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The snow - the heaviest seen in Barcelona since 1962 - fell across northern Spain, southern France and northern Italy on Monday (8 March) and also affected Spain’s Balearic islands and the French island of Corsica.

The American Spectator : Crist Implodes

...Crist's timing has been about as off as it could be. In 2007 and 2008, in the pre-recession days of Crist's early governorship, Crist sensed he could woo additional voters to his side by anguishing publicly about global warming and whooping up all manner of costly environmental schemes, including cap and trade and California-style fuel standards. In early 2009, when our rookie president was still popular, Crist attached himself to Obama and his policies. He went so far as to embrace both Obama and his $787 billion "stimulus" slush fund before it was adopted and while other Republicans were pushing more conservative approaches to the recession. He crooned incessantly about "bipartisanship."

In conservative 2010 these policies are toxic.

Regarding "A Crack in the Code: Why software fails in scientific research, and how to fix it"

The uncertainties in climate data are so large that climate science is useless for policy analysis. Even if the data could be measured precisely, the uncertainties in the science and mathematics are so large that it would still be useless. When a climate scientist presumes to make radical policy recommendations based on computer models, we must add breath-taking arrogance to his aforementioned list of virtues. He seats himself on the very throne of God.

The above is an email from DuPree Moore

Himalayan Hijinks « Watts Up With That?

[Willis Eschenbach] As I said in my article about Matanuska cited above, the problem is that you can’t just devise a method for computer adjusting temperature data, apply it to all of the world’s stations, and call the job done. You need to look at and consider each and every station, as they are as individual as human beings. This is called “quality control”, and it is sadly lacking in all three of the major global temperature records (GISS, CRU, and GHCN).

Does this invalidate the GISS global temperature record? No. However, it does mean that they are not doing their job. They haven’t removed an obvious inconsistency in this case. How common is this type of problem? I don’t know.

But until they start over and do it right, it does mean that, like the baseball records of players who are known to have used steroids, the GISS global temperature has to be entered in the record books “with an asterisk” to indicate that lingering questions still remain.