Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
Diane Francis, February 2006 – I got married to a Brit, Frank Francis, at 19 years of age and one year later we immigrated to Canada, or Toronto to be precise. We started a graphic design and typesetting business, Francis Graphics, which became very successful. I left the business to stay at home with our two babies, Eric and Julie, for six years.
Diane Francis, December 2009 – “A planetary law, such as China’s one-child policy, is the only way to reverse the disastrous global birthrate currently, which is one million births every four days.”
So, which one, Diane – Eric? Or Julie? (Odds aren’t in Julie’s favour)
No pressure. Take your time.
Hide The Decline: From Orland To Calgary
Update 2 – I pulled down part of the original content of this post for a few hours, while Anthony Watts checked it for accuracy. I’ve now updated it with excerpts of his corrected version.
I’ve been following this issue a few days and looking at a number of stations and had planned to make a detailed post about my findings, but WUWT commenter Steven Douglas posted in comments about this curious change in GISS data recently, and it got picked up by Kate at SDA, which necessitated me commenting on it now. [And he didn’t give the “what for” I deserved for that – ED]. This goes back to the beginning days of surfacestations.org in June 2007 and the second station I surveyed.
“Remember Orland? That nicely sited station with a long record?”
Note the graph I put in place in June 2007 on that image.
Orland, CA station
Now look at the graph in a blink comparator showing June 2007 and today:
And it is not just Orland, I’m seeing this issue at other stations too. […] The timing could not be worse for public confidence in climate data.
Continue reading here….
Now, take a look at this
“Chalk up another for the flattening the past theme. Here’s what Calgary Int’l looks like:”
(Click to enlarge)
“I added a 15 year moving average to both the raw (in blue) and adjusted (in red) data and what they’ve done is quite striking. The warm “blip” between roughly 1915-40 has been adjusted down by as much as a full degree C while leaving the cold years in the late 1800’s and warm years post 1970’s more or less alone. Niiiiiiice.”
Who’s the minister in charge of Environment Canada? I bet he’d be a great interview.
Y2Kyoto: I Say We Start By Canceling The Olympics
See how easy that was?
(bumped for Charles Adler listeners – new posts below)
The signatories. Of all the names I see listed, Hayley Wickenheiser’s is the most disappointing. Good grief, Hayley – you’re from Shaunavon. Talk about the k.d. lang of oil exploration.
p.s –> Go to CJOB’s Audio Vault. Get the December 11th, 1:00 PM Hour Kate starts at about 34 minutes in.
Wild Rose Country?
God bless the Albertans. The next big purge has begun…
The surging Wildrose Alliance party would form the next provincial government in Alberta if an election were held tomorrow, according to a new poll of decided voters that gives the right-of-centre party a double-digit lead in popular support over the long-ruling Tories.
The Wildrose Alliance leads in all areas of the province. Their stronghold is Southern Alberta (outside of Calgary) where they twice the support of the PCs (46% to 23%). In Calgary, the Liberals are in second place (30%) and the PCs are ranked third (23%) as their support flows to both the Liberals and Wildrose Alliance (38%). The Wildrose Alliance is ahead in Edmonton (36%) and Northern Alberta (39%) as well.
The Sound Of All Hell Breaking Loose, Pt. 13
Andrew Bolt discovers something in the East Anglia emails that few had noticed until now – an honest scientist.
Update: Or, not ….
Well, he tried.
Y2Kyoto: What Hockey Stick?
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“You know, I don’t mean to embarrass you, but I’m a rather brilliant statistician. Perhaps I could help you with that hockey stick.”
Steve McIntyre: IPCC and “The Trick”.
Much recent attention has been paid to the email about the “trick” and the effort to “hide the decline”. Climate scientists have complained that this email has been taken “out of context”. In this case, I’m not sure that it’s in their interests that this email be placed in context because the context leads right back to a meeting of IPCC authors in Tanzania, raising serious questions about the role of IPCC itself in “hiding the decline” in the Briffa reconstruction.
It’s long and revealing.
Anthony Watts explains as well.
Y2Kyoto: The Gore Effect
Gaining strength….
ROBERTS: Former Vice President Gore, it’s great to catch up with you again.
GORE: Thank you.
ROBERTS: Thanks so much for coming in.
GORE: My pleasure. Thanks for having me. Thank you, Kiran.
ROBERTS: Good to see you.
CHETRY: Thank you so much for answering the questions from our viewers as well. There’s a lot of interest in this. Thanks a lot. Well, still ahead, it’s three minutes past the hour. We have a look at the top stories right now. Winter still two weeks away, but snow plows are out from the plains to the Northeast. A monster storm paralyzing travel in more than a dozen states. Extremely dangerous, blizzard-like conditions and blizzard conditions themselves forecast for parts of the Midwest. Mix of rain, sleet, and heavy snow from New York all the way up to New England.
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Afstan: “I’m with Platt”
Damian Brooks, that is. Best analysis of the detainee hoo-ha you’ll see.
You might also listen to Terry Glavin, just back from the Sandbox, on Rob Breakenridge at AM 770 CHQR, Calgary, Dec. 9.
Y2Kyoto: What Rhymes With “Bangladesh”?
His mind was an abyss of darkness on par with those of fleas,
The room was full of lefties sat there to hear his pleas,
His home is next to a zinc mine a fact he had to hide
And the Goracle came lying —
Lying — lying—
The Goracle came lying, up to Powerpoint slide.
