Friday, February 20, 2015

Barker's Newsbites: Friday, February 20, 2015


T.G.I.F

Yep... LONG week...

Hell... I must have worked 20 hours this week! (Friggin' BRUTAL...!!!)

Then last nigh... my workout in reverse... first 10 miles of "bike" work... THEN an hour of BodyPump!

Tonight...? I do believe I'm going to surprise the Poop by taking her to a fancy restaurant...

(Yeah... I said "fancy." Anyone got a PROBLEM with that...?!?!)

(*BOYISH GRIN*)

Seriously... the Poop works SO hard; she deserves all the love and appreciation - and top notch meals in an ultra-romantic setting - I can give her!

Anyway... on to newsbites!


1 comment:

William R. Barker said...

http://dailycaller.com/2015/02/20/republicans-to-investigate-climate-data-tampering-by-nasa/

* OPEN THE NEAREST WINDOW AND/OR DOOR TO THE OUTSIDE BEFORE CONTINUING TO READ...

Are government climate agencies tampering with climate data to show warming?

* YEP.

California Republican Rep. Dana Rohrabacher says to expect congressional hearings on climate data tampering.

Lately, the California Republican has criticizing NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for allegedly tampering with temperature data to create an artificial warming trend. Such data is then used to justify regulations aimed at curbing fossil fuel use and other industrial activities.

Oklahoma Republican Sen. Jim Inhofe has also promised to hold hearings on global warming data.

“We’re going to have a committee hearing on the science,” said Inhofe, who chairs the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. “People are going to hear the other side of the story.”

For years, those skeptical of man-made global warming have argued that government agencies are altering raw temperature data to create a warming trend. Allegations of tampering have increased as satellite temperature readings show much less warming than land and ocean-based weather stations show.

(*SMIRK*)

Science blogger Steven Goddard (a pseudonym) has been a major critic of NASA’s and NOAA’s temperature measurements. Goddard points out that NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center makes the present look warmer by artificially cooling past temperatures to show a warming trend. “NCDC pulls every trick in the book to turn the U.S. cooling trend into warming. The raw data shows cooling since the 1920s,” Goddard told The Daily Caller News Foundation in an interview last month.

(*PURSED LIPS*)

“NCDC does a hockey stick of adjustments to reverse the trend,” Goddard said. “This includes cooling the past for ‘time of observation bias’ infilling missing rural data with urban temperatures, and doing almost nothing to compensate for urban heat island effects.”

* YEP.

U.K. Telegraph writer Christopher Booker joined the fray recently, using work by Goddard and other bloggers to criticize climate agencies for data tampering. “Of much more serious significance, however, is the way this wholesale manipulation of the official temperature record… has become the real elephant in the room of the greatest and most costly scare the world has known,” Booker wrote. “This really does begin to look like one of the greatest scientific scandals of all time.”