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Samizdata quote of the day “Climategate is like the finest single malt whisky – 30-years matured, complex and multi-layered, distilled to a fiery concentration, and every drop of the cask to be savoured in small, delicious, damn-the-prohibitionist sips.”
– From regular Samizdata commenter, Pa Annoyed, writing about this recent post of Brian Micklethwait.
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Which is also what happened to Pa’s comments – in a fraction of 30 years…:-)
Lovely little writer, isn’t he.
I was going to say on the original thread, for gawds sake Brian dont stop!
This is the biggest story of the 21st Century.
It’s just that I’m suffering from a bit of fatigue here, the whole thing is getting beyond my ability to take the piss.
Have a look at this.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article7018533.ece
Rasputin has found the time in his very busy and self important schedule to write a book!
And look who’s sponsoring it?
I thought Big Oil was the Green’s great Satan. This is going to drive them nuts!
Everyone would do well to read his description of how the greenhouse effect actually works. one; two.
Off(ish) topic. From Insty:
Back OT, agreed Rob, PA’s description of the Greenhouse Effect certainly helped me.
Oh, and I left a comment on the last Climategate thread that might interest people here!
Googling for Climategate, I read this news article(Link):
He told The Sunday Times that he thought about killing himself “several times”.
Surely, once would be enough?
See that’s what really pisses me off about these maudlin little shits and their lacrimose displays of self pity (that goes for Gurnin Gordon and Alistair fuckin Campbell too, seen them on the telly piping their eye lately?)
Only the guilty contemplate suicide (out of shame, or more likely being found out).
If you’re right, and you believe you’re right, you fight!
Thanks, all.
These people are like vampires; you have to drive a stake throught their hearts. Killing them some other way may in fact not be enough.
But one way or another I think they will achieve their actual objectives.
Good quote! Inspired me to toast confusion to our enemies (I speak on behalf of mankind you understand, albeit briefly) with a malt the other night.
Very good links from Rob Fisher. I think it behoves those of us who have the technical background to get tooled up to attack the alarmists in their weak underbelly i.e. on their science.
Others well versed in the ways of politics and the media have the toughest task, at the main frontline, where the greenies have their greatest strengths and activities: frightening the vulnerable, manipulating the powerful.
The wheels are really falling off the CAGW train. Scientists now seem to be falling all over themselves to distance them from it. Not only is there serious doubt about the “C” and the “A”, but now they’re questioning whether there really is any “W” itself! In the mainstream press, no less.
Incidentally, at the end of the Timesonline article is a link to the actual study. It’s worth a read (or at least a quick scan), and is absolutely scathing. They basically charge NOAA (the keeper of all ground temperature stations) with “cooking the books” by systematically eliminating rural and high-altitude stations in favor of urban ones to produce a pronounced warming bias. The result is a huge (and increasing) divergence from the satellite data. Their conclusion is that all global-warming press releases from NOAA, NASA and CRU “should henceforth be ignored”.
But I do fear that all this congratulation and “feel good” may be a bit premature.
Obfuscating truth is their speciality.
Try this for size (especially the Audi commercial):
http://www.jeffjacoby.com/6931/a-ride-in-big-brothers-audi