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Ban Ki-Moon Honors 2011 Bomb Site of The UN Building
By Longtong Ibrahim
Kaduna (Nigeria) – As part of his lineup of activities in Nigeria, the United Nations (UN) Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon has paid a tribute and laid a wreath at the bomb site of the UN building attacked by Boko Haram terrorists in 2011, in Abuja.
The UN Secretary General, who is currently in Nigeria on a two-day working visit, urged the UN workers to remain dedicated to their job for the advancement of humanity; adding that, they should not to be discouraged by the bombing.
He condemned terrorism act and emphasizing that terrorism must be brought to an end not only in Nigeria but the world over so that peace could reign again among the people.
It could be recalled that on Friday, 26th August, 2011, more than 20 people died while more than 50 people were injured when a car bomb exploded in the premises of the United Nation's building in the Nigerian capital city of Abuja- where the Boko Haram group later claimed responsibility for the attack.
The UN Secretary-General, also appealed for the unconditional release of the over 200 Chibok girls abducted in their school in Chibok, Borno State last year and other abductees of the Boko Haram sect.
He stated this to newsmen shortly after he had a closed door meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, while commending the president for embarking on an agenda for change bringing security and anti-corruption war at the forefront. "When you change Nigeria, you have also changed Africa," he added.
In a remark, President Buhari pointed out that, they discussed the difficult times Nigeria had found itself and the step to be taken so that the UN could assist the country; while thanking the UN Secretary for the invitation to attend the UN General Assembly holding in New York on 27th and 28th September.
Part of the activities for Monday is a dialogue and lunch with Nigerian Business actors under the theme "The role of Nigerian Business and Economy in Implementing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and addressing Climate Change".
In the second day of the official visit, the UN Secretary General will visit health units and immunization centre in Garki area of Abuja to further assess Nigeria's efforts towards the actualization of the Millennium Development Goals.
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GLASSTRESS 2019
Posted on April 23, 2019 by EstherArtNewsletter
Curated by Vik Muniz and Koen Vanmechelen
9 MAY – 24 NOVEMBER 2019
Fondazione Berengo Art Space:
Campiello Della Pescheria, Fondamenta dei Vetrai, Murano
Press preview 7 & 8 May 2019 | 10am – 2pm
Vernissage 8 May 2019 | 7 pm
PUBLIC OPENING: 9 May – 24 November 2019
Berengo Studio1989
Fondamenta dei Vetrai, Murano 109/a
30141 Murano, Venice, Italy
http://www.fondazioneberengo.org/project/glasstress-2019/
Returning for the 58th Biennale di Venezia, the sixth edition of GLASSTRESS brings together a new line-up of leading contemporary artists from Europe, the United States, Latin America, India, and China in an ambitious exhibition exploring the endless creative possibilities of glass.
GLASSTRESS is a project by Adriano Berengo dedicated to supporting his mission of marrying contemporary art and glass. Since its debut in 2009, GLASSTRESS has revived the traditional craft of Murano glassblowing by forging new alliances with internationally renowned artists and designers. With little or no prior experience working with glass, these artists have embraced the challenge of creating extraordinary works in cooperation with Muranese maestri. The output of this unusual encounter defies the stereotypes associated with this ancient artistry, ultimately pushing the boundaries of both contemporary art and glass.
To celebrate 10 years of GLASSTRESS and 30 years of Berengo Studio, the exhibition goes back to its historical roots on the island of Murano. An old abandoned glass furnace is now an evocative exhibition space for striking new works and installations by returning artists Ai Weiwei, Laure Prouvost, Tony Cragg and Thomas Schütte as well as first time participants Prune Nourry, José Parlá and Rose Wylie, amongst others. For this section, Brazilian artist Vik Muniz has invited all artists to explore 'how glass redefines our perception of space'.
The Human Rights Pavilion is an evolving project by Belgian artist Koen Vanmechelen, in collaboration with Global Campus of Human Rights, Fondazione Berengo, and the MOUTH Foundation. The project, starting on May 8 in the context of Glasstress 2019, will explore through different events the possibility of a universal concept of human rights and the role of art in its development.
In another section, curated by Belgian artist Koen Vanmechelen, highlights from the past ten years will also go on display, including Mutter (2016/17) by Erwin Wurm, a series of sculptures exploring the equilibrium between everyday objects and their meaning; Laura's Hands (2011), a piece by Jaume Plensa referencing the artist's ongoing series of giant sculptures of a Barcelonan girl in a state of dreaming; and A Different Self (2014) by Mat Collishaw which combines the unique form of a Venetian mirror with a digital screen to evoke reflections from the past. Referring to the making of glass works, Vanmechelen says: 'the world of the unknown and unseen becomes visible and tangible through beautiful accidents in time.' A special project by Robert Wilson, curated by Jean Blanchaert, will also feature as part of the exhibition.
NEW WORKS AT GLASSTRESS 2019
Many of the artists in the exhibition produced pieces which engage with pertinent environmental concerns and man's relationship to nature. These include Bricolante by French – Argentine artist Pablo Reinoso, a life-size sculpture which references the wooden poles ('bricole' in the Venetian dialect) that line the channels of the city and its lagoon. Reinoso views these poles as a strong visual identifier of the city which, when translated into glass, echoes its fragility and the ecological threats it faces.
Similar issues are addressed in the work of Brazilian sculptor Valeska Soares, titled Acqua Alta after the yearly flooding of the city, comprising a series of glass containers which refer to the pollution of manmade objects as well as to vessels used to carry water. Acqua Alta acknowledges water as a precious natural resource, susceptible to the forces of nature and highlights the tensions between excess and decay.
New-York based, French artist Prune Nourry has created a sculpture inspired by an anatomical drawing of the human vascular system. Symbolising our inherent connection to nature, the glass veins and arteries which make up its structure resemble both a system of rivers and streams as seen from above, and the sprawling branches of a tree – two elements essential to our survival but which are suffering under the strain of environmental damage.
Socio-political topics are the focus of several works this year including Tiempos Frágiles (Fragile Times) by American artist José Parlá. Inspired by recent tumultuous political events in the US, the piece is composed of a metal fence, glass barbwire and parts of ribbons made from Murano glass which spell out the word 'Fragile'. For Parlá, the contrast presented in glass, a material that is both delicate and dangerously sharp, is a metaphor for the polaric state of the world. Tiempos Frágiles emphasises the very fragility of humanity in its current state of existence and the human-made divisions imposed by borders.
Italian artist, Monica Bonvicini's sculpture In My Hand references her piece, A Choir of Five (2016), during which a group of female performers produced clacking sounds using leather belts. In My Hand depicts female hands firmly holding a belt bent in half, as if it were ready to deliver a strike. Nevertheless, the violent move is frozen in glass, representing the struggle against cultural symbols of masculinity, discipline and violence
Other artists, such as Vik Muniz, have used conventional craftsmanship methods in unexpected and innovative ways. Known for incorporating mundane and everyday objects into his photographic collages and mosaics, Muniz has appropriated a centuries-old decorating technique to produce a hyper-realistic self-portrait made completely with Murrine – colourful glass patterns, traditionally used to ornament blown glass works.
Reflecting on his collaboration with Berengo, Vik Muniz says: 'The idea of transforming Murano by breathing life into the creative craft of glassworks brings a new vision of what glass can be and do. GLASSTRESS speaks about tradition, about the history of the city and what was done here centuries ago. It's a very interesting way not only to see how the city has adapted to its context as a contemporary art capital but also how it managed to still retain a lot of its own soul.'
