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from the WUWT piece:
Dr Bates revealed that the failure to archive and make available fully documented data not only violated NOAA rules, but also those set down by Science. Before he retired last year, he continued to raise the issue internally. Then came the final bombshell. Dr Bates said: ‘I learned that the computer used to process the software had suffered a complete failure.’The reason for the failure is unknown, but it means the Pausebuster paper can never be replicated or verified by other scientists.
what ??? They wrote the code (or had someone else do it) and then had no backup? - and then the computer magically caught fire? Someone's 'avin a larf there. It seems not unreasonable to suspect that the impetus for the work came from higher ups wanting policy points - no?
If a schoolkid offered a similarly lame excuse about a homework assignment?
There must be more to come - if this is the level of antics the bureaucrats at NOAA wil stoop to - yes - there must be more.
tomo
Apparently Climate Scientists can't be trusted
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2017/02/04/bombshell-noaa-whistleblower-says-karl-et-al-pausebuster-paper-was-hyped-broke-procedures/
It links to a UK Mail on Sunday article. I might buy it today. I think Tom Karl's name has cropped up before in connection with unreliable climate science, and this may offer other countries the opportunity to put the Paris Climate Deal in the recycling bin.
Karl wrote the paper whilst an employee of the US Government, which could prove to have been an expensive mistake.
golf charlie
@stewgreen's H/T
Video: ITV.Tonight.170202.-.Energy.Bills.Can.We.Be.SMARTer
As cold weather drives energy bills ever higher, Tonight investigates ["free"] smart meters - millions of which are currently being installed across the country. They are supposed to help consumers save money, but consumer editor Chris Choi reveals problems that could see costs for bill-payers rising further, and speaks to consumers who are feeling frustrated, angry and confused
#canwebesmarter
Comment:
"Free" SMART meter Gov't fraud that costs consumers Billions of pounds for next to no benefit.
They are not free, consumers/bill-payers pay for them through an increase in energy costs. Even if one declines offer of "free" smart meter, one still pays as UK Gov't extorts again.
As with all, video may be shared.
Pcar
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4192182/World-leaders-duped-manipulated-global-warming-data.html
Big story on NOAA's pause busting data and paper.
TinyCO2
Tue R4 Costing the Earth
"An area the size of India now burns every year and climate change is rapidly increasing the flammability of our forests. (Evidence?)
Tom Heap visits Fort McMurray to find out how a city could be so easily engulfed by fire and to meet the local scientists and firefighters working out fresh strategies to make sure it doesn't happen again."
stewgreen
Mc It'll be the next thing pushed by the BBC cos now they understand that humans are non binary about sex instead we lie on a scale of how alive/dead we like our sexual partners
stewgreen
Feb 4, 2017 at 1:30 AM Pcar
BBC "Jimmy crossed the line with necrophilia... we're good now"
Ha ha, necrophilia is least bad compared to abuse of living people.
When you set the bar so low relative judgements are meaningless.
Is either still happening?
And if you think it is, what shall we do about it?
M Courtney
Great quote from Scott Adams's blog:
Yesterday I asked my most liberal, Trump-hating friend if he ever figured out why Republicans have most of the Governorships, a majority in Congress, the White House, and soon the Supreme Court. He said, “There are no easy answers.”Hint: Democracy at work. Think BREXIT. There will always be people pissed off. Some of us had to suffer the Blair-Campbell axis for 13 years. That went well.....Well? It gave us wars and Huhne. That's a lot to live up to. /s
Harry Passfield
Hi Technology Japan knows the value of Reliable energy.
http://joannenova.com.au/2017/02/japan-building-45-hele-coal-plants-australia-1-maybe/
golf charlie
Feb 5, 2017 at 9:50 AM | tomo
I expect someones dog spilt coffee on the computer, and then ate it.
The Karl Paper (2015) is dead. Long live the Pause!