tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52244912012-01-31T13:18:53.889ZTrying to make sense of a world gone mad.... blogging on Climate Change, War, Terror - plus local stuff about Bristol and music and more...anarchisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04979135394419507417noreply@blogger.comBlogger7461100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224491.post-47940329535920429712011-08-23T21:28:00.000Z2011-08-23T21:28:23.962Z

Hi all. If you were checking this blog you might notice that its been a bit quiet of late here. Well, shit happens in life and I've been busy on other stuff. But other things have been going on and I've decided that its time to end this blog. Its been fun and a blast but this blog has run its course. I want to move on to other things and do other stuff, including to focus more energy on

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I've been a bit busy of late and so not been able to blog as much as I'd like here. However this news was just too fun to miss! The background to the story is that a group of independent climate sceptics embarked on a project called 'Berkeley Earth' to re-analyse all of the temperature data so provide conclusive proof either way of global warming. The project lead, a physicist Dr. Muller, has

anarchisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04979135394419507417noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224491.post-86190610846461579192011-01-27T19:53:00.003Z2011-01-27T20:01:25.425Z

A simple analogy has stumped the vitriolic but scientifically illiterate Telegraph blogger, James Delingpole - heehee.The Telegraph blogger is not on the receiving end of an acerbic Jeremy Paxman or belligerent John Humphrys. He is questioned by the new president of the Royal Society, the distinguished geneticist and Nobel prize-winner Sir Paul Nurse. I have not seen the programme, but Delingpole

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I love this article. Amamzing conspiracy theory that is soooooooooooo crazy that it makes a box of frogs look sane. It argues that security restrictions on air travel are being driven by a global warming agenda. Yes. But it is the first line of the article that is the most fun:I have no proof to support my opinion on this….read on and let me know what you think.Yes, he opens his argument

anarchisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04979135394419507417noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224491.post-40426338169217105952010-12-27T21:30:00.004Z2010-12-27T21:46:12.305Z

Jebus H Mice. Some American Christian's are sooo self-obsessed and obsessed with homosexuality. Here is their take on how persecuted they are... about 9 examples of 17-odd supposed examples of 'anti-Christian' acts seem to be about gay sex. Guess what is not on the list? The evisceration of Iraq's Christian community. Yes, Iraq has churches that date from the 7th Century and yet the

anarchisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04979135394419507417noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224491.post-19094177213797952022010-12-14T12:30:00.002Z2010-12-14T12:40:56.487Z

Now remember before I continue that there are people arguing that we should not know the information in the WikiLeaks cables.Ok, so Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) collapsed during the finaincal crisis and had to be bailed out using our money. Just prior to the collapse chief executive Fred Goodwin gets £700,000 per year pension award from RBS. Then a month later RBS announced that its 2008 loss

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Now remember lots of people in the ruling elite don't want to us to know this kind of stuff!Outrage of the day;The post-Soviet state of Uzbekistan is a nightmarish world of "rampant corruption", organised crime, forced labour in the cotton fields, and torture, according to the leaked cables.But the secret dispatches released by WikiLeaks reveal that the US tries to keep President Islam Karimov

anarchisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04979135394419507417noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224491.post-34410077667934291312010-12-09T21:01:00.005Z2010-12-09T21:29:45.305Z

This is it folks! This is the moment that web technology promised, but that never arrived - until now. We can now say no to the Man. The Man wants to keep us in the dark about His wheelings and dealings. We say NO, WikiLeaks gives us the power to say no.I'm with I Heart WikiLeaks in downloading the Insurance Torrent.We are all WikiLeaks now;WikiLeaks has never been charged with a crime, let

anarchisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04979135394419507417noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224491.post-77705197207984412522010-11-21T12:09:00.006Z2010-11-21T12:40:06.723Z

This is a very techey story and much of it is above my knowledge but from what I can understand, but it is very, very interesting. It also shows the inner workings of a denial home-goal. Here's the background. There is this statistics professor Wegman who gets commissioned to write a report examining the famous Hockey Stick (that's the graph that shows global temperatures with a sharp and

anarchisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04979135394419507417noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224491.post-31488655033424361152010-11-21T11:51:00.004Z2010-11-21T12:08:48.909Z

After the big demo and as the dust still settles (somewhat) on all that, the NUS has decided to leave moaning about some smashed windows and instead concentrate on a 'decapitation' strategy of ousting some LibDem MPs.Its great news that they are opening up new fronts in the war on the LibCon cuts, however my local MP Stephen Williams is one of those targeted to removal. Now I voted for him a few

anarchisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04979135394419507417noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224491.post-50429771413662273972010-11-12T14:36:00.001Z2010-11-12T14:37:52.321Z

