Monday, January 05, 2009

Video: UK's Godfrey Bloom, European Parliamentarian, is very cold and ticked off about wind power

Can you have a consensus if no one agrees what the consensus is? | Climate Skeptic
But the weird thing about climate science is the sort of Soviet-era need to rewrite history. Commenters on both Lucia’s site and at Climate Audit argue that the IPCC never said the hot spot was a unique fingerprint. The fingerprint has become an un-person.

Why would folks want to do this? After all, science is all about hypothesis - experimentation - new hypothesis. Well, most science. The problem is that climate science has been declared to be 1) A Consensus and 2) Settled. But settled consensus can’t, by definition, have disagreements and falsified forecasts. So history has to be rewritten to protect the infallibility of the Pope the Presidium the climate consensus. It’s a weird way to conduct science, but a logical outcome when phrases like “the science is settled” and “consensus” are used as clubs to silence criticism.
We Love [Name of Government Project] As Long As Someone Else Bears the Cost | Coyote Blog
I am not sure a comment is even necessary. MPR has published any number of light rail stories about budget and approval battles that were thinly disguised cheerleading for light rail. Take this article for example, which discusses how light rail might be saved from trouble, but because it only quotes light rail supporters, a reader can’t even figure out why the trouble exists.

Basically, MPR is saying “please put the rail line, which we support, near someone else who may hate it being nearby as much as we but don’t have the access to the media and the political process to make a big stink about it.”

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