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Environment / Re: Global Warming/Climate Change

« on: October 08, 2010, 11:52:00 PM »

Oh, look, science has finally woken up and realized it's playing hard ball for keeps in the the War On Science:

George Mason University is now officially investigating allegations that the Wegman report into Michael Mann and the "Hockey Stick" was partly plagiarized and contains fabrications of fact:

USAToday:
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/sciencefair/post/2010/10/wegman-plagiarism-investigation-/1

WaPo:
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/virginiapolitics/2010/10/gmu_investigating_climate_chan.html

Nature:
http://blogs.nature.com/news/thegreatbeyond/2010/10/old_claims_of_bad_climate_scie.html

And here's why:
http://deepclimate.org/

Thanks to John Mashey and Deep Climate for their tireless work.

And if the allegations prove to be true Wegman could be on the hook for committing perjury before Congress, too.

Pass the popcorn....

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Environment / Re: Global Warming/Climate Change

« on: August 11, 2010, 12:15:24 PM »

Oh, look, yet another right-leaning newspaper finally recognises   physical reality and abandons it's flat-earth stance & changes its   editorial policy to concede that the Greenland ice sheet is in fact   melting and global warming/climate change is real.  UK's Global Mail:   Global warming is real and deeply worrying http://climateprogress.org/2010/08/11/daily-mail-%E2%80%9Cglobal-warming-is-real-and-deeply-worrying%E2%80%9D/


Meanwhile, NASA GISTEMP's preliminary global land-ocean temperature   anomaly for July 2010 is 0.71C, which if it holds when the final numbers   are publicly released would make it the warmest July on the instrument   record, just eclipsing 1998 at 0.70C.  But just wait until the August   numbers come in and Russia's once-in-a-thousand-year* heat wave gets   factored in.

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Environment / Re: Disastrous weather and other natural catastrophes

« on: August 10, 2010, 10:07:09 PM »

The Russian Meteorological Center is saying that the current heat wave is the warmest in Russia in the last 1000 years:
http://climateprogress.org/2010/08/09/russia-heat-wave-one-thousand-years-global-warming/

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Environment / Re: Global Warming/Climate Change

« on: July 17, 2010, 01:13:23 PM »

June 2010 not only the warmest June in the temperature record, but the fourth consecutive warmest month in the record (March, April, May, June).

June also ends the warmest 12 month period for the third month in a row (May 2009 - April 2010, June 2009 - May 2010, July 2009 - June 2010).

NOAA State of the Climate Global Analysis June 2010

Even the National Post has taken notice and finally admitted that global warming/climate change can no longer be denied.

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Environment / Re: Global Warming/Climate Change

« on: July 15, 2010, 01:10:50 PM »

The war on (climate) science™ continues

Potty peer and nutter climate change denier Christopher Monckton demands St. Thomas University discipline Prof. John Abraham over his scientific dissection of Monckton's global warming/climate change screeds and pay damages. Bully weatherman Anthony Watts urges his readers to inundate the University's President with emails.

University replies through its lawyers:

We received your email response to our June 25, 2010 letter. The University of St Thomas respects your right to disagree with Professor Abraham, just as the University respects Professor Abraham's right to disagree with you. What we object to are your personal attacks against Father Dease, and Professor Abraham, your inflammatory language, and your decision to disparage Professor Abraham, Father Dease and The Univerity of St Thomas.
Please be advised that neither we nor the University of St Thomas will communicate with you any further and others rather than to focus on the scholarly differences between you and Professor Abraham.

Signed: Phyllis Karasov, Moore Costellow and Hart, P.L.L.P.

You can show your support for Prof. Abraham here.

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Environment / Re: Global Warming/Climate Change

« on: July 07, 2010, 01:41:55 PM »

The war on (climate) science™ continues

The Muir-Russell Independent Climate Change Email Review report into the hacked email "climategate" fufurrah has been released. The report conclude that the rigour and honesty of dr. Phil Jones and the Climate Research Unit scientists is not in doubt. Pseudo-sceptics expectedly cry "whitewash!"

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Environment / Re: Global Warming/Climate Change

« on: July 05, 2010, 10:51:42 AM »

Arctic sea ice melt has nearly caught up to 2007....from below.

NSIDC,
IARC-JAXA,
UBremen.

It's looking like 2010 will be set a new 2nd or 3rd lowest record, but   not a new 1st.

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Environment / Re: Global Warming/Climate Change

« on: July 05, 2010, 10:46:59 AM »

The war on (climate) science™ continues

Michael Mann and Hockey Stick exonerated by Penn State — again

Predictably, deniers cry "whitewash" and "coverup."

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News / Re: The G20: global capitalism jumps the shark?

« on: June 27, 2010, 03:20:52 PM »

I got a good look through binoculars at the ELINT plane that's been  circling downtown Toronto. It's not a US C-130 Herc at all, but rather a Canadian Forces CP-140 Aurora.

It was orbiting downtown this this morning but it's now  orbiting the 401-409 route to Pearson airport.

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News / Re: The G20: global capitalism jumps the shark?

« on: June 26, 2010, 11:47:35 PM »

Well that's interesting transplant. I was watching some live stream video today and the next thing I know a msg came up saying 'they' were jamming, so lost it.

Actually, Toe, identifying and jamming heavily used channels to disrupt communications makes even more sense. I should have thought of that.

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News / Re: The G20: global capitalism jumps the shark?

« on: June 26, 2010, 10:52:46 PM »

There was a large military aircraft orbiting downtown Toronto for most of today. It appeared to be an electronic intelligence (ELINT) or surveillance version of the C-130 Hercules as it looked to have a long tail boom like those normally seen on submarine hunting aircraft like this P3 Orion, which is weird as a boom like that normally houses a magnetic anomaly detector.

The Canadian forces have Hercs, but I've never heard of them having any fitted for ELINT, and one news report identified the plane as belonging to the US. I'm wondering if it was being used to intercept cell phone calls and text messages and track individuals' movements.

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Environment / The Gulf oil spill

« on: June 25, 2010, 01:00:23 PM »

The Oil Drum post I linked to down thread is examined in detail in this  response.

In addition, it turns out the original post first appeared on a UFO blog.

Not that that means aliens are not responsible for the blow-out, mind.

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Environment / The Gulf oil spill

« on: June 25, 2010, 11:12:57 AM »

I'd guess black vulture

Debra, I seriously doubt it, unless it was blown WAY off course. Check out a black vulture range map. They don't normally get above the Mason-Dixon line (Maryland-Penn boarder), let alone north of the US-Canadian boarder.

It's probably just a yearling juvenile turkey vulture, which lack the adult distinctive red head.

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Canada / Domestic Terrists

« on: June 24, 2010, 08:38:09 PM »

Oh, Magoo-oo....

Oh, never mind, I see you already know.

Grope & Flail:

The RCMP Integrated Security Unit says the arrest of a man carrying a crossbow and other dangerous items in his car in downtown Toronto Thursday was not related to the G20 summit.

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Environment / The Gulf oil spill

« on: June 24, 2010, 08:19:22 PM »

I have no idea if this guy knows what he's talking about, but he paints a  truly depressing worst case scenario in a comment on  The Oil  Drum. [long]

Short story: the well has ruptured below the  seabed and the casing is eroding, making it impossible to plug from the  top. If so, we're phucked as the entire field could bleed-out....