Typical. Back to the dark Bu$h days and so much for free speech...In July of this year, U.S. citizen Jacob Appelbaum, a researcher and spokesman for WikiLeaks, was detained for several hours at the Newark airport after returning from a trip to Holland, and had his laptop, cellphones and other electronic products seized -- all without a search warrant, without being charged with a crime, and

anarchisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04979135394419507417noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224491.post-27400943883269493192010-11-11T17:53:00.003Z2010-11-11T18:07:35.193Z

So at the demo against the cuts to education and the ramping up in fees - making education something only for the rich, people got angry and stormed the Tory Party HQ.The predictalbe media coverage follows focusing of the 'violence' (in the main some broken windows) and not the issue (the cuts). Lots and hand wringing follows and complaints about the 'violence' and how it 'spoil it' for the

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It has been claimed that there is a right-ward drift in US politics. I don't know enough about it to say either way, but the Republican gains in the recent US election are depressing. Not that the White House under democratic rule was doing much to be happy about. As ever the US elections have implications for us globally and again I'm depressed that political parties there to represent the

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Sort of. This is a great post about a couple of secret(ish) meetings that are claimed to impact us. One is called by a couple of billionaire oil magnates who gather right-wing politicians and executives to plot election strategy and the other is a group of climate scientists who talk science...It must be wonderfully liberating to be a hard-core conspiracy theorist, casting off the limiting

anarchisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04979135394419507417noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224491.post-43360450252856166002010-10-23T11:52:00.004Z2010-10-23T12:04:14.439Z

Thanks god for Wikileaks. They are exposing the massive, massive, criminal, violent and messy bloodbath that is Iraq. One we paid for in taxes and the Iraqi people paid for in blood. It's is gobsmacking how low, how deep the void of horror this conflict has opened, is:...one case in which he claimed a British rifleman had shot dead an eight-year-old girl who was playing in the street in Basra.

anarchisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04979135394419507417noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224491.post-85138388653642588132010-10-20T08:09:00.000Z2010-10-20T08:09:00.716Z

It's for us. Yes I'm alarmist, 'cos I'm alarmed. Calling people alarmist does not make the alarm go away, it just points to the alarm.That's one of the many things about denialists, they claim that things won't be so bad yet none of them are doing any original research to establish if this is true... They just cherry-pick holes (or try) in other peoples' hard work...It’s the same tiny bunch of

anarchisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04979135394419507417noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224491.post-10249225994017418762010-10-18T08:59:00.000Z2010-10-18T08:59:00.554Z

Getting the cuts in CO2 is going to be hard... This is from an email FWed to me by a friend (I'm hot claiming the credit for it).This is an interesting carbon calculator, which lets you see the consequences of possible actions to hit the 'scientific minimum' target for reduction of UK emissions of 80% by 2050.http://2050-calculator-tool.decc.gov.ukI tried the following scenario:Reduce domestic

anarchisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04979135394419507417noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224491.post-85693743628072685192010-10-16T17:47:00.005Z2010-10-16T18:44:20.705Z

So the Tories (sort of) have got into power the the mantra of the coalition government is cuts, cuts, cuts. What is hard about all this is that there are so many factors at play and so many issues that are woven into the issue that it is hard to unpick what is what.Its also why we're all looking for easy stories that explain it and easy fixes that will solve the our woes. Problem is, that I

anarchisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04979135394419507417noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224491.post-1982220854449549252010-10-12T13:48:00.002Z2010-10-12T14:15:12.839Z

When you debate with climate change deniers, they have these annoying habitats of:1. Never stating their position in any concrete terms.2. Adopting contradictory positions and never acknowledging this.This make is hard to have a real debate with them because point 1 means you're never told what position you are debating against is, and point 2 means they are always a moving target jumping from

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This is a staggering political position to end up with as a major political party in a democracy:The GOP is stampeding toward an absolutist rejection of climate science that appears unmatched among major political parties around the globe, even conservative ones. ... Just for the record, when the nonpartisan National Academy of Sciences last reviewed the data this spring, it concluded: "A strong,

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So the so-called 'Climate Gate' scandal has come and gone and left more than a few people wondering about why it was even given the media coverage, out of proportion to the non-scandal it appeared to become in print etc.But there is another scandal brewing about academic standards; however this is one the Denialists are keeping very quiet about - why because it may well be a huge home goal for

anarchisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04979135394419507417noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224491.post-78414922047035398782010-09-28T17:15:00.002Z2010-09-28T17:24:25.026Z

