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No surprise, but the Brits have determined that climate scientists broke the law when they hid and/or destroyed data that was requested under a Freedom of Information request. Its unfortunate that they can't be prosecuted because it seems that the statute of limitations has already passed. (What a great law. You can request data of a certain type but of an unknown quantity, they refuse - or even give you some but not all data,...
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More errors in the UN climate change document? Surely not. The science is settled. There is a consensus. How could the report have so many errors in it when its been so thoroughly peer-reviewed. The Indian head of the UN climate change panel defended his position today even as further errors were identified in the panel's assessment of Himalayan glaciers. Its almost like they just changed the data to fit the desired results. And as...
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The IPCC had to climb down and admit that some of their vaunted value-added data was actually based on an apparently incorrect quotation from a news article, and not on any peer-reviewed science. How's that consensus holding up?...
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So when the CRU says they only have the "value-added (quality controlled and homogenised) data" on climate change, its important to have a picture of what their adjustments looked like. I'm sure its just an amazing coincidence that the adjustments to the temperature data got bigger and bigger over the last few decades of the 20th century, perfectly mirroring the ultimate results of their climate study. So, in total, they've found that temps in the...
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Charles is going a bit over-the-top with his global warming posts lately. The Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia is one of the most reputable and respected centers of climate science in the world... Perhaps it was up until a couple of weeks ago. Right now, a good chunk of those paying attention should at least have some doubts about them. Give it 3-6 months and we'll see how reputable and respected...
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When I got the audio book of Andrew Meier's The Lost Spy: An American in Stalin's Secret Service, I expected to be about a stereotypical spy - or at least something close. Instead, the book is about a guy that believed in the Soviet ideals, offered his help, and ended up somewhat stuck inside a spy system doing menial work (on the spy scale) and becoming ever more fearful of what his minders would do...
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I just finished up reading The Human Disguise by James O'Neal. I'm really stuck on reading dystopian future books, and this one was supposed to be a bit of a change for me. But it was more of the same - just with the addition of a new race of beings into the mix. Its actually a pretty good book. It'd probably make a good action film....
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I didn't realize that Chuck Pahlaniuk had a new book out. already been described as "The Manchurian Candidate meets South Park" - an appropriate mash-up comparison of high and low culture. The book is paranoid, political and ruthlessly subversive, while simultaneously super gross. Sounds right up my alley. Buy Pygmy from Amazon....
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The fitting process alone makes me want to buy some Ping clubs....
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Cool-looking upcoming sci-fi movie: Hunter Prey. I just wonder whether all the characters look like Boba Fett?...
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Nuts & Bolts chess set....
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Jeff @ Protien Wisdom hits the nail on the head with regards to the AIG bonus tax passed by the House. If Congress suddenly discovers that it can take away money that they decide that someone doesn't deserve, if we let them get away with that, there'll be no stopping them. All that will be necessary is to gin up the necessary "outrage" that someone got more than they should have. So ask yourself; how...
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In the mail this week: The Dakota Cipher from William Dietrich. Looks interesting - like an Indiana Jones type adventure....
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Yet another ethically challenged Obama appointment - our new 'urban czar' never paid his contractor that remodeled his home 2 years ago. The same contractor was a key player in a Bronx development that needed approval from Carrion, then the Bronx borough president. Also, Obama's pick for chairman of the National Intelligence Council - Chas Freeman - has pulled out because he was being criticized for being anti-Israel....
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