O’er the screens he nattered and from whence a tremendous frenzy grew,
It was all a load of rubbish but being lefties they lacked a clue;
He told them tales of Greenland which he claimed would soon be ice-free;
Yet he bought a place in Frisco –
Frisco – Frisco –
He bought a place in Frisco,
Right where the floods would be.
“Tipper!” he cried like a madman, shrieking her name to the sky,
“Now Climategate is upon us, the world has woken up to my lie!”
Mike Mann and Phil Jones in a dangerous game imagined themselves as god,
So he cancelled his trip to Denmark,
He would not go to Denmark,
The last placed he’d be would be Denmark, ‘cause man-made climate change is a fraud.
– Mississauga Matt
I Say We Train Some Pigs
“Bomb-sniffing dogs on Vancouver transit worry Muslim leader.”
It’s a wonderful world we live in.
Not Waiting For The Asteroid
“The journalism trade journal Editor & Publisher is shutting down after 108 years of publication.”
I Miss W.
Good news for Jeb Bush. Is there nothing that Obama can’t do?
Perhaps the greatest measure of Obama’s declining support is that just 50% of voters now say they prefer having him as President to George W. Bush, with 44% saying they’d rather have his predecessor.
Related? Yeah, it’s related.
Y2Kyoto: I Say We Start With The Intellectuals
Diane Francis;
The only fix is if all countries drastically reduce their populations, clean up their messes and impose mandatory conservation measures.
Or let’s just line everyone up, pull out every third person and shoot them? We could start by alphabet.
A – B – BANG!
D – E – BANG!
It’s how these grand social experiments always end, anyway, and so much more efficient than freezing to death under windmills.
Update. Heh.
Plus, “Elizabeth” gets letters…
The Sound Of Settled Science
Each year, I get invited to Washington DC to serve as a pimp. A scientific pimp. I’m expected to join a small legion of volunteers to beg my senators and representatives to spend tax money on a program called the Math and Science Partnerships. This program is supposed to help improve how math and science is taught in this country. What could be wrong with that?
Climategate gives us a whole new way of understanding what’s wrong with that.
The breathtakingly dishonesty and incompetence of climatology’s intellectual leadership clearly reveals that a discipline can become dominated by a small group of ideologically-motivated intellectual gatekeepers.[1] So much so that these gatekeepers can cut off the ability of dissenters to publish in a peer-reviewed journal. Publication in a peer-reviewed journal, of course, is the sine qua non of grants, which in turn leads to careers in academia.[2] No publications—no career.
Narrow intellectual gatekeeping is omnipresent in academia. Want to know why the government wastes hundreds of millions of dollars on math and science programs that never seem to improve the test scores of American students?[3] Part of the reason for this is that today’s K-12 educators—unlike educators in other high-scoring countries of the world—refuse to acknowledge evidence that memorization plays an important role in mastering mathematics. Any proposed program that supports memorization is deemed to be against “creativity” by today’s intellectual gatekeepers in K-12 education, including those behind the Math and Science Partnerships. As one NSF program director told me: “We hear about success stories with practice and repetition-based programs like Kumon Mathematics. But I’ll be frank with you—you’ll never get anything like that funded. We don’t believe in it.” Instead the intellectual leadership in education encourages enormously expensive pimping programs that put America even further behind the international learning curve.
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Climategate Christmas
h/t Hans
“This is the double game Pakistan is playing.”
Via Andy McCarthy;
In effect, Pakistani intelligence is running its own secret war against America, a war bankrolled by the Saudis. These are the Taliban’s shadow partners. And they are winning. In effect, we are offering Pakistan-based insurgents 30,000 new targets with no changes in the rules of engagement. Even now, when our troops come under attack, they are not permitted to pursue enemy fighters back across the border and destroy their Pakistani redoubts. Imagine sending troops to France to free the French from the Nazis but failing to take out their Eagle’s Nest next door in Germany. Welcome to our war policy today in Afghanistan.
Much more at the link.
Y2Kyoto: What Rhymes With “Bangladesh”?
Man doth use the petro flame, but
Sun and wind are not the same!
They power honest, fair, and true;
(Though kilojoules produced are few),
Our evil fuels we must eschew
It’s been foretold that all will die,
And oceans rise, because the sky
is filled by fruits of our endeavor;
From our lives we have to sever
Carbon, or doom earth forever.
Do not question!! “Yes we can!”;
Carbon we will forthwith ban,
Science has outlived its span; for
Climate change was made by Mann
– Erik Larsen
Y2Kyoto: A Macleans Poll Goes Horribly Wrong
Call it a prediction….
Related – 141 Scientists Sign Letter Sent to UN Secretary-General Questioning Global Warming…
1. Habibullo I. Abdussamatov, Dr. Sci., mathematician and astrophysicist, Head of the Russian-Ukrainian Astrometria project on the board of the Russian segment of the ISS, Head of Space Research Laboratory at the Pulkovo Observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia
2. Göran Ahlgren, docent organisk kemi, general secretary of the Stockholm Initiative, Professor of Organic Chemistry, Stockholm, Sweden
3. Syun-Ichi Akasofu, PhD, Professor of Physics, Emeritus and Founding Director, International Arctic Research Center of the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Alaska, U.S.A.
4. J.R. Alexander, Professor Emeritus, Dept. of Civil Engineering, University of Pretoria, South Africa; Member, UN Scientific and Technical Committee on Natural Disasters, 1994-2000, Pretoria, South Africa.
5. Jock Allison, PhD, ONZM, formerly Ministry of Agriculture Regional Research Director, Dunedin, New Zealand ….
No fruit fly guys, though.