tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40297302390378931312012-01-28T01:57:42.079-08:00A forum to discuss current events, issues with the world press, and opinions about politics.Four On The Floorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02487535891735252270noreply@blogger.comBlogger23061100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4029730239037893131.post-382639698237036942011-04-04T22:38:00.000-07:002011-04-04T22:50:02.207-07:00

Since joining Posterous I have effectively had two blogs, with this one being automatically updated via posts to the other one.So this blog has been the mirror of the other.Unfortunately, whereas Posterous automatically adjusts the dimensions of images and embedded videos, this one doesn't. And if the dimensions are too big it then affects the text as well, making it 'run over' the right

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Neville Nicholls is one of Australia's leading climate scientists. He is also a long-time participant in the IPCC and current president of the Australian Meteorological & Oceanographic Society. I first met Neville in the mid 1990s (at a meeting in Vietnam I think) and I have had nothing but great respect for him ever since. In his latest "AMOS - President's Column" he asks, "What caused the

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Important article by the foreign affairs correspondent at The Australian, Greg Sheridan.It's significance lies in the fact that Sheridan for many years has been one of the foremost proponents and advocate for multiculturalism on the Right side of politics.Back in 1996 he had this to say:There is nothing in multiculturalism that could cause any worry to any normal person. Multiculturalism

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From the Dinosaur Mailing List:David W.E. Hone, Kebai Wang, Corwin Sullivan, Xijin Zhao, Shuqing Chen, Dunjin Li, Shuan Ji, Qiang Ji and Xing Xu (2011) A new tyrannosaurine theropod, Zhuchengtyrannus magnus is named based on a maxilla and dentary. Cretaceous Research (advance online publication) doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2011.03.005AbstractTyrannosaurids are primarily gigantic, predatory theropod

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Seldom do I waste time with rebutting articles, and especially not from publications like Rolling Stone.  Today, numerous people sent links to the latest Rolling Stone tripe.  The story is titled “THE KILL TEAM, THE FULL STORY.”  It should be titled: “BULLSHIT, from Rolling Stone.”The story—not really an “article”—covers Soldiers from 5/2 Stryker Brigade Combat Team (SBCT) in Afghanistan.  A

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It closes at 5pm on Saturdays.

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It encourages the sanctimonious gesture of turning off trivial appliances for a trivial amount of time, in deference to some ill-defined abstraction called "the Earth," all the while hypocritically retaining the real benefits of continuous, reliable electricity. People who see virtue in doing without electricity should shut off their fridge, stove, microwave, computer, water heater, lights, TV

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Despite paid agenda driven bloviations of "Climate-driven food insecurity", even environmental media king The Guardian sees the real reasons behind it, and it isn’t global warming aka “climate change”. Instead, blame gets squarely placed on weather, a new virulent strain of wheat rust, the U.N.’s policies related to GM regulation, shifting economies, and biofuels.The whole post here.

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From you know who.Climate Audit’s Steve McIntyre now discovers two declines have been hidden in the tree-ring data set which was so influential in IPCC claims that we’ve had unprecedented warming in the 20th century. Anthony Watts explains the background and significance.But with the government and the green movement increasing their efforts to slime and smear those who point to the actual

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So, maybe we're are now entering the endgame of the decades long experiment in the middle-class white fantasy that separatism was a viable strategy for aboriginal people in Australia.This fantasy, that "spiritual" native people could viably return to and maintain a stone age culture and lifestyle in modern Australia was always doomed to failure.This fantasy of well meaning members of the white

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Tumescent.Via https://twitter.com/iammilitaryNo bang-bang, so any sensitive souls out there can watch without having their feelings hurt.But some great aerial footage of two Tornadoes from the Royal Air Force en route to Libya, including refuelling from a soon to disappear VC-10 tanker.You can see what a versatile aircraft this supposed "Cold-War relic" has become, with its mixed warload of

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@judyhoracek: For a PM accused of not standing for anything, constantly invoking former PM from other side isn't a good look #qt

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@Dan_J_Thorpe Tax cuts to counter a tax that is supposed to make things more expensive.From the Twitters.

