Comments on: More on Acton’s “Investigation”

By: A.D. Everard

A.D. Everard — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 22:04:16 +0000

Or possibly C.J. Ev-something – don’t discount a middle name.

By: Jeff Alberts

Jeff Alberts — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 15:08:50 +0000

ROTFL

By: coalsoffire

coalsoffire — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 05:08:38 +0000

This site has gone pretty quiet and the rumour is the Steve is in NZ looking after a family crisis, but I ran across proof that he may be doing a little extra curricular work, not uncommon for a feisty Canadian:

By: seanbrady

seanbrady — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 21:57:38 +0000

I think I saw Acton’s interrogation once in a movie …

[spooky music]

PROFESSOR ACTON: Stop!
BRIFFA: Who are you?
ACTON: We are the Investigators Who Send … Emails!
BRIFFA: No! Not the Investigators Who Send Emails!
HEAD KNIGHT: The same!
JONES (aside to Briffa): Who are they?
BRIFFA (aside to Jones): Those who receive them seldom live to publish another proxy!
ACTON: The Investigators Who Send Emails demand … a sacrifice!
BRIFFA: Oh, Investigators Who Send Emails, we are but simple scientists who seek publish studies and clean out our inboxes every once and again.
ACTON: (hits send)
BRIFFA: Ow! Ow! Ow! Agh!
ACTON: We shall send you emails until you appease us.
BRIFFA: Well, what is it you want?
ACTON: We want … a reply!
[dramatic chord]
BRIFFA: A what?
ACTON: (hits send again)
BRIFFA and JONES: Ow! Oh!
BRIFFA: Please, please! No more! We will send you a reply.
ACTON: You must respond to our email or else you will never publish again!
BRIFFA: O Investigators Who Send Emails, you are just and fair, and we will respond to your email with a lengthy reply.
ACTON: One that looks persuasive.
BRIFFA: Of course.
ACTON: And not too formal.
BRIFFA: Yes.
ACTON: Now… go!

By: teddyadams

teddyadams — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 09:17:13 +0000

It seems to me like this investigation is going nowhere. It just keeps going from investigation to investigation and months pass inbetween. It’s probably still going to drag out for months to come.

By: Matthew W

Matthew W — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 14:48:32 +0000

Isn’t all of this a fantastic reason to simply redo the investigation?

By: Brian H

Brian H — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 01:21:07 +0000

Acton mercilessly extracted a denial from Briffa by email. He’s a pit bull!

By: JT

JT — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 00:19:15 +0000

“Also beware of wrinkles such as a quota for amount of storage on the server, which motivates users to either delete emails they don’t consider worth keeping and/or move emails to local storage.”

I also work for a government and this sort of thing happens quite often. What gets saved and what gets deleted is left entirely up to the discretion of the email account holder. We get messages from the sysadmin telling us our email account storage is full so please delete some emails.

By: hro001

hro001 — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 07:57:50 +0000

re: David Holland (Jan 25 10:37 AM)

Now I have to get submission in to the Tribunal on a Met Office case.

All this, and the MET office, too?! David, I truly respect and admire your fortitude and perseverance in taking on these Goliaths (or should that be Goliarths, obeying the injunction from Gaia to go forth and multi-lie?!) Perhaps Andrew's next (eminently readable) book will be a history your trials and tribulations on the battlefield of the "climate wars"?

By: pottereaton

pottereaton — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 17:38:40 +0000

Well, six white horses that you did promise
Were fin’lly delivered down to the penitentiary
But to live outside the law, you must be honest
I know you always say that you agree . . .

Dylan