Red State Blue State – Dot’s Up With That?

5 11 2008

Last night anybody who watched TV or surfed the web was assaulted with all manner of red/blue maps. There were states, counties, cities, dots, and graphs. Your green channel of the RGB system on your TV or LCD could have gone completely out and you wouldn’t have missed a thing.

Thanks to the election, we are now all red/blue color sensitized. So it seemed the perfect time to introduce this map.

california_red_blue

I’ll have more on this later, but behind one of those dots lies a very interesting story.





I’m featured in this book

5 11 2008

The title screams “Red Hot Lies” and will indeed make some “see red”.  While it initially made me a bit uncomfortable, it is fairly straightforward and compelling. Having been written about in this book with such an “inflammatory” title and style, I suppose now I’ll be branded as a “denier deluxe”.

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Click image above for details on how to order a copy from Amazon at a discount price. If you order from this link above, I’ll get a small percentage from the sale.

I got my signed copy in the mail today from the author, Chris Horner. This is it on the black slate of my desk. You can find the details about my surfacestations project on page 267, along with photos. There’s a back story there as to why that is the only page with photographs. I refused to give permission for my chapter unless they used at least one of the photos I provided. At one point, there were no photos. My argument was “it’s what I do”.

Even after all that argument, I had to chuckle though, because the way Horner signed it was quite the surprise. I never really looked at myself that way, I started down this road because I was curious about paint, and then one thing led to another…and well here I am.

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The book also has a good compendium of what has occurred not only on the blogosphere, but also in the government, news media, and with the individual players like Hansen and Gore in the last few years. It also has entries from sometimes moderator and regular contributor here, John Goetz as well as many other familiar names that have inspired questions.

After reading the first chapter I thought I should pass on this note to readers who practice the “dark art” of questioning the veracity of the AGW science and the IPCC: shred your trash, then douse it liberally with butyl seleno-mercaptan (C4H9SeH).

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