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http://xkcd.com/radiation/Again, this isn't about saying radiation can't be harmful, it can be.But life has been dealing with constant exposure to radiation since it began over 3 billion years ago.As there is no such thing as a toxic substance, only a toxic dose, so to with radiation.

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Do vaccines cause autism or other neuro-developmental disorders? Scientists know that vaccines don't, but the idea lingers everywhere -- on talk shows and blogs and in conversations between parents and their child's pediatrician. It lingers because many people in this country and elsewhere think that vaccines just might not be good for us.In two books that tell the story of the panic over

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In economics, it's called the law of diminishing marginal utility. The first glass of water you drink will help a lot to quench your thirst. The second will help a little less and so on. By the 10th glass you will be feeling unpleasantly full or even sick. That's the worst aspect: some major environmental policies aren't just ineffective -- they are counterproductive.

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Berkeley professor of physics Richard Muller expresses his disgust at what, (in my view), can only be described as the scientific fraud behind the signature image of global warming alarmism, the Hockey Stick.For the record, Professor Muller in not a "climate denier," (and has there ever been a more egregious example of dishonest smearing of opponents than this absurd and idiotic term?).As do we

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Hat tip to CorrellioIn many ways a depressing read below. We have a bunch of incompetents running this country who apparently have drunk their own Kool-aid and have started to believe their own spin.Witness Ms Gillard and Professor Garnaut's bizarre efforts at trying to spin the lie that China is racing to embrace the fluffy future of wind farms and solar panels that harvest the Sun's love for

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The blogger, Tim Lambert (aka Deltoid), regularly engages in the DDT debate by making ad hominem attacks on those who defend DDT in an effort to undermine their credibility. AFM has often been the target of such attacks and as a general policy, has not considered it a constructive use of our time to engage in these often misguided and pointless discussions. However, as Lambert recently blogged

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An important read.

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  Quality.  

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The size of European unconventional commercial gas reserves rival that of North America, according to a major new study by IHS Cambridge Energy Research Associates (IHS CERA). The study, Breaking with Convention: Prospects for European Unconventional Gas estimates Europe’s total unconventional gas in place could be 173 trillion cubic meters (Tcm), or 6,115 trillion cubic feet (Tcf).Breaking with

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The disconnect between fantasy and reality here is bizarre.But yes, the WWF has made Miranda Kerr, who has a carbon footprint the rest of us could only dream about, their global Earth Hour Ambassador.The reaction from the Fairfax Press to this absurd hypocrisy?Credulous gushing.GREEN is, like, so hot right now, thanks to Australian model Miranda Kerr, who has been named Earth Hour’s ‘’global

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Apparently the tax that Julia Gillard says is a tax is, according to Wayne Swan now, not a tax at all!In roughly the same way that the goods and services tax isn't a tax either.No wonder Oakes warns Swan:Well, I’ve rarely seen an issue that has inflamed anger to the extent that this one has. A friend of mine in Brisbane told me two days ago that he thought it was running so hot up there that if

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All up, P Z Myers (who in my opinion is very clever but, when it comes to politics and the like, can be a very nasty and petty piece of work), is quite right in the general points he makes about this latest episode of a gullible and scientifically illiterate media falling for a press release put out by an attention seeking scientist.And the media generally has fallen for the recycled claims about

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I see that the BBC has devoted some attention to links between the Gaddafi family and various British institutions and politicians. However, I can't seem to find any mention of the useful idiots who, in the name of climate change, supported this particular PR exercise/vanity project back in 2007:The Libyan government has announced the creation of what it claims is "the world’s first sustainable

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Yet another example of bad science (amongst other things) leading to bad policy.From Watts Up With That?:Global Food Prices Jump To Record Level Because of Higher Corn Prices – or the alternate title: Cornholing the futureFrom The UN FAO - corn prices were the biggest driver of this trendThere’s lot of gloom and doom being pushed, trying to link food prices to climate change by the usual howlers.

