…in Finland.
This next chapter in “how to bullshit with statistics” brought to you by Jean S. at ClimateAudit. When the Warmatarians start claiming that “xxx was the warmest xxx on record”, it helps to look a little closer:
A few notes: Gray means no data, so much of South America and most of Africa just don’t show up in the “world” at all. The scale at the bottom shows which parts of the world were hot spots and which were cold spots. Conveniently, the parts of the world where people actually live were all unusually cold, and the parts where they don’t were all unusually hot, making the average come out high.
But wait! There’s more!
Jean had the unbridled chuzpah to actually start checking things and axing questions.
[T]he warmest March on record is set inevery 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!
That’s a lot. All over the country, everything was way high. So he checks with the actual Finnish meterological folks, and lo and behold:
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!
Oy. 11.8 C high is 21 F high. Not a small error. This is the handiwork of Jimmy “Storms of my Grandchildren” Hanson. It’s like climategate never happened. Back to business as usual for these freaks.
Master of understatement, Jean says:
Some quality control, please!
Down in the comments, Mosher gets it right:
Steven Mosher Posted Apr 15, 2010 at 10:22 AM | Permalink | Reply
and the standard response:
1. Finland represents less than 1% of the worlds surface, therefore any mistakes make no difference. this excuse can be made virtually any time. In fact, there is no requirement to get any country correct.
2. Whatever warm bias errors there are , they will be cancelled by the magic of the LLN [Law of Large Numbers - ed]. Cool biases are sure to exist and perfectly cancel the warm biases
3. Do your own damn science.
4. Oil shill!
I think 4 was supposed to come first.
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A few notes: Gray means no data, so much of South America and most of Africa just don’t show up in the “world” at all.
It looks like my last edit didn’t make it. I also wanted to note how Pakistan was so much hotter than the neighboring countries. How does the weather respect national borders like that? Suppose something else is going on?
i see a lot of blue and white on this map…who fudged the data this time
Oh fudge.
@ song_and_dance_man:
Packer.
Good evening, y’all!
@ goddessoftheclassroom:
hi gotc
been havin a good day?
@ snork:
They also tend to reach around- way around- just to have their way.
This measurement is the same as only talking to iceweasel for the month of March and then Declaring March the Bitchiest Month in history
@ rain of lead:
{rain of lead}
Yes, thanks! I’m redecorating my bedroom, and I’m really pleased about how some of my choices will look.
Looks like the wackos will have to dump the Climate Change slogan back to Global Warming. I mean, look at all that red cheddar in Antarctica.
I don’t believe anything they say. These people aren’t scientists, they are criminals who smell money and power and gone over to the dark side.
@ goddessoftheclassroom:
it’s always fun when stuff like that works better than hoped for.
@ chickadee:
I so agree.
It’s like bunking with Icarus for the month of March and then declaring that this is the fattest and dumbest March ever
related
Save the Earth … or else
The frenzy of the self-righteous is woeful to behold. Who knew that rage was green? A few weeks ago, one of the smug, angry activists who populate the eco-corporation Greenpeace (a certain “Gene” from India) put up a feverish post on its website. The subject was — what else? — the sacred and unquestionable cause of global warming:
“If you’re one of those who have spent their lives undermining progressive climate legislation, bankrolling junk science, fuelling spurious debates around false solutions, and cattle-prodding democratically-elected governments into submission, then hear this: We know who you are. We know where you live. We know where you work.”
Break out the Windex folks. What you have there, in all its childish fury and threat, all its ignorant arrogance and entitlement, all its breathtaking vigilante righteousness, is a window into the mind-set of some of those who are out to save the panda, stop the seal hunt and guard Mommy Gaia. “We know who you are. We know where you live. We know where you work.” Pure threat coupled with an unimaginable volume of sanctimony.
yeah.
read it all.
Doppelganger wrote:
In a FTFY moment, to lend to the credibility *cough* of the climate shills.