Vik Muniz presents Glasstress 2019.
GLASSTRESS 2019 – PARTICIPATING ARTISTS
Renate Bertlmann (Austria), Saint Clair Cemin (Brazil), Antonio Dei Rossi (Italy), Pedro Friedeberg (Mexico), Carlos Garaicoa (Cuba), Artur Lescher (Brazil), Denise Milan (Brazil), Prune Nourry (France), José Parlá (USA), Pablo Reinoso (Argentina), Valeska Soares (Brazil), Tim Tate (USA), Janaina Tschäpe (Germany), Xavier Veilhan (France), Robert Wilson (USA), Rose Wylie (UK).
Returning artists
Ai Weiwei (China), Fiona Banner (UK), Monica Bonvicini (Italy), Tony Cragg (UK), Shirazeh Houshiary (Iran), Karen LaMonte (USA), Haroon Mirza (UK), Vik Muniz (Brazil), Jaume Plensa (Spain), Laure Prouvost (France), Thomas Schütte (Germany), Joyce Jane Scott (USA), Wael Shawky (Egypt), Sudarshan Shetty (India), Lino Tagliapietra (Italy), Bertil Vallien (Sweden), Koen Vanmechelen (Belgium), Joana Vasconcelos (Portugal), Erwin Wurm (Austria).
Anniversary highlights
Jean Arp (Germany), Ayman Baalbaki (Lebanon), Miroslaw Balka (Poland), César (France), Jake and Dinos Chapman (UK), Mat Collishaw (UK), Tracey Emin (UK), Jan Fabre (Belgium), Kendell Geers (South Africa), Francesco Gennari (Italy), Abdulnasser Gharem (Saudi Arabia), Michael Joo (USA), Ilya & Emilia Kabakov (Russia/USA), Michael Kienzer (Austria), Hye Rim Lee (South Korea), Oksana Mas (Ukraine), Hans Op de Beeck (Belgium), Tony Oursler (USA), Javier Pérez (Spain), Antonio Riello (Italy), Bernardí Roig (Spain), Fred Wilson (USA), Dustin Yellin (USA).
GLASSTRESS – THE PROJECT
GLASSTRESS was launched in 2009 by Adriano Berengo as an official collateral event of the Biennale di Venezia. Today it is the world's leading showcase for the collaborative work of contemporary artists and designers with Berengo Studio's Muranese glass masters.
Organized by Fondazione Berengo, GLASSTRESS exhibitions have been presented in prominent museums and institutions worldwide including the Boca Raton Museum of Art, Florida, the London College of Fashion and The Wallace Collection in London, the Art Museum Riga Bourse in Riga, Millesgården Museum in Stockholm, the Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) in New York, the Beirut Exhibition Center (BEC) in Beirut, and the Ptuj City Gallery in Ptuj, Slovenia.
http://glasstress.org/my-product/glasstress-2019/
FONDAZIONE BERENGO
Fondazione Berengo was founded by Adriano Berengo in 2014 as a cultural institution consolidating and strengthening his mission of marrying the Muranese glass-making tradition with contemporary art. The foundation seeks to achieve this goal through educational initiatives and an interdisciplinary program of exhibitions and special projects in collaboration with internationally acclaimed artists, designers, and architects. In 2016, it sponsored the first retrospective of the late Dame Zaha Hadid. In 2017, Fondazione Berengo, forged a partnership with the European Institute for Human Rights and Democracy to explore ways to use art to raise awareness of human rights issues.
https://www.instagram.com/fondazioneberengo_glasstress/
Palazzo Franchetti
San Marco 2847, 30124 Venice Italy
http://www.fondazioneberengo.org/project/glasstress-2019
ADRIANO BERENGO
Adriano Berengo, a true Venetian, lives and works in Venice. He holds a foreign languages degree from Ca' Foscari University (Venice) and specialised in comparative literature in a state university in New York. Adriano Berengo is the visionary behind Fondazione Berengo, GLASSTRESS, and the glass factory Berengo Studio 1989 which is celebrating its 30th anniversary. Following in the footsteps of Egidio Costantini and Peggy Guggenheim who introduced outstanding artists such as Pablo Picasso and Marc Chagall to Murano glass, Berengo has been championing the innovative use of glass as a medium in contemporary art for 30 years by inviting more than 300 artists to work with the glass masters in his studio on Murano. In the 2019 Biennale, artists representing both Austria and France are featuring works made in Berengo Studio.
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Wind, Solar Power Made Strong Gains in 2020, IEA Says
Source: By David Hodari, Wall Street Journal • Posted: Tuesday, May 11, 2021
Addition to renewables capacity was 45% greater than prior year's gain, marking biggest jump since 1999
Wind turbines near Palm Springs, Calif. The International Energy Agency said renewables were the only energy source for which demand increased last year. Photo: mike blake/Reuters
Renewable power capacity grew at its fastest pace this century in 2020, the International Energy Agency said Tuesday, raising its growth forecast for wind and solar power for this year and next.
According to the Paris-based energy watchdog, renewables were the only energy source for which demand increased last year, with Covid-19 lockdowns hitting consumption of all other fuels as government restrictions shut factories, grounded planes and kept people at home.
The addition to the world's renewable electricity capacity last year was 45% more than in the prior year—the biggest jump since 1999—as wind and solar farms sprang up across the world's major economies, the IEA said in a report. The increase of 280 gigawatts in 2020 was partly driven by a rush to complete projects before government subsidies elapsed in China, the U.S. and Vietnam.
The IEA raised its 2021 and 2022 growth forecasts by around 25%, with an addition of 270 gigawatts in capacity expected this year and 280 gigawatts next year.
Growing demand for renewable power comes as governments and companies around the world try to cut carbon emissions with the aim of limiting global warming. The Paris Agreement, which the Biden administration rejoined in February, calls for cutting emissions enough to keep temperatures less than 2 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels.
"Wind and solar power are giving us more reasons to be optimistic about our climate goals as they break record after record," said IEA Executive Director Fatih Birol, adding that greater use of lower-carbon electricity was needed for the world to achieve its carbon-reduction goals.
While renewables are gaining ground, fossil fuels remain the world's dominant source of energy. In 2019, before the coronavirus pandemic hammered global transportation and industry, oil, natural gas and coal accounted for 81% of global energy consumption, the IEA says. That figure is expected to drop to 76% by 2030, though rising overall demand still means increased use of carbon-intensive energy. Carbon emissions also have snapped back from their 2020 plunge.
Still, the recent acceleration in renewable energy growth will outlast the pandemic, the IEA said. The agency categorizes hydropower and bioenergy, as well as solar and wind, as renewables.
Some energy giants including Royal Dutch Shell RDS.A -2.10% PLC and BP BP -0.41% PLC have signaled their intentions to reduce their dependence on fossil fuels and invest in lower-carbon energy.
The IEA expects solar power to play a key role in the expansion of global renewables capacity, with additions in 2022 forecast to be 50% higher than they were in 2019. It also forecasts strong growth for wind power in the next two years, albeit at a lower rate than 2020.
However, the IEA said it expects new capacity in China—long a driver of global renewables growth—to plateau as government subsidies end, despite Beijing's pledge to reach peak carbon emissions before 2030.
Rising investment in Europe, the U.S., India and Latin America should more than offset any ebbing in Chinese renewable energy investment, the report said. The European Union plans to spend $1 trillion to reach its goal of net carbon neutrality by 2050.
