UK police seize computers of skeptic blogger in England

“Cultural Anthropology” a 5 dollar phrase coined by ’70s post-college sociology graduates backpacking Europe, to describe their habit of latte and Heineken sipping on European street patios, ogling the local fauna, trying somehow raise the profile of the degree they spent thousands on.
“Doctorate in Cultural Anthropology” The paper you get, having failed the practical in advanced basketweaving. You are now forced to spend your career watching other people weave baskets, while all the while protesting that, really, you’re not a sociologist.

“I’m Brian and so is my wife”- Monty Python version

http://www.climatedepot.com/a/14156/Fmr-Thatcher-advisor-Lord-Monckton-to-pursue-fraud-charges-against-Climategate-scientists-Will-present-to-police-the-case-for-numerous-specific-instances-of-scientific-or-economic-fraud

Anthony, another computer raid could put you over 100 million views

I have visited Greg Laden’s blog.
People are posting comments there.That are very critical of Greg’s blog entry.Calling him names and saying he is inviting possible legal troubles for it.
OOOOh they are angry at him for it!

Adam Corner profile (from link): Adam Corner is a research associate at the School of Psychology, Cardiff University, UK. His research interests include the communication of climate change.
15 Dec: New Scientist: Adam Corner: Climate change drops off ‘hot topic’ list
This year’s British Social Attitudes (BSA) survey comes complete with gloomy headlines on public opinion about climate change. Compared with surveys in 1993 and 2000, concern about the seriousness of environmental threats has decreased, and the number of people saying they were willing to pay more for environmentally friendly services has dropped significantly…
The survey’s authors suggest that the lingering effects of the 2009 Climategate affair – the release by climate sceptics of private emails between climate researchers at the University of East Anglia (UEA) – has knocked people’s trust in climate science.
To those who observed the deafening silence that greeted the release of yet more of the hacked UEA emails last month, this is a curious explanation. It has become a media truism that the fallout from Climategate dented public confidence in climate science. But the few polls that have asked directly about it, which the BSA did not, have painted a more nuanced picture. A US study in 2010, found that Climategate primarily influenced those who were already sceptical.
Beyond the somewhat spurious Climategate angle, are the BSA findings really as worrying as they seem?…
In fact, the most recent polling from the US – where scepticism about climate change has become a badge of honour for political conservatives – suggests a small but detectable upward trend in the number of people who agree that human activity is causing climate change. And in UK polls more recent than the BSA results, which were collected in 2010, levels of concern are once again increasing.
It is true that there is a large gap between public doubts expressed about the reality of climate change and the weight of the scientific evidence…http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn21289-climate-change-drops-off-hot-topic-list.html

And if SOPA passes, what will happen to skeptic blogs?

14 Dec: Reuters: Edward Hadas: Casting the runes on climate change
Something has gone wrong with global warming. It’s not that the world has stopped heating up. It’s that the anti-warming political movement, which seemed almost unstoppable when the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, has stalled…
Last week’s United Nations climate change conference in Durban ended with little more than an agreement to talk some more about what to do next. Even that was too much for Canada, which has just said no to emission-reduction targets…
While only experts can judge the strength of the scientific evidence for man-made climate change, no technical knowledge is required to be troubled by the way the activists present their case. The willingness to describe knowledgeable opponents as “deniers,” a word previously used only for fantasists about Nazi atrocities, suggests a very unscientific attitude…
The “Climategate” emails show scientists so passionate about their beliefs that they are unwilling to brook opposition. Fervor seems to have led to overconfidence. The status of the claim that recent years have been by far the warmest in a millennium has been downgraded from certain in 2001 to likely or mistaken (depending on the expert consulted).
The activists’ excess of passion and certainly has led them to a dogmatic conviction that a radical policy — rapid and sharp reductions in carbon dioxide emissions — is required to save the world. Since industrial economies cannot yet function without using large amounts of energy generated by burning carbon, the anti-carbon prescription equates to a campaign against prosperity — tough on rich countries (too tough for Canada to bear) and practically a sentence of economic stagnation for poor ones.
Such draconian measures only make sense if global warming is exactly what devout affirmers say it is — hazardous, accelerating, man-made and about to go non-linear (science-talk for catastrophic). Otherwise, a more moderate strategy makes sense…
Why do activists show so little interest in such a sensible compromise? I blame the sorcerer’s apprentice. In the 1797 poem by J W Goethe (familiar from in the Walt Disney film Fantasia), this clever student is able to invoke — but not control — the magical-technological ability to turn a broom into a water-carrying machine. The man-made global warming activists tell a less poetic version of the same story. It goes like this: we have learned how to use the energy stored in the earth to serve our purposes, but do not know the spell which keeps the unleashed energy from destroying us — and we have no equivalent to the poem’s old master to rescue us from our carbon folly. Halfway countermeasures are likely to replicate the apprentice’s effort to stop the broom by splitting it with an axe — he ended up with two brooms and twice the trouble. Under the circumstance, moderation would be madness…
If climate change is to be taken seriously, the IPCC and UN conferences need to have less madness and more method.
http://blogs.reuters.com/edward-hadas/2011/12/14/casting-the-runes-on-climate-change/

Hurrah for Lord Monckton. I believe that the legal complaints that he proposes should get the attention of Climategaters and those who have colluded with them. It should also get the attention of the MSM – finally.

That teeny weenie worldwide tweet by Greg Laden & Michael Mann seems to have just given tallbloke a good chance for a cushy retirement. Hope he, when time cleared, sues the c..p out of one or both and the MSM for direct libel and slander, and wins. For now we all know exactly what kind of manly “man” Mann really is, don’t we? [pun intended]