Dearieme, he was right!

I have been in a short term, well, very short term, actually, because he has now banned me from his site, 'conversation' with a young man I call 'The Yorkshire Canter'.  In the course of this exchange he accused Anthony Watts (and Steve McIntyre) of being scientific liars.  Thus, there was an extra dollop of irony in two recent posts over at WUWT in which the, er, fascinating topic of freezing CO2 in Antarctica was discussed.  All of it quite beyond me, I confess, but one of Watts's guest writers assumed that CO2 could be frozen out of the air if the temperature dropped low enough.  At that point, sledging in from the north with his huskies galloping at top speed came the elegant figure of our very own 'Dearieme' who comments so regularly here at D&N - I like to think of him as my 'stringer'!  Anyway, he shot the whole thing down in his usual concise style and Anthony Watts has had to re-post on the subject saying:

We all learned something, we had a little fun, some online yelling occurred, and some egos were bruised. Overall though it was worthwhile that this myth of “CO2 snow at Vostok station” was finally put to rest.

HAFs like the 'Yorkshire Canter' (I think I spelled that correctly) would leap on that as proof that the WUWT site is ignorant and deceitful and would thus miss the point that in this tiny example from just one specialised area of science, a theory was offered with full working details and then, after criticism, withdrawn as being incorrect.  In other words, the scientific method honourably at work.  Try getting some of that from a HAF site like 'Real Climate'!  And absolutely no chance with the 'Yorkshire Canter' who shrivels at the mere sight of an opposing argument and can only shriek in fear, "You're banned!"

Anyway, well done, 'Dearieme'!

Comments

[dearieme]

Thanks, David, but kudos to Watts and McIntyre for their excellent blogs. They and their various chums make it clearer than ever that much of the stuff passed off as "Climate Science" is a bloody embarrassment, being often woefully incompetent and sometimes, I suspect, dishonest.

I am particularly impressed by McIntyre's self-denying ordinance, by which he audits various studies, shows them to be bunkum, but refrains from the pleasure of denouncing the roguery behind them, or the witless policies advanced as a consequence.

Watts has done a splendid job showing how crummy the US temperature measurement system is. It's so poor that, although I think it's perfectly plausible that it's a wee bit warmer now than in, say, the 1920s, it's rather hard to demonstrate it with temperature data in which you can much confidence.

[David Duff]

Exactly so, 'DM'!

(And for once I am as concise as you!)