Mike,

I think you have taken things out of context
regarding a hypothetical regarding someone
else's comment - it's quite possible that
you may not have understood what was written
originally and what the give and take exchange
at the time was.

If you actually wish a cite from whence I extracted
the below material I would be more than happy to
supply it.

You should know by now that I am willing to back
up what I put forward here. Has that not been
apparent? Am I to be judged so harshly on
so little? Is this the Eastern hemisphere way?
(See, two can play that game!)


RF Jim

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Singer" <mike@POLUOSTROV.NET>
To: <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2002 12:37 AM
Subject: Re: [OT]: Soviet 5-year plan responsible for jaded temp readings?


> Jim wrote:
> > I ran across this doing some web research:
> >
> > + - + - + - + - + - + - + - + - + - + - + - + - + -
> >
> > In the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
> > (encompassing one-sixth of the land surface of the
> > planet), falsification of data of all kinds was a
> > way of life, especially during the Stalin,
> > Khrushchev and Brezhnev eras when statistics were
> > routinely altered to avoid problems with the planning
> > bureaucracy.
> >
> > Thus the accuracy of Soviet historical data is dependent
> > on whether local officials found it necessary, for
> > economic reasons, to overstate or understate their
> > recorded temperatures. Anomalies in fuel allocations for
> > transport, industry and heating under the rigid Communist
> > 5-year plans amounts to a powerful incentive for
> > falsifying temperature data in some Soviet communities.
> >
> > + - + - + - + - + - + - + - + - + - + - + - + - + - + - + -
> >
> > Tainted data - what tainted data.
> >
> > I don't know of any tainted data ...
> >
>
>
>
> Was not it you, who wrote 9-July-2002 in
> " Re: [OT]: Happy birthday USA":
> .
> > Perhaps THE WORLD would have been better off NOW
> > should Hitler have come to power in all of Europe.
> .
>  Now you write results of "some web research",
> without referencing to any resources you used.
> Is this Dr. Gebbels' style of discussion usual
> in the US?
>
>  Mike.
>
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