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vrijdag 4 december 2009
woensdag 2 december 2009
Climategate: Caught Green-Handed!
COLD FACTS ABOUT THE HOT TOPIC OF GLOBAL TEMPERATURE CHANGE AFTER THE CLIMATEGATE SCANDAL
SPPI ORIGINAL PAPER ♦ November 30, 2009
Science & Public Policy Institute
WHAT IS TO BE DONE?
In public policy terms, the revelation that the international scientific and political establishment has been inventing, bending, distorting, manipulating, hiding, blocking, and destroying scientific data for the sake of advancing a narrow, extremist, and bitterly anti-Western political viewpoint cannot be safely ignored.
Climate science is too important to be left to politicized scientists, just as climate politics is too important to be left to unscientific politicians.
The first step is to close the Climate Research Unit (and perhaps the University of East Anglia with it), to dismiss all of its personnel, and not to allow any of them to be funded by taxpayers ever again. Scientific fraud and corruption on the scale that has now been revealed must be firmly rooted out and prevented from recurring.
Those responsible for the deliberate blocking, altering, concealing, or destroying of scientific data must be put on trial – to use James Hansen’s term – for “high crimes against humanity”. For it is on the word of crooks and racketeers such as these that, in the name of addressing the non-problem that they had invented and fostered and festered, the Third World has been flung into food riots and mass starvation by the doubling of world food prices that followed the biofuel scam that the “global-warming” profiteers invented as just one of a bewildering array of boondoggles to enrich themselves at the expense of the little guy, who, as always, suffers when the political elite merely exploit him when it is their duty to serve him.
Let the climate criminals stand trial, and let them be fined for offenses under the Freedom of Information laws, and let them be imprisoned for their fraudulent tampering with scientific data, and for their suppression of results uncongenial to their politicized viewpoint, and for the sheer venom with which they have publicly as well as privately denigrated all those scientists with whom they disagreed, and for the insouciance with which they interfered with editors of scientific journals and with the process of the UN’s climate panel itself.
Once the fraudsters on both sides of the Atlantic have been locked up and cleared from the field, it will be essential to obtain a reliable indication of how temperatures are really changing worldwide. For the oceans, this necessary step has already been taken. The 3319 automated bathythermograph buoys of the ARGO project, deployed throughout the world’s oceans since 2003, have for the first time provided a reasonably accurate profile of temperature change in the climate-relevant upper mile of the ocean surface. They have shown that, throughout their period of operation, there has been no net accumulation of heat-energy in the world’s oceans. None whatsoever.
The analysis has recently been extended backward for 68 years by Douglass and Knox (2009), who find that there has been no accumulation of heat-energy in the oceans for 68 years. This conclusion, like the results from the ARGO buoys, is fatal to the official (and now discredited) notion that a very small increase in the atmospheric concentration of CO2 will engender a very large warming.
Might an analysis of land surface temperatures produce a similarly uncongenial result for the world’s classe politique, mesmerized as it is by the prospect of vastly increasing its own wealth and power by setting up an unelected world government with massive powers to tax, regulate, interfere, shut down free markets, and cancel patent and intellectual property rights, and all in the name of saving us from ourselves?
One of the thousands of emails released by the heroic whistleblower suggests that the answer to this question is Yes. One Team member recently wrote to his conspirators to point out that land temperatures had risen twice as fast as ocean temperatures, a fact which, he said, would be seized upon by skeptics who would point out that the Climate Research Unit, like GISS/NCDC, had failed to make sufficient allowance for the “urban heat-island effect” – the increasing industrialization that has surrounded once-rural temperature stations with tarmac and industry and the direct and indirect output of heat that they bring.
Manifestly, something must now be done to put right the damage that has been done to climate science by the malevolent and incompetent antics of the Team.
First, there is now a need for a standardized, international network of properly-sited, modern, automated land temperature monitoring stations, reporting by satellite so that the data are immediately available to all. The aim should be to equal the reliability and public accessibility of the ARGO bathythermographs that have been deployed for the past six years in the oceans.
Until this standardized network has been installed worldwide, calibrated, and declared operational, all terrestrial and satellite temperature records should be regarded with profound suspicion, and no public policy – particularly any policy that menaces the freedom, democracy, and prosperity of the West – should be founded upon them.
Secondly, all those whose emails have demonstrated that they have acted maliciously and in bad faith – even those whose conduct stopped short of being actually criminal – should be dismissed from every publicly-funded scientific post, and should be permanently debarred from participating in any international scientific endeavour, including the UN’s climate panel. On grounds of its sheer nastiness alone, the Team should be disbanded forthwith and for aye, never to trouble humankind again.