The IEA's assessment doesn't take into account the Biden administration's plan to halve carbon emissions by 2030 or its $2.3 trillion infrastructure plan—part of which is aimed at tackling climate change. If enacted the bill "would drive a much stronger acceleration of the deployment of renewables after 2022," the IEA said.
Write to David Hodari at David.Hodari@dowjones.com


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M&S launches food range including Percy Pigs to 150 countries
M&S has agreed a deal with a UK export platform which will see hundreds of its food and drink products made available in more than 150 countries.
The supermarket is partnering with South Gloucestershire-based British Corner Shop, which exports well-known British brands overseas.
British Corner Shop ships items including Ambrosia custard and Warburtons crumpets to suppliers as well as expats unable to find British-made products abroad.
The firm is now selling 800 different M&S products on its platform, including Percy Pig sweets and the supermarket's Luxury Gold Teabags.
The deal means people in countries such as the US and Australia will be able to buy a tailored M&S food range for the first time – and have it at their door in one-to-three days.
British Corner Shop, which has a warehouse in the Stover Trading Estate in Yate, is an international exporter of British food products with a global customer base who shop the site's range of over 6,000 household brands.
With travel restrictions in place over the last 18 months, the platform has experienced a surge in demand for its products, the company said, and the launch of the M&S range is expected to drive this further.
In March, British Corner Shop saw sales to the US increase by around 150% after government support allowed it to overcome trade disruption caused by the global pandemic.
According to M&S, the launch is part of its commitment to accelerating international growth through online channels. It follows its recent expansion of flagship websites, which offer localised clothing and home ranges to customers in over 100 different markets.
In May, the retailer committed to more than doubling online retail sales by working with partners and expanding the reach of M&S to new online markets for the first time, as increasing numbers of customers globally turn to digital shopping channels.
By partnering with British Corner Shop, which saw over 140% growth between March 2020 and 2021, M&S said it would be able to "rapidly roll out" a wide range of its favourite food products without significant up-front investment.
Paul Friston, international director at M&S, said: "Our mission is to deliver efficient and low-cost ways to sell the best of M&S to the world, and by partnering with British Corner Shop we're able to instantly offer the best of M&S food to millions more customers."
Mark Callaghan, British Corner Shop managing director, added: "British Corner Shop connects quality British brands to customers worldwide, which is why partnering with M&S, one of the most iconic British brands, is a perfect fit for both parties.
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Which NASA climate data to believe?
Anthony Watts / April 17, 2010
Over on Climate Audit, Jean S points out a curious anomaly in the March GISS Temperature data for Finland.
Maybe that's where all of Trenberth's "missing heat" went. Note the deep red anomaly is in a sea of blue that surrounds it.
Jean writes of the data:
GISS station values are even more spectacular, the warmest March on record is set in every Finnish station GISS is following. For instance, according to GISS, the mean March temperature in Sodankylä (61402836000) was a remarkable +1.5 °C beating the old record (-2.2 °C) from 1920 by 3.7 °C!
Well, according to the Finnish Meteorological Institute, March 2010 was colder than usual all over Finland, especially in the northern part. For instance, the mean temperature in Sodankylä was -10.3 °C, which is almost three degrees below the base period 1971-2000 average (-7.5 °C). So the GISS March value for Sodankylä is off by amazing 11.8 °C!
Even more curious, when you look at the NASA data from another division. NASA's Earth Observations (NEO) The GISS Finlandic Temperature anomaly disappears!
Here are the satellite derived daytime and nighttime temperature anomalies for the world. Just like what the Finnish Meteorological Institute says, Finland was well below normal.
Here's the daytime temperature anomaly:
NASA NEO March 1-31 2010 day satellite measured temp anomaly - click for larger image
Here's the nighttime temperature anomaly:
NASA NEO March 1-31 2010 night satellite measured temp anomaly - click for larger image
The whole of Finland remains a cool blue in both images. So we have NASA NEO saying Finland is "below normal" and we have the Finnish Meteorological Institute saying below normal, but GISS shows a hotspot.
Gosh, who to believe?
I have a working theory as to why this happened, look for an update to this post if I'm able to confirm it – Anthony
UPDATE: GISS has posted a correction on their website which reads –
2010-04-15: The data shown between 4/13 and 4/15 were based on data downloaded on 4/12 and included some station reports from Finland in which the minus sign may have been dropped. NOAA updated GHCN on 4/13 by removing those data and we updated our displays today. The March 2010 global mean temperature was affected by about 2/100 of a degree Celsius, well below the margin of error (about 15/100 of a degree for monthly global means).
Back in January, I was working on a minus sign issue in data, and GISS making mention of this confirms it to be a real problem. I'll have more later today. -A
UPDATE2: A commenter calls this "fraud" – folks please don't go there. See below and wait for my next post. – A
Hockeystickler
2010/04/17 at 10:33am
even if Giss accidentally dropped the minus sign, -1.5 (C) would still be 8.8 degrees warmer than the -10.3 figure from the Finnish Meteorological Institute. there is only one word for this – fraud.
REPLY: Actually, it's not fraud, but common human error. Give me a couple of hours and I'll demonstrate how this happens. GISS is a consumer of GHCN data, compiled by NOAA, and while their quality control may be nonexistent or slipshod, it's not fraud that they plotted this erroneously transmitted data. – Anthony
April 17, 2010 in Climate data.
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109 thoughts on "Which NASA climate data to believe?"
Kum Dollison says:
They hid the decline?
CO2 Insanity says:
Reason? Two Words: James Hansen
Gotta love that satellite data!!
Dave F says:
Do they have room under the carpet for this?
I think Giss have already found the problem and updated. discussing at Lucia's
Richard M says:
All the real Finnish data was missing so they had to look elsewhere using their now famous AlGORErithm. They thought those readings in Canada sure looked great and used them.
pgosselin says:
It also has NW Africa being warm when actually it wasn't.
It's just the latest of the Gisscapades.
MattyS says:
Where do you get these images from? The NEO ones are far more convincing than the GISS.
It seems "global" warming is currently isolated to Canada. I'm sure that has nothing to do with the additional heat the Canadians are using near surface stations…??
I wonder what one of these images would look like during the MWP.
Patrick Walker says:
S see their latest comment is "2010-04-15: The data shown between 4/13 and 4/15 were based on data downloaded on 4/12 and included some station reports from Finland in which the minus sign may have been dropped." ooops – how careless!!!
Absent quality data the meme is "fill 'er in with red ink, boys"
I'll be fascinated to see your theory. Somebody really needs to check those GISS algorithms for errors introduced when adjacent grid cell data is missing. Strongly contrasting anomalies between these data sources also show up in northern Canada, Peru, Algeria, Pakistan and South Africa — all areas with adjacent gray (empty) grid cells on the GISS map.
Amino Acids in Meteorites says:
I can believe GISTemp will be different from other data sets from around the world in that it will be warmer than the others.
GISS in not like a box a chocolates because you always know what you're going to get.
PaulH says:
I wish these guys would at least TRY to get on the same page. Sheesh.
Maybe it is an artifact of that 2008 September/October GISS data foible.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2008/11/10/giss-releases-october-2008-data/
Remember that NASA that put men on the moon? This isn't your daddy's NASA.
i can`t find at giss data your figure one:
look at this if you try for your own:
http://data.giss.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/gistemp/do_nmap.py?year_last=2010&month_last=3&sat=4&sst=1&type=anoms&mean_gen=03&year1=2010&year2=2010&base1=1971&base2=2000&radius=250&pol=reg
REPLY: They have updated the data already.
