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Some of the comments threads are going way off topic, so I'm setting up an unthreaded post for people who want to point to interesting stories or put forward their own theories.

 

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Bish you are hetting some stick on Climate Audit from commenters on "Tamnino's Trick: Mann Bites Dog"
You are accused of referring to 1500 as being part of the MWP.

Jul 28, 2010 at 8:24 PM | Unregistered CommenterDung

More on following the money by way of RPjnr:

http://rogerpielkejr.blogspot.com/2010/07/meltdown.html

One exasperated administration official on Thursday lambasted the environmentalists – led by the Environmental Defense Fund – for failing to effectively lobby GOP senators.

“They didn’t deliver a single Republican,” the official told POLITICO. “They spent like $100 million and they weren’t able to get a single Republican convert on the bill.”

So the green lobbyists can drop $100m trying and failing to buy votes, and here the Times makes an alleged $1m to fund sceptics front page news?

Jul 28, 2010 at 9:25 PM | Unregistered CommenterAtomic Hairdryer

Amazon.com is now recommending the HSI to me on the basis of other books I have bought.

Jul 28, 2010 at 11:10 PM | Unregistered CommenterMartin A

Bish many apologies for being somewhat behind the game :(

Jul 29, 2010 at 1:45 AM | Unregistered CommenterDung

Jack Hughes

More stuff here green-agenda.com

One of the little known, but interesting things, is in the US, an average citizen with a clean criminal record, and -- in many but not all states such as in Nevada, but not California -- can legally own fully automatic weapons up to and including the 50 Caliber M2 machine gun. This does require permission from the ATF and local law agencies but very doable in such places as Nevada.

I think I will move to Nevada....

Jul 29, 2010 at 2:36 AM | Unregistered CommenterDon Pablo de la Sierra

Is there any truth to this? I'm loathe to post the url but here goes...

Climate Change Scepticism Could Soon Be a Criminal Offence
Sun, 18/07/2010 - 11:24 | BNP News

People who are sceptical of climate change could soon be facing criminal charges in the European Court of Justice, British National Party leader and MEP Nick Griffin MEP has said.

Speaking in an exclusive Radio Red, White and Blue interview on this week’s “Eurofile” report, Mr Griffin told interviewer John Walker about a recent sitting of the European Parliament’s subcommittee dealing with the matter, which had passed a ruling which in effect placed legal sanction against anyone who dared question the origin, cause or effect of “climate change.”

Mr Griffin revealed how he could not get a straight answer out of the committee while it was in session, but that afterwards it was admitted to him that that intention of the rule was to criminalise dissension on the topic of “climate change.”

http://bnp.org.uk/news/climate-change-scepticism-could-soon-be-criminal-offence

Jul 29, 2010 at 9:50 AM | Unregistered CommenterPete

Pete

There is no freedom of speech in EU, except some in the UK and ROI. But that was pre-Lisbon Treaty. Now that you have an official EU "constitution" even that is probably gone.

There are already several topics which you may not express opinions against in the EU, and indeed most of the world. Why not Global Warming?

Jul 29, 2010 at 2:16 PM | Unregistered CommenterDon Pablo de la Sierra

If that rule becomes law then we all get to meet up quite soon ^.^

Jul 29, 2010 at 3:33 PM | Unregistered CommenterDung

Another climate blog is born: http://www.climateedinburgh.blogspot.com/

Aiming to keep a weather eye particularly on Edinburgh and public policy.

Keep up the good work.

CR

Jul 29, 2010 at 11:17 PM | Unregistered CommenterCameron Rose

Interesting blog Cameron. I found the pages a bit flaky though, some odd redrawing, and couldn't post a comment. (Using Firefox, but also tried it in IE).

Jul 30, 2010 at 4:05 PM | Unregistered CommenterPaxton

Paxton: Thanks for the freedback. IE + ffox seem to be posting OK. Will look at the clunkiness.