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From The Wall Street Journal:In his best-selling history of the 20th century, "Modern Times," British historian Paul Johnson describes "a significant turning-point in American history: the first time the Great Republic, the richest nation on earth, came up against the limits of its financial resources." Until the 1960s, he writes in a chapter titled "America's Suicide Attempt," "public finance

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It's a lyric taken from the Rock Against Howard CD.Tracks included John Howard is a Filthy Slut and Gun Him Down.Interesting in the context of the current bout of insincere and fake leftoid hand-wringing about those nasty conservative race-baiters making horrible comparisons between Ms Gillard and Mr Ghaddafi, or saying hurtful things about the member for New England.Labor's then national

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I'd tweeted about this on Wednesday after reading it in the Oz's Australian Literary Review, but have just come across the article online....in August 1943, in preparation for his visit to London the following year for the Dominion Prime Ministers Conference, Curtin announced to the Labor Party and the Australian people his vision for the post-war British Empire. Speaking to the United Commercial

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Strange times we live in when one of our most accomplished men of letters can see the blindingly obvious that professional scientific alarmists can't (or wont).James may not be a scientist, but he is one of the smartest men ever to be produced by this country, and it shows.Poetry, said Auden, makes nothing happen. Usually it doesn't, but sometimes a poem gets quoted in a national argument because

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But were these extra jobs created as a result of green legislation? And at what cost?First, it is necessary to count the costs of the alleged green jobs miracle. A study by the respected economic research institute RWI concluded that every single worker in these industries had been supported to the tune of E175,000 ($240,000). Given this enormous subsidy, it is remarkable how few jobs have been

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I so, so want to go to the Heart Attack Grill, which has been treating anorexia since 2005.   Though I'll stick to just the Double Bypass Burger with my flatliner fries and butterfat shake (world's highest butterfat content apparently).   This little promotional video is hilarious:   http://www.heartattackgrill.com/Heart_Attack_Grill_Diet_Center/Comm_Healthcare.html

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 @LaurieOakes: Good Abbott line."She needs an honesty transplant but looks behind her and can't find a single donor."

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Jeff Beck:Reader ICW emails:If you have the time or the inclination, I think it's worth a post on the "fossil fuel subsidy" canard that green groups regularly peddle, but which rarely gets corrected by the media.The latest example is the ACF's Don Henry claiming that the fossil fuel industry gets $12b of subsidies.If you click through to the accompanying document, it's clear the ACF's definition

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Tamas Calderwood writes: Seeing as Tim MacKay (comments, Friday) attended both my universities with me and played fullback on my rugby team, he knows full well that my qualifications are in economics and finance, not in climate science. But I do know numbers and I read lots of climate science, so I can say quite confidently that the world has not warmed for 13 years, that the three warming spurts

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chriskkennylook at me, here's a promise, now it's a tax, look at my levy, back at me, another tax, look it's gay marriage, I'm on a horse.If you're on the Twitters, Mr Kenny is worth a follow.

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Mr Bolt reports:Seems the globe is just eating up carbon dioxide faster that warmists thought:By studying collections of a marine bryozoan that date back to a famous 1901 expedition to the South Pole, researchers have found that those organisms were growing steadily up until 1990, when their growth more than doubled. The data, reported in the February 22 issue of Current Biology, a Cell Press

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(Bill Leak's devastating cartoon from this morning's Weekend Australian.)Terry McCrann points to the irreconcilable contradiction that lies at the heart of JuLiar Gillard's "national suicide pledge" to introduce two new taxes and drive up the cost of everything.The proposed resources rent tax, (not in itself necessarily a bad idea), is based upon the assumption that the Chinese and Indian

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Even Richard Farmer from the very left-leaning Crikey.com.au is appalled at the way Julia Gillard has gone back on what she said to the Australian people during the last federal election campaign.When solemn election promises can be broken without even a pretence of explanation parliamentary democracy is in a sad, sad state. So it is in Australia now that Julia Gillard has confirmed that her word

