…The emails show beyond any reasonable doubt that these individuals are engaged in politics, not science. They also suggest that pro-global warming scientists fudge data to get the results they are looking for. Just over a month ago, on September 28, 2009, Tom Wigley wrote to Phil Jones of the Hadley Centre about his efforts to get the right-sized “blip” in temperatures of the 1940s:
Phil, Here are some speculations on correcting SSTs to partly explain the 1940s warming blip. If you look at the attached plot you will see that the land also shows the 1940s blip (as I’m sure you know). So, if we could reduce the ocean blip by, say, 0.15 degC, then this would be significant for the global mean — but we’d still have to explain the land blip.
I’ve chosen 0.15 here deliberately. This still leaves an ocean blip, and i think one needs to have some form of ocean blip to explain the land blip (via either some common forcing, or ocean forcing land, or vice versa, or all of these). When you look at other blips, the land blips are 1.5 to 2 times (roughly) the ocean blips — higher sensitivity plus thermal inertia effects. My 0.15 adjustment leaves things consistent with this, so you can see where I am coming from. Removing ENSO does not affect this.
It would be good to remove at least part of the 1940s blip, but we are still left with “why the blip”.
This and many other emails convey the impression that these theorists are making the “science” up as they go along, with data being manipulated until it yields the results that have been predetermined by political conviction.
No, these hacks are most assuredly playing politics with the data. For me, global warming is officially dead. I was wrong to hold my fire. Sorry for being lame and chicken-shit about pushing the story. My bad.
The thing about global warming is that, from an intellectual perspective, it’s taken decades for it to seep into the public’s consciousness. It’ll take a while to dredge the swamp of this nonsense. It helps that the scientists have so thoroughly beclowned themselves. There is nothing like a massive hypocritical scandal to galvanize public opinion against something. Still, there will be a core population of die-hards that will cling to anthropogenic climate change for a long time.
My suspicion is that the group most wedded to the global warming scam will be statist politicians. They will continue to press a thoroughly discredited theory for the next several years. The left has employed environmental scare tactics to advance a big government agenda for decades. Cap and trade (along with health care deform) was supposed to wrap the US government in leftist public policy for decades. I don’t think the progressives are going to let go of one of their favorite hobby-horses just because the facts on the ground have done a 180.
So yeah, we won the argument-as usual. We still have a long hard road to travel in order to finally put the stake in the heart of the eco-dweebs and their religious dogma.
Jesu’s latest release is a four song EP entitled Opiate Sun. For non-fans, Jesu is the brainchild of Justin Broadrick, founding guitarist of grindcore granddaddies Napalm Death. He later helped to start another genre with the punishing industrial crunch of Godflesh. Since 2003, Broadrick has been front and center in Jesu, where he’s been tapping into what he considers his more accessible pop music inspirations.
Opiate Sun is not a pop record-despite what JB says, Jesu is not a pop band-but the use of conventional song structures grafted onto Broadrick’s slowed down multilayered guitars is sorta poppish. “Losing Streak” is Jesu at it’s melancholy majestic best. Broadrick’s harmonized vocals and repeated instrumental motif build on top of each other to create a heartbreaking climax. “Deflated” features a chugging metallic groove, but instead of going with a more-expected screamo wail or a hard core bark, Broadrick chooses to sing his lyrics, which creates an interesting counterpoint to the heavied-up guitars.
This is not a record for everyone though. No song is shorter than 5 minutes and change. Like most of Jesu’s material, the songs take their time reaching their destination and take just as long to toddle off into the sunset. More importantly, Broadrick’s decision to play all the instruments on the album leads to some iffy spots. While great to good on guitar and bass, JB’s drumming only reaches the ”endearingly workmanlike” category. A tune like “Morning Light” could’ve used some more nimble fills and runs.
These are quibbles though. Opiate Sun is a welcome addition to the Jesu canon. For fans of the band, Broadrick gives them what they’ve come to love about the group. For noobs, it’s a tight introduction to JB’s 21st century musical pallette. That’s as much as you can expect from any album and once again Jesu delivers the goods.
…I think the global warming skeptics just got a boatload of ammunition. Or maybe not. The problem is the source of this information is a bunch of hacked…to be blunt: stolen…e- mails. That puts a layer of scuzz right on top of this ‘information’.
Well, okay go ahead and read it.
