Climategate: Restoring Science To Its Rightful Place

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Times Online;

The Science Museum is revising the contents of its new climate science gallery to reflect the wave of scepticism that has engulfed the issue in recent months.
The decision by the 100-year-old London museum reveals how deeply scientific institutions have been shaken by the public’s reaction to revelations of malpractice by climate scientists.
The museum is abandoning its previous practice of trying to persuade visitors of the dangers of global warming. It is instead adopting a neutral position, acknowledging that there are legitimate doubts about the impact of man-made emissions on the climate.
Even the title of the £4 million gallery has been changed to reflect the museum’s more circumspect approach. The museum had intended to call it the Climate Change Gallery, but has decided to change this to Climate Science Gallery to avoid being accused of presuming that emissions would change the temperature.

I said she was a bottle genie.
h/t maz2

Reader Tips

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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here are Arthur Fields and the band performing How Ya Gonna Keep ’em Down On The Farm (After They’ve Seen Paree?) (3:17). This 1919 recording, a dialogue between Ruben and his wife, about some of the secondary effects of the First World War, with bandleader Ford Dabney, may be one of the first recordings of a white singer backed by a black band.

“I disapprove of what you say, but I will
defend to the death your right to say it.”
— Evelyn Beatrice Hall

Update: Last night I erroneously attributed the above quote to
Voltaire. Thanks to EBD in the comments for the correct author.

Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.

Coulter “Mobbed” at Ottawa U

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When I heard Coulter was coming to Canada I figured attending the event would be worth the entertainment value, if for nothing other than to witness the unhinged reaction that was sure to follow. Ottawa U didn’t disappoint.
When I arrived there was a line of a few hundred, maybe a thousand people outside the Marion building. A few of them were chanting in front of the cameras but the line was otherwise better behaved than for a typical rock concert. The size of the line was no doubt a bit of a problem because the room held no more than 400 (my estimate).
Since I had registered for the event ahead of time I had no trouble elbowing my way to the front, verifying my name was on the list, getting inside and chatting briefly with Ezra Levant.
After a while the fire alarm went off, the obvious false alarm having been dealt with we sat down expecting the event to start.

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The Tolerant Left

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See? You can yell “fire” in a crowded theatre after all!
Via Rightgirl – “…word is coming out of Ottawa that the Coulter event had to be canceled because volunteers were attacked by “anti-racists”.
Details at the Ottawa Sun. Update: It’s just hit Drudge, making this in all probability, the biggest publicity coup of Ann Coulter’s career.
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Congratulations, Ottawa! She couldn’t have done it without you.

The Obamacare Question Of The Day

Tommy Douglas: Not Dead Enough 53 Comments

So you thought it was hard to find foreign doctors, eh?
Just you wait.
“Dennis” nails it (in the comments):

Obamacare contains a critical contradiction that is bound to result in the total collapse of the American health ins. industry. As the Martin Feldstein article in a November Washington Post article points out, if the fines for not buying ins. are set too low, it’s financially advantageous to pay them and forgo ins. altogether.
Since the bill prohibits health ins. providers from denying ins. based on pre-existing conditions, it may be cheaper in many instances to wait until you are sick before getting coverage.
This will set in motion a progressive unbalancing of health ins. whereby the pool of healthy people in an ins. scheme becomes swamped by the sick. Premiums must therefore skyrocket. But since Obamacare also promises to slap price controls on health ins. the system is set to become vastly unprofitable. At some point not too far down the road, the whole health care ins. system in the U.S. will utterly fail like Chrysler and GM.
At that point, there will be increasing calls for the outright nationalization of the whole mess, which was Obama’s goal all along.

Bingo. “It’s going to be like Christmas”

Blog Notes

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Update: I’m back up now, but the fix seems to have been spontaneous, according to the service guy. If things get really really quiet around here again, you’ll know I’m back down.
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Kate’s Internet connection is down. A service person is supposed to be out sometime today.
For the moment, amuse yourselves in this thread.
Cheers,
lance

It’s On

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Mark Steyn:

I try to be a sunny the-glass-is-one-sixteenth-full kinda guy, but it’s hard to overestimate the magnitude of what the Democrats have accomplished….

Mathew Vadum:

America suffered an atrocity of catastrophic proportions last night and it’s not clear if the nation will ever recover.

David Horowitz:

The President was right about one thing. The vote on Obamacare tonight was a historic one. The Democratic Party has…revealed itself to be an anti-democratic Party and an anti-liberty party. It is a party that has demonstrated its contempt for the Constitutional framework, for the democratic process, and for the expressed will of the American people. Its brazen contempt for the compact that holds the diverse factions of this country together has initiated a political war at home that will extend not only into the next elections but into the next generations….The people of this nation are still sovereign, and their voice will be heard. Tonight’s vote was lost but it is not the end of the battle. It is the beginning.

From the “Idaho Health Freedom Act”, passed last week:

The power to require or regulate a person’s choice in the mode of securing health care services, or to impose a penalty related thereto, is not found in the Constitution of the United States of America, and is therefore a power reserved to the people pursuant to the Ninth Amendment, and to the several states pursuant to the Tenth Amendment. The state of Idaho hereby exercises its sovereign power to declare the public policy of the state of Idaho regarding the right of all persons residing in the state of Idaho in choosing the mode of securing health care services.

It is hereby declared that the public policy of the state of Idaho, consistent with our constitutionally recognized and inalienable rights of liberty, is that every person within the state of Idaho is and shall be free to choose or decline to choose any mode of securing health care services without penalty or threat of penalty.

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