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More On Extremism Unit Investigating Climategate

Posted by BLOGASSAULT on Monday, January 11, 2010 12:20:14 PM
   Bishop Hill broke the news on the investigation of climategate by the National Domestic Extremism Team in Britain. He explains here what this means.
 
The involvement of the Domestic Extremism Police is probably actually predictable. As watchers of the deteriorating civil liberties situation in the UK all know, powers granted to the police in the wake of 9/11 in order to fight terrorism are routinely used in the UK for minor crimes. By bringing in these specialists, Norfolk Police will be able to monitor emails, demand passwords and cryptographic keys and so on. That these powers are out of all proportion to the alleged crime is of course of no concern to law enforcement officers.
 
   This is what happens when you give away your freedoms as the citizens of Britain have done over the years (Guns, cameras on every street corner, etc.). One of them is you get these special units with all kinds of special powers getting involved in all kinds of things, even those that have nothing to do with their original creation.
 
   This is what will happen if we let the dems run things past 2012. Europe is our example of what comes from lefty values.
 
  
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"Extremism" Unit Investigating ClimateGate

Posted by BLOGASSAULT on Monday, January 11, 2010 12:01:00 PM
   Thought this was interesting. Via Climategate.tv
 
This morning I contacted Norfolk Constabulary with a view to finding out if they had yet ascertained whether the breach at the Climatic Research Unit was a leak or a hack. I have just received a response which is frankly amazing:
Norfolk Constabulary continues its investigations into criminal offences in relation to a data breach at the University of East Anglia.  During the enquiry officers have been working in liaison with the Office of the Information Commissioner and with officers from the National Domestic Extremism Team. The UEA continues to co-operate with the enquiry however major investigations of this nature are of necessity very detailed and as a consequence can take time to reach a conclusion. It would be inappropriate to comment further at this stage.
 
 
I then got it confirmed through another website via an article about applications going up at the University of East Anglia Climate Center.
 
Student applications are up 30pc this year according to officials - with a recent upsurge ahead of the January 15 deadline.

The news comes as Norfolk police reveal they have been working with officers from a national unit set up to respond to the threat of extremism to investigate the theft in November, which saw thousands of emails from the climate research unit published on a public website.

I don't know what hacked emails exposing crooked climate scientists have to do with a "extremism unit" doing the investigating into who broke into the server. If anything, the climate scientists are the ones who need looking into by the extremism unit.

This should to be interesting to follow.

 
 
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An Upcoming Ice Age?

Posted by BLOGASSAULT on Monday, January 11, 2010 10:41:57 AM
  There are several climate scientists who think so. (Via Instapundit)
 

The bitter winter afflicting much of the Northern Hemisphere is only the start of a global trend towards cooler weather that is likely to last for 20 or 30 years, say some of the world’s most eminent climate scientists.

Their predictions – based on an analysis of natural cycles in water temperatures in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans – challenge some of the global warming orthodoxy’s most deeply cherished beliefs, such as the claim that the North Pole will be free of ice in summer by 2013.

According to the US National Snow and Ice Data Centre in Colorado, Arctic summer sea ice has increased by 409,000 square miles, or 26 per cent, since 2007 – and even the most committed global warming activists do not dispute this.
 
 
Think this is a joke? Look at the weather this year in Europe; it is cold....
Fallen snow rests on Stonehenge in Salisbury, southern England.
 
As Europe struggles amid the heaviest snowfall seen in decades, yet more snow-induced chaos is in store. The low pressure front "Daisy" is expected to unleash storms and heavy snow across Germany over the weekend. Officials are urging people to stock up on food and avoid driving.

Even more snow is on its way across Germany and much of Europe, weather forecasters predicted on Friday. The German Meteorological Service (DWD) put out a weather warning, saying the low pressure front "Daisy" would bring gale force winds and up to 50 centimeters of snow and could trigger road chaos and power outages over the weekend.

Maybe it is just me, but it sure seems that the weather is much cooler the last few years here in the states as well.
 
 
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Climate Inside Job

Posted by BLOGASSAULT on Saturday, January 09, 2010 1:57:12 PM
   If you can't pass it in congress, do it through the back door.
 
