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One of our best family friends is a PhD in meteorology and her graduate research was on aggregating temperature data collected from global weather stations. In
by monero-xmr 3y ago
One of our best family friends is a PhD in meteorology and her graduate research was on aggregating temperature data collected from global weather stations.
In her own words, the data was shit and full of gaps, she wasn’t a software engineer yet self-taught the necessary python to create horrible kludge scripts that turned it into “something”, and was given a grant from the NIH for her work.
The end result was a single vector trumpeted by her ivy-league school that added “yet more evidence” to the consensus of climate change, and she is now a tenured professor in the UC system. Total garbage end to end.
I love her to death but get her a few cocktails deep and she will freely admit it’s a grift.
- smolder 3y agoInteresting anecdote. Can't say I wouldn't be interested to hear the details of her story.
- monero-xmr 3y agoI’m not saying climate change is incorrect, but I will say that the “overwhelming consensus” has resulted in a lot of warped incentives and weird results. The climate is really hard to model and in a rush to blame it for the apocalypse we have reduced a lot of critical thinking.