It’s like bunking with Icarus for the month of March and then declaring that this is the thinnest and smartest March ever
Who are you going to believe, some people who are actually using thermometers and stuff to measure the temperature in Finaland, or the brilliant scientists at NASA, who divined the temperature using big, expensive computers?
I’ll bet those Finnish guys don’t even have a Nobel Prize…
goddessoftheclassroom wrote:
{gotc}, Hey teach, I meant to say: “have’ gone over to the dark side.
Don’t flunk me.
@ rain of lead:
And speaking of Green…
I hope in the upcoming Tea Party thread the pic I shot of a sign is posted.
It read,…
Go Green
Recycle Congress
Can somebody please pass the sun-block???
@ rain of lead:
And I have more guns and ammo than you do, along with the will to use them.
Feel lucky, punk?
chickadee wrote:
Didn’t they just reinstate paddling in a town in Texas??
SciFiGuy wrote:
One needs sun screen and mukluks, just to be sure, since the shift is still up in the air.
does this mean al gore will come out of hibernation?
lobo91 wrote:
Considering the NASA budget that Barry just announced the other day, expensive computers are a thing of the past; they might consider breaking out the Apollo lunar lander computers for their work, along with the ever speedy slide-rules.
rain of lead wrote:
Lutefisk Van Queeg?
@ song_and_dance_man:
It’s in there!
lobo91 wrote:
LOL!
SciFiGuy wrote:
oops, hopefully not for my transgression of failing to proofread.
It was 41 freaking degrees today.
41
the last half of april
God. please warm the earth. It’s cold!
FurryOldGuyJeans wrote:
Don’t knock sly drools. Retro geek is in again.
Well that came out wrong.
I meant that the “I”ve got more ammo…” comment cracked me up.
@ chickadee:
Some people like getting spanked.
@ snork:
While the global whining crapola has been thoroughly debunked and exposed as fraud, we have Kerry, Graham and Lieberman who are still trying to cram this crap down our throats.
Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.), Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) and Joseph I. Lieberman (D-Conn.) will roll out their compromise climate proposal April 26, according to several sources.
Gag!
lobo91 wrote:
What he said!
Your mouth shouldn’t write a check your ass can’t cash.
snork wrote:
Again…Foster is brought up again.
Protest.
Oh wait…
if I cook a fillet of fish in my soul kitchen does that make
it a fillet of sole?
///Buzz would know!
@ huckfunn:
It’s a tax. It’s got zero to do with the climate. I’ve got some serious evidence of that, just not sure of the time to whip up a post.
@ FurryOldGuyJeans:
Maybe they can hire that cat that was using the iPad in that video the other day…
@ snork:
It’s always about control and mammon, coming from the left. That is their transmission it the drive train.
mawskrat wrote:
If you were born in Parm Italy does that make you a Parmesan?
snork wrote:
That may be very well the case, but speedy and accurate to any high degree of precision they ain’t.
At least they don’t have to do paper-based calculations any more.
@ snork:
You’re exactly right. No more to do with climate than healthcare has to do with health. Also, what is the purpose of the tax, you axe? Wealth redistribution; and it’s already happened. 45% of the population pay no tax which means the other 55% will pay for whatever the tax revenues supposedly buy.
I’m not too well-versed in the AGW issue, but I’d like to try to answer the Steven Mosher post.
“4. Oil shill!” — Nice science you got there. Call names much?
“3. Do your own damn science.” — I do my job properly. Is it too much to ask that others do theirs properly too?
[Those were too easy. On to the meat of the matter...]
“2. Whatever warm bias errors there are , they will be cancelled by the magic of the LLN [Law of Large Numbers - ed]. Cool biases are sure to exist and perfectly cancel the warm biases” — These are actual things that you’re actually measuring with actual tools-hopefully properly calibrated tools. We shouldn’t need to depend on math games to get the numbers. Just tell us what those properly calibrated tools say.
