The Sound Of Settled Science
Raw US HCN data matches RSS satellite US data very closely. This tells us that the raw data is fine, and there is no need to adjust it.
But the problem for NOAA is that the raw data doesn’t show any warming, which means no funding, so they cheat by cooling the past and warming the present. The next graph compares their tampered data with the RSS satellite data. The tampered data diverges from satellite data by 1.4ºC per century.
Oh, Shiny Pony!
“When asked if the North Pole belonged to Canada, Liberal leader Justin Trudeau said he would take the advice of scientists.”
Specifically, a scientist he calls Uncle Mo.
O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas
Hear my prayer.
(h/t Revnant Dream)
Green Party Barbeque
Reader Tips
Tonight we try to ward off frostbite by watching a 1969 TV clip of Sérgio Mendes & Brasil ’66 performing Ye Me Lê.
(Trivia note: Lani Hall, the brunette singer whose repeatedly overdubbed vocals gave the group it’s distinct sound, was from Chicago; since she didn’t speak Portuguese, she learned the songs phonetically.)
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
Honey, I Finished The Internet
Winter Sleeping Bag Temperature Ratings: Words of Warning
What’s The Opposite Of Diversity?
It’s Probably Nothing
BREAKING: Mexican nuclear official say stolen container of radioactive material found empty.
— The Associated Press (@AP) December 4, 2013
Update: Material has been found according to Mexican officials.
The Man Who Fell To Earth
Yes, Peggy.
Or, to put it another way, one of the women who helped guilt the American people into electing a transformative Marxist with a dubious background and no governing experience, a man who hang out with domestic terrorists, academic (and activist) anti-Semites, and got his religious counsel from a man steeped in hatred of Whites and Jews, as head of the free world — while simultaneously turning down her nose at figures like Sarah Palin, who has proven over the course of time to be every bit as prescient as Ms Noonan was bamboozed, hoodwinked, and gloriously conned — is now writing to tell us the President is not who he promised he’d be.
Riding Mass Transit Is Like Inviting 20 Random Hitchhikers Into Your Car
Ottawa: Transit special constables have responded to 100 reports of assault and harassment either on buses or near bus stops so far this year. (h/t Ottawa MJ)
Renegade Regulator
On June 10th, Halifax MP Geoff Regan filed an Order Paper in Parliament with 13 questions about the CSA. On November 28th, the Minister of Industry responded.
James Moore is the federal Minister of Industry, and his response to the Order Paper launched a new series of difficulties for the CSA.
The first question on the Order Paper was whether the CSA is “a commercial entity or a regulatory entity.” The Minister responded that “the CSA is not a regulatory entity.” Note that the Minister did not say that the CSA was commercial, only that it wasn’t a regulatory entity.
[…]
The bureaucrats at Industry Canada have therefore advised the Minister to smudge it all over; the CSA is not a regulatory entity but it is not necessarily a commercial entity either. In the legal parlance this is known as trying to suck and blow at the same time.
Oh, Frack
@ezralevant he also states the "smell of methane". Methane has no odour
— Angus Scott (@angusbeef14) December 4, 2013
“Procedural error” update at the Telegram:
NOTE: Through an editor’s error, the letter that follows did not go through The Telegram’s normal verification process, and we have subsequently been unable to reach the individual who sent the correspondence to The Telegram. The Telegram regrets the error.
Reader Tips
In tonight’s entertainment en route to the Tips Frazey Ford, formerly of the Be Good Tanyas, sings One More Cup of Coffee.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
Forward!
Obama Nation: “…it’s not often you get to use the murder of elementary school children as a chance to throw a raucus set of house parties meant to galvanize your constituency into going after those in no way responsible for the monstrous act — all for potential political gain.”
Inconceivable.
As Canadians From Coast to Coast Cry Out For More Parliamentary Navel Polishing
Great Moments In Democratic Governance
Examiner: “The court finds that Detroit was and is insolvent. The court finds that the city was generally not paying its debts as they became due,”
From Bankrupting America;
Also related: “Scoop and Toss” an increasingly popular delaying tactic whereby a state issues new long-term bonds to pay for bonds that are coming due
Take Me, Obama
Not Waiting For The Asteroid
@SketchyTheClown Hi Dave, Josh from the National Post, is there a number I can reach you at? jvisser AT http://t.co/CVCABE7a9K
— Josh Visser (@joshvisser) December 3, 2013
h/t John Groves