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Mr Bolt:From the latest Spectator, a gotcha on the corruption peer-review process that the Climategate emails suggested but which Nicholas Lewis and Matt Ridley now demonstrate. Spectator editor Nelson Fraser sums up (the Lewis/Ridley article is behind a pay wall):In January 2009, Nature magazine ran a cover story … conveying dramatic news about Antarctica: that most of it had warmed

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It seems Sharon Begley can be rational when she wants to be.If she could apply a similar degree of healthy and appropriate scepticism to her climate change reporting, I'd be very pleased.It appears a lot of medical research suffers from the same problem that a lot of climate research suffers from, ie "stasticulation" - the use of inappropriate statistical methods to arrive at, at best, erroneous

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John Roskam fumes at the kind of thing that had me so cross, too, on Insiders today:In the days immediately before Abbott’s perceived media gaffe, the big issue for the Canberra press gallery was whether it was appropriate for the liberal Party to send an email soliciting donations to fight the government’s flood tax. The email received more attention from journalists than such questions as why

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The natural gas cartel, a dream of Russia’s just a few years ago, is dead. It died when a natural gas revolution broke out and Gazprom lost.  Energy importing nations around the world are evaluating their own geology, currently, to see if they have shale reserves that can be tapped.  Nations like Argentina, Germany, Poland, France, and Sweden are looking into their national shale reserves.The

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For adults, one of the most important lessons to learn in life is the necessity of unlearning. We all think that we know certain things to be true beyond doubt, but these things often turn out to be false and, until we unlearn them, they get in the way of new understanding. Among the scientific certainties I have had to unlearn: that upbringing strongly shapes your personality; that nurture is

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Initially, His Grace was persuaded by Bishop Hill's indignation at the inflammatory juxtaposition of multiculturalist sceptics and anthropogenic climate-change deniers with paedophiles. But, having reflected (and having read some of Mr Buerk's other pronouncements on the BBC), it is evident that he is actually criticising those who propagate absolutist dogma and hold to an unquestionable

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Part of Mark Riley's defense of his nakedly biased attempt to 'get' the leader of Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition in Australia, has been to claim that there was no imputation made about Abbott's "shit happens" comment in Afghanistan.The above picture shows this is a lie.

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Two within a fortnight of each other.So those wanting to jump on the climate change bandwagon may want to be cautious.Maybe also cautious about media tropes like "one-in-a-hundred."Is the climate "changing" for Queensland, or is it more a case of it going back to what it used to be?The basic answer is that we really just don't know.

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Steven Goddard has it here.

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Climb the stairs to Gregory Paul's third-floor Charles Village apartment and you may quickly find yourself slipping back 100 million years or more into the Mesozoic era.The Baltimore artist's walls are filled with lush portraits of dinosaurian wildlife in action, many in color. Tyrannosaurs step off across mud flats on a sunset hunt. A pair of feathered Archaeopteryx cavort like gulls at the surf

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Via http://twitter.com/DDsD

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Some say it's the last holdout for a handful of scientists still not convinced that birds evolved from dinosaurs. The fingers of the two groups of animals, they say, just don't match up. As embryos, birds seem to develop the equivalent of our middle three fingers, but theropods—two-legged, primarily carnivorous dinosaurs from which birds are thought to have evolved—sport the equivalent of our

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What this inherent uncertainty -- perhaps better characterized as inherent ignorance -- means of course is that strategies of robust decision making make good sense. That is to say, with respect to preparing for future extreme events, we should emphasize those strategies that are insensitive to uncertainties. Perhaps the most robust finding of each of these studies (and the broader literature) is

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In my opinion, 13 months after Climategate an equally important document was made public. It is a single PDF file three megabytes in size and 678 pages in length. Although it contains the remarks of 232 separate individuals, no attempt was made to, say, number these individuals for easy reference. Thus, it is far from user-friendly.Nevertheless, it is a gold mine. Info about the document may be

