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Well, if you read real sources of news (i.e. not the BBC, sadly) you might have heard about a particularly suspect piece of code found in the CRU data leak. Here is that code (click to enlarge): And here is the chart this produces when you plot a baseline value of "1.0" (click to enlarge): ...
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It is sad to say, but the old British Broadcasting Corporation has proven itself to be nothing other than a propaganda arm for the wannabe totalitarians behind the whole " global warming is going to kill us all if we don't cede political power to an unelected elite who will save us from ...
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Got this from my Facebook page: We are very sad to have to tell you that Eric Woolfson passed away in the early hours of this morning after a long and brave battle with cancer. He very much enjoyed seeing all your kind comments and posts on this Facebook page and his family wanted to thank you ...
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Another jaw dropper: Global Warming And Glacier Melt-Down Debate: A Tempest In A Teapot?” Vijay Kumar Raina, a senior glaciologist and an avid mountaineer himself, has carefully analyzed some 20 glaciers to document retreat as well as advance of some of the glaciers and has cautiously ...
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Global Warming
...And he's just as dumb as he always is . Granted, he's not the only dumb as a box of rocks idiot out there these days. You can always look at Charles Johnson who is so out of his depth it's really sort of sad. In Charles' world when police bust someone for drugs and the suspect says "But I'm ...
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Paul Krugman
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Really, what passes for "science" these days is
hysterical. From the BBC: Climate 'is a major cause'...
of conflict in Africa Climate has been a major driver of armed conflict in Africa, research shows - and future warming is likely to increase the ...
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Environmental Determinism Makes A Comeback
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Not when it comes to "saving the planet" it seems. Notice this from New York Times science "reporter" Andy Revkin: Private Climate Conversations on Display A thick file of private emails and unpublished documents generated by an array of climate scientists over 13 years was obtained by a ...
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Literally, My God. Here is what I have come across in the CRU email dump. In a "conversation" between Mike Mann and Phil Jones we get the following series of emails : First up Mann: Phil--thought I should let you know that its official now that I'll be moving to Penn State next Fall. I'll be ...
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Roger Pielke Sr has put his finger on the most damning aspect of the information resulting from the CRU hack, and it came from a comment today made in "defense" of the authors involved. A comment at "Real Climate" asked: It would be nice to get comments from the authors for lines like this. ...
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I mean that literally. I think this will turn out to be bullshit: Hadley Climate Research Unit has been hacked Supposedly, someone broke into CRU and swiped a huge amount of files (emails and the like) and dumped them out on the web. Included (so they say) is an email which seems to show open ...
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Keith Olbermann
Courtesy of Reuters: Northern, western U.S. bracing for warm December Oh my God! Watch out!! Here comes mild weather! AUGHHHHHH! Oh, the humanity.
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Here is the story from the Des Moines Register: Folks in Clinton see jobs, not fear Mention the massive prison across the Mississippi River and you see a lot of smiles in this city. People here know all about the federal government's tentative plans to transfer alleged terrorists from the ...
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So it begins: Mammogram Recommendations Could Reverse Years of Progress I'm upset about the controversial decision by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force—an agency appointed by HHS, the federal department at the center of healthcare reform—to recommend that women not begin regular ...
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Barack Obama
The Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society conducted a survey of broadcast meteorologists on arious aspects of climate change (still a stupid term). The results were interesting to say the least . Statement: "Respond to this IPCC conclusion: 'Most of the warming since 1950 is very ...
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I read this story on California droughts , and came upon the following claim about Arctic sea ice: "If there is a connection to Arctic sea ice then there are big implications for us in California," Montañez said. Arctic sea ice has declined by about 3 percent a year over the past three decades ...
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...because I was already getting tired of the Winter weather in October. NOAA has finally released the October report which confirms this past October as the third coldest on record for the United States. It was colder than average almost everywhere: Additionally, it is interesting to note ...
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Literally loony, as in separated from reality by a large measure. Take the scapegoating of the U.S. in this article: With the U.S. Congress still unable to agree on climate legislation that would make major reductions in greenhouse gases, European officials said Thursday they have given up on ...
