Tuesday - July 05, 2011
Sadly Funny
Smoke belching from Asia’s rapidly growing economies is largely responsible for a halt in global warming in the decade after 1998 because of sulphur’s cooling effect, even though greenhouse gas emissions soared, a U.S. study said on Monday.
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World temperatures did not rise from 1998 to 2008, while manmade emissions of carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuel grew by nearly a third, various data show.The researchers from Boston and Harvard Universities and Finland’s University of Turku said pollution, and specifically sulphur emissions, from coal-fueled growth in Asia was responsible for the cooling effect.
Sulphur allows water drops or aerosols to form, creating hazy clouds which reflect sunlight back into space.
“Anthropogenic activities that warm and cool the planet largely cancel after 1998, which allows natural variables to play a more significant role,” the paper said.
Natural cooling effects included a declining solar cycle after 2002, meaning the sun’s output fell.
The paper raised the prospect of more rapid, pent-up climate change when emerging economies eventually crack down on pollution.
So ... man-made pollutants are causing the earth to warm up, but man-made pollutants are causing the earth to cool down. The ozone hole, caused by man-made pollutants, has healed itself because people switched to other pollutants, but that healing caused the earth to warm up. And now we have all this extra carbon dioxide in the air, which is warming the planet (at lower altitudes) and cooling the planet (at higher altitudes) at the same time. And acid rain, which we fought so hard against back in the 70s, and is caused by atmospheric sulfur forming sulfur dioxide, is actually pulling heat from the planet and causing it to rain more! And where does this planet saving sulfur come from? It comes from burning evil coal!!!! It’s enough to drive a Gaia worshiper insane!
And of course, Mother Nature is just biding her time, waiting to get revenge! “… pent-up change when economies eventually crack down on pollution.” 
So even though the sun has entered a long term cooling era according to solar experts, and right now one kind of air pollution vs another kind of air pollution has tipped the scales to the cold side, and no matter what kind of Kyoto-esque climate agreement the world can come up with China will continue to burn WTF it feels like, so the sulfur pollution isn’t going to lessen ever, things are about to get worse because ... [insert magic here] ... ie, 1) collect underpants, 2) , 3) profit!!!
Other climate scientists broadly supported Monday’s study, stressing that over longer time periods rising greenhouse gas emissions would over-ride cooling factors.
“Long term warming will continue unless emissions are reduced,” said Peter Stott, head of climate monitoring at Britain’s Met Office.
But reducing those emissions (SO2) contributes to warming! But when acid rain falls (on limestone) it releases CO2 which contributes to warming!!!!
Aaaaaaaaaggggghh!!!!111!!!1!
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Permalink • Tuesday - June 14, 2011
as I recall, hitler said he could change the world if given the youth
Didn’t he ask for the youth because it was too late to train (or should that be brainwash in modern terms) the adults? Although for awhile he managed that okay.
So in another way, this reminds me of that. There will be a generation growing up making the new laws and rules society will live by.
Not everyone is happy about this however, and they’re making their voices heard. But I can tell you from the things I have seen myself, not read in the morning papers, that the kiddies are being well schooled and indoctrinated in this subject in my particular corner of the world.
Here’s what the kiddies are being groomed to believe. And they damn sure do.
One national curriculum module for seven-year-olds, called Solar, says they must: Understand in simple terms how climate change will affect wildlife, using the example of polar bears.
Think about positive ways we can act now to slow down climate change.
Understand that there are forms of energy production that don’t produce carbon dioxide, such as solar.
A list of vocabulary that the youngsters must know includes: global warming, climate change, carbon dioxide and solar power.
Suggested activities include preparing a written or verbal news flash explaining the terms ‘climate change’ and ‘global warming’ with specific reference to the lives of polar bears and the Arctic.
Questions the class must ask:
Will climate change affect us?
If the ice melts what will happen to the seas?
Will this change where we live?
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Permalink • Thursday - May 26, 2011
NJ Bows Out From Carbon Credit Scam
TRENTON, N.J. — Republican Gov. Chris Christie says New Jersey will exit a 10-state regional greenhouse gas reduction program by the end of the year.
Christie says the program is ineffective at combatting global warming.
“The whole system is not working as it was intended to work. It is a failure,” the governor said Thursday.
The announcement thrilled conservatives, who have been after governors in Northeast states to abandon the effort to limit greenhouse gas emissions by having companies pay for their fossil fuel output.