Time to add another denialist to the growing list of high-profile U-turns.Republican strategist Frank Luntz and editor of sceptic magazine Michael Shermer and oil giant Exxon and then Lomborg.Now to the list we can add Daily Mail science correspondent, Michael Hanlon:I have long been something of a climate-change sceptic, but my views in recent years have shifted. For me, the most convincing

anarchisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04979135394419507417noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224491.post-79336489894527207992010-09-07T16:34:00.003Z2010-09-07T16:46:00.813Z

Lots of loose talk about morality and culture - you see it in politcs of all sorts, so it's great to see somebody cut to the chase - in this case it's John Gray in reviewing 'The Quest for Meaning' by Tariq Ramadan...Ramadan wants to replace this practice with a high-minded attitude of mutual respect. Each of us, he writes, must accept that "the presence of the other within my own conception of

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That bastion of journalism sub-GCSE science science reporting paper, the Telegraph has had to retract another climate-linked story;In reports in December 2009 we said that Tata had used the carbon trading scheme to transfer steel production from Redcar to India, pocketing £1.2 billion in carbon credits at the cost of 1700 jobs. We accept this was wrong. ... We also accept Tata’s assurance that it

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I saw a tiny bit of Tony Bliar on TV banging on about how the invasion of Iraq was the 'right' decision. Decisions, decisions - that all he talked about re Iraq. By focusing on the decision alone it allows him to ignore/forget the cack-handed, terrible, inhumane, murderous, idiotic, hubris-tic and racist manner in which 'the decision' was carried out. Oi! Bliar! Even if you'd decided to go

anarchisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04979135394419507417noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224491.post-34725196751875108182010-09-01T14:51:00.004Z2010-09-01T14:59:32.769Z

Lomborg is one of those names that sceptic love to cite. Wrongly, often as he's always accepted the findings of the IPCC, just disagreed that we should spend any money to do much about it. I've had confused denialists cite Lomborg then Monkton - both denialists - but who contradict each other in their reading of the science. Plus neither of them is a statistician. Anyhow, Lomborg is the most

anarchisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04979135394419507417noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224491.post-16034212713548598902010-08-28T14:34:00.002Z2010-08-28T14:47:29.289Z

Climate Change Deniers, having long ago lost the argument of the science - have concentrated much of their energy on smearing the most prominent people associated with the IPCC: chair of the IPCC Rajendra Pachauri came in for loads of flack about him cashing in on climate change - serious allegations - except that none of it was true. So yet again the bastion of anti-science reporting, The

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We are always hearing hyperbole from climate change sceptics denialists telling us that 'people' are 'waking up' to the 'fraud' of climate change and will reject it - soon. Any day now. That this is an issue about freedom, liberty and all that. Well in Australia they had an election and climate change was a clear issue in the election - so clear that it was the emergence of a single issue

anarchisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04979135394419507417noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224491.post-11672061557995321092010-08-18T17:13:00.003Z2010-08-18T17:18:50.626Z

This is just gold. Cherry picking is taking on small bits of data that prove your case and ignoring other data that does not. Climate change denialists love to do this. Here's Monkton 'proving' that the ice at the Arctic is not melting...It's a slam dunk, yes? Lets plot those data points in Monkton's pretty pictures into a graph..And now fill in the missing bits of data Monkton decided not to

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There is a great post - it's about boiling down complex answers to typical denial schpeel into easy to digest introductions. For example:Denial: “It’s the sun” Answer: The sun’s output has barely changed since 1970 and is irrelevant to recent global warming. Denial: “Climate’s changed before”Climate reacts to whatever forces it to change at the time, which now is dominated by humans. Denial:“

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I've been blogging about Iraq for a loooong, loooong time. So as the last of the US troops heads home, the utter cluster-fuck that was the Iraq War, moves from the occupation phase into a fully fledged low-intensity civil war phase. From start to now this was a massive cock-up that will forever be the albatross around the necks of Bu$h and co, Bliar and his sycophants in Neo-Labour. A pox on

anarchisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04979135394419507417noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224491.post-57403504134869994722010-08-03T08:10:00.000Z2010-08-03T08:10:00.113Z

I've heard the deniers go on and on about how the models used in climate prediction are wrong, or can't be right or are just models and don't mean anything in the real world. Problem is, they are right:Last January, the Met Office announced that it believed this year would, indeed, be a record scorcher. Given that Britain was then coated in thick snow, the prediction was brave.It was accurate

anarchisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04979135394419507417noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224491.post-41629879739172873902010-08-02T15:07:00.002Z2010-08-02T15:10:11.103Z