Thirdly, all public policy measures to address what is now known to be the manufactured non-problem of “global warming” should be put on hold forthwith, and no further public policy measures should be instituted at any future time, unless and until global mean surface temperature, as properly and independently measured by the new methods recommended here, shall have risen by at least 1 C° (2 F°) compared with temperature in the year 2000.
Fourthly, all “global-warming” profiteers who are making money out of carbon-trading or “green investment” or UN climate boondoggles of whatever kind should be warned, and clearly warned, that now that the basis for their profitable activities is known to be hollow and fraudulent, they themselves will be indicted, prosecuted, and jailed for fraud, and their profits confiscated as the fruits of money-laundering, if in future they participate in any fostering or furthering or promoting of the lies, damned lies, and bogus statistics that have now shown the entire “global warming” theory to be nothing more than a scam.
We end this paper on temperature trends with the following quotation from Dwight D. Eisenhower’s farewell address to the nation as President of the United States –
SPPI ORIGINAL PAPER ♦ November 30, 2009
Science & Public Policy Institute
WHAT IS TO BE DONE?
In public policy terms, the revelation that the international scientific and political establishment has been inventing, bending, distorting, manipulating, hiding, blocking, and destroying scientific data for the sake of advancing a narrow, extremist, and bitterly anti-Western political viewpoint cannot be safely ignored.
Climate science is too important to be left to politicized scientists, just as climate politics is too important to be left to unscientific politicians.
The first step is to close the Climate Research Unit (and perhaps the University of East Anglia with it), to dismiss all of its personnel, and not to allow any of them to be funded by taxpayers ever again. Scientific fraud and corruption on the scale that has now been revealed must be firmly rooted out and prevented from recurring.
Those responsible for the deliberate blocking, altering, concealing, or destroying of scientific data must be put on trial – to use James Hansen’s term – for “high crimes against humanity”. For it is on the word of crooks and racketeers such as these that, in the name of addressing the non-problem that they had invented and fostered and festered, the Third World has been flung into food riots and mass starvation by the doubling of world food prices that followed the biofuel scam that the “global-warming” profiteers invented as just one of a bewildering array of boondoggles to enrich themselves at the expense of the little guy, who, as always, suffers when the political elite merely exploit him when it is their duty to serve him.
Let the climate criminals stand trial, and let them be fined for offenses under the Freedom of Information laws, and let them be imprisoned for their fraudulent tampering with scientific data, and for their suppression of results uncongenial to their politicized viewpoint, and for the sheer venom with which they have publicly as well as privately denigrated all those scientists with whom they disagreed, and for the insouciance with which they interfered with editors of scientific journals and with the process of the UN’s climate panel itself.
Once the fraudsters on both sides of the Atlantic have been locked up and cleared from the field, it will be essential to obtain a reliable indication of how temperatures are really changing worldwide. For the oceans, this necessary step has already been taken. The 3319 automated bathythermograph buoys of the ARGO project, deployed throughout the world’s oceans since 2003, have for the first time provided a reasonably accurate profile of temperature change in the climate-relevant upper mile of the ocean surface. They have shown that, throughout their period of operation, there has been no net accumulation of heat-energy in the world’s oceans. None whatsoever.
The analysis has recently been extended backward for 68 years by Douglass and Knox (2009), who find that there has been no accumulation of heat-energy in the oceans for 68 years. This conclusion, like the results from the ARGO buoys, is fatal to the official (and now discredited) notion that a very small increase in the atmospheric concentration of CO2 will engender a very large warming.
Might an analysis of land surface temperatures produce a similarly uncongenial result for the world’s classe politique, mesmerized as it is by the prospect of vastly increasing its own wealth and power by setting up an unelected world government with massive powers to tax, regulate, interfere, shut down free markets, and cancel patent and intellectual property rights, and all in the name of saving us from ourselves?
One of the thousands of emails released by the heroic whistleblower suggests that the answer to this question is Yes. One Team member recently wrote to his conspirators to point out that land temperatures had risen twice as fast as ocean temperatures, a fact which, he said, would be seized upon by skeptics who would point out that the Climate Research Unit, like GISS/NCDC, had failed to make sufficient allowance for the “urban heat-island effect” – the increasing industrialization that has surrounded once-rural temperature stations with tarmac and industry and the direct and indirect output of heat that they bring.
Manifestly, something must now be done to put right the damage that has been done to climate science by the malevolent and incompetent antics of the Team.
First, there is now a need for a standardized, international network of properly-sited, modern, automated land temperature monitoring stations, reporting by satellite so that the data are immediately available to all. The aim should be to equal the reliability and public accessibility of the ARGO bathythermographs that have been deployed for the past six years in the oceans.
