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• brobof commented on Why Does it Take 2 Years For GSFC To Respond to a FOIA Request?
  First serious words of apology to Keith. I regard the whole AGW 'thing' as seriously off topic for NASAWatch and lay down the disclaimer that this is my final say in this matter. If RayGun wants to debate AGW there are plenty of other sites for the topic. I have no wish to pollute this somewhat excellent site with Hot Air! Ahem. I don't care who the guy is requesting the information. I do! And I suspect NASA does as well. He is not a scientist, he is a lawyer with an agenda. Fear is a great weapon. Agreed! Like...

• Ray commented on Why Does it Take 2 Years For GSFC To Respond to a FOIA Request?
  @Papa, Since you are such an advocate to continue to put faith in people who have shown evidence of potential fraud, perhaps you can explain why Keith Briffa felt compelled to include a "fudge factor" (his own words in the code comments) in order to apply a "VERY ARTIFICIAL CORRECTION" (again, his own words in his own code) to his cherry-picked tree ring data? http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/12/05/the-smoking-code-part-2/#more-13773 Furthermore, when you look at the plot of the "valadj" (value adjust) array, one wonders why Briffa sees the need to adjust temperatures UPWARDS, and by amounts that are clearly in excess of a full...

• hikingmike commented on Why Does it Take 2 Years For GSFC To Respond to a FOIA Request?
  When the temperatures are chilly one day in Florida near where Rush Limbaugh lives, then global warming is debunked as far as he's concerned (and his followers). I know, I have to listen to him from the office next door and he used exactly that reason to argue against it. People will use any reason to prove their own argument. I prefer the term climate change myself. Even if temps get cooler, it doesn't mean the earth isn't going to warm up later. What was that program that was supposed to attempt to measure energy going in and energy going...

• spacermase commented on And Now A Word From The Lunatic Fringe
  "Cite your source, please." Fox themselves haven't directly said it, but during the appellate trial of New World Communs. of Tampa, Inc. v. Akre (which was a wrongful firing suit brought upon Fox), the court explicitly stated in its reasoning for overturning the decision in favor of Fox that they had not violated the whistleblower policy "Because the FCC's news distortion policy is not a "law, rule, or regulation" under section 448.102, Akre has failed to state a claim under the whistle-blower's statute." (New World Communs. of Tampa, Inc. v. Akre, 866 So. 2d 1231(2003)). So far as the U.S....

• hikingmike commented on And Now A Word From The Lunatic Fringe
  I saw this article when it came up on their site. It was such a terrible article I just had to make a login there and comment. Those are either some seriously nutcase "experts" or some very uninformed ones the article quoted. Ok so Jane Orient specializes in medicine, maybe I'll give her the benefit of the doubt for that, but maybe not because she shouldn't comment on something she doesn't know anything about. And Fox News looks really bad here even for them....