Note on Cyber Warfare

It should be noted that the scandal revolving around the current climate scientist cover up regarding global warming was brought to us through the hacking of emails. Civil disobedience may be the hackers only defense if brought to court. Sure, they are still guilty, but hey, something good came of it right? Well, not if your Phil Jones, the scientist who was oddly "cheerful" at the news of a rival skeptical scientist in Tasmania being dead.

I have shortened the list of questionable things in the already short summary by the hackers:

1189722851.txt * Jones: “try and change the Received date!”
0847838200.txt * Briffa & Yamal 1996: “too much growth in recent years makes it difficult to derive a valid age/growth curve”
1225026120.txt * CRU’s truncated temperature curve
1062189235.txt * Osborn: concerns with MBH uncertainty
0926947295.txt * IPCC scenarios not supposed to be realistic
0938018124.txt * Mann: “something else” causing discrepancies
0939154709.txt * Osborn: we usually stop the series in 1960
0933255789.txt * WWF report: beef up if possible
0998926751.txt * “Carefully constructed” model scenarios to get “distinguishable results”
0968705882.txt * CLA: “IPCC is not any more an assessment of published science but production of results”
1075403821.txt * Jones: Daly death “cheering news”
1029966978.txt * Briffa – last decades exceptional, or not?
1092167224.txt * Mann: “not necessarily wrong, but it makes a small difference” (factor 1.29)
1188557698.txt * Wigley: “Keenan has a valid point”
1118949061.txt * we’d like to do some experiments with different proxy combinations
1120593115.txt * I am reviewing a couple of papers on extremes, so that I can refer to them in the chapter for AR4


Source: http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/hadley_hacked/

Warmest Year On Record

Just in case you were wondering it was 1934. Look at the actual temperature data yourself, not any analysis, but the actual core data and do the math yourself. You will be surprised. Use NASA, or any other statistical collection you wish, but 1934, not 1998 is the warmest year on USA records.

Climate Scandal Emails

They have been confirmed by the numerous sources I use, and I examined several myself. Quite simply, aside from the larger picture, my initial grasp of these scientists is how childish they all are. Not only is their willingness to communicate in proper English an issue for them, they can't hold back from insulting each other for one minute. The arrogance they have against "laymen" is astounding. If their jobs were based on getting elected by the populace, they would fail at even giving a basic conversation with the "laymen" of the would, never mind getting our vote. They are immature, childish, and the most pathetic people I have ever eavesdropped on.

Update: Even when making an appropriate and positively supporting reference from the book "1984" one engineer manages to add an insult to the person she is complimenting! These scientists are worthless as human beings as far as I'm concerned.

Recall Election

The madness surrounding the removal of Ed Barrett as Bangor's City Manager has prompted a recall petition. In order to do so the initial ten affidavits demanding the recall needs ten signatures in order to allow further gathering of over two thousand signatures for the recall to be approved. Tomorrow I am going to city council to sign my name to endorse a recall.

I encourage you to do the same.

They gave no reason other than wanting to go in a different direction. They have not yet said what direction that would be. In addition, they council is going to pay at least 15 thousand dollars to find a replacement. That is an expensive directionless change.

Change for the sake of change isn't efficient. However, change in order to end the mounting sequence of insane decisions from the council would work for the benefit of Bangor. A recall to end the madness and elect sane people. Our newly elected Cary Weston is among the sane, and electing more like him would be a step in the right direction for Bangor.

Right now getting the recall election moving forward is the task at hand and I fully support this effort.