Penn State to lecture on "climate ethics"

Re: 10th hottest year on record. Lot’s of media reportage on this latest assertion. It’s be useful if there was a site that aggregated the official world temperatures from 4 main data collection points.

Coffee spew alert:
National Climate Ethics Statement
To Be Released November 30 On Capital Hill
Senator Barbara Boxer and Rep. Henry Waxman Among List of Speakers
This is our FINAL CALL for signatures. Please send out the message below.
The National Climate Ethics Campaign is pleased to announce that the “Statement of Our Nation’s Moral Obligation to Address Climate Change” will be released Wednesday, November 30 from 1:00-2:30 p.m. in Room 406 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building (The Environment and Public Works Hearing Room).
There are now over 1000 signers now on the climate ethics statement. Please send the message pasted below to organizations, listservs, and people that might endorse it.
If you are in Washington D.C. or vicinity please attend the event. In addition, please urge others know you to attend! Let’s fill the room to tell Congress, the President, and the public that it is our nation’s moral and ethical responsibility to meaningfully address climate change.
Speakers representing a wide range of constituencies will offer their views about our nation’s ethical and moral obligations to address climate change:
Congressman Henry Waxman (D-California)
Virginia State Senator Mary Margaret Whipple (state perspective)
Gary Hirshberg, CEO of Stonyfield Farm (business)
Tim Warman of The National Wildlife Federation (environment)
Jim Ball, VP of The Evangelical Environmental Network (faith)
Joe Uehlein, Labor Network for Sustainability (labor)
Ann Goodman, WNSF (women)
Luisa Saffiotti, Psychologists for Social Responsibility (mental health)
Bobby Pestronk, NACCHO (health)
Lili Molina, Energy Action Coalition (youth)
A speaker representing the NAACP will also speak.
http://climateethicscampaign.org/

Not too far OT – (from theDailyReview.com)
Increased bromide caused by lab error not drilling, researchers say
A study by Penn State researchers is being revised after test results apparently linking increased bromide in some water wells to Marcellus Shale gas drilling were traced instead to a lab error.
An error notice was published on Nov. 22 on the website of the Center for Rural Pennsylvania, which funded the study and released it in late October.
According to the notice, an accredited laboratory contracted by the researchers incorrectly reported the bromide concentration data that was used in the original report. Updated data showed that increased bromide levels were recorded in one of 42 water wells, not seven wells as originally reported.
The one affected water well also showed increased levels of chloride, hardness and other parameters days after a Marcellus well about a quarter-mile away was hydraulically fractured, but “nearly all” of the increased parameters, including bromide, “had nearly returned to pre-drilling concentrations” after 10 months, according to the notice and the original report.
The study of 233 water wells in 20 Pennsylvania counties did not find any statistically significant increases in methane after drilling or evidence of contamination from the most prominent pollutants found in the wastewater that flows out of natural gas wells after hydraulic fracturing.
In the initial report, the study’s authors used the now-discredited bromide finding to advocate tripling the distance around a natural gas well where drillers in Pennsylvania are currently presumed responsible for contamination from 1,000 to 3,000 feet.
Efforts to reach project leader Bryan Swistock, a Penn State water resources extension specialist, were unsuccessful Monday.
According to the error notice, all of the study’s research findings are being reviewed and a revised report will be issued “in the coming weeks.”
The authors were preparing the report for submission to a peer-reviewed journal when it was released by the Center for Rural Pennsylvania in October.

Dear Mr Brown.
In logic classes, I learned that : When one argues from a philosophical perspective – there is no moral or ethical argument that can be associated to a philosophical stance.
It is a fallacy in logic to attempt to convey that there is.
It would take these [ at the minimum ] to change from a philosophical debate to an ethical debate.
1 Causation evidence.
2 Evidence that something can be done to change the outcome..
3 Evidence that not taking the step [ s ] – is unethical.
Surly, as a Lawyer….you understand “evidence”?

To attend the ethical forum, send details of your bank account to my Nigerian colleague who will complete your registration . . .

@Anthony:
Ethics is mob rule. Morality appeals to a divine will. Anyone trying to confuse the two is selling something. If you understand that ‘ethics’ is another word for rhetoric and mob rule, then this lecture makes perfect sense. They are rallying the troops.

“Piratical”
pertaining to Pirates, acting as if a Pirate,
“Pirate”
one who roams around a large area attacking normal people going about their normal work.
History shows us that Pirates dont last too long before being overtaken by authority or rebellion
yours sincerely
Edward Teach (ex Royal Navy) (no, not really)

When these guys start costing universities money, their azzes will be out the door tenure or no tenure.

The Cognitive doesn’t get any more dissonant than this…

Lovely cartoon I was sent:
young son to father, “Dad, I’m considering a career in organised crime.”
Father, looking calmly past his newspaper, “Government or private sector?”

“ethical analysis of the climate change disinformation campaign. ”
This is right up there with people’s republic and socialist republic,
as supreme self-parody. ‘Disinformation’ describes them to a tee.
“We will examine whether this is a new kind of crime against humanity”
Big Government has for centuries been THE crime against humanity,
while capitalism and free markets made all the progress and growth,
whereas government, when done properly, merely enables it.
And yes, the Greens’ ruinous policies ARE a new kind of crime against humanity.
“Second, we will look at the piratical significance for negotiations in Durban if climate change is understood to create human rights violations. ”
Gee, wouldn’t King Canute love the sheer megalomania of CAGW,
and like any Viking king (Viking = Scandanavian pirate)
he knew all about total arrogance:
Vikings were the world’s #1 slavers for three centuries .
As for ‘human rights’ violations’, that accurately describes
the results of their policies of fuel poverty and biofueled starvation.
What about the animal rights of all those bird-slicer victims?

Dave Wendt says:
November 29, 2011 at 3:14 pm
“I haven’t been able to keep up with all the comments regarding this latest release of emails, but from what I’ve seen no one has mentioned this piece which discusses Andy Revkin’s role, as revealed in the emails, when he was still supposedly a “reporter at the NYT.”
Revkin is all over Climate Depot.