Monday, July 05, 2010

The Reference Frame: Rasmus Benestad: negative feedbacks are almost impossible
Claims of negative feedbacks - and they are a necessary concept in all sensible science because they are something that is absolutely omnipresent in nearly all systems in Nature - are supposed to become controversial just because an insane quasi-religious bigot writes an incoherent and illogical rant against the very concept of negative feedbacks and because he uses the term "tough questions" for his elementary questions he should have asked to his undergraduate instructors before he should have been dismissed from the college.
Al Gore’s moral confusion
It’s not the compromising position he put himself in with that masseuse that constitutes his most important failing as a public figure – it’s the environment.
Natural Disasters and Global Warming Fuel the Malware Flames - PCWorld Business Center
Another popular theme that attackers appear to have targeted is global warming. Everyone else is "going green", so why not malware? Attackers launched a spear phishing campaign targeted at companies involved in cap and trade programs to steal carbon credits. It is estimated that attackers stole as many as 250,000 carbon credits valued around $4 million.

The AppRiver report explains "The emails pretended to be from the German Emissions Trading Authority who is responsible for handling the implementation of emissions trading as per the Kyoto Protocol. Recipients were told that they needed to re-register their accounts with the Agency and when they did, the attackers gained complete access to these accounts."
Black cloud over US energy could signal seachange - The National Newspaper
[Kenneth Rogoff seems to be actively rooting for this oil spill to get worse] The fact is, the BP oil spill is on the cusp of becoming a political game-changer of historic proportions. If summer hurricanes push huge quantities of oil onto Florida’s beaches and up the eastern seaboard, the resulting political explosion will make the reaction to the financial crisis seem muted.
Gulf Crisis Exposes Failures of Centralized Power – Texas Tenth Amendment Center
Make no mistake the climate bill is about control of the oil industry, individual state economies and your individual freedom with regards to energy use and employment. A year ago, the “science” of global warming was the “crisis” that would be used to require action and passage of a climate bill. Fortunately, the validity of global warming as a “science” was fatally compromised because the prominent scientists of the field were proven to have manipulated the data that formed the foundation of the practice. Hoping to turn the page and centralize, Obama is attempting to redirect righteous anger over the gulf crisis and turn it into something it is not, a climate crisis.

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