Friday, September 03, 2010

Breaking: ‘Hockey Stick’ Judge Rejects ‘Academic Freedom Argument,’ Denies Cuccinelli anyway - Planet Gore - National Review Online
But the fact that the judge’s wife previously worked in the Department of Environmental Sciences — the very department that stood to suffer had he ruled in favor of the attorney general – was somehow not worth disclosing to counsel. I learned of this only after the hearing from Ms. Peatross’s former coworkers, who were astonished that her husband would decide such a matter given his seeming lack of objectivity.
Warning Signs: Hurricane Humility
...Earl has veered out into the Atlantic and is just barely holding on to a Category 1 status.

How many hours did Fox News, the Weather Channel, and all the others devote to sensational satellite pictures of the Mighty Earl until, over the hours, it became apparent that those intrepid reporters waiting for it to come ashore were reduced to interviewing disgruntled surfers unhappy that they could not commit suicide in Earl’s surging waves?
IAC review of the IPCC : Stoat
Anyway, I can no longer put off actually reading the thing... but then I realised I couldn't be bothered. So I just read the exec summary. This means you should discount what I say by some appropriate amount.
What lies beneath Antarctic ice : Nature News
The British Falkland Islands Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition findings from the mid-1950s showed unusual numbers of crabeater seals dying in this area. Members of the expedition suggested that methane could be implicated.
Climate Change Dispatch - The Costs of Free Energy
So what does the professor finally conclude? He finds that "the new technology may actually be an energy sink, instead of an energy source, relative to the global total primary energy supply for many years or decades..."

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