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Judith Curry in Discover

Tuesday, March 16th, 2010

 

Judith Curry in Discover

DateMar 15, 2010 CategoryClimate

An omigosh moment, this. Read Judith Curry’s interview with Discover magazine. (Judith is a senior climatologist, from Georgia Tech).

Some choice excerpts:

Where do you come down on the whole subject of uncertainty in the climate science?
I’m very concerned about the way uncertainty is being treated. The IPCC [the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change] took a shortcut on the actual scientific uncertainty analysis on a lot of the issues, particularly the temperature records.

Is this a case of politics getting in the way of science?
No. It’s sloppiness. It’s just how our field has evolved. One of the things that McIntyre and McKitrick pointed out was that a lot of the statistical methods used in our field are sloppy. We have trends for which we don’t even give a confidence interval. The IPCC concluded that most of the warming of the latter 20th century was very likely caused by humans. Well, as far as I know, that conclusion was mostly a negotiation, in terms of calling it “likely” or “very likely.”

Are you saying that the scientific community, through the IPCC, is asking the world to restructure its entire mode of producing and consuming energy and yet hasn’t done a scientific uncertainty analysis?
Yes.

- Bishop Hill blog – Judith Curry in Discover

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Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

 

Best of the Web: Calling All Rebels

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Chris Hedges
Truthdig
Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:53 EST

© AP / Ben Margot
Student Natalia Garcia protests last week on the campus of the University of California at Berkeley during a day of nationwide demonstrations against cuts in education funding.

There are no constraints left to halt America’s slide into a totalitarian capitalism. Electoral politics are a sham. The media have been debased and defanged by corporate owners. The working class has been impoverished and is now being plunged into profound despair. The legal system has been corrupted to serve corporate interests. Popular institutions, from labor unions to political parties, have been destroyed or emasculated by corporate power. And any form of protest, no matter how tepid, is blocked by an internal security apparatus that is starting to rival that of the East German secret police. The mounting anger and hatred, coursing through the bloodstream of the body politic, make violence and counter-violence inevitable. Brace yourself. The American empire is over. And the descent is going to be horrifying.
Those singled out as internal enemies will include people of color, immigrants, gays, intellectuals, feminists, Jews, Muslims, union leaders and those defined as "liberals." They will be condemned as anti-American and blamed for our decline. The economic collapse, which remains mysterious and enigmatic to most Americans, will be pinned by demagogues and hatemongers on these hapless scapegoats. And the random acts of violence, which are already leaping up around the fringes of American society, will justify harsh measures of internal control that will snuff out the final vestiges of our democracy. The corporate forces that destroyed the country will use the information systems they control to mask their culpability. The old game of blaming the weak and the marginal, a staple of despotic regimes, will empower the dark undercurrents of sadism and violence within American society and deflect attention from the corporate vampires that have drained the blood of the country.

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Best of the Web: Target Iran: US Neocons in bed with Iranian terrorist groups

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Russia Today
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Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:30 EST

The Rigi brothers who were captured by Iran may have connections or ties to the Shah of Iran. Wayne Madsen says that the Rigi brothers cousin is a member of the royal court. There are also new claims that United States conservatives may have ties to the two brothers.

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Best of the Web: 9/11 Truth is going mainstream

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Russia Today
YouTube
Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:59 EST

There is a growing number of Americans who believe 9/11 was an inside job. 9/11 truthers, as they are known, attended a two day conference that was called Treason in America, in the hopes of bringing awareness to their cause. Is this a signal that the movement is gaining traction?

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Best of the Web: The Anti-Empire Report

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William Blum
www.killinghope.org
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 07:12 EST

© Unknown

Informed consent
About half the states in the US require that a woman seeking an abortion be told certain things before she can obtain the medical procedure. In South Dakota, for example, until a few months ago, staff was required to tell women: "The abortion will terminate the life of a whole, separate, unique, living human being"; the pregnant woman has "an existing relationship with that unborn human being," a relationship protected by the U.S. Constitution and the laws of South Dakota; and a "known medical risk" of abortion is an "increased risk of suicide ideation and suicide." A federal judge has now eliminated the second and third required assertions, calling them "untruthful and misleading."1
I personally would question even the first assertion about a fetus or an embryo being a human being, but that’s not the point I wish to make here. I’d like to suggest that before a young American man or woman can enlist in the armed forces s/he must be told the following by the staff of the military recruitment office:
"The United States is at war [this statement is always factually correct]. You will likely be sent to a battlefield where you will be expected to do your best to terminate the lives of whole, separate, unique, living human beings you know nothing about and who have never done you or your country any harm. You may in the process lose an arm or a leg. Or your life. If you come home alive and with all your body parts intact there’s a good chance you will be suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. Do not expect the government to provide you particularly good care for that, or any care at all. In any case, you may wind up physically abusing your spouse and children and/or others, killing various individuals, abusing drugs and/or alcohol, and having an increased risk of suicide ideation and suicide. No matter how bad a condition you may be in, the Pentagon may send you back to the battlefield for another tour of duty.

