Bloggers: an army of irregulars. Advice for the BBC – from a BBC journalist.
Donato is now writing cartoons.
WSJ Online;
National Academy of Sciences said it had agreed to a request from Congress to assess how well researchers understand the history of temperatures on earth.
The study by the academy, an independent advisory body based in Washington, will focus on the “hockey stick,” a chart of past temperatures that critics say is inaccurate. The graph gets its name because of the sudden, blade-like rise of recent temperatures compared with past epochs.
“It�ll probably show up as an episode of the Sopranos next year”. By the way – as the latest media reports allege Gretzky was taped months ago asking how to keep Janet’s name out of the investigation – why did she bet on the Superbowl?
(Speaking of Janet Gretzky… listening to phone-ins on a variety of talk and sports shows over the past two days, the poor woman was demoted in the space of a few hours from “Wayne Gretzky’s wife” to “Janet Jones Gretzky” to “Janet Jones” to “that American woman he married” …)
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Phantom “Tell you what Jose. You go figure out a way to weld steel so it doesn’t leak hydrogen and I’ll be the first in line for hydrogen fuel.”
We’re not going to use fuel cells. They were an idea that looked like it might have some promise about seven years ago but there’s much better power storing technology now like upgraded Lithium Ion. And further down the pike we have two new insanely good technologies using carbon nanotubes.
When that technology hits Canadian Tire you won’t need much more convincing at that point.
also by Phantom “As for peer review, I refer your trusting self to the medical literature on gun control. A more gawd awful pile of politically motivated falsehood you’ll never see, every single paper peer reviewed. Medical literature, mind you.”
Is there a 1000-0 study consensus on gun control? Far from ithere’s no consesus. I’m a lefty and I don’t think Canada’s gun laws needed tightening after Mark Lepine. Culture is the most important factor in determining gun crime not ownership. Canadians are a pretty decent bunch so they don’t shoot each other too much (although the recent surge of gun violence is troubling) even though we have shitloads of guns.
The social sciences are something of a misnomer. Economics, pyschology and sociology are the closest thing we have nowadays to alchemy. Climatology isn’t such a science, its boils down to physics and chemistry. Those are two fields that don’t have a left wing bias.
How about this we get rid of gun control in exchange for pilot projects using a few mid sized towns as test beds for our most promising alternative energy technologies?
Jose, can you see? It was Abrahammm; it’s in the Korun, just nearby to Gabriel’s horn. >> more
http://www.globalwarming.org/article.php?uid=163
Jose, do you even have a clue about the hockey stick controversy? Quite simply two Canadian “amateurs”, McKitrick & McIntyre, looked at the “peer-reviewed” study by Mann et. al. and found serious errors in the data, which Mann continuously tried to withhold from them, and serious errors in his statistical techniques. It seems that just about any data you feed into Mann’s statistical model will produce a “hockey stick.” And yes, their research has been published in peer-reviewed journals.
You can read up on some of their findings here.
And has you probably well know, the peers that review the articles almost never look at the actual data sets collected. That’s why you can have totally bogus research published by such as frauds as the Korean stem cell researcher.
Omigosh, Jose, now you’re on to consensus and “insanely good technologies using carbon nanotubes”. Pray tell, will they also get discarded, like fuel cells after how many $ has been spent on them and after how we’ve been told repeatedly that they’re the answer?
“In a way this is all moot. Alternative energies are looking set to trump fossils economicaly eventually anyways.”
Great! You admit then that Kyoto is useless.
Tell you what … you help get rid of Kyoto, and we’ll help fund your nanotubes.
TimR-
There’s plenty of dissenting opinions on a number of studies to be sure. But the global warming argument doesn’t rest on one study. There are 982 of them sthe last time I checked.
maz2
I’ve never seen anything on http://www.globalwarming.com that wasn’t a press release by some anti-global warming think tank myself. I’ll just refer you back to my previous post about publishing opinions. If a couple of scientists want to make a case for the 15th century being hotter let them publish it. I couldn’t follow your link. This isn’t another press release is it?
To the best of my knowledge a number of other research teams have replicated these findings so I suspect they’ve got a tough case to make.
I’d reccomend http://www.realclimate.org/ (and no its not my only source) you’ll disagree with most of the items to be sure but they publish dissenting opinions which is more than http://www.globalwarming.com does. Try to pick up a political bias in those articles. I think you’ll have a hard time finding it.
Jose: Is consensus science? Wasn’t there a consensus once that the sun travelled around the earth, and didn’t people die for disagreeing with that consensus. Have you any faith at all in elaborate mathematical computer models as reliable predictors. For example, no one has been able to successfully predict market and economic trends with models. I’ve got a sizeable hole in my net worth to prove that.
