The Sound Of Settled Science
Study Confirms Computer Simulations Unable To Accurately Predict Precipitation”
The vast, multi-billion expenditure on tools that can’t accurately predict may indeed further needed climate research, but as for model outputs being a sound foundation for policymakers, they’re worthless.
This new study confirms that conclusion. Since policymakers need to thoughtfully plan for changes in future precipitation levels, this peer reviewed research makes it clear computer simulations are inappropriate and misleading tools to base policy on.
But Glenn Beck Is The Crazy One
We Are All Comrades Now
Greenpeace jumps the Beluga;
Russians aren’t very fond of Greenpeace. The majority of people polled by the VTsIOM public opinion research centre aren’t disapproving of the arrest of the ecologists who climbed the Prirazlomnaya oil rig but suspect other motives to be behind the Prirazlomnaya action apart from environmental protection.
In the West, there seems to be no particular fondness for Greenpeace either. The Internet is full of sarcastic comments on the “adventures” of Greenpeace activists in the Arctic.
An Inconvenient Clitoridectomy
Elizabeth May joins Afghanistan delegation at climate change conference.
Tomorrow we launch the Send A Periwinkle Sheet to Elizabeth May Campaign.
Are you wearing a big blue sack over your head? Because that would be so cool. @ElizabethMay http://t.co/bY1MkZ45EE
— Katewerk (@katewerk) November 20, 2013
Reader Tips
Tonight we watch a short video, about a Queensland couple named Bill and Glad Forward, that answers the question What Is Love?
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
Honey, I Finished The Internet
Snowflake photography. (h/t Wayne R.)
We Don’t Need No Stinking French Fry Grease
U.S. Rep. Peter Welch, D-Vt., says it’s time to pull the plug on America’s commitment to manufacturing ethanol as a way to reduce the country’s dependence on foreign oil. “It’s been a flop,” Welch said in an interview last week. “It was well intentioned, but it’s been a flop.”
Welch said he began revising his views on ethanol following discussions with Franklin County farmers who told them that ethanol in gasoline was wrecking the engines of their farm machinery and driving up the cost of feed corn.
h/t peterj
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Peace Be Upon Him
Curiously enough, in his version of the speech, President Barack Obama’s delivery contained an omission – in a line that every other celebrity delivered as “that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom,” the President left out the words “under God.”
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
Who’s Katherine Monk? Postmedia columnist says Rex Murphy hates Trudeau because he’s too ugly to “get laid”. (h/t EBD)
This Is Awkward
Via Alex Hern on Twitter, we find that the Obamacare website has attempted website attacks in its search box, automatically prompted for you if you type or mistype the right letters or punctuation.
This tells us a few things: there is a lack of polish in the Healthcare.gov website, there are many people who want to break into the website, and there isn’t much confidence in the security of the website. All of these things should be troubling to people with data in that system.
Update: “There are actual live vulnerabilities on the site now,” David Kennedy, head of computer security consulting firm TrustedSec LLC, told Reuters ahead of his testimony at a Congressional hearing on the topic “Is My Data on HealthCare.gov Secure?”
Falsified Employment Numbers
Is there nothing that Obama can’t do?
In the home stretch of the 2012 presidential campaign, from August to September, the unemployment rate fell sharply — raising eyebrows from Wall Street to Washington.
The decline — from 8.1 percent in August to 7.8 percent in September — might not have been all it seemed. The numbers, according to a reliable source, were manipulated.
And the Census Bureau, which does the unemployment survey, knew it.
[…]
The Census employee caught faking the results is Julius Buckmon, according to confidential Census documents obtained by The Post. Buckmon told me in an interview this past weekend that he was told to make up information by higher-ups at Census.
Where they got the idea remains a mystery.
Flashback – They unemployment rate “truthers”.
Reader Tips
Tonight, we take a roller-coaster ride on the Animated Sheet Music for legendary saxophonist John Coltrane’s signature tune “Giant Steps.” If you feel inclined, play along at home!
h/t
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
YNoKyoto
At least 10 London banks have scaled back or closed their carbon trading desks amid turmoil in the European emissions trading scheme.
The fledgling market was once seen as a promising growth area, with the City of London Corporation predicting in 2006 that London would become the leading provider of services to the “mushrooming” sector.
But the number of City workers employed on carbon desks has fallen by 70 per cent in the past four years, according to Anthony Hobley, president of the Climate Markets & Investors Association.
The workforce had fallen from close to a thousand to just a couple of hundred, Mr Hobley estimated, as carbon prices have plummeted.
Come For The Socialism
Stay for the body odour.
Via
Breaking: Explosion In Calgary
@calgaryherald @CTVCalgary HUGE explosion just now in NW calgary by Lafarge plant. pic.twitter.com/3eWmhNFKDE
— Pahfoh (@Pahfoh_) November 18, 2013
Updates: Conflicting reports on location.
New report says gravel pit blasting. Back to your Toronto City Hall regular coverage.
The Children Are Our Future
And that’s why I’m child-proofing my basement.
h/t Harry
If You Like Your “Heard It On The News” Denial
You can keep it.
It was a jaw dropping moment of naked self revelation, and the more one reflects on it the more striking it becomes. The President of the United States didn’t know that his major domestic priority wasn’t ready for prime time–and he thinks that sharing this news with us will somehow make it better. It is moments of this kind that give epithets like “Carteresque” their sting.
No, he was lying again.
O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas
Hear my prayer.
h/t Iowa Jim