Well, he'd better figure quickly which set of rules to play by as he caused his previous legal counsel to resign when he insulted Judge Greene. If he ends up representing himself and controls his tongue as poorly as he restrained his pen, he'll soon learn the truth of Henry Kett's observation that the man who acts as his own lawyer has a fool for a client.
I'm sure there are "fair-minded thinkers" who don't believe in AGW - but Mark Steyn is NOT one of them. I don't really give a damn whether he believes in global warming or not but he smeared a scientist purely out of political spite.
A "fair-minded thinker" would have stuck to a scientific critique. Steyn is a polemicist by nature, has been sued before and should be aware that he was straying into deep waters. It's not a foregone conclusion that Steyn will lose, far from it, but it's telling that the National Review refuses to support him.
Don't worry; I'm used to it. After 15 years reading & posting here, there's not much that can faze me. But the climate deniers do seem to have gotten as thick as thieves in the past couple years.
Even so, climate research gets a lot of scrutiny and the work of Mann, Hansen, and the other big names gets seen by a lot of eyeballs, most of them looking for flaws.
There's a lot at stake and anyone who can topple the pillars on which AGW stand is going to be very, very rich & famous.
I'm not one of those guys. Never thought much of Reagan except that he could fool people but didn't cheer when he was shot. As for Buckley, he was smart and had integrity and would be ashamed of the modern American right wing. If you know anything about the man, you'll recall that he took pains to exclude the radicals he deemed unworthy.
The Ayn Rand-lovers, the thinly-disguised white supremacists practising voter suppression, etc - they would have gotten short shrift from him.
I've seen blue screens from almost every version of Windows incl several new-ish machines running Windows 7 & 1 Server 2008 machine. It's much, much, much better than the bad old days but it still happens. And this is on a variety of boxes - some custom-built towers, some brand-name laptops, some server-class gear (mostly Dell PowerEdge & HP Proliant)
They were not immigrants to America, which didn't exist for thousands of years after the indigenous people had settled in the Western hemisphere and has only been in its present form for about a century.
The Nissan Leaf is rated at 34 kWh / 100 miles. Let's raise that to 40 kWh / 100 miles to account for battery aging and lower performance in bad weather. At 300 kWh per month that's 750 miles driven on self-generated electricity or 25 miles per day. That's perfectly reasonable for a great many people.
Because of expensive parking downtown and living in the suburbs, most of my colleagues drive 5-10 miles to a train station and drive a few additional miles once or twice during the week running errands or picking up the kids.
Less than 10% of the 500 people in my office need to drive more than that on a daily basis. There are a few whose one way commute is over 50 miles but they quickly turn find alternatives, e.g. occasional telecommuting, car pooling, intercity bus, etc.
Ohio has a huge manufacturing base built around transportation industries - that requires LOTS of electricity. They're not burning all that coal to support the pig farms.
"The health problems the Chinese are going to have from this stuff is unimaginable"
That ship may have sailed.
A report from 2007 estimated 600,000 deaths annually - http://news.nationalgeographic.... A recent one, that looks at 100 cities puts the tally at 350,000 - 500,000 annually but another that claims to take the entire population into account is claiming over 1 million. http://www.scmp.com/news/china...
That may not mean much in a country over well over a billion people but it's unimaginable to me that so many die from just breathing bad air.
I found that the stock VPN on our Samsung Galaxy S4s didn't work very well with our Cisco IPsec VPN so no one bothered. A trial version of VPNcilla I tested last week did work just fine but I guess we'll wait to see if this gets fixed first.
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Well, he'd better figure quickly which set of rules to play by as he caused his previous legal counsel to resign when he insulted Judge Greene.
If he ends up representing himself and controls his tongue as poorly as he restrained his pen, he'll soon learn the truth of Henry Kett's observation that the man who acts as his own lawyer has a fool for a client.
I'm sure there are "fair-minded thinkers" who don't believe in AGW - but Mark Steyn is NOT one of them.
I don't really give a damn whether he believes in global warming or not but he smeared a scientist purely out of political spite.
