A debate among scientists over climate change and conflict has turned ugly. At issue is the question of whether the hotter temperatures and chaotic weather produced by climate change are causing higher rates of violence. A new analysis refutes earlier research that found a link, and the two lead researchers are exchanging some pointed remarks.
I Amuse Myself
Media lecture when mentally ill murder: "Don't fear mentally ill".
Media lecture when muslims murder: "They're mentally ill".
— Katewerk (@katewerk) October 30, 2014
“Did you know it takes a Victoria’s Secret model five hours to unload one box off a truck?”
Well, this is a surprise;
During Isaac, Red Cross supervisors ordered dozens of trucks usually deployed to deliver aid to be driven around nearly empty instead, “just to be seen,” one of the drivers, Jim Dunham, recalls.
“We were sent way down on the Gulf with nothing to give,” Dunham says. The Red Cross’ relief effort was “worse than the storm.”
During Sandy, emergency vehicles were taken away from relief work and assigned to serve as backdrops for press conferences, angering disaster responders on the ground.
I’d have thought they’d be busy training looters.
This Is Awkward
Ghomeshi was offered a chance to walk away, go across the street, and find a comfortable cage in a drive-time Morning Zoo. Some people were initially impressed that he refused to do this and went on Facebook to burn the world’s entire supply of bridges instead. It sort of looked like integrity, if you squinted.
And now there’s a name.
I know the axis isn't set to 0, but I'm enjoying watching the number of likes on Ghomeshi's Facebook post decline. pic.twitter.com/o9R7u4iPGP
— Paul Fairie (@paulisci) October 30, 2014
Y2Kyoto: Lies, Damned Lies, and Temperature Homogenization
Reader Tips
Tonight, acclaimed male vocal quartet The Hilliard Ensemble, sounding remarkably at times like a pipe organ than emits vowel tones, performs a Tudor period song called Absent I am.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
Honey, I Finished The Internet
Is There Nothing That Obama Can’t Do?
DOOMED: President Obama promised Americans this afternoon that “we are going to solve this particular problem” of Ebola just like we’ve solved every other problem.”
h/t Robert of Ottawa
Restoring Science To Its Rightful Place
[The] EPA has stunned observers, with a list of inert additives for pesticide formulations they intend to ban, which includes the noble gas Argon.
Its hard to imagine a more inoffensive substance than Argon. As a noble gas, Argon is chemically inert – it participates in no chemical reactions whatsoever, except under exotic conditions – there are no known chemical compounds which can survive at room temperature which include Argon. Argon is not a greenhouse gas.
[…]
So why on Earth would the EPA plan to ban something as inoffensive as Argon? IceAgeNow has a theory – they think Argon is part of a list supplied by a scientifically illiterate NGO, which the EPA plans to rubber stamp.
Hey, if they can regulate dirt…
Oh, Frack!
Margin Of Fraud
Via Top Right News.
Mann Overboard
Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
Michael Mann: #SarahPalin jumps a #PodOfWhaleSharks, compares climate change ‘Hysteria’ To Eugenics…
The Atlantic: How Engineering the Human Body Could Combat Climate Change
Renegade Regulator
Hewlett-Packard Recalls CSA Certified Products
We know that CSA has been selling influence over legislated standards and that manufacturers have been trading money for influence on CSA standards committees. We also know that CSA safety testing sometimes doesn’t involve any testing at all. We know that in practice, the CSA certification sticker means almost nothing.
What we don’t know is what went wrong with this certification.
Y2Kyoto: State Of Anorexia Envirosa
Purer Than Thou
On entertaining nuttiness, feminist utopias and vanity as virtue:
The narcissism of much of the middle class left is tautological, considering that they are people born into above average affluence who still feel they should get other people’s money because their art, or environmental campaigning, or political thought – rather than their need for subsistence – merits it.
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
The @OttawaCitizen marks Cpl. Nathan Cirillo's funeral day by publishing an op-ed by Muslim terrorist Omar Khadr. http://t.co/CAK4KoPq6Y
— Ezra Levant (@ezralevant) October 28, 2014
Leading The World In Human Sequestration
CBC Ideas: Is Islam the ‘green’ religion?
Reader Tips
Tonight, we watch Adventures With Uncle Bobby, #5: Muskets.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
And How Was Your Day?
Nova Scotia Vapours
Nova Scotia is planning on banning the sale of flavoured e-liquid.
The Nova Scotia Legislature just passed the 2nd reading of Bill 60 and sent it to the Law Ammendments Committee. If there is no public response to this committee – it will likely go forward as is and become law.
If you live in Nova Scotia and have issues with this, this thread has good instructions for helping to stop this.