The Emathsculation

-- by Horatio Algeranon


Ed Wegman's claims were overstated,

His famed "Report" quite overrated --

By doubtful scholarship badly fated.

But cites continue unabated

Though Wegman's been emathsculated.

Cocktail Party Ice-breaker

-- by Horatio Algeranon

Global warming is not to blame

For sea ice disappearance

It only happened when ice-breakers came

The cause, by all appearance.

 

 

 

Actual Comment* at "Watts Up With That?"

“What impact do Ice Breakers have on ice melt. I know it’s small in comparison to total area but as more and more research vessels enter the artic there must be an effect.”

*Has Horatio ever pulled your whiskers before?

H/T to "Watching the Deniers" who relayed the comment at Tamino's place.

The Muddle Puddle

-- by Horatio Algeranon

If Edward Wegman had kept to math

He wouldn't have to take a bath.

Instead he jumped in the muddle puddle

And brought about his current trouble.

Inspired by a comment by "a_ray_in_dilbert_space" at Rabett Run (A Dummies Guide to Strange Scholarship in the Wegman Report: The Shorter Version)

Had Wegman confined his criticism to the peer-reviewed literature, the political diatribe would never have seen the light of day, and he would be spared his current troubles.

GoDon't ask Said

(pronounced "Sed" below )
--by Horatio Algeranon

My expertise is on PCA,

Not global temp on a bygone day.

Or where CO2 is situated

In the atmosphere (as I have stated).

If you have questions, Go Don't ask Said

About said report, ask Said instead. You'll be misled.

About said friends of said Michael Mann
And what was said to keep a fan.

About said graphs, about said cites,

Said plagiarism and said copyrights.

It's not my fault, what Said has said

I really can't get in her head.

If you want answers from A to Zed.
Do n't ask me, but go don't ask Said.

Inspired by Eli Rabett's A Dummy's Guide to Strange Scholarship in the Wegman Report II.

"Said" = Wegman Report co-author Yasmin Said

PS: Horatio knows it's probably pronounced "Sa-eed", but that's what poetic license is for.

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Update: Nov 23, 2010

Horatio has just learned that Wegman claims a presentation description by his co-author, Said, is "not true" (see USA Today excerpt  below).

Hence, Horatio's corrections to the above poem. (Above all, Horatio strives for accuracy).


The following is from "Wegman report round-up" (by Dan Vergano, USA Today)

"They [Mashey et al] have charged Wegman and his fellow report authors with plagiarism and other shortcomings that compromise the credibility of their findings, including hidden influence by Barton committee staffers during the composition of the report. A 2007 presentation at GMU by one of the report's authors, Yasmin Said, says that an energy committee staffer, Peter Spencer, sent the report authors, "daunting amount of material" over the nine months of its composition.

Wegman says that Said's presentation description is "not true" and that Spencer only sent 11 scientific studies, two chapters of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports and a PowerPoint presentation by climate statistics critics Stephen McIntyre and economist Ross McKitrick of Canada's University of Guelph. Wegman says that Energy committee staffers did not pressure the report authors to come to a particular outcome in the report.

Hoochie Coochie Man (Part II)

Horatio sings the blues in Hoochie Coochie Man (part I).