Talk:James Spann

message: I wanted to link to these articles, but they don't exist:
*money trail
*scientific conclusion
I think a "money trail" shows who is behind an initiative, who supports it financially. Like a person or government which sponsors a front group.
And what is the character of a scientific conclusion? How do scientists decide what their research or experiments mean? Is the "scientific method" a format for writing a peer-reviewed journal article, or the actual mental steps that scientists follow? --Uncle Ed 14:51, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
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message: I am a 82 year old retiree Agronomist.  In 2005, I downloaded long-time annual average temperature records from over 200 US weather reporting locations, plus nearly 100 from other nations, like Canada, the UK, Denmark, Iceland, Greenland, the Faroe Islands, and Norway. I wanted to prove to myself if there was Global Warming. 
If one is to define Global Warming as a period of perhaps as many as 10 or more years when the annual average temperature was warmer than ever before recorded, in other words a "unique occurence", then the period of the 1980's does not qualify.  When you look at data from hundreds of weather reporting locations as I did, you can find in most instances where there is 80 or more years of data available to look at, times in the past decades that were as warm or very nearly as warm as anything we have experienced in recent years.  
I like to use what I call a "Temperature Trend Line" to evaluate what is going on.  For every single location which I downloaded data from, I ran a regression on the data.  Year became "X" and the annual temperature became "Y". There were 47 US locations from which I downloaded data having 80 or more years of data.  The average "Temperature Trend Line" for these 47 locations was -0.0003 degrees F., per century.  In almost every instance, the last year of the series was 2004, as I did this in January of 2005.
When I expanded the number of locations to include all 83 that had 60 or more years, the average "Temperature Trend Line" was about 
+0.2 degrees F., per century.  THAT IS NOT GLOBAL WARMING!
Yes I know it warmed in the 1980's.  At the rate of +10.0000 degrees F., per century.
Beginning in the decade of 1910-1920, I have computed "Temperature Trend Lines" for each decade. To be included in one of these decades, I imposed a criteria of no missing years for any and all locations to be included in the group.  EVERY DECADE, prior to 1980-1990 had a negative "Temperature Trend Line".  The average for the seven decades prior to 1980-1990 was about -3.3 degrees per decade.
As I have said above, the "Temperature Trend Line" for 1980-1990 was +10 degrees.  So the temperature trend made an abrupt change beginning with the 1980-1990 decade.  What happened for the decade of 1990-2000?  It once again became negative, at the rate of -3.723 degrees  F., per century.  For the 7 years 1998-2004, the "Temperature Trend" was at the rate of -23.2143 degrees F., per century.  
Would someone please explain how it is that carbon dioxide continues to increase in the atmosphere, on an almost straight line basis, but if carbon dioxide is causing the climate change, then how is it that the "Temperature Trend Line" abruptly changed direction between the decades of 1980-1990 and the 1990-2000, and it has continued to trend downward ever since 1990?  Carbon dioxide absolutely cannot be causing the temperature changes!!!!
Also, I have 18 locations from which I found no missing years of data for the 1930-1939, and also for 1995-2004 periods.  I ran a statistical test, (Analysis of Variance), on these data.  I found that the average temperature for the 18 locations for 1930-1939 was 0.6 degrees F., WARMER than was the average for 1995-2004!!!
The difference was statistically proven at better than a 300 to 1 probability.  For years NASA tried to convince us that 1998 was the hottest year ever recorded.  Then last fall, some alert blogger found an error in the NASA data, and they now admit that the hottest year on record has been 1934.  It just so happens that of those 47 locations I mentioned above, with 80 or more years of data, 1934 was the hottest year for that group of "long-time" records.  
For Iceland, I have long-time data from 8 locations.  6 of the 8 have "Temperature Trend Lines" showing negative trends.  
One other item. About a year ago there was a statement in numerous media sources telling us that "Eleven of the 12 hottest years on record had occured since 1995".  So I proceded to check this out with a total of 72 locations from which I had long-time (80 or more years of data).  Included were the 47 from the US with 80 or more years of data, and also 25 from northern Europe, most of which had 100 or more years.  Since I did not have the data in my records for 2005 and 2006, I just made the silly asumption that those were #1 and #2 in the ranking from hottest to coolest years.  I then ranked each of these 72 locations from hottest to coolest, and tested them against the MEDIA statement.  With 2005 and 2006 indicated as the two hottest, then I went down the list looking for another 9 years since 1995, that were included in the top 10 of actual data I had ranked.  NOT ONE LOCATION EVEN CAME CLOSE TO AGREEING WITH THAT ABSOLUTELY AND TOTALLY PROPAGANDA STATEMENT
Nuff said.  If I can help you in any way to counter the propaganda and lies being put out by the environmentalists and media, please feel free to contact me at:
Wayne Byerly
(Address and such removed - inappropriate for Wikipedia)
Thanks for your consideration.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.119.9.214 (talk) 23:46, 19 June 2008 (UTC)
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message: Some anon IP editor made some edits to this article and entered the edit summary, "This famous individual's article is clear to viewers of many readers."  That's one of the more bizarre edit summaries I've ever seen. Just sayin'. - Realkyhick (Talk to me) 14:51, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
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message: Sadads, with edit summary "Career: adding a bit more clarification", inserted }} (Sadads also removed some content.) Peter Gulutzan, with edit summary "Undid revision 1096375636 by Sadads (talk) Contentious label sourced to anonymous blog post, in a BLP.", reverted. Sadads, with edit summary "Undid revision 1097748348 by Peter Gulutzan (talk) well respected source for the space (climate journalism) and the readded content is blp violation, and self promotional)", re-inserted. The source is https://www.desmogblog.com, and if there is attribution to an author I am unable to see it. It does not directly state that Mr Spann is a climate denier. I am only concerned with the sentence that Sadads added; I do not know whether the material that Sadads removed was self-promotional. Any other opinions? Peter Gulutzan (talk) 14:42, 12 July 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: For some of the material that Sadads removed, I found the first insertion. The words about how Mr Spann's departure from WBRC "made local headlines" etc. were added in 2007 by Realkyhick. The words about Hurricane Frederic etc. were added in 2018  by 142.196.25.187. I still don't know why Sadads says the additions were "blp violation, and self promotional". Peter Gulutzan (talk) 14:19, 15 July 2022 (UTC)
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message: I'm surprised that there isn't a picture of Mr. Spann on his Wikipedia page. You'd think someone would be able to provide a rights-cleared picture of Mr. Spann and his suspenders. ProfessorTom (talk) 19:07, 9 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Picture of Mr. Spann