From: Phil Jones
To: ray bradley ,mann@xxxxx.xxx, mhughes@xxxx.xxx
Subject: Diagram for WMO Statement
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 13:31:15 +0000
Cc: k.briffa@xxx.xx.xx,t.osborn@xxxx.xxx
Dear Ray, Mike and Malcolm,
Once Tim’s got a diagram here we’ll send that either later today or
first thing tomorrow. I’ve just completed Mike’s Nature trick of adding in the real temps
to each series for the last 20 years (ie from 1981 onwards) amd from
1961 for Keith’s to hide the decline. Mike’s series got the annual
land and marine values while the other two got April-Sept for NH land
N of 20N. The latter two are real for 1999, while the estimate for 1999
for NH combined is +0.44C wrt 61-90. The Global estimate for 1999 with
data through Oct is +0.35C cf. 0.57 for 1998.
Thanks for the comments, Ray.
Cheers
Phil
Prof. Phil Jones
Climatic Research Unit Telephone +44 (0) xxxxx
School of Environmental Sciences Fax +44 (0) xxxx
University of East Anglia
Norwich Email p.jones@xxxx.xxx
NR4 7TJ
UK
“Hide the decline” means that they’re gonna fudge the numbers to cover up the fact that global temps are not going up. If this is accurate, this will alter forever they way the public views the scientific community. It will also change the way people think scientific research should affect public policy.
Again, that’s a mountain-sized ‘if’. These are hacked e-mails, which already puts them in ethically shaky territory. More to the point, there hasn’t been confirmation that these are real in the first place. I remember very vividly how the Left went bonkers over the Dan Rather/Mary Mapes ‘Bush went AWOL’ story back in 2004. They crowed about how they had documented proof that Bush was a deserter who had gotten special treatment. When it turned out that the documents in question were forgeries, they were stuck with the incredibly weak ‘fake-but-accurate’ defense, which just made them look really dumb.
Here we have a similar situation. I know a lot of people want to jump way out ahead of this. I know I want to because it would be a delicious and decisive victory for the global-warming skeptics. The problem is, I don’t know how accurate these e-mails are, so as much as I want to rub them in the face of the cap-n-trade douchedrinkers and the tree-humping human-hating eco-fucks, it feels too soon to get cocky.
So when the statists aren’t pissing money down the drain at breakneck speeds, they’re just making shit up. Congressman Joe ‘You Lie’ Wilson decided to call them on it.
Last night, I learned that the government website charged with reporting fraud and abuse is its very own worst offender. Recovery.gov, the Administration’s website that is designed to report waste of misnamed stimulus funds, has produced a fake report.
Upon visiting the site, you see that $6 million was used to create six jobs in South Carolina’s fake 16th Congressional District. It also shows that $3 million couldn’t even produce a single job in South Carolina’s fake 43rd district. Somehow, $1.8 million was spent for 1.4 jobs in the fake 00 district. This would be funny, but the money belongs to taxpayers, not the government.
I know we have been asking this Administration to show us the jobs, but this isn’t what we had in mind.
In addition to correcting the errors on the website, I sincerely hope that this Administration will also listen to Republican ideas to jump start America’s economy by creating real jobs for hardworking American families.
Look, you can’t expect people in the Obamessiah government to understand what’s real or unreal. I mean, President Barry’s been to all 57 states.
Conservatives tried to get Congressional term limits back in the Newt Gingrich days, but of course that fell through. Since then, term limits have sorta taken a back-burner as other issues have come to the forefront.
Larrey Anderson argues that for the right, term limits aren’t just one cause out of many. Instead, it should be front and center.
Once a Republican official moves too far to the left, he or she either abandons the party (e.g., Arlen Specter and Dede Scozzafava) or deeply entrench him- or herself in the special interests of the state or district in order to stay in office (e.g., Olympia Snowe and Anh “Jospeh” Cao) [vi].
It stands to reason that politicians on the right will become more moderate over time. Politicians on the left will move from “moderate” to “progressive” over time. This basic political truth represents a real challenge to conservatives — and a huge advantage for liberals.
Here is a real-life example. In 1994, the Republican Party won control of the House of Representatives for the first time in fifty years. They did so by presenting a united voice and offering a written (and very conservative) “Contract with America.”
Republican leadership was able to keep its newly elected majority in line for almost four years. During that period, the federal government had its first balanced budget in decades. But then the party started to lose control of its members, and during the next six years, it was back to politics as usual.
The practical outcome of the principle of the excluded moderate is that conservatives need to spend far more time worrying about the elected officials who represent them. (Or, if the conservative lives in a liberal stronghold, support conservatives in races in which the conservative candidate has a real chance of winning.)
Read the whole thing, natch. It’s a little graphy and theoretical, but the upshot is that as a politician ages in office, even the most conservative congressman will slowly but surely find himself voting for more and more government.
Here’s a question: How do you vote for politicians that will vote themselves less power? That’s a tougher question than this public school graduate can answer without a lot more booze.
