Mr. Pete kindly extended his Climate Audit Assistant and modified my blog comments.php file to play well with his script. I asked him to do this because he knows the comment.php organization that helps his CA Assistant re-organize my comments fields. He described the changes he made as follows:
There should be almost no visible difference on your website. All the changes are hidden:
* Proper DOM structure around the comments
* Each comment is tagged with a proper ID, allowing replies to link to old comments.
* tagged structure around comment authors, dates, and text content
* that latter addition means your site allows hiding old-comment text while retaining the context (author and date). Only you and RomanM have this so far.
* I also fixed a niggle: your comment form always began with some tab characters that indent the first line… I cleaned it up.I’ve modified the CA Assistant to take advantage of this. The new version is already out there.
If you use CA-Assistant, you’ll find the new comment entry field is awesome!!! It will help you insert html for images, subscripts, superscripts etc. When I enter these, they survive WordPress’s filters– you give it a try and we’ll see if that’s only because I have special administrator powers. (If it’s unique to me, I’ll see if I can tweak wordpress not to strip the html!)
Thanks Mr. Pete. This is great!
If you want the CA assistant, you’ll find the installation instructions at Climate Audit
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cool editor Lucia. thanks Mr pete
Mr Pete, you rock
It looks like RealClimate has not passed any comments through moderation for the last 24 hours. Anyone know what is going on? Gavin looking for a better job?
Tilo,
They only let thru TWO types of comments:
A; skeptics saying silly things ( hey we all do )
B: warmists having the appearence of intelligence. ( its ben known to happen)
On this topic that combination is the null set.
Steve,
I’m not saying that just my comments are not getting through. I’m saying that there have been no comments from anyone for about 27 hours that have been posted on any thread. That’s a little unusual.
I recall someone here (not this post) was “mocking” the possibility of prosecutions… well well look what we have here
http://www.climategate.com/climategate-professor-phil-jones-could-face-ten-years-on-fraud-charges
You see ICO is not really in charge…
UNited Kingdom Fraud Act 2006 might be enacted in this particular case we shall see
BTW I personally would not like to see Prof Jones Jailed its way over the top. However if guilty should be prosecuted and told not to do that again and go home and have a beer!
vg,
Yes, I mocked the possibility of prosecutions. Still do.
Re: Tilo Reber (Jan 28 22:13),
You are right; there are no comments since Jan. 27 and that is unusual.
Maybe Gavin is seriously ill? Let’s hope not.
Lucias Comment#31455, might be Climategate fever, aversion to making/allowing public comment.
1) Love the new tools. Very nice.
2) I agree with David Gould that prosecutions are highly unlikely. Technically, vg is right thatconspiring to avoid compliance with FOI requirements is potentially a more serious crime than noncompliance with FOI. But I can’t imagine any prosecutor wanting to try to criminalize puerile academic misbehavior. Why would anyone bother?
Re: CoRev (Jan 29 07:17),
Comments have now appeared with some from this morning. So, whatever happened, they now have comments.
I for one do not want to see any prosecution. A prosecution risks the outcome of a not guilty. It’s far better for Jones to stay in place. That way a cloud of suspicion hangs over CRU forever.
I would much rather write : Phil Jones, director of CRU, who narrowly escaped prosecution because of a loophole in the law, a loophole that now has been closed, had this to say about the issue…”
ya, I should TM that. Or “Phil Jones, scofflaw who got off scot free on a loophole,”
ya, makes for much better copy. I welcome the case where there is no prosecution.
Maybe he steps down.
“CRU, formerly one the world’s most renown climate science center, continues to publish work in the area of paleoclimatolgy, headed now by Keith Briffa, who succeeded the disgraced scofflaw Phil Jones.”
On the other hand they could…
1. Stop their effort to get confidential data into the system.
2. Open up their code.
3. Invite in a IV&V team.
You dont clean house by prosecutions or resignations. you clean house by fixing the problem. If I were Phil Jones and wanted to save my reputation I’d take the lead on being more open. I would play the “dont make my mistake, card.” he needs to look at how celebrities handle these matters and stop listening to the lame PR people that he and mann have been listening to. Listen to Moshpit Phil. You publicly invite your critics to co author with you. Offense Phil, get on Offense.
Re: steven mosher ,
“You dont clean house by prosecutions or resignations. you clean house by fixing the problem.”
Or you could build another house. Instead of flogging CRU to make them do it your way, why not start up some competition?
“A prosecution risks the outcome of a not guilty. It’s far better for Jones to stay in place. That way a cloud of suspicion hangs over CRU forever.”
I like it when you post your real agenda.