Secret Life of Trolls Part 1:

Climate Desk meets Trollus Maximus with Love and Light.

(Note to self: dislike the new YouTube channels.)

willard — How many times do I have to tell you not to pet Schrodinger’s cat.

David B. Benson, thinking it messes the entanglement.

Musashi Audits

You lost control of your feet, Don Don.

You went on a scam site to find a discussion at Judy’s.

Not any kind of discussions.

The SkyDragons’.

Are you really willing to magnificently seek the truth following the Sky Dragon’s path?

This path does not seem in you.

You’re more of an act to deprive of a collegial conversation by use of deceit.

You must never lose control of your feet, Don Don.

(Source: judithcurry.com)

Scam Operation

Please apologize for the scam operation you’re running since the beginning of the thread on his back.

A real apology, like a man of honor would do.

For your own sake.

In the void is virtue, and no evil.

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Parlor Games

An escalation of claims:

[T]he global temperature today is much the same as it was fifteen years ago. It is not hotter now than it was then. There is no detectable nett ‘warming’ since 1997. The warming that could be seen in the second half of the last century has stopped.

The first sentence contains a weasel expression, emphasized.

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Be loved.

An Old Man in a Cave, reminding us that You can’t have a dialogue looking in opposite directions, and suggesting that this is a precondition for a real exchange of understandings can ever take place.

What About Willard Tony?

Latimer Adler,

> [Y]ou are running scared of a TV weatherman.

I’d like you to substantiate that mindreading. As far as I’m concerned, Willard Tony is such an easy target that I don’t think it is worth my time paying due diligence the the mud he slings day in day out. This is the second reading of my mind you are providing us so far free of charge in this thread alone.


> Just imagine what would happen if McIntyre’s indefatigable forensic skills were combined with Watts’ wide readership………

It is not difficult to imagine, since Willard Tony karaokes about anything that gets out of CA. For instance, just today we have this:

> Over at Climate Audit, Steve reports on the Update for the FOI for the Wahl Attachments[.]

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/10/07/questions-on-the-cru-email-backup-server/

And also this:

> This new paper in GRL takes on the well-known buckets-vs-inlets issue (Steve McIntyre also visited the issue several times) related to ship based sea surface temperature measurements and as a result, produces an improved dataset.

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/10/07/resolving-the-biases-in-century-scale-sea-surface-temperature-measurments-reveals-some-interesting-patterns/


Speaking of Willard Tony and the Auditor, this bit is interesting.

> Anthony sent me his draft paper. In his cover email, he said that the people who had offered to do statistical analysis hadn’t done so (each for valid reasons). So I did some analysis very quickly, which Anthony incorporated in the paper and made me a coauthor though my contribution was very last minute and limited. I haven’t parsed the rest of the paper.

http://climateaudit.org/2012/07/31/surface-stations

The first comment from that same thread comes from Ron Broberg:

> Any chance that the list of stations and their site ratings will be made available soon?

This question has yet to be answered in that thread. Do you know if and when it was made available?

There’s this other question from Ron Broberg:

> Will you [the Auditor] continue your association with the paper if the relevant data (stn ids and siting classifications) is not made public and archived in a timely manner?

No direct answer to that question in that thread. But we do have this declaration from the Auditor:

> Anthony had asked me long ago to help with the statistical analysis, but I hadn’t followed up. I had looked at the results in 2007, but hadn’t kept up with it subsequently.

http://climateaudit.org/2012/07/27/anthonys-announcement/

This contrasts with Willard Tony’s:

> This pre-publication draft paper, titled An area and distance weighted analysis of the impacts of station exposure on the U.S. Historical Climatology Network temperatures and temperature trends, is co-authored by Anthony Watts of California, Evan Jones of New York, Stephen McIntyre of Toronto, Canada, and Dr. John R. Christy from the Department of Atmospheric Science, University of Alabama, Huntsville, is to be submitted for publication.

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/07/29/press-release-2/

Has this been corrected yet?

Many thanks!


Since the only thing you did was to caricature Connolley’s points, and that you would not care less about the skill of your reading, then I am glad that we’re in violent agreement. Well done!


You now claim:

> Not so long ago it was beneath your notice as you sheltered in the haven of Real Climate.

I’d like you to substantiate that claim. As far as I can recall, I have not commented much on RC. Perhaps you’re cool with saying falsities?

[I’ve moved some sections to make the comment more topical.]

Does Size Matter?

Who cares who you are
What matters is light
To make love shines through
Any hardness, any size.

(Source: judithcurry.com)

Let us fight, but let us make a distinction. The peculiar property of truth is never to commit excesses. What need has it of exaggeration? There is that which it is necessary to destroy, and there is that which it is simply necessary to elucidate and examine. What a force is kindly and serious examination! Let us not apply a flame where only a light is required.

Victor Hugo, auditing the institutions of convents.
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