Update: Speaking of drunk blogging, I forgot to put the link into the post. My bad. Link fixed.
Me neither, but if you’re feeling particularly masochistic, here’s your new favorite torture-dungeonwebsite. Hey, there’s some sweet taxpayer fundage getting wasted on complete bullshit right now!
Award Description: Chairs were purchased to equip the on-site COBRA Subsidy Denial Intake Center.
Freakin’ 10 large for chairs in Piscataway? I know a guy who knows this other guy who’s cousin lives in Piscataway and he can get brand new Lay-Z-Boys that fell off the back of a truck-honest they did, Officer-for 1/4 of that price.
I know it’s a lot of dough to blow on seating, but at least we’re not forking over $100K to study the ”Evolution of the Nitrogen Cycle and the Rise of Oxygen” in ancient Earth’s atmosphere. Oh, wait…
Award Description: The atmosphere of the Earth is dominated by two gases, N2 and O2. N2 is virtually inert and has been the most abundant gas since the atmosphere formed. In contrast, O2, which came to comprise 10 to 30% of the volume of the atmosphere over the past ~500 million years, is highly reactive and must be produced continuously by the photobiological oxidation of water. The cycles of these two elements are linked; the fluxes of N are entirely controlled by biological reactions that are strongly influenced by the concentration of oxygen in the environment. The major goal of the proposed research is to elucidate the interactions and feedbacks between the cycles of nitrogen and oxygen from the middle Archean to middle Proterozoic, a period in Earth’s history when it permanently ‘tipped’ from being an anaerobic or microaerobic planet, to one with an atmosphere sufficiently rich in oxygen to permit the formation of a stratospheric ozone layer.
Project Description: See award description
Jobs Summary: Prime recipient created/retained: a research associate (Total jobs reported: 1)
So other than being a hopelessly inefficient use of taxpayer money, Obama’s porkulus package is totally rad.
Award Description: To support the preservation of jobs that are threatened by declines in philanthropic and other support during the current economic downturn.
1 Director of Sacramento Programs(Administrative) 1 LRS & Education Program Director (Administrative) 1 Lawyer Referral Service Program Director (Administrative) 1 AAMS Case Manager (Administrative)
(Total jobs reported: 0)
Saved, created or negated. Whatever. As long as Barry the Beneficient gets credit for trying, it’s all good. The presidency is hard, after all.
I hardly watch Fox, but I wanted to post their numbers just to aggravate any lefty that wandered off the prog-tard reservation. FYI-The libs hate Fox News for some reason.
Ever get the feeling some people want to change the subject? New Jersey and Virginia have fallen to the GOP. Obama is going to try Khalid Sheik Mohammed in open court, which oddly enough seems like an unpopular decision. Better still, the Asians have pretty much told St. Barry to go scratch, proving just how effective the Obama administration’s smart diplomacy is when applied to the real world.
So what does The Daily Kos…the house organ of the Donkey-Puncher Party…focus on? You guessed it: Fake-o-la outrages direct from a Democrat mouthpiece.
“Congressman Louie Gohmert’s outrageous comments not only insult the victims of 9/11 and their families but also offer the latest evidence that the Republican Party has been taken over by right-wing extremists. House Republicans should immediately condemn Congressman Gohmert’s offensive remarks.
“Whether they’re attending ‘tea party’ rallies featuring Holocaust imagery, comparing health insurance reform to terrorism, or staying silent about plans to burn public officials in effigy, the tenor from House Republicans grows more alarming by the day.
“It’s long past time for the House Republican Leadership to speak out against this disturbing pattern of increasingly extreme rhetoric from their ranks and engage in the constructive search for solutions that America’s many challenges demand.”
Palin is a phenomenon, and honest liberals would be well-advised to read her work and understand her appeal, just as conservatives should read “Dreams From My Father” to understand the mind of Bill Ayers.
I know everyone keeps saying how the terrorist trials will be a farce-which they will be, of course.
But for the moment, forget the fact that Khalid Sheik Mohammed and the rest of the Al-Qaeda Krazy Fun-Time Krew will use this opportunity to cry ‘human rights violations’ at any and every opportunity. Put aside the reality that the Obama administration is doing this in part to settle some ideological scores with the Bush/Cheney regime. Throw off for a moment your bowel-quaking fears over the monumental security risks of putting these terrorist sub-humans on trial in a public forum.
While those things are all well and truly horrible, a part of me cannot help but chuckle over the elements of the CIA that constantly leaked sensitive information about our terrorism defense policies over the last eight years. The near-treasonous actions of the leakers at Langley most assuredly cost us valuable intel on the enemy and worse, cost American lives. The operatives that blabbed to the New York Times and other media outlets knew all of this, but they chose to use their knowledge as a way to ankle-bite Bush.
