Reader Tips

Reader Tips 35 Comments

Speakers’ Corner at London’s Hyde Park has been Logorrhoea Central since 1872. Tonight, we look at a sampling of the perspectives aired out on one particular day in 1986.
As the old saying goes, opinions are like apples: everybody has one. Or something like that.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.

The Sound Of Settled Science

Climate Cult Unsettled Science 13 Comments

Judith Curry;

Nicholas Lewis and I have just published a study in Climate Dynamics that shows the best estimate for transient climate response is 1.33 degrees Celsius with a likely range of 1.05-1.80 degrees Celsius. Using an observation-based energy-balance approach, our calculations used the same data for the effects on the Earth’s energy balance of changes in greenhouse gases, aerosols and other drivers of climate change given by the IPCC’s latest report.
We also estimated what the long-term warming from a doubling of carbon-dioxide concentrations would be, once the deep ocean had warmed up. Our estimates of sensitivity, both over a 70-year time-frame and long term, are far lower than the average values of sensitivity determined from global climate models that are used for warming projections. Also our ranges are narrower, with far lower upper limits than reported by the IPCC’s latest report. Even our upper limits lie below the average values of climate models.
Our paper is not an outlier.

It’s Probably Nothing

It's Probably Nothing 52 Comments

Don’t panic. It’s really, really hard to catch.

A second Dallas hospital worker who provided care for the first Ebola patient diagnosed in the U.S. has tested positive for the disease, pointing to lapses beyond how one individual may have donned and removed personal protective garb.
It’s not clear how the second worker contracted the virus. Authorities declined to say what position she holds at the hospital or the type of care she provided to Thomas Eric Duncan, who was diagnosed with Ebola after coming to the U.S. from Liberia. Duncan died Oct. 8.
Officials have said they also don’t know how the first health worker, a nurse, became infected. But the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said “an additional health care worker testing positive for Ebola is a serious concern.”

Related protocol breach: 16 Members of Doctors Without Borders Infected with Ebola, Nine Dead
Plenty more at Instapundit: If you say the government is too big, the response is Oh, you want to starve infectious-disease control for funding? but when you give them the money, they spend it on lesbian-obesity studies instead, and are woefully unprepared for the kind of actual crisis the government is supposed to protect against.
CALM YOURSELVES. The Experts Are In Control:


That’s right. They “monitor” Ebola exposed health workers all the way to the departure gate.

The Tolerant Left

The Tolerant Left 34 Comments

Believe it, baby;

“The city of Houston has issued subpoenas demanding that a group of pastors turn over any sermons dealing with homosexuality, gender identity, or criticism about Annise Parker.” “Any failure to reply to the subpoenas could mean that the ministers will be held in contempt of court.” It must be noted that Annise Parker is the city’s first openly lesbian mayor.

The World Is Being Run By Crazy People

It's Probably Nothing 46 Comments

Dr. Lynne M. Saddler is “district director of health for the Northern Kentucky Health Department”. She argues that a seasonal respiratory virus with a death rate of under 1% is a greater threat than Ebola. Yes, she actually does this;

Last year, more than 1,300 Northern Kentucky residents had this illness, and, sadly, five of them died. Nationwide, about 200,000 are hospitalized and up to 49,000 people die each year.
Sound scary? The illness I’ve just described is not Ebola.

Well, no shit.
Related: The Centers for Disease Control Loses Its Grip

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