The climate change lobby loves to roll out S. Fred Singer to mount an argument form authority. He's a scientist and he says it all wrong, so it must be wrong. Except look at the issues he's been wrong on? All of 'em. He's a paid shill;One of my favorite Jerry Seinfeld episodes is the one where George Costanza tells Jerry that every decision he has ever made has turned out to be wrong. Jerry

anarchisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04979135394419507417noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224491.post-13964017060015817742010-07-27T10:52:00.002Z2010-07-27T11:01:22.718Z

This is no big surprise - the commentators on Fox News are nuts - and nothing brings the nuts to the surface like a big news story pushing reality into their cosy neo-con world view as the fall out from the wikileaks story contines... Here's a tiny sample of the crazzzsy on offer there:We are fighting a war here folks,s--t happens in war. If we have a group targeting our worst enemies,good for

anarchisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04979135394419507417noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224491.post-22174857960811022562010-07-26T11:54:00.002Z2010-07-26T12:01:35.883Z

Like we didn't know it, but now the evidence is there to back it...[The] collective picture that emerges is a very disturbing one. We today learn of nearly 150 incidents in which coalition forces, including British troops, have killed or injured civilians, most of which have never been reported; of hundreds of border clashes between Afghan and Pakistani troops, two armies which are supposed to be

anarchisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04979135394419507417noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224491.post-47518326745957527072010-07-23T16:32:00.002Z2010-07-23T16:38:23.414Z

So what does this image show?A religious nutter with holy book and gun.So what does this image show?Religious nutters with holy books and guns.Not much difference between the two - one Muslim and one Christain, both convinced that in the battle of good vs evil they are on the side of good along with thier version of God.Scary.And here's a scary story where soldiers in the US military opposing the

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Climate deniers like to trumpet the ideas that they are about freedom and openness and against censorship:It seems NASA has an agenda concerning Global Warming, and if you don’t believe the Cult, you’d better keep your mouth shut.Yet they always seem to call for censorship when people in turn criticise them - like their so-called scepticism - only runs one way. They want censorship for their

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More worrying temperature data as June turns out to be the hottest month on record. Now all of a sudden the climate change deniers understand the difference between 'weather' (what is happening now) and 'climate' (the long term trend). They could not get their heads round these concepts when it was cold and snowing (in part of the world) and they could all have a laugh about things and ignore

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An event worth looking at:At short notice a number of individuals from various Bristol networks have pulled together to host this event about the strange arrest of US anti-war and justice activists arrested on the Iraq/Iran border. Come and find out about this tricky situation...Info tour about US anti-war activists imprisoned in IranOn July 31, 2009, Sarah Shourd, Shane Bauer, and Josh Fattal -

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Getting the lawers out to tackle a spoof - seems a bit like bullying to me...The Metro has obtained a High Court injunction against “all persons responsible for the publication and/or distribution” of a Metro spoof paper that was distributed by campaigners at London tube stations on Friday morning. But since the spoof was produced and distributed anonymously, the injunction seems to have been

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Great polemic that makes a lot of sense...We are going to need people like David to counter the denial bullshit - why because the denial crew have got a lot of things in their favour.- Using oil and stuff has lots of nice things about it - like flying.- The right-wing media (which is most of it) are on their side so can be relied upon to twist, distort and bullshit along with then.- There is lots

anarchisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04979135394419507417noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224491.post-89905960569230294202010-07-09T09:17:00.002Z2010-07-09T09:42:55.025Z

The main news from the final of the slew of inquiries into the hacking of some climate scientist's email (the CRU or Climate Research Unit) is that apart from a few minor areas, they were honest and accurate in thier work. Put simply - climate science is right. Not that you'd know that from the right-wing media who are busy focusing on the minor points - but then they have to else it makes all

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This is a great piece of evidence to add to the mountain - great because it's a simple one that even people with no formal science can understand: There is a new and emerging field of research called 'ice patch archaeology' which is basically about finding out about the past from cool and interesting things that are dropping out of glaciers as they melt. It's new because before the glaciers

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Even more linkages between the voodoo cult of anti-evolution and the bat-shit crazy of climate change denial. Here's the new Texas Republican Party Platform on science teaching:Realizing that conflict and debate is a proven learning tool in classrooms, we support objective teaching and equal treatment of all sides of scientific theories, including evolution, Intelligent Design, global warming,

anarchisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04979135394419507417noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224491.post-49184628265162150732010-06-25T08:39:00.002Z2010-06-25T08:39:00.654Z

Catchy title for a post about climate change. But I promise there will be a little Satanism later on... So there has been some important new research about the consensus on climate change:Here, we use an extensive dataset of 1,372 climate researchers and their publication and citation data to show that 1) 97-98% of the climate researchers most actively publishing in the field support the tenets

anarchisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04979135394419507417noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224491.post-39859012991562853372010-06-24T08:24:00.001Z2010-06-24T10:37:22.005Z

