“Well, the big difference here and in ’94 was you’ve got me*.”
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Let The Wailing Begin
Canada has just become the first Western government to cut off aid to UNRWA, the UN agency that runs Palestinian “refugee” camps and does so much to abuse and radicalize Palestinians and prevent any resolution of the conflict.
More at the National Post
Y2Kyoto: Heads Up, Mr. Polar Bear
Your World Wildlife fifteen minutes appear to be up.
(Bengal tigers rely on dry land platforms to hunt their natural diet of Bangladeshis.)
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| Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here are B. B. King and The Robert Cray Band, featuring Jimmie Vaughan and Hubert Sumlin, performing Payin’ The Cost To Be The Boss ¤, at the Crossroads Guitar Festival, in 2007 (6:14). |
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A Nation Inspired
Bob Rae in attendance at party reunion.
h/t Canadian Sentinel
World’s Smartest Mouse
h/t Karen P.
A Question of Advertising Transparency
“Will? When? How? How?”
You’d think the giant brains running these corporations could use some of those intellectual gigawatts to come up with their own answers.
You’d also think they’d want to avoid appearances of deception.
Domain Name:CLIMATEAD.ORG
Created On:19-Jan-2010 17:10:17 UTC
Registrant Name:Registration Private
Registrant Organization:Domains by Proxy, Inc.
h/t Eric A.
Green Party Of Canada: Not Irrelevant Enough!
Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
h/t eastern paul
“We were not consulted”
Raymond W. Kelly’s remarks Thursday to The New York Young Republican Club started out sounding very boilerplate – like a speech by any of the City’s mayors, police officials, and tourism execs: “Crime is down, tourism is up, come to Times Square and see a show.” So why had the NY Post’s Maggie Haberman announced his appearance as “unusual” and “surprising”?
By the time it was over, it was clear why. We had witnessed this politically independent, world-class police commissioner quietly employ a few dry statistics and facts to slide an anvil off a ledge, allowing gravity to deliver its full weight upon Barack Obama’s head.
h/t BB
Y2Kyoto: Sponsored In Part By The World Wildlife Fund
Donna Laframboise has been playing with the AR4 search function;
When one types “WWF” into an AR4 search box dozens of references are returned.
For example, a WWF report is cited twice on this page as the only supporting proof of IPCC statements about coastal developments in Latin America. A WWF report is referenced twice by the IPCC’s Working Group II in it concluding statements. There, the IPCC depends on the WWF to define what the global average per capita “ecological footprint” is compared to the ecological footprint of central and Eastern Europe.
Elsewhere, when discussing “mudflows and avalanches” linked to melting glaciers, the oh-so-scientifically-circumspect IPCC relies on two sources to make its point – an apparently still unpublished paper delivered to a conference five years earlier (Bhadra, 2002) and a WWF document.
Similarly, the only reason the IPCC can declare that “Changes in climate are affecting many mountain glaciers, with rapid glacier retreat documented in the Himalayas, Greenland, the European Alps, the Andes Cordillera and East Africa” is because a WWF reportmakes this claim.
In a section on coral reefs and mangroves, a WWF report is the IPCC’s sole reason for believing that, in “the Mesoamerican reef there are up to 25 times more fish of some species on reefs close to mangrove areas than in areas where mangroves have been destroyed.”
When the IPCC advises world leaders that “climate change is very likely to produce significant impacts on selected marine fish and shellfish (Baker, 2005)” it doesn’t call attention to the fact that the sole authority on which this statement rests is a WWF workshop project report….
Nice work. Be sure to distribute it widely.
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| Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here is Vladimir Horowitz performing Franz Schubert‘s Impromptu in G♭ Major ¤, D.899, in Vienna (7:28). |
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We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Fans
“So I think what this article is saying, is that the rednecks of NASCAR are smarter than the scientists.”
h/t
The Sound Of Settled Science
“…hide this after Jim checks it.”
First, grab a coffee.
The Sound Of All Hell Breaking Loose: True Confessions
Like a snowball…
The UN’s top climate change body has issued an unprecedented apology over its flawed prediction that Himalayan glaciers were likely to disappear by 2035.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) said yesterday that the prediction in its landmark 2007 report was “poorly substantiated” and resulted from a lapse in standards. “In drafting the paragraph in question the clear and well-established standards of evidence, required by the IPCC procedures, were not applied properly,” the panel said. “The chair, vice-chair and co-chairs of the IPCC regret the poor application of IPCC procedures in this instance.”
The scientist behind the bogus claim in a Nobel Prize-winning UN report that Himalayan glaciers will have melted by 2035 last night admitted it was included purely to put political pressure on world leaders.
Dr Murari Lal also said he was well aware the statement, in the 2007 report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), did not rest on peer-reviewed scientific research.
In an interview with The Mail on Sunday, Dr Lal, the co-ordinating lead author of the report’s chapter on Asia, said: ‘It related to several countries in this region and their water sources. We thought that if we can highlight it, it will impact policy-makers and politicians and encourage them to take some concrete action.
Jonathan Leake’s story at the Time is Online, linking Pauchari’s TERI organization to government funding grants that were solicited using the bogus “Himalayan glaciers will disappear by 2035″ claim.
Christopher Booker of the Telegraph has a story that shows Pachauri’s own employee at TERI was the source of the bogus glacier claim. Now the corruption comes full circle.
Stay tuned….
Update: The Purge Begins at NASA
A Nation Inspired
Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
Professional journalist;
About 300 people assembled in the snow at the University of Winnipeg to show their displeasure with the federal government’s decision to take an extended holiday break.
Citizen photojournalist;
(photo credit to reader “Maurice”, in Winnipeg.)
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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here is the Eugen Maersk, II, III, IV, V, episode of Mega Builders: “Building the World’s Largest Container Ship”, from the Odense Steel Shipyard, in Denmark, in 2008. The Danish registered Eugen Maersk is 398 meters or 1,305 feet long, and 56 meters or 154 feet wide, and she has a deadweight of 156,907 tons. Her Wartsila diesel engine delivers up to 90 megawatts (about 120 thousand horsepower), and she has the world’s largest propeller (with a diameter of 9.5 meters or 31 feet). And for your ease of reference, here’s a link to our November 14, 2009, Late Nite Radio show on large ship engines.
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The Sound Of Settled Science
In much the same way that temperature changes recorded in Saskatoon are representative of changes in Seattle… (Or Florida).
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If you aren’t by now alarmed that public policy makers are about to tax us to the tune of billions on the say-so of charlatans such as this, there’s something amiss with your cognitive abilities.
Is There Nothing That Obama Can’t Do?
Watch the video.
h/t Looking Glass
Update – Well, sure, it was for the press.It doesn’t stop it from looking pretty damned ridiculous in that setting.
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| Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here is Grace Jones (one of our favourite contraltos) performing Walking in the Rain ¤ § in 1981 (4:21). |
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Marketing Campaigns Of The Apocalypse
“Holiday Inn, operator of over 4,000 hotels worldwide, will begin to offer a free five-minute “human bed warming service” at it’s London Kensington hotel throughout next week.”