Studies: While many studies are funded by satanic BIG OIL, aren’t a lot of academic studies funded by government already committed to global warmming, and in Canada could you get a plug nickle of government dough for research if you were known to be sceptical of global warming?
Phantom: hearty agreement with your point about “peer reviews” on gun control and medical literature. Look at the issue of hormone replacement for menapausal women; strongly recommended, then deadly, and now they’ve reversed course again. Gotta be dough involved there somewhere.
The truth is that today everything is horribly politicized, even buying a chocolate bar or a cup of coffee!
Jon- “Pray tell, will they also get discarded, like fuel cells after how many $ has been spent on them and after how we’ve been told repeatedly that they’re the answer?”
We didn’t discard fuel cells, we never implemented them.
I wasn’t calling for a government R&D project. There’s shitloads of private investment here. But a countries transportation and energy infrastructure is a different story. The government has to be involved here.
Gwyn equates Prime Minister Harper with….? Trudeau. Both obsessed with the “M” word: majority.
As a previous commenter said, “Gwyn gets it”. Gwyn also delineates Harper’s not-hidden agenda. Gwyn baptises Harper as a rarity among Canadian political leaders: a rara avis, indeed: A Conservative rara avis!
Well, did Gwyn not read this blog? This was said here months ago. (Ahem: (just a little gloat)).
>>>>>
Prime Minister obsessed with majority
Excerpt:
Beyond the personal there is the ideological. Harper’s most considerable accomplishment during the election that just ended was to convince voters to stop searching for his “hidden agenda.”
Among Canadian political leaders, Harper is a rarity � think of Pierre Trudeau. He’s a true believer.
Not about the kind of banning of same-sex marriages stuff that bothered many city voters. He is, instead, a true economic conservative. Far more so than former prime minister Brian Mulroney, for example.
Real economic reform � far smaller government, (devolution to the provinces is a good way to attain this, incidentally); tax cuts and more tax cuts; closer integration with the U.S. � is far too strong a dose of policy medicine to be administered to Canadians by a messy, unpredictable, emotion-driven, minority government.
To do it will require a controlled, organized, systematic, cool, majority government. That’s Harper’s real agenda. To give him credit, it’s not in the least hidden. >>> http://www.rapp.org/url/?6JM3YUOG
Pedro ” Is consensus science?”
No. Good science always has rigorous and continous internal debate. That’s a process that never stops.
Debates in science can last for centuries.
Pedro ” For example, no one has been able to successfully predict market and economic trends with models”
I don’t pay much attention to economic projections myself. Times are changing too fast for the ugly stepchild of the science family to cope with the complexity of it.
It goes like this: Physics A+, Chemistry A-, Biology B+, Medicine C-, Economics F IMHO
This is a remarkable post by Wretchard; a keeper. He quotes Tennyson; let us quote Clough also:
And not by eastern windows only,
When daylight comes, comes in the light,
In front the sun climbs slow, how slowly,
But westward, look! the land is bright.
http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/9771/
>>>>>
The young and the old
There’s a really remarkable interview with Lebanese writer Pierre Akel (hat tip: Dean’s World) that opens a window on the present intellectual conflicts within the Arab and Islamic world. Akel’s website, Middle East Transparent gets 50-60K hits per day — comparable to the largest blogs in the world. It’s largely a forum for what may be termed “liberals”, a term which has a vastly different meaning from similar words in the West. Here are excerpts from the interview.
Akel: We get our articles by email from practically every Arab country. … You can find liberals in unexpected places. Ahmad bin Baz, the son of the late mufti of Saudi Arabia, is certainly a liberal. He wrote stunning articles in Al-Sharq al-Awsat newspaper, but then was shelved. …In the Arab world, much more than in the West, we can genuinely talk of a blog revolution. Arab culture has been decimated during the last 50 years. Arab newspapers are mainly under Saudi control. The book market is practically dead. Some of the best authors pay to have their books published in the order of 3,000 copies for a market of 150 million. This is ridiculous. Even when people write, they face censorship at every level�other than their own conscious or unconscious censorship. Meanwhile, professional journalism is rare.
The liberals are frozen out of the Islamic intellectual mainstream. In its place is the propaganda of dictatorship and terrorism. Akel describes something of how that propaganda apparatus works..
Akel: When it comes to satellite television in the region, Al-Jazeera is controlled by the Muslim Brotherhood, while many of the rest are under Saudi control. Al-Arabiya, for example, is owned by the Al-Ibrahim, the brothers-in-law of the late King Fahd. Even the Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation cannot cross certain Saudi red lines. Yes, you can hear a liberal point of view here and there. But, to take one example, both Abdul Halim Khaddam, the former Syrian vice president who turned against the regime of President Bashar Assad, and Riad Turk, the Syrian dissident, have been under a Saudi ban from Al-Arabiya for the last month, because the Saudi leadership does not now want to annoy the Assad regime. For once, Al-Jazeera has also banned them, but for Qatari political reasons. Qatar is lobbying on behalf of the Syrian regime in Europe.