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Climategate And A New Blog

Posted by BLOGASSAULT on Saturday, January 09, 2010 1:23:12 PM
   Andrew Breitbart's new website Bigjournalism has a great article on the evolution of the Climategate scandal. Andrew's website BigGovernment was the one that broke all the Acorn Scandal's, sending the group into the shadows.
 
   In the article, writer Michael Walsh, breaks down the story and gets to the real point: peer review. I have posted many times on this issue and how this was the issue that most disturbed me. But Walsh brings the point out clear and precise by highlighting a new and important process that is catching fire.

Not entirely the “death of global warming” as many have claimed – what happened with Climategate is much more nuanced and exponentially more interesting than the headlines convey. What was triggered at this blog was the death of unconditional trust in the scientific peer review process, and the maturing of a new movement – that of peer-to-peer review.

This development may horrify the old guard, but peer-to-peer review was just what forced the release of the Climategate files – and as a consequence revealed the uncertainty of the science and the co-opting of the process that legitimizes global warming research. It was a collective of climate blogs, centered on the work of Stephen McIntyre and Ross McKitrick, which applied the pressure. With moderators and blog commenters that include engineers, PhDs, statistics whizzes, mathematic experts, software developers, and weather specialists – the label flat-earthers, as many of their opponents have attempted to brand them, seems as fitting as tagging Lady Gaga with the label demure.

This peer-to-peer review network is the group that applied the pressure and then helped authenticate and proliferate the story.
 
   Peer-to-peer review will hopefully be the new process in all climate work. But it should not stop there. This should be the standard for all scientific work, especially those that will influence public matters.
 
   Will it happen? Doubtful. The govenment is shoving a health care bill that no one wants down our throats. So, can we hope for a new process for sciencitfic research out of our gevernment? As I said...doubtful.
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Clean Ports In L.A. Or Union Jobs?

Posted by BLOGASSAULT on Saturday, January 09, 2010 12:46:51 PM
   After reading this article from the LA Times, you have to ask your self this question:  Are they trying to clean up the LA sea port air with cleaner tractors, or are they trying to make the trucking industry a wholly owned subsidiary of the Teamsters Union?
 
At the heart of the conflict is the issue of whether drivers must work for trucking companies, as the Los Angeles clean-trucks program requires, or can remain self-employed, as Long Beach's plan allows. The Los Angeles effort is seen as pro-union because working for a trucking company makes drivers more likely to be recruited by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters.
 
   One thing is for certain, this is not about capitolism. They are using one issue as cover to accomplish another. Allowing only companies that have unionized employees into the port is clearly not something the government should have any say in.
 
On Monday, the American Trucking Assn. is to head to federal court seeking a summary judgment to prevent Los Angeles from executing its plan. The ATA says the Los Angeles port is violating federal deregulation laws by requiring drivers to give up independent owner-operator status and work for trucking companies, a mandate that is being phased in.
 
   Here is another issue that needs an answer: How many independent truck drivers have lost there lively hood because of having to buy new trucks and then be told that they can't come into the port becuase they are not union. Sounds, well, un-american. But this is what you get when you let the liberal government run things.
 
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No End To The EPA Regulations

Posted by BLOGASSAULT on Thursday, January 07, 2010 6:52:07 PM
   The EPA, in lockstep with the Obama admnistration, has anounced new regulations that will have a huge impact on many more counties through out the U.S. This govenment is detemined to regulate emissions to the point of economic colapse.

 Hundreds of communities far from congested highways and belching smokestacks could soon join America's big cities and industrial corridors in violation of stricter limits on lung-damaging smog proposed Thursday by the Obama administration.

Costs of compliance could be in the tens of billions of dollars, but the government said the rules would save other billions -- as well as lives -- in the long run.

More than 300 counties -- mainly in southern California, the Northeast and Gulf Coast -- already violate the current, looser requirements adopted two years ago by the Bush administration and will find it even harder to reduce smog-forming pollution enough to comply with the law.

The new limits being considered by the Environmental Protection Agency could more than double the number of counties in violation and reach places like California's wine country in Napa Valley and rural Trego County, Kan., and its 3,000 residents.

   What is funny is how they are trying to sell it...

The tighter standards, though costly to implement, will ultimately save billions in avoided emergency room visits, premature deaths, and missed work and school days, the EPA said.

''EPA is stepping up to protect Americans from one of the most persistent and widespread pollutants we face,'' said agency administrator Lisa Jackson. ''Using the best science to strengthen these standards is long overdue action that will help millions of Americans breathe easier and live healthier.''

