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A joke of a website posted here INCESSANTLY/Religiously/scripturally: in great majority, if not uniquely, by JackHays.
Excuse this slightly longer than normal excerpt, but it's for someone cited/PLASTERED Here Dozens of times a week. Perhaps 1000 times or more.
So well worth the single post of medium length in evaluation.
Anthony Watts - RationalWiki
So of course, WE have to read the SAME headlines month-in, month-out. Perhaps twice a week Here as OPs, maybe 20 times as posts.
"Pause," "Hockey Stick," "Scientists.. Lie/Cheat/Suck/Retract/etc"
Excuse this slightly longer than normal excerpt, but it's for someone cited/PLASTERED Here Dozens of times a week. Perhaps 1000 times or more.
So well worth the single post of medium length in evaluation.
Anthony Watts - RationalWiki
Willard Anthony Watts is a former radio and TV weatherman and notable global warming Denier. He claims to have subscribed to AGW years ago before he saw the light and became a denier. He also claims that he is (otherwise) an environmentalist. This makes him something of an AGW concern Troll.
He is the proprietor of the Jerry Seinfeldian Watts Up With That (geddit?) blog, usually shortened to WUWT or, as it is sometimes affectionately nicknamed, LOLWUWT or WTFUWT.
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Although Watts has made appearances on both Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity's shows, he is among the less nutty of the prominent deniers. Mostly he just Repeats the same Tired old denier talking points, or pulls out some random data and says, "Look, it's Cold somewhere!"
Intuition
As is typical of media Weathercasters, Watts (a college dropout) has No academic training in the physics of climate or related disciplines. Unencumbered by scientific expertise he works by intuition, and intuitively he could not bring himself to accept the documented increase in the U.S. surface temperature record...
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In his early days Watts tried to position himself as a genuine "skeptic" concerned about the quality of data, but eventually he Couldn't keep a Straight Face.
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The Surface Stations Project
Ironically, Watts has done more to strengthen the scientific evidence for AGW than refute it. A libertarian think tank, the Heartland Institute, published his "academic" work based on the Surface Stations data claiming that NOAA's weather stations did not meet regulatory code and had collected unreliable data that exaggerated maximum temperatures. Watts' data (collected by volunteers) consists only of pictures and information about the locations and surroundings of weather stations. Watts then assumed that poorly-located stations had to overstate the global warming trend, without bothering to do any of that annoying and tedious stuff like statistical analysis. A study published in the Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres did analyze the data, and found that the stations Watts flagged as unreliable were indeed unreliable. They had actually Underestimated the maximum temperatures.[5] Good catch, Anthony! The authors further pointed out that "photos and site surveys do not preclude the need for data analysis." (Zing!)
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BESTed
In March of 2011, Anthony Watts appeared to stake his entire stance on the reliability of surface temperature data on a single upcoming study: the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature Study (BEST), an independent temperature record to be constructed using over 39,000 unique stations. On March 6th, Watts said on his blog:
... I’m prepared to accept whatever result they produce, even if it proves my premise wrong. I’m taking this bold step because the method has promise. So let’s not pay attention to the little yippers who want to tear it down before they even see the results.
However, when BEST's results confirmed the Reliability of preexisting surface temperature records, Watts Backpedaled.[7] Apparently, he was only willing to stake his claims on an independent study if it came to the conclusion he wanted.
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Lately Watts has Degenerated into Boringness, Repeating the Same tired arguments and making Al Gore jokes on LOLWUWT.
He is the proprietor of the Jerry Seinfeldian Watts Up With That (geddit?) blog, usually shortened to WUWT or, as it is sometimes affectionately nicknamed, LOLWUWT or WTFUWT.
[......]
Although Watts has made appearances on both Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity's shows, he is among the less nutty of the prominent deniers. Mostly he just Repeats the same Tired old denier talking points, or pulls out some random data and says, "Look, it's Cold somewhere!"
Intuition
As is typical of media Weathercasters, Watts (a college dropout) has No academic training in the physics of climate or related disciplines. Unencumbered by scientific expertise he works by intuition, and intuitively he could not bring himself to accept the documented increase in the U.S. surface temperature record...
[......]
In his early days Watts tried to position himself as a genuine "skeptic" concerned about the quality of data, but eventually he Couldn't keep a Straight Face.
[......]
The Surface Stations Project
Ironically, Watts has done more to strengthen the scientific evidence for AGW than refute it. A libertarian think tank, the Heartland Institute, published his "academic" work based on the Surface Stations data claiming that NOAA's weather stations did not meet regulatory code and had collected unreliable data that exaggerated maximum temperatures. Watts' data (collected by volunteers) consists only of pictures and information about the locations and surroundings of weather stations. Watts then assumed that poorly-located stations had to overstate the global warming trend, without bothering to do any of that annoying and tedious stuff like statistical analysis. A study published in the Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres did analyze the data, and found that the stations Watts flagged as unreliable were indeed unreliable. They had actually Underestimated the maximum temperatures.[5] Good catch, Anthony! The authors further pointed out that "photos and site surveys do not preclude the need for data analysis." (Zing!)
[......]
BESTed
In March of 2011, Anthony Watts appeared to stake his entire stance on the reliability of surface temperature data on a single upcoming study: the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature Study (BEST), an independent temperature record to be constructed using over 39,000 unique stations. On March 6th, Watts said on his blog:
... I’m prepared to accept whatever result they produce, even if it proves my premise wrong. I’m taking this bold step because the method has promise. So let’s not pay attention to the little yippers who want to tear it down before they even see the results.
However, when BEST's results confirmed the Reliability of preexisting surface temperature records, Watts Backpedaled.[7] Apparently, he was only willing to stake his claims on an independent study if it came to the conclusion he wanted.
[......]
Lately Watts has Degenerated into Boringness, Repeating the Same tired arguments and making Al Gore jokes on LOLWUWT.
So of course, WE have to read the SAME headlines month-in, month-out. Perhaps twice a week Here as OPs, maybe 20 times as posts.
"Pause," "Hockey Stick," "Scientists.. Lie/Cheat/Suck/Retract/etc"
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