“1. Finland represents less than 1% of the worlds surface, therefore any mistakes make no difference. this excuse can be made virtually any time. In fact, there is no requirement to get any country correct.” — You’ve already excluded giant areas of land mass from lack of data. What percentage of the “worlds surface” that you’ve actually included is Finland now? Also, No requirement to get any country correct? Perhaps you didn’t get any country correct.
OFF TOPIC: God, on my six-month anniversary with my wife, I am so bummed. Not at her, not at all!
With my sister. She went and bought a Government Motors crossover.
@ FurryOldGuyJeans:
But what does that have to do with NASA? I haven’t seen much evidence of any “speedy and accurate” calculations coming out of them lately.
Aside from being unable to figure out what the temperature in Finland was last month, these are the same people who keep crashing space probes into planets because they can’t keep miles and kilometers straight.
@ Macker:
What did she get? I bought a GM crossover in 2008 to replace my beloved but very old GM Suburban. That was before the bailout. I will never buy another GM, ever.
huckfunn wrote:
Except – A carbon tax can’t be made “progressive”. They can go for full rationing, but barring that, any carbon tax will cost gramma trying to heat her house, and junior trying to fill up his purple Cadillac. So the tax has to be un-progressive.
This redistribution business is a lot trickier than his royal messiahship thought.
Macker wrote:
I currently drive a ’03 Chevy Tahoe Z-71. I bought it ’06 when it had only 21k miles. It’s been a great vehicle. Leather, 4×4, Bose, all the bells and whistles. Also a nice driver and, with 128k miles on it now, my biggest expense has been a new water pump. Will I buy another GM? HELL NO!! The UAW has gotten their last nickel out of me. Toyota’s are made right down the road in San Antonio by non-union Texas and that’s where my $$ are going.
@ Insert Clever Name Here:
Just to be clear, Mosher was being sarcastic. That was basically what the “team” has said in similar situations before.
Hey, I got an idea. Let’s set up instruments in Yellowstone and Wisconsin and use them respectively to make the data fit a predisposed theory that would be anathema to the current jerks. Whenever it is convenient for us, that is.
Ice for ice and heat for heat, you know.
I’m driving a new Chevy Traverse.
Bottom line is that I tried out every similar vehicle and this one won hands down. Been in it for a few months and I love it. I don’t care who made it, it’s an awesome vehicle. Beats the crap out of the Ford, the Honda, the Toyota, the Nissan and everything else I test drove and researched.
I buy the best product and this is the best.
@ snork:
Every scheme I’ve seen has included some sort of rebates to “low income” people to offset it.
Of course, the definition of “low income” seems to vary from day to day…
@ chickadee:
{chickadee}
snork wrote:
That’s true. The scary thing is that if Cap & Tax passes, the tax payer is getting blasted with both barrels inasmuch as Obowmao has already directed the EPA to regulate Co2. It’s like there’s no way out.
Since Earth Day is next Thursday, I guess it’s time to take the Mustang out of storage to celebrate.
rain of lead wrote:
Bring it. I’ve spent most of my life training to kill people. Practicing killing people. Thinking about killing people. Sad thing, except under very ridgedly controlled circumstances, it is illegal to kill people. Wah. The one circumstance where I can use my lifes work is one where someone who has threatened to hunt me down where I live and perform acts of violence on me actually tries to do as they have threatended. In that case, the restrictions are out, the mission is “Go”, and I can do what I was born to do.
Come out and play!
snork wrote:
Thanks, Snork. That makes sense now that I re-read it.
@ Macker:
Here’s your Government Motors Car of The Future:
lobo91 wrote:
Yeah, man! I’ve got a ’74 Cadillac El Dorado convertible that’s been chained up all winter. Those 501 cubes need to breath.
