Ike Pigott

"...yet within the emails, we have scientists who are clearly lamenting the failure of their own models to hew to reality. Candid admissions. It is further bolstered by the Read_Me file, which shows a long and disturbing pattern of data manipulation and massaging to reach a desired result -- and a process that makes replication impossible. (never let the truth get in the way of a good story.) To apply your standard about Will's lack of expertise in climate and economics --- now that real statisticians and programmers are getting a look at the code that was used in the CRU graphs, they are indeed appalled. Sure, they aren't "peer reviewed climate scientists," but the IPCC had no compunction about putting the names of THOUSANDS of non-climate researchers on its reports. If you sorted paperclips for a piece about Pacific atolls and sea level rise, then you got a credit in that report. But now those scientists aren't good enough to register their dismay about the subversion of the..." - Ike Pigott

"George Will has also written columns about baseball that relied on irrelevant statistics, and which made horribly inaccurate predictions about what would happen in that season. He has even admitted this! He clearly should not be trusted on any topics in the future. When the reality does not match the prediction, we throw out the predictor. Is that your argument, muirgeo?" - Ike Pigott

"@Justin — Again, sir, you are a genius. I have run across an application where this was the exact functionality I needed, and you have provided exactly the solution. @Kevin – For the time being, just use the regular visual editor to generate the code, then cut the HTML version and paste it into the Snippet box." - Ike Pigott