I might have had something to do with this:
Distorted data? Feds close 600 weather stations amid criticism they’re situated to report warming
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/08/13/weather-station-closures-flaws-in-temperature-record/#ixzz2bs0Bki00
More about the Yosemite Weather Station here
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Unicorns doled out for climate change deniers – CNN Political Ticker
The group sent a message on Twitter Tuesday with a photo of a “climate denier award” trophy, topped by a unicorn. The group’s volunteers are delivering the statues to lawmakers Tuesday.
Get a load of the photo. Their choice of a unicorn pretty much sums up their views of the science, that if we solve global warming, it will be rainbows and unicorns on Earth again.
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MSNBC and Organizing For Action Coordinate Activity | RedState
Today is Organizing for Action’s big climate change day. They intend to march out into the public square and attack members of Congress, conservatives, and others who aren’t in on their campaign to destroy capitalism in the name of global warmer … errrr … climate change. Key to this is getting OFA members to Republican town halls, etc. to harass a targeted list of Congressmen.
Right on cue, MSNBC has joined the effort. MSNBC, more and more the official mouthpiece of the Democratic Party, has up a list of Republican members of the House Science Committee who are dismissive of the left’s global warming … errrrrrr … climate change hysteria.
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The PJ Tatler » Obama Harrangues Tweeps on Climate Change
Barack Obama, or whoever runs his Twitter feed, isn’t interested in science. They’re interested in being that guy — the half-informed, argumentative dope who becomes such a pest that you end up unfollowing his feed.
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Look who’s coming to ScienceOnline Climate
[115 people including Mann, Revkin, Schmidt, Tobis, and Zivkovic; I don’t see any skeptics]
About the Event
This two-day event is not your traditional climate science meeting. With an un-conference format that is driven by participants and emphasizes conversation, ScienceOnline Climate will explore the intersection of climate science, communication, and the web. Complex scientific concepts will be interwoven with creative communications approaches through the connective power of the internet. It will be an energizing experience for scientists, journalists, artists, policymakers, and attendees from all nodes of the climate communications ecosystem.
Here is your chance to register:
http://climate.scienceonline.com/
http://climate.scienceonline.com/registration/
h/t to Tom Nelson for the above three stories.
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To me, this seems like a ridiculous idea. How will they know when the person has the phone in their pocket, warming it up? I can’t even begin to imagine how they’ll untangle the myriad of potential biases the cell phone owner could introduce.
Crowdsourcing weather using smartphone batteries A group of smartphone app developers and weather experts developed a way to use the temperature sensors built into smartphone batteries to crowdsource weather information. These tiny thermometers usually prevent smartphones from dangerously overheating, but the researchers discovered the battery temperatures tell a story about the environment around them.
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Willis Eschenbach says:
August 13, 2013 at 10:47 am
“Really? Mainstream climate science has come to this? They can’t convince the adults, so they want to brainwash the kids through their games?”
Just another way to sink some taxpayer billions.
At the end:
Instead of “relatively more”, maybe better would be “in large part”, “Large part” could be less than 50%. The “more” becomes an unnecessary point of contention.
There is still not enough attention to
– the size of the adjustments,
– the pattern and suspected bias of adjustments,
– and the ethics of adjusting recorded data.
Even if you accept and agree on a size of an adjustments, it add error to the final signal, because the adjustment itself add uncertainty. The error bars of the final result and must increase from the addition of adjustment.
I have learned something from all of this. That would be fine, except for thinking I may have just been didacticated, maybe against my will.
Ferd says:
August 13, 2013 at 11:13 am
so “deniars” get unicorns…. maybee the WUWT community needs to give trophies with crazy dudes running around with their hair on fire for the crazy Warmist Freakout Machine allstars?
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I’m thinking a statue more along the lines of “Bob”.
WUWT could give an award. The official name would be the Gore Award. It would be given to the most active CAGW extremist of the year. The nickname for the award would be “the Hotty.” Jim Hansen should be an ideal candidate for this year of 2013 – retiring from NASA to dedicate his life to fighting AGW.
You’re more likely to spot a unicorn than a climate change denier (or climate denier, as the plaque on the award states). Does anyone deny that there is a climate or that it changes ? Laughable.
Willis … I see another full post in your future …
The big winner here is CNN, who can be expected to pick up viewers shed by MSNBC as it leans so forward that it’s in danger of toppling over.
Anthony, congratulations on becoming a significant thorn in NOAA’s side. 🙂
The unicorn is rather symbolic. It has about as much reality as CAGW.
Non-science nonsense, brought to you by the flighty herds of Alarmist Unicorn Zombies.
I want one of those awards! Just think how valuable it’ll be if/when it’s admitted by the mainstream that CO2 is a minor player in the grand climate scheme and we’re in the midst of another little ice age.
@ur momisugly Bryan A
Thanks for the link. I’m still laughing @ur momisugly #9: “That’s your opinion”.
A Unicorn auction would be a great fundraiser for any politician that got one. I hope my congressman wins one.
Regarding the “Climate denier award”, I would note that only the credentialed climate scientists are allowed to embrace full-blown unicorn and rainbow theology. The average CAGW supporter is self-restricted to the “My Little Pony” stage.
It’s not April the 1st. again is it?
Unicorns? Confirms it then, CAGW isn’t science its a fairy tale deluded warmists believe is real.
I wonder if they start and finish their ‘scientific meetings’ by chanting;
“I DO believe in fairies, I DO I DO!”
“Come on you deniers, every time we don’t reach 97% consensus a fairy dies!”
“A group of smartphone app developers and weather experts developed a way to use the temperature sensors built into smartphone batteries to crowdsource weather information….”
“After calibration, the team calculated air temperatures within an average of 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) of the actual value,”
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Sounds about as accurate as the models.
If you’re going to guess at the temperature anyway, why not?
Plus, scientists and the IPCC could use this as more proof.
We have a new standard for temperature measurement, the pocket phone.
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If enough “Heretics of the AGW cult” get this app and keep their phone in the freezer,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
You’re getting results, Anthony.!
Sponge,
Obama keeps the WH closed to the public so they cannot smell the choom.
Anthony Watts is an outlier? Some folks believe GISS and NOAA are the real outliers. How else can anyone lower the temperature readings in the early years and raise the temperature readings in the latter years?
I didn’t get past college statistics 101 but I can’t think of a random situation that would give such results. Perhaps some skilled statisticians can give us a better feel for data like temperature readings.
Also can the scientific adjustments which are peer reviewed be made public so we can all understand how the adjustment are made? What feedbacks, etc,, if any are entered in the adjustments?
Unicorns was the worst thing they could come up with to give to supposed “enemies of the planet”? Really? Because I would have thought something more along the lines of, oh I don’t know, maybe a lump of coal drenched with oil. Wait, let me guess, unicorns are what they really really want for a present for themselves, and in the spirit of gift-giving everywhere, they are simply giving what they want most. But I think they just forgot the “enemies of the planet” part. Oh well.
Re Unicorn trophy. Wow are they free- I’d love to have one for historical purposes? Pretty well crafted. These climate action types must be pretty well paid.
Ironing abounds:
Based on science, deniers would deny both CAGW and unicorns. It appears OFA believes in both.
Obama’s energy policy relies on unicorn farts to work.
The 600 stations is bad news IMO. Each time the equipment is changed, a time series splice is created. Each time a splice is created, judgement weighs into how old and new should line up. After several flat years, I wonder if there is about to be a new step up?
Without those stations, the new series would presumably drop down. To preserve continuity, an upward offset to the new can be worked in. Then as the same stations are “fixed” and brought back in….
Im glad for the satelites.