Sunday
Apr182010
by 
Bishop Hill
Bishop Hill Quote of the day
Apr 18, 2010 Climate: Oxburgh One vindication looks like good fortune. Two vindications look like a careful arrangement.
Adapted from an idea by reader, Bob Layson, in the comments.
Reader Comments (19)
Oi! It's spelt "vidnication", Mr cleverclogs Bishop bloody Hill.
cor blimey Prof Mones's Jum
It's worth doing this survey
http://www.psy.plymouth.ac.uk/onlineresearch/opsec/default.aspx
Of course. But there is a consensus of
whitewashesinquiries that Prof Jones's only faults were to be a little bit disorganized and lacking in media skille.Its that "Post-Normal Science", innit?
You need to look at a wider body of evidence than simple facts, there's no such thing as objective truth, and when the opinions of Phil Jones' drinking buddies are taken into account a consensus emerges that everything is hunky dory.
"One vindication looks like good fortune. Two vindications look like a careful arrangement."
And what do three vindications look like?
Remember the word to the orphan: 'I can understand losing one parent, but losing both seems a lot like carelessness'.
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From the same play:
On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure.
The Natural History Museum plans a survey of cherry trees over the next three years to see if climate change is affecting blossoming times. Three years? Hardly enough for a benchmark.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8626750.stm
The Japanese got there before them, with a much longer run of data. This is quite interesting on UHI effects:
http://arnoldia.arboretum.harvard.edu/pdf/articles/1893.pdf
I shall have a bit of a Hanami celebration when my Bird Cherry blossoms in a week or two, a bottle of the good stuff and a read of the A E Housman poem. (No parodies, it's a little gem.)
The guardian comments section are letting rather more dissenting views be posted than normal in the comments section.. Very many more sceptical voices than advocates.
I wonder why?
Or is it a simpler explanation, do you think the mods are just scared of George Monbiot, or don't like this other chap very much..
After Lady Bracknell?
"The Natural History Museum plans a survey of cherry trees over the next three years to see if climate change is affecting blossoming times."
I don't think picking cherry trees, as a harbinger of climate change, is a good choice for the purpose!
And what do three vindications look like?
Jackpot
Mojo
You got it in a handbag.
Allen Ford
Having picked your cherries, you can use the stones for modelling the melting of Himalayan glaciers:
"This year, next year,
Sometime, never."
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!"
Upton Sinclair
Quote of the day, yesterday, was surely, "Questions must also be asked if freedom of information legislation should cover access to raw scientific data.", by Robin McKie science and technology editor for the Observer.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/apr/18/climate-change-east-anglia-report
Yes, a journalist, is advocating that scientific data should be kept under lock and key away from prying eyes.
Dreadnought: Or a valise.
"... Two vindications look like a careful arrangement."
Or, indeed, a contrivance.