New Jersey has been in the program reduce carbon dioxide pollution since 2008.
Besides New Jersey, participating states include Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island and Vermont.
Governor Christie, making another stride to bring his state out of the morass. Forcing businesses to pay for their CO2 output is just one more reason for them to flee the state, taking jobs and tax revenue with them.
An updated version of the article, in which the title has changed to “EPA asks NJ to reconsider leaving emissions pact”:
New Jersey is dropping out of the Northeast’s program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, Republican Gov. Chris Christie announced Thursday, calling the pact a failure at cutting pollution and a burden to taxpayers.
The decision to withdraw from the 10-state cap-and-trade program at the end of the year marks a turnaround for New Jersey, a heavily industrialized state that was an early backer of efforts to curb the heat-trapping gases blamed for global warming.
Environmentalists were dismayed, while conservatives were thrilled.
“This program is not effective in reducing greenhouse gases and is unlikely to be in the future,” said Christie, a first-term governor and rising GOP star who has been widely mentioned as potential presidential candidate because of his combative stands on teacher unions, government spending and taxes. “It is a failure.”
The federal Environmental Protection Agency urged him to reconsider.
“This is a disappointing step given New Jersey’s legacy of leadership on environmental issues,” said EPA spokesman Brendan Gilfillan. The EPA’s administrator, Lisa Jackson, was chief of New Jersey’s environmental agency when the state joined the pact, which went into effect in 2008.
Christie is just the latest Republican governor to announce that his state would withdraw from a regional pact to reduce greenhouse gases. Similar agreements in the West and Midwest are struggling. And efforts by the Obama administration to establish a national cap-and-trade program have failed in Congress.
Lisa Jackson was an utter failure as NJ enviro head, making a total mess of several superfund clean up sites and so forth. She was one of Obama’s earliest appointments. Look her up; I’m sure she’s doing as bang-up a job for the feds as she did for our state. Her main qualification seems to be her ability to toe the Green line. As Charlie Sheen would say, “Winning!”
Note the bias in the article from the NY Post here - environmentalists are dismayed, but conservatives are thrilled. Because there is no such thing as a pro-environment Conservative you know. We all run around setting forests on fire, digging our own open pit mines with double extra run off, specialize in mass fawn killing, and so forth. If it’s green, kill it, rape it, burn it.
The cap-and-trade pact “does nothing more than tax electricity, tax our citizens, tax our businesses with no discernible or measurable impact upon our environment,” Christie said. Residential customers in states that participate in the pact paid an average of about 73 cents extra on their monthly electric bill to fund the program. [ Drew: that’s about $50 million per year in NJ ]
Jeff Tittel, director of the New Jersey Sierra Club, disputed the governor’s assessment of the pact’s effectiveness, saying it is working as designed.
He said New Jersey’s greenhouse gas emissions from electric power plants had declined 10 percent since 2009. He said the pact was responsible for creating 18,000 jobs in the region and generating $2.3 billion in economic benefits.
Is that right? How many of those 18,000 jobs are in the private sector Mr. Tittel? What? None? Seriously, how many?? And a government program with an immediate 82-to-1 economic payback? And we haven’t heard of this fantastic level of success every hour of every day? Who are you trying to fool, fool?
An actual NJ newspaper, the Bergen Record, explains how the RGGI thing works much better than the NY Post did:
New Jersey is dropping out of the nation’s largest regional effort to reduce greenhouse gases in a move announced by Governor Christie Thursday that was praised by business groups and criticized by environmental advocates.
Ah, at least we now know who those “conservatives” are: business groups, the people who give other people jobs!
“RGGI has not changed behavior and it does not reduce emissions,” Christie said at a news conference in Trenton.
“RGGI does nothing more than tax electricity, tax our citizens, tax our businesses, with no discernable or measurable impact upon our environment,” he said.
Christie’s decision to withdraw by year’s end comes after similar efforts in New Hampshire, Maine and Delaware were met with resistance in recent weeks. New Jersey is the first state to stop [step?] out of the program and some environmentalists fear Christie’s decision could provide momentum for other states to withdraw.
Ah ha! Now we’re getting somewhere!
The move was applauded by business leaders who said RGGI, a cap-and-trade program, drives up energy rates because energy producers who are by forced to buy credits for the carbon they emit pass that cost along to their customers.
