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Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
CTV: “New modelling suggests that the Arctic Ocean could be almost ice-free in the summertime as early as 2014, Al Gore warned delegates Monday at the climate change conference in Copenhagen.”
Telegraph: – “Mr Gore said new computer modelling suggests there is a 75 per cent chance of the entire polar ice cap melting during the summertime by 2014. However, he faced embarrassment last night after Dr Wieslav Maslowski, the climatologist whose work the prediction was based on, refuted his claims. “

“The journalism trade journal Editor & Publisher is shutting down after 108 years of publication.”

“If fifty-four newspapers had wanted to make a serious statement about the environment that their readers were sure to pay attention to, they might have stopped printing and distributing their energy intensive product for a day.”
“… for a day” ? Think big, girl!

What did I tell you?

[Pages on Google] …ranked by importance to the general public, against media interest….
1. Climategate: 28,400,000 – 2,930 = 9693
2. Afghanistan: 143,000,000 – 154,145 = 928
3. Obama: 202,000,000 – 252,583 = 800
4. Tiger Woods: 22,500,000 – 46,025 = 489

Related – those who have been following the side story of “Googlegate” are aware of the hijinks with their auto-suggest. It doesn’t end there, however – in recent hours they’ve carried out more purges than Stalin.
As you can see above, a couple of days ago there were over 28 million results for “Climategate”, today – just under half of that. In contrast, Bing’s count has been steadily rising, and currently stands at over 51 million.
Google is also infamous for penalizing the page rank of sites critical of leftist issues (this one included – my page rank was whacked back a couple of months ago, despite the fact that both incoming links and traffic were stable.). Watch for the same to happen to prominent blogs in the skeptic sphere.

The embargo* lifts!
I reckon Vince Carlin’s inbox was dripping blood after the pounding it got over the weekend.
(*Clarification – I was referring to the embargo on publishing comments on the Bob McDonald article.)

(Now, why didn’t I think of this?)

It’s not an extinction. It’s suicide.

h/t Marc

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Update: For Instapundit and Corner readers trying to get up to speed on this scandal, I’ve created this compendium of reference links “Hide the Decline” – the Climategate links. There’s more on the main page.
Be sure to bookmark Climate Audit and WattsUpWithThat, and check back frequently.

No dino graphic this time.
Instead, I’d like to show you something at Macleans.ca

The generals
By Aaron Wherry – Wednesday, November 25, 2009 at 5:49 PM – 2 Comments
Reports from the testimony of Rick Hillier and Michel Gauthier from the Canadian Press, Globe, Star, Sun, CTV, CBC and Inside Politics…
Kandahar: we didn’t know what we were getting into
By John Geddes – Wednesday, November 25, 2009 at 4:16 PM – 7 Comments
Gen. Rick Hillier, the retired chief of defence staff, just moments ago reminded the House committee …
Norwich, we have a problem
By Colby Cosh – Wednesday, November 25, 2009 at 3:28 PM –127 Comments
I can’t say I am spectacularly surprised at the emerging scandal over private e-mails obtained from the servers of the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit,…

I’ve said it before – this week in boardrooms across the industry, media executives are meeting with media experts to hash out yet another strategy, and yet more innovations to address their falling fortunes, every last one of them invested in the unshakable belief that the internet is burying them because it’s faster .
As though the only difference between shit and sunshine is the speed at which they travel.
Related – “I’ve heard about the cutbacks at the NYT and I guess it’s gotten so bad that they no longer allow internet access to reporters. So my news tip is that apparently, there’s some kind of development regarding the scientists behind the global warming data, involving emails or something like that…”
Also, highly recommended.

AP News – “Chavez praises alleged terrorist Carlos the Jackal”
h/t

The Bush Years safely behind them, there are new rules of engagement at the New York Times.

A tale of two business models.

Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:33:57 -0500
From: mike hoyt
Reply-To: cjr-c@lists.jrn.columbia.edu
To: cjr-c@lists.jrn.columbia.edu
Subject: Fort Hood and secondhand information/CJR
Dear reader,
We have some good stuff today on CJR.org, the Web site of the Columbia Journalism Review:
[…]
The Fort Hood Massacre: Be first or be right? Greg Marx measures the ripples of a story that a Texas paper ran with secondhand info that turns out to be wrong
http://www.cjr.org/campaign_desk/when_is_news_fit_to_print.php

Oops…

Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:05:30 -0500
From: mike hoyt
Reply-To: cjr-c@lists.jrn.columbia.edu
To: cjr-c@lists.jrn.columbia.edu
Subject: Fort Hood/error
Dear reader,
Our earlier e-mail message about this story said that the secondhand information in question turned out to be wrong. That is not accurate.
Apologies,
The editors
The Fort Hood Massacre: Be first or be right? Greg Marx measures the ripples of a story that a Texas paper ran with secondhand info

Lots of heat in the CJR comments.

Chicago Tribune reviews “V” – The news media swoons in admiration — one simpering anchorman even shouts at a reporter who asks a tough question: “Why don’t you show some respect?!” The public is likewise smitten, except for a few nut cases who circulate batty rumors on the Internet about the leader’s origins and intentions. The leader, undismayed, offers assurances that are soothing, if also just a tiny bit condescending: “Embracing change is never easy.”
Politico reviews “MSNBC” – While discussing exit polls showing low numbers of younger Democrats heading to the polls in Virginia, Chris Matthews cut off Larry Sabato when talking about the high expectations some might have had for Obama’s first year in office. “They’re wrong and misinformed,” said Matthews. “The netroots people out there that think you can change the Congress overnight legally and civilly are wrong,” Matthews continued. “It takes a strong majority to bring big change. Somebody should have told them that.”
h/t Gord Tulk

“The Center for the Study of Physical and Intellectual Pollution has just released a study that proves that the much anticipated death of the newspaper industry will reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 897,465,000 tons annually.”
The “useful fools” never stopped to consider that the global warming cult might be planning to feed on them last.

They are smart. It’s the button that got stupid.

Of Hugh Hewitt.

A funny thing happened on the way to insulting the audience….