‘McCarthyism’ is still used as a convenient term to cover the unjustified hounding of people. What is fascinating is that the Venona Intercepts showed the now much derided Senator from Wisconsin to be not too far from the truth – despite the fact that a vast amount of information was kept secret till the Venona Intercepts were released in the 1990’s. Yet much of society does not seem to have updated on the fact that the FDR/Truman Govts were riddled with pro-Soviet people of varying degrees of usefulness to the USSR cause ranging up to active Soviet agents.
The recent book American Betrayal by Diana West surveys the evidence.
New Zealand climate gurus NIWA hacked from IP address in China
Hackers must be bored and hard up for something to do – Hack attack on Niwa from China IP address – What could be of interest to hackers there? – except the cheap thrill of being inside where they should not be.
On the other hand –
In February 2011 I lodged an FOI request with the BoM to release to me all documents and data connected with their work on the seven station series for NIWA. Included in the reasons for refusal was – “..disclosure would or could reasonably be expected to cause damage to the international relations of
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NZ weather data is powerful big-secret.
Maybe the NIWA supercomputer is a portal to Western World secrets.
GISS urban adjusted version for Melbourne Australia from year 2000 compared with 2014 adjusted version
Had to cable up some old HDD’s and made a few interesting discoveries – GISS around 2000 made an attempt to adjust for UHI contamination using a long tapered adjustment – which in retrospect was probably one of the better attempts by any of the big IPCC climate groups to deal with UHI.
Most of them do nothing. I am looking for some data files showing the tapered UHI adjustment.
Chico California newspaper editor says – “It’s all the fault of climate change”
Mr David Little, editor of the Chico Enterprise-Record has a great editorial – speaking for many I am sure. H/t Anthony Watts
Israel Will Be The Last Man Standing in the Middle East
David Archibald pulls no punches in his assessment of the Middle East looking at population trends – grain imports – future global cooling.
David Archibald book – Twilight of Abundance
From the melody of the oceans to climate change: a fight against ostracism
Interested if anybody reads this new book.
Jean-Louis Pinault recounts his journey that has led him to the discovery of the ocean gyral resonance forced by solar cycles, the cornerstone of our understanding of long-term climate variability.
It outlines the methodological approach that allowed him to reconstitute global warming observed during the second half of the 20th century, and the stagnation of the average temperature of the planet, precursor to the onset of cooling.
This discovery gives reason to the skeptics when they observe a correlation between long-term variations in solar activity and climate.
Up to now these arguments were refuted by the official theory since climate models were not able to interpret how a variation in solar activity well below the percent can impact the climate without involving the phenomenon of oceanic resonance.
Then the influence of greenhouse gas emissions played the role of troubleshooter to remedy model failures.
This book is the result of a fierce battle against ostracism that develops in the scientific world, holding firmly research in the well-kept ruts.
It occurs mainly in climate science, feeding on our ignorance of the mechanisms involved in long-term climate and oceanic phenomena while enjoying the media coverage.
News from the world of carbon farming – Charleville property sold up by bank despite carbon farming project
Trying to understand this – Heartache as carbon credits turn to debt – however I take it they did not incur the $2.6million debt through carbon farming.
If you Google the headline it might get you through paywall.
The article says – “They planned to earn up to $400,000 every three years in valuable carbon credit payments.”
Is $133,000 per year more than you could expect to earn from farming the 5,000ha?
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Claims of record warm days in May lack scientific balance – Melbourne and the 11 days consecutive over 20°C
SMH news item quoting the BoM – Melbourne’s record warm spell may stretch into June – no mention of urban heat island (UHI) site issues at Melbourne Regional Office 86071. Recently the BoM commenced weather recordings at Olympic Park station#86338 which will eventually replace the highly urbanized current site Melbourne Regional Office station#86071
Yes that is where they are claiming a warmth record – in the face of 150 odd years of urbanization feeding warmth into weather data.
Ignoring that the new site at Olympic Park 86338 which is still central to a huge urban heat island but is slightly less UHI affected than 86071 – only saw 9 days over 20 up to the 21st May.
Thanks to Geoff Sherrington who sent in this gem of Nelsonian telescope use.- Geoff also mentioned these 1904 & 1866 warm spells that except for minor gaps show that weather experienced by Melburnians has changed little in 149 years.
The BoM ACORN SAT dataset disaster rolls on – fatal minimum>maximum errors can not be repaired until “second half of 2014”
I recall ACORN SAT was birthed in early 2012 – during 2012 climate researcher Ed Thurstan found ~1000 instances where the daily min exceeded the daily max.
Pretty much evidence that the entire ACORN adjustment process had fatal flaws I would have thought.
Remember these ~1000 min>max errors would just be the visible population of errors – like the visible “tip of the iceberg”.
Amazing that the BoM with their colossal computing facilities failed to check ACORN SAT for basic errors such as min>max before launch.
Fast forward to 1 July 2013 and we see a BoM staffer Dr Blair Trewin responding on the Tamino blog 1 July 2013 on the issue that ACORN-SAT has adjusted many hundreds of daily minimums so they exceed the daily max. This makes for an “internal inconsistency” according to Dr Trewin – and to fix this he said and I quote – “…so in the next version of the data set (later this year), in cases where the adjusted max < adjusted min, we’ll set both the max and min equal to the mean of the two.”
I was surprised when downloading ACORN data in March and April to see these errors still there – I mean how hard can it be for the BoM to repair ACORN SAT and crunch out a new version.
Maybe too hard.
On 30 April I emailed the Director of the BoM
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Here is his reply page 1 –
Page 2 –
Where he avoids the issue that the standout min>max errors are just the visible “tip of the iceberg”.
Anyway all will be fixed in “second half of 2014” nearly three years after the birth of ACORN SAT.
Once again amazing that near two years from these errors being found by Ed Thurstan and the BoM is still promulgating this error ridden ACORN SAT dataset.
Simply staggering.
And remember ACORN SAT was “peer reviewed” by the great and the good of IPCC climate science.
Malaysian Defence Minister deflects ABC interviewer over MH370 issue that Air Force fighters were not deployed to make contact with unknown aircraft above Penang
A reprise of most key events of 8 March – I think it was a shame that the Four Corners interviewer Caro Meldrum-Hanna seemed to be thrown off her course by Malaysia’s Minister of Defence, Hishammuddin Hussein heatedly asking her – “do you want me to shoot it down” – or words to that effect.
Caro Meldrum-Hanna could have pointed out that there was a range of options for fighter aircraft to check on unidentified aircraft – and in fact often perform this role around various nations airspace.
They would use their radar to find the rogue airliner and make visual contact – call them on radio – fly in front of the airliners cockpit – waggle wings – make hand signals and indications to follow me – if all that failed to get cooperation then a few tracer rounds arcing away in view of the cockpit might concentrate the pilots mind.
Once contact had been made relays of jets could have escorted MH370 – at least the world would have known where it went.
In their timeline of events Four Corners missed at least a couple of relevant events – just before MH370 vanishing off radar – a Boeing 777 captain, who asked to not be named, said he was flying 30 minutes ahead of the missing aircraft, and was asked to use his plane’s emergency frequency to contact MH370 by Vietnamese air traffic control officials who wanted to establish its location.
And then there was the story that surfaced after ten days – Thai Air Force now say they detected an aircraft on radar 8 March 2014 that may have been MH370 –
Looking forward to Four Corners posting their transcript.
The upshot re 8 March events was that Malaysia was less than alert – that is clear.
To have a rogue airliner fly near to Butterworth airbase without fighter pilots slumber being disturbed is a bit hard to take I suppose.