Back in March this year, the climate change deniers were crowing that there was slightly more sea-ice than in February...But March brought good news for the Polar Bears, and bad news for the Catlin Expedition and any others looking for bad news. Instead of ice extent declining through March like it usually does, it continued to increase through the month and is now at the high (so far) for the

anarchisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04979135394419507417noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224491.post-27760161078582996232010-06-23T08:20:00.000Z2010-06-23T08:20:00.264Z

Please read...as the first casualty of war is not truth - that's always a casualty - but open information... WikiLeaks reporting the sad killing of civilians via US botched airstrikes - and rather than trying to find out what happened - the US is trying to shoot the messenger - Wikileaks:One of our alleged sources, a young US intelligence analyst, Bradley Manning, has been detained and shipped

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In Torygraph world, up is down and down is up. Here's a extract from a 'news' story:IPCC Shamed By Bogus Rainforest Claim by Jonathan Leake, The Sunday TimesA startling report by the United Nations climate watchdog that global warming might wipe out 40% of the Amazon rainforest was based on an unsubstantiated claim by green campaigners who had little scientific expertise.Here's the truth from a

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Notorious mercenary firm Blackwater is reportedly up for sale. Wired has got a poll going suggesting who might buy 'em...There are some fun suggestions...British Petroleumby AnonymousSomebody is gonna have to keep all those sunbathers away from the beach.Salvation Armyby ajlThey haven't been doing enough real fighting.Cyberdyne Systemsby Adam RawnsleyFace it, T-1000s are expensive -- you can

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In all it's forms. Here, for example, we see pro-Israeli protesters behaving as a mixture of creepy toughing perverts and/or aggressive bone-heads as they demand that the IDF kill more people and chant "death to the leftists". Charming. Such a friendly bunch of democratic people, can't imagine how the world perceives Israel to be a rogue state... (and during the protest the cop sits there and

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"I'm a terrorist, you're a terrorist - we're all terrorist, la-la-la!" Yes the 'terrorist label is being thrown around to mean not "somebody who uses indiscriminate asymmetric violence to advance a political or religious cause" but "anyone who disagrees with me.." Hmmm:Eric Blair, a.k.a. George Orwell, is often wrongly thought to have been writing science fiction in his seminal novel, 1984. In

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Global Warming is a huge conspiracy and is not really happening. It's a Marxist Green Lobby plot. The earth is not warming and even if it is, it's not warming much so don't worry. But it's not warming, it's cooling so worry about that. But even if it warming it would be the sun doing the extra warming and not us, no way sir-e. At least that is the party-line in Telegraph-land. A true blue

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Yes indeed. Just when you thought stupid could not get any more stupid, Viscount Monkton comes along and ups the stupidity. Here's the back-story: Monkton is a classic scholar who fancies himself as an amateur climatologist. He's uncovered the Marxist plot behind climate science and has set about debunking it - except that somebody who knows the area (a real scientist, Dr. John Abraham)

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This is a great article - a solid attempt to frame the scientific thinking and the surrounding commentary on that scientific thinking. Worth a read. I'll summarise bits here...This is where the science is:Where the red dots represent the position of scientist's published work - peer reviewed papers. If you are towards the top then you think the climate is warming. If you are towards the

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I have written before about the psychology of climate change deniers and how they operate. Now along comes an excellent article that puts this mindset into a historic framework. It looks at the development of Relativity, the concept most attached to Einstein and how it was opposed, not on the grounds of science - but on the grounds of ideology:Van Dongen details how Einstein’s theory was met

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Here's a few more articles I think worth a read...This is a power analysis of the defence of Israel of is violent actions:The Israeli hyper-nationalists argue from contiguity, from things being next to each other, demonizing entire groups and peoples rather than considering their actions in the real world. Thus, IHH, the fundamentalist Turkish charity that sponsored the lead ship in the aid

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So here comes the next line of attack from the climate change deniers - the idea that somehow they are a legitimate voice and should be in the process. Roger Harrabin of the BBC gets taken as the patsy on this line of attack:When at the launch of the Sir Muir Russell inquiry I asked about the credibility of the review panel in the blogosphere, Sir Muir dismissed the enquiry with the flick of a

anarchisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04979135394419507417noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224491.post-62375891141764345392010-06-03T08:17:00.000Z2010-06-03T08:17:00.412Z

There is lots on the net about this story. Here's a few I'd recommend:- Arthur Goldwag on Israel and Jewish Identity.- Juan Cole on Egypt's difficult balancing act in being a US ally, avoiding conflict with Israel, it's own fear of Hamas and yet having a population who support freedom for Gaza.- Wired's Danger Room on the military clusterfuck by Israel and the ensuring PR loss.Plus, Democracy

