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Wolfpack
Azrael says:
Well of course I could be mistaken. Anyone can be mistaken on any given subject. That being said, for some reason global warm-mongers refuse to consider that they too could be mistaken. They insist that there is a consensus and go so far as to cherry-pick and manipulate temperature data and suppress evidence to the contrary. It is just amazing to me that given the clearly unprofessional and potentially fraudulant actions of leading IPCC climate scientists so many believers refuse to consider that they could be wrong. What makes you right and others that don't believe in man-made global warming wrong?
Why would I go "postal" over the fact that activist scientists have been discredited by their own words (in e-mail and computer code)? I have no problem with pursuing cleaner energy sources, but that doesn't require heavy handed government requlation of carbon dioxide (ie plant food) in the name of saving the planet. What is unhelpful and not real intelligent is to go about tricking people into supporting a political agenda using faulty science.
Doesn't it bother global warming believers that leading IPCC climate scientists are trying to prevent different viewpoints from being published in scientific journals? Apparently not.
Posted in: Climategate: The fix is in
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Wolfpack
norinrad21 says:
Well, you need big a** sneakers for a big a** like Michael Moore.
It's a shame that poor Yuko Ogura has been made a prop for that doofus. Even a babe like that can't make this guy look good.
Not only does Michael Moore look dumb, he is stupid enough to make an anti-capitalist movie and then use the capitalist system to make a load of money selling it. I guess he actually thinks people can't figure out that he is a huge hypocrite.
Posted in: Less for Moore
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Wolfpack
mtimjones days:
You are so right. The last such 'scientific' crusade that I can think of was the Eugenics movement during the last century.
Posted in: The challenge in Copenhagen: reshaping the world
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Wolfpack
I didn't think anything of this until I heard that Woods did not make himself available to speak with the police when they came by - twice. It doesn't matter that he doesn't have to talk to them, when the cops come by your house you should cooperate. Now it seems like he is hiding something.
Posted in: Police: Woods, wife unavailable for interview
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Wolfpack
sf2k says:
The emails are bad enough, but the actual code shows how the data was manipulated to fit the prediction. Therefore, it is legitimate to conclude that the data is "bad" because this little "trick" was hidden. The emails and the code together show a coordinated effort by CRU and other IPCC connected scientists to change the data to back up their predictions of warming when it was not occurring.
Scientists are supposed to be open to other possibilities from other "multi degreed PhD scientists" who also have devoted their life to knowledge and discovery. Should scientists who have published in respected scientific journals be considered "ignorant losers" because they come to a different conclusion than some other scientists? The CRU scientists seem to think so. It doesn't make sense for the CRU and IPCC connected scientists to seek to ostricize other scientists with competing views and try to blacklist scientific journals that publish a competing point of view.
It seems that we agree that the CRU scientists should be more transparent with their methods and data with respect to other scientists. However, why do you suppose they so actively attempted to keep from doing so; even to the point of considering the deletion of data instead of complying with a freedom of information request?
My opinions are not meant to be taken pesonally. I am only arguing my point of view. What I don't understand is that I am expected to be in favor of doing something based on flawed science and the work of scientists whose motivations are questionable? The insurance anology is faulty because the cost of man-made global warming theory cannot be quantified because it cannot even be proven. For insurance, the need for health care and car repairs can be proven and the costs can be quantified. The CRU and IPCC scientists work is so sloppy and unprofessional that their work needs to be thrown out altogether and the climate science redone.
There are many other natural reasons for changes in climate. There was a little ice age only a few hundred years ago. Changes in solar activity, ocean currents and wind patterns are all natural and re-occurring and have affected climate for millions of years. Rising and declining average temperatures shouldn't be surprising to anyone with a knowledge of the Earth's history. The only constant in the Earth's climate is change.
Posted in: Climategate: The fix is in
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Azrael says:
Man's impact on global climate has not bee proven to be significant in the first place, therefore attempting to cool or reduce the erroneously predicted increase in average temperatures through government action is futile. The hockey stick graph was proven false several years ago and Climategate shows how the data was manipulated by the scientists. More than the e-mails, check out the code and you can clearly see how the fraud was perpetrated.
If you are a Climategate "denier", open your mind and look at the serious breech of professionalism on the part of these scientists. They have not been transparent, they have been caught manipulating data, and have demonized those that have challenged their conclusions. That is not science, it is more politics and personal ideology at work.
