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Climate Change Fraud?

The servers at the Hadley Climatic Research Unit have been hacked, and e-mails and other documents have been taken and spread liberally around the Internet.  Why is this interesting, well, because they show what looks like some pretty damning evidence of data manipulation to make the case for global warming. 

Sample from one Phil Jones, talking about the fact that rather than increase as predicted, global temperatures have actually declined in thelast few years.

"I’ve just completed Mike’s Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (ie from 1981 onwards) amd from 1961 for Keith’s to hide the decline."  

Read more about the significance of this here .

Well, the issue with this is, in the midst of a huge economic dislocation, potential huge problems with the resource overstretch on the Earth, with overpopulation and resource depletion, and these knaves are trying to make us destroy industries, and launch some of the greatest effort misallocations in history to solve a problem that may not even exist outside of their seemingly less than open and trustworthy efforts.

Cardboardspaceship.com

Brimming with delusions of adequacy here at the spaceship, as I have finally moved my typepad blog to the domain name cardboardspaceship.com.  Adjust your bookmarks if you please. 

(And please can I have a kilo of what whoever designed the advanced DNA Name server System was smoking.)

Also as a result blogging has been a bit light, as I had to wait for the DNS name servers to resolve, which takes a while.  (I left four days to be on the safe side.)

Fred on Everything, Despairs of Everything...

Well, Fred on Everything, a man who is a former writer for Rolling Stone, Soldier of Fortune, and others, is in despair.  Succumbing to despair is normal in Human Life, and I wish him a speedy recovery.  If said recovery also gives him some relief from being what the Southerners would call being a killing gentleman, then so much the better, but he is insightful, if not politically correct.

Situational Awareness

Also dropped Scobleizer from my blog roll (Like that's going to affect his stats...)  If I recall a quote about some TV presenter in the UK, "he forgot that local television made him, and not the other way round."  A likable guy in an interesting environment is good to watch, but you need both, sorry.  The inside of a start up just does not carry the same weight.

Having said that, I hope that he does well with what he is doing, but it is not compulsive viewing in the same way, to me at least.  It's kinda like watching the lion tamer without the lion.

A Game for all the Family...

My father wrote to me again to take the lid off of the latest Newlands blog / site which is Wildlife Camera, which as the title suggests is about Nature, and some thoughts on wildlife and travel.  Difference being that my father has an archive as long as a goodly arm, both of his own nature photography, and extensive travel articles written over a long and successful career as a travel writer.  He is joined in this endeavour by the Child Bride, who is my step-mother, and a successful writer and technologist in her own right. 

Their bio sums it up rather neatly. 

"Willy Newlands and Dorothy Walker focus on the living world in Wildlife Camera. Willy is an author, columnist in The Field, one-time Travel Editor of the Daily Mail and has twice been voted Travel Writer of the Year. He holds a Churchill Fellowship in wildlife management. Dorothy (his wife) is also a freelance  writer, holder of the title Technology Writer of the Year."

So, if you like nature, wildlife, photography and so on, then this is one for you.  Which is rather a shameless plug for a family member, but then the site is looking very good so far.   

Foot in Mouth about Blogs in Germany

Some Advertising Bloke in Germany with the job of cheering people up sufficiently that they spend some money, or at least decide to breed a little, has dismissed the musings of weblogs as the "toilet walls of the Internet."

I think that that puts him in the naysayers camp then?