Judith Curry, in comments at Pielke Fils and at Bishop Hill is saying that we need to have a whole new effort made to make a reliable temperature and paleo record. I think she's had enough of the foolishness.
Umm…. baseline? GISS uses 1951 to 1980 the Finnish Met service 1971 to 2000. The baseline period for the Finnish met service is a considerably warmer period than the 1951 to 1980 period.
REPLY: They have updated the data already
Can anyone tell me, whats going on over there?
Whats up with GISS? I can`t belive.
March 2010 : Russian announces that it may be COLDEST on re4cord.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1260132/Russian-weatherman-strikes-blow-climate-change-lobby-announcing-winter-Siberia-coldest-record.html
Jim Cripwell says:
The problem with this, I think, is that if there is one error like this, there could be many more. I find that worrying, and I simply use Roy Spencer's data. At least this is way out in the public's view.
Classic. Grounding of planes will cause global warming:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1266739/Grounding-planes-Europe-lead-rise-temperatures.html
Hey? Is this game rigged? How come the Warmists always win? LOL.
Leon Brozyna says:
Plus sign (+) … minus sign (-) … those minor little details will getcha every time.
just read the FT.com article about ongoing investigations into suspected hiring of Russian hackers by U.S. based climate skeptics. can't wait until someone's ass is nailed and would love it if it were you or Marc Morano in tribute to the disinformation you are so devoted to.
As soon as the missing heat notices that somebody has found it it disappears to hide somewhere else.
Peter Plail says:
Perhaps the minus sign went missing in March too!
CRS, Dr.P.H. says:
Anthony, unless I'm mistaken, Iceland looks very hot in the graphic! We saw where that has recently led…
Could we be seeing potential volcanic eruptions in Europe? I couldn't find anything on any volcanoes in Finland….then again, Mt. St. Helens was a surprise too!
Maybe Steve Goddard could comment? He's the only legit volcanologist in this bunch that I know of!
Leif Svalgaard says:
included some station reports from Finland in which the minus sign may have been dropped</i<
is it know WHO dropped the sign?
Kelvins, I tell you, Kelvins. report the temps in Kelvins. Of course to save space in METARS and whatnot so they'd probably have people report just the last two digits or something silly or have non-standard rounding alogorithms to drop tenths of Kelvins (and even less standard algorithms to try to restore that precision in historical data)….
Programmers really shouldn't be having sign problems these days. Hmm, the C language introduced a scheme where 123 is decimal, 0123 is octal, and 0x123 is hexadecimal. Air pressures are often reported in millibars, but only the last three digits are sent, e.g. 993 is clearly 993 mb, 023 is clearly 1023.
I wonder if there's any software out there that treats 023 as octal (19 in decimal) and converts it to 1019 mb.
Weeble says:
Canada sure was warmer than usual in March. I think it was due to the overheated RE market. The readings should be dropping soon. Not to worry.
rbateman says:
Dear NASA:
We are delighted to inform you that we have found the $$$ to fund your Moon Mission. We're cutting GISS to the bone, and transferring the proceeds to Space Flight. We are also shutting down major parts of NOAA, handing the local data collection and information system over to individual State Meteorologists. Once again, the funding will pour into NASA Space Flight.
Oh, and all those myriad global warming study troughs: We'll be pulling the plug on the majority of them, so get ready to put the Can back into Can Do.
Hockeystickler says:
"allen (09:58:38) :
http://www.campaigncc.org/node/384
CACC – Campaign against Climate Change
"Ric Werme (10:12:13) :
Python does this in the eval() function.
If CA had not reported it would have been kept there as long as possible. Maybe CA should not be reporting this… so they can be really archived and then hammered in the future.
Meanwhile the SOI marches on. Positive 23 of the last 25 days.
http://www.longpaddock.qld.gov.au/SeasonalClimateOutlook/SouthernOscillationIndex/30DaySOIValues/
Goodbye, "little boy." It was good to know ya.
MattyS (09:27:52) :
No conspiracy re Canadian temperatures. The last two months have been warmer than usual – one of the more pleasant winters I can remember in Southern Ontario, and a few summer-like days already this April. Last night and this morning, however, it felt like winter had returned.
a land surface temperature anomaly map for May 2002 shows how that month's average temperature was different from the average temperature for all Marchs between 2000 and 2008.
the point is 2000 – 2008
i`m really a skeptic, but you can`t compare anomalies 1971-2000 with 2000-2008!
DeNihilist says:
Anthony, great sat. pics. Really illustrates your post on the high winter temps being from the overreaching release of heat from the oceans. Just by eye, it appears that during the day, about 50% of landmass is nuetral/cooling, but by night, it appears to jump to about 70%.
Then on the Giss pic, you can almost see the northern trade wind route, in the cooling/nuetral band.
It just seems to me, that if the globe is going through a prolonged cooling state, which it may be, then for the first few years of this change, we should expect to see higher then "normal" temps/energy release, for how else does a body cool?
It's the "wobble hypothesis".
{DirkH (10:37:13) :
CACC – Campaign against Climate Change.}
Thanx Dirk, just signed up, so that I can comment also and bring some balance to this debate!
Suggest others do the same.
Ziiex Zeburz says:
Amino Acids in Meteorites (09:41:22)
Quite right Sir, in the days of moon landings there were thousands of recorded temperatures in the temperature calculations of the day, not a few well chosen hundred with more than half the world an area of no record.
Also in that time there were people who checked the unusual, such a stupid assessment would not have got of the ground.
There are hundreds of surface stations worldwide that have historic records and modern equipment that are not referred to in any global data, if these records were correlated, the scientific community would defiantly have a reference to challenge, WUWT has the 'manpower' ( 42 million plus hits, ) to definitely become a reference point, Anthony?
Dave Springer says:
If minus signs are mistakenly dropped today with the people responsible for the mistakes knowing there is such intense scrutiny of the data it makes one wonder how many minus signs were dropped in the past when there was far less scrutiny.
Interestingly one of the trends in "global warming" isn't hotter summers but rather milder winters in the higher northern latitudes. Given that summer temperatures in higher northern latitudes seldom carry minus signs but winter temperatures often do this is just more cause for suspicion.
The surface station temperature record is essentially worthless for tracking small changes on the order of less than one degree and no proxies exist that are accurate enough either. I'd compare it to making a mountain out of a molehill except this mole's hill has such a small slope that we can't even be certain it's not a molehole instead of a molehill.
I think I have finally found something not caused by AGW – it's sure to offend someone.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/dorset/hi/people_and_places/nature/newsid_8621000/8621852.stm
Can anyone replay to this:
"""a land surface temperature anomaly map for May 2002 shows how that month's average temperature was different from the average temperature for all Marchs between 2000 and 2008″"""
The point here is 2000 – 2008
NOT 1971-2000
Now what are we going to compare here, Anthony and friends?
Richard Sharpe says:
Some Russian guy reported in that article about coldest winter in a long time has been going off the reservation:
Mr Tishkov, deputy head of the Geography Institute at Russian Academy of Science, said: 'What we have been watching recently is comparatively fast changes of climate to warming, but within the framework of an overall long-term period of cooling. This is a proven scientific fact.
'The recent warming – and we are talking tenths of a degree at most – is caused by human activity, like forest elimination, the changing of landscapes.
'The greenhouse gases so much discussed now do not in fact play big role. We have to remember that all the impact of industrial enterprises in Russia cannot be compared with one volcano eruption on our planet.'