Until this standardized network has been installed worldwide, calibrated, and declared operational, all terrestrial and satellite temperature records should be regarded with profound suspicion, and no public policy – particularly any policy that menaces the freedom, democracy, and prosperity of the West – should be founded upon them.
Secondly, all those whose emails have demonstrated that they have acted maliciously and in bad faith – even those whose conduct stopped short of being actually criminal – should be dismissed from every publicly-funded scientific post, and should be permanently debarred from participating in any international scientific endeavour, including the UN’s climate panel. On grounds of its sheer nastiness alone, the Team should be disbanded forthwith and for aye, never to trouble humankind again.
Thirdly, all public policy measures to address what is now known to be the manufactured non-problem of “global warming” should be put on hold forthwith, and no further public policy measures should be instituted at any future time, unless and until global mean surface temperature, as properly and independently measured by the new methods recommended here, shall have risen by at least 1 C° (2 F°) compared with temperature in the year 2000.
Fourthly, all “global-warming” profiteers who are making money out of carbon-trading or “green investment” or UN climate boondoggles of whatever kind should be warned, and clearly warned, that now that the basis for their profitable activities is known to be hollow and fraudulent, they themselves will be indicted, prosecuted, and jailed for fraud, and their profits confiscated as the fruits of money-laundering, if in future they participate in any fostering or furthering or promoting of the lies, damned lies, and bogus statistics that have now shown the entire “global warming” theory to be nothing more than a scam.
We end this paper on temperature trends with the following quotation from Dwight D. Eisenhower’s farewell address to the nation as President of the United States –
“Public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite ... The prospect of domination of the nation’s scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present – and is gravely to be regarded.”Amen to that.
dinsdag 1 december 2009
Sociale kosten van migratie in Europa (6)
E.J. BRON - 30 NOVEMBER 2009
”Wat de islamitische migratie Europa kost – Een afrekening met een mythe” heet een essay van Michael Mannheimer. Het gaat hierbij om het waarschijnlijk meest omvangrijke journalistieke onderzoek m.b.t. het onderwerp hoeveel de islamitische migratie Europa kost. Dit is het zesde deel van een serie artikelen, waarin de kosten van migratie in Europa onder de loep worden genomen. Het onderstaande artikel is het 2e deel van drie delen waarin Italië als voorbeeld wordt genomen.
(Deel 1, 2, 3, 4 en 5 werden door ondergetekende op respectievelijk 7, 8, 11, 14 en 29 november op HVV geplaatst, zie de links onder het artikel).
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”Wat de islamitische migratie Europa kost – Een afrekening met een mythe” heet een essay van Michael Mannheimer. Het gaat hierbij om het waarschijnlijk meest omvangrijke journalistieke onderzoek m.b.t. het onderwerp hoeveel de islamitische migratie Europa kost. Dit is het zesde deel van een serie artikelen, waarin de kosten van migratie in Europa onder de loep worden genomen. Het onderstaande artikel is het 2e deel van drie delen waarin Italië als voorbeeld wordt genomen.
(Deel 1, 2, 3, 4 en 5 werden door ondergetekende op respectievelijk 7, 8, 11, 14 en 29 november op HVV geplaatst, zie de links onder het artikel).
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maandag 30 november 2009
450 Peer-Reviewed Papers Supporting Skepticism of "Man-Made" Global Warming
From Popular Technology:
See the list at:Popular Technology
The following papers support skepticism of "man-made" global warming or the environmental or economic effects of. Comments, Corrections, Erratum, Replies, Responses and Submitted papers are not included in the peer-reviewed paper count. There are many more listings than just the 450 papers. The inclusion of a paper in this list does not imply a specific position to any of the authors. This list will be updated and corrected as necessary.
See the list at:Popular Technology
Sociale kosten van migratie in Europa (5)
E.J. BRON - 29 NOVEMBER 2009
”Wat de islamitische migratie Europa kost – Een afrekening met een mythe” heet een essay van Michael Mannheimer. Het gaat hierbij om het waarschijnlijk meest omvangrijke journalistieke onderzoek m.b.t. het onderwerp hoeveel de islamitische migratie Europa kost. Dit is het vijfde deel van een serie artikelen, waarin de kosten van migratie in Europa onder de loep worden genomen. Het onderstaande artikel is het eerste deel van drie delen waarin Italië als voorbeeld wordt genomen.
(Deel 1, 2, 3 en 4 werden door ondergetekende op respectievelijk 7, 8, 11 en 14 november op HVV geplaatst, zie de links onderaan het artikel).