Well, now the haterz at the CIA got the polar opposite of Dubya as their boss and Obama has decided to roll them under the bus, along with every other inconvenience. These trials are going to be real ball buster for the CIA. Discovery and cross-examination are going to be absolutely brutal on the interrogators. For Obama and Eric Holder, this a feature not a bug.
Gov. Pat Quinn and U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin on Sunday tried to build support and counter criticism of a proposal to sell a prison in rural northwestern Illinois to the federal government to house Guantanamo Bay detainees and other inmates.
Federal officials are expected to visit the maximum security Thomson Correctional Center, about 150 miles west of Chicago, on Monday.
Both Quinn and Durbin said the possibility of selling the prison to the federal government was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to help create about 3,000 jobs, both at the prison and directly in surrounding communities in an area where unemployment has topped 10 percent.
I see Dick Durbin is a proponent of the Underpants Gnome theory of economics
Step 1: Sell Thomson prison to the feds so they can house terrorists
Step 2: ?
Step 3: Profit.
Sure, Illinois would be housing Muslim terrorists bent on killing Americans at any opportunity, but hey, who doesn’t like putting themselves and their neighbors in mortal peril for a paycheck, right?
The truth is we’re not prepared to draw a line even after he’s gone ahead and committed mass murder. “What happened at Fort Hood was a tragedy,” said Gen. George Casey, the U.S. Army’s Chief of Staff, “but I believe it would be an even greater tragedy if our diversity becomes a casualty here.” A “greater tragedy” than 14 dead and dozens of wounded? Translating from the original brain-addled multicult-speak, the Army chief of staff is saying that the same fatuous prostration before marshmallow illusions that led to the “tragedy” must remain in place. If it leads to occasional mass murder, well, hopefully it can be held to what cynical British civil servants used to call, during the Northern Irish “Troubles,” “an acceptable level of violence.” Fourteen dead is evidently acceptable. A hundred and forty? Fourteen hundred? I guess we’ll find out.
And that’s pretty much it, really. We’re too chicken to even call a terrorist a terrorist, much less fight back against terrorism in any meaningful way.
I think the jihadists that wage war against us have carefully noted how we’ve reacted to Nidal Malik Hasan’s acts of faith-based murder. Lets just say that they’re unimpressed by fighting resolve right now. That’s bad news for us.
If the last few years have taught us anything, it’s that the progressives can make damn near anybody a diabolical hate-figure. Dick Cheney used to be a member in good standing of the Washington establishment. While never a cuddly bipartisan mush, Democrats knew they were dealing with a capable guy who viewed the world from a conservative perspective. Thus, he was treated with a sort of polite grudging respect by people on the other side of the aisle. During his time as the Secretary of Defense under Bush I, Dems pretty much let Cheney alone when it came time to attack the President and his administration. However, once Darth Haliburton signed on with George Dumbya Hitler, amazingly this well-travelled veteran of the DC political class morphed into the rogue figure of leftist night terrors.
Well, wouldn’t you know it, but the Left is still sweating the Sith Lord Cheney.
Fox News felt compelled to cover Obama bow to Japanese Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko after conservative blogs attacked the president. “Sarah Palin would not have bowed to the Emperor of Japan. She wouldn’t have even curtsied to him,” said Bill Kristol.
But for Liz Cheney, Palin wasn’t the only answer to replacing a president that would dare to pay respect to a foreign leader. “You can look at the comparison and think Cheney 2012,” teased Cheney. It wasn’t clear if Dick Cheney’s daughter was joking but the Fox panel seemed warm to the idea.
It should tell you something about the emotional power Dick Cheney (evil be upon him) still has on the leftists when CrooksnLiars takes a throw-away line and starts kvetching over the possible return of their bete noir?
The thing to remember is: The people who the progressives hate are also the ones they fear. Just like they fear Palin, they fear Cheney. Not because he’s actually an evil man. Instead, they’re scared of the dude because they know that Cheney is diametrically opposed to the political Left in America. They also know he’d be an effective campaigner; he’d at least give St. Barry a run for his money in 2012, rather than sputter down to a loss like John McCain in 2008.
Barack Obama: Fellating unelected kings and fucking the rest of us since 2008.
What is with this guy? Does he not know that America fought a revolution so that we wouldn’t have to bow before anybody? Or does he just think America is so shitty that we need to prostrate ourselves before our ‘betters’?
Question to the people who pulled the Chocolate Jesus lever in 2008: Is this the change you thought you were going to get? An American president humiliating himself before monarchs?
