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		<title>Barriers to Open Research</title>
		<link>http://softestpawn.wordpress.com/2009/12/07/barriers-to-open-research/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 21:28:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>softestpawn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the many so-called &#8216;requirements&#8217; of good scientific research is openness, and the mythical welcoming of criticism that will result.
Humans don&#8217;t like doing this and tend to have to be forced to, through rigorous process, reams of paperwork and checks, and evil picky enforcers who come around and badger you to follow the process [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=softestpawn.wordpress.com&blog=3850189&post=658&subd=softestpawn&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Elitism &amp; Science</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:41:59 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Global Warming]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the he-said-so-he-must-have-meant pop-psychology goes on over the unexpectedly published EA CRU data, some of the discussion turns to how scientists (or, to be more specific, academic researchers) involved should behave professionally.
We&#8217;re all &#8211; even most academic researchers &#8211; human. We can expect Phil Jones and his team to be angry, to scorn those who [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=softestpawn.wordpress.com&blog=3850189&post=642&subd=softestpawn&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hacking: It&#8217;s Good for Science</title>
		<link>http://softestpawn.wordpress.com/2009/11/21/hacking-its-good-for-science/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 12:19:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>softestpawn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environmentalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Warming]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Hacking for Science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hadley CRU]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Over the last few days the global warming communities &#8211; those &#8216;for&#8217; and &#8216;against&#8217; &#8211; have been deluged by the news that the computer systems at Hadley&#8217;s Climate Research Unit (part of the British Met Office*) have been hacked and the data posted on t&#8217;interwebs: 

WUWT: Hadley CRU hacked 
Climate Audit
Real Climate (staffed by many [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=softestpawn.wordpress.com&blog=3850189&post=628&subd=softestpawn&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>CO2 vs Temperature</title>
		<link>http://softestpawn.wordpress.com/2009/08/22/co2-vs-temperature/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2009 17:09:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>softestpawn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The idea that CO2 levels force temperature changes are key to the claims of global warmers.  This post looks at how CO2 changes match temperature changes in the records. 
Correlation
There are lots of ways to find out how well two sets of values correlate, and a relatively simple way is to plot one against [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=softestpawn.wordpress.com&blog=3850189&post=348&subd=softestpawn&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Oh no, not the Hockey Stick again</title>
		<link>http://softestpawn.wordpress.com/2009/07/30/oh-no-not-the-hocky-stick-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 21:10:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>softestpawn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environmentalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Warming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[consensus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hockey stick]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[michael mann]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The &#8220;Hockey Stick controversy&#8221; centers around a graph published by a Dr Michael Mann. It showed how temperatures had remained fairly steady, until mankind started burning lots of coal and oil after which the globe heated alarmingly:

Because the world is mostly American, it&#8217;s an ice hockey stick rather than a real field hockey stick. The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=softestpawn.wordpress.com&blog=3850189&post=374&subd=softestpawn&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Apparent Trends and Random Variations</title>
		<link>http://softestpawn.wordpress.com/2009/07/28/apparent-trends-and-random-variations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 21:10:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>softestpawn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Global Warming]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[apparent trends]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[global temperature trends]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Take a look at these graphs:












You can see trends and features: The noisy but steady drop in the first, a similar but slower rise in the second. The fourth has a slow rise followed by a sharp and maybe accelerating rise. And so on.
The thing is, these are randomly generated, using what are known as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=softestpawn.wordpress.com&blog=3850189&post=350&subd=softestpawn&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cherry Slopes: Picking trends in temperature records</title>
		<link>http://softestpawn.wordpress.com/2009/07/22/cherry-slopes-picking-trends-in-temperature-records/</link>
		<comments>http://softestpawn.wordpress.com/2009/07/22/cherry-slopes-picking-trends-in-temperature-records/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 17:06:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>softestpawn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environmentalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Warming]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[global cooling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[global temperature]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Drawing straight lines through datasets is a popular and easy way of showing a trend.
We can say that I am more tipsy now than when I came into the pub, and conclude that the trend is increased blethering, and that I&#8217;m likely to continue that way all else being equal. But we know we cannot [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=softestpawn.wordpress.com&blog=3850189&post=319&subd=softestpawn&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Testing Hansen&#8217;s Climate Predictions</title>
		<link>http://softestpawn.wordpress.com/2009/06/28/testing-hansens-climate-predictions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 13:48:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>softestpawn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environmentalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Warming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[hansens 1988 predictions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[james hansen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[models]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[validating models]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The case for harmful global warming largely rests, understandably, on the climate models required to emulate the world&#8217;s complex climate and how it is expected to behave as humans continue on our merry way.
Validating these models is tricky as we only have one real world to test them against. Sometimes they can be checked against new historical data, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=softestpawn.wordpress.com&blog=3850189&post=293&subd=softestpawn&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Climate change kills 300,000 a year! At a guess.</title>
		<link>http://softestpawn.wordpress.com/2009/05/29/climate-change-kills-300000-a-year-at-a-guess/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 18:02:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Charity parasites get onto the climate change bandwagon<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=softestpawn.wordpress.com&blog=3850189&post=284&subd=softestpawn&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hippy-diagnosed Madness</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Psychological and Political Challenge of Facing Climate Change conference has the climate skeptics worried. Spiked, for example, are very concerned that the authorities are treating dissent as a disorder.
So let&#8217;s have a look. The conference blurb starts with the usual generic eco-concern:
&#8220;Man-made climate change poses an unprecedented threat to the global ecosystem and therefore [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=softestpawn.wordpress.com&blog=3850189&post=200&subd=softestpawn&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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