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NOAA Whistleblower Starts Firestorm on Climate Data
Power line posted an article from the UK’s Daily Mail that could turn out to be as explosive as the East Anglia climate change scandal of a few years back. Thus far, none of the US MSM have taken up this breaking news, but Judith Curry has the whistleblower’s entire story posted on her site along with her thoughts.
The whistleblower, Dr. John Bates (recently retired), is highly respected, and per the Daily Mail “…retired from NOAA at the end of last year after a 40-year career in meteorology and climate science. As recently as 2014, the Obama administration awarded him a special gold medal for his work in setting new, supposedly binding standards ‘to produce and preserve climate data records’.”
The reporter intends to go more into depth in this rapidly evolving story in the next few days.
In 2015, Congressman Lamar Smith of Texas questioned the NOAA data that was used to justify the US support of the Paris Accords. Looks like he was ahead of his time. He’s still chairman of the Science Committee, and it may be time for another hearing to blast this thing “out of the water” (particularly ironic considering how NOAA doctored its data).
Published in General
Yes, there are some other modes of inheritance.
Yes, there are new findings about modes of inheritance. None of it in any way justifies Lysenkoism, which was a subversion of science for the sake of political ideology. I am thinking of wading into the discussion over at Wikipedia and doing a post about it here. NeoLamarckiansim would be interesting and I’d be glad to learn more, but it’s a different topic even though Lysenko’s science was Lamarckian.
Being irritated about that Wikipedia entry helped power me through my starter bike ride this morning near Corpus Christi. I’m having to fight my way back into it.
@jctpatriot Lol, she is a newer roommate. I keep my boundaries very clear, I avoid lots of subjects but when I do discuss them I do in a soft, factual way. It is obvious she has never been intellectually challenged. It is all about emotion.
A huge chunk of my family is left-wing or hippie philosophy or Marxist — you can’t just avoid them all, I know. Also, politics is field like religion where people can coexist if the people are mature enough.
At Thanksgiving this year my precious little granddaughter (6 years old) asked that we go around the table and have each person say what they are thankful for. There had been no politics up to that point in the day and we’d been there several hours. I was second to last to say my thanks and I just said simply: “I’m grateful that Trump was elected president.” Everyone groaned and laughed and then my sister (at whose house we were meeting) said “I will insist that this be the last thing said politically today and that is that Hillary won the popular vote.” Life went on and everyone had a great day.
If we had to choose, I’ll take winning the electoral college over the popular vote everyday.