How many people have died as a result?
Joss Whedon’s Worst Production
You have it, right here.
You have to wonder why he would want to alienate so much of his fan base. I guess that the notion doesn’t occur to people in the Hollywood cocoon.
Speaking Of Paleo Diets
Best wishes to Charlie Martin. I predict it will work.
For what it’s worth, my dad died at fifty-five, a third of a century ago, in large part due to criminal dietary advice (OK, maybe that’s a little too strong — they probably knew no better) and my mother at sixty-eight to a massive heart attack in the night, in her sleep. At least for her, it was fast. And in both cases they were overweight smokers, a product of their generation.
“Romney Could Still Win”
Gee, Nate, ya think?
The Smell Of Desperation
Oh, how I love it, and I’m getting a good whiff all the way out on the Left Coast.
Breitbart Remembered
A review.
Electric Plasma Thrusters
This Kickstarter project is less than halfway to its goal, with only four days to go.
Conservatism
…is calling.
Mann’s Hockey Stick
Gone. And the Medieval Warm Period, restored:
Untruncated and unspliced data used in a new paper from Briffa and Melvin at UEA restores the Medieval Warm Period while at the same time disappears Mann’s hockey stick.
…Whoo boy, I suspect this paper will be called in the Mann -vs- Steyn trial (if it ever makes it that far; the judge may throw it out because the legal pleading makes a false claim by Mann).
No comment. The most amazing thing is that this paper is co-authored by Keith Briffa:
I have to wonder if this is some sort of attempt to “come clean” on the issue. Mann must be furious at the timing. There’s no hint of a hockey stick, and no need to splice on the instrumental surface temperature record or play “hide the decline” tricks with this data.
As he notes, expect a bunch of desperate papers soon to try to resurrect it. The “climate” “community” is eating its own.
And here’s a bonus: thoughts on the upcoming legal proceedings from Roger Pielke.
[Update a few minutes later]
A new paper from Judith Curry on the manufactured consensus:
Students of science are taught to reject ad populam or ‘bandwagon’ appeals, a sentiment is articulated by the motto of the UK Royal Society: ‘nullius in verba’, which is roughly translated as ‘take nobody’s word for it’. How then, and why, have climate scientists come to a scientific consensus about a very complex scientific problem that the consensus-supporting scientists themselves acknowledge has substantial and fundamental uncertainties?
Because, sadly, there was an agenda. And many of the supporters of the climate “science” don’t understand how science actually works.
Atlantic City
…is already mostly underwater. And the storm hasn’t even made landfall yet (though Atlantic City is looking very close to where it will happen).