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1260132/Russian-weatherman-strikes-blow-climate-change-lobby-announcing-winter-Siberia-coldest-record.html#ixzz0lNpHtrNl
Doug in Seattle says:
Easy answer. None.
Better question: Which NASA climate data is more reliable?
Or: Which NASA climate data is produced with the least bias?
The answers will by necessity be filled with caveats, whichever way one decides.
AW said: "Actually, it's not fraud, but common human error."
Accepted, Anthony. But isn't it curious that these human errors always seem to be on the side of extra warming. That is except, of course, when the Warmists themselves announce their own errors, and make the necessary adjustments… in favour of more warming. When was the last time an IPCC scientist announced error corrections that showed LESS warming?
AW also said "…their quality control may be non-existent or slipshod…" –
Yes, but only when it suits them. I mean, when the figures are pleasing to them, where's the incentive to check them? Especially in a culture where 'scepticism' is a dirty word. I'd bet my @ss that wherever the figures are not to their satisfaction, they're checked, and checked, and checked again.
I just got off the phone to my bank – they're trying to tell me I'm overdrawn.
I guess when I balanced my checkbook, I shouldn't have dropped the minus sign…
I have started hitting the ads that post here to drive some bits of revenue to this site.
It is fun since some of the ads, like the Global Warming National Fax In, let you create and directly send letters to all in Congress and all Governors.
Think about how skeptics can be empowered by directly communicating using AGW promotional tools.
And bring in money to skeptics while doing it, to boot.
So my free advice is to help WUWT financially, and to play some of the AGW promoters tools against them. They certainly have no trouble using tax payer money to sell their fear.
Turn about is more than fair play.
MrCPhysics says:
Northwest Africa looks a little weird on the GISS map, too.
Not too many thermometers sited in NW Africa, one or two microsite effects or UHI issues might influence a lot of the local area.
Richard deSousa says:
The hot spot over Finland is too far to the east. It should be over Iceland… 🙂
Layne Blanchard says:
Anthony, I respect your opinion, but all of these "errors" from the AGW crowd are to the upside. (seemingly) all of them. 2350 "accidentally" becomes 2035, Sept temps in Siberia "accidentally" get reported as October, various decimal place shifts in IPCC summaries as outlined by Monckton, Airports are rural, UHI adjustments are somehow upward, Elevation and Latitude adjustments as noted by E.M. clearly biased to the upside, etc., etc. When they're called on it, first they deny, then we get the blank stare, and an unapologetic "oops" . Individually, any one of these could be a mistake. Collectively, not likely.
tarpon says:
It's just weird that March would be so hot right at the time the Global Warming Hoax bill is introduced in the Senate.
Just random, nothing to see here.
Hasn't WUWT remarked before that the big maroon anomalies always occur in regions were thermometers are scarce – like the band of it in Canada.
REPLY: And there's more than that involved, there's polar numeric amplification too. See upcoming post. -A
GeorgeGr says:
Have a look at the GISS map. All the red "blobs" are adjacent to grey areas (no thermometers).
Is all or much of this alleged warming in reality an artifact of the rather extreme version of interpolation techniques used by GISS (1200km interpolation if I remember correctly) or some other faulty method or software bug?
Has anybody looked into this possibility before?
sphaerica says:
[snip] First, you print a retraction on your home page. ~dbs.
Rob Dawg says:
I wouldn't call this fraud but I am confident that if a cold spot of similar magnitude had been plotted that NASA would have held up publication while investigating the anomaly.
Dave Day says:
I see by your recent comment that we shouldn't jump to the suspicion of fraud when these mistakes happen and that you are perhaps working on a post to this effect.
I know my problem in this regard is that I am just not aware of their mistakes to the downside.
Perhaps you can address for us whether you think that these errors are random. Seems to me if they are anywhere close to random, we'd have ample examples of errors on the cold side of things.
Perhaps a side by side list of errors to the upside and their approximate magnitudes and then errors to the downside and their magnitudes to demonstrate how they balance out?
Thanks for all you do,
David Spurgeon says:
It is interesting, though that the air temperatures WERE higher in Finland on at least two days in April when the "thickness" [528] line plunged south over Ireland and the UK – THEN MARCHED TOWARDS ITALY AND THEN DOUBLED BACK OVER NORTHERN SCOTLAND and swept north, to put Northern Scandinavia south of the line, and ***therefore, theoretically warmer than South West Ireland and Bristol and the M4 corridor towards London and the South East!*** I wrote to the British Met Office and they confirmed it was 'unusual'. I HAVE THE SURFACE MAP FOR EARLY APRIL IF ANYONE WOULD LIKE TO SEE IT!
radiospu@gmail.com.
bob paglee says:
That Earth-cooling ash cloud from Iceland may continues for awhile — the 1821 previous eruption continued for more than a year. We will need all the global warming we can get.
The explanation of the thickness line is here for those of you who require an explanation. The "528" line for instance was well south of us [British Isles] for the very cold days of January and February 3010.
http://weatherfaqs.org.uk/node/152.
Any chance some of the big mis-GISS-steps could be another oops, we got the pressure data mixed up with the temperature data?
kadaka says:
After a bit of Wikipedia-ing, I found that with the Berber calendar the first of April-equivalent occurred on our (Gregorian) April 14, and since that was posted on April 17 there is still a three day difference.
Anyone know of any other calendars currently used that match up better?
Grumbler says:
On the subject of fraud an important point to note legally is the type of misrepresentation. If an untrained layman made this error it would be 'innocent mirepresentation'. The GISS guys went one worse and committed 'negligent misrepresentation'. They would have to be knowingly cooking the books to commit 'fraudulent misrepresentation'. However even negligent misrepresentation is pretty serious when so much is at stake.
Ulric Lyons says:
I posted this on the "NOAA says" thread;
Ulric Lyons (04:11:43) :
March 2010 image from NASA: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/GlobalMaps/view.php?d1=MOD_LSTAD_M# (select March 2010)
shows a lot more blue areas than the NOAA map:
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/get-file.php?report=global&file=map-blended-mntp&year=2010&month=3&ext=gif
There are massive differences in temperatures between the NASA and NOAA maps,
west Africa, around -3 on NASA, +2 to +4 on NOAA. Ethiopia region, arond -8 on NASA, +1 to +2 on NOAA. More large differences in South Africa, East Australia,
South West. U.S.A., Central Europe. Also note the completely different scales, the NOAA map is -5 to +5 deg C. while the NASA map is -12 to +12 deg C.
John from CA says:
"Stuff happens" – great catch.
Note: there have been 2 geomagnetic storms in April and they tend to turn satellite data into comic weatherviens. Oddly, one of the events occurred just prior to the Iceland eruption; likely just a coincidence.
DirkH (10:40:53) :
One of the few things I like about GISS is that they use Python. If GISS deals with air pressure reports (they may not), they'd likely use int(), which is decimal only.
Frederick Michael says:
I commend you for clamping down on overreaction. I remember, when climategate hit, wondering how come UEA confirmed that the emails were legit. Anyone with political savvy would have held their cards closer. To me, that said that Phil Jones & Co. are true believers — not scam artists.
Some here have suggested that the believers will double check any result that contradicts their beliefs but will let error they "favor" pass. Any honest scientist will tell you they fear this in their own work. Subconscious bias is ubiquitous.
I firmly believe that some day, textbooks will study AGW as one of the greatest goofs in the history of science. But I think they will describe it in term of psychological forces that blinded the believers — not intentional fraud.
