Of the signatories [to the petition] so far, Happer says, 77 are fellows of major scientific societies, 14 members of the National Academies, one is a Nobel laureate, and there is a large number of authors of major scientific books and recipients of prizes and awards for scientific research. He adds: "Some have accepted a career risk by signing the petition. The 230 odd signatories can hardly be dismissed as lightweights compared to those who spread the message of impending climate disaster." One estimate from a free-market group says that 12 of the 26 scientists who wrote the relevant section of a U.N. global warming report are "up to their necks in ClimateGate." |
Wednesday, December 09, 2009
12 O 26
Yikes
Intrigued by the curious shape of the average of the homogenized Darwin records, I then went to see how they had homogenized each of the individual station records. Yikes again, double yikes! What on earth justifies that adjustment? |
Tuesday, December 08, 2009
The Cost Of Watermelons
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No More Blue Pills In Iran
The leader of the Green Movement, Mir Hossein Mousavi, got very angry. His wife had been assaulted yesterday by regime thugs, who unleashed pepper spray at her face when she attempted to join the demonstrations.
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Today's (Most Excellent) Watermelon Update
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A New Kind Of "Democracy"
Many years ago, I learned that under the American model of governance, Congress (the representative of the people) enacted legislation; the executive branch implemented the legislation; and the Supreme Court became involved, in rare instances, at the back end of the process.
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Loons Are As Loons Do
It is particularly inflammatory because it sidelines the UN negotiating process and suggests that rich countries are desperate for world leaders to have a text to work from when they arrive next week. |
Tax Cuts For The Rich?
The Tax Foundation reported last week that more than 143 million individual income tax returns were filed in 2007, and 46.6 million of those returns had a zero or negative tax liability, setting a new record for the number of “non-payers.” There were an additional 15 million people in 2007 who did not earn enough income to file a tax return, bringing the total number of Americans who paid no federal income taxes to more than 61 million, or 39 percent of the tax-eligible population (158 million including filers plus non-filers).
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Monday, December 07, 2009
2255
However, in hard science journals, the graph above would be considered
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outsOurced
(The specific link doesn't seem to be working right now [FIXED: It's here.]. Just scroll down, it's worth actually reading.)
You Have Only Heard The Words
My dear European student friends, especially those coming from western |
Revolution Against The O
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The Easy Path
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Climate Of Fear
I've had some correspondence over the last few days with a well-known writer. We've been discussing people who might want to review my book, but it has not been an easy task.
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Thievery: Shadow Party Edition
If Exxon Mobil can't compete in the Caribbean with Petrobras, the value of Soros's Petrobras investment will skyrocket. That's the sort of thievery that lies behind the Democratic Party's deliberate hobbling of the American economy. |
Opportunity
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"Independence"
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Eradication
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The Faithful II: North Korea At Night
All over town, the message being trumpeted is the same one reiterated in Sunday’s Times: that the science of this stuff is all settled, period, and that all that remains is to act. Indeed it’s being trumpeted so loudly and ubiquitously that Copenhagen, on second thought, doesn’t feel so much like the Vatican as it does, say, Havana or Pyongyang. Stroll around awhile and you’ll keep encountering giant banners or posters or displays designed to ensure that the great unwashed don’t lose sight of the orthodoxy to which they’re expected to pay mindless obeisance. On the side of one church, for example, a banner three stories high proclaims that it’s “TIME FOR CLIMATE JUSTICE.” Is it a stretch, by the way, to drag Pyongyang into this? I don’t think so. You know that famous picture of Earth at night, which shows the civilized countries ablaze with light while North Korea is pitch dark? That darkness, after all, is what these characters are proposing for all of us, and for our posterity |
The Faithful
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Ironies Of History II: Remember Pearl Harbor
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Ironies Of History
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Statistics Are Not Even Kept
In addition to the government-provided arms, there are few restrictions on buying weapons.
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You Must Eat Watermelon
We're a nation of laws, and, in Tidwell's mind, that means not that we are free but that we need law telling us every last thing we ought to do: Individual voluntary action is a big distraction from what we really need — compulsion. |
Servants
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The Tools For That Are Guns
Sunday, December 06, 2009
The Big Cutoff
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Don Wagner permalink
‘nice column you got there Andy……be a shame if it caught fire or sumpthin…………..
The climate scientific method at work
Shot While Attempting To Escape
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Tied Up And Gagged
The scientists have been tied up and gagged in the back room. I hate that. We were there screaming our lungs out all along.
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Stopped Clock Watch -- Climaquiddick Edition
Russia – one of the world’s largest producers and users of oil and gas – has a vested interest in opposing sweeping new agreements to cut emissions |
Hot Air
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