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Best of the Web: In Denial: The Meltdown of the Climate Campaign

Better Earth

Steven F. Hayward
The Weekly Standard
Mon, 08 Mar 2010 07:23 EST

© The Weekly Standard
Exposed! The global warming campaign enters its emperor’s-new-clothes phase

It is increasingly clear that the leak of the internal emails and documents of the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in November has done for the climate change debate what the Pentagon Papers did for the Vietnam war debate 40 years ago – changed the narrative decisively. Additional revelations of unethical behavior, errors, and serial exaggeration in climate science are rolling out on an almost daily basis, and there is good reason to expect more.
The U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), hitherto the gold standard in climate science, is under fire for shoddy work and facing calls for a serious shakeup. The U.S. Climate Action Partnership, the self-serving coalition of environmentalists and big business hoping to create a carbon cartel, is falling apart in the wake of the collapse of any prospect of enacting cap and trade in Congress. Meanwhile, the climate campaign’s fallback plan to have the EPA regulate greenhouse gas emissions through the cumbersome Clean Air Act is generating bipartisan opposition. The British media – even the left-leaning, climate alarmists of the Guardian and BBC – are turning on the climate campaign with a vengeance. The somnolent American media, which have done as poor a job reporting about climate change as they did on John Edwards, have largely averted their gaze from the inconvenient meltdown of the climate campaign, but the rock solid edifice in the newsrooms is cracking. Al Gore was conspicuously missing in action before surfacing with a long article in the New York Times on February 28, reiterating his familiar parade of horribles: The sea level will rise! Monster storms! Climate refugees in the hundreds of millions! Political chaos the world over! It was the rhetorical equivalent of stamping his feet and saying "It is too so!" In a sign of how dramatic the reversal of fortune has been for the climate campaign, it is now James Inhofe, the leading climate skeptic in the Senate, who is eager to have Gore testify before Congress.

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WHAT REALLY HAPPENED

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

 

Mar 09 12:58

Senate Staffers Warned to Stay Clear of Drudge Report

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The Senate’s official gatekeeper, said the Drudge Report, a conservative news aggregator, and whitepages.com "are responsible for the many viruses popping up throughout the Senate," according to an e-mail to the Environment and Public Works Committee.

Mar 09 12:45

Bogus Web site tries to swindle Madoff victims — again!

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Talk about adding insult to injury.

A bogus Web site is targeting victims of Bernard Madoff’s record Ponzi scheme in an apparent identity-theft scam, the Securities Investor Protection Corp warned today.

The site claims that $1.3 billion in Madoff money was recently found hidden in Malaysia, and displays photos of huge stacks of cash allegedly stashed by the mega-crook.

The so-called "International Securities Investor Protection Corporation" urges burned investors to submit claims by filling out an online form and mailing in a copy of "your most recent brokerage account statement."

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This appears to be run out of Washington DC by a guy named Ted Barrow

Mar 09 12:03

Chevron to cut 2,000 jobs

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Chevron Corp., the second largest U.S. oil company, announced on Tuesday that it would cut 2,000 jobs this year amid challenging market conditions.

Mar 09 12:00

Florida State Rep Wants to Deny Tax Breaks to Films With Gay Characters

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A Florida state senator is pushing for new legislation that would increase tax breaks for the movie industry but deny the same incentives to films featuring gay characters.

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Mar 09 11:54

Citibank exposes 600,000 customers’ Social Security numbers

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Mar 09 11:47

IMF suggests how to raise climate change funds

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The head of the International Monetary Fund on Monday proposed a plan for the world’s governments to pool together to raise money needed to adapt to climate change, a rare step for an organization that normally does not develop environmental policies.

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This is not environmental policy. This is a cash grab; the start of the "Carbon Bubble" and the IMF wants in!