@ snork:
I have heard that they will use the tax code to provide favored groups with a mechanism such as tax credits to off-set what was paid towards cap and tax. This same method may also be used to offset payment of the VAT when they force that down our throats when surprise, surprise, surprise, they can’t pay for what they promised.
@ snork:
I can see that suffering the same basic problem as the Sinclair C5, which was a great idea in principle but had the teensy flaw of being so small and hard to see that truck drivers kept running over them at traffic lights.
@ Doppelganger:
The only new car I have ever bought was at 19 when I became manager of a Der Weinershcnitzel in so cal. Since then the cars bought are always quality used cars. Or trucks.
song_and_dance_man wrote:
You say you want to shove a thermometer up iceweasel’s what?
snowcrash wrote:
She got a Chevy Traverse.
@ snork:
And here I thought it was the Pelosi Galore. 3.8 TRILLION UPDINGS!
@ Macker:
That is a lot like the GM Acadia I’m driving. I’ve been very happy with it. We still take road trips to visit family in the summer and next year to visit my son in Austin. Great for travelling. I’ll look at Ford first, next time.
@ archonix:
Wipeout:
@ Macker:
You gotta admit, the turning radius is nice. Zero is a good turning radius.
@ snork:
That looks like a a teleprompter/Segway hybrid. Just perfect for the Left.
@ snork:
Er… no. As of yet, I’m not that jimmied.
@ snork:
That vehicle, or Президент Оба́ма?
˙ɐʇɐp ʍǝu ˙uoos buıɯoɔ
WoooHooo!
Ubaldo Jimenez just pitched the first no-hitter in Rockies history against Atlanta!
Wow. His Wikipedia page has already been updated.
That has to be some sort of record…
Good night, y’all!
Just a heads up. LGF has a thread up making fun of Lord Monckton. There’s a video by Peter Sinclair debunking Monckton’s AGW denialism. Dark Falcon said he had been over here to read the thread. LVQ replied back that he would rather hammer nails in his unmentionables han come here to see what we have to say. Reginald Perrin accuses us of being an echo chamber with no original thought. Projecting much? So they might start trouble again like last Saturday.
Here’s some coolness via Soylent Green. Clicky here.
I left a comment in the diary of deadalus by pasting a comment found from the other place. Read it and be amazed and repulsed at the current level of discourse.
lobo91 wrote:
And think, they have been tasked by Barry to investigate the Toyota accelerator problem that was all the news last month.
Of course, they’re welcome to post here if they want to. We welcome different opinions.
@ mtc:
You know what is weird, I don’t want them over here. They can’t help but bring their ugliness with them and lately I don’t find it remotely amusing. .
@ FurryOldGuyJeans:
Wait until they hold their big press conference to announce their conclusion:
“Well, we think we’ve found the problem. When we looked at the code used to program the car’s onboard computer, it turned out to just be a bunch of ones and zeroes. No wonder it doesn’t work!”
mtc wrote:
Peter Sinclair doesn’t have the the scientific chops to debunk voodoo.
huckfunn wrote:
Wasn’t that the heaviest car ever made. What color is it?
I bet it is beautiful.
snowcrash wrote:
Not even SpaceMohammed, or whoever that little pecker is?
lobo91 wrote:
I like that better…
@ mtc:
To be exceedingly blunt and perfectly frank, I don’t give a bit of an iota of a whisper of a hint of what happens at that place any more. They want to think they are superior in the asylum, that is their business. I don’t want to be exposed to the virulent rabidness.
song_and_dance_man wrote:
LOL, I looked at it and saw Segway too. The teleprompter doubles as a windshield.
lobo91 wrote:
And there’s a gif file of a bouncing green football in there. What’s up with that?
lobo91 wrote:
Gotta have some part or the entirety of the problem be blamed for not having union workers.
chickadee wrote:
It was the heaviest front-wheel-drive car ever made. I had a ’71 convert once (sniff…).
