to think about. Well done sir.
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