Re: OT: interesting global warming quote found elsewhwere

Kris Krieger wrote:
Joerg <notthisjoergsch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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bill.sloman@xxxxxxxx wrote:
On Aug 9, 7:20 am, Joerg <notthisjoerg...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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On Aug 7, 2:27 am, James Arthur <bogusabd...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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On Aug 6, 7:21 am, Eeyore
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James Arthur wrote:
Joerg wrote:
Eeyore wrote:
Joerg wrote:
bill.slo...@xxxxxxxx wrote:
Joerg > wrote:
bill.slo...@xxxxxxxx wrote:
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However, Mann can't have secrecy and scientific
acceptance at the same time; these are incompatible.
Mann not wanting to reveal his raw data probably has more to do
with practicalities than secrecy.
ROFL!

You can't assert trade secret status on something you've
published.
That's why they don't get published until they've been patented

Mann wanted to patent his stuff ...?


Quite a lot of publications are very careful not include the
patentable details (which are trade secrets until they are
patented).
Quite a lot of politicians are very careful not to include details
that could turn into a smoking gun.

Nor does the aforementioned exempt Mann from scientific review.
No one was suggesting that it did. However, your idea of scientific
review seems to comes closer to what most scientists would regard
as some kind of inquisition.
So, to verify someone's scientific conclusions is now an
inquisition? Oh man ...
That the logical fallay of the excluded middle. Normal peer-review
doesn't involve going through somebody's raw dara.

If conclusions are doubtful normal peer review _has to_ involve raw data. Else it's not a valuable review.


Not to mention the hubris of holding one's proprietary interest
above that of the entire planet.
That's Exxon-Mobil's position. Mann's reservations are trivial in
comparision.
If you want to publish, you must reveal.
If only that were true.
It is true. Else they won't take you seriously.
Don't be silly. The level of revelation that MCIntyre was after was
very unusual. Most people in science who are taken seriously have
never revealed their raw data and would be incredulous if anybody
asked for it.

Then I would not take them seriously anymore. Which happened in this
case.

Let's also not forget that data revelations is what the "Materials and Methods" section in a sceintific paper is supposed to provide - it has to precisely describe what is done, under what conditions, and using what materials.

http://aerg.canberra.edu.au/pub/aerg/edupaper.htm


Quote: "Show your materials and methods section to a colleague. Ask if they would have difficulty in repeating your study." That would be the right thing to do but one must also be willing to show all that to reviewers. Luckily, in the US we have FOIA :-)


http://biology.luther.edu/paper.htm

Those websites clearly describe the accepted format for scientific papers. This format is the accepted one precisely becasue it does reveal how expereiments/studies are done, what data are collected, what background information was used to evaluate the data, how conclusions were reached, and what those conculsions are. If a paper deviates from this format, it is *rejected*, pure and simple - it might be acceptable to the local newspaper, but not taken seriously by anyone in the scientific community.


In the AGW world that seems not always to be so.


In my world of medical technology it very common to make the
underlying data accessible. In fact, many agencies require that.
Things are handled in a much more professional manner than they seem
to in the AGW world.


If the sceintific papers describing global temperature studies are not in the correct format, please provide a number of links to these papers so that people can evaluate this situation for themselvs, trather than having to take your description on faith. I tried to google this, but came up with a lot of references to blogs, and to many descriptions of or comments about what's supposedly in verious papers, but as of yet, no success in finding actual journal-published papers archived online - still looking, tho.

If no such links exist, then at least the preliminary conclusion has to be that your claim of "no data is provided" could be inaccurate.


One of many examples:
http://www.climateaudit.org/?p=638

I certainly do not believe a scientist like McIntyre would make any accusations like this if their weren't true.

Quote "As I mentioned previously, I requested the identity of the sites in the blend as part of the IPCC review process and was refused and even threatened with expulsion as a reviewer if I made any further attempts to obtain the data from Hegerl et al. At the time, I was told that such considerations were the province of the journal and that it was not the job of an IPCC reviewer to carry out any additional due diligence on data."

I think that shows what's going on.

Also very disturbing:
http://www.climateaudit.org/?cat=53

If you still don't believe it you can ask Steve McIntyre directly:
http://www.climateaudit.org/?page_id=778

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