Voorbeeld Italië
Archief Het Vrije Volk
”Wat de islamitische migratie Europa kost – Een afrekening met een mythe” heet een essay van Michael Mannheimer. Het gaat hierbij om het waarschijnlijk meest omvangrijke journalistieke onderzoek m.b.t. het onderwerp hoeveel de islamitische migratie Europa kost. Dit is het vijfde deel van een serie artikelen, waarin de kosten van migratie in Europa onder de loep worden genomen. Het onderstaande artikel is het eerste deel van drie delen waarin Italië als voorbeeld wordt genomen.
(Deel 1, 2, 3 en 4 werden door ondergetekende op respectievelijk 7, 8, 11 en 14 november op HVV geplaatst, zie de links onderaan het artikel).
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The Dog Ate My Tree Rings
Mark Steyn
The most obvious thing that strikes anyone wading through the CRU documents is how easy it was for a small number of "experts" to propel their data-raped conclusions first into a "peer-reviewed" "consensus" and then up through western governments into the international fait accomplis of Kyoto, the IPCC and now Copenhagen. I initially assumed stuff like this was just a bit of naked obstructionism toward a few troublemakers:
But no, it was systemic. National Review Online
The most obvious thing that strikes anyone wading through the CRU documents is how easy it was for a small number of "experts" to propel their data-raped conclusions first into a "peer-reviewed" "consensus" and then up through western governments into the international fait accomplis of Kyoto, the IPCC and now Copenhagen. I initially assumed stuff like this was just a bit of naked obstructionism toward a few troublemakers:
I find it hard to believe that the British Antarctic Survey would permit the deletion of relevant files for two recent publications or that there aren't any backups for the deleted data on institutional servers.
But no, it was systemic. National Review Online
vrijdag 27 november 2009
Nog meer klimaatfraude? Deel II
Hé, kijk eens aan, NIWA volgt in de voetstappen van CRU. Hoe verrassend.
Terwijl Phil Jones van CRU onlangs beweerde dat de door zijn organisatie verzamelde temperatuurgegevens waren "vernietigd" of "verloren gegaan", zegt David Wratt van NIWA gewoon dat hij niet van plan is die data vrij te geven. TBR.cc
Een korte samenvatting van het persbericht van NIWA:
- De opwarming van Nieuw Zeeland is onmiskenbaar.
- We gebruiken internationaal geaccepteerde technieken voor onze analyses.
- We hebben het al een keer uitgelegd.
- We zijn vastbesloten stevige informatie te leveren om alle Nieuw Zeelanders te helpen goede beslissingen te nemen.
Hm...
In een telefoongesprek met Investigate zegt David Wratt dat hij van plan is de gegevens betreffende het Kelburn weerstation vrij te geven, maar "dat we niet van plan zijn ons nodeloos druk te maken alleen maar omdat iemand een persbericht heeft laten uitgaan."
De door NIWA vrijgegeven data roepen weer nieuwe vragen op: NIWA's explanation raises major new questions
AGW wordt met de dag minder geloofwaardig.
Terwijl Phil Jones van CRU onlangs beweerde dat de door zijn organisatie verzamelde temperatuurgegevens waren "vernietigd" of "verloren gegaan", zegt David Wratt van NIWA gewoon dat hij niet van plan is die data vrij te geven. TBR.cc
Een korte samenvatting van het persbericht van NIWA:
- De opwarming van Nieuw Zeeland is onmiskenbaar.
- We gebruiken internationaal geaccepteerde technieken voor onze analyses.
- We hebben het al een keer uitgelegd.
- We zijn vastbesloten stevige informatie te leveren om alle Nieuw Zeelanders te helpen goede beslissingen te nemen.
Hm...
In een telefoongesprek met Investigate zegt David Wratt dat hij van plan is de gegevens betreffende het Kelburn weerstation vrij te geven, maar "dat we niet van plan zijn ons nodeloos druk te maken alleen maar omdat iemand een persbericht heeft laten uitgaan."
snipGewoon blijven volhouden dat je cijfers/analyses/methodes/eindresultaten kloppen, maar de basisgegevens lekker onder de pet houden zodat niemand ze echt kan controleren. Precies hetzelfde verhaal als bij CRU, waar onderzoekers nu alleen nog beschikken over gemanipuleerde data, zie The Day The Science Died…
"There’s been a whole lot of work behind this in terms of things like having overlaps between particular stations when they’ve moved. There’s a whole methodology, internationally accepted, where you actually work out how to correct for these sorts of site changes and so on.”
“But you’ll be providing all that shortly?”
“Well, we’re not going to run around in circles just because somebody has put out a press release. We will continue to put out what is reasonable to provide.”
“Wouldn’t it be important –“
“No!”
“…for people to see the comparison studies between both sites?”
