telegraph.co.uk - 1/15/2009
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A surreal scientific blunder last week raised a huge question mark about the temperature records that underpin the worldwide alarm over global warming. On Monday, Nasa's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), which is run by Al Gore's chief scientific ally, Dr James Hansen, and is one of ...
news.yahoo.com - 1/21/2009
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news.yahoo.com —
AP - President Barack Obama announced on his
first day in office Wednesday that he is freezing...
the pay of the about a hundred White House employees who make over $100,000 a year.
(more)
Obama freezing some aides' salaries
(AP)
politicalnewslive.blogspot.com - 1/21/2009
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politicalnewslive.blogspot.com —
President Barack Obama announced on his first day
in office Wednesday that he is freezing the pay...
of about a hundred White House employees who make over $100,000 a year.
(more)
Video: Obama freezing some aides' salaries
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Back to the Future/That ’70s Show
Brain-Terminal.com —
... with faulty data, global warming has been re-branded as “climate change.” That way, any time there’s a change in temperature, they can claim it as evidence supporting their beliefs. (Of course, since the dawn of Earth’s history, continual change has been the only constant with respect to the climate. So, by definition, anyone predicting the climate will change is always going to be proven correct eventually.) ...
It Seemed Like a Good Idea At The Time…
No Runny Eggs —
... of his fears about sea-level rise, Hansen said he had pressed both Britain’s Royal Society and the US National Academy of Sciences to carry out an urgent investigation of the state of the planet’s ice-caps.
The response? Radio silence:
However, nothing had come of his proposals.
If rational thought and sound science were applied, I have no doubt that Congress would shelve Hansen, along with his increasingly questionable dataand focus on more pressing matters. The problem is that Congress ...
Q: Faked Antarctic Data Another “Honest Mistake” by the Global Warming Crowd?
Flopping Aces —
... Remember last Fall when we had the highly unusual snow fall in London at the same time the Al Gore’s chief scientific ally, Dr James Hansen of NASA was telling everyone that October was the hottest month on record? Only later did we learn Hansen used temperature data from September. Oopss! Just as Democrats are fond of covering their asses with the phrase ...
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