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Al Gore's buddy makes Boo Boo

by gagrice on Sat Nov 15 20:05:12 PST 2008

More poor scientific evidence, handled by inept scientist.. A surreal scientific blunder last week raised a huge question mark about the temperature records that underpin the worldwide alarm over global warming. On Monday, Nasa's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), which is run by Al Gore's chief scientific ally, Dr James Hansen, and is one of four bodies responsible for monitoring global temperatures, announced that last month was the hottest October on record. This was startling. Across the world there were reports of unseasonal snow and plummeting temperatures last month, from the American Great Plains to China, and from the Alps to New Zealand. China's official news agency reported that Tibet had suffered its "worst snowstorm ever". In the US, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration registered 63 local snowfall records and 115 lowest-ever temperatures for the month, and ranked it as only the 70th-warmest October in 114 years. So what explained the anomaly? GISS's computerised temperature maps seemed to show readings across a large part of Russia had been up to 10 degrees higher than normal. But when expert readers of the two leading warming-sceptic blogs, Watts Up With That and Climate Audit, began detailed analysis of the GISS data they made an astonishing discovery. The reason for the freak figures was that scores of temperature records from Russia and elsewhere were not based on October readings at all. Figures from the previous month had simply been carried over and repeated two months running. The error was so glaring that when it was reported on the two blogs - run by the US meteorologist Anthony Watts and Steve McIntyre, the Canadian computer analyst who won fame for his expert debunking of the notorious "hockey stick" graph - GISS began hastily revising its figures. This only made the confusion worse because, to compensate for the lowered temperatures in Russia, GISS claimed to have discovered a new "hotspot" in the Arctic - in a month when satellite images were showing Arctic sea-ice recovering so fast from its summer melt that three weeks ago it was 30 per cent more extensive than at the same time last year. A GISS spokesman lamely explained that the reason for the error in the Russian figures was that they were obtained from another body, and that GISS did not have resources to exercise proper quality control over the data it was supplied with. This is an astonishing admission: the figures published by Dr Hansen's institute are not only one of the four data sets that the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) relies on to promote its case for global warming, but they are the most widely quoted, since they consistently show higher temperatures than the others. If there is one scientist more responsible than any other for the alarm over global warming it is Dr Hansen, who set the whole scare in train back in 1988 with his testimony to a US Senate committee chaired by Al Gore. Again and again, Dr Hansen has been to the fore in making extreme claims over the dangers of climate change. (He was recently in the news here for supporting the Greenpeace activists acquitted of criminally damaging a coal-fired power station in Kent, on the grounds that the harm done to the planet by a new power station would far outweigh any damage they had done themselves.) Yet last week's latest episode is far from the first time Dr Hansen's methodology has been called in question. In 2007 he was forced by Mr Watts and Mr McIntyre to revise his published figures for US surface temperatures, to show that the hottest decade of the 20th century was not the 1990s, as he had claimed, but the 1930s. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/11/16/do1610.xml- When are we going to strip Al of his awards, tar and feather him along with his accomplice Hansen? Their misrepresentation of climate data will cost tax payers billions of dollars.

Re: White stripe [stephen987]

by magnette on Tue Nov 11 13:02:10 PST 2008

Yes - easy one really - its an A60 Cambridge from 1961/69 - this one is registered in mid-1963 (in Kent)

Re: What the oil co giveth NYC taketh away [fintail]

by andre1969 on Mon Nov 10 10:36:01 PST 2008

Honestly I don't know what my threshold would be for a commute. Back in 1994, I looked at a few houses on Kent Island, Maryland, across the Chesapeake Bay. Found an old farmhouse that I fell in love with. It was 38 miles from work. It was a pleasant drive on a nice Saturday afternoon, with the real estate agent doing the driving, but I realized that I'd get tired of that commute really quickly. It would probably be 50 minutes on a good day. Then there's the summer beach traffic, which can gridlock around the Chesapeake Bay bridge. And I'm sure that bridge could be a real nailbiter in an ice storm! The condo I ultimately bought was about 12.5 miles from work if I took the most direct route, which had more traffic lights. The way I took was more like 14. Usually took 20-25 mins to go in, 25-30 to come home. It didn't seem too bad at the time, but nowadays it takes me about 7-8 to get to work and maybe 10 to get home, so I've gotten a bit spoiled. Back in 2002, I thought about moving down to southern MD. At the time, it seemed like you could get the same house for about half the money in the places I was looking. I was thinking something like a modest 1200 square foot or so split foyer, etc, which would've been around $250K in my neighborhood, I could get for around $125K down there. Sounds like a nice savings at first, but the killer was that it would've probably made my weekly commuting time jump from about 4 hours to 14-15! And my daily round trip would've gone from 28 miles to about 120. The wasted time, extra fuel, and wear-and-tear on the car would have offset that mortgage payment very quickly. I think my threshold is still around 1/2 hour. And as long as the traffic is moving, that time can go by fairly quickly and stress-free. Unfortunately, at rush hour it usually isn't! If I was in a position where I could cut back my hours to, say, 2-3 days per week, I'd consider a longer commute.

Re: New rotors will not fit! [jrock33]

by ttaupier1 on Wed Apr 16 04:56:51 PDT 2008

I am assuming you ordered the correct parts from the web and can not easily return the rotors...or exchange...locally Not sure if you are doing the work yourself or with help, I believe the rear calipers are needing to be compressed, I cant remember, but I think you have to turn the piston to close them or to get them to close... you might pickup a truck maintenance or brake caliper manual for actual instructions. Its been two years since I did mine and I don't work on them that often hopefully for another 100K miles. I believe to compress the rear caliper sets due to the design I think I had to compress the calipers a funny way to get the new rotor and pads to fit correctly and meet up (tight fit if I remember). When i replaced the rear calipers they came compressed from SSBC.com factory I found this on a few sites: For the rear calipers, you will need to turn the piston clockwise(as you are looking at the top of the piston), about one or two turns and then compress the piston as far as it will go, the turn the piston again and then compress again, repeat until you are all the way to the bottom. I highly recommend the Kent Moore brake compression tool. Hope this helps, I would also check to see if the part shipped was the part you ordered, and the part you actually needed. Hope this helps

Re: Sonata MPG 4cyl vs V6 [dave868]

by auld_dawg on Fri Oct 03 13:54:13 PDT 2008

Avg 21.3, mostly city stop and go......... '08 Sonata GLS V6, now with 6300 miles......... The one freeway run, from here {Kent, WA} to Portland Ore, was a bit over 32mpg, 65 to 75 mph.......

Re: . [fintail]

by Mr_Shiftright on Fri Sep 26 15:33:20 PDT 2008

Damn. I always wanted a Psycho...I mean SCICO car! Where do I find a part for an Isuzu Bellel? Where do I find an Isuzu dealer? Where is Japan? Where in Japan do I go? Where in that city are the parts? Oh, you're all out. I'll come back. Oh I thought the Mustang has been in the same location for 47 years! He means the dealership. Ohhhhh..... 1980 Jaguar -- what's it worth? Well I dunno. What are they paying for landfill in Kent?