“High energy costs, like taxes, just make New Jersey a tougher state in which to do business,” said Philip Kirschner, president of the New Jersey Business & Industry Association.
Today’s announcement is a victory for Americans for Prosperity, a conservative advocacy group that has waged much of the opposition in New Jersey and other states.
“By pulling the plug on New Jersey’s participation in the RGGI cap and trade scheme, Governor Christie has stood up for New Jersey’s struggling taxpayers and sent a strong signal that New Jersey is, once again, open for business,” said Steve Lonegan, AFP’s state director and a former mayor of Bogota.
Steve Lonegan, my hero. He ran for Governor in the GOP primary against Christie and lost. While the rest of the country is watching the news, going “Wow, that Christie in New Jersey sure seems like a smart and fearless Conservative!”, compared to Lonegan he’s a spineless Democrat. Lonegan is ... ferocious. Oh don’t get me wrong, Chris Christie’s doing an Ok job. But Steve Lonegan would have almost started a revolution by now. Pure awesomeness.
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Permalink • Thursday - April 28, 2011
Oh Noes!
A tornado warning has been issued for our part of New Jersey. High winds, hail, intense rain, severe thunderstorms. Run away, hide, panic!
The TV stations are going whacko.
I’m not taking this lightly; it’s good that such warning systems exist. In Kansas and Iowa and the other states in Tornado Alley they can save your life. And there has been some awful and unusual weather around the country over the past couple of weeks. Including tornadoes in the most unlikely places.
It’s just that I have some doubts about such things here in New Jersey. And I’ve seen the weather people overreact so many many times before.
But if somehow you stop hearing from me in the middle of a po
update, 40+ minutes later: ..st. Ha, a bit of self inflicted irony there. We got some really heavy rain as the system came in, and some really heavy rain a bit later when the system moved out. That’s it. No hail or thunder, no big winds, no twisters. Now it’s just back to our regular heavy rain that we’ve been having nearly the entire month. Oh joy.
The tornado anomaly over the past few days has been very severe. Tornadoes have touched down and caused massive damage in the most unlikely of places. The news this morning said that over 200 people have died from these storms.
So don’t take the warnings lightly. Even if you live in New Jersey or other places where tornadoes almost never happen. “Almost never” can still get you killed. Be alert, be prepared.
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Permalink • Friday - April 01, 2011
Not Funny
Mother Nature is pulling her own April Fool’s joke here. It’s snowing. We’ve been having “wintry mix” since last night, wet sloppy bits falling from the sky. But now it’s pretty much all snow, and it’s starting to stick.
Bad Gaia, bad! Winter is over. Go away. Go back to Binghamton and Watertown NY where you belong!
Huh, I wonder if Al Gore is in the area?
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Permalink • Thursday - March 10, 2011
The Groundhog Was Right
We’re having another day of torrential rain here. This makes it the 8th heavy rainstorm we’ve had since about Valentine’s Day, when winter unofficially ended here. Before that it had been viciously cold, and we’d had more than double the usual amount of snow for the whole season. But the ice and snow here is long gone, washed away by the rains and the warmer weather. Large parts of the state have had serious flooding. Not Clinton, not yet. But the river is pretty high. Keep your fingers crossed.
Looks like the old groundhog Punxsutawney Phil was correct with his prediction this year. He didn’t see his shadow, probably because he froze to death the instant they pulled him out of his burrow. If all this rain since had come down as snow, we’d be buried. We’d have 10 feet of snow on the ground. More. Which would be cool. But not really.
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Permalink • Sunday - February 20, 2011
Oops They Did It Again
h/t to CBullit
FREDERICTON — A $200-million wind farm in northern New Brunswick is frozen solid, cutting off a potential supply of renewable energy for NB Power.
The 25-kilometre stretch of wind turbines, located 70 kilometres northwest of Bathurst, N.B. has been completely shutdown for several weeks due to heavy ice covering the blades.
Wintery conditions also temporarily shutdown the site last winter, just months after its completion. Some or all of the turbines were offline for several days, with “particularly severe icing” blamed.
The accumulated ice alters the aerodynamics of the blades, rendering them ineffective as airfoils. The added weight further immobilizes the structures.
Vitek says workers are trying to find a way to prevent ice buildup from occurring again in the future. The shutdown has not had any effect on employment at the site, which provides 12 permanent jobs.
