Somewhat off topic, anyway. Nick uploaded video about Climategate
that I think is pretty good. See:
<http://nickpalmer.blogspot.com/2009/12/climate-crock-of-week-vs-climategate.html>http://nickpalmer.blogspot.com/2009/12/climate-crock-of-week-vs-climategate.html
Google alerts told me about this because he tagged the page "cold fusion."
Anyway, this takes most of the hot air out of the anti-global warming
claims. I expect the researchers are guilty of suppressing opposing
points of view through the peer-review system, but the other
accusations are silly. The "travesty" comment is taken out of context
and it actually means pretty much the opposite of what is claimed.
The author meant it is a shame the instruments are not adequate to the task.
This resembles recent comments here that it is a darn shame we cannot
pin down the helium to heat ratio with more accuracy, so that we know
if it is 23.8 MeV or some other number. If someone were to take these
messages out of context and strip away most of the text, a skeptic
might claim that people here are "admitting" there is "no
correlation" between heat and helium.
- Jed
