See http://www.dakotavoice.com/2009/12/climategate-sequel-from-russia-with-love/

Apparently, 40% of Russian territory was left out of calculations, and only 20% of data stations were used. Using all stations the Russians saw no warming in the last century. Russia is 12.5% of the earth’s land mass and would have had a damping effect on worls data.

There is NOTHING that a politician cannot survive if the media stays on board… and The Won is the Silver Streak special of PC expresses.

That’s the conventional wisdom, at least.

The handlers aren’t stupid, but they are conditioned to have the breaks go their way… and goodness knows they don’t know hard science, so they are ill equipped to judge just how damaging Climategate really is.

The data is out. It’s not easy to soundbite gigabytes of data analysis.

But putting up the analysis, with narrative and all work shown?

Now that’s doable. And that is what is getting the traction.

Cap and Trade is going to go the way of socialized medicine – no matter how fast they try to shove the crap through, the facts will be out and they won’t get sixty votes.

I am interested in seeing how badly the statists handle this.

Clueless. Delusional. Left. Dedicated to the Diminishment of American Liberty & Exceptionalism.

Bunny Hole, Y’All ! Alice…Aliiiiiicccceeeeeee…!

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/cruise-missiles-strike-yemen/story?id=9375236

Barry sent some cruise missles to Yemen.

I suggest that at the next meeting where Mr. Chavez broaches the topic he be very diplomatically (and ostentatiously) presented a bottle of Beano. Maybe that would solve his problem.

Why bring Sarah Palin into this at all? Redherring!

“. . . manipulated data to ‘hide the decline’ in global temperatures.” I winced when I read that in her op-ed. She needs a good science adviser.

However, anyone who has followed this closely knows it is not about the recent temperature decline, but the validity of the proxy reconstruction including the earlier values. Misdirection by Mr. Mann. This too:

“It could not possibly have referred to the claim that global temperatures have declined over this decade — a claim that is false (the current decade, as has been recently reported, will go down as the warmest on record). ”

The claim is not false-temperatures have declined very slightly during the last decade. And the fact that the current decade is the warmest is not a surprise, being it is very possiblity at the end of a 30 year warming cycle (climate having a roughly 60 year warming/cooling period).

There are other parts of this that could be critisied too. However, I will end it with this.

“Scientific evidence for the reality of human-caused climate change includes independently replicated data documenting the extent of warming; unprecedented melting of glaciers; rises in global sea levels; increasingly widespread continental drought; and models that predict all of these things but only when human impacts are included.”

Dr.Mann should read this article by a statistician,
http://wmbriggs.com/blog/?p=1417 and heed the advice – When your in a hole stop digging!!

Nah, let ’em cool off in holding pens out on the street for a few hours first.

Are these the spawn of all those Berkeleites?

I don’t if “spawn” is properly applied to the products of mitosis.