tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6718772691289114123.post4570524365317081161..comments2024-03-26T15:37:57.556-07:00Comments on Idiot Tracker: What on earth is Criag Idso doing for Heartland's $11,600 a month?TheTrackerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10011829472333355911noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6718772691289114123.post-642883754682090082012-02-26T14:09:59.494-08:002012-02-26T14:09:59.494-08:00They're taking in boarders, business was bad.They're <a href="http://rabett.blogspot.com/2012/02/tax-free-shenanigans.html" rel="nofollow">taking in boarders</a>, business was bad.EliRabetthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07957002964638398767noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6718772691289114123.post-60113368547116778292012-02-24T09:10:40.236-08:002012-02-24T09:10:40.236-08:00I know. Who sees somebody in the pocket of Exxon-M...I know. Who sees somebody in the pocket of Exxon-Mobile and thinks "That guy needs more money!" It takes a village, I guess.TheTrackerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10011829472333355911noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6718772691289114123.post-38287237372715225482012-02-24T09:09:12.478-08:002012-02-24T09:09:12.478-08:00"There are a couple of problems with your pos..."There are a couple of problems with your post."<br /><br />Your response was illuminating, thank you. I just assumed he meant "a little harsh" to male escorts.TheTrackerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10011829472333355911noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6718772691289114123.post-90162638976138924432012-02-24T01:13:46.637-08:002012-02-24T01:13:46.637-08:00...and yet despite all these obvious signs of poor......and yet despite all these obvious signs of poor scholarship he's pulling down nearly $140,000 a year from Heartland alone - and that's not his day job.<br /><br /><br />Quiet WatersAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6718772691289114123.post-61045725343075100292012-02-23T23:32:30.236-08:002012-02-23T23:32:30.236-08:00He takes in $11,600 to keep a scrapbook of links? ...He takes in $11,600 to keep a scrapbook of links? That's what you're saying,isn't it?<br /><br />NickAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6718772691289114123.post-75169461953621675012012-02-23T22:15:06.855-08:002012-02-23T22:15:06.855-08:00There are a couple of problems with your post.
Id...There are a couple of problems with your post.<br /><br />Idso conveniently includes the abstracts of the papers he lifts the graphs from. In a strategy which I speculate Monckton learned a lot from, Idso cites studies that directly contradict his conclusions. You neglected to mention this fact.<br /><br />E.g. Loso 2009, "Summer temperatures during the Medieval Warm Period and Little Ice Age inferred from varved proglacial lake sediments in southern Alaska." The end of the abstract reads:<br /><br />"A Medieval Warm Period is evident from 1000 to 1100 AD, but the temperature reconstruction suggests it was less warm than recent decades - an observation supported by independent geological evidence of recent glacier retreat that is unprecedented over the period of record."<br /><br />Second point: Idso does not seem to realize that some paleoclimate reconstructions, the year 0 BP is actually 1950 AD or a thirty-year average beginning in the middle of the 20th century. Thus, the blades of the hockey sticks are chopped off and we are left only with the handles.<br /><br />Finally, Idso inconsistently labels the MWP, sometimes placing it in the 800s, or in the 1100s, or as late as the 1400s. His sources do not agree on a single global MWP and it's quite clear that they reconstruct local or regional scale temperatures.<br /><br />Lastly, I do not think a "real scientist" should copy a graph onto MS Paint and scribble the letters "MWP" where he guesses the MWP might be. Maybe he should have empirical analysis or statistics or something.Alexnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6718772691289114123.post-87038648023312905722012-02-23T14:15:40.703-08:002012-02-23T14:15:40.703-08:00That seems a little harsh.
Craig maintains a coll...That seems a little harsh.<br /><br />Craig maintains a collection of links to all the paleo data that show the medieval warm period was indeed warm. Thousands of such data. Monckton recently referred to it as proof.<br /><br />Alas, if you actually look at the data you'll see places that were warm from 900 to 1000 AD and another warm from 1000 AD to 1200 AD and these are proof of the medieval warm period -- as long as you don't read that before and after these warm periods those locations were cool.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com