Gavin Spins with Spaghetti Diagrams! | The Blackboard

Rest assured Gavin, no one is naive enough to believe you are either unwilling or unable to dramatically improve the appearance of model agreement by cherry picking a baseline of your choice and using a method with no statistical power to compare models to observations.

Some reading Gavin’s spin may be cynical enough to see check how the IPCC AR4 models compare to data using the IPCC AR4 baseline.

When someone suggests your investment will yield 36% annually, how fast should you sprint in the opposite direction?

A former councillor and vice chairwoman of the Shetland Charitable Trust is warning against the risk of investing £50 million of community money into a massive 550 megawatt wind farm in the isles.

Barbara Cheyne was vice chair of the trust between 2003 and 2007 when councillors decided to go ahead with the Viking Energy project. She also worked for the council’s finance department for many years before taking over Tagon Stores, in Voe.

Earlier this year the council’s stake in Viking Energy was transferred to the trust that looks after much of Shetland’s oil wealth.

Project managers say the proposed wind farm could be hugely beneficial to the isles, quoting possible profits of £18 million per annum for a £50 million investment.