Harry at CRU

Just been reading through HARRY_README.txt. I do feel sorry for what he had to put up with. Here's a selection of his comments:

Oh, sod it. It'll do. I don't think I can justify spending any longer on a dataset, the previous version of which was completely wrong (misnamed) and nobody noticed for five years.

Bear in mind that there is no working synthetic method for cloud, because Mark New lost the coefficients file and never found it again (despite searching on tape
archives at UEA) and never recreated it. This hasn't mattered too much, because
the synthetic cloud grids had not been discarded for 1901-95, and after 1995
sunshine data is used instead of cloud data anyway."

Wrong again! The saga continues.. actually I'm beginning to wonder if it'll still be going when I JOIN SAGA

Hmmm.. still some problems. In several areas, including a swathe of Russia, the mean values drop around 1991 - just when MCDW comes in.

Back.. think.. even more complicated. My head hurts. No, it actually does.

I really thought I was cracking this project. But every time, it ends up worse than before.

OH FUCK THIS. It's Sunday evening, I've worked all weekend, and just when I thought it was done I'm hitting yet another problem that's based on the hopeless state of our databases. There is no uniform data integrity, it's just a catalogue of issues that continues to grow as they're found.

Oh well, shit happens. Mind you I don't understand much of what he was doing except it seemed to be messing with incomplete data

The Doggie diet

Yesterday I was buying 2 large bags of Purina dog food at a well known supermarket for my dogs Shadow and Lady.

I was about to check out when a woman behind me asked if I had a dog.

What did she think, that I had an elephant?

Since I had little else to do, on impulse, I told her that No, I didn't have a dog - that I was starting the Purina Diet again, although I probably shouldn't because I ended up in the hospital last time.
On the bright side though, I'd lost 50 pounds before I awakened in intensive care with tubes coming out of every hole in my body and IVs in both arms.

I told her that it was essentially a perfect diet and that the way that it works is to load your pockets with Purina nuggets and simply eat one or two every time you feel hungry and that the food is nutritionally complete so I was going to try it again.
(I have to mention here that practically everyone in the line was enthralled with my story by now.)

Horrified, She asked : "Did you end up in intensive care because the dog food had poisoned you?"

I said: No not at all; I had stopped in the middle of the parking lot to lick my ass and a car hit me.

The guy behind her was laughing so hard, I thought he was going to have a heart attack!

The well known supermarket won't let me shop there anymore.

Paul Clarke. The saga continues.

Maybe there is more to come in the Paul Clarke saga. Word is, that this would involve vigilanties and a machete. We will have to wait and see what CF and Dick reveal at later date. The plot thickens.

Climate change is normal. Hackers expose "adjusted data"

I've just been reading more of the data that was hacked from the CRU

The more I read, the more I'm convinced that this scam is going to come off the rails in a big, big way.
You only have to visit Real climate to feel the fear, that the gravy train maybe coming to an end.

They'll fight I'm sure, but the more they try to hide, will be their undoing.

I see that the MP for Mogadishu East, Kerry Mccarthy, won't allow me to post this on her website.

No sense of humour!

Posted here earlier

Do I care? Do I hell.

Are AGW proponents world traitors?

Do I need my tinfoil hat again? I just don't know. It would appear that a hacker managed to obtain various E mails and other records from the University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit. If these are true then it could expose the AGW proponents into becoming the greatest traitors to mankind in all history.

If it is proved, then I would like the likes of Al Gore, Tony Blair, all other leaders, and those scientists who have proposed this lunacy, to be tried in the criminal court in the Hague. Not just for fraud on an unimaginable scale, but for treason against the world. And then hanged.

Am I being too harsh?

Read the details coming out here and make up your own mind

UPDATE: They're wetting themselves over at Real Climate

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I really need one of these at the moment

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I'm an executor to a will and find I'm having to be referree between two beneficiaries. I don't need this shit. Oh well, cest la vie, as the french would say.

A party political broadcast on behalf of.......

Just had to publish this counter to the labour party propaganda broadcast.



H/T to Guido, Tory Bear, and err... Emily No Mates?

PS. She can be my mate

Council Ducks out of fining Vanessa

On a recent post I highlighted the case of Vanessa Kelly who was given a fixed penalty notice by sandwell council for the Fowl (Pun intended) offence of feeding the ducks at her local park.

Thanks to the help of Big brother watch, Sandwell council have backed down.

Vanessa £75 fine is to be dropped along with similar penalties imposed on six other people in Smethwick Hall Park.

Alex Deane, Director of Big Brother Watch, said:

“We are delighted, if unsurprised, that Sandwell Council have admitted defeat in this matter; and we are glad that Vanessa can go on with her life without this ludicrous fine hanging over her head.

“However I am concerned that Sandwell are still intending to issue fixed penalty notices to people who try and feed the ducks in this park.

“Feeding birds is not a crime and people who do it are not criminals. Until Sandwell and other councils around the country stop trying to criminalise everyday pursuits, there will be more cases just like Vanessa’s.”

Well done Vanessa and BigBrotherWatch

Paul Clarke and the MSM. Or not

I do find it strange how the MSM have not picked up on the Paul Clarke case.

A former soldier who handed a discarded shotgun in to police faces at least five years imprisonment for "doing his duty".

Paul Clarke, 27, was found guilty of possessing a firearm at Guildford Crown Court on Tuesday – after finding the gun and handing it personally to police officers on March 20 this year.

Is there something that the Blogosphere have missed about this that we don't know about?

Alex Massie of the Spectator also finds it strange.