“Look, we’re talking about scientific studies here. I’ve told you we’ll put out information about Wellington. Basically it’s not up to us to justify ourselves to a whole lot of people that come out with truly unfounded allegations. We work through the scientific process, we publish stuff through the literature, that’s the way that we deal with this stuff and I can’t have my staff running around in circles over something which is not a justified allegation. The fact that the Climate Science Coalition are making allegations about my staff who have the utmost integrity really really pisses me off.
“That’s all I’ve got to say to you now – [click]”
De door NIWA vrijgegeven data roepen weer nieuwe vragen op: NIWA's explanation raises major new questions
AGW wordt met de dag minder geloofwaardig.
donderdag 26 november 2009
Climategate: how they all squirmed
By James Delingpole
Among the many great amusements of the Climategate scandal are the myriad imaginative excuses being offered by the implicated scientists and their friends in the MSM as to why this isn’t a significant story. Here are some of the best:
Most Unexpectedly Honourable Response: The Guardian’s eco-columnist George Monbiot
Say what you like about the Great Moonbat, the heliophobic Old Stoic is the ONLY member of the Climate-Fear-Promotion camp to have delivered a proper apology.
Telegraph.co.uk
Among the many great amusements of the Climategate scandal are the myriad imaginative excuses being offered by the implicated scientists and their friends in the MSM as to why this isn’t a significant story. Here are some of the best:
Most Unexpectedly Honourable Response: The Guardian’s eco-columnist George Monbiot
Say what you like about the Great Moonbat, the heliophobic Old Stoic is the ONLY member of the Climate-Fear-Promotion camp to have delivered a proper apology.
I apologise. I was too trusting of some of those who provided the evidence I championed. I would have been a better journalist if I had investigated their claims more closely.
Telegraph.co.uk
Nog meer klimaatfraude?
NIWA, het belangrijkste adviesorgaan met betrekking tot het klimaat van de regering van Nieuw Zeeland, ligt onder vuur wegens het manipuleren van onderzoeksgegevens teneinde een niet bestaande opwarming van de aarde aan te tonen.
De tekst onder de foto:
Een analyse van de onaangepaste gegevens van dezelfde meetstations heeft echter tot een heel ander resultaat geleid:
+minus+1971-2000+normal.bmp)
Uit de cijfers is gebleken dat de gemeten temperaturen van de meetstations zonder aanwijsbare reden zijn "aangepast": de oudste gegevens werden naar beneden bijgesteld, terwijl de meer recente gegevens juist omhoog werden gekrikt.
NIWA's David Wratt ontkent dat zijn organistatie de gegevens heeft vervalst en zegt dat NIWA werkt aan een persbericht.
Lees: Uh, oh – raw data in New Zealand tells a different story than the “official” one.
De tekst onder de foto:
From NIWA’s web site — Figure 7: Mean annual temperature over New Zealand, from 1853 to 2008 inclusive, based on between 2 (from 1853) and 7 (from 1908) long-term station records. The blue and red bars show annual differences from the 1971 – 2000 average, the solid black line is a smoothed time series, and the dotted [straight] line is the linear trend over 1909 to 2008 (0.92°C/100 years).
Een analyse van de onaangepaste gegevens van dezelfde meetstations heeft echter tot een heel ander resultaat geleid:
+minus+1971-2000+normal.bmp)
Uit de cijfers is gebleken dat de gemeten temperaturen van de meetstations zonder aanwijsbare reden zijn "aangepast": de oudste gegevens werden naar beneden bijgesteld, terwijl de meer recente gegevens juist omhoog werden gekrikt.
NIWA's David Wratt ontkent dat zijn organistatie de gegevens heeft vervalst en zegt dat NIWA werkt aan een persbericht.
Lees: Uh, oh – raw data in New Zealand tells a different story than the “official” one.
dinsdag 24 november 2009
Tien keer nee tegen Turkije
dinsdag 17 november 2009
Geert Wilders geeft tien argumenten tegen de toetreding van Turkije tot de Europese Unie. ‘Laten we het Turkse paard van Troje nooit binnenhalen.’
Geert Wilders geeft tien argumenten tegen de toetreding van Turkije tot de Europese Unie. ‘Laten we het Turkse paard van Troje nooit binnenhalen.’
Begin januari ga ik naar Turkije als lid van een delegatie van de Tweede Kamercommissie Europese Zaken. Mijn eerste bezoek aan een islamitisch land sinds het uitkomen van Fitna, ruim anderhalf jaar geleden.Zie: website PVV
De afgelopen dagen heb ik veel e-mails ontvangen: ‘Meneer Wilders, ga alstublieft niet. Ze vermoorden u daar of leveren u uit aan Jordanië.’ Ik ga ervan uit dat mijn beveiliging afdoende geregeld wordt en dat de minister van Buitenlandse Zaken Maxime Verhagen – zoals hij vaker doet als ik naar het buitenland ga – garanties aan de Turkse regering vraagt en krijgt dat ik niet zal worden uitgeleverd.
