And of course you have reputable references and are willing to forward them for the benefit of all, yes? References which support the claim of seasonal pre-existence and no increased in loss of stratospheric ozone?
----- Original Message ----- From: F. Marc de Piolenc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Biofuel List <biofuel@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2002 3:07 AM Subject: [biofuel] Global warming b.s. > >> Today, > >> using much of the same data, > > >No way. Even where the same climate records are used, new ways of > >crunching them and of correlating them with each other, with other > >evidence and with huge amounts of new data have produced new and much > >improved information from the old records. An early 70s mainframe had > >16kb of RAM. NASA's new climate-change supercomputer has 1024 CPUs. > >Other areas have seen similar advances, from ground-level studies to > >satellites. Hundreds of major institutes all over the world are > >involved in this work. > > Phooey. More memory and faster processors just make bad code execute > faster. The principles of data reduction are not new, and are not > processor-dependent. The rule is still garbage in, garbage out - and the > "garbage in" can be either bad data or flawed concepts embodied in bad > data-reduction code, or both. > > My favorite story concerns the other eco-catastrophe hoodoo, the > destruction of the ozone layer. When the first Antarctic surface > ultraviolet flux measurements were made during the 1957 International > Geophysical Year, the data reduction code was written to arbitrarily > exclude data showing a flux above a certain value, which was considered > "impossible." Readings above that value would thus be indicative of > instrument failure or an error in recording the data. When the code was > rewritten years later, that bias was not included, and the Antarctic > ozone hole suddenly "appeared." It had of course been there - seasonally > - all along, but you still find that error propagating today, and the > sudden appearance of the hole used as proof of rapid decay of the ozone > layer - which of COURSE is caused by chlorofluorocarbons, as all > right-thinking people know. > > Marc de Piolenc > Iligan, Philippines > > -- > Remember September 11, 2001 but don't forget July 4, 1776 > > They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary > safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. - Benjamin Franklin > > Biofuel at Journey to Forever: > http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > > Biofuels list archives: > http://archive.nnytech.net/ > > Please do NOT send "unsubscribe" messages to the list address. > To unsubscribe, send an email to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. > > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Free $5 Love Reading Risk Free! http://us.click.yahoo.com/3PCXaC/PfREAA/Ey.GAA/FGYolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send "unsubscribe" messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