Now, if they’d thought of this ahead of time, and realized that it actually gets cold in Canada in the winter, they would have built the turbine blades with electric heating elements in them. Yeah, that’ll fix it. Or maybe if they got government funding to build giant greenhouses over the pylons to keep the weather off. Yup, that’s another brilliant solution. Thank you, thank you very much.
But you know how the leftist/greenie mind works. They’ll blame anything and everything before admitting that their ideas are wrong.
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Permalink • Saturday - February 05, 2011
Phew
We’re catching a small break in the weather here. All the snow and ice we expected turned out to be rain; it’s been raining steadily since 9:30 this morning. Temperature has gone up a lot; I can hardly see my breath outside. Right now at 10pm it’s 38°F out. All this means the roads are getting nice and clear, and some snow is thinning off the roofs. But the snow on the ground was already rain saturated and then frozen hard, so it isn’t melting much yet at all, or shrinking either. And the forecast is for an even warmer day tomorrow. Excellent. So we get a couple days off, before the next big storm hits us in a few days. There is no escape. Damn this global warming.
Here’s a link to how much snow has fallen in the major city areas around the USA. Although it’s still early February, we’ve had more than 4 times as much snow so far this season than the usual amount for the entire season.
Crivens, is it Spring yet?
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Permalink • Friday - February 04, 2011
Brrr
From the Weather Channel -
“and now, your local on the 8s”
“Currently, in your area it is 1 degrees”
Aiy yai yai!
yeah, but somewhere it’s bright and sunny and the beaches are full of pretty girls catching some rays. Argentina maybe? Not here, that’s for sure. Nor Australia, where the cyclone finished what the floods started. Maybe Fiji? Nope. Ah ha, found it. The place you want to be today is Niue in the Cook Islands, where it’s been between 68 (20) at night and 84(29) in the afternoon for the past several days. Niue is an island about 1000 miles east of Fiji and about 300 miles south of American Somoa, and is home to the University of the South Pacific, one of only two regional universities in the world. Missy under the fold here must be one of their international students, taking a little time off to enjoy the weather native style.
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Permalink • Wednesday - January 26, 2011
Round Two
It snowed all day long here. Big fat flakes from dawn until almost dusk. Then we had about 2 hours worth of break, when it warmed up and just gently sleeted instead. Then the temperature dropped, the main part of the storm system got here, and now it’s snowing like mad. Very fine flakes and the wind has picked up.
We had about 4” here today I’m guessing, and the sleet compacted that a little and put a nice crust of ice on top of it. The weather wienies are saying that that was just a warm up, and that we can expect another 8-10” from this part, which will snow all night and into tomorrow. So about a foot total.
We got out to the store around noon; the roads were fine because they’ve been heavily salted. I don’t expect that is the case right now.
Crap, I should have gone to the library too. I’m reading Triumph of the Sun by Wilbur Smith, a bit of historical fiction, probably for the 6th time. At this point Khartoum has fallen, General Gordon is dead, the dashed British relief forces never got there, and Rebecca has been taken to be a concubine for the Mahdi. So it’s all downhill from here, and my interest in the familiar old story is waning. Who wants to read about the jihadis winning? That sux.
Guess I’ll have to watch the TV. Is it Spring yet?
AM Update: Looks like the weather folks called it conservatively for once. We picked up about a foot last night alone, and it’s still snowing gently. 20” total for this storm in parts of the state; 19” is the official measurement in NYC. Reporters are calling it “Snowmageddon, Round 7”. I’m not sure they’re counting properly. It’s hovering right around freezing now, so I guess it’s time to go and dig out the car.
Commuters up and down the East Coast began the all-too-familiar task of digging out cars, shoveling sidewalks and slogging and slipping through a treacherous morning commute on Thursday after a drawn-out storm dumped more than a foot of snow in some areas overnight, heaping more misery on a region that has been hit by one snowstorm after another.
The storm started Wednesday with icy mix but overnight gave a wallop of heavy blowing snow in many places, stranding thousands of airplane passengers and leaving more than 400,000 customers in and around the nation’s capital without power.
Since Dec. 14, snow has fallen eight times on the New York region — or an average of about once every five days. That includes the blizzard that dropped 20 inches on New York City and paralyzed travel after Christmas. When the snows arrived Wednesday, the city had already seen 36 inches of snow this season in comparison with the full-winter average of 21 inches.
