Discovery News : Good Weather Is Bad | Real Science
This past winter was extreme because of nice weather, so it follows that the previous winter must have been mild because of very cold weather.
Atwater ethanol plant pays Minnesota $800,000 for violations, lying - TwinCities.com
Bushmills Ethanol has been hit with an $800,000 fine for wastewater discharge violations at its Atwater, Minn., plant and for lying to state regulators.
Weather-hit palm trees in park are being felled - Isle of Man News - Isle of Man Today
The trees have been severely affected by last winter’s exceptionally cold weather.
- Bishop Hill blog - Strange fellows
Via Leo Hickman I note a list of new fellows of the Royal Society. Familiar names are:
- Paul Ehrlich, best known for his hopelessly incorrect predictions of famine
- Steve Jones, familiar to readers here for writing an integrity-free report about science at the BBC
- Ralph Cicerone, also familiar from his role in trying to save the Hockey Stick for the IPCC.
It really confirms the case I made in my GWPF report on the Society's decline into a rather grubby advocacy outfit.
The Policy Lass is sick of arguing with stupid people. Anyone who has been to WUWT and the comment threads there will empathise. It is all a hopeless morass of nonsense; it cannot be fixed, only risen above. And indeed (as I've tried to tell them) the science just goes on without them. But I'll still visit occaisionally in case there is anyone there who wants to listen.
Arguing With Stupid People | The Policy Lass
Research shows that stupid people — people who truly are ignorant — tend to think they know far more than they do. They are also more likely to think informed people know less than they do. It’s the D-K effect and it’s rampant at both CA and WUWT and Climate Etc. If you’ve ever haunted those sites, you know what I’m talking about.
I’m always tempted to go to there and look for ‘teh stupid’ so I can mock it, but as the Twain quote says, they just bring you down to their level. Admittedly, there is a certain pleasure in mocking teh stupid, but life is short and its unnaturally warm outside. Time’s a wasting.
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Policy Lass is funny.....Here she has no education in physics or geology or climatology - yet she calls people like Roy Spencer and Fred Singer stupid.
She's stupidererer.
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