Thursday, January 28, 2010

So far a little rain outside,

and inside I find even more information coming out about the ECU & Co.:
Details of the breach emerged the day after John Beddington, the Chief Scientific Adviser, warned that there was an urgent need for more honesty about the uncertainty of some predictions. His intervention followed admissions from scientists that the rate of glacial melt in the Himalayas had been grossly exaggerated.

In one e-mail, Professor Jones asked a colleague to delete e-mails relating to the 2007 report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

He also told a colleague that he had persuaded the university authorities to ignore information requests under the act from people linked to a website run by climate sceptics
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Unethical at the very least, and from what I understand illegal in telling them to ignore the legal requests. 'Responsible scientists' my ass.


A piece on the Anbar handover, including commentary from Reid and Pelosi back when they were saying we'd lost.


Apparently a lot of people in Venezuela don't realize how wonderful socialism and closing down media that won't obey the great leader is. Or maybe it's just that Chavez is such a repulsive little bastard. Either way...


Kind of amazing how we repeatedly see the same thing: someone tells us exactly what he wants to do, and people won't, or don't want to, believe it. It's turned out very badly before; this time?


Stormbringer on an old song, the feel of it and the noise it stirred up.


From Theo, a couple of notes on the SOTU speech:


And last, where we're headed under the 'PC Rules For Dealing With Somali Pirates':

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