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Comment on Temperature adjustments in Australia by euanmearns

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Agreed. This was the first of several regions I looked at and cleaning the V2 and V3 data for comparison did my head in. I got lazy and averaged the temperature stack and got a flat line. Looking at the spaghetti, you can see there is a kind of normal distribution of station discontinuity about the mean. This is one of those rare occasions where mean T is similar to mean dT.


Comment on Bankruptcy of the ‘merchants of doubt’ meme by Joshua

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==> “mikerestin | March 17, 2015 at 2:02 pm |”

Is that miker?

Comment on Bankruptcy of the ‘merchants of doubt’ meme by curryja

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I just spotted this from Newsmax http://www.newsmax.com/t/newsmax/article/630631

A documentary exploring the other side of the climate-change debate and its ever-changing, but often-flawed science, “An Inconsistent Truth,” will air on Newsmax TV on Sunday at 10 p.m. ET.

Comment on Bankruptcy of the ‘merchants of doubt’ meme by Joshua

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Think of the poor children works very well, IMO. Think of the poor children starving in Africa works better, because it neatly mixes in the implication that the interlocutor is racist.

And “Oh, the humanity” ain’t so bad either.

Comment on Temperature adjustments in Australia by Wagathon

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<em>There has been no recorded warming across a very large portion of the Australian continent.</em> Let me repeat that: the warming is hiding somewhere on the Australian continent.

Comment on Blog moderation etc. by Grey Tash (@GreyTash)

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I love it “lurkaholic”

Comment on Bankruptcy of the ‘merchants of doubt’ meme by Willard

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Dear Latimer,

Even if we discount your straw men beating their straw wives, you’re still returning to your good old stance:

Quite frankly, I do not know what you did understand from Judith’s post from your previous interactions, most of which were “yes, but Joe Sixpack”, “yes, but I was IT specialist for 30 years”, “speak louder I can’t hear you” and “whatever”.

http://judithcurry.com/2011/02/06/lisbon-workshop-on-reconciliation-part-v-the-science-is-not-settled/#comment-39330

Ah, the good old days when you used the “but Joe Sixpack” gambit.

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The bottom line is that using the Nuremberg defense to excuse climate scientists like Roy Spencer to participate in think tanks like the Marshall Institute [1] is suboptimal to say the least.

I’ll return to that Nuremberg defense later on, since Brad Keyes may be interested in that one.

Unless we’re due for another post?

[1]: http://marshall.org/board-members/

Comment on Bankruptcy of the ‘merchants of doubt’ meme by Willard

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Think of the Asian babies who need their 40 cigarettes a day, Joshua:


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Comment on Temperature adjustments in Australia by captdallas2 0.8 +/- 0.2

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Steven Mosher, ““I believe that is “globally” regionally different products have different issues in different regions.”

yes, that is most likely going to be the case.”

Why weren’t you this agreeable when we were discussing the exact same issue in the southeast US or is this another dumb question?

Comment on Bankruptcy of the ‘merchants of doubt’ meme by Latimer Alder (@latimeralder)

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@willard

Please ask your physician to check the dose of your meds. You’re incoherently rambling away to yourself again.

Comment on Temperature adjustments in Australia by aneipris

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“Let me repeat that: the warming is hiding somewhere on the Australian continent.”

Specifically in the pouches of female kangaroos.

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Comment on Bankruptcy of the ‘merchants of doubt’ meme by joseph1002000

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Latimer, did you miss the part about the trend and the agreements made by China and the US which should accelerate the trend (because of increased demand). The transition isn’t going to happen over night. I don’t see any indication we can’t do it.

Comment on Bankruptcy of the ‘merchants of doubt’ meme by joseph1002000

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I also will throw energy efficiency in to the mix because because we should see increased improvement there as well.

Comment on Bankruptcy of the ‘merchants of doubt’ meme by Latimer Alder (@latimeralder)

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@willard

Delighted that my remarks from years back were so memorable. But I do wish you’d not only remember my wise advice about clarity of writing, but take it too.

Comment on Bankruptcy of the ‘merchants of doubt’ meme by aaron

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Lichanos, +

I think that might be a bit of an understatement, often it’s the case that research doesn’t support claims made in article. Not only that, I’ve found that research sometimes doesn’t support the statements of the authors.

Methane bomb, ocean acidification, unprecedented… it’s almost always the case with phrases like these.

Comment on Temperature adjustments in Australia by kentclizbe

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Euan,

Very impressive analysis, and lots of work.

It would seem, however, that the whole exercise is a waste of time.

The thing goes wrong from the beginning. When you accept the climate clique’s assumption, definitions and terminology, you’ve already lost.

“Homogenization” is based on deeply flawed assumptions.

“Homogenization in climate research means the removal of non-climatic changes. Next to changes in the climate itself, raw climate records also contain non-climatic jumps and changes for example due to relocations or changes in instrumentation. The most used principle to remove these inhomogeneities is the relative homogenization approach in which a candidate station is compared to a reference time series based on one or more neighboring stations. The candidate and reference station(s) experience about the same climate, non-climatic changes that happen only in one station can thus be identified and removed.”

The assumption that the comparison of neighboring stations identifies “non-climatic jumps” is completely unsupportable.

After years of weather observations in my own region (say 50 miles in diameter), if is clear that there are locations that experience drastically different temperatures from “neighboring” locations–due completely to “climatic jumps.”

Hills, valleys, winds, frontal patterns, cloud formation, and many other totally “climatic” reasons create large “discontinuous jumps” among “neighboring stations.”

Smearing a “standardized, homogenized” temperature across large regions, to make up for imagined “relocations or changes in instrumentation” is a spurious and unscientific practice.

If a station has experienced a “relocation” or “changes in instrumentation,” then there may be a reason to adjust that station’s readings. However, the adjustment should be based on solid, actual data.

For example: “We switched thermometers from the Acme Bulbmaster to the Maxi Thermo King. The Thermo King, when compared to the Bulbmaster, read 2/100ths of a degree cooler. Therefore, we plan to adjust the Thermo King readings 2/100ths of a degree higher than the actual readings.”

The “adjustments” cannot be non-specific, regional heat-smearing exercises. This erases the reality of Earth’s climate–that there are micro-climates a few hundred yards apart. This is real. This is the Earth. This is climate.

So–critiquing their fake “homogenization” techniques just plays into their hands. Once you start playing three-card-Monte with a con man, you’ve already lost the game. The only way to win is to avoid playing at all.

Play on your own terms.

Examine and analyze the actual recorded temperatures.

If the climate clique suggests “adjusting” the raw readings, demand clear and scientific justifications for each and every change.

Otherwise, great work!

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