Hard News: I'm in yr Beehive tellin yr MPs about teh internets
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How's the head this morning, Russell?
Decidedly average.
But you'll have noted that I wrote a blog, posted a guest blog, uploaded a bunch of podcasts and found some evidence for Graeme.
Because that's the kind of caring blogger-guy that I am.
Planning on taking the afternoon off though ...
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merc,
DPF (to self): How the hell does he do it, and have all those wonderful toys.
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what's DPF? i googled it and i'm scared
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ohhh david farrar
apologies
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Russell, did any of the assembled worthies ask you how wide the interweb tubes were?
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Back to Graeme, Andrew was equating Gore to Durkin and as I recall, you were taking up the mantle on his behalf.
Perhaps. I was mostly just responding to your request for an example of a lie told by Gore some time in An Inconvenient Truth.
I came up with one that struck me immediately, at which most people who were viewing the film with me laughed immediately upon hearing.
"All" may be an overstatement. But "have had to" and "will have to" are vastly different.
And "New Zealand" is different from "Vanuatu". Etc.
Perhaps it wasn't a deliberate lie, but stating that something has happened when it is instead merely predicted to happen shows a callous disregard for the truth.
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A reminder about atolls like Tuvalu is that they are ALWAYS just above the sea level. That is how they form. The coral will only grow i n shallow water. For an island will start with a fringing reef and as the island slowly sinks the coral continues to grow ontop of the dead coral. Eventually the original island disappears and the lagoon is where the island was , and a reef still encircles it with the atoll just being above the sea level , formed mainly by storms and the breaking up of parts of the reef.
This is high school stuff.
At the predicted rates of sea level rise the reef will easily keep pace and the atoll will rise to match . Not exactly at the same time but over a long period the atoll will still be there.As for Tuvalu, they do have a special immigration status allowing them to come to NZ, ( one of the forgotten anomalies when NZ said it doesn't favour migrants from any country)but all haven't left yet.
This is probably the Kernel of truth in Confabulator Als documentary. You could say he joined some dots !!
John Daly had a record of the data before it was hidden
http://www.john-daly.com/press/press-01c.htm#tuvalu
According to the Australian National Tidal centre based in Flinders University the data doesn't show Tuvalu being swamped by rising seas. In fact the El Nino influenced rises and falls of the Pacific causing their problems. Mysteriously NTC data is now controlled by the Australian Met Bureau protect it from prying eyes, only available to 'approved researchers'- Just like the UK Hadley centreRussell you really shouldn't rely on the Independent for climate news. Lohachara island is in the Ganges delta, which like all large river deltas is SINKING.
This satellite photo shows a neighbouring island which has got larger!. This is what you would expect from a low lying area which islands are both growing and disappearing.
http://www.satelliteviews.net/cgi-bin/w.cgi?c=in&UF=387449&UN=484095&DG=STMD -
re: Channel 4 and the "Swindle" - you'd have to wonder why they - with such a strong background - would put it on at all..
on the business side it seems that Grade's innovation for the total organisation has the channel as its own profit center..
things aint too good on that score and 4 wallows income-wise..
Which suggests that the "Swindle" was a paidfor either as some variation of BigOil's persuasive others, or a politically-minded affiliate..
Further ideas welcome.. wot!
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The IPCC said There is a 90% of certainity behind global warming.
That leaves an area of opposing views that are scientific.
What is this stalinist view that any opposing opinions must be eliminated, along with those who do so ( and their families ?) and expose who is behind them for good measure.
Norman, Micheal Grade has nothing to do with Ch4 since the mid 90s.
He was previously Chairman of the BBC and is now executive Chairman of ITV.
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