
Tip drive November 2014


It's a long time since I've done a tip drive, so I think it's time to dust off the tip box again. It's over there in the right-hand column.
Help keep the BH show on the road!
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It's a long time since I've done a tip drive, so I think it's time to dust off the tip box again. It's over there in the right-hand column.
Help keep the BH show on the road!
I'm away for a few days this week, so blogging will be light to non-existent. I have a couple of things lined up to post in my absence, and Today's Moderator (TM) may post topical threads too.
I'm off to Bristol this morning as I will be attending the Mann lecture this evening. I'm expecting little of the occasion, but it will be nice to meet Anthony beforehand.
Blogging may be light for a couple of days.
There is a major site issue at the moment - comments are not posting correctly. It's in the hands of Squarespace. That's all I know at the moment.
Squarespace have emailed to say they think they have fixed the speed issues with the site. If you are still having problems, can you let me know in the comments.
Thanks
Some people are experiencing positively glacial performance from the site. It's an issue with Squarespace, who are investigating.
Squarespace Help are asking for information from people suffering from slow performance. Here's the details. Answers in the comments [or by email] please:
I'll need to know your visitors IP address. To find it, visit this site:
http://www.whatismyip.com
I'll also need them to do a traceroute. If you're using a Mac, open Spotlight by pressing Command+Space and open the Terminal.
Then, type traceroute and a space followed by your domain name. Press Enter.
If you're on a PC, go to Start > All Programs > Accessories > Command Prompt.
Then, type tracert and a space followed by your domain name. Press Enter.
Once you've done that, you'll need to do two more traceroutes: one for CNAME and another for IP
Update the CNAME and IP for the customer's platform:
CNAME:
five.squarespace.com
IP
65.39.205.54
When all three traceroutes are done, copy everything in the Terminal or Command Prompt and paste it into your reply along with your IP address.
Thanks.
As readers may have gathered, I have been a bit preoccupied in recent days, mainly with helping GWPF on this that and the other. I think things are now going to ease off a bit, so I can devote a bit more time to blogging.
One project that has been keeping me busy was helping with the report by Nic Lewis and Marcel Crok on climate sensitivity. Marcel tweeted about this earlier today:
Nic Lewis and I will present our GWPF report "A Sensitive Matter: How the IPCC buried evidence showing good news about global warming" on Thursday March 6 in press centre Nieuwspoort (The Hague, The Netherlands). Lewis and I will both give a presentation. There are still tickets available. The meeting starts at 10 am (Dutch time). To register send an email to kantoor@groenerekenkamer.nl
Two versions of the report (long and short one) can be downloaded on Thursday from the GWPF website.
The short version one is directed at the layman while the full long one is for more technically minded readers. They should help to provide James Painter with the answers to the questions he posed the other day. There's also a Dutch language version coming.
There are quite a few other things on the go, and which are keeping me very busy. These will appear over the next few days, weeks and months.
I'm taking flak from Richard North (doesn't everyone?) for not linking to him and Booker enough. This is slightly odd because I cited North a couple of days ago and there is a link to his EU revelations in the "Seen elsewhere" column. Still, Booker's article in the Spectator today - a roundup of the floods debacle - gives me an opportunity to air their work further.
It's interesting to compare this rather level-headed take on the floods with Damian Carrington's melodramatic offering of a couple of days ago:
The stormy assault mounted by the extreme weather since December is most relentless the nation has ever recorded, with one extreme attack has smashing in after another. The opening salvo - a huge East coast storm surge - was the most severe since at least 1953; the Christmas deluge sank Surrey and the Levels; the January monsoon was the greatest since at least 1766; ferocious, incessant winds topping 100mph are set to blow away decades-old records.
The problem is that the dull truth - bureaucracy and environmentalism - is just not as good a sales pitch as "OMG we're destroying the planet". The dull truth may well get through eventually, but it will be an uphill struggle against the massed forces of the disreputable.
Donna Laframboise has been invited to give evidence to the Commons' Energy and Climate Change Committee's inquiry on the Fifth Assessment Report and is looking for help in paying her way over. It goes without saying that to get a sceptic in front of the inquiry is a major step forward, so it's an excellent use for your spare tenners.
Donate early and donate often, here.
A toast to the successes of 2013 and to continued sweeping away of global warming dogma in 2014.
The celebrations are about to begin at the episcopal palace, so I'm now signing off for a couple of days.
Season's greetings to all BH readers.
It's been a few months since I did a tip drive, so if you'd like to help keep the BH show on the road the links are over there on the right. As always it's good to get people subscribing to the site, so (and I mean you at the back there) if you haven't helped out before, now could be your moment.
It's half term here, so blogging will be light this week. I have quite a few threads lined up to appear so there will be something to talk about.