Mar 09 11:33

Record sub-zero temperature suite broken

By: Nilwik
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The Härjedalen town of Sveg had until Sunday endured sub-zero temperatures from December 13th to March 6th – the longest consecutive period since records began in 1875.

Please read the comments further down… :)

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Mar 09 11:17

A DANGEROUS MOMENT IN PALESTINIAN HISTORY ~~ AN INTERVIEW WITH KHALID AMAYREH

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Khalid Amayreh: “As an oppressed people our certainty is to be free”

Mar 09 11:07

Video: Is It Antisemitic To Say Zionists Control USA Foreign Policy ?

By: StingRay
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Not sure how long this one will be allowed to stay up.

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Mar 09 11:03

Culled Out; A Ban On Fishing?

By: Saladin
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….the New York Times reported on Feb. 12 that "President Obama and his team are preparing an array of actions using his executive power to advance energy, environmental, fiscal and other domestic policy priorities."

Morlock fears that "what we’re seeing coming at us is an attempted dismantling of the science-based fish and wildlife model that has served us so well. There’s no basis in science for the agendas of these groups who are trying to push the public out of being able to fish and recreate.

"Conflicts (user) are overstated and problems are manufactured. It’s all just an excuse to put us off the water."

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Mar 09 10:58

Springfield walloped by lower March sales tax revenue check

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The city’s latest sales tax revenue check is down 17.9 percent from this time a year ago and marks the worst showing since December 2008.

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A system where the money flows to the top and stays there is not an economy, it is pillage!

Mar 09 10:49

Ford finance arm to cut 200 jobs in Franklin

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Ford Motor Credit Co. plans to layoff 200 employees at its business center in Franklin by the end of March as part of a plan to cut 1,000 jobs nationwide this year.

Mar 09 10:46

Cash-strapped LA County courts to begin layoffs

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The Los Angeles County Superior Court is laying off 329 staff members next month and officials say more than 1,000 others may go in the next two years because of budget cuts.

Mar 09 10:45

Barton Biggs: Stock A Safe Haven With Food And Firearms To Protect Against Doomsday Pillagers

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Former IMF chief economist Simon Johnson warns:

"We’re running out of time … to prevent a true depression." He says unless we break Wall Street’s "stranglehold" we will be unable prevent the Great Depression 2.

Morgan Stanley research guru turned hedge fund manager Barton Biggs (pictured), who called the market rally, advises that you buy a farm a good distance away from a city and, he advises, make sure that your doomsday safe-haven:

* Be self-sufficient and capable of growing some kind of food
* Be well-stocked with seed, fertilizer, canned food, wine, medicine, clothes, etc

And get a gun, he says, because "a few rounds over the approaching brigands’ heads would probably be a compelling persuader that there are easier farms to pillage."

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Canned foods and shotguns, folks. Canned foods and shotguns!

WHAT REALLY HAPPENED | The History The US Government HOPES You Never Learn!

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Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

 

I Am Angry

by: John Cory, t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed

Angrier America
(Image: Jared Rodriguez / t r u t h o u t; Adapted: HeyThereSpaceman., unforth, D Sharon Pruitt)

I am angry. I’m tired of pundits and know-nothing, media gasbags. I’m tired of snarky "inside politics" programming. I am sick of the bigotry and hatred of "birthers" and faux patriotic cranks and their GOP puppet masters. And I’m really pissed at the Democratic Party that confuses having a plate of limp noodles with having a spine. I’m going to vomit if I hear the word "bipartisanship" one more time. »


Military judge bringing down gavel.

A Campaign Promise Dies: Obama and Military Commissions

by: Jason Leopold, t r u t h o u t | Investigative Report

The crowd at the Wilson Center in Washington, DC, gathered to hear their candidate outline his grand strategy for a new way forward and Barack Obama delivered.

"I will reject a legal framework that does not work," Obama said, his words slightly drowned out by the loud applause that erupted. "There has been only one conviction at Guantanamo. It was for a guilty plea on material support for terrorism. The sentence was nine months. There has not been one conviction of a terrorist act. I have faith in America’s courts, and I have faith in our [Judge Advocate Generals]."

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Cows, meat

Al Gore Still Won’t Talk About Meat

by: Mickey Z., t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed

Al Gore penned a lengthy New York Times op-ed entitled, "We Can’t Wish Away Climate Change," on February 28, 2010. As expected, Gore was wordy, made no effort to discuss the planet’s top polluter (US Department of Defense), and, most of all, the former vice president once again opted to ignore the No. 1 cause of climate change: the meat-based diet. In fact, I ran a search on the nearly 2,000 words, but none of the following terms were found: meat, cow, livestock, methane, farm, diet or vegan.

