The Global Warming Bombshell

Or is it the 'smoking gun'? How about Warmingate?

John Hinderaker at Powerline with analysis of the incredible Hadley CRU hack/leak of emails from the top global warmist scientists:

This and many other emails convey the impression that these theorists are making the "science" up as they go along, with data being manipulated until it yields the results that have been predetermined by political conviction. Left-wing politics is a common theme of the emails.

They also suggest that pro-global warming scientists fudge data to get the results they are looking for.

Fudging data to yield results predetermined by political conviction. Wow. Who would have predicted that?

UPDATE: From The Telegraph: The final nail in the anthropogenic global warming coffin?

Manipulation of evidence, private doubts about whether the world really is heating up, suppression of evidence, fantasies of violence against prominent Climate Sceptic scientists, attempts to disguise the inconvenient truth of the Medieval Warm Period, how best to squeeze dissenting scientists out of the peer review process.

And on it goes through hundreds of emails. This may well be one of the greatest scandals in the history of science. How many billions of dollars have been wasted on this so far?

The Evolving Truth Of Climate Change

Whether hacked or leaked, the story is out: Scientists at CRU were working to hide the decline. That would be the decline that corresponds to something that is not global warming. Gee, I wonder what that could be?

But far more serious - at least in a legal sense - may be his apparent boasting of destroying data to stop sceptics from checking this alarmist work. If, as some emails suggest, he destroyed it to thwart FOI requests from Professor Ross McKitrick and Steve McIntyre, who’d already exposed as fake the Michael Mann “hockey stick”, Jones, one of the most active of the IPCC lead authors, could even face criminal charges.

More from the New York Times.

The Evolving Science Of Climate Change

A well-reasoned article on climate change in Germany's Der Spiegel. Finally scientists are looking past their obsession with CO2 and anthropogenic causes of climate change and are trying to understand the bigger picture.

Climatologists are puzzled as to why average global temperatures have stopped rising over the last 10 years. Some attribute the trend to a lack of sunspots, while others explain it through ocean currents.

...it even looks as though global warming could come to a standstill this year.

Mojib Latif, one of Germany's best-known climatologists, says that the temperature curve has reached a plateau. "There can be no argument about that," he says. "We have to face that fact."

There can be no argument? Tell that to the politicians. They are dangerously behind the temperature curve here.

Remembering The Chevy Nova

With options for everyone from little old ladies to drag racers, the 1968 to 1974 Chevy Novas were cheap, plentiful and possibly the best cars GM ever built.

I drove several of these and if I were to add to my collection I'd look for one like this. If I, you know, actually had a collection.

Newfoundland Wiped Off The Map. Again!

Sheesh. What's up with all this wiping Newfoundland off the map? First it was the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. They at least had the decency to fix their map (well sort of). You can email your thanks here.

But here, via Watts Up With That, is a map eliminating Newfoundland that won't be fixed. Why? Because it's in Al Gore's new global warmist screed "Our Choice".

Compare and contrast the two photographs shown from Gore's book. According to this, once the ice caps melt, Newfoundland will be under water. That means the ocean will, rise , oh, 2,673 feet, to cover the Island's Lewis Hills in the Long Range Mountains. 

Does Al Gore really believe the oceans will rise half a mile? Oh well, the photos also show imaginary hurricanes too. Especially note the clockwise rotating southern hemisphere cyclone just off the east coast of what's left of Florida. That would be in, you know, the northern hemisphere. According to Al Gore, global warming doesn't just mean more hurricanes, it means hurricanes that defy all known physics of climatology. 

Er, wait. Doesn't that sum up anthropogenic global warming right there?

Curing Congenital Blindness

Researchers in Philadelphia have developed a successful gene therapy that has drastically improved vision in a group of young and middle aged people legally blind from birth.

...after a single injection of genes that produce light-sensitive pigments in the back of his eye, he sits in front with classmates and participates in class without extra help. In the playground, he joins his classmates in playing his first game of softball.

His treatment represents the next step toward medical science's goal of using gene therapy to cure disease. Extending a preliminary study published last year on three young adults, the full study reports successful, sustained results that showed notable improvement in children with congenital blindness.

Pomplamoose Just Gets Better And Better

Great new stuff from "video song" collaborators Nataly Dawn and Jack Conte of Pomplamoose:

Pigeon Impossible

Pigeon: Impossible is the tale of Walter, a rookie secret agent faced with a problem seldom covered in basic training: what to do when a curious pigeon gets trapped inside your multi-million dollar, government-issued nuclear briefcase.

This six minute animation by Lucas Martel has won all kinds of awards and now it's viral on the Internet. Watch it full screen and turn up your speakers to get the best of the the fabulous big-band sound track. And then go here to see videos on how Pigeon: Impossible was made.

Putting Newfoundland Back On The Map

I've posted before about the Island of Newfoundland not appearing on a map of the world published by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Well, less than a week later, the big map now includes Newfoundland. It's a bit of a copy and paste job and the orientation of Newfoundland with the compass is, er, mysterious, but it's there, proving that emails and blog posts actually can work. Thanks Mr. and Mrs. Gates.

Canada Among Least Corrupt

Good old boring Canada. I had never heard of Transparency International until they published this report today. From the National Post:

Canada is viewed as one of the least corrupt countries in the world and is an "inspiration" for the U.S. and other nations in North and South America.

Canada's score, as high as 9.0 [out of 10] in 2002, slid to 8.4 in 2005 as a result of the Liberal sponsorship scandal. It bounced up to 8.7 in the 2007 TI index, a level it has maintained in the two subsequent TI studies.

Stupendous Soviet Flying Machines

Over at the indispensable English Russia, photo-realistic renderings of 1930s Soviet designs for monster airplanes. Some of these actually look like they might be able to fly, but the battleship turrets are a bit much. The Nazi flying saucer is way cool.

Come to think of it, this is kind of like the stuff I liked to draw in study hall. And by the way, don't blame me if you come up for air at English Russia and discover days have gone by. Not necessarily safe for work.

An Anti- Smoking Vaccine?

Pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline has signed a potential $500M licensing deal with Nabi Biopharmaceuticals for Nabi's new anti-smoking vaccine NicVAX.

NicVAX is an experimental therapy for the treatment of nicotine addiction and the prevention of smoking relapse. The vaccine is designed to stimulate the immune system to produce antibodies that bind to the nicotine molecules. Once bound together, they are too large to cross the blood-brain barrier. In this way, the nicotine is blocked from reaching the receptors in the brain that cause the highly-addictive pleasure sensation experienced by smokers and users of nicotine products.

Conrad Black On Teaching In Prison

Publishing magnate Conrad Black is still in a US prison, waiting, as he says, for "the U.S. Supreme Court’s disposition of the 15% or so of the charges made against me four years ago that survived the trial."

 

In the National Post (a paper he ironically used to own), he writes a wonderful essay on the unexpected rewards of teaching his fellow inmates.