The Peace Movement comes full circle – doing Chimpy Bushitler’s work.
The Toronto Star gets letters.
The Proton *Kaboom* has a nice ring to it.
A global warming consensus census.
Yours in the comments.
(And please – stop feeding the trolls.)
The Peace Movement comes full circle – doing Chimpy Bushitler’s work.
The Toronto Star gets letters.
The Proton *Kaboom* has a nice ring to it.
A global warming consensus census.
Yours in the comments.
(And please – stop feeding the trolls.)
Vaclav Klaus wrote:
The highly publicized forecasts made by some leading environmentalists are based on experimental simulations of very complicated forecasting models that have not been found very reliable when explaining past developments. They were mostly done by software engineers, not by scientists themselves.
Software that is hard to learn/understand, outputs pretty graphics and (by its nature is) easy to manipulate (its conclusions) is a good way to fool some of the people all of the time. If those “some of the people” don’t ask basic questions about the GIGO phenomenon and do take the resulting information at face value, well…
Many people these days know how to use consumer-level software and have generally gotten good results with web browsers, “Word”, fairly simple image editors/HTML generators, and similar programs. But, with some complex software, a simple, obscure checkbox enabled or disabled in the background can make a HUGE difference in the output.
“They were mostly done by software engineers” Vaclav Klaus
He wouldn’t be thinking of this guy, would he ?
Tim Lambert (deltoidblog AT gmail.com) is a computer scientist at the University of New South Wales.
What’s In A Name ?
That city in Japan — Kyoto — the one the United Nations made [in]famous, will miss the targets. By a lot.
[Car emissions in Japan are up by 18% as more people drive, and home emissions are up by over 37% as more people live longer, live alone and have more appliances] Ethical(?) Corporation
http://www.ethicalcorp.com/content.asp?contentid=5506
So what does Ali al-Naimi, Saudi’s Arabia’s powerful Oil Minister have to say about todays high world oil prices ??
Fine with him ? Nope.
Should go higher ? Nope.
It’s because there is none left ? Nope.
[he blamed “pessimists,” “gurus” and “experts” preaching Peak Oil that are “agitating the speculators”] Globe Investor
RIYADH — The world’s biggest oil producer thinks the price of crude should be closer to $60 (U.S.) a barrel than $100, pointing specifically to the cost of production in Alberta’s oil sands as a likely long-term benchmark for the commodity.
60 dollars a barrel !! Instead of a hundred.
“pessimists,” “gurus” and “experts”, eh ?
Thank you Al Gore, David Suzuki and Maurice Strong.
Because of you, the little guy is paying through the nose and making Big Oil rich.
http://www.globeinvestor.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20071113.wenergyopec1113/GIStory/
My wife is from Malaysia and drove a Proton (licensed built copy of the Camry) I have also driven different models. I suspect that most Malaysians would want Proton to improve the quality control rather than give them a compass. This appears to be a stunt to sell cars, which sales are suffering from competition. Also Proton tried previously to setup a deal with Iran that fell through.
Interesting note, Protons sold in Malaysia have no heaters, but have great A/C.
Breaking News Ex-Premier Lorne Calvert attacked by wolves
http://www.saskabush.com/cgi-bin/csNews/csNews.cgi?database=2007%2edb&command=viewone&id=3&op=t