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@golf charlie, Jan 3, 2017 at 2:16 PM

The US Law is Driving Under the Influence, I don't know how well it specifies the cause of the "Influence". Would driving under the influence of rage induced by another dumb story about Global Warming on the radio count?

Similar to UK RTA laws
iirc:
Sec 4 Driving over the alcohol limit
Sec 5 Driving while under the influnce of drink or drugs

USA Town/County Cops have been arresting, citing to make money for many years - “policing for profit”.

Now this:

Corey Statham had $46 in his pockets when he was arrested in Ramsey County, Minn., and charged with disorderly conduct. He was released two days later, and the charges were dismissed. But the county kept $25 of Mr. Statham’s money as a “booking fee.” …He did get a debit card for the remaining $21. But there was no practical way to extract his cash without paying some kind of fee. Among them: $1.50 a week for “maintenance” of the unwanted card, starting after 36 hours; $2.75 for using an A.T.M. to withdraw money; $3 for transferring the balance to a bank account; and $1.50 for checking the balance

Jan 3, 2017 at 10:44 PM | Registered CommenterPcar

Donald Trump uses 140 characters and the Ford Motor Company jumps.

Jan 3, 2017 at 10:44 PM | Unregistered CommenterSandyS

@tomo,

Wobbin of Sherwood's 1000 year old oak tree is threatened by fracking!

I posted on 2 January 2017:

If Guy Shrubsole, a Friends of the Earth campaigner and his fellow anti-everything friends value the ground under Sherwood Forrest so much. The solution is simple: buy it and the mineral & other rights and dig some underground sustainable caves to live in.

Most of the inhabitants of Brighton could move there and live in their green underground nirvana isolated from rest of the world.

I’m sure few would object.

It could even be commissioned as a TV programme:
C4: An Underground Eden
Participants include: Guy Shrubsole, Orinoco Shirker, Tomsk Fick, Wellington Green, Cholet Prim and Great Uncle Bulgaria

Jan 3, 2017 at 10:30 PM | Registered CommenterPcar

tomo, You might notice that the comments on that Guardian article are quite split.

There are some zealots who truly believe that Gasland was recited by Gabriel in a cave.

And some technical experts who tore apart the Greens with a brutal use of facts. The only defence was the claim that non-Greens must be paid astro-turfers.

The fact that the only proven astro-turfers were in the pay of Russia (and so opposed to fracking in the UK) was... inconvenient.
Or possibly a discovery of projection.

Seriously, check out the comments on that Guardian article.
They are revealing of the Green mindset; paranoid and defensive.

Jan 3, 2017 at 10:25 PM | Registered CommenterM Courtney

Oh Noes !

Wobbin of Sherwood's 1000 year old oak tree is threatened by fracking!

FoE are on the case ...

The procession of profoundly ignorant twerps spouting garbage at The Guardian continues unabated and shows no sign that any of them have made a New Year Resolution to inform themselves.

I see that my status as "in pre-moderation" now has a an exclamation emoji and text in scarlet - how charming.

Jan 3, 2017 at 8:47 PM | Registered Commentertomo

Shes asking for emeritus status.

Jan 3, 2017 at 8:41 PM | Registered Commenterstewgreen

Resigning a tenured chair at a major US university is not a thing to be done lightly.

Jan 3, 2017 at 7:51 PM | Registered CommenterMartin A

"How young scientists are to navigate all this is beyond me, and it often becomes a battle of scientific integrity versus career suicide." - Judith Curry

I can think of several who made it to the top ........

Jan 3, 2017 at 6:52 PM | Unregistered CommenterSchrodinger's Cat

She decided to retire. Full story at https://judithcurry.com/2017/01/03/jc-in-transition/

Jan 3, 2017 at 6:43 PM | Unregistered CommenterSchrodinger's Cat

JC Blogpost
"I have no plans to join the Trump administration (ha ha).

Technically, my resignation is a retirement event"

"I’m ‘cashing out’ with 186 published journal articles and two books."

"The reward system that is in place for university faculty members is becoming increasingly counterproductive to actually educating students to be able to think and cope in the real world"

"I no longer know what to say to students and postdocs regarding how to navigate the CRAZINESS in the field of climate science. "

"We’ll see how all this plays out, but I figured I’ve earned the right to explore and do what I want."

Jan 3, 2017 at 6:42 PM | Registered Commenterstewgreen

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