Posts by Gareth
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This all sounds like an argument for reinforced four poster beds. Opportunity there for someone, perhaps?
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I don't have the link with me right now, but someone analysed the highlighted emails and worked out the search strings used to find them. Whoever did it knew what they were looking for.
I think it was The Guardian. The selection of emails also appears to have been done on a computer with its time zone set to be somewhere in the eastern USA...
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A couple of points regarding the post: To characterise Climate Audit as being a haven free from ad hominem arguments, while painting Real Climate as invective-laden is a travesty. McIntyre is past master at the art of sly digs. Nor is McIntyre a disinterested party making only valid criticisms: the few valid points he has raised have been minor, but blown up out of all proportion by the denialist echo chamber. Canadian blogger Deep Climate has done a very good job of tracking and tracing McIntyre's links with the right wing think-tanks coordinating the campaign to do nothing (here and here). Note that McIntyre coordinated the campaign of FOI requests that caused Phil Jones so much bother, and that the selection of emails to release from the huge number stolen must have been made by someone very familiar with the themes McIntyre promotes assiduously at his blog.
Deep Climate has also shown that the Wegman report (the report commissioned by a Republican-dominated Congressional committee into the "hockey stick") was designed from the outset to boost McIntyre's position. DC has also been able to show that the report plagiarised a textbook on tree ring work, and altered parts of the text to change its meaning. You might fairly describe it as an attempted "blackwash".
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Wishart's been running his Soros/drugs stuff for some time: it's in Air Con (fits nicely with Soros as the evil billionaire socialist driving the global warming scam). But when you follow the footnote trail, it takes you straight to LaRouche, and the British Royal Family's globalisation empire, with Soros as Phil the Greek's hit man.
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The figure Nick Smith is using might not be the cost of reducing emissions, but it is the cost of meeting the target, with emissions reductions both here and overseas.
No. It's a special case in which the economists and Nick Smith (completely unrealistically) ignore the impact of expanding carbon sinks - ie forestry - on the cost of meeting the target. It is thus completely useless as a tool for informing policy decisions.
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Smith is getting less impressive by the day (if that's possible). My pet beef with the Infometrics/NZIER (and Smith), is that they ignore forestry. You know, growing trees and stuff, that compensates for all the emissions growth since 1990... and of couirse we weon't be planting any more at all over the next decade...aaarggghhhh.
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I don't like the "tabs on top". My mouse doesn't expect them to be there... too easy to close one by mistake, but the window overflow cascade is much nicer.
No problems with Mail here, but I'm not running any add-ons/hacks. And it is fast...
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I'd just like to point out that someone from APN is watching this thread closely. There's an APN IP semi-permanently visiting Hot Topic at the moment (according to Statcounter), and they're clicking through from here from time to time. I wonder if they have nothing better to do...?
The intertubes are a wonderful thing, are they not?
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I think it is misguided and bordering on offensive to doubt their views are anything but genuine.
I'm quite sure their views are genuine, and they are perfectly entitled to try to influence public policy. That's their right, and I will defend it. However, what's really offensive is the way that they play fast and loose with the facts in support of their political argument.
Leyland and de Freitas state in their Listener article that "the Arctic ice is back to normal". That is not true. It's not a matter of debate, or interpretation, it's simply not true. I would have expected a magazine with such an exemplary commitment to environmental issues to perhaps know that, and get it corrected before going to print. But they didn't.
In this case, and many others, the CSC twist the facts, distort the truth, and make things up to suit their argument, and no-one in the press seems willing or able to call them on it. I am.
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Sorry, Kim's post is at Hard News...