Waarom ga ik naar Turkije? Omdat ik het als volksvertegenwoordiger en politiek leider van de virtueel grootste partij van Nederland niet meer dan behoorlijk vind om de Turken recht in hun gezicht te vertellen waarom ze wat ons betreft nooit lid mogen worden van de EU. Waarom voor de PVV het adagium geldt: Turkije erin, Nederland eruit!
Climategate: Violating the Social Contract of Science
The scientific method only works when fellow researchers can implicitly trust the results offered by their colleagues.
November 22, 2009 - by Charlie Martin
On November 19, 2009, climate science was severely shaken by the release of a collection of email messages, together with a collection of data and data processing programs, that were alleged to have been stolen, or hacked, from the University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit (CRU). (See here and here for previous Pajamas Media coverage.)
So what is this “climate science” of which we speak? Trimmed down to the essentials, what scientists really do comes down to these steps:
Step 4, peer review, is essential to this whole process.
Pajamas Media
November 22, 2009 - by Charlie Martin
On November 19, 2009, climate science was severely shaken by the release of a collection of email messages, together with a collection of data and data processing programs, that were alleged to have been stolen, or hacked, from the University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit (CRU). (See here and here for previous Pajamas Media coverage.)
So what is this “climate science” of which we speak? Trimmed down to the essentials, what scientists really do comes down to these steps:
1.Look at something happening.
2.Think of a way to explain what’s happening.
3.Make a convincing case, based on evidence and experiment, that this is the best known explanation. Part of this “convincing case” is providing enough information so that a knowledgeable person could, if necessary, perform the same experiments and get the same results. (This should really include some weasel-wording about “within experimental error,” but that’s a technical detail. What’s important is that the knowledgeable third party can get close enough to the same results to satisfy that third part.)
4.Submit that convincing case to other knowledgeable people to review, in order to see if they also find it convincing. This is what is called peer review.
5.Publish that convincing case for the rest of the world, where the results can be seen, commented upon, and challenged.
6.Every so often, others perform the same experiments and confirm or question the results.
Step 4, peer review, is essential to this whole process.
Pajamas Media
Het Counterjihad-manifest
E.J. BRON - 22 NOVEMBER 2009
Sinds zijn oprichting 1400 jaar geleden voert de islam oorlog tegen het westen. Moslims in de hele wereld beschouwen zichzelf altijd nog als in oorlog met niet-moslims. Dat is zo, omdat wij hier volgens de islamitische leer het ”Huis van de Oorlog”, het Dar al-Harb zijn. In het westen hebben we het verdrongen dat deze oorlog überhaupt bestaat. Wij worden intussen onderworpen aan de illusie, dat de islam een hele normale religie zou zijn net als vele andere, zoals het Jodendom, het christendom, het Hindoeïsme en het Boeddhisme.
Ongelukkig genoeg gaat het bij de islam echter om een totalitaire politieke machtsideologie, die onder het mom van een primitieve woestijnreligie suikerzoet haar ware karakter versluiert. Het is het openlijk verklaarde doel van de islamitische theologie, en ook van de politieke ideologie islam, om de hele wereld onder islamitische heerschappij te plaatsen en deze zo tot het Dar al-Islam, tot het ”Huis van de Onderwerping” te maken.
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Sinds zijn oprichting 1400 jaar geleden voert de islam oorlog tegen het westen. Moslims in de hele wereld beschouwen zichzelf altijd nog als in oorlog met niet-moslims. Dat is zo, omdat wij hier volgens de islamitische leer het ”Huis van de Oorlog”, het Dar al-Harb zijn. In het westen hebben we het verdrongen dat deze oorlog überhaupt bestaat. Wij worden intussen onderworpen aan de illusie, dat de islam een hele normale religie zou zijn net als vele andere, zoals het Jodendom, het christendom, het Hindoeïsme en het Boeddhisme.
Ongelukkig genoeg gaat het bij de islam echter om een totalitaire politieke machtsideologie, die onder het mom van een primitieve woestijnreligie suikerzoet haar ware karakter versluiert. Het is het openlijk verklaarde doel van de islamitische theologie, en ook van de politieke ideologie islam, om de hele wereld onder islamitische heerschappij te plaatsen en deze zo tot het Dar al-Islam, tot het ”Huis van de Onderwerping” te maken.
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zondag 22 november 2009
Global WarmingGate: What Does It Mean?
Just one of the scandals is the willingness to manipulate data to make a political case.