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The Kirov Class cruiser Peter the Great  

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Thanks to Damian Geminder http://www.facebook.com/Conservathink

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Came across this blog post by Strange Times: The English Civil War Is A Crucial Part of Australian History via Twitter.As I read it I suspected that the blogger was something of a lefty, and indeed it appears he's some sort of Marxist. (Or is it she? I'm not sure.)Does my heart good though to see an article in Crikey being described as "arrogant, dismissive and, frankly a joke" by someone of the

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She was carrying a single, nearly mature egg. "After this she drowned, her carcass became waterlogged, sank to the bottom and, as decay processes began, the egg was expelled from her body," wrote researchers who described the fossil in the January 21 issue of Science.

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An artist's rendering of the one-fingered, short-armed new dinosaur Linhenykus monodactylus (National Geographic)A new species of parrot-sized dinosaur, the first discovered with only one finger, has been unearthed in Inner Mongolia, China.Scientists named the new dinosaur Linhenykus monodactylus, after the nearby city of Linhe. The work was recently published online in Proceedings of the

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Thanks to itsonlywords @CO2HOG  @FoxieNews

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The Daily Mail (shoosh back there!) continues its serialisation of Peter Sissons' memoir of his four decades as a television journalist.‘What happened to the journalism? The BBC has ­completely lost it.’It's quite astounding reading in so many ways.Back in the studio I suggested that we line up one or two sceptics to react to the report, but received a totally negative response, as if I was some

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Insufficient data exists for a comprehensive assessment of the 1893 floods.But what data the bureau has suggests 1893's rainfall was extreme.Crohamhurst in the Glass House Mountains, inland from the Sunshine Coast, received 907mm on February 3, 1893.That remains an Australian daily record."But what data the bureau has." Probably worth remembering this the next time you hear someone going on about

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This week, I will be in Lisbon attending a Workshop on Reconciliation in the Climate Change Debate.  The Workshop was conceptualized by Jerome Ravetz,Silvio Funtowicz, James Risbey, and Jeroen van der Sluijs.While I (relatively) rarely travel overseas for meetings, I jumped at this invitation.  The topic is certainly intriguing and an issue that I have spent a great deal of time pondering over

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For 20 years I was a front man at the BBC, anchoring news and current ­affairs programmes, so I reckon nobody is better placed than me to ­answer the question that nags at many of its viewers — is the BBC biased?In my view, ‘bias’ is too blunt a word to describe the subtleties of the ­pervading culture. The better word is a ‘mindset’. At the core of the BBC, in its very DNA, is a way of thinking

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Has Williamson become a conservative, or has this 'wind sniffer' par excellence just sniffed the wind again?Mr Bolt does ask a pertinent question of Mr Williamson - we?Playwright David Williamson is the muse of the middle-class Left. His ideas seemed to be just the driftwood on the current of the Left’s most fashionable cliches.So he once despised signs of Australian patriotism - like Australia

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The new raptor Linheraptor exquisitus runs across desert sands in an artist's renderingActually old news, but I've just caught up.Called Linheraptor exquisitus, the new dinosaur is a raptor, a type of two-legged meat-eater, that lived during the late Cretaceous period in what is now northeastern China (see map)."We were looking at these very tall red sandstone walls that were all abraded by the

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Several new caterpillar species are equally at home on land or underwater, making them the first truly amphibious insects, scientists say.The amphibious caterpillars—found only in Hawaii's fast-moving freshwaterstreams—belong to the moth genus Hyposmocoma, a group that includes more than 400 species.The 14 newfound species are never seen far from water. But unlike purely aquatic caterpillars,

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IPCC insiders say many of those who shared in the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize have weak scientific credentials. They were chosen because they are of the right gender or come from the right country.Via Greenie Watch

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The progressive “climate of hate:” An illustrated primer, 2000-2010