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Through Tuesday, Boston had received 50.4 inches of snow, a nearly 270 percent increase over normal snowfalls of 18.8 inches at the same time in the season. The central Massachusetts city of Worcester had gotten 49.3 inches while the norm is 28.7 inches. Providence, R.I., had recorded 31.7 inches for the season, twice the norm of 15.7 inches.
Damn that Global Warming!
We have another storm forecast for Friday into Saturday. Oh joy.
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Permalink • Let it snow, let it snow, let it … NO !!!
Here we go again. Another major snowstorm crawling across the Northeast today. Heavy snowfall all morning, all day, into the evening. Predictions of 6"-10" even for my dry corner of the state.
Wife’s office is closed, all the local schools are closed. This is the second time in a week. It’s either been seriously sub-freezing, or snowing, since ... before Christmas? Which seems ages and ages ago, even though we’re still in January.
Most towns in this part of the country, from DC up to northern Maine, are reporting more snow so far this season than they usually get all year long. I’m know I’m tired of it, that’s for sure.
Radio was saying last night that NJ has already used up it’s entire winter snow plowing budget and will have to take extra funds from other areas. We had a similar situation at our condo park last year, which wasn’t all that snowy. Everybody had to pay a few hundred extra to the Association in the Spring.
I’m having the thought that we’ve become too ... sensitive? ... to the snow. And too used to those warmer years we had where not much snow fell. My mother always tells me about the winter of 1960, when there was so much snow piled up that cars had to have tall flags on them so that other drivers could see them at intersections. And how it snowed every week. I certainly remember the winter of 77-78 when the cold came so early we were ice skating by early November. I don’t remember schools and businesses being constantly closed. Seems that people managed a little better in those days somehow.
Not that I’m suggesting that everyone should be out there risking their lives to get to school and work. But is there that much risk in just muddling through? I recall my first boss yelling at me on the phone to put on skis or get out the dogsled, whatever was necessary, just get to work dammit! And I did. And the store was just about empty the whole day, but that’s beside the point. I got there, through half a foot of unplowed snow. Looking back, I’m kind of proud of that. Was that stupid? When I lived up in Binghamton NY, 4” of snow was just weather; we got about our business. The tri-state metro area seems to go belly up over the smallest amounts of the white stuff ... but consider the population density before reacting to that. I think about 15% of the national population lives in the Philly-NJ-NYC zone. This is the most densely peopled part of the nation, and there is only minor public transportation outside of the biggest cities. Come to think of it, even though this whole area has always been rather built up, there wasn’t this kind of population in 1960 or in 1978. So maybe this is the best approach?
There can’t be many snow days left for the school kids. If it keeps snowing like this all season, I guess they’ll be giving up their Spring Break and going to class until mid-July.
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Permalink • Friday - January 21, 2011
I Miss Global Warming
We had another snowstorm late last night. This was just 72 hours after the pile of wet slop that fell from the sky on Tuesday, which was a few days after the snow that fell on Friday, which was a few days after the snow that fell on ... well, you get the picture. We’re having winter this winter. Quite unusual for the New Jersey I’ve come to know and detest. Just about everywhere in the northeast has had 20-50% more snow so far this season than they usually average for the entire winter.
When I first moved here, back in the halcyon days of Global Warming, I distinctly recall going outside for coffee breaks in February in only a light jacket; we only had one or two snows the whole winter with no more than a few inches total. It was awesome.
Today the temperature is just below freezing, and the predicted high for the day is just over freezing. I’d better get out there and enjoy it, because the weather wienies say that by Monday it’s going down to -9. Which is somewhere between “quite vexing” and “my goodness” on the English thermometer. After that it will warm up ... and snow again.
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Permalink • Friday - January 14, 2011
crickey!
Pity the poor land down under. Australia and Tasmania have been inundated by heavy rains for weeks now. Flooding across huge parts of the nation, especially in Queensland. And the rains aren’t over yet.
In several places the flood waters have been 25 - 30 feet deep. It’s going to cost them billions to clean up when this is all over. Still, no worries. The Aussies will pitch in and get the job done. No whinging.
But here’s a wild little bit of flood news that sounds like one of their famous tall tales ...