Bish: Apologies for creating a 'reference' at top of comments. Please delete.

CR

Jul 30, 2010 at 10:58 PM | Unregistered CommenterCameron Rose

Returning to an older debate over the Libel Laws of the UK, particularly England and Wales, the US Congress has decided to flip the bird at the findings of the English and Welsh courts with regard to Libel Tourism.

US law to protect writers against libel tourism

Aug 1, 2010 at 6:07 PM | Unregistered CommenterDon Pablo de la Sierra

Drcrinum,
I worked in an engineering office may years ago where the chief engineer had gone to Harvard and MIT simultaneously - took a few extra years. His wall included those degrees and professional registration certificates for every state in the US. It developed that he and my cousin had been classmates in the public school system. It also developed that my cousin still had her junior high school graduation certificate. It was possible to get a good photo-copy, change the name, frame it and hang it on the Chief's wall.

We did.

He didn't notice it, but eventually one of his guests did and surmised that having it on the wall might be carrying it a bit too far.

The downside of this gag was his wife got chewed out for because he thought it was real and indeed he still had his. She forgave us saying that deflating him a bit was always a good thing.

Aug 2, 2010 at 2:30 PM | Unregistered Commenterj ferguson

Interesting news from Greenland. New ice core reaches bedrock.

http://calderup.wordpress.com/2010/08/04/greenland-bedrock/

And link therein.

Aug 4, 2010 at 10:04 PM | Unregistered CommenterPharos

Texas versus the EPA:
http://www.globalwarming.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/epa-texas-letter.pdf

It's too good to quote from. Read the whole thing, if you can stop laughing long enough to do so!

Aug 4, 2010 at 11:22 PM | Unregistered CommenterSara Chan

I have heard the Guardian debate about 4 times now and ( I will start here and then spread it wider) I accuse Bob Watson of being a liar in at least two statements he made in that debate.
I invite Bob to sue me if he is not happy with that.
I will not at this time explain which statements I refer to.
Prison cant be much worse than my dragon anyway hehe.

Aug 5, 2010 at 5:35 AM | Unregistered CommenterDung

I've more or less given up on the BBC news website, what with its 'independent' editorial policy (that's independent as used by Muir Russell, Lord Oxburgh et al) on CAGW and the new page formats, which are pretty terrible, but I was trying to find some info on likely auroral activity over the next few nights after hearing a snatched headline on the Today programmne, and spotted this:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/richardblack/2010/07/the_apologies_issued_by_two.html#comments

...an account of two serious and admired multinational organisations and the dignified and respectful way they deal with other peoples considered view points.

Aug 5, 2010 at 1:14 PM | Unregistered CommenterCumbrian Lad

Came across this while checking my stocks and such

British Subsidies Trigger `Solar Revolution' Under Rainy Skies It reminds me of Josh's cartoon Josh's cartoon

My favorite quip from it is:

“We don’t want a food-versus-fuel backlash,” Scurlock said. “We’re looking at things like solar panels mounted to a 2-meter (6-feet) height with free-range poultry running around underneath.”

Hopefully, Josh will be inspired by that!

Second Laugh of the Week:

Russians say Nyet! on tree ring data!

Obviously Mann was not a peer reviewer of this.

Aug 5, 2010 at 4:30 PM | Unregistered CommenterDon Pablo de la Sierra

Your Grace,

Each entry on your blog has links arranged at the top like this:
« Next entry | Main | Previous entry »
It is handy to have them there, of course. But I find the order perverse. The convention in graphs, timelines, and much else is that 'earlier' appears to the left of 'later'. Is the current order hard-wired into SquareSpace blogs?

My apologies if this rather trivial matter has already been raised in the past.

Aug 7, 2010 at 9:32 PM | Unregistered CommenterJane Coles

Jane

No, you are the first. I'll try to take a look.

Aug 7, 2010 at 9:44 PM | Registered CommenterBishop Hill

Stop hack the program!!!

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