@ snork:
I dunno snork, usually SpaceJ makes me laugh but maybe I’m tired or something. Sorry.
chickadee wrote:
That’s called a “heads-up display”.
Poor Charles is still tilting at this windmill on his faithful steed Kilgore Trout, even as an enormous volcano continues to spew ash into the atmosphere, cooling the planet. No wonder the poor guy’s got a problem with God–His creations keep making a mockery of Charles’ faith.
chickadee wrote:
It’s red on red with white top. The whole thing wouldn’t fit in the avatar. Sucker will pass anything but a gas station. ’74 was the last year with the fender skirts.
chickadee wrote:
Think it was only about 4700 lbs dry. 2008 Maybach 62 tips the scales at well over 6100.
mtc wrote:
You can talk to them, I have to watch for neutrino decay in a vat of chlorine.
FurryOldGuyJeans wrote:
If you have UAW programmers, you will end up with nothing but zeros.
@ FurryOldGuyJeans:
While you’re checking that neutrino decay, please check your e-mail!
mtc @ 78:
For a guy that would
sure knows more of what goes on here than most posters here.
snork wrote:
At least Teh Won Zero, for sure.
@ Beltfed:
Maybe he enjoys hammering nails in his junk?
@ snork:
More like hammering those who object to his lowness.
Both the warmists and the sceptics have handy dandy lists of the opposite sides “myths” and how to answer them.
What I have noticed is that the arguments that the warmists ascribe to what they call the “deniers” are straw-man arguments: no sensible skeptic makes them.
The most common argument against sceptic points are:
1. Even if that particular set of data is wrong – there is “overwhelming” agreement among other sets of data.
2. The physics of CO2 absorbing light at certain parts of the spectrum is basic. The greenhouse effect has been known for over 100 years.
3. Warming must be caused by man – because there is no natural cause that explains it.
It might serve Foster well if he came over and imbibed in a civil discourse. I, for one, would keep it above the level he has set.
@ Beltfed:
His “unmentionables”? Does he mean his “physicist” colleagues?
I love those early ’70′s Cadillacs. A block long and weighed a million lbs.
It is amazing they got such good gas mileage.
@ Overlook:
The unmentionables are his bike and the recent past.
woohooo!!!!
the new machine is together, you all are a lot faster, and better looking, too!
coldwarrior wrote:
So…you got new beer goggles? Cool.
huckfunn wrote:
Fantastic. I want to go for a spin.
song_and_dance_man wrote:
vodka goggles, chief!
new computer.
@ huckfunn:
nice ride! i love those early 70′s caddies!
You have to love it.
@ coldwarrior:
yeah I knew what you meant. Do you build your own as I do? Been doing that since 1990.
This last build stumped me, because I had never seen the symptoms of failure. I kept getting an overclock error and so I thought either the ram was going south, hard drive failure, or the CPU overheated. After being stumped in trying to fix the problem, and after replacing each of the items mentioned the problem persisted. So I took it to a local shop. Something I have never done. It stumped them as well, but only for half a day. It turned out to be a faulty power supply after they went through everything that makes a box run.
Now I know if ever I see this kind of problem again with my boxes.
Yes, the wit & wisdom of the unemployed, sub-species dependent, drama queens hashing out the world’s population issues.
Goodnight all. I’ve had enough. It writes itself.
@ Formercorpsman:
Little do they realize(or maybe they do and that is the why to the what’s up with that) the best of that blog had to offer is no longer there.
snork wrote:
I found Ludwig !!! HERE (not for the faint hearted)
@ Formercorpsman:
So Ludwig IS teh ghey.
@ song_and_dance_man:
i build my own…and always buy a quality power supply.
this supply is a rocketfish
@ Formercorpsman:
Want to read more sparkling wit from Cato? Check out his comment to mandy m in the diary if deadalus. Filthy, foul and disgusting. He is a pig.