A "fair-minded thinker" would have stuck to a scientific critique. Steyn is a polemicist by nature, has been sued before and should be aware that he was straying into deep waters.
It's not a foregone conclusion that Steyn will lose, far from it, but it's telling that the National Review refuses to support him.
Don't worry; I'm used to it. After 15 years reading & posting here, there's not much that can faze me. But the climate deniers do seem to have gotten as thick as thieves in the past couple years.
Even so, climate research gets a lot of scrutiny and the work of Mann, Hansen, and the other big names gets seen by a lot of eyeballs, most of them looking for flaws.
There's a lot at stake and anyone who can topple the pillars on which AGW stand is going to be very, very rich & famous.
For someone who's supposed to be "happy about the trial", he's hiding it well - http://www.steynonline.com/602... - and prefers it be dismissed.
I guess it would depend on why she called him a liar but going to court may not be such a bad thing.
I'm not one of those guys. Never thought much of Reagan except that he could fool people but didn't cheer when he was shot.
As for Buckley, he was smart and had integrity and would be ashamed of the modern American right wing.
If you know anything about the man, you'll recall that he took pains to exclude the radicals he deemed unworthy.
The Ayn Rand-lovers, the thinly-disguised white supremacists practising voter suppression, etc - they would have gotten short shrift from him.
That was Monbiot, not Mann
Try SkepticalScience.com or ClimateCrocks.com
No. This is a site where several prominent & practising climate scientists post.
For example, here's a translated one from Stefan Rahmstorf
By the standards of science, peer-review and SEVEN INVESTIGATIONS.
Are you saying he's deaf, dumb & blind? That's harsh.
I've seen blue screens from almost every version of Windows incl several new-ish machines running Windows 7 & 1 Server 2008 machine. It's much, much, much better than the bad old days but it still happens.
And this is on a variety of boxes - some custom-built towers, some brand-name laptops, some server-class gear (mostly Dell PowerEdge & HP Proliant)
They were not immigrants to America, which didn't exist for thousands of years after the indigenous people had settled in the Western hemisphere and has only been in its present form for about a century.
Hi Mikey!!
Lithium-ion & sodium-sulfur are low-toxicity and some promising forthcoming ones like Sumitomo's low-temp molten-salt battery are equally so.
The Nissan Leaf is rated at 34 kWh / 100 miles. Let's raise that to 40 kWh / 100 miles to account for battery aging and lower performance in bad weather.
At 300 kWh per month that's 750 miles driven on self-generated electricity or 25 miles per day. That's perfectly reasonable for a great many people.
Because of expensive parking downtown and living in the suburbs, most of my colleagues drive 5-10 miles to a train station and drive a few additional miles once or twice during the week running errands or picking up the kids.
Less than 10% of the 500 people in my office need to drive more than that on a daily basis. There are a few whose one way commute is over 50 miles but they quickly turn find alternatives, e.g. occasional telecommuting, car pooling, intercity bus, etc.
Ohio has a huge manufacturing base built around transportation industries - that requires LOTS of electricity. They're not burning all that coal to support the pig farms.
The Canadians have been complaining about transboundary air pollution from the Ohio Valley for a long time. Not sure what's the outcome of that.
"The health problems the Chinese are going to have from this stuff is unimaginable"
That ship may have sailed.
A report from 2007 estimated 600,000 deaths annually - http://news.nationalgeographic....
A recent one, that looks at 100 cities puts the tally at 350,000 - 500,000 annually but another that claims to take the entire population into account is claiming over 1 million.
http://www.scmp.com/news/china...
That may not mean much in a country over well over a billion people but it's unimaginable to me that so many die from just breathing bad air.
Yeah. after all it made the Tea Party into a political force ( with help from some very rich people )
That's what TEH KLOWD is for
So is this the abstract or the 1st draft?
I was wondering how much Linus knows about Conjugated Linoleic Acids.
I found that the stock VPN on our Samsung Galaxy S4s didn't work very well with our Cisco IPsec VPN so no one bothered.
A trial version of VPNcilla I tested last week did work just fine but I guess we'll wait to see if this gets fixed first.