http://danhughes.auditblogs.com by Dan Hughes Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:53:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A quick look at some of the info provides evidence that an Independent organization to Review and Verify all results, each and every number, that are to be used to set public policy is critically important. Climate policy remains the sole exception to this world-wide universal standard. The present system has been ... http://danhughes.auditblogs.com/2009/11/20/the-cru-hack-info-dump/ AOLBGCM validation is an ongoing process. Can't ever do too much of it. http://danhughes.auditblogs.com/2009/10/09/validation-is-a-process/ I made this comment at Climate Audit. I'll repeat it here: The degree of inconsistency that RC exhibits becomes more astounding every day. How many times have we been told that replication does not require that all the original material be readily available. Indeed, we have been repeatedly lectured that true replication ... http://danhughes.auditblogs.com/2009/10/05/tom-p-does-not-meet-realclimates-bona-fides-requirements/ Climate Science . . . The Science of Personal Destruction In the RealClimate post linked above appears this statement: "So along comes Steve McIntyre, self-styled slayer of hockey sticks, who declares without any evidence whatsoever that Briffa didn’t just reprocess the data from the Russians, but instead supposedly picked through it ... http://danhughes.auditblogs.com/2009/10/02/nasas-gavin-schmidt-and-penn-states-michael-mann-are-liars/ Steve McIntyre has discovered and presented yet another problem with a long-term temperature reconstruction: Yamal: A "Divergence" Problem. While Steve has named his blog ClimateAudit, in my opinion his work is in fact Independent Verification. The old, and rapidly becoming tedious, "Peer Review Publication is Required" nonsense has already appeared in ... http://danhughes.auditblogs.com/2009/09/28/independent-verification-and-peer-review/ John A is the site admin (CTO) and Webmaster for this blog, and all of auditblogs.com. After several requests by me he has added his Tip Jar over there to the left. Please consider dropping a few coins to help with covering his costs and time. Thanks. http://danhughes.auditblogs.com/2009/09/25/tip-jar-3/ I received the following e-mail from Pat Roache regarding his new book about Verification and Validation. He has also made arrangements for reduced prices on two others of his books. I am pleased to announce the publication of "Fundamentals of Verification and Validation" by Patrick J. Roache. Copyright 2009, ISBN 978-0-93478-12-7. ... http://danhughes.auditblogs.com/2009/09/24/new-vv-book-by-pat-roache/ [Updated September 26] I think the name of the program originally known as the Advanced Strategic Computing Initiative ( ASCI ) is now known as Advanced Simulation & Computing ( ASC ). [Updated August 26] I have uploaded an excellent summary, developed by Los Alamos, of the ASC V&V Program at LANL. ... http://danhughes.auditblogs.com/2009/08/25/vv-and-nnsa-advanced-strategic-computing-at-lanl/ Here and here. http://danhughes.auditblogs.com/2009/06/24/verification-and-validation-are-critically-important/ I sent a slightly revised copy of the comment on the Proposed CO2 Ruling, given in this post, to Ms. Lisa jackson, Administrator of EPA. The letter to Ms. jackson is shown below. I received a reply from Rona Birnbaum, Chief, Climate Science & Impacts Branch, Climate Change ... http://danhughes.auditblogs.com/2009/06/10/epa-hq-and-software-quality-assurance/