Ask the Senator from Idaho.

Just wait until Scotty has to come save the whales.

Whoosh

I am the programmer for the town whose mined copper electrified America. It is also the largest superfund site. Due to a consent decree with the EPA we literally have to permit any digging operation anywhere in the priority soil district that disturbs more than a 5 gallon bucket of dirt. Testing and remediation is free to anybody who cooperates with the permitting process. The remediation includes removal of "dirty" dirt and its replacement with clean backfill. The health department will go in and test attic dust and remediate your attic if you request it. However, the willy nilly removal of a swimming pool sized chunk of dirt is not something to be taken lightly.

Somebody will write an app that can kill these processes.

Was this, perhaps, during gay days?

You are in for a rude awakening once the new health care goes in to effect.

Aren't we talking about iPhones here?

If requiring the release of the raw data does nothing else, it should prevent cherry picking of data. If you have "lost" the raw data then you have "lost" your claim to calling it science as the normalized data set isn't repeatable.

I hadn't realized that I wasn't logged in. I'm re-posting my previous comment.

As a person who regularly shops at Wal-Mart I would like to respond. In Hester Prynne's day they made her wear a scarlet "A". If only the scientists who had crossed over into advocacy would do the same I would have a lot more trust in their models and conclusions.

The computer models they use to estimate the effects of increased CO2 are modeling second order differential equations. If they were modeling x^3 + 6x^2 + 42x + 42 I would have all the confidence in the world in their science. However, they start with 6x + 12 and are modeling x^3 + 6x^2 + Cx + D. I have no confidence that these scientists have discovered the answer to life, the universe, and everything where both C and D are 42. I have come to this conclusion seeing comments in computer code describing efforts to hide the decline and seen exaggerated claims of Himalayan glacier melt to spur politicians into action.

Science is repeatable. It has to be so or otherwise we would have cold fusion. But we have come to learn that the original raw temperature data set was "lost" in a move at the Hadley CRU and that we should just trust their new and improved cleaned and scrubbed data set. There is no way that anybody could start with the original data, apply the same cleaning and scrubbing methodology and arrive at the same conclusion. It is therefore not science in any sense that trillions of dollars should be spent based upon analysis of said cleaned and scrubbed data. But this temperature data is one of the most important in the world and for the life of me I can't understand why.

Put the shoe on the other foot. I married my ex right out of college. She went to medical school and I started work doing contract programming starting in 1995. I did really well through Y2K and on into 2003. I quit working when our son was born and she only had 6 months left of a general surgery residency at the Mayo Clinic. Afterwords we moved to her home town in rural Montana. 4 years later she and one of the orthopedic surgeons in town become an item.

During the 9 years she went to medical school and residency I earned $855,000 more than her. The legal term for that is a reduced marital estate due to her deferring income for a greater income in the future.

There is no demand for programmers here in Montana and I am making about 28% what I was able to previously. Do I deserve alimony so I can defer my income for 4 to 6 years to gain a skill that does have demand in here where I live so I can live in the same town as my son? Yes I do.

Bah. Supercritical is when critical emerges from the phone booth and flies off to save the world.