November 22, 2009 - by Charlie Martin
Late on the night of of November 19, news broke on PJM and elsewhere that a large amount of data had been stolen from one of the major climate research institutions by an unknown hacker and made available on the Internet. The institution is the University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit, home institution for Dr Phil Jones and one of the world’s centers of research into anthropogenic global warming (AGW), or “climate change.”
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November 22, 2009 - by Charlie Martin
Late on the night of of November 19, news broke on PJM and elsewhere that a large amount of data had been stolen from one of the major climate research institutions by an unknown hacker and made available on the Internet. The institution is the University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit, home institution for Dr Phil Jones and one of the world’s centers of research into anthropogenic global warming (AGW), or “climate change.”
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The emails suggest the authors co-operated covertly to ensure that only papers favorable to CO2-forced AGW were published, and that editors and journals publishing contrary papers were punished. They also attempted to “discipline” scientists and journalists who published skeptical information.
The emails suggest that the authors manipulated and “massaged” the data to strengthen the case in favor of unprecedented CO2-forced AGW, and to suppress their own data if it called AGW into question.
The emails suggest that the authors co-operated (perhaps the word is “conspired”) to prevent data from being made available to other researchers through either data archiving requests or through the Freedom of Information Acts of both the U.S. and the UK.Read the article, including links to the source material at Pajamas Media
'This isn't the Britain we fought for,' say the 'unknown warriors' of WWII
By Tony Rennell
Sarah Robinson was just a teenager when World War II broke out.
She endured the Blitz, watching for fires during Luftwaffe air raids armed with a bucket of sand.
Often she would walk ten miles home from work in the blackout, with bombs falling around her.
As soon as she turned 18, she joined the Royal Navy to do her bit for the war effort.
Hers was a small part in a huge, history-making enterprise, and her contribution epitomises her generation's sense of service and sacrifice.
Nearly 400,000 Britons died. Millions more were scarred by the experience, physically and mentally.
But was it worth it? Her answer - and the answer of many of her contemporaries, now in their 80s and 90s - is a resounding No.
Mail Online
Sarah Robinson was just a teenager when World War II broke out.
She endured the Blitz, watching for fires during Luftwaffe air raids armed with a bucket of sand.
Often she would walk ten miles home from work in the blackout, with bombs falling around her.
As soon as she turned 18, she joined the Royal Navy to do her bit for the war effort.
Hers was a small part in a huge, history-making enterprise, and her contribution epitomises her generation's sense of service and sacrifice.
Nearly 400,000 Britons died. Millions more were scarred by the experience, physically and mentally.
But was it worth it? Her answer - and the answer of many of her contemporaries, now in their 80s and 90s - is a resounding No.
Mail Online
Crime of the Century
CLARK KENT - 22 NOVEMBER 2009
De kraak van het jaar heeft mogelijk de misdaad van de eeuw onthuld: wetenschappers die gegevens vervalsen om een alarmistisch beeld van het klimaat te schetsen en via een een-tweetje met politici de totale oorlog te verklaren aan onze hele manier van leven. Want in de nieuwe Amerikaanse cap-and-trade wet krijgt president Obama dictatoriale bevoegdheden in het geval van een klimatologische noodtoestand, die van kracht wordt bij een CO2-concentratie van 450 ppm.
Kraak van het jaar
Deze week konden we lezen dat een computerkraker een grote hoeveelheid e-mails en andere documenten van de Climate Research Unit van de Universiteit van East Anglia gedownload en openbaar gemaakt heeft. Aanvankelijk werd gemeld dat het om het Hadley Centre zou gaan, maar dat is een ander instituut.
Zie: Archief Het Vrije Volk
De kraak van het jaar heeft mogelijk de misdaad van de eeuw onthuld: wetenschappers die gegevens vervalsen om een alarmistisch beeld van het klimaat te schetsen en via een een-tweetje met politici de totale oorlog te verklaren aan onze hele manier van leven. Want in de nieuwe Amerikaanse cap-and-trade wet krijgt president Obama dictatoriale bevoegdheden in het geval van een klimatologische noodtoestand, die van kracht wordt bij een CO2-concentratie van 450 ppm.
Kraak van het jaar
Deze week konden we lezen dat een computerkraker een grote hoeveelheid e-mails en andere documenten van de Climate Research Unit van de Universiteit van East Anglia gedownload en openbaar gemaakt heeft. Aanvankelijk werd gemeld dat het om het Hadley Centre zou gaan, maar dat is een ander instituut.
Zie: Archief Het Vrije Volk
zaterdag 21 november 2009
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Nidal Hasan and Fort Hood: A Study in Muslim Doctrine (Part 2)
How Hasan put Islamic teachings on jihad, proselytism, and spiritual calmness into action before and during the Fort Hood massacre.