Anthony, you're a class act.
Just as were running to the barn for pitchforks and pitch-dipped torches,
you rein us back in.
Thank you. (Can I just throw a couple tomatoes or two, though? They're ripe and I've got to toss them anyway . . .;-D
David44 says:
I doubt GISS is intentionally fudging the data at this point, but their bias toward an expectation of warming may prevent them from seeing what may stick out to others like Jean. People make honest mistakes, and we also tend to see what we expect to see. It's when we don't see what we expect and stop to figure out why that discoveries are made.
May not be fraud. But do this error over and over again and poof, we have global warming. Remember temps do not vary much in the warm months, they vary the most in winter months. Winter months have the minus signs that are accidentally being left off. And since the controllers of the data want global warming they don't notice they are making mistakes.
Go check out the data for Charlotte, NC. GISS is missing a recent month. Go get the actual temps for Charlotte for that month. You'll notice that GISS formula to fill in for that month is horrible. They drastically over estimated how warm it was in Charlotte that month. Wonder how often that 'accidental' mistake is made too?
adrian smits says:
I'm sorry but anyone looking at the two different maps can see such an enormous divergence that the only conclusion would be…….. something hinky in Finland,Iran,Iraq,Afganistan,Algeria,Sudan,California,Brazil.Chile,Argentina,northern Quebec,South Africa,Baffin island in Canada.I mean giss looks hot except for half of Russia and the other maps look coolish except for half of Canada.
Al Gored says:
Yes. Goldman Sachs accidentally dropped some minus signs too. Just simple human error. Oops!
On the other hand, just looking at the map generated by this 'error', who would not double check such a conspicuous anomaly before using it???
So, if it wasn't intentional it was incredibly incompetent. So reassuring.
Ripe tomatoes? At this time of the year? You must live in one of those anomalous hot spots beloved by the warmists!
Must stop this post now as I upset Charles with incontinent and inappropriate talk of tomatoes in an earlier thread…….
A C says:
I'm a bit confused here. I though Arctic ice was supposed to be expanding in March? Is there a link between rising temperatures and expanding ice caps that I have missed?
Alan Simpson says:
So why does this "common human error" occur in only one direction?
Why is it corrected, without the fanfare of the original findings, on the quiet?
Corrected only when they are caught in the lie, it seems.
Mike Borgelt says:
DeNihilist (11:03:42) : I just signed up too. I've often wondered why when a climate story unfavorable to the alarmists breaks on WUWT, Jo Nova etc that the alarmist trolls pile on. Now my suspicions have been confirmed.
R. Gates says:
Another great catch Anthony…doesn't change the fact that 2010 is a very warm year so far, but it's great that you're keeping these guys on their toes!
For those who would like to read a report of complete utter garbage on the Catlin expedition, this report from AlJazeera entitled "the evil twin of climate change" is really something special.
http://blogs.aljazeera.net/americas/2010/04/17/evil-twin-climate-change
Even Al Gore might blush with embarrassment over this.
Maybe when they were compiling the numbers for Finland, they asked Phil Jones if they looked OK.
"Absolutely", he said.
Therapist1 says:
How does the volcanic plume effect the data?
CarlPE says:
This raises the obvious question: How often does this error in sign happen? If it was spotty, it would not be noticed. Why not use Kelvin to avoid the confusion?
Pardon my ignorance about the heat balance of the earth, but isn't there much more involved than just temperatures? Was account made of photosynthesis, for example, changing all that nasty CO2 back into woody plants and Oxygen? When the heat balance is done, is enthalpy accounted for? Is there a web page somewhere that explains how it was done? All I could find indicated it was just a comparison of heat in and heat out.
My theory is that there are an abnormal number of mini black-holes extant, floating around, soaking up energy and creating all the earth quakes 🙂
Milwaukee Bob says:
The fact that the people at GISS, NASA, CRU, UN/IPCC, NOAA, XYZ, ETC… are human is not nor ever was a question…. and say it all together now: Of Course Not!
So what's my point? Human they of course are, but I don't expect- nay, may I say I DEMAND that they not be average humans! Prone to average mistakes!
For what they are being paid, for how much tax money they are spending, for the educational level they have, for the position they hold, for the influence they wield, I DEMAND they use proven and widely excepted scientific methodology AND REAL statistical analysis in their work and therein I DEMAND they NOT be sloopy, I DEMAND they be unscrupulously honest, I DEMAND they be intelligent AND use that intelligence without prejudice or preconception, I DEMAND they be open and share without discrimination, I DEMAND that they honestly believe that what they are trying to "produce" actually have some benefit for mankind and finally I DEMAND that when their theories are proven to be wrong, whether by themselves or by someone else, they "own-up" to their failure as a SCIENTIST!
And Dave Day @ (12:18:04) : had a great idea because as far back as I can remember, and that might be longer than some of you have been alive, I don't believe any of the above has EVER made a "mistake" toward the cool side. Of course, I'm just another average human…. that not one of us is relying on for the TRUTH about the future of our planet!
And considering what the likes of the above have given us so far (and the "mistakes" they HAVE made, we should all be thanking Al Gore for inventing the Internet ☺ – – – oh, and you Anthony for providing this forum and a whole bunch more people (here) for BEING all the things some of the above have NOT!
Fraud? No. But if they were working for me, they'd already been given their pink slips!
old44 says:
Makes you wonder how many other minus signs have "inadvertently" gone missing"
1DandyTroll says:
'it's not fraud that they plotted this erroneously transmitted data. – Anthony'
lol, so instead of them being evil doctor dooms' they're just plain incompetent.
Everyone's supposed to be able to trust their work!
unortunately for the AGW crowd three major pillars have refused to cooperate
1 http://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/icecover.uk.php
2 http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/IMAGES/seaice.recent.antarctic.png
3 http://discover.itsc.uah.edu/amsutemps/execute.csh?amsutemps+002
the last one temps notice how the slope of late is not even following normal at this rate mate were heading for the mea=under LOL
jknapp says:
While it does seem that the CAGW crowd doesn't catch errors on the warm side without some help from the skeptic community. How many errors to the cold side has the skeptic community caught?
I think that it is natural to look at data and if it fits your preconcieved idea of what it should be then one is less likely to look for errors than if it seems anomolous. That goes for all of us and it is something that good scientist should be watching out for. Not fraud just confirmation bias.
Dave N says:
I'm wondering how many other errors there are/have been that *haven't* been caught?
Dan Evens says:
What's up with the other red areas? NW Africa and the Mid East don't look any where near as warm in the satt data. And what's going on in Antarctica? It's one solid red block in the GISS graph, and some tiny little orange and tiny little blue dots in the satt data.
Peter of Sydney says:
They may not have committed fraud but they are supposed to be an authoritative source of climate information. So by failing to do due diligence to avoid their mistakes, they have actually committed a crime worse than fraud. Think about it.
jaypan says:
This GISS picture does not fit at all with the Russians' claim that this march may have been the coldest ever in Siberia.
How comes?
Mike D. says:
From Wiki: The Mercator projection is a cylindrical map projection presented by the Flemish geographer and cartographer Gerardus Mercator, in 1569.
Why is NASA is using a map form that is 440 years old? I am so bored of NASA. I can't give them any benefit of the doubt. Maybe this particular "mistake" is sheer incompetence, or maybe it's systematic. In either case it stinks, the map stinks, NASA stinks, and the whole global warming sham stinks.
