So the 1079 emails and 72 documents seem indeed evidence of a scandal involving most of the most prominent scientists pushing the man-made warming theory - a scandal that is one of the greatest in modern science. (Source: Herald Sun)
I’ve downloaded the files and gone through only a handful of emails. Here is one I thought interesting:
You can delete this attachment if you want. Keep this quiet also, but this is the person who is putting in FOI [Freedom of Information] requests for all emails Keith and Tim have written and received re Ch 6 of AR4. We think we’ve found a way around this.
Cheers
Phil
Prof. Phil Jones
Climatic Research Unit Telephone +44 (0) 1603 592090
School of Environmental Sciences Fax +44 (0) 1603 507784
University of East Anglia
Norwich Email (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
NR4 7TJ
UK
(Source: Climategate)
Another one:
I guess that my point is that climate continues to fluctuate within broad bounds. Everything that we are now calling ‘climate change’ is well within the bounds observed within the prehistoric record of climate fluctuations. Do we call any variation ‘climate change’ or should we limit the term climate change for anything considered to be caused by humans? To my mind it is not so much what we call it, but rather that we keep a clear idea of what we actually talking about.
Bob Keeland
USGS, National Wetlands Research Center
Lafayette, LA (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) (Source: Climategate)
FYI - The nuts call it ‘Climate Change’ now because they don’t have favorable recent data to call it Global Warming anymore, and anthropogenic isn’t understood by most people. Bob Keeland must have missed this briefing on the marketing for their scam.
And Another one:
From: Mick Kelly
To:
Subject: RE: Global temperature
Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2008 09:02:00 +1300
Yeah, it wasn’t so much 1998 and all that that I was concerned about, used to dealing with that, but the possibility that we might be going through a longer - 10 year - period of relatively stable temperatures beyond what you might expect from La Nina etc.
Speculation, but if I see this as a possibility then others might also. Anyway, I’ll maybe cut the last few points off the filtered curve before I give the talk again as that’s trending down as a result of the end effects and the recent cold-ish years. (Source: Climategate)
Mick also says “Be awkward if we went through a early 1940s type swing!”
Awkward for the climate to swing? Only awkward if it doesn’t support your agenda and funding desires!
Absolutely absurd. Reading through some of these emails makes me think of the DIRECTV commercials showing the cable companies strategize!
Perhaps: “We can find people with disposable incomes that will believe our phony charts and presentations and they can dispose of their income to us!”
It is always refreshing to hear someone in Washington making some sense with a little limited government talk.
From Senator Thune, a Republican from South Dakota:
There are just basic sort of common sense principles that I think make sense and that people understand. One is that you can’t spend money you don’t have; two is, when you borrow money, you have to pay it back. (source: CNN)
I like that he mentions how the $300 billion in unspent TARP funds could go towards national debt, but even that huge amount is a drop in the bucket.
Let’s see a concrete plan on how to address the absurd national debt - see ticker on right column and get back to me.
Kanye West is definitely a good producer. This lends himself well as an artist, as people naturally gravitate to catchy tunes and beats. But with regard to two things he so desperately wants to be good at - #1 a rapper (by choice) and #2 a good person (by human nature), he is absolutely atrocious. And by most anyone’s standards, that means he sucks.
One of the first public clues to the absurdity of Kanye West occurred when the great Ashton Kutcher punk’d him. During this Punk, Kanye remarked that he had to get to “Parii”. Ashton quickly noted that “Parii was rich-person talk for Paris”. Kanye = the type of person Dave Chappelle would say shouldn’t have money.
Then Kanye, during a televised benefit to raise money for the victims of Hurricane Katrina, stated that “George Bush doesn’t care about black people”. Oh really? Perhaps that is why George Bush, by himself, provided more money, attention, and results for AIDS in Africa than any other President or country in history.
Under the Bush administration, more than 2 million people infected with HIV—most of them in Africa—have received lifesaving anti-retroviral treatment as part of the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, or PEPFAR. (source: CNN)
And now we have Kanye West stealing Taylor Swift’s show with outrageous commentary that Beyonce’s video was better. Even if it was, #1) that is not the way it was voted, and #2) get the fuck off the stage you moron, it isn’t your place. Kanye previously “stage-bombed the 2006 MTV Europe Awards and declared, ‘If I don’t win, the awards show loses credibility.’”.
Why do we allow an individual like Kanye West the opportunity to take advantage of the First Amendment? Probably the same reason we slow down to look at car crashes.
Interestingly enough, President Obama called Kanye West a jackass off the record:
ABC reporter Terry Moran wrote on Twitter that he overheard President Obama refer to West as a “jackass” during a Monday interview with CNBC, but it was apparently off the record, and ABC removed the post and issued an apology to CNBC and the White House. (source: LA Times)
If this is true, even as a staunch supporter of limited government, I will officially move President Obama up one notch. And he will be at notch 1.
So make if official President Obama. Even if this is some lame MTV production, it does have ramifications for our youth. Shut Kanye down! Give him the veto!
Sometimes people find this site through odd or funny searches in Google or other search engines. Here are some good ones that I discovered for this month. (Note: this is from web analytics data and is not tied to any user. Unlike the government I do not wish to track individuals and I care about user privacy.)
where’s global warming when you need it
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president obamas bowling score
obama moron
shit government
he doesn’t know shit
President Obama fat tax on people or food?
robert gibbs fat moron
al franken sucks
Good stuff! Also pleasing to know that the site is ranking for terms like this. If you look at all the searches above as a collective whole, it appears the site has a consistent message!
My favorite funny ones are “President Obama fat tax on people or food?” followed closely by “what happens when you evade police in mi [Michigan]” (note to the user: if you really evade them, then nothing happens, haha!). My favorite serious one is “shit government”.
Ted Kennedy has passed away at age 77 after battling brain cancer. He was a horrible senator and repeatedly exercised poor personal judgment. No need to get into details and point out the obvious here.
That being said, the one thing he had going for him was his consistency. You knew what you were getting with him. He was adamant about most of his positions and appeared to really believe in what he preached (which can’t be said about many Democrats like Lurch / John Kerry).
I can’t recall ever agreeing with him, but may he rest in peace.
I recently had a conversation with a young individual who took the position that the Republican party is comprised primarily of those on the far right. He also stated the number of pro-lifers in his argument.
This couldn’t be further from the truth:
1. Taking a pro-life position doesn’t mean that one actually is pro-life. (we have tons of floppers on both sides)
2. Being pro-life does not make one a conservative.
3. The Democrats have been hijacked by the far left (ie: Reid, Pelosi, Boxer, etc) and the Republicans have been hijacked by neocons. They both suck.
The media and the left have hijacked the term “conservative” and rebranded it in a negative manner. There is a large % of people, especially young people, that will immediately dismiss a so-called conservative because of their knee-jerk reaction to the term. They think that a “conservative” wants to tell them what they can and can’t do. A real conservative believes in the opposite - less government involvement, individual liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
The phrase “limited government” will never confuse. Less is more! Those of us that wish to escape the over-reaching grasp the two major parties have facilitated must update our lexicon and spread the word around!
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