I worked for many years designing microprocessors. I very likely designed parts of the microprocessor in your computer, Playstation and X-Box. In the microprocessor design business, companies hire large teams of verification engineers, whose job it is to find faults with the design. These companies can’t afford to have any bugs when their product gets to market.
Government agencies like NCDC have the opposite problem – they are pushing a global warming agenda and can’t afford to release any correct information. So they make press releases without doing any comparison vs. real data. NCDC just announced that April was the warmest on record globally. Had they done any comparison vs. much more accurate satellite data, they would have known that they were wrong.
NCDC global temperatures are diverging from satellite data at a rate as large as their claimed warming trend.
www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cag/time-series/global/globe/land_ocean/p12/12/1880-2014.csv
rss_monthly_msu_amsu_channel_tlt_anomalies_land_and_ocean_v03_3.txt
In other words, NCDC’s data and press release is complete nonsense, with no factual basis behind it. So they are doing the job the White House has tasked them with.
Makes you wonder why we bother spending money on fancy satellites. Maybe that will be the next NASA “improvement”! I mean why even support a network of weather stations, when you can just make crap up, save money, and raise taxes without pesky “data” interfering with your agenda?
FORWARD!!!
Scientists are far too arrogant to do the sorts of rigorous reviews, testing, and verification done in engineering fields. The motivations are entirely different too. A scientist is best served career and job wise by going along to get along and not having errors uncovered. An engineer is best served by not having products on the market fail.
Also, people wanted government to sponsor science because they were raised to believe that government has no biases and only wants what’s best for us. Sadly they were very mistaken and government has taken full advantage.
Please make that scientists in government and academia.
Those of us who were scientists working in industry also have to deal with reality taking a large chunk our of our nethers if we try to ignore it. Companies that insist that scientist ‘Ignore reality’ go belly up.
This by the way is why large corporations LOVE socialism. E.M.Smith has a great explanation of why.
Those same contributions also make sure that the heads of the created bureaucracies target the small and medium corporations and leave the big guys alone.
One commenter at another blog had a brother who worked for EPA. He was directed to go after the Mom and Pop companies and to leave the big guys alone. SHIELDING THE GIANT: USDA’s “Don’t Look, Don’t Know” Policy is another example.
E.M. goes on to say:
There is more to his comment which I consider solid gold because it explains what we are seeing here in the USA and elsewhere. It is why we, the little voters, are completely left out of the loop except as resources to be exploited. The politicians corporate CEOs and Academia decide not us.
Most “private sector” scientists work in fields that have been turned into cartels by government regulation. For instance, creating Monsanto’s GMO crops. Creating drugs for the big drug companies, etc and so forth. I have found them to be every bit as arrogant, ignorant of how to make a safe, effective, and affordable product for market, and political as any scientist employed directly by government and academia.
The current system of CEO’s and politicians deciding is the model that they have been working towards since the 19th century. At that point it’s fascism which is functionally little different than communism except which party is senior to which. I disagree that capitalism brings this about. It’s always the state that brings about this condition. The difference is the path to it.
I should add this info from another source. Nicole Johnson has five pages of references to back up what she is saying in this article.
We are now seeing the tail end of the plan as the last of the independent farmers are being driven out of business by the new “Food Safety Modernization Act” and the big money moves into the soon to be regulated to death market niche.
Expect to see food quality to plummet, (It already is.) while prices go through the roof.
So much for a government for the people and by the people.
That’s FDR’s fascism at its finest.
Regretfully, government research agencies became government propaganda mills in 1945.
Research grants were given to those who would claim evidence in support of post-1945 Standard Models of
1. The nucleus
2. Earth’s climate
3. The Sun
4. The Galaxy
5. The universe
Etc.
Ban this constant spammer Steve and stop posting NAZI photos, to re-civilize your blog and be taken more seriously. I come here to post new information only to be accosted by sex offenders crackpots and Holocaust photos that you put up in response to mass murder in the news. It’s just gross and inappropriate to harbor this filth on a science blog.
A new paper seems to skewer NASA GISS:
“This all suggests that long-term “urban cooling” is unlikely to have been a frequent spontaneous feature of urban development for the stations being used by NASA GISS. In other words, if NASA GISS’ urbanization adjustments are genuinely removing urbanization bias, then only a small fraction (at most) of their adjustments should be for “urban cooling”. The fact that roughly half of their adjustments are for urban cooling, suggests their adjustment approach is unreliable.”
http://oprj.net/oprj-archive/climate-science/31/oprj-article-climate-science-31.pdf
I’ve done a summary of Ronan’s paper here.
http://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2014/05/20/is-the-giss-adjustment-for-uhi-adequate/
Thanks Paul, definitely a must read.
At the very least, the average person should know that the alarmist claims are not based on actual data. That is all you really need to know.
The US Army Corp of Engineers and LSU are collaborating to build a large physical model of the lower Mississippi river,
http://theadvocate.com/home/4822326-125/bigger-better-model-of-mississippi
The new physical model is needed, because computer models are unable to capture fine details of the river’s complex hydrology. When results from computer models of the Mississippi are compared to either physical models or the actual river itself, they just don’t do very well.
Wouldn’t it be something if the Army C of E could build a physical model of the Earth’s climate to test the accuracy of computer models? Since computer models can’t even handle the complexity of the lower Mississippi, I strongly suspect that they would not be verified by a physical model. Of course, there is no physical model of the Earth’s climate, so the computer models are just assumed to be infallible, even though they have proven highly inaccurate in the past.