   My guess is that in Trego County, Kansas no one person has ever gone to the hospital because of smog pollution. I am just guessing, of course.
 
   The fact is, they are not going to give up so easily on this cap and trade deal. And if that doesn't work, well, there is always the EPA to force it done our throats.
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Rock Band Getting Sued By Enviro Nutters

Posted by BLOGASSAULT on Saturday, January 02, 2010 12:51:46 PM
   Not even concert goers can escape the dangers of noise pollution...on birds.

Animal rights campaigners are threatening legal action if the veteran band goes ahead with a gig planned for Wels airport in Austria in May.

Hans Uhl of BirdLife said birds nesting in the area at the time would be threatened by anthems such as Highway To Hell and You Shook Me All Night Long.
 
   Dear God....
 
 AC/DC
 
I wonder if Curlews are editable?
 
dead_bird.jpg YUM image by dancekookiedance
 
   I guess that is not very nice, hiuh?
 
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Gun Right Challanges For 2010

Posted by BLOGASSAULT on Saturday, January 02, 2010 12:35:56 PM
   Here is a link to Snowflakes In Hell on some upcoming challanges for 2010. We can never let up. Once we do...we lose.
 
 
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News Source-University Polls

Posted by BLOGASSAULT on Saturday, January 02, 2010 11:59:26 AM
   A new poll out finds that three out of four  people thing climate change is still a very real problem.
 
The AP-Stanford poll of 1,005 adults contacted by telephone in November suggests that people’s concerns about climate change have not changed significantly.

That’s contrary to several other recent surveys. In October, according to a poll of 1,500 adults conducted by the Pew Research Center for People and the Press, 57 percent said there is solid evidence the world is getting warmer. That was a 20 percent decline from three years earlier.
 
   You have got to pay attention to the first line; "contrary to several  other recent surveys". That should give you pause immediatly. Why would this survey be so different than all the others? I can give you three reasons: the AP, Standford University, and the polling company.
All of them left leaning organizations. They poll intercity people, who generally trend left to get the desired slant they need. It's a stupid game that has been going on for years, on both sides. Yet, the Pew Research Center, who is no right leaning organization, yet is well respected in the polling place came to a totally different conclusion.
 
   The one intesting thing in the AP/Stanford Poll was this interesting bit of info:
 
While three-quarters of respondents said they support action to combat climate change, just as many said they would oppose the “cap and trade” legislation to limit heat-trapping pollution if it raised their electricity bill by $25 a month. Almost six in 10 balked if it meant paying $10 extra a month for electricity.
 
   Even though they found the people who are concerned about climate change, they also managed to find the same ones that are willing to do nothing about it. Can't win them all I guess. So, the next logical question would be to question their answers, right? Change the question to say, "Do you believe breast cancer will affect future generations?" You would get a resounding "Yes". Then ask if they would be will to give ten dollars a month to fight it, and the numbers of those willing to pay would be much higher. Why? Because nearly everyone has known or has someone in their family that has or has had breast cancer. They have seen the consequences of breast cancer. But climate change has yet to affect anyone except those the media says it has.
 
   That is part of the reason why people don't want to pay for mitigation of climate change. It is not personal yet. Even though the climate nutters and their media henchmen have been promoting it for 30 years now, no amount of money or attention in the world can make it personal to the general public. Actually there is one way to make it personal, turn it into a religion. That is already under way.
 
   Regardless, it is all a question of science being tossed around on a field of corrupt scientists, politicians, and mass media. The good thing is, we now have them on the defensive.
 
   


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No Stop To The Spending

Posted by BLOGASSAULT on Saturday, January 02, 2010 10:37:57 AM
   Today is a new day, and along with it is a new study on the effects of global warming. This time it is about glibal warmings impact on the Avian Flu. This is, of course, a great waste of Universtiy funds as well as time and effort. They even admit as much.
 
"It's a pretty simple experiment, but it's a wild ... idea," said Holly Wichman, professor of biology and the evolutionary biologist of the group.
"But, if it turns out that our idea is right, it could have enormous implications," added Marty Ytreberg, professor of physics and the computational biophysicist of the group.
   Wild idea? You bet. Money that could be used to fight hunger or better yet, find a cure for Avian Flu. What a novel idea that would be. huh?
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