The Daily Tech is on the story now. It amazes me how the warm mongers continue to live in denial about this. They don’t seem to understand how devastating it is to their credibility.
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I notice now that the article is about a week old. But it’s still a good run down.
[Update a while later]
This follow-up post addresses the desperate defense of “taken out of context.”
[Sunday morning update]
“A sequel as ugly as the original.” Extensive thoughts from Steve Hayward.
Is the sun heading for a new Maunder Minimum?
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In which there was an attempt to get a skeptic’s PhD revoked. Because, you know, we can’t have skeptics involved with science.
[Afternoon update]
The sacrament of the bulb. It really is indistinguishable from a religion.
The latest on the global warming scam, from Walter Russell Mead.
This is a weird comment thread on a post about the latest crusade of the nanny state — against salt.
This would actually be good for me, because I have cut way back on the salt over the past few months, and have thereby reduced my blood pressure, but neither my salt intake, or anyone else’s, is the business of the FDA.
[Update late morning]
More thoughts on the FDA and sodium at Reason.
…comes the ice. Thoughts on a new book by Jerry Pournelle.
It depends on whether or not it serves “the cause” (to use Phil Jones’ words):
For those of you who are confused, let me remind you: the only meteorological phenomena that count are the ones that confirm the climate alarmist case. It doesn’t matter what it is — drought, flood, blizzard, heat wave — if it can be made to support fear about the climate, it matters and it needs to be thoroughly analyzed and widely publicized.
Meteorological phenomena that, to the unsophisticated, might appear to undermine the case that WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE if we don’t immediately pass a stringent carbon treaty, are meaningless and should be ignored.
A spate of hurricanes is climate; an absence of big storms is weather. The absence of any major hurricanes for six years is a meaningless phenomenon; should a couple of big ones hit in any given year, then every editorial page in the country will fill with hand wringing, dire warning and I told you so.
Bet on it.
In context. From comments:
I love all these claims of “out of context”. Maybe Jones et al can explain to us the correct context in which it is acceptable to:
Request a colleague to delete E-Mails material to an FOIA (a potentially criminal act)
Collude to block the work of professional scientists from publication
Attempt to have an editor of a scientific journal fired from their job
Cheer when a non AGW believing scientist dies
and so on and so on.
Strangely – ha ha – we never hear what this correct context is.
No, we don’t.
One wouldn’t have thought it possible, but I actually largely agree with Andrew Sullivan. The notion that intelligence is not heritable is ludicrous, and if it is, the notion that every “race” is going to be equivalent in that regard is equally so.
Yes, I know that (Marxist) Stephen Jay Gould desperately attempted to make the case, but he failed. I have no firm opinions on which “race” is smarter than which (and yes, one can agree that race is a social construct while also recognizing that groups of genetically related people will share some inherited traits), but I don’t believe the acceptance of the notion that some are born smarter than others, and that some genetic groups may be on average smarter than others makes one a racist per se. Moreover, I don’t even care, since this fact should play no role in either public policy or individual interactions. The only people who believe that it should are collectivists, who believe that people should be dealt with as groups rather than individuals. Thus, if anyone is racists, it is them.
[Update in the afternoon]
It should be noted that I am not defending The Bell Curve or any specific research. I’ve never even read it. I’m simply defending the notion that different “races” could have different average “intelligence.”
…is Photoshop. The science is settled.
How not to do it.