What do ClimateGate, Tiger Woods, and Michael Phelps have in common? « Beth Holland

These three things all have to do with scandals, and technology exposed all of them. Because of the Internet and Twitter, everyone knows about Tiger Woods and the picture of Michael Phelps. The Internet is talking about ClimateGate because the media isn’t. (8th Grade)

A green, sustainable future that doesn't work | Washington Examiner

n the high desert of central Arizona, more than five thousand miles from the global-warming summit in Copenhagen, sits an aging and unfinished vision of the enviro-friendly, sustainable life that some climate change activists foresee for us all. It's called Arcosanti, created in 1970 by the Italian architect Paolo Soleri, and it is the prototype of a green community of the future.

The only problem is, it doesn't work. And it never did.

AP Language Tricks - Henry Payne - Planet Gore on National Review Online

Whew! Four graphs. Three loaded terms to describe global warming critics, including the egregious Holocaust analogy. But, you say, this is AP, the gold standard of objective language. Surely their vaunted style book is at least consistent. Surely in other stories — say, when reporting on evidence in another application of the precautionary principle, the pre-emptive war against Iraq — AP also marginalized those who voiced opposition to the “consensus” on WMD intel as deniers, etc.

Let’s check the record...

Big Government » Carly Fiorina  » ClimateGate: Facts Are Important Things

In business and in my own life I try to make decisions and solve problems based on all of the available facts. Ultimately, an uninformed decision is likely to be a bad one, and that is why I find Barbara Boxer’s response to this situation so unacceptable.

We deserve better from our elected officials, just as we do scientists researching important matters affecting lives and our economy. We deserve to know the truth – and to know our representatives in Washington, DC, will prioritize that, even when it is politically inconvenient for them.

CRUT email 1248902393.txt NCDC Chums « Musings from the Chiefio

Two things here. First, they had Raw Data through the year 2002 in the year 2003. So much for that “lost the data in the 1980’s building move” story. Now I don’t know what the nuance is between CRU and CRUTEM2, but clearly they didn’t lose everything.

Second, they put FOI/EIR request data on their web server. Yes, the same kind of FOI request that the FOIA “leaked” file seems to be. And the same web server they shut down after the leak. My take on this is that someone messed up the permissions in an FOIA file they were preparing for a request, and it got released when they thought they were locking it down (after the request was denied.) That “hacking” story is just too lame.