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A nice summation of climategate

jjunkin — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 23:33:08 +0000

The following excerpts are one of the best descriptions I have seen to describe the issues found in the climategate emails:

(Climategate) “e-mails show that a close-knit group of the world’s most influential climate scientists actively colluded to subvert the peer-review process … manufactured pre-determined conclusions through the use of contrived analytic techniques; and discussed destroying data to avoid government freedom-of-information requests.”

“Viewed collectively, the CRU e-mails reveal a scientific community in which a group of scientists promoting what has become, through their efforts, the dominant climate-change paradigm are at war with other scientists derisively labeled as ’skeptics,’ ‘deniers,’ and ‘contrarians,’”

From the New York Times article:
http://www.nytimes.com/cwire/2010/01/13/13climatewire-insurance-group-says-stolen-e-mails-show-ris-91554.html
This references a letter sent by Robert Detlefsen, the National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies vice president of policy.

Sunfish, Deep water and Kelp Pattis

jjunkin — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 01:14:16 +0000

On the final day of our Tuna trip we went further West than before. We caught one Yellowfin Tuna at about 10:00 am. We also saw a Yellowtail and a cool shark. We also saw several Ocean Sunfish. It was fairly rough and by the end of the day we were tired of being pounded by the waves.

The edge of a kelp bed

Sunfish off a kelp Patti. This lumbering fish just stayed right next to the boat.

Ocean sunfish in San Diego

This Sunfish was probably 200+ pounds

Ocean sunfish in San Diego

Tuna Fishing in San Diego

jjunkin — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 22:44:04 +0000

Tuna Fishing in San Diego!

It’s Monday and yesterday I picked up my friend Don Green from the airport and with boat in tow we proceeded to drive 10 hours straight from Half Moon Bay to San Diego. Our goal is to catch Tuna off the coast of San Diego.

We are staying on Shelter Island which is in Point Loma at Humphrey’s Half Moon Inn which is on the water and has a marina. It is conveniently located near the mouth of San Diego Harbor. I contacted Brad the manager of the marina and he set us up with a slip for the boat. When we arrived we checked in to the hotel and put the boat in the water using the ramp conveniently located across the street. We then went to a local tackle shop called Angler’s Choice which has great stuff for catching Tuna.

After spending huge amounts of cash we proceeded to sleep since we had none the night before. We were tired!

Hewescraft Alaskan 24

jjunkin — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 06:15:47 +0000

New boat: Hewescraft Alaskan 24!

On Monday August 25th I road tripped to Mt Vernon, Washington to pick up a new Hewescraft Alaskan from Tom N Jerry’s Boats. Lee & Kelley were awesome! They’re pricing was far lower than clemens in Oregon. I then turned around and raced back to Menlo Park.

The trip took about 14 hours each way. It sucked ass! I used to enjoy driving like that but now I am too damn old. Seattle is an amazing town – as far as I could tell at 75 mph. Everything else sucked.