But if the liberals are opposed to the dictatorships within the Arab world, their world view is not entirely the same as those of American conservatives. It would be surprising if it were. >>> http://www.fallbackbelmont.blogspot.com/
“We didn’t discard fuel cells, we never implemented them”.
That’s a big shock to these people (depending on who ‘we’ are and where ‘here’ is) …
http://www.fuelcellscanada.ca/demos.html
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5906605/
http://www.hydrogenhighway.com/hhstory022.htm
Maybe they didn’t get the memo.
Jose, you’re keen and tenacious, and appear to have a passionate curiosity about things. And you jump around like a jackrabbit. When I saw the A+ in Physics, I knew you’re OK. But, please, don’t lose your curiosity.
More from the interview:
“I am especially proud to say that, soon, half of our writers shall be women. Usually, I receive letters from potential authors asking what “our conditions” are for accepting contributions. We answer back that we are a democratic and liberal Web site, with no censorship or red lines.” >>
http://www.metransparent.com/texts/michael_young_interview_with_metransparent_pierre_akel.htm
Congratulations are due to Bloggers, Donato and Congress!
Rich people gambling on rich people playing games? whatever…
I have to agree with The Phantom.
What we need to look at here is why was this info leaked at this time?
No charges were laid so by leaking the info it would just compromise the investigation.
Moon Bat cospiracy theory is
The Americans can’t beat us on the ice so they intentionally leaked this info at this time to try and make our Hockey team lose focus thus giving the Americans the upper hand.
I just hope Wayne charges them with deflamation of character and slander to make them pay.
Show your support to our innocent until proven guilty athletes in any way possible. We need to stand together to stop this outrageous slander campaign at such an inopportune time.
Global warnming Bla Bla
Just legislate the manditory production and use of higher octane gasolines.
Europe’s lowest octane gas is somewhere around 99 while here in Canada we all use 87% octane.
You can go farther with less gas and emitt less fumes by using higher octane gasolines. We can call it Can-Oto. The impact would be immediate and the cost of having only one grade of gasoline would more than mitigate itself with the requirement for less infrastructure with the three greades we now have.
The Chief Electoral Officer of Canada, Jean‑Pierre Kingsley, announced that the judicial recount in the electoral district of Desneth��Missinippi�Churchill River (Saskatchewan) was completed today. The recount was conducted by Justice A. R. Rothery of the Court of Queen’s Bench of Saskatchewan.
At the 39th general election held on January 23, 2006, the difference between the Liberal Party of Canada candidate, Gary Merasty, and the Conservative Party of Canada candidate, Jeremy Harrison, was 73 votes in favour of Gary Merasty. Following the judicial recount, the difference between the two candidates is 67 votes.
the results
Donato… Yeah baby! *2 thumbs*
Border guards leave post at Peace Arch crossing
Updated Fri. Feb. 10 2006 11:32 PM ET
CTV.ca News Staff
Canadian border guards abandoned the Peace Arch crossing in British Columbia after hearing an armed and dangerous American was trying to enter Canada.
The unarmed guards have a clause in their contract that allows them to leave their job if they think they’re in danger.
They invoked the clause Friday night for the second time in a month.
The report of a fugitive turned out to be false. >
http://www.rapp.org/url/?6SFZ8HIY
via nealenews
Jose,
As an environmental geologist, I thought I’d throw my two cents in. I have been very interested in the global warming theory for the past 8 years, and my views have changed significantly over them.
I’m not going to give you ‘peer reviewed’ articles, there are actually tons of them, but I don’t have the time to put them up for you. Here are a few websites that DO post up peer-review skeptics views quite often.
Junk Science
Global Warming
Climate Audit(can’t look at the Real Climate site without also looking at this one)
Climate Science
CO2 Science(good source of peer reviewed articles)
I could keep going for awhile, including the above mentioned FOS site (which does have reference to peer-reviewed articles, last time I checked that is.
In my personal opinion, from information gathered over the years is that ‘yes’, C02 has an effect on the temperature, however it does not seem to be a major, even measurable effect on it. The number one effect on climate will always be the sun, the number one GHG will always be water vapour. And if we want to survive the next few centuries, we need to learn to adapt to an ever-natural climate change in positive and negative directions.
The Mohammed Dance
Like the hamster dance, but with 100% more blasphemy: Mohammed Dance. (Hat tip: Kesher Talk.)
via LGF
http://www.mohammeddance.com/
More: The Hampster Dance & The Jesus Dance
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