WARNING
The AGW Virus
The AGW Anthropogenic Global Warming or Human Induced Climate Change virus was first isolated in a lab at the Climate Research Unit of the University of East Anglia.
Virus Signature:
The AGW virus can be recognized by the following signature
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valadj=[0.,0.,0.,0.,0.,-0.1,-0.25,-0.3,0.,-0.1,0.3,0.8,1.2,1.7,2.5,2.6,2.6,2.6,2.6,2.6]*0.75 ; fudge factor
yearlyadj=interpol(valadj,yrloc,x)
densall=densall+yearlyadj
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Detection:
The external effect of the virus is visible as a tendency of graphed data to ‘dip’ in the middle and then rise sharply at then end for no other apparent reason.
Pathology:
The AGW virus and been found to infect both IPL computer programs and research papers. All attempts to mitigate the spread of the virus using the current procedures of peer review and analysis have been unable to contain the spread of the infection. In sever cases the virus has been seen to affect the central nervous system in humans although no direct link to the rabies virus has been demonstrated
Patient Zero:
It currently appears that patient zero was an IPL program known to as “FOI2009/FOIA/documents/harris/tree/briffa_sep98_e.pro”. It is not known at this time what other artifacts may have been contaminated by the virus.
Preventing the spread if AGW:
If you detect that the virus has infected one of your papers you should place the paper in a suitable quarantined environment. The peat bogs of northern England and Scotland will provide sufficient protection to the environment if the hole is at least 1.47 meters deep.
If you know of any software that is infected with the AGW virus the proper procedure for disposal is to maintain an alternating 100 Gauss field in the immediate vicinity of the infection for not less then 2 hours, 4 hours is recommended.
Please help prevent the spread of the AGW virus, please model responsibly.
[As I'm not the author [anyone know who is? We do now!] of this little joke - please add your technical expertise in the comments!]
No, no! 100 Gauss is only effective at ambient temperatures of >100C. At STP, full eradication requires a flux density of 1 Tesla.
ReplyDeleteI wrote it, I have updated it at http://www.thespoof.com/news/spoof.cfm?headline=s5i64103
ReplyDeleteFeel free to use it copy/past it or whatever, send to anyone you wish.
Spread the word.
Anonymous - many thanks for the update.
ReplyDeleteIt is a superb piss take.
Thanks for stopping by earlier. Scanning your posts, I noticed Michael Mann's upside down graph. Did you know he released another paper yesterday--with the same inversion--even after it's been exposed as false?
ReplyDeleteYou can find it at WUWT and Climate Audit (perhaps the mirror site, I forget which).
An anagram of Global Warming, Al Gore is:
ReplyDeleteAlarm? A Lowborn Giggle.