Accepting the (unfortunate) reality that Al Gore is the planet’s best-known climate change spokesperson, he has yet again squandered an ideal opportunity to educate, inform and provoke real change. »

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A Blizzard Of Lies From Al Gore

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010

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Mon, 01 Mar 2010 18:41 EST

Climate Fraud: Al Gore resurfaces in an op-ed to say that nobody’s perfect, everybody makes mistakes and climate change is still real. And he has some oceanfront property in the Himalayas to sell you.
If hyperbole and chutzpah had a child, it would be the opening paragraph of Gore’s op-ed in Sunday’s New York Times. Gore surfaced from the global warming witness-protection program to opine that despite admissions of error and evidence of fraud by various agencies, we still face "an unimaginable calamity requiring large-scale, preventive measures to protect human civilization as we know it."
Perhaps he’s trying to protect his investments as he knows them, for he is heavily involved in enterprises that deal with carbon offsets and green technology. If the case for climate change is shown to be demonstrably false, a lot of his green evaporates like moisture from the ocean.
Interestingly, it’s that moisture from the ocean that he uses to defend his failed hypothesis. The blizzards that have buried the Northeast, he writes, are proof of global warming because record evaporation due to warming is what produces record snows. Except that supporters of his theory not long ago argued exactly the opposite.
He writes that we should "not miss the forest for the trees, neither should we miss the climate for the snowstorm." He should explain why last year Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., warned that lack of snow in the mountains was threatening California’s water supply.
Boxer, who along with Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry, is trying to ram through a Senate version of the House’s Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill, said: "Looking at the United States of America, the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) clearly warned that unchecked global warming will lead to reduced snowpack in the western mountains, critically reducing access to water, which is our lifeblood."
So global warming simultaneously causes mountain snow to vanish and Himalayan glaciers to recede while blanketing the northeastern United States with snowfalls measured in feet. Clearly, this is an untenable position. One phenomenon cannot simultaneously produce two different results.
He speaks of "recent attacks on the science of global warming." These presumably include the unearthing of e-mails between researchers associated with Britain’s Climatic Research Unit that revealed an effort to discredit skeptics and deny them peer-review, the destruction and manipulation of data, and the use of "tricks" to "hide the decline" in global temperatures.
CRU director Phil Jones has admitted that temperatures in the Middle Ages may have been even higher than they are today. Jones also confessed that there’s been no statistically significant warming in the past 15 years.
Exposure of the CRU e-mails was not an attack on science but an attempt to restore science to its rightful place.
Gore says the e-mails were "stolen." The New York Times used to call such revelations investigative journalism worthy of a Pulitzer Prize. We guess it depends on whose ox is, uh, gored. He says the CRU scientists were "besieged by an onslaught of hostile, make-work demands from climate skeptics." That used to be called defending your thesis and proving your facts.
As for the Himalayan fraud, Gore says it’s one of "at least two mistakes in thousands of pages of careful scientific work" from the IPCC and its chief, Dr. Rajendra Pachauri. Yet Dr. Murari Lal, an editor of IPCC’s Fourth Assessment report, has admitted to the London Daily Mail that he knew the 2035 data were false, but included them in the report "purely to put political pressure on world leaders."
That’s what it was all about, the creation of scary scenarios based on flawed computer models and manipulated data to promote government action and control. Now the curtain has been pulled back to reveal Al Gore shivering in the cold like the rest of us.
Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.

Comment: The Climate Change scam is steadily unravelling, at long last. You can see the progress being made when a business publication such as Business Investors Daily has seen through the scam, is alerting its business readers to the scam and is calling out Al Gore, the High Priest of the movement, on his lies.

 

http://www.sott.net/articles/show/204027-A-Blizzard-Of-Lies-From-Al-Gore

Al Gore is a shoe salesman, a more apt description would be a "public utility", something Saul Alinsky taught his disciples including Barack Obama, Bernardine Dorhn, Hillary Clinton, Michelle Robinson, and the Chicago cabal. "If you want to destroy your enemy make it personal." Here it comes Al, hope you enjoy the heat.

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"Climate change is a City of London and Wall Street bankers scam and Gore is their global shoe salesman. To them, climate change is just another industry like making shoes." ~Leuren Moret

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