Global Warming...Human Caused Disaster Or Y2K Bug?
I was meaning to comment on the latest edition of Newsweak about how the Global Warming deniers are all bought and paid for by big oil, although clearly those scientist who get government money to study the effects of global warming... they are beyond questioning, but had not got around to reading the entire article.
Well this just broke, seems some of the data that the Global Warming alarmists are basing claims on is flawed, Y2K flawed.
But it gets better... it seems that the guy who wrote the buggy software, James Hansen is a huge Bush critic but refused to turn over his source code and raw data for other scientists to examine and attempt to duplicate. I guess that is one way to settle the science, do not let anyone else test your results. So a blogger, reverse engineered the data and figured out the problem which now shows that 1998 is not the hottest year on record, it is actually 1934.
James Hansen, get ready for some serious fact checking, and not that New Republic "seems plausible to us" kind. We are talking Freedom Of Information Act compliments of lots of conservative bloggers. Everything that has ever come out of this guys mouth or wrote on a piece of paper is now subject to review. It reminds me of what my cousin would say, "It is really going to suck to be him".
The biggest scandal of it all, NASA has quietly posted the new results. Now why would NASA, a non political scientific organization, not want to make sure everyone was aware that data they had provided that is causing all sorts of new laws and regulations and could eventually cost the US economy trillions of dollars, not want to publicly and openly correct the facts? Why oh why?
Go visit Ace for more details.
Thursday, August 09, 2007
Tuesday, August 07, 2007
Fact Checking 101 With The Senior Editor Of The New Republic
Oh no... he is not explaining the basics of fact checking, the basics are being explained to him:
Well there you have it, the secret to fact checking.
Watch the first 13 and a half minutes about the "Scott Thomas Beauchamp quasi slash non scandal" over at Blogging Heads video. Something tells me those two would like a do over.
Oh no... he is not explaining the basics of fact checking, the basics are being explained to him:
Johnathan Chait, Senior Editor of The New Republic: When you say your fact checkers re-report everything, do you mean like when you do interviews with sources, they go back and call up your sources and ask if the quotes you have are correct?
Ross Douthat, The Atlantic Monthly: Yes
Well there you have it, the secret to fact checking.
Watch the first 13 and a half minutes about the "Scott Thomas Beauchamp quasi slash non scandal" over at Blogging Heads video. Something tells me those two would like a do over.
Monday, August 06, 2007
The New Republic, Fake And Even They Knew It Was Fake
Here is a recap of the latest implosion of liberal media. The New Republic, a twice monthly magazine that supports social liberalism with a largely centrist stance on fiscal issues and a left-wing stance of social issues printed a set of stories from a soldier in Iraq who went by the name of "Scott Thomas". The stories were about the behavior of soldiers that was not very flattering to the military. The stories immediately set off red flags for a number of conservative media sites and bloggers such as Ace of Spades HQ, The Weekly Standard and Hot Air to name a few. It was later revealed that Scott Thomas was in fact Scott Thomas Beauchamp, the husband of a TNR staffer, Elspeth Reeves. This further raised more red flags since simple Google searches and such revealed a history of politically left leanings by Beauchamp who had stated in the TNR stories that he was not political. TNR used the fact that Beauchamp was married to a staffer as a reason to believe what he had to say.
Once it was clear that there were problems with the stories, a source inside of TNR let Ace know that "Franklin Foer (the editor of TNR) Doesn't Want To Tell Ellie Reeves Her Husband Is A Liar". This source was fired from TNR almost immediately.
The military started an investigation and TNR issued a statement from Beauchamp insisting it was all true but TNR did mention an error in one of the stories, saying it happened in Kuwait, not Iraq as the story mentioned. TNR was going to go back and re check the facts but did state they had confirmed the story that happened in Kuwait.
It has now come out that Beauchamp:
This signed statement happened on the first day of the military investigation right when TNR was posting a statement from the same Scott Thomas Beauchamp saying he stood by his stories and was willing to use his real name.
So clearly TNR never did check the facts like they claimed and they knew the stories were false while they were putting out statements to the contrary.
Why? Someone explain to me why? I mean besides they do not support the troops and want us to lose in Iraq.
Here is a recap of the latest implosion of liberal media. The New Republic, a twice monthly magazine that supports social liberalism with a largely centrist stance on fiscal issues and a left-wing stance of social issues printed a set of stories from a soldier in Iraq who went by the name of "Scott Thomas". The stories were about the behavior of soldiers that was not very flattering to the military. The stories immediately set off red flags for a number of conservative media sites and bloggers such as Ace of Spades HQ, The Weekly Standard and Hot Air to name a few. It was later revealed that Scott Thomas was in fact Scott Thomas Beauchamp, the husband of a TNR staffer, Elspeth Reeves. This further raised more red flags since simple Google searches and such revealed a history of politically left leanings by Beauchamp who had stated in the TNR stories that he was not political. TNR used the fact that Beauchamp was married to a staffer as a reason to believe what he had to say.
Once it was clear that there were problems with the stories, a source inside of TNR let Ace know that "Franklin Foer (the editor of TNR) Doesn't Want To Tell Ellie Reeves Her Husband Is A Liar". This source was fired from TNR almost immediately.
The military started an investigation and TNR issued a statement from Beauchamp insisting it was all true but TNR did mention an error in one of the stories, saying it happened in Kuwait, not Iraq as the story mentioned. TNR was going to go back and re check the facts but did state they had confirmed the story that happened in Kuwait.
It has now come out that Beauchamp:
signed a sworn statement admitting that all three articles he published in the New Republic were exaggerations and falsehoods--fabrications containing only "a smidgen of truth," in the words of our source.
This signed statement happened on the first day of the military investigation right when TNR was posting a statement from the same Scott Thomas Beauchamp saying he stood by his stories and was willing to use his real name.
So clearly TNR never did check the facts like they claimed and they knew the stories were false while they were putting out statements to the contrary.
Why? Someone explain to me why? I mean besides they do not support the troops and want us to lose in Iraq.
Sunday, August 05, 2007
Seafair Navy Fleet Week
I took the kid to see the big ships
But first you have to go past security... lots and lots of really serious well armed security. That is the kid in front on the right.
Canada sent its entire navy so if you are thinking of invading Canada by sea, now would be a good time.
Not the boat we toured.
On a vietnam era river patrol boat. Showing what Jane Fonda would have looked like if she was a patriotic American and not a traitor.
At the controls of a fighting vehicle inside the ship.
Behind the wheel. Big fat claustrophobic people need not apply.
I took the kid to see the big ships
But first you have to go past security... lots and lots of really serious well armed security. That is the kid in front on the right.
Canada sent its entire navy so if you are thinking of invading Canada by sea, now would be a good time.
Not the boat we toured.
On a vietnam era river patrol boat. Showing what Jane Fonda would have looked like if she was a patriotic American and not a traitor.
At the controls of a fighting vehicle inside the ship.
Behind the wheel. Big fat claustrophobic people need not apply.
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