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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN class=823080017-25112009>I had an idea which
could make those of us who do data mining useful in the current debate.
According to some reports, a bunch of private email from East Anglia University
Climate Research Unit was stolen and is being leaked. CBS is covering it,
Fox has mentioned it once or twice. One of the leaked memos is below, the
one that gave me the idea.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN class=823080017-25112009>Britain has a
version of our Freedom of Information Act (Max or other British national please
verify or refute?). So it looks like we (or someone) should be able to
FOIA the raw data upon which Mann-made climate change theory is and has been
based, and put it on a public access site. </SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN class=823080017-25112009>But the real idea is
this: we should be able to FOIA the actual computer code used to reduce the data
as well. I know how to read Fortran. Still! Or if it is
written in something else, I would learn that protocol and go thru it, see if we
can reproduce the hockey stick from the raw data. I do this kinda stuff
for a living! {8-] Or used to. {8-[ But I still know
how. {8-] We could write our own, then compare to Mann,
et.al. </SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN class=823080017-25112009>This would be
a relevant and timely task for a few dozen extropian minded people, to dig
thru the data and the computer code. Oh the fun we could have: divide
ourselves into three groups regarding the Mann-made climate change
theory: the faithful, the heretics and the not-sures, then
everyone reduce the data in whatever way makes sense, then see if there is a
difference in the overall result of the three teams. I volunteer to lead
the not-sure team. We are looking at igNobel prize material here.
{8-] spike </SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN class=823080017-25112009>Leaked email from
Programmer Harry from CRU:</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>I am seriously worried that our flagship gridded data product is produced
by Delaunay triangulation - apparently linear as well. As far as I can see, this
renders the station counts totally meaningless. It also means that we cannot say
exactly how the gridded data is arrived at from a statistical perspective -
since we're using an off-the-shelf product that isn't documented sufficiently to
say that. Why this wasn't coded up in Fortran I don't know - time pressures
perhaps? Was too much effort expended on homogenisation, that there wasn't
enough time to write a gridding procedure? Of course, it's too late for me to
fix it too. Meh.<BR><BR>I am very sorry to report that the rest of the databases
seem to be in nearly as poor a state as Australia was. There are hundreds if not
thousands of pairs of dummy stations, one with no WMO and one with, usually
overlapping and with the same station name and very similar coordinates. I know
it could be old and new stations, but why such large overlaps if that's the
case? Aarrggghhh! There truly is no end in sight... So, we can have a proper
result, but only by including a load of garbage!<BR><BR>One thing that's
unsettling is that many of the assigned WMo codes for Canadian stations do not
return any hits with a web search. Usually the country's met office, or at least
the Weather Underground, show up – but for these stations, nothing at all. Makes
me wonder if these are long-discontinued, or were even invented somewhere other
than Canada!<BR><BR>Knowing how long it takes to debug this suite - the
experiment endeth here. The option (like all the anomdtb options) is totally
undocumented so we'll never know what we lost. 22. Right, time to stop
pussyfooting around the niceties of Tim's labyrinthine software suites - let's
have a go at producing CRU TS 3.0! since failing to do that will be the
definitive failure of the entire project.<BR><BR>Ulp! I am seriously close to
giving up, again. The history of this is so complex that I can't get far enough
into it before by head hurts and I have to stop. Each parameter has a tortuous
history of manual and semi-automated interventions that I simply cannot just go
back to early versions and run the update prog. I could be throwing away all
kinds of corrections - to lat/lons, to WMOs (yes!), and more. So what the hell
can I do about all these duplicate stations?...</DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=823080017-25112009></SPAN><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2>[<SPAN
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