Adam Baldwin-an actor you’ve seen in several movie and television programs-has been on fire over at BigHollywood.com. He’s concerned about the political indoctrination of his children. I’d say that’s fertile ground for an investigation.
Jim Henson, Jon Stone, Frank Oz and others set a witty and silly tone for Sesame Street that our current writers work to maintain despite the demands of political correctness.
What then, specifically, are the demands of political correctness that Ms. Barry’s taxpayer-funded organization operates under?
…the following questions are posed in good faith and with the hope that Sesame Workshop might provide American taxpayers clarification and contextualization for the benefit of all concerned, especially for the children:
What is Sesame Workshop’s definition of Political Correctness?
When did Political Correctness enter Sesame Workshop’s criteria for its federal taxpayer-funded educational programs?
Who does Sesame Workshop believe is responsible for instituting the demands of political correctness upon its administrators, Sesame Street writers, producers, cast, and ultimately its target audience of pre-school and elementary school children?
Where can the public find Sesame Workshop’s instructional policies and guidelines regulating its practices regarding Political Correctness?
How does Sesame Workshop believe its Political Correctness programming complies with widely accepted academic freedom ethics and standards that require varying scholarly viewpoints be given equal time?
Why does Sesame Workshop currently feel constrained by the demands of Political Correctness?
What are Sesame Workshop’s plans for future governance of Political Correctness?
These are all valid questions. I think a lot of parents would like to hear some answers on this. Lord knows millions of moms and dads plop their kids in front of Sesame Street every day. It would be nice to know how PC diktats effect the programming content of Big Bird, Oscar the Grouch, et. al.
Question to Adam Baldwin and BigHollywood: Do you honestly expect Miranda Barry…or anybody even remotely connected to Sesame Street…to answer those questions without a Congressional subpoena? Because that would be the only way to get Ms. Barry to talk about it.
If history has shown us anything, it’s that most government bureaucrats are loathe to talk with average citizens-aka, the source of governmental income-about how they do things. In many instances, this is reasonable; I don’t know how much I really need to hear about the inner workings of our intelligence services. As much as I think future weapons tech is rad and as much as I want to see the latest infantry gun blow shit up , I think having secret military design specs out in the open would be really bad.
On the other hand, public television is not a strategic or tactical asset. Therefore, it should be perfectly fine to get them to discuss the impact of political correctness on their programming. Bert and Ernie can sing for their supper. I just don’t see it happening unless they’re under extreme duress.
Still, I like the fact that someone is daring to ask these questions of our unelected superiors. Nice job Adam Baldwin. Vaya con Dios, homeboy.
Ummmm, where are the new cars we were supposed to get when the government bailed out the auto companies?
Things you thought you were getting in the auto bailout. … Chrysler’s showy electric and hybrid cars? Forget them. Now that Chrysler has your money, they’re dead. … GM’s 2010 IPO? The one that was going to raise money to repay taxpayers? It’s receding rapidly into the future. “It depends on how quickly we become profitable. … I can’t promise a date,” says GM Chairman Ed Whitacre. Translation: Not going to happen… Suckers!
From one perspective, I’m not psychotically pissed, even though Mickey Kaus seems to want me frothing mad over this debacle. Electric and hybrid cars never seemed like the panacea so many want them to be. So in that respect, I don’t really give a shit if Chrysler and GM comes out with a dozen new electric/hybrid cars or none.
On the other hand, the bailout was supposed to turn these companies into lean mean green machines. Our money was supposed to buy us something, namely car companies that would be producing ‘green’ vehicles and profitable. Now it should be crystal clear that the enviro-cars GM and Chrysler were supposed to hook us up with ain’t happening. Is the profitability part of the equation out the window too?
Stone: Do you think it’s fair to send people to jail who don’t buy health insurance?
Pelosi: … The legislation is very fair in this respect.
Yeah, sure, very fair. And getting your nuts pinched in a vice is only sorta uncomfortable.
You gotta love the utter lack of irony from Pelosi and the Dems. First, the free health care we’re supposed to get…um, I dunno how free this gratis socialized medicine stuff is if I’m gonna be forced to buy it.
Even better still, free generally means that there are no strings attached. I’d say getting tossed into the Greybar Hotel if I don’t choose to buy health care is a pretty large…some might even say noose-sized…string attached to this free health care reform plan.
But hey, at least when we’re all in jail we’ll get three hots and a cot. Oh yeah, and free health care. We’ll also be getting free unwanted sodomy, but once the Donkey-Puncher Party gets through ruining the economy and demoralizing our armed forces, maybe getting screwed will be the least of our troubles.
