Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
December, 2009…
Climate science faces a new controversy after the Met Office denounced research from the Copenhagen summit which suggested that global warming could raise sea levels by 6ft by 2100…
Y2Kyoto: The Short Answer
Just as accuracy improves with increased distance from the target;
The obvious response to these claims is that if we cannot predict weather features such as the Arctic oscillation or an El Niño under current climate, how can anyone credibly claim we have predictive skill decades into the future from both natural and human caused climate forcings? The short answer is that they cannot.
“They want to kill every Christian, every Jew, every Hindu who won`t convert.”
CAVUTO: You`re okay with, in this case, profiling?
KOCH: Absolutely. All I care about is that, when I get on that plane, I want to have a reasonable assurance that I`m going to land safely….
CAVUTO: And you also mentioned about the message we`re sending the world when we try to step back from calling this for what it is-
KOCH: Right.
CAVUTO: -a war. Now, the administration`s tried to avoid that to have better relations and to reach out–
KOCH: Has it helped?
CAVUTO–to those 1.4 billion Muslims.
KOCH: Has it helped?
CAVUTO: Well, his approval and America`s regard has gone up in those countries. He says and they say–
KOCH: Isn`t that nice? Did they stop trying to kill us?
Related – your security is in the very best of hands.
Local Economies Matter
Via Eric Anderson
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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here is a series of three advertisements, from Volkswagen, entitled Unpimp Your Ride ¤, II ¤, and III ¤. Watch them twice: first to experience the intended impact, and then again, preferably at full- screen size, stopping and starting them over & over to produce freeze- frame effects. Notice the backgrounds & the foregrounds, the staging, and the actions you missed the first time. Notice the production values. What a species! And to be so rich as a civilization to be able to spend our massive intelligence on such details: That’s the real luxury.
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There Went His Chance At Owning A Football Team
The top Democrat in the U.S. Senate apologized on Saturday for comments he made about Barack Obama’s race during the 2008 presidential bid and are quoted in a yet-to-be-released book about the campaign.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada described in private then-Sen. Barack Obama as “light skinned” and “with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.”
The Sound Of Settled Journalism
It’s not a profession. It’s a tribe.
So, “climate change denial” is widely rumored to have been the last straw. Perhaps sensing the loquacious Newfoundlander would prompt unneeded bad PR if sacked; I’m told [Globe and Mail Editor in Chief John] Stackhouse offered to move him to Mondays. As evidenced by the quick decampment to the National Post, it seems that went over like a tonne of bricks with Murphy.
The move was announced this past Thursday by Peter Mansbridge on CBC’s the National, where Murphy still resides as one of the few opinion columnists left on television.
I was going to write something about how the mainstream media were once in the business of investigating cover-ups, while today they’re unindicted co-conspirators, or some other blah-blah-nonsense like that.
But to tell you the truth – that’s not entirely correct. The media powers of decades past were just as dedicated to the complete and utter concealment of inconvenient truth as they are today.
Ask yourself – if Nixon had been a Democrat, would East Anglia have a “gate”?
I don’t think so, either. The only thing that’s really changed is their success at pulling it off – along with their success at selling the product.
I call that progress on two fronts.
(h/t Gord Tulk)
The War On Man-Caused Disaster
Bringing a monthly status report to a Semtex fight.
Climategate: I Find That Hard To Believe
“Would you believe that at this very moment, this Climate Research Center is being surrounded by one hundred cops with Doberman pinschers. Would you believe it? A hundred cops with Doberman pinschers.”*
(Via)
Y2Kyoto: The Gore Effect
“Hey, Al, how’s all that global warming working out for you?”
Indeed.
Camp Arifjan Military Working Dogs
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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. While Pink Floyd‘s 1969 album, Ummagumma, with its classic Astronomy Domine, was certainly a seminal work in psychedelic rock history, I think it was their Meddle album (a copy of which I purchased in 1971) that cemented their position in the Pantheon. (It wasn’t until after I bought Meddle that I purchased a copy of Ummagumma.) Echoes and San Tropez are two of my three favourite songs from Meddle; tonight, for your delectation, here is a rendition of my other favourite thereto: Pink Floyd performing One Of These Days ¤ § during a concert from their Division Bell Tour, an instance of which I happened to attend on June 28, 1994 (7:02).
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Catch The Blue Train
He Won’t Need No Stinking Personal Wardrobe
Police make arrest in Canadian pipeline bombings
Police arrested a man Friday in connection with a series of oil and gas pipeline bombings in northeastern British Columbia.
Royal Canadian Mounted Police Inspector Tim Shields said a man in his 50s or 60s was taken into custody on a farm in the western Alberta town of Hythe. Police did not release the suspect’s name pending the filing of formal charges.
About a dozen officers conducted a search of the farm, Shield said.
Oh, why it’s Wiebo Ludwig, again.
Ford owners can follow developments here.
h/t Dave H.
Not Waiting For The Asteroid
The Bottle Genie
The auto industry’s green efforts to meet strict new mpg rules are the dominant theme inside this year’s Detroit Auto Show. But outside Cobo Convention Center, it’s not just the frigid winter temperatures that have cast doubt on the global warming science driving the biggest regulatory challenge to the industry in a generation. E-mails leaked from the world’s top climatology center have put the environmental community in turmoil with allegations that scientific data has been doctored and debate suppressed. The uproar has provoked calls for a congressional investigation and cast doubt on auto mpg rules. Scandal? Or sideshow?
The issue cries out for debate at the world’s largest auto gathering, and The Detroit News-WJR Radio have assembled a world-class panel representing the automotive, scientific, and political communities to argue the facts and discuss its impact on the auto market…
It’s open to the public. Details at the link.
Related – “Not entirely the “death of global warming” as many have claimed – what happened with Climategate is much more nuanced and exponentially more interesting than the headlines convey. What was triggered at this blog was the death of unconditional trust in the scientific peer review process, and the maturing of a new movement – that of peer-to-peer review.”
h/t James
Marketing Campaigns Of The Apocalypse
Y2Kyoto: You Don’t Need No Stinking Coal Generation
Stories from ice-bound Britain….
Michael Dukes, the forecast manager at Meteogroup, says the Nasa satellite image of Britain shows snow over almost the entire country. He says that the swirl of cloud over East Anglia is the cumulus cloud system that caused snow showers today.
Meanwhile… wind speed as measured over the last 48 hours at Hilbre Island weather station.
Preeevious….
The World Is Being Run By Crazy People
Or,“Elizabeth May takes the train”.