OTOH, current AGW theory appears to be just plain old wrong. Or at least mostly wrong (as the pum-pums and voodoo masters measure their heat sinks and waste heat and carefully adjust it upward . . .).

But even an atheist has his beliefs!

Try this one:

As mankind approaches Childhood’s End (inre. old age at any rate), we will acquire powers Horatio never dreamed of. We shall remake our world. We, my brothers, may or may not be there to see it. But if it is not this generation, it will surely be the next. If we can hang on till, oh, 2025, quien sabe? Anything is possible. Anything.

It will be cool if we’re the ones! Being a charter member of The First of the Last, the Elder Statesmen of Hhumanity would have some interesting benefits–not all of them Social Security! (Think patrician of Rome AEternal. Imagine the responsibilities!)

Bill

Murdock made his fortune by taking what worked in one market and applying it in other markets. For whatever reasons, the WC is a uniquely American phenomena, the model doesn’t work elsewhere in the world. So I very much doubt Murdock will be a buyer.

At least, that’s the way I remember it.

The Batten family that owns TWC is also heavily invested in the newspaper business. In my opinion, they have seen what the internet has done to their newspaper business and want to sell their TV assets before the internet ravages the industry.

The internet has devastated the newspaper and music industries. TV is next!

Might go to the “weather on the eights”, but cable here has 24/7 local coverage, so that’s covered…

I find I get better advice and earlier warnings about hurricanes from the weather underground web site (and even there, you’ve got to put up with the GW stuff).

They’ve already done that. When’s the last time you watched? It’s global warming this, global warming that. They can’t go 20 minutes without saying the words.

I wrote Joe D’aleo a few months ago and inquired what happened to them. His reposnse:

“Their consultants said they should be taking advantage of the global
warming craze to build ratings. They hired a former CNN producer to
adjust the programming. They hired Heidi Cullen who started in Divinity
School then went into science got her PhD and had a job at NCAR. She worked
with climate models but I was told by someone who worked with her that
her knowledge of climate science was a mile wide and an inch deep. She
has no regard for data issues, the sun and oceans, although her bio
lists one of her specialties as the NAO (North Atlantic Oscillation).”

There’s not enough “Head-On” made to cure THAT headache…