How John Cook unskeptically believes in a hotspot (that thermometers can’t find) « JoNova

In the end, John Cook trusts the scientists who collect grants funded by the fear-of-a-crisis and who want more of his money, but he’s skeptical of unfunded scientists who ask him to look at the evidence and tell him to keep his own cash.

The Reference Frame: If Greenland melted, sea level in Iceland would drop

Clearly, the melting ice is not a problem for the immediate vicinity of the island whose ice melts. In fact, some very close points could experience dropping sea level. For example, for the Europeans and the Americans, it's much more important what happens in the Antarctica. And be sure it won't melt anytime soon.

Roger L. Simon » Al Gore jumps twenty-five sharks

...But all this emerges at the very moment that our “progressive” (talk about Orwellian constructs!) administration is about to proffer another round of energy legislation predicated on the anthropogenic global warming concepts promulgated by one Al Gore. This legislation will be voted on by several hundred people, few of whom — other than a handful of doctors — have any scientific training whatsoever.

You would think, though, that since so many of them are lawyers, they would be aware of that hoariest of Roman legal principles — Falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus (You lie about one thing, you lie about all). That might give them pause that they have relied on propagandistic drivel like An Inconvenient Truth (how ironic that title now!) as a source of scientific knowledge. This is a film — already discredited in a British court — now revealed to have been produced by a man who is just a general all around creep or worse.

Mr. Stone's Massage - National - The Atlantic

The more I read the report, the more I developed two incongruent points of view: the detail was too incredible to be false, or it was too convenient -- in that Gore seemed to be deliberately unburdening himself of the public wrongs he suffered through -- to be true. But then there are details like this: most people don't know that ex-vice presidents don't (usually) get Secret Service protection. The way "Gore" answered the woman's question about why there were no agents posted is exactly the answer Gore would give if John Q. Non-Massage Therapist asked him: no one cares about former VPs, and no one threatens their lives. Also: the fact that the woman was seeing a counselor for her trauma, something that police could verify and, if they found it not to be true, use to charge her with filing a false police report.