Two bull sharks have been spotted swimming past the McDonald’s restaurant in Goodna. Goodna butcher Steve Bateman saw one of the sharks swimming through the flooded waters of Williams Street near his bucher’s shop in the St Ives shopping centre yesterday. There were several reports of another shark spotted in Queen Street, the main street through Goodna.
Bull sharks have been spotted in the Goodna sections of the
BremerBRISBANE River previously, with fishermen regularly catching them from the Goodna boat ramp.Ipswich councillor for the Goodna region Paul Tully said while it may sound almost too bizarre to be real, the shark sighting was valid.
“It would have swam several kilometres in from the river, across Evan Marginson Park and the motorway,” Cr Tully said.
“It’s definitely a first for Goodna, to have a shark in the main street.
Goodna was awash with water eight metres deep during the past 48 hours. The water receded dramatically overnight.
Goodna is about 20 miles southwest of Brisbane, though about 40 miles up the meandering river from that city. Brisbane is on the east coast of Australia, right above the middle of the eastward bulge of the continent.
BRISBANE, Australia, Jan 13 (Reuters) - Floods left parts of Australia’s third-biggest city on Thursday looking like a war zone in need of years of reconstruction, the state premier said, while fresh threats loomed with a cyclone forecast offshore.
The floods across the state of Queensland have killed at least 19 people, 12 of whom died in the Toowoomba area inland, and 61 were missing, the state government said.
Toowoomba and the Lockyer Valley region, west of state capital Brisbane, were devastated by tsunami-like flash flooding on Monday.
Large parts of Brisbane have become muddy lakes, with an entire waterfront cafe among the debris washing down the Brisbane River, a torrent that has flooded 12,000 homes in the city of 2 million and left 118,000 buildings without power.
Aerial views of Brisbane showed a sea of brown water with rooftops poking through the surface.
“What I’m seeing looks more like a war zone in some places,” Queensland Premier Anna Bligh told reporters after surveying the disaster from the air. “All I could see was their rooftops ... underneath every single one of those rooftops is a horror story.”
Floodwaters in 35 suburbs, which on Thursday peaked below disastrous levels predicted a day earlier, forced residents to take to boats to move about the streets, where traffic signs peeped above the water.
Rescue teams and victims of the flooding have already had to deal with crocodiles and snakes, with Australia’s northeast [Queensland]-- which has been battered by weeks of flooding—home to some of the world’s most dangerous species.
A series of recent ultra-high resolution photographs, in scalable map format, are available here.
And, just because, here’s a picture of Charisma Carpenter from a few years ago. And one of Karina Lombard, who still brings that exotic ferocity, even though she’s positively “ancient” (41) by Hollywood standards. I think she’s just getting warmed up.
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Permalink • Thursday - January 13, 2011
Schrödinger’s Penguin
The Daily Bayonet slides a foot of cold steel between the ribs of Climate Change scientists, by reporting on yet another bit of flawed science.
For the past decade or so, these “highly educated” folks have been studying penguins in Antarctica as a way of gathering climate change impact data. Problem is, they’ve been banding the birds with flipper tags instead of the ankle bands almost all other bird research folks use. And the tags themselves have caused the penguins to swim slower, catch less food, mate less, and generally suffer and die much more than regular penguins. So an entire decade’s worth of data is considerably skewed. And thus useless. Total waste of time and money, and half a career down the drain for the scientists involved. Not to mention harmful and abusive to the penguins themselves.
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Not that very many people ever read this far down, but this blog was the creation of Allan Kelly and his friend Vilmar. Vilmar moved on to his own blog some time ago, and Allan ran this place alone until his sudden and unexpected death partway through 2006. We all miss him. A lot. Even though he is gone this site will always still be more than a little bit his. We who are left to carry on the BMEWS tradition owe him a great debt of gratitude, and we hope to be able to pay that back by following his last advice to us all:
It's been a long strange trip without you Skipper, but thanks for pointing us in the right direction and giving us a swift kick in the behind to get us going. Keep lookin' down on us, will ya? Thanks.
- Keep a firm grasp of Right and Wrong
- Stay involved with government on every level and don't let those bastards get away with a thing
- Use every legal means to defend yourself in the event of real internal trouble, and, most importantly:
- Keep talking to each other, whether here or elsewhere
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Oh, and here's some kind of visitor flag counter thingy. Hey, all the cool blogs have one, so I should too. The Visitors Online thingy up at the top doesn't count anything, but it looks neat. It had better, since I paid actual money for it.
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