Hear my prayer. (h/t Iowa Jim)
O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas
Alberta Human Rights Commission: Bridging The Incompetence Gap
In the Feb. 6 decision, they ruled that it was discrimination to hold foreign-born “engineers” to Canada’s professional standards.
They ordered APEGA to pay Mihaly $10,000 in cash. And they ordered APEGA to contact Mihaly’s schools back in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, to find out if in fact Mihaly was a good engineer. Not by testing him. But by talking to the schools over there, decades after Mihaly left.
They had to do more, too. They had to convene a panel of foreign-born Alberta engineers to help Mihaly. They had to find him a mentor. They had to help him find networking parties to go to.
The Sound Of Settled Science
One of the Met Office’s most senior experts yesterday made a dramatic intervention in the climate change debate by insisting there is no link between the storms that have battered Britain and global warming.
Mat Collins, a Professor in climate systems at Exeter University, said the storms have been driven by the jet stream – the high-speed current of air that girdles the globe – which has been ‘stuck’ further south than usual.
Professor Collins told The Mail on Sunday: ‘There is no evidence that global warming can cause the jet stream to get stuck in the way it has this winter. If this is due to climate change, it is outside our knowledge.’
His statement carries particular significance because he is an internationally acknowledged expert on climate computer models and forecasts, and his university post is jointly funded by the Met Office.
Prof Collins is also a senior adviser – a ‘co-ordinating lead author’ – for the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). His statement appears to contradict Met Office chief scientist Dame Julia Slingo.
Related: Climate change, or weather? This chart explains…
Al Gore: “Sterilisation Macht Frei”
I don’t know. Does Africa have enough trains?
Y2Kyoto: State Of Anorexia Envirosa
California, of course.
Please, Asteroid
Y2Kyoto: Cold Enough For Ya?
Because accuracy improves as distance from the target increases:
If you think it just couldn’t be possible for any weather outfit to perform as poorly as the UK’s Met Office in long-term outlooks (13 out of 14 wrong), think again. It appears the US national weather services are right on their heels when it comes to who can make the all-time least accurate outlooks.
And we’re supposed to believe these people when it comes to their climate forecasting?
Put It Over There Beside The ‘No Smoking’ Sign
O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas
Hear my prayer: California voters in 2008 passed a ballot initiative that require larger enclosures for egg-laying hens. Farmers in California worried the new rules, which would increase their costs, would put them at a competitive disadvantage with egg farms in other states, so the state legislature passed a measure in 2010 to require out-of-state producers to comply with California rules.
Link fixed — sorry!
h/t Edward T.
“Organic” Is The Latin Word For “Grown In Pig Shit”
A fool and her money, no longer parted;
Instead of continuing to wonder, I decided to dig into the literature and talk to toxicologists, horticulturists, risk experts and nutritionists to find out whether the chemicals in conventionally farmed foods could truly pose a risk to my child. What I’ve discovered has totally surprised me…
Notes From The Fringe
Off to pay the Wizard, the Wonderful Wizard of Woonerf….
O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas
Free Barbara Hall!
(shameless ripoff credit*)
The World Is Being Run By Crazy People
And their Canadian headquarters is in Vancouver.
Vancouver-based Alterrus Systems Inc. was just another penny stock outfit with an ugly bottom line. After years of losses, reorganizations, new directions and name changes, the company’s principals — including former Lululemon yoga wear executives -settled on a new line of business: Rooftop lettuce production.
Naturally, they turned to the urban farming enthusiasts at Vancouver City Hall, led by Gregor Robertson, perennial contender for World’s Greenest Mayor.
Turns out, nobody checked the price of lettuce.
h/t peterj
Wynneing!
Ontario is set to raise the minimum wage – retroactively.
Update: a somewhat “better” explanation here.
Y2Kyoto: Caught In The Icy Grip Of Irony
At Climate Audit, a Ship of Fools timeline…
A passenger, who was standing near Turney when Mortimer called the leader from the ship’s VHF radio, recalled their conversation: “Chris, [captain] Igor has just said we need to expedite people back from the islands so we can get out of here,” said Mortimer.
Turney, standing on the ice edge, repeated the message to confirm he had heard right.
“Affirmative,” said Mortimer.
“If I take this lot out, how long can we stay?” Turney said.
Mortimer repeated that everybody needed to get back to the ship.
The passenger was stunned by the conversation, even more so when, a few minutes later, Turney loaded an Argo with six passengers and drove off towards the Islands.
O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas
O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas
Hear my prayer. (h/t peterj)
A Bloggies Award Goes Horribly Wrong
Mischief is important.
Last year the Best Science or Technology Weblog category was dominated entirely by climate science blogs, and 4 of the 5 were skeptics. Not surprisingly Watts Up won for the third time (congrats to Anthony). Tellingly, Skeptical Science withdrew even though the skeptics vote would have been split. (I guess they know their traffic stats.)
This year, the bloggies has quietly announced “Best Science or Technology Weblog has been discontinued”. Ho hum? Have the organizers succumbed to political correctness for fear of letting skeptics win the award again? Seems so.
Now we could lodge a protest, or we could just nominate our favourite blogs for other categories…