I see the debate ended with me smashing the deniers. Bunch of fruit loop wingnuts.

Who the hell you calling crazy? You wouldn't know what crazy was if Charles Manson was eating fruit loops in your front porch.

I have to bring his fruit loops to him in prison.

The word trick can mean lots of things, 2 of the more fitting defintions given by webster are:


This of course is the one the conspiracy theorists want us to use when we read that one email.

Another definition given by webster:


While it is impossible for us to determine for sure which one is meant, I suggest it is the latter. Of course the mark of a true believer in a conspiracy theory is they will never change their mind once they find something they think fits their world view. The following is for the benefit of rational people who have not reached a conclusion and then searched for any tidbit that can be wildly interpreted to support it.

Here are some more examples of their use of the word in the emails (to support my view that when they used the word trick, they were not implying deception).

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I really wish I could be more positive about the Kyrgyzstan material, but I swear I pulled every trick out of my sleeve trying to milk something out of that. It was pretty funny though - I told Malcolm what you said about my possibly being too Graybill-like in evaluating the response functions - he laughed and said that's what he thought at first also. The data's tempting but there's too much variation even within stands.


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- a macroeconomic framework insuring the consistency between prices and quantities at any point in time without necessarily resorting to the modelling tricks relying on the conventional neo-classical growth theory; these 'tricks' assume indeed perfect foresight, efficient markets and the absence of strategic or routine behaviours; New conceptual frameworks about endogenous growth theory allow for such a move, but there is a gap between advances in pure theory and empirical modelling,


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Many kind thanks for going out of your way to respond to this. Colleagues have increasingly been warning me against "taking the bait" too often (which this seems another attempt at), and so I resisted giving the detailed response that you have nicely provided (as well as I could have myself, I might add). They dried to bog Ben Santer down with distractions, they've been trying to do the same to me, and its supposed to be a warning to the rest of us. So the trick is to find the middle ground between responding to most egregious and potentially damaging accusations, and not swinging at every ball they throw your way.



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I think the hardest, yet most important part, is to boil the section down to 0.5 pages. In looking over your good outline, sent back on Oct. 17 (my delay is due to fatherdom just after this time), you cover ALOT. The trick may be to decide on the main message and use that to guid what's included and what is left out.


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In practice this is hard to do (because some records are sensible "local" composites already, and how far do you go in showing all input data? The problem of what and how to composite is tricky - and no obviously "correct" way is apparent. Having said this, Tom's way is fine with me (provided the composites are robust) and we get general agreement.


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This last one is tricky, since no one at the TS mtg thought such a simulation exists, BUT it seems it is ok for us to get/use a new long simulation by one of the EMIC models used in Chap >10. Peck (ACTION ITEM) needs to figure out how to get this, but Thomas Stocker indicated he'd help. Stafan - what about you guys >doing this? Who else could we ask for fast turnaround?


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Neither of these comes up to the 20th century making plotting on the same >scale as observed temperature rather tricky!


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I am contacting you to schedule the upcoming teleconference. Due to the extreme variability in your time zones this will likely be a bit tricky and outside "normal" business hours for some of you.


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Heard anything back from IUGG yet? I thought Mike's email was helpful, if that doesn't do the trick I don't know what will,


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As I've mentioned in previous emails, I think it's a little tricky to figure out the null distribution of rejection rates - i.e., the distribution that might be expected by chance alone.


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A quick-and-dirty way to explore this possibility using a "trick" used with precipitation data is to apply a square root transformation to the rejection rates, average these, then reverse transform the average. The square root transformation should yield data that is more nearly Gaussian than the untransformed data.


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Estimating the order of a more complex AR model is a tricky business. Typically, something like the BIC (Bayesian Information Criterion) or AIC (Akaike Information Criterion) is used to do this.


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Thanks for all your help with the tricky job of brokering the submission of the paper to IJoC.


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The issue of auditing is a tricky one. The auditers must, themselves, be able to demonstrate that they have no ulterior motives.


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#5 is tricky. Giving him the data would be good, but only if it is yours to give. You can't give him data that you got from others and are not allowed to share. But, it would be nice if he could have access to all the data that we used - that's the way science is supposed to work.


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It is tricky to get the regional volc signal because of SNR problems at the smaller spatial scale. I wrote all this up more than 10 years ago, but have not got around to finalizing it to submit for publication.

We're actually over capacity right now. We need to start shrinking the population. This should be done through contraception.

sause?

If we used up a little less, I think we could do just fine in the 6-7B zone without trouble.

Though I'm all for contraception and working on zero population growth.

solar flares brah

You've accurately summarised my feelings in one simple sentence.