ClimateGate Data Series Part I: A break-down of large data file (Simplified Overview)

Defend our Freedoms ^ | November 26, 2009 | J. Smith

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Al Gore, George Soros and other Carbon Pirates have got Congress to fund and direct Billions of dollars towards “Green Energy” and “Carbon Control” projects based on bogus data claims. These data claims stem from the recently hacked Climate Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia in the UK.

The CRU was set up by the US Dept. of Energy at this university. Why not a US university? It could be because the UK, for the longest time, had no “Freedom of Information Act”, like the US does. You’ll soon see why these scientists and the Dept. of Energy wanted to keep the data a secret or unverifiable. Because the outcomes and the analysis of the data are purely political (Scientists likely paid or on payroll to do so), it has not factual or scientific basis whatsoever.

How do we know this to be true? Because recently, 3000 e-mails of the Scientists’ conducting the research at the CRU were hacked, along with several data files. While the e-mails are quite damming, the data files are the “guts” of the CRU's actual computer models—the data, the code and the applications. It is really the blatant manipulation of the data that is the “dagger” to the heart of the Global Warming Myth.

The “Harry” data file. Data manipulation of temperature data from 2006-2009

One of the largest data files recovered was a file processed and logged by Ian "Harry" Harris at the CRU. As you’ll see on this “tour” of this data file, Harry records comments and explains his trial and tribulations to skew the data into a form that supports a global warming trend, though the data indicated with scientific certainty that the average temperature has declined over the last 100 years, Harry attempts to reverse this.

The data file is named “HARRY_READ_ME.txt”. The first line of this file reads:

“READ ME for Harry's work on the CRU TS2.1/3.0 datasets, 2006-2009!”. First, Harry indicates he’s identified the locations of the 2006-2009 temperature data files and the databases for performing “t-mean”. For those not familiar with Statistical Math (Stats), “T-mean” refers to a “T-Test of a Difference of Means”. A “Mean” in Stats means the average of a given set of values. So if you have multiple data sets (as we do with temperatures ranging over different periods of time between 2006-2009), Harry needs to figure out what the average difference of these averages are – in other words, the average of all averages across all data sets.

Creating Global Temperature Anomaly files and excluding “risky” values

Next, Harry regenerates the Global Temperature anomalies into a separate data file using the existing data files. He uses a Fortran 90 (Science/Math programming language) program (anomdtb.f90) to “data-mine” these existing data files to extract any temperature anomalies and separates these temps by writing them to different files. Harry’s comment confirming this:

Successfully ran anomdtb.f90 to produce anomaly files (as per item 7 Had to make some changes to allow for the move back to alphas (different field length from the 'wc -l' command). The “wc” command in the Linux operating system stands for “word count” and gives you the number of characters, words or lines contained in a file. “Alphas” or Alpha values measure the “risk” of getting a “Type I” error. A “Type I” error in Statistics (Stats Math) means the conclusion is incorrect for the data and the hypothesis must be rejected. Harry’s comment indicates there are numerous Alpha values and as such, would lend to a high risk of producing a “Type I” error. However, Harry (by his comment) isn’t using the data set with Alpha values, but instead using an “alternate” data set he created without them!

Mapping Global Carbon Emissions Totals to a Standard Grid Model

Harry’s next step is to map the global totals of carbon emissions (carbon emissions is what Gore/Obama etc. want to tax the hell out of you for) onto a standard model grid. Think of a model grid as a series of “plotting points” on a map. The goal here is to have these carbon emission totals plotted on a grid that represents a time scale. The term “regridding” means to execute a program to re-create the model. There are a number of ways to produce the image file representing this model (.glo) file, and Harry is asking why not use Fortran to generate this file instead an IDL routine:

Successfully ran the IDL regridding routine quick_interp_tdm.pro (why IDL?! Why not F90?!) to produce '.glo' files.

[Matchett-PI]

"Replace “Marxist” with “bankster” and you get a better idea of what our rulers have up their sleeves. Moreover, wealth is never transferred to the third world. It is transferred to the global elite. Feel-good palliatives about feeding the poor are merely a parlor trick to steal your money and reduce you to indentured servitude."

BTTT

[Rocky]

LOL. A picture is worth a thousand words.

[D-fendr]

From the CRU website:

This list is not fully exhaustive, but we would like to acknowledge the support of the following funders (in alphabetical order):

British Council, British Petroleum, Broom's Barn Sugar Beet Research Centre, Central Electricity Generating Board, Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (CEFAS), Commercial Union, Commission of European Communities (CEC, often referred to now as EU), Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils (CCLRC), Department of Energy, Department of the Environment (DETR, now DEFRA), Department of Health, Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), Eastern Electricity, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), Environment Agency, Forestry Commission, Greenpeace International, International Institute of Environmental Development (IIED), Irish Electricity Supply Board, KFA Germany, Leverhulme Trust, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAFF), National Power, National Rivers Authority, Natural Environmental Research Council (NERC), Norwich Union, Nuclear Installations Inspectorate, Overseas Development Administration (ODA), Reinsurance Underwriters and Syndicates, Royal Society, Scientific Consultants, Science and Engineering Research Council (SERC), Scottish and Northern Ireland Forum for Environmental Research, Shell, Stockholm Environment Agency, Sultanate of Oman, Tate and Lyle, UK Met. Office, UK Nirex Ltd., United Nations Environment Plan (UNEP), United States Department of Energy, United States Environmental Protection Agency, Wolfson Foundation and the World Wildlife Fund for Nature (WWF).

[Marine_Uncle]

Ernest. We taint supposed to talk about the CFR.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

OK,...I am going to shut up for the rest of the night ...and a good part of tomorrow as well...going up the hill with my grand daughter to a belated Thanksgiving at my daughters place and meet some new people...

I need to be civil and not frothing at the mouth like I am right now....

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

This is very upsetting:

Momentum grows for Copenhagen climate deal ( According to Reuters)

[Nervous Tick]

USDOE has definitely funded projects within Hadley CRU. Somewhere on their website I ran across a page that lists a couple of them.

The questions are:

1) Did USDOE *start up* Hadley CRU?
2) Did they do so explicitly to get around US FOI laws?

Those two assertions by the author are not well supported (yet).