A Dozen Reasons Why a Former CNN Executive Producer for Science Doesn’t Understand Doubters of Manmade Global Warming « Roy Spencer, Ph. D.

The following editorial appeared on the Huffington Post website today (italicized entries, below)…and I couldn’t help but give the writer some of his own medicine (my responses not italicized, & in parentheses).

Wind Watch: Victory for wind turbine protesters

Protesters determined to stop a wind farm development at Langdon are celebrating after the plan was halted by a government inspector.

Proposals for the five turbines, with a maximum height of 120m, have now been scrapped.

Jubilant objectors met on the West Langdon village green for a special Mercury photo call and set off a flock of white doves, a symbol of everlasting tranquility.

There were smiles all round as the protesters waved their specially-made banner reading Common Sense Has Won the Day.

The Reference Frame: Personal fudge factor

Instead, it is pretty constant for each person: it is a personal fudge factor. This quantity defines the width of the allowed interval in which the people still feel good about themselves: so the quantities that determine the amount of cheating are not objective external quantities processed rationally but rather conscience.

For example, James Hansen's personal fudge factor is about 1,000% as one can see by comparing his predictions of ice melting with the result calculable from the data that are available to him. The Bible restricts the people's fudge factors: once we talk about the ten commandments, people - both believers and infidels - generally stop cheating.