It's all about funding, i.e. robbing the taxpayers to line the pockets of a privileged few. NASA is one of the prime beggars, cup in hand, pleading with the taxpayers to fork over $billions every year. They trot out astronauts and mighty rockets. They all wear pocket protectors and white lab coats. They want us to think they are super smart. Woo woo rocket science!
But they are mired in the Dark Ages. They are not that smart. Their rockets blow up, landers auger in, satellites malfunction, and their maps are scratched on vellum by Medieval monks.
Cut their funding. Let's give them zero this year. Close the doors. Sell the equipment. If the employees are so gosh darn smart, they will have no trouble making a living in the real world. If they aren't smart, then we shouldn't be paying them the big bucks in the first place.
DocMartyn says:
apparently they mixed up the data sets from Helsinki, New Mexico; Jyväskylä, Florida and Hämeenlinna, Colarado with Helsinki, Jyväskylä and Hämeenlinna in Finland. could happen to anyone.
1. The owners of the data/makers of the chart have ensured that the smallest positive anomalies get ever deepening shades of red. They WANT that red to catch your eye.
2. Right now, it's the middle of the NH winter. The loss of sign will show up. In the middle of summer, very few reports will come in with a minus sign.
The problem isn't the loss of sign. The fact is that the quality of the data can be questioned. Those deep blues/purples in the middle of Siberia and Alaska should also be checked. 7.5 degrees COLDER than the averaging period?
Wondering Aloud says:
So will we see a retraction or all those hottest ever stories do ya think?
Eduardo Ferreyra says:
Anthony, please get in contact with GISS and tell them that in the central part of Argentina the warming indicated by them is about +2 to 3ºC AND THAT IS A LIE! According to our National Meteo Service (SNM) March showed NO increase at all –but the FLAT line of the mean temperature corresponds to 2ºC COOLER than historical normal for the month. Please see the temperature graphs for station Pilar (used by GISS and NOAA) that I have uploaded to:
http://www.mitosyfraudes.org/images-36/pilar_feb_march_2010.jpg
You may want to update your post with thos graphs if you wish.
The graph has temperatures for February that shows a strong cooling (4ºC below normal because it was a very rainy month) and March showing a FLAT line for the mean.
Steve Case says:
Reminds me of the October / November data screw-up of the Siberian monthly data a year or so ago. How come these high level organizations supposedly staffed by the best and the brightest don't hire a good quality control manager?
Steve Case (19:10:43)
NOAA corrected one day later, a few days before this article. GISS followed suit a few days after that. Looks like quality control is doing their job. For all we know, the error originated in the Finnish reporting stations. If you expect perfection every minute of the day, you're always going to be disappointed.
Phil. says:
Stephan (10:45:35) :
Except that it had already been changed by the time CA wrote about it!
Anthony: I checked data in GISS database for Pilar (in http://tinyurl.com/y2647pz ) and got these figures for January, February and March, respectively: 24.7, 23.0, 22.2ºC.
I get daily reports from our SMN (National Weather Service) and I keep my own database. And January, February and March temperatures were: 23.3, 22.6, 21.8.
There is a cumulative error of +5.2ºC in just three months.
Is "human error" to blame for three consecutive months? Or are there some sharp pencils at work in GISS?
J.Peden says:
kim (09:44:52) :
Yes, at Bishop Hill's blog her first post at the bottom of page two under the
+++Acton's Eleven – the response+++ thread is very welcome, as though a barrier had finally come down allowing her to see things much more clearly. She's speaking the language of how to do Science correctly especially as it concerns the ipcc. [Though I disagree with her when she later opines to the effect that the CRU Climate Science did not "falsify" the science in order to get a desired result, when she considers the matter of scientific malpractice from a technical standpoint.]
Enneagram says:
Easy: NONE !
R. Craigen says:
Anthony, sorry to raise the "fraud" versus "common human error" issue again, but I want to make the point that, just as surely as we cannot insist that this is fraud, it also cannot be said with any certainty that this is mere incompetence.
Yes, we must always give the benefit of the doubt, but I think the truth lies somewhere between the two. Here's my best shot:
I don't think GISS, NASA, etc. are very inclined to flag errors biased toward warming as problematic as much as errors that go the other way. I'm open to evidence to the contrary, but given the vast array of errors that have been enumerated here, at CA and elsewhere, one would expect something close to 50% of the total should indicate erring on the low side. I have the impression that this is not the case.
"Fraud" is a strong word. But I think what we see is a bias in the error detection and correction phase introduced by wishful thinking, paradigm fixation and groupthink. As any scientist knows, we are quicker to have a second look at outcomes that don't jive with our expectations. Record warmth in Finland? Even as a mere island of highs in an ocean of lows — this only justifies certain people's expectations, so why expect there to be a problem?
I grant that these folks are honest enough to fix such errors once aware of it, and I see no clear evidence (tempting as it is to say otherwise) that they are only doing so because they've been "caught". But I believe the point must be made that the skeptical community is doing a clear service by being alert to precisely those errors that the AGW community tends to overlook.
When nobody seems to be objective, it helps to have a dynamic of free exchange of ideas among opposing viewpoints. Keeps everyone honest.
Rich Wi. says:
Global Gore is at it AGAIN !!!!!!
Bill Parsons says:
Leif Svalgaard (10:12:11) :
Maybe that name will be found, obviating the following rant. Still, I've been wondering why government scientists are exempt from attaching their names to these reports, including their graphs. In a newspaper, it is understood that an editor can advocate anonymously for a particular viewpoint on the editorial page as his opinion can be viewed as that of the owner or publisher.
Most other articles should, according to journalistic tradition, have a "by-line" and thier facts be checkable. If they aren't, the author and his editor can be held accountable -fired when their info deliberately departs from reality.
Why should these government entities – NOAA, NASA, NCAR – be allowed to violate this most basic tenet of journalism?
If they hold any scientific advisory role, contributing authors, programmers, analysts and consultants should kindly place their names, titles, and research sources at the bottom of their published announcements.
While Obama is reforming the banking industry with an eye to greater transparency, one might hope that he takes a closer look at the curiously derivative temperature and weather data being churned out at the science agencies under his purview.
Just eyeballing: If your NEO graphs are any measure, the Afgahanistan / Pakistan anomaly looks bogus as well.
And quicker than I can say, "Eyjafjallajökull"… I discover:
Dave N (16:06:37) :
Dan Evens (16:52:22) :
Michael Ozanne says:
"Peter Miller (11:10:55) :
I'm sure I can find a grant-hungry ornithologist willing to research "The effect of man-made climate change on the sexual politics of swans" …..:-)
Pete Ridley says:
Anthony, This comment is not directly concerning the topic of "Which NASA climate data to believe?" but does indirectly and I wanted to post it on a recent thread, so please excuse me.
I have always found your articles very helpful and found no reason to regard you as anything but honourable. I came across a March article "Message to Anthony Watts" (Note 4) on the blog of "Tamino" which I guess relates to E. M. Smith's 12th Feb. article "NOAA langoliers eat another 1/3 of stations from GHCN database" (Note 5).
"Tamino" said QUOTE: Anthony: It has now been independenly confirmed, by multiple persons, that my results regarding the impact of station dropout on global temperature are correct. Your claims, in your document with Joe D'Aleo for the SPPI, are just plain wrong.