November 19, 2009 - by Raymond Ibrahim
Jihad
Amongst learned infidels, jihad is the most recognized and notorious of all Muslim doctrines. Literally meaning to “struggle” or “strive,” jihad can take on any form, though its most native and praiseworthy expression revolves around fighting, and killing, the infidel enemy — even if it costs the Muslim fighter (the mujahid) his life: “Let those who would exchange the life of this world for the Hereafter fight in the path of Allah; whoever fights in the path of Allah — whether he dies or triumphs — we shall richly reward him” (Koran 4:74). And “Allah has purchased from the faithful their lives and possessions, and in return has promised them the Garden. They will fight in the path of Allah, killing and being killed” (Koran 9:111).
Pajamas Media
November 19, 2009 - by Raymond Ibrahim
Jihad
Amongst learned infidels, jihad is the most recognized and notorious of all Muslim doctrines. Literally meaning to “struggle” or “strive,” jihad can take on any form, though its most native and praiseworthy expression revolves around fighting, and killing, the infidel enemy — even if it costs the Muslim fighter (the mujahid) his life: “Let those who would exchange the life of this world for the Hereafter fight in the path of Allah; whoever fights in the path of Allah — whether he dies or triumphs — we shall richly reward him” (Koran 4:74). And “Allah has purchased from the faithful their lives and possessions, and in return has promised them the Garden. They will fight in the path of Allah, killing and being killed” (Koran 9:111).
Pajamas Media
Nidal Hasan and Fort Hood: A Study in Muslim Doctrine (Part 1)
An in-depth look at the Islamic teachings behind the Fort Hood massacre. First up: Hasan's loyalty to Muslims and deception of infidels.
November 18, 2009 - by Raymond Ibrahim
One of the difficulties in discussing Islam’s more troubling doctrines is that they have an anachronistic, even otherworldly, feel to them; that is, unless actively and openly upheld by Muslims, non-Muslims, particularly of the Western variety, tend to see them as abstract theory, not standard practice for today. In fact, some Westerners have difficulties acknowledging even those problematic doctrines that are openly upheld by Muslims — such as jihad. How much more when the doctrines in question are subtle, or stealthy, in nature?
Pajamas Media
November 18, 2009 - by Raymond Ibrahim
One of the difficulties in discussing Islam’s more troubling doctrines is that they have an anachronistic, even otherworldly, feel to them; that is, unless actively and openly upheld by Muslims, non-Muslims, particularly of the Western variety, tend to see them as abstract theory, not standard practice for today. In fact, some Westerners have difficulties acknowledging even those problematic doctrines that are openly upheld by Muslims — such as jihad. How much more when the doctrines in question are subtle, or stealthy, in nature?
Pajamas Media
vrijdag 20 november 2009
Klimaatcomputer gekraakt; alarmistische compromitterende emails 'op straat'
Een onbekende computerkraker heeft deze week een grote hoeveelheid emails en andere documenten gedownload van de server van de Climate Research Unit van het Britse Hadley Instituut en die nu via het web publiek gemaakt. In de skeptische blogwereld is grote opwinding hierover ontstaan. De betreffende documenten zijn afkomstig van de hoofdrolspelers uit de recente Hockeystick en Yamal-affaires waarbij de Canadees Steve McIntyre aantoonde dat het 'bewijs' dat de temperatuur in de afgelopen decennia spectaculair was gestegen op slecht onderzoek berust, en vooral ook liet zien hoe de wetenschappers een kritische analyse van hun werk frustreerden. Alhoewel de analyse van de vele nu 'vrij'-gekomen documenten nog veel tijd zal vergen levert een eerste blik al diverse voorbeelden van die obstructie op.
De klimatosoof
Zie ook: Michelle Malkin
De klimatosoof
Zie ook: Michelle Malkin
donderdag 19 november 2009
Can We Ban Islam? - Legal Guidelines for the Criminalization of Islam in the United States
Sunday, May 03, 2009
Geert Wilders' recent call at a Palm Beach synagogue to ban Islam has stirred up all sorts of controversy, with more "moderate" blogs speaking out in opposition to it. So let's take a closer look at the issue of banning Islam.
Banning Islam is more difficult in the United States than in Europe, because of the First Amendment.
On the surface of it this is a fairly straightforward formulation barring the legislative branch from taking any action to create a state religion or barring the practice of any religion.
Sultan Knish
Geert Wilders' recent call at a Palm Beach synagogue to ban Islam has stirred up all sorts of controversy, with more "moderate" blogs speaking out in opposition to it. So let's take a closer look at the issue of banning Islam.
Banning Islam is more difficult in the United States than in Europe, because of the First Amendment.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
On the surface of it this is a fairly straightforward formulation barring the legislative branch from taking any action to create a state religion or barring the practice of any religion.
Sultan Knish
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