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Chilling plans to remove the citizenship of people found guilty of 'terrorism':Israel’s Ministerial Committee for Legislation approved a bill Sunday to revoke citizenship of Israelis convicted of terrorist activity or of espionage for terrorist organisations. At first some people might be tempted to think 'well why not, they are terrorists...' except that first the definition of terrorism is

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The EDL - who seem to portray all Muslims as radical Muslims (see the recent Beeb documentary) have cancelled a demo to oppose the building of the new mosque - when they found out that the majority of people opposing it were.... Muslims...The controversial English Defence League have called off a planned demonstration against a proposed mosque in Walsall after learning that the biggest single

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Here's a suggested pick of some local exhibitions that you might like to check out...The CatcamImages taken by a cat! Q: What could be cooler? A: Nothing! Centrespace Gallery. 6 Leonard Lane, Bristol, BS1 1EA, Friday 28th May - Wednesday 2nd June 2010.EDL Photo ExhibitionAt The Junction, Stokes Croft until 9th June. 5pm - 1am. its free entry before 8 but may be a small charge after due to

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Part 2 in and ongoing series: Making the Working Class Support the Ruling Class... This is a great article about how right-wing propagandists have taken the populist ideas of the rich and powerful and turned them upside down...Regular middle class folks, he tells us, have been inveigled into leading unsustainable lifestyles. Instead of going to church and home-schooling their children as they

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This is a great demolition of the media coverage of the recent hacked climate email hearings:What really irked me about the BBC piece however is its concluding section in which we find: Dr Benny Peiser, director of the Global Warming Policy Foundation, criticised the panel for producing a report that was “not even-handed” and appeared to be the product of a “rushed job”. He said: “This has

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Undermining any shreds of moral credibility the state of Israel may have had, is the revelation that it had friendly - as in selling weapons sort of friendly - with the Apartheid era South Africa. If we are judged by the company we keep - this is shocking...Whether it was intentional or not, the double standard in the UNSC concerning Israel’s nuclear weapons (including the recklessness with

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Credit Default Swaps are one of those clever little financial tools that the finance posse came up with to continue buy and selling things that don't exist. There were a major factor in the recent financial collapse that has cost hundreds of thousands of workers their jobs and homes. What's more they have a murky history: thye were invented by JP Morgan to help Exxon deal with the fall out of a

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There's a fun article on the BBC about the denial-o-palosa event that is worth a read...The final word of this conference - part counter-orthodox science brainstorm, part political rally - was left to a man who is not a scientist at all, Christopher Monckton, former adviser to Mrs Thatcher, now the darling of climate sceptics worldwide.In a bravura performance he had the audience roaring at his

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Roll up! Roll up! It's the full of shit event of the year! A right-wing nut-job by the name of Cuccinelli has started a witch-hunt against climate scientists Michael Mann, asking for every single paper and email he produced while working at a the University of Virginia so as to cherry-pick and quote-mine for evidence of fraud:[The] Virginia attorney general has filed papers against the climate

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Finally, after almost a decade, the police who attacked innocent protesters, beating them savagely then planted fake evidence to incriminate them - reports lapped up the the right-wing press globally at the time - have been found guilty of their crimes...Some of Italy's most senior police officers have been given jail sentences of up to five years for what the prosecution called a "terrible"

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I blogged about Apple's police force. Next in the corporate cops rosta we have BP:Emerging reports are raising the question of just how much of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill journalists are able to document.When CBS tried to film a beach with heavy oil on the shore in South Pass, Louisiana, a boat of BP contractors, and two Coast Guard officers, told them to turn around, or be arrested."This is

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As we've discussed so far, the main thrust of science is built around the peer review process. Put simply this demands that any claims made need to show their proof and how they arrived at this proof so anyone else can replicate it. To make this process easier scientific papers are presented in a specific format. Most scientific papers tackle one question (or hypothesis). Some seek to collate

anarchisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04979135394419507417noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224491.post-35872163650906453862010-05-21T08:30:00.001Z2010-05-21T08:30:00.391Z

I wrote about the dumb-ass oil funded 'International Conference on Climate Change' yesterday and I thought I'd take a bit more of a look at it today. Sadly (boohoo) the poor ikle deniers got very little media coverage - what is interested is to look at the coverage they did get... Using Google News I did a search on 'International Conference on Climate Change' to see what there was...The

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The anti-science Telegraph newspaper has a columnist James Delingpole who claims to be 'right about everything' - everything except facts, which he seems to be wrong about. He's written a typical teenager-like rant about climate science having comeback from the latest denial-o-palooza festival of anti-science climate scepticism. Let's take it apart...Only morons, cheats and liars still believe

anarchisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04979135394419507417noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224491.post-60547561485419241962010-05-19T12:33:00.003Z2010-05-19T13:02:25.790Z

