Tuesday, October 04, 2011

The TV show where my character gets punched out by a climate scientist | Watts Up With That?
Idealistic young lawyer: “He punched a climate change sceptic, James Watt. Watt runs a blog, CO2 Fraud, a bunch of anti-science crap.”
9/22/11 - Polar bear 'kills Russian meteorologist' - Yahoo! News
A polar bear has mauled a Russian weather service scientist to death in an Arctic archipelago, prompting a hunt for the animal, ITAR-TASS quoted a local official as saying Thursday.
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The region's meteorological service has received permission from state authorities to hunt down and kill the animal "to ensure the safety of remaining workers at the station," ITAR-TASS quoted a local weather official as saying.
WWF Influence at the Highest Levels of the IPCC « NoFrakkingConsensus
So of the 32 members of the IPCC’s core writing team that we might have expected to be world-class scientists, 11 of them (34%) are publicly affiliated with environmental NGOs.

And we’re really supposed to believe that the IPCC is a scientific organization writing purely scientific reports.
EPA: the Endangerment Finding was not a “highly influential scientific assessment” « Climate Audit
The recent report of the EPA Office of Inspector General(OIG) contains a remarkable dispute between the OIG on the one hand and EPA and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) on the other as to whether the Technical Support Document (TSD) for the Endangerment Finding was a “highly influential scientific assessment”, a defined category under OMB peer review policy. It would doubtless seem self-evident to most readers that, if any scientific assessment were to meet any criteria of being “highly influential”, the TSD for the Endangerment Finding would meet such criteria.

But readers should never under-estimate the capacity for institutional mendacity.

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