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Public health advice to minimise salt consumption to lower blood pressure is based on spurious science and does not recognise the complex role of sodium in the body, say scientists whose study attacks the basis of dietary guidelines.As Australian authorities consider slashing salt recommendations to even lower levels, the most comprehensive survey of salt intake in the US found consumption there

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We also suffer from Paleolithic man's dependence on pattern-seeking -- the only science he truly possessed -- which helped tell when berries would appear or when a wild animal was dangerous. But pattern-seeking also leads to superstition. Stellar constellations, "finding" patterns in random assortments of stars, was a science to the Ancient Greeks.Today we're constantly offered "patterns" from

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Some people think I am obsessed by the shale gas revolution and that I might be exaggerating its significance.Well, if anything I'm underplaying it.The International Energy Agency says so. Here's what it says (from UPI):"Production of 'unconventional' gas in the U.S. has rocketed in the past few years, going beyond even the most optimistic forecasts," said Anne-Sophie Corbeau, a gas analyst at

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DJ Steve Porter featuring Vince Offer - "Slap Chop Rap" Vince? I never knew he existed before today, but this 'remix' of his Slap Chop ad has made me a fan.

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via Harry's Place

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From The Vancouver Sun:You could call me a Greenpeace dropout, but that is not an entirely accurate description of how or why I left the organization 15 years after I helped create it. I'd like to think Greenpeace left me, rather than the other way around, but that too is not entirely correct.The truth is Greenpeace and I had divergent evolutions. I became a sensible environmentalist; Greenpeace

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It started out simply enough:But before long, the goat was jamming with the best of them:

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Eodromaeus, new basal theropod from the Triassic in Argentina.Triassic Park was a more diverse place than we thought, according to the latest finds from the 230-million-year-old Ischigualasto formation in north-eastern Argentina. Dinosaurs make up one-third of all vertebrate genera found in the fossil beds, and all three major dinosaur groups had already appeared – not bad for a time when the

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The international monetary system set up at Bretton Woods in 1944 is on the verge of breaking down. It could still be saved by heroic measures, especially if these were taken in the United States. They would include an immediate slash in projected government expenditures, an immediate balancing of the budget, and a halt in any further increase in the stock of money.But in the present political

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The flightless Xenicibis bird used its wings, like two clubs hinged at the wrist joint, to swing at one another, a new study says.A flightless bird with wings like martial arts weapons once thrashed its foes on what's now Jamaica, a new study says.Dubbed Xenicibis, the prehistoric bird wielded its unusual wings like nunchucks, or nunchakus, swinging its upper arms so that thick, curved hand bones

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The emergence of the beak on dinosaurs was "an evolutionary innovation," according to a new study that found this seemingly simple trait is like nature's Swiss Army knife because it functions as many tools in one.

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Experiments by a team of researchers in New York and New Jersey have generated evidence that questions the common belief that the pterygotid eurypterids ("sea scorpions") were high-level predators in the Paleozoic oceans. This group, which ranged the seas from about 470 to 370 million years ago (long before the dinosaurs appeared), included the largest and, arguably, scariest-looking arthropods

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    From: http://www.sondrak.com/index.php/weblog/tonitez_antidote/

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Remember that Great Pacific Garbage Patch, the pile of floating plastic and other debris “the size of Texas” or more?...What's more, the oceanography professor says the data suggest that plastic patches actually haven't increased in size in recent decades, despite greater use of plastic. There's too much plastic in the ocean, White says, but the hyperbole about the extent of the problem

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"Steven Pinker charts the decline of violence from Biblical times to the present, and argues that, though it may seem illogical and even obscene, given Iraq and Darfur, we are living in the most peaceful time in our species' existence."

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His Majesty King George VI addresses his peoples around the world from Buckingham Palace in light of him being at war with Germany, 3 September 1939. You can hear him wrestling with his speech impediment, the subject of the recently released film The King's Speech, in this recording. Via @lifeasdaddy and @Colvinius on Twitter.

