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Tuesday, December 19, 2006AO-HellThis has been around for a while, but I'd like to share anyway. This guy had some issues when trying to cancel his AOL account. This version lets you hear more of the conversation that was edited from the above video link. posted @ 02:36 PM CDT [link] Monday, December 18, 2006What A Fight!Leaving your starters in late in the game with a 19 point lead is a poor reason for starting this fracas at the Knicks vs Nuggets game. It is almost absurd to even suggest it. Talk about poor losers! As you can see, the Nuggets didn't take the foul too well. The video reminded me of watching a bunch of kids in a street brawl. I think in addition to the suspensions that are sure to follow, there should be some hefty fines. Don't they earn enough money to not act like schoolyard kids? posted @ 12:32 AM CDT [link] Thursday, December 7, 2006Global Warming And Its KeepersHere is an article on the overwhelming media bias when it comes to global warming. http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=77195 The text of the article is found below. ----------------------------------------- To: National Desk Contact: Sean Tuffnell of the National Center for Policy Analysis, 972-308-6481 or sean.tuffnell@ncpa.org WASHINGTON, Dec. 6 /U.S. Newswire/ -- David Deming, an associate professor at the University of Oklahoma and an adjunct scholar with the National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA), testified this morning at a special hearing of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. The hearing examined climate change and the media. Bellow are excerpts from his prepared remarks. "In 1995, I published a short paper in the academic journal Science. In that study, I reviewed how borehole temperature data recorded a warming of about one degree Celsius in North America over the last 100 to 150 years. The week the article appeared, I was contacted by a reporter for National Public Radio. He offered to interview me, but only if I would state that the warming was due to human activity. When I refused to do so, he hung up on me. "I had another interesting experience around the time my paper in Science was published. I received an astonishing email from a major researcher in the area of climate change. He said, "We have to get rid of the Medieval Warm Period." "The Medieval Warm Period (MWP) was a time of unusually warm weather that began around 1000 AD and persisted until a cold period known as the "Little Ice Age" took hold in the 14th century. ... The existence of the MWP had been recognized in the scientific literature for decades. But now it was a major embarrassment to those maintaining that the 20th century warming was truly anomalous. It had to be "gotten rid of." "In 1999, Michael Mann and his colleagues published a reconstruction of past temperature in which the MWP simply vanished. This unique estimate became known as the "hockey stick," because of the shape of the temperature graph. "Normally in science, when you have a novel result that appears to overturn previous work, you have to demonstrate why the earlier work was wrong. But the work of Mann and his colleagues was initially accepted uncritically, even though it contradicted the results of more than 100 previous studies. Other researchers have since reaffirmed that the Medieval Warm Period was both warm and global in its extent. "There is an overwhelming bias today in the media regarding the issue of global warming. In the past two years, this bias has bloomed into an irrational hysteria. Every natural disaster that occurs is now linked with global warming, no matter how tenuous or impossible the connection. As a result, the public has become vastly misinformed." --- The NCPA is an internationally known nonprofit, nonpartisan research institute with offices in Dallas and Washington, D. C. that advocates private solutions to public policy problems. NCPA depends on the contributions of individuals, corporations and foundations that share our mission. The NCPA accepts no government grants. http://www.usnewswire.com/ posted @ 09:46 AM CDT [link] Friday, December 1, 2006Wind, Snow, And More WindWe got tons of wind and just a light dusting of snow. Far less, that they originally predicted. Looks like a bit of a warm front raced up this way and kept the really bad ice and snow just west of here around Champaign. We just have to deal with thge 40mph winds blowing around everywhere. posted @ 11:26 AM CDT [link] |
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