Fudge Factor Code... or not?

[andygates]

I love Deltoid. Here's their beautiful takedown of one of the so-called climategate drama points: the "very artificial!" computer code: Quote Mining Code. In a nutshell: the code was ugly but so is my appendix. It's vestigial crap that was never published, disk cruft that's been dug up and paraded around by the usual wingnut buffoons.

Every point of science has been taken apart now, clearly and easily. It was never going to be any other way.

(There remains the procedural matter of the alleged FOI stuff, but that's still in the air especially as no FOI request may actually have been made and the data may not have been FOI-able at all: again, shooting the shit is not conspiracy even if it's dumb shit).

Of course someone was bound to try to use this rubbish as leverage at Copenhagen. Who would that be? Who has vested interests in selling scads of fossil fuel? Why, Saudi Arabia of course. Follow the money.

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[estaratshirai.livejournal.com]

Oy. You. You post a lot about climate change. Go help my Dad. He wants posters and he keeps asking ME, and if I send somebody in my stead I'll feel absolved. vivanewmexico.com/blog I think. Might be a .org.

[andygates.livejournal.com]

Heh. But could I tone down the anger for regular publication?

[estaratshirai.livejournal.com]

You're assuming he'd make you. He might not if you were very clever.