oh dear 2

After an altercation on wuwt about watts not releasing data for his surface stations and then complaining that another has used some early stuff. I suggested that this was similar to CRU witholding data and he suggests that I am hiding behind a pseudonym. My reply:

tfp (20:20:22) :

Anthony this is why I will not post under my real name:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/georgemonbiot/2010/jan/27/james-delingpole-climate-change-denial
“Within a few minutes of the comments opening, they had published the man’s telephone number and email address, a photo of his house (“Note all the recycling going on in his front garden”), his age and occupation”
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100024152/monbiot-an-apology/ Damocles on Jan 28th, 2010 at 2:23:
“I’ve got to say that I saw the comments on that blog and I was rather shocked.
Bue then you pulled it and that was a redeeming act.”

I’m sure you get similar.

I do not want to expose my family to hate mail/death threats/abuse. My pseudonym is my firewall.

I have posted analysis on scientific threads/ I have posted comments like the above where I see unfair bias. Its your blog do what you will!

REPLY: OK Fine, final question then. Your electronics company there in the UK has a contract with the U.S. Navy for some avionics test systems. Somebody takes that design, reverse engineers it, and sells a product based on your work. Is that fair use?

That’s the case with me here. All my pages have a copyright notice on them. I did the work for over two years, and Menne et al took the work and made something from it without permission, against my protestations even. Unless you are prepared to say your company’s designs should be fair game for anyone to use and profit from, I suggest you kindly refrain from criticizing my project further. – Anthony


So the great man exposes the company I work for after my explanation of the my posting anonimity. Is this a threat to me saying he knows my employer and will complain about posting on company time (actually break times) or is he threatening to expose my home address (availablefrom my ip address).

Who knows!

Watts uses this trick whenever he is annoyed by posters. Very sad!

Update 2009/02/14
Good Grief - it makes me so angry!
Posted reasonable stuff and then this happens
tfp (14:56:46) :

DeWitt Payne (10:14:57) :
My guess is that the x axis is in decimal years and so your slope is 2.58E-03 C/year not month.
Too true. my engineering caution deserted me. Apologies!

What is evident from my plot is that the period from 1985 to present does not (yet !!) conform to the general linear trend. Adding a trend line to 1985 to present gives a warming of 4.4degC/century (got it right this time I think)
http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/7086/cet.png

The current trend in CET is negative so there is a possibility that in a decade or so there will be a return to the .3C/100year average. But can we wait to find out?

Looking at satellite data:
http://img200.imageshack.us/img200/6361/amsu.png

data: http://discover.itsc.uah.edu/amsutemps/
the channel CHLT (no longer reported – too much of an incline??!!) gives a temp increase of 11C/century.
It would be interesting to know why this channel was dropped.

REPLY: Still can’t stay away, shiny new email address eh Bill? You never did respond to this after accusing me of improper conduct. Me thinks its time for you to be put into the troll bin, since changing email addresses and handles is a no no.
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OK Fine, final question then. Your electronics company there in the UK has a contract with the U.S. Navy for some avionics test systems. Somebody takes that design, reverse engineers it, and sells a product based on your work. Is that fair use?

That’s the case with me here. All my pages have a copyright notice on them. I did the work for over two years, and Menne et al took the work and made something from it without permission, against my protestations even. Unless you are prepared to say your company’s designs should be fair game for anyone to use and profit from, I suggest you kindly refrain from criticizing my project further. – Anthony


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I posted as "tfp formerly bill" for a time to alert people to the name change - there were too many bills.
Shiny new email is because I could not remember (and the cookie with the correct one disappeared) which I used on this blog - I have many to trap blog operators who could sell it to spammers.

You never did respond to this after accusing me of improper conduct. Me thinks its time for you to be put into the troll bin, since changing email addresses and handles is a no no.
I responded with a long reply (long since forgotten) but it never appeared - I assumed I was banned. perhaps it is in your spam bin?

OK Fine, final question then. Your electronics company there ...test systems.
I do not appreciate my empoyment being referenced on line by yourself.
From my IP addresses you obviously can determine my home address, real name, and from that many other personal details. I trust these will NOT be exposed?

Reading my comments leading to your original reply I made NO accusation of your improper conduct.
(re-reading I did say accessing CRU data that was not public fell into the computer misuse act :
A person is guilty of an offence if
(a) he causes a computer to perform any function with intent to secure access to any program or data held in any computer;
(b) the access he intends to secure is unauthorised; and
(c) he knows at the time when he causes the computer to perform the function that that is the case.)
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I would suggest that if you did not access the data then there is no problem. I was only pointing out a fact - the Computer Misuse Act

And it is blocked! I thought it reasonable!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!