Comments on: How Al Gore is a Genius http://charlescouger.com A brief inquiry into the heritage of liberty. Wed, 14 Jul 2010 03:09:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: zeke http://charlescouger.com/national-politics/how-al-gore-is-a-genius/#comment-779 zeke Wed, 14 Apr 2010 21:43:54 +0000 http://charlescouger.com/?page_id=153#comment-779 Flea's may cause a dog to scratch, but in Al Gore's world, the flea's tell the dog what to do. Flea’s may cause a dog to scratch, but in Al Gore’s world, the flea’s tell the dog what to do.

]]> By: Gordon Couger http://charlescouger.com/national-politics/how-al-gore-is-a-genius/#comment-608 Gordon Couger Fri, 22 Jan 2010 06:03:29 +0000 http://charlescouger.com/?page_id=153#comment-608 Charles, You wrote this before the file leak from the UK Climate Research Unit. While the the language, subject matter and scheming in emails are damning. The programmers note are worse. I have been reading the file of programmer's notes HARRY_README.txt. It is an odyssey of his efforts to unify data from weather stations and grid them out on a globe represent the Earth. He was not very successful by the October 2009 date the files were taken. To get the data to work at all he had to allow the operator to edit the data by hand with any value they wanted. That obviously was not to his liking. Within the year he treated it as joke. I could see him go down hill pretty fast. I saw nothing in anything I read yet that indicated any climate models. All I saw were effort to get the data in shape to start to feed into models. much of the work Harry talked about in this file was done with scripts which would be proper for early work trying to find out how to unify all the data sets. Comments like those below while out of context are typical of the frustration I saw in Harry's with his work. "Each parameter has a tortuous history of manual and semi-automated interventions that I simply cannot just go back to early versions and run the update prog. "I could be throwing away all kinds of corrections - to lat/lons, to WMOs (yes!), and more." "Because although I'm thrilled at the high match rate (87%!), it does seem worse when you realize that you lost the rest." Keep up the good work Gordon Charles,

You wrote this before the file leak from the UK Climate Research Unit.

While the the language, subject matter and scheming in emails are damning. The programmers note are worse.

I have been reading the file of programmer’s notes HARRY_README.txt. It is an odyssey of his efforts to unify data from weather stations and grid them out on a globe represent the Earth. He was not very successful by the October 2009 date the files were taken.

To get the data to work at all he had to allow the operator to edit the data by hand with any value they wanted. That obviously was not to his liking. Within the year he treated it as joke. I could see him go down hill pretty fast.

I saw nothing in anything I read yet that indicated any climate models. All I saw were effort to get the data in shape to start to feed into models.

much of the work Harry talked about in this file was done with scripts which would be proper for early work trying to find out how to unify all the data sets.

Comments like those below while out of context are typical of the frustration I saw in Harry’s with his work.

“Each parameter has a tortuous history of manual and semi-automated interventions that I simply cannot just go back to early versions and run the update prog. “I could be throwing away all kinds of corrections – to lat/lons, to WMOs (yes!), and more.”

“Because although I’m thrilled at the high match rate (87%!), it does seem worse when you realize that you lost the rest.”

Keep up the good work
Gordon

]]> By: Wilk http://charlescouger.com/national-politics/how-al-gore-is-a-genius/#comment-46 Wilk Fri, 17 Jul 2009 20:38:09 +0000 http://charlescouger.com/?page_id=153#comment-46 I'm personally glad that automobiles and the internal combustion engine were around to increase the greenhouse effect and end the ice age. The climate of the earth changes, has changed, and will continue to change. The phenomenal arrogance required to believe that mankind is responsible for the minute changes in global temperatures over the last 100 years is mind-boggling. Furthermore, though I haven't seen the primary data, I'm guessing that the margin of error in both the pre 1950s instruments and our estimates of pre 20th century temps are not insignificant. Also, you don't have to look very hard to find examples of rampant inaccuracies in temperature collection, such as placing the thermometer a little too close to an exhaust fan. Rock on, keep fighting the good fight, and you should go to the Mackinac Island Conference-I live there, and I'll be attending. with love, -wilk I’m personally glad that automobiles and the internal combustion engine were around to increase the greenhouse effect and end the ice age.
The climate of the earth changes, has changed, and will continue to change. The phenomenal arrogance required to believe that mankind is responsible for the minute changes in global temperatures over the last 100 years is mind-boggling. Furthermore, though I haven’t seen the primary data, I’m guessing that the margin of error in both the pre 1950s instruments and our estimates of pre 20th century temps are not insignificant. Also, you don’t have to look very hard to find examples of rampant inaccuracies in temperature collection, such as placing the thermometer a little too close to an exhaust fan.
Rock on, keep fighting the good fight, and you should go to the Mackinac Island Conference-I live there, and I’ll be attending.
with love,
-wilk

]]> By: Richard Tod http://charlescouger.com/national-politics/how-al-gore-is-a-genius/#comment-19 Richard Tod Mon, 13 Jul 2009 02:59:13 +0000 http://charlescouger.com/?page_id=153#comment-19 Go get them Chas. This is right on. Why do you think they're pushing Cap and Trade so hard? Given time, people will realize it for the scam it is. The Government will give out free credits to Democratic contributors, and tax conservatives to the hilt. Effect on the atmosphere = zero. Lesson: it will keep Democrats in office forever. If you don't go their way you will be punished or ruined. Welcome to Chicago. Go get them Chas. This is right on. Why do you think they’re pushing Cap and Trade so hard? Given time, people will realize it for the scam it is. The Government will give out free credits to Democratic contributors, and tax conservatives to the hilt. Effect on the atmosphere = zero. Lesson: it will keep Democrats in office forever. If you don’t go their way you will be punished or ruined. Welcome to Chicago.

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