Posted in: Climategate: The fix is in
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Wolfpack
Anyone that believes in the "science" of anthropogenic global warming should be very concerned about the evasions and outright fraud going on at the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit and among the leading UN IPCC climate scientists. The databases at CRU are used by climate researchers all over the world. As it turns out, the data has been manipulated by blending different types of temperature readings and by using computer code to massage the results. Any research based on bad data is itself bad and of little use.
How can anyone defend these revelations from the Climategate scandal:
1) Bad data: The scientists at CRU refuse to share their database with other scientists so tha their work can be replicated by other scientists. Now we know why, it is not good data and cannot be justified. In fact, the scientists at CRU have evaded the release of their databases so that they do not want to have to justify their data. That in itself raises red flags for anyone who is interested in the quality of climate research.
2) Attacking opposing viewpoints as illigitimate: what can possibly be the reason for the attacks upon competing science and actively attempting to censor it in climate research journals? Why have the IPCC scientists made this so personal? They seem to be trying to destroy journals and the reputations of scientists for simply disagreeing with them. If CRU's science is good, there is no need to try to personally destroy others reputations. These efforts have politics written all over it.
3) Evading transparency: not being able to explain their data and not making their data available to any and all climate researchers is just plain wrong for any scientist confident in their conclusions. For science to be considered legitimate, it must be repeatable by others.
No one disputes that there is such a thing as 'climate change'. Average global temperatures have gone up and down for as long as there has been a planet Earth. What is in dispute is the seemingly religious belief that average temperatures are increasingly dangerously due to mankinds use of carbon based sources of energy.
What is quite clear now is that the adherents of the man-made global warming religion are in denial that their bed-rock beliefs are very likely false (or at least questionable). The "science" of man-made global warming has been unmasked as a religeous ideology corrupted by it's leading proponents.
These revelations must be hard for them to comprehend and they will be angry and will likely lash out defensively. However, the idea of man-made global warming must return to square one with new data and scientific transparency.
Posted in: Climategate: The fix is in
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Wolfpack
Hope the global campaign to eliminate violence against women spreads to the Middle East.
Posted in: Purple tower
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Wolfpack
That about explains it all with the Obama administration. Tax productivity, grow government, and increase the deficit and debt. A Liberal knows no other way to address any economic challenge.
The US economy not coincidentaly tanked a few years after Democrats gained control of both houses of Congress. Unfortunately, President Bush did not challenge them and allowed far-Left leaders like Barney Frank to re-write financial regulations forcing banks to lend to people who could not pay them back. They empowered ACORN and other liberal groups to defraud the government and corrupt the financial system.
Posted in: Obama, GOP differ over recipe for jobs, economy
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Wolfpack
The picture of the blonde with VP Biden is hillarious! He's got that huge smile on his face and the chick is all over him. Priceless.
No doubt President Obama will blame the security breach on former President Bush.
Posted in: Couple slips though security to crash White House state dinner
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Wolfpack
Well, it's just a fact that the vast majority of pedophiles are homosexual. It has been very apparent for years now that the priesthood in the Catholic church has been a magnet for gay men with a sexual fetish for boys. The Boy Scouts have also attracted gay scout leaders in the past but the Scouts have caught on to this and are much better at protecting their kids from homosexual child predators.
To ignore the fact that the pedophile priests are overwhelmingly homosexual is to ignore the obvious. It maybe political incorrect to point this out, but it is what it is.
Posted in: Irish bishops covered up priests' child abuse for decades, report shows
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Wolfpack
I'm not too concerned about some celebrity getting caught with drugs. What is concerning is a celebrity of her age doing it. This isn't just a youthful indiscretion. She may have been influenced by her deadbeat boyfriend, but she chose to get into the lifestyle.
In the West, if a straight as an arrow celebrity gets caught with drugs, they get more credibility and become even more popular. I wonder if its beginning to get that way in Japan now as well. Nori-P was a huge star back in her day and her popularity was in large part based on her sweet and innocent image. I would be interested to know if there have been any opinion surveys of her after being arrested indicating any significant change in the publics view of her.
Posted in: Welcome from NoriP
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Wolfpack
President Obama is merely grandstanding at this point. He loves being the center of attention and to go around telling everyone how much better he is than former President Bush. The problem is he will be as successful as Bush and former Presaident Clinton before him in getting the American public to commit economic suicide.