There is a great, very analytical discussion and dissection of some of the claims of 'proof' of scientific fraud from the hacked climate change emails. What the denialist krew have been doing is quote mining - taking a small section of a quote out of context so it appears to say something it does not. Now I regularly remove bits of quotes, not to change the meaning but to focus on the important

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Christopher Monckton made an official complaint to the Press Complaints Commission (PCC) about a column by George Monbiot - and the PCC has rejected the complaint. How here's the bit that interests me:While the complainant may indeed have read the draft Copenhagen Treaty, he could not have known with certainty, when speaking in mid-October, what precisely would be signed in mid-December. It was

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The Daily Fail Hate Mail - owner of our local rag and other media outlets such as Venue and the Western Daily Press continues its ongoing war on logic, science and rationality with this fun effort. There is a graph showing lots of different scientific measurements of temperature that shows the current rise (this is from figure 2-21 from the IPCC's Third Assessment Report):Now zoom in on one

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The whole MMR/Autism thing is not something I've blogged about - however I had recently read a few things about it, which I thought I'd share. This is not an area I know a huge amount about, but it does show how the bullshit detector can kick in...So what does it tell me? It tells me that there is something very fishy about Andrew Wakefield and his claims to a link between the MMR jab and Autism

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This is a typical story of cops acting outside the law they are supposed to enforce. Entering a house without a warrant, arresting a guy without cause, using excessive force to do so and so on. Worth watching the video: David Hoffman: 'They were a gang of bullies who burst into my house'On election day David Hoffman had a knock on his door by the police, who instructed him to take down a poster

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Targeted killings - the policy of assassinating people you don't like rather than say, trying to bring them to justice. Israel does it with fighter jets. The US does it with drone-strikes. Does that actually work? Perhaps not. In the context of a previous post about how targeted killings can make a counter-insurgency situation worse...... now we see the remit of the policy being extended to

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Climate Change is a major issue; it does get covered in the media/blogs etc, but either as a controversy where scientists argue with one another (the media likes controversy) or as just another thing we need to worry about (like scary immigrants or the weather) as if it's something not under our control or influence or as a myth created by communists socialists anarchists environmentalists the

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For those reading from elsewhere in the world; here in the UK we've just had an election. The economy was (not surprisingly) the main issue - but also there was global warming. Now it's impossible to unpick that issue from all the other issues, but it is notable that there are 2 political parties that have strong global warming denial positions - UKIP (with Monkton as the science advisor) and the

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Here we are, almost 10 years on and the Afghanistan War drags on and on. No wonder it is known as the 'Graveyard of Empires'. So how's the war against the Taliban going? Not good, Not well:"[The Taliban's] abilities are expanding and its operations are increasing in sophistication, despite recent major offensives by U.S. forces in the militants' heartland. The report… portrays an insurgency

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Still, at least it is more visible now the media has to hawk for cash more. Here's a polluting industry sponsoring a political news website...The Washington Post this week launched a new politics homepage, PostPolitics.com, with a helping hand from the dirty coal industry.According to the press release announcing the launch,“The American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity is the Washington

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So the election is over (for now) and the dust is settling. What now? No Pasaran was the battle-cry from the Spanish Civil War of the anti-fascist fighters; "They shall not pass". It's a great quote and important to celebrate the huge effort that people put in to flyering, campaigning and more to stop the BNP. This is a fight that has borne fruit, even though that was a small increase in vote

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There is an interesting technology story doing the rounds: an Apple guy leaves a new prototype iphone in a bar. Somebody finds it and sells it to an online technology blog, Gizmondo, who report all the new gadgets that it has. Blah blah. Except that Apple goes mental and gets the cops - who bust this bloggers door in like they were raiding the house of some right-wing terror cell. OTT to say

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The BNP was hoping to take Barking & Dagenham:Hope Not Hate held its second day of action in Barking and Dagenham in east London , where the BNP leader, Nick Griffin, is standing against Labour's Margaret Hodge, and the far-right party is also hoping to take control of the council....The BNP had predicted it would create a "political earthquake" at this week's general and local elections,

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The election has come and gone with windbags of pointless speculation (me included) and the great British public has spoken and elected to: not change very much at all, thank you. Poor LibDems, I do feel for them having al that hype and expectation to find out that it's one stop forward and almost one step back. It goes to show that when it comes to political thinking, people are conservative