You've avoided answering this criticism, claiming that you can't replicate my results without my code. Yet several others managed to do just that. It's not that difficult, and you were irresponsible not to investigate this issue before publishing your claims. The posts by E.M. Smith are so incoherent they resemble the ravings of a lunatic more than the results of a qualified analyst. Your only other response has been to call me a coward for blogging under a pseudonym. That's nothing but a desperate attempt of a scoundrel to deflect attention from his own misdeeds.
Furthermore, your use of false claims to accuse NOAA scientists of deliberate deception was not just mistaken, it was unethical.
If you have any honor at all, you'll set the record straight. You owe it to everyone, and especially to NOAA, to admit that you were wrong. And you certainly owe it to NOAA to apologize. You need to make a highly visible, highly public admission of error, and apology, for using falsehoods to accuse others of fraud.
Are you man enough? UNQUOTE.
Please can you point me to any response that you have made to "Tamino".
Someone calling himself Justin Ciderbottom (I did find one other comment by a Justin Ciderbottom on The Air Vent "How to Read RC" article – Note 6 – but nothing else so perhaps my first impression of "Justin Ciderbottom" was correct) and one Roger kept trying to get "Tamino" to disclose who he really is. "Justin" also asked QUOTE: Are you willing to debate Mr Watts, tell everyone who you are, and your qualifications? UNQUOTE but all that "Tamino" would say on the subject was things like QUOTE: Anthony Watts used false claims as the basis for accusing NOAA scientists of fraud. If he doesn't admit his mistake and apologize for the unfounded accusation, he has no honor. None. .. Mr. Watts .. doesn't admit his mistake and apologize for the unfounded accusation, he has no honor. .. Why do you go over to WUWT and insist that Anthony deal with the issue at hand?] … UNQUOTE.
I posted a comment on Tamino's thread a couple of times and although it did stay on the thread for a while, as soon as it was moderated it was removed so it looks as though I hit a nerve. Here is what I posted QUOTE:
Justin, perhaps you feel the same as I do about people who hide behind false names – it always makes me suspicious. According to the Bayesian Statistics Blog (Note 1) QUOTE: Tamino, a notorious "climate change" blogger, is alleged to also be a statistician. He certainly seems to know something about time series. (Thanks to this investigation, we know that Tamino is Grant Foster, writer of "blog diatribe"-style climate papers. His affiliation in the linked paper is "Tempo Analytics, Westbrook, Maine", but I can't find any other reference to it online) UNQUOTE. This fits in with an impression I came to when reading Comment on "Influence of the Southern Oscillation on tropospheric temperature" by J. D. McLean, C. R. de Freitas, and R. M. Carter from G. Foster et al. (Note 2) linked on the "too bad to be believed" blog (Note 3) of Eli Rabett (thought by some to be Joshua Halpern).
UNQUOTE.
As I intimated to "Tamino", I am suspicious of anyone who hides behind a mask and to me a false name is just as much a mask as a real one. If I have to chose between two people who to trust, one of whom is wearing a mask and the other is not then I'm inclined to trust the latter. I don't think many of us would choose the former.
As a matter of interest I see that Grant Foster figures in those Climategate E-mails (address tamino_9 – Note 7)) talking with the co-authors of "Comment on "Influence of the Southern Oscillation on tropospheric temperature".
1) see http://bayesianstats.wordpress.com/2010/03/24/bad-bayes-still-bad/
2) see http://www.jamstec.go.jp/frsgc/research/d5/jdannan/comment_on_mclean.pdf
3) see http://rabett.blogspot.com/2010/03/too-bad-to-be-believed.html
4) see http://tamino.wordpress.com/2010/03/05/message-to-anthony-watts/#comment-41510
5) see http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/02/12/noaa-drops-another-13-of-stations-from-ghcn-database /
6) see http://noconsensus.wordpress.com/2009/10/01/how-to-read-rc/
7) see http://www.climate-gate.com/search.php?tag=345
Best regards, Pete Ridley
REPLY: Hello Pete.
The reasons you cite are exactly why I don't respond to "Tamino". He's complaining about a publication, with both Joe D'Aleo and my name plainly on the cover. Yet in his criticism, he has not the courage to put his own name to his criticism. Science is supposed to operate on a level playing field. If someone publishes a paper in a journal for example, the journal will not accept and publish a criticism from somebody named "Bugs Bunny" anymore than that would from somebody who signs their name as "Tamino".
"Tamino" wants all the benefits of a public criticsm, but none of the risks himself. Until he puts his name on what he publishes, I have no intention of addressing him anymore than I would address somebody who calls himself "Bugs Bunny"
On that note, there have been other valid criticisms of that publication done by people who have the integrity to sign their names to their work. The recently updated version 2 of the paper (April 13) now available at http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/originals/policy_driven_deception.html addresses some of those criticisms. I ask that you read the update and tell me if you think what has been published, in good faith, again with out names attached front and center, is something that we should apologize to an anonymous coward for. Thank you for your consideration. – Anthony Watts
Since my last comment I have posted two further comments on the blog of Grant Foster (Tamino) linking to this thread. Both have now been removed, which does show how eager Grant is for open debate on the issue.
Here are those comments before "moderation" by Grant.
Pete Ridley // April 21, 2010 at 11:07 am | Reply
Take a look at this http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/04/17/which-nasa-data-to-believe/#comment-373583 before it is moderated off the thread by Grant Foster
This is a comment by Anthony Watts relating to the opening article here and to Grant's claims. You can read the whole thing at http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/04/17/which-nasa-data-to-believe/#comment-373583
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Daniel Bouldjoua, né le  à Chêne-Bougeries, est un musicien, organiste et compositeur vaudois.

Biographie
Daniel Bouldjoua est attiré très jeune par l'orgue qu'il découvre au Temple de Nyon. Il débute alors l'apprentissage du piano à Nyon avec Dôle Diday, avant de s'inscrire, en 1963, au Conservatoire de Grenoble dans la classe d'orgue de Félicien Wolff, ancien élève de Marcel Dupré et de Paul Dukas.

En 1972, Daniel Bouldjoua obtient la médaille d'or d'orgue et d'improvisation puis, l'année suivante, le Prix de perfectionnement et la médaille d'or de musique de chambre. Parallèlement à ses activités musicales, il achève une maîtrise de Lettres à l'Université de Grenoble par un mémoire sur La Technique du conte fantastique chez Ernst Theodore Amadeus Hoffmann et Théophile Gautier. De retour en Suisse en 1974 afin de parfaire sa formation auprès de Pierre Segond, il obtient en 1980 un certificat d'orchestration et un prix de composition au Conservatoire de Genève. Il devient organiste au temple de Versoix, puis, de 1978 à 2000, il occupe le poste d'organiste titulaire de la paroisse protestante de Saint-Marc à Lausanne. Il assume également la fonction de critique musical au journal Le Quotidien de la Côte de 1976 à 1996.

Le catalogue du compositeur comprend aujourd'hui plus de cinquante titres composés entre 1975 et 2007, tous remis en don et conservés à la Bibliothèque cantonale et universitaire de Lausanne. Depuis 2006, Daniel Bouldjoua occupe le poste d'organiste de l'église réformée de Fribourg, dont il supervise la restauration des grandes orgues. Il vit à Givrins.

Sources

 Jean-Louis Matthey, Daiel Bouldjoua : Note biographique et liste des œuvres, Lausanne, Bibliothèque cantonale et universitaire - Lausanne, Section des archives musicales, 2008, p. 11-16

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Musicien vaudois
Organiste classique suisse
Naissance à Chêne-Bougeries
Naissance en février 1948
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