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Anthony you have proven to the alarmists that we are demon possessed! Did the incantations at the top of the post allow you to contact the Great Satan of Science? 🙂
It would seem he writes in a sort of bubble of “plausible deniability” that works to render a ‘free’ and exculpated conscience; he doesn’t actually know, with any degree of certainty, and can’t actually claim to know what he is penning progand..-er- slanted public interest stories, and since the goal is green energy, warm fuzzy bunnies and cute puppy dogs by the bushel basket, he has a high and noble goal as well.
Per wiki: “In politics and espionage, deniability refers to the ability of a “powerful player” or actor to avoid “blowback” by secretly arranging for an action to be taken on their behalf by a third party—ostensibly unconnected with the major player. In political campaigns, plausible deniability enables candidates to stay “clean” and denounce advertisements that use unethical approaches or innuendo based on opposition research.
More generally, “plausible deniability” can also apply to any act that leaves little or no evidence of wrongdoing or abuse.”
This also assures he can get a good night’s sleep, until his conscience at some point begins to gnaw at him …
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The link for the newspaper item by Hanley is http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_CLIMATE_THE_DISCONNECT?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2011-09-24-13-10-33
All I will say is Peter Schiff was right. I heeded his warnings and while my co-workers were losing 40-50% of their 401k in 2008, I lost 0%. Watching the talking heads Saturday morning, the same ones who gave bad advice in 2006/2007 are doing it again in 2011.
Milton Friedman, RIP.
Ben Bernanke makes Greenspan look like a tightwad.
What did Paul Krugman do to deserve a Nobel prize?
Heh, Angrypartistan.
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Here’s link to the “allergy” article
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2011/09/24/national/a101025D62.DTL&type=printable
The same article is here http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-09-american-allergy-global.html Please go and add comments
Further to the Himalayan glaciers would disappear by 2035
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/sep/24/climate-change-mount-everest-melting
“Climate change may leave Mount Everest ascent ice-free, say climbers”
Anthony writes, “A test for Windows Live Writer to see how well it does for creating a blog post.”
I’ve been using it for 5 months. No complaints.
Re the economy, a guy called Nuttle has an interesting concept, the “debt wall” ; meaning the moment when the collective deficits of the nations exceed the amount of capital available for the current low interest rates. When the debt wall is hit, interest rates must rise to attract capital which will make it necessary for the deficit-ridden nations to increase taxes or print money to pay the interest.
http://debtwall.org/the-nuttle-debt-wall/
So one or more of the following must happen in the deficit-ridden nations:
– Tax increases
– Austerity measures
– Devaluation of their own currency by printing money.
There’s no way around it. It’s the Keynesian endpoint.
If you’ve ever been labelled a climate change denier, you may like to read this piece by James Delingpole. I’m sure everyone has heard about the problems with Greek debt and the European single currency, well in Britain we are not known for our fond embrace of the great European experiment. Thankfully we did not adopt the Euro, Greece would pale into insignificance.
Back to climate change deniers, an editorial by the independent in 1992
“The spectacle is both nauseating and pathetic: nauseating because this heterogeneous rump of Thatcherites, little Englanders, xenophobes and eccentric constitutionalists appears to have no concept of loyalty; pathetic because they have no alternative agenda. In their conceit they are convinced they know better than the Government (and the Opposition) where this country’s true interests lie. But what vision do they substitute? Not, to be sure, of a perfidious Albion notorious for going back on treaties that it has signed; nor of a country whose outdated notions of sovereignty led either to Britain being marginalised in Europe, or to a historic undermining of the EC’s role as a bulwark against resurgent nationalism. Yet those are both likely outcomes. The Europhobes’ idea of the EC reverting to a mere Common Market is a naive anachronism”
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100106974/global-warming-the-guilty-men/
Andrew Marr, the independents political editor at the time is a former Political Editor at BBC News, now has his own show on Sunday morning. (Checkout wikipedia – “Marr has written about the need to remain impartial and “studiously neutral” whilst delivering news reports and “convey fact, and nothing more”)
I was taught a little Latin at college more as where our English language came from.
I do not remember the latin but the translation into english of the best phrase that comes to mind was. You are always in the s@it only the depth varies. Maybe the Romans understood real life.
Something interesting I’ve noticed about this hurricane season (see Weather Street for the graphs):
http://www.weatherstreet.com/hurricane/2011/Hurricane-Atlantic-2011.htm
This season, the number of named storms is closely tracking the high number reached in 2005, however, the number of hurricanes is way down … only three to date.
Some light entertainment on moon landing conspiracies. This is from QI, a very popular comedy quiz program on UK TV. Search for QI on youtube for other clips.
Hurricane spirals in PNe, star birth rings.
http://homepages.woosh.co.nz/zanzibar/51.html
Ed Mertin says:
September 24, 2011 at 7:45 pm
Plenty of stagflation lately. Are we about to do a double dip recession? Sputter along until 2012? Any optimism here?
It’s down to climate change. Permant recession from now on. We have reached the tipping point and can’t afford to leave one..
Would like some comments from folks here about this book:
http://www.amazon.com/Little-Book-Coincidence-Wooden-Books/dp/0802713882
Peter Schiff was right and recommended buying gold. Even more important, some of those over-stuffed talking heads were not even wrong. Ben Stein – clueless about evolution, even more clueless about economics. And the idiots who recommended buying Washington Mutual, Merrill Lynch and Goldman Sachs…embarrassingly wrong
Anthony writes, “A test for Windows Live Writer to see how well it does for creating a blog post.”
I use it when I want to speak parceltongue to any reptiles I may come across on certain warm blogs
Something for electric vehicle lovers/haters/undecided:
Heathrow has a PRT (personal rail transport) system now; built by a Bristol University spinoff called Ultra PRT.
company website:
http://www.UltraPrt.Com
nicely rendered ad video by them:
use the youtube links to find videos of the real thing in operation at Heathrow.
It’s supposed to be much cheaper than conventional rail-based PRT’s like the
Vectus PRT
because the track is cheaper.
PRT’s are an old idea, as sketched here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ULTra_(rapid_transit)
and the idea goes back to the HUD reports; an old kinda pork scheme, born out of the need to find a new project after Apollo.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HUD_reports
I’m neither particularly enthusiastic nor antagonistic about this; just wanted to share it.
@ur momisugly Intrepid_Wanders and Kim…
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jun/08/us-universities-africa-land-grab
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/african-land-grab-acres-bottle-scotch
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/09/19/opinion/kotlikoff-us-debt-crisis/index.html?hpt=hp_t2
On the face of it, this is garbage journalism …
http://www2.journalnow.com/news/2011/sep/25/wsmain01-issue-of-global-warming-hangs-over-yet-an-ar-1428572/
Please kindly see my post in “Tips & Notes” made about 5 minutes ago.
wayne Job says:
September 25, 2011 at 3:21 am
I was taught a little Latin at college more as where our English language came from.
I do not remember the latin but the translation into english of the best phrase that comes to mind was. You are always in the s@it only the depth varies. Maybe the Romans understood real life.
The latin you were looking for is
Semper in caca solem profundis variat
Dale says:
September 24, 2011 at 9:00 pm
“I’ll ruminate on this whilst I fire up the BBQ tonight.”
I saw what you did there….