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1.30AM: BNP loose deposit in Filton and Bradley Stoke with a rubbish 2.7% - Wot a fuck up.-1.23AM: In Northern Ireland the First Minister has lost...and lost to a non-sectarian party. Fucking great! His wife was the anti-gay god-bother who also broke bible rules. BNP also lost deposit in Torbay. Woo! Going to go to bed I think. Night. -1AM: BNP loose 2 more deposits. Hee hee.-Witching Hour:

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Great article on climate change conspiracies:When leading climate scientists are repeatedly exonerated after the "climategate" pseudo-scandal, then to climate "sceptics" this simply means that the relevant enquiries were pre-programmed to find nothing wrong. Thus, the U.K. Parliament conspired to produce a whitewash of Professor Jones a few weeks ago, as did Lord Oxburgh when his panel,

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Updating my previous post about what is of interest to me in the coming general election. So far we have:- How Danny Kushlick did in Bristol West (Vote Danny!)- How the Greens did in vote share (Bristol is a pretty Green city and I'm often surprised they do do better here...)- How much we need to be worried by the BNP vote in Bristol (I'd expect a small rise, given the economic crisis, voter

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I've been guilty of seeing much of the right as a single monolithic entity when it comes to climate change policy, so I'm happy to be put right by this excellent post that looks at how the right is busy in-fighting for it's own soul:One is reminded strongly reminded not to dismiss “conservatives” as fools, ill-informed or incapable of rational debate. It is the extreme fringe that seeks to drown

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American financier Jay Gould, after hiring strikebreakers, famously quipped; "I can hire one-half of the working class to kill the other half." Indeed. But you can go further - you can get one section of the working class and convince them that it is in their interests to support policies that either don't benefit them or worse still, make their lives worse. We see this with health care in the

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So there is this bonkers political party, The Christian Party, who are the local Taliban in that they are looking to have a theocracy rather than a democracy - rule by religion. The party has a mish-mash of crap in it's manifesto; and it includes support for the non-science stance of Creationism.They have a candidate close to home... Stephen Hewett standing in Bath. Here's his bio:Steve and

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'Tis often said that the radical right of politics and the militant version of Islam have a lot in common - despite the claims by both groups to be at war with one another over vales. In reality they are quite similar - both hate homosexuality, both like capitalism and both see a strong role for religion in society.But the links go deeper - and deeper. A radical Muslim group who issued

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The BNP has stated that would look to pay non-white people living in the UK, even if they are British, £50,000 to leave the UK for ever. So what would it cost if all of the non-white people in the UK took them up on their offer? I think total financial meltdown is an understatement. Let's do the maths...There are 4.6 million non-white people living in the UK (2001 figures). So:4,600,000 people

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Candidate Danny Kushlick has a press release out. Danny is the officially supported candidate of the Anarchist606 2010 Election Scrutiny Committee (i.e. me.):"Parties must discuss drug legalisation and regulation", says Parliamentary CandidateDanny Kushlick is standing as an independent prospective parliamentary candidate for Bristol West because the major parties will not engage on one of the

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One of my favourite Conflict records is a double LP of live stuff called 'Turning Rebellion Into Money' and on the back of the sleeve it takes the idea full circle declaring 'Turning Money Into Rebellion.' The first part of that is what sprung to mind reading about the cash rake-in of Sarah Palin;Over the past year, Palin has amassed a $12 million fortune and shows no sign of slowing down. Her

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Following on from my last post about Israel, I noted this impassioned plea for progress and peace by the Israel paper Haaretz:"Unfortunately, Israel's 62nd Independence Day finds it in a kind of diplomatic, security and moral limbo that is certainly no cause for celebration. It is isolated globally and embroiled in a conflict with the superpower whose friendship and support are vital to its very

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The Guardian has been getting some of the UKs top science writers to posts questions to the political parties on their science policy. This time it was the turn of the UK Independence Party - answered by their denial science spokesperson 'Screaming' Lord Monkton. This sounds like fun - and it is!!! Let's dive into UKIPs pool of stupid... They start off answering a question about Britain's

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I'm not a huge believer that elections make real changes, but it is a huge survey as to where people see themselves politically (to an extent) and I think voting is still a tool to be used to progressive social change; "I'd prefer a labour government to a BNP one!". So what am I interested in come 6th May? I'll tell you...- How Danny Kushlick did in Bristol West (Vote Danny!)- How the Greens

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Roll up! Roll up! All the fun of the fair! In the upcoming UK election of the most prominent global deniers of climate change had thrown his eccentric lordy hat into the ring and is standing for UKIP - and I was really looking forward to seeing how he would do in the democratic arena - but sadly (boo hoo) he's pulled out as..A Ukip spokesman said the decision to withdraw was taken because a

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