Zed

I've looked at the Exxon Secrets link and there's no clear indication that Spencer is being actively funded by Exxon or anyone else. What am I missing?

Thanks for the links Zed

Sorry to hear that you've been stricken. Hope it clears up soon.

I spend quite a bit of time at RC and I have a saved link to Exxon Secrets too... But re the RC post, it refers to old data, not the central question of whether Spencer & Braswell 2010 is in error. I note there has been no substantive riposte to this paper as yet. S&B freely admit that their 2008 paper was flawed.

You might find this odd, but I am as suspicious of Spencer's political affiliations as you are. But let's stick to the science.

Oh dear...

In Denial - Climate on the Couch

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00y92mn

Weird. Couldn't post last night. Couldn't post this morning. Managed to post the comment below and have now successfully posted elsewhere too.

I'm having trouble posting comments in the Legal Unpleasantries and Culpability threads. I get the captcha box every time and an error message appears saying (In Google Chrome)

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Tried to post with Google Chrome 9.0.597.84
and
Firefox 3.6.8

I saw the play "The Heretic" on its opening night this evening at the Royal Court Theatre. The audience liked it and there was almost a full house. It was very much a sceptic's play, with sceptical material interwoven with romantic comedy. The playwright Richard Bean is quite well known. It was a fairly long play, 2 1/2 hours including interval; personally I found the sceptical material a wee bit preachy at times, and I would have liked a faster pace to compensate for that. If it were my play I would have edited it down and kept the best 90 minutes guided by audience response, but then I often think that about comedy. It would make a good film or TV play, again in a shorter faster-paced form I think. It's on till 19 March, not a bad evening out if you're in London.

Working again now

I am trying to add a comment to the Bob Ward thread but its not working.

Sylvestre Huet (a true believer) picks up the Amazon drought paper in his Liberation blog, after weeks without any Global Warming posts. His last paragraph is interesting:

"The article published this morning in Science probably owes its rapid publication, apart from its intrinsic interest, to the spectacular episode of Amazongate, told in detail by Lewis, illustrating the sometimes doubtful relations between science and the media."

http://sciences.blogs.liberation.fr/home/2011/02/2%C3%A8me-s%C3%A9cheresse-du-si%C3%A8cle-en-amazonie-en-cinq-ans.html

Yet another example of Bloggers doing a job that Lame Stream Media journalists pointedly refuse to do.

Two US based bloggers, Mike Vanderbeogh and David Codrea, have been gathering the evidence that a US agency was facilitating the smuggling of guns to Mexican criminals (without telling the Mexican authorities), allegedly to pad figures of guns traced back to the US and so justify their own funding.

One of those smuggled guns appears to have been used to murder a US Border Patrol agent.

Despite the bloggers posting for about a month, the MSM are only now starting to take a reluctant interest.

There is a concise summary of the story here, along with links to the blogs:
http://tsradionotes.blogspot.com/2011/02/of-whistleblowers-watchdogs-and-atf.html