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Green Police Video Mash-Up… Welll, You Knew This Was Coming, Didn’t You?

A new video, featuring Al Gore as the Green Police Commissioner!!!

Climategate – How To Establish Consensus In Climate Science.

The following was posted by Bishop Hil:
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While perusing some of the review comments to the IPCC’s Fourth Assessment Report, I came across the contributions of Andrew Lacis, a colleague of James Hansen’s at GISS. Lacis’s is not a name I’ve come across before but some of what he has to say about Chapter 9 of the IPCC’s report is simply breathtaking.

Chapter 9 is possibly the most important one in the whole IPCC report – it’s the one where they decide that global warming is manmade. This is the one where the headlines are made.

Remember, this guy is mainstream, not a sceptic, and you may need to remind yourself of that fact several times as you read through his comment on the executive summary of the chapter:

There is no scientific merit to be found in the Executive Summary. The presentation sounds like something put together by Greenpeace activists and their legal department. The points being made are made arbitrarily with legal sounding caveats without having established any foundation or basis in fact. The Executive Summary seems to be a political statement that is only designed to annoy greenhouse skeptics. Wasn’t the IPCC Assessment Report intended to be a scientific document that would merit solid backing from the climate science community – instead of forcing many climate scientists into having to agree with greenhouse skeptic criticisms that this is indeed a report with a clear and obvious political agenda. Attribution can not happen until understanding has been clearly demonstrated. Once the facts of climate change have been established and understood, attribution will become self-evident to all. The Executive Summary as it stands is beyond redemption and should simply be deleted.

I’m speechless. The chapter authors, however weren’t. This was their reply (all of it):

Rejected. [Executive Summary] summarizes Ch 9, which is based on the peer reviewed literature.

Simply astonishing. This is a consensus?
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Bishop, in Climate Science…. Yes. This IS consensus. In Climate Science, “peer reviewed” means that the literature is reviewed, but if it doesn’t conform to the political consensus, then it’s rejected, even if it’s right.

PS. If you have no idea what is happening with the IPCC, this is a good place to start. Also try this, it ends funny.

Hat Tip: WUWT

Best / Scariest Super Bowl Ad…. UPDATE

Hey, before it was revealed to be an ad for Audi, I thought it was a promo for California. They pretty much already arrest you for having plastic bags in San Francisco.

PS. There are more follow-up commercials. Again, they smack of California.

UPDATE:

News headline confirms my analysis:

Why the “Green Police” Is So San Francisco
Audi car commercial “hits home” for Gavin Newsom and other city dwellers

Fresno In The News – Chico, Eat Your Heart Out!

We’re the drunkest city in the United States!!!!

Headlines We’d Like To See – Illinois Dem Favored To Win After Arrest History Surfaces

CHICAGO – A political newcomer who won the Democratic nomination for Illinois lieutenant governor said he has no intention of leaving the race after details emerged about his arrest for allegedly holding a knife to his former girlfriend’s throat, noting that his poll numbers have been climbing steadily since the details of his arrest hit the press.

Scott Lee Cohen struck a defiant tone as running mate Gov. Pat Quinn predicted they were sure to win the race.  “There are questions, and I will provide all answers honestly and openly,” Cohen said in a statement Thursday.

Cohen was arrested on domestic battery charges in 2005, accused of pushing his then-girlfriend’s head against a wall and of the knife incident. The police report noted abrasions on her neck and hand, but charges were dropped after she failed to appear in court.

Arrest for prostitution
Police records show the woman had been arrested for prostitution, the Chicago Tribune reported. Cohen said he did not know that at the time. He told WTTW-TV that he met her at a “massage therapy place” and believed she was a masseuse. Cohen denied hitting her and said their relationship was “tumultuous.”

Cohen said he has asked her and his ex-wife, Debbie Cohen York, to clear the air. York sought an order of protection against Cohen in 2005 as she filed for divorce. She said his violence was fueled by anabolic steroids.

Cohen acknowledged his past steroid use but denied abusing York.

“I never touched her, I never touched any woman,” he told WLS-TV late Thursday. “That’s not my style, that’s not me.”

York stood by her allegations but said Cohen had changed.

“At the time, he was going through a different phase,” she said. “He was a different person than he is now.”

Cohen, a pawnbroker and owner of a cleaning supplies company, shocked the political establishment by beating four state lawmakers to nab the Democratic nomination with 26 percent of the vote. He gained strong name recognition with advertising that featured people who said they found jobs at employment fairs he organized. Thus, he is following Chicago native Barrack Obama’s footsteps into politics by way of community organizing.

Source Article – Here.

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Question Of The Day – What happens when you take a bunch of H2O water gas and Vander Waals forces condense it into a liquid?

Answer – Why, you get tornadoes and hurricanes you silly goose!

Jeff Id translates research that explains how tornadoes and hurricanes work into language that even I can understand. That’s no easy feat!