Given the recent ClimateGate e-mails and rigged computer code along with the fact that the planet has not warmed at all in over ten years (even though the experts with the secret and made up 'settled science' told the world that it would) there isn't any reason to try to cut carbon emissions. The Left does not want to let the science speak for itself because it doesn't say what they want it to say - and that is there is no man-made global warming crisis. The only thing that is man-made in the global warming debate is the made up science by the environmentalist/socialists that seek to micromanage peoples lives and force them to live the way they want people to live.
Posted in: Obama to plead U.S. case at global warming summit
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Wolfpack
The country cannot count on the so-called "moderate" Democrats to save us from socialism and ever greater deficits and loss of individual freedom. I am convince that President Obama will try to force ObamaCare through the Senate using the reconciliation process requiring only a 51 vote majority. This would be a tremendously partisan and divisive tactic given that major social programs have always required at least some level of bi-partisan support, has never been used for huge spending programs, and is against public opinion.
Posted in: Senate Democrats at odds over health care bill
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Wolfpack
It's good to see that President Obama is finally getting around to escalating the war and sending more troops to Afghanistan. This on top of the thousands sent in last Spring's escalation indicates that there are at least some grown-ups in charge in his administration. Give credit to Obama for seeing the light and not getting too caught up in all of his campaign rhetoric from last year and just pulling the plug as his Liberal allies in Congress would like him to do.
The key now is to see how many troops he is able to get from our NATO allies. This is an area that he pounded former President Bush for and it should be expected that he can get a significant commitment from our allies. Hopefully he will be able to get more than 10,000 soldiers from our European allies. Anything significantly less than that would mean that all of his groveling and apologies over the past year did more harm than good.
Another important issue is how he plays the "exit strategy" issue that is beginning to be bandied about so much lately. The exit strategy in war should be defined as defeating the enemy, not just getting out before some arbitrary date. That is more of a retreat than an exit strategy.
Posted in: Obama promises to 'finish the job' in Afghanistan
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Wolfpack
I went to the Shimoda Black Ship Festival once years ago while I was in the Navy and it was a lot of fun. Some friends and I took the train up the peninsula to see what the area was like and got off at a few stops. All I can remember is that there were not many big cities around and the economy of the entire area seemed to be based upon the onsen business.
About the picture - would be better if the young ladies were wearing towels instead of those hideous green and white speckled dresses.
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Wolfpack
If President Obama gets his act together and sends the additional troops - as it appears he will - Conservatives will support him. It's the Left he has to worry about.
Posted in: White House braces for tough sell on Afghan policy
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Wolfpack
The reason why there are so many comments about Palin is due to the hatred that the Left feels for her. They see any prominent woman who doesn't agree with them as a threat that must be destroyed. It's the same irrationale fear that generated so much vitriole for Clarence Thomas.
In the Liberal mind, a successful career woman cannot have traditional values. She cannot believe that abortion is a serious moral issue. She cannot believe in individual freedom and liberty. For this reason, Palin has garnered millions of supporters that are repulsed by such hatred for someone that has the same world-view as themselves. Liberals do not like it when someone that is supposed to be on their side dare to think differently from them. They can't understand why a working woman like Palin can be a Conservative - they just can't comprehend it.
Posted in: More than 1,000 cheer Palin in Michigan for book tour
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Wolfpack
Well, I really don't have that much capital for them to come after, although I would like to keep what little I have. What I am most worried about is my freedom to do and choose those things that I want to do as opposed to what others would have me do. The man-made global warming theory is a perfect vehicle for those politicians that support statism.
Climate science is being manipulated and is simply 'politics by other means'. The carbon targets that the Europeans want America to commit to in order to make the Copenhagen summit a succes, are based more on political ideology instead of science. Now that the emails from East Anglia University have exposed a concerted fraud by the premiere scientists espousing man-made globabl warming, there are more reasons then ever to question the rationale behind even having environmental summits like Kyoto and Copenhagen to regulate a non-pollutant like carbon.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/11/24/thefixisin99280.html
Given that the science is being manipulated by leading climate scientists and current and former politicians, what other possible reason then Leftist politics can there be for the desperate push to force massive regulatory changes upon the people of the world?
Posted in: EU urges U.S., China to deliver carbon targets
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Wolfpack
Cool. Even cooler would be to smash two speeding watermelons. That is something the average European man could appreciate and would help to justify the $10 billion investment.
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