American Thinker: R.I.P., G.O.P.

Think about the difference that the internet has had on these elections. The Washington-based establishment no longer has a monopoly on communications. While the major media continues to focus on Capitol Hill, today, a blog in Ames, Iowa can reach as many people as the nightly news, a simple viral e-mail can make the most expensive direct mail campaign seem paltry in its reach, and a single moneybomb campaign can raise sums that would make the most successful bundler jealous.

As a result, the establishment -- national, state and local -- has lost the ability to dictate candidates based on membership in the G.O.B. (Good Old Boys) club. In the past few months, we've seen a parade of well-established, well-backed primary candidates disappear down the well of oblivion, defeated by upstart newcomers running on convictions rather than connections.

Metadata Errors in the global weather station database | Watts Up With That?

Giss uses GHCN inventories to get Nightlights. Nightlights uses the location information to determine if the pixel is dark (rural) or bright (urban)

NASA thinks this site is dark. They think it is pitch dark. Of course they are looking 300km away from the real site.

What Happened To The Anasazi? | Real Science

They were driven out of Chaco Canyon by 175 years of nearly continuous drought between 1125 and 1300. Was this drought caused by CO2? Probably not.