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Hansen is concatenating two time series data Which climate has to be sets by “biassing” one, in terms of the other ?

Hansen Frees the Code « Climate Audit 2007

Those who have to do with God in the matter of gospel obedience, and know what it is indeed to “serve him under temptations,” can tell you another manner of story; and among them Mr Goodwin could do so to the purpose, if his thoughts were not prejudiced by any biassing opinions that must be leaned unto.

The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 1616-1683 1966

As the ungainly old tub surged slowly out of the little harbour, her worn-out and generally used-up appearance would have given a Board of Trade Inspector the nightmare; the piratical looks of her crowd were enough to frighten a shipload of passengers into fits; but to us who had seen their performances in all weathers, and under all circumstances, accidental externals had no weight in biassing our high opinion of them all.

The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales Frank T. Bullen 1886

What ballads were to the sixteenth century, romances are to ours, – the constant companions of young people's leisure hours; biassing them to virtue or misleading them to vice.

The Scottish Chiefs 1875

However, this is beside the question; and I want to avoid biassing your decision in any way.

Afloat at Last A Sailor Boy's Log of his Life at Sea William Heysham Overend 1874

I am delighted by what you say of Albert; it is just the proper line for him to take, without biassing you either way, to show you honestly the consequences which in his opinion the one or the other may have.

The Letters of Queen Victoria, Volume 1 (of 3), 1837-1843) A Selection from Her Majesty's Correspondence Between the Years 1837 and 1861 Queen of Great Britain Victoria 1860

He takes the greatest interest in what goes on, feeling with and for me, and yet abstaining as he ought from biassing me either way, though we talk much on the subject, and his judgment is, as you say, good and mild ....

The Letters of Queen Victoria, Volume 1 (of 3), 1837-1843) A Selection from Her Majesty's Correspondence Between the Years 1837 and 1861 Queen of Great Britain Victoria 1860

And she reiterates: 'The method of Providence with me is evidently that of “cross-biassing,” as Herbert hath it.

Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli Ossoli, Margaret F 1851

Silently, freely, and with no biassing influence, in the unapproachable chambers of her own thoughts did she weigh the real character of Eaverson, as far as she could understand it, against what was merely external and personal.

Married Life: its shadows and sunshine 1847

There seems to be so much parallelism in the kind of variation from my experiment, which was certainly a cross, and what Mr. Masters has observed, that I cannot help suspecting that his peas were crossed by bees, which I have seen well dusted with the pollen of the sweet pea; but then I wish this, and how hard it is to prevent one's wish biassing one's judgment!

More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 Charles Darwin 1845