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On Watts Up With That?, Dr. Don J. Easterbrook notes the attention 2010 is getting as a contender for the warmest year of the century. And then he calms everyone down:Another graph of temperatures from the Greenland ice core for the past 10,000 years is shown in Figure 5. It shows essentially the same temperatures as Cuffy and Clow (1997) but with somewhat greater detail.  What both of these

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US Navy PIPS data shows that the area of ice greater than 2.5 metres thick – has doubled since the same date in 2008. http://www7320.nrlssc.navy.mil/From Real Science

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Wind farms in Britain generated practically no electricity during the recent cold spell, raising fresh concerns about whether they could be relied upon to meet the country’s energy needs.Despite high demand for electricity as people shivered at home over Christmas, most of the 3,000 wind turbines around Britain stood still due to a lack of wind.Even yesterday , when conditions were slightly

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David Viner is the first act in Maxim Lott’s list of Eight Botched Environmental Forecasts: 1. Within a few years “children just aren’t going to know what snow is.” Snowfall will be “a very rare and exciting event.” Dr. David Viner, senior research scientist at the climatic research unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia, interviewed by the UK Independent, March 20, 2000.   The response:

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...apparently not only did members of our species interbreed with Neanderthals, but with another human species recently identified by way of DNA analysis and currently referred to as Denisovans:     http://pandasthumb.org/archives/2010/12/denisova-genome.html

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“Listen to the climate scientists” – that’s the refrain you always get from the warmists. Their argument is that we simply don’t know enough about “the science” to make our own judgments, and must bow down before superior wisdom.But the problem is, if we did that, we’d be changing our minds with the weather – literally. Case in point: only a few years ago in 2006 a report was released by a body

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That's the question posed by the ABC's Mark Colvin on Twitter in response to this article in The Guardian.This was always my misgiving about Wikileaks: in it's scatter-gun approach there would be collateral damage, and the man trying to stand up to Robert Mugabe may be part of this.Yes, it all seemed such a jolly jape to so many on the Left when they simplistically and foolishly assumed that

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From the Food & Health Skeptic:On to the next fad!The herbal remedy echinacea, which is taken to stave off colds, does not work, say leading doctors. They suggest that the plant extract has little or no effect on the length or severity of symptoms including coughs and sneezes.Increasing numbers of Britons take echinacea supplements every year at the first sign of a cold in the hope that they will

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Taken from Greenie Watch:The Global Warming Policy Foundation (www.thegwpf.org) is an all-party and non-party think tank and a registered educational charityThe Global Warming Policy Foundation has called on the Government to set up an independent inquiry into the winter advice it received by the Met Office and the renewed failure to prepare the UK for the third severe winter in a row."The

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By Dr. Benny Peiser of the Global Warming Policy Foundation   The rest here.  

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British warming propagandist George Monbiot in 2005: It is now mid-February, and already I have sown eleven species of vegetable. I know, though the seed packets tell me otherwise, that they will flourish. Everything in this country - daffodils, primroses, almond trees, bumblebees, nesting birds - is a month ahead of schedule. And it feels wonderful. Winter is no longer the great grey longing of

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DAVID McKnight's criticism of The Australian over climate change ("Sceptical writers skipped inconvenient truths", Inquirer, December 11) makes for a good case study of Australian universities' intellectual collapse.Here's a University of NSW senior research fellow in journalism who contradicts himself, fails by his own reasoning, does little research, breaks at least three laws of logic, and

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As Mr. Henderson puts it, the Deutsche Bank report on climate skeptics has been rendered worthless as a guide to the science and for investors. It also betrays a larger issue, which is a corporate role on the part of Deutsche Bank that makes Exxon look like a Boy Scout. –Terence Corcoran, Financial Post, 14 December 2010 It would thus appear that its Climate Change Advisors, who are no more than

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This is big, and it is worrying. I "believe" in science or, more to the point, the scientific method.Even something like this is probably part of the self-correcting nature of science. It's just that self-correction as we've traditionally understood it doesn't seem to have worked very well.As the article makes clear, this is not about scientific fraud. It's about the fact that scientists are

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