Formercorpsman wrote:
dont fall for the stunt. chuckie needs some web hits so he’s allowing his prisoner monkeys to bang on their cages with their mess kits.
as always, they can post here, we cant post there.
song_and_dance_man wrote:
You caught me before I left. The irony of those 2 posts is off the hook. If irony were measured as an RPM, they are red lighting at 8000 right now.
It really defied rationale. They are so off the deep end. It really does write itself.
Think of this. Who the fuck do they sponge off of once they decide who needs to go in order to save the world?
I’m out, have a good night.
I’ve had my head scratching laugh for the night. I have been missing in action because of youth baseball. I think this is my 21st, or 22nd day straight doing something baseball related with my boys.
Everyone have a great night. I mean that. I’m beat. (BTW, our fellas are kicking ass in Ripkin tournament this weekend)
@ Formercorpsman:
Think of this. Who the fuck do they sponge off of once they decide who needs to go in order to save the world?
Well I certainly screwed the pooch with that post. Formatting wise at least.
@ coldwarrior:
And I now know the power supply is most important. I treated that component less important and bought with budget in mind. No more, now.
song_and_dance_man @ 29:
As I always say, It’s better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it.
song_and_dance_man wrote:
i got this one
@ chickadee:
@ coldwarrior:
It does have its issues, but it’s all original and most of the parts work. I put dual exhaust on it a few years ago and I think it boosted the HP just a skosh and now it sounds kinda hairy-chested.
Beltfed wrote:
i got burned on a cheap power supply, it took out my mobo and memory with the spike.
never again
huckfunn wrote:
its still large, luxurious american iron. beautiful.
@ Beltfed:
Good thinking.
@ coldwarrior:
I can’t recall which model I bought, but I decided on the best they had. Unfortunately there is no Fry’s Electronics here in ABQ, so the choices were not that varied.
And like you, the performance of the box is way better than I had prior. I went with the AMD Athlon II 2.81 GHz. No quad needed since I’m not a gamer.
@ Beltfed:
That’s my ammo-buying logic.
coldwarrior wrote:
Thanks. Hey; quick question. I use Firefox for my browser. My computer is several years old but it is current and has plenty of power. I use Firefox for my browser. Recently, the browser locks up and the only way out is control-alt-delete. I run Spyware Blaster and Spybot Search & Destroy several times a week and rarely find a cootie. I also flush the cache at least once a day. What’s my problem? While writing this post I just had to get out and then come back in. Any ideas?
lobo91 wrote:
Applies to beer and hookers too./
@ snork:
I wouldn’t call anything that small a nail. Little tacks, maybe, but that is still overkill for Ludwig von Quack Quack’s junk…
@ huckfunn:
What I do from time to time is check the processes that Windows is running. If they are not needed I disable them so the CPU is not overtaxed. Every program you load assumes that it must be running in the background just in case you need it right then.
huckfunn wrote:
registry error?
maybe…didya try to unistall/reinstall?
@ song_and_dance_man:
Thanks for the tip. Now how the hell do I do that?
coldwarrior wrote:
I’ve Registry Fix and run that from time time. I think Song & Dance has the right idea and I used to know how to do what he’s talking about. Regedit or something?
Friggin’ thing’s tryin to lock up right now.
huckfunn wrote:
It’s complex and one must know what they are doing. Try googling ‘turning off windows processes’ or a variant to that with unwanted or program processes.
I submit that because I would have to write a tutorial to answer you.
@ song_and_dance_man:
Thanks. I’ve had this problem before and I should be able to stumble on to the answer.
lobo91 @ 136:
That was the logic I used in Nam when it came to “how much M-60 gun ammo do we need”
I am late and will not read thread. I am sure that you already have been informed that NASA assumed a temp was positive when it was negative. In other words Finland like the rest of continental Eurasia was really cold. Russia had the coldest winter in 110 years. You cannot forgive this degree of incompetency. It is scary.
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