After the hacking of the CRU and the release into the public domain of over 3 000 documents and emails that many believe shed doubt on the integrity of the pro-AGW lobby, the University of East Anglia has conducted an inquiry into the leak.

A couple of interesting comments have been made prior to a likely public disclosure of the findings.

Professor Sir David King, the former government chief scientist, told BBC News there are three key issues:

• how did the leakage occur – was there any payment in the process?
• the alleged behaviour of the scientists indicated by the e-mails
• does this have any impact on the scientific conclusion?

If an independent inquiry encompassed all three aspects, Professor Sir David said he would support it.

Well, more than a little lukewarm perhaps, but at least there seems to be some appetite for looking beyond the immediate breach of security and into the underlying scientific basis of the CRU’s conclusions.

However, totally opposed to the very concept of such an inquiry is the IPCC:

…Professor Sir John Houghton, chair of the IPCC’s first science panel, said he would not support an inquiry as many of those demanding one were biased.

It is my understanding that although science seeks to acquire new knowledge, it is always open to re-evaluation so that it constantly redefines and refines this knowledge.

Professor Houghton seems not to agree and is quite content to conclude that any difference of opinion to his own – and by extension that of the IPCC – is a result of bias and in this respect he is no different to any member of a religion which seeks to establish itself as ‘the one true path to salvation’.

And this is what the AGW lobby is fast becoming – a religion as intolerant of criticism and inquiry as any that the world has previously experienced. Contrary opinions are dismissed as biased, ignorant, rooted in self-interest and even anti-social.

A certain ‘A Mullen’ recently commented on this blog:

The dangerous idiots behind the illegal break-in and release have unleashed the stupidity of the flat-earth crowd. The worst of the hundreds of emails and reports on emails that I have read (much on the so called skeptic sites) does nothing to dent the reality that the temperatures on Earth are warming not only in line with the theoretical models, but that many of the projections of AR4 have been exceeded. You and your children and grandchildren will live with the results of your ignorance and your assault on reason. If you think your god will save your ignorant asses, that holds about as much credibility as the rest of your “arguments”.

I could fisk this, but all I think I need to do is ask one simple question of A Mullen and his or her ilk:

If you’re so sure that all the conclusions of the IPCC establish, beyond any doubt, the existence of AGW which could lead to the eventual destruction of this planet, then what difference are a few ‘dangerous idiots’ going to make by exposing material that you say does nothing to weaken the IPCC’s case?

This ‘flat-earther’ awaits your reply…

What you should not do

After a successful disc:

RiRi’s Rated R.

Posted by: Mark Raby

Hey everyone! Hopefully you are all enjoying mountains of Thanksgiving leftovers and reveling in your Black Friday steals! Speaking of Black Friday, you know the imagery that brings up – All the mobs of people trampling over each other…hmm…sounds like a good segue into talking about zombies! So, for the first time we are going to announce a special feature of our book The Zombie Code. We will be including a miniature “Zombie Dictionary,” defining everything from “walking” to “brains,” but in the context of a zombie audience. This is the first section I started working on when the initial planning of this book began. Just for fun, here are a couple sample entries:

aaah / ˈä

interjection

A human utterance used to display weakness

human / ˈhyü-mən

noun

A fast-moving and often annoyingly intelligent biped creature that provides the most satisfying source of cranial nutrition

adjective

Characteristic of a human or having similar inferior qualities or attributes (e.g., “It was very human of him to not suck the brain out of his former friend.”)

undead / ˌən-ˈded

noun

1) The final state of being, as expressed by immortality, lack of emotion, and an insatiable desire for living flesh

2) Any creature that is in an undead state

adjective

Possessing characteristics of an undead

alphainventions

In the Business section of the November 27th Toronto Star on pages B1 and B2 there is a lot of ink used to notify the public that Toyota is doing a recall on the floor mats. Ink you haven’t seen used to notify the driving public about their Ford F150’s with the problems of leaking front windows, blowing spark plugs and leaking rear windows.

Well, I know nothing will happen but, I felt that with Toyota taking the high road and doing the recall and Ford hiding behind advertising dollars, I have to send a letter to the editor (plus the Toronto Sun).

Here is a copy:

I find it interesting the amount of ink you used to disclose/inform about the floor mat problem Toyota is doing a recall on. Here we have a company that takes full responsibility for a product that MAY cause injury. In Canada, as your article points out, there is no defect but Toyota will still address the problem with a recall. And, unlike our bail-out buddies here, Toyota is reducing managerial bonuses to reflect this decline in quality.

Meanwhile, back at Ford, they still hide behind the skirts of advertising and you see no media hype on Ford’s lack of disclosure/recall on the leaking front window, blowing spark plugs and leaking rear window. The former two can cause injury/death depending on the circumstances. But Ford refuses to do anything about it. They send out a notice to the dealers but don’t inform the public – who carries on with multiple repairs, not knowing the real cause.

You have been made aware of these faults yet do no investigative reporting to ensure the public is made aware of the risk. There are documented cases to the U.S. and Canadian government showing these faults yet we see no ink used to help the public. Only silence that allows Ford to come across as squeaky clean while poor old Toyota faces up to its errors in construction and looks after the consumer.

Ford creates revenue flow by not disclosing these faults and the driving public must pay for repairs out of their pockets, some amount to the $1000’s of dollars. Toyota picks up the tap for this recall and reduces the bonuses of those who were responsible. Accountability that is being shown to us by a foreign company and seems to lack in our car industry and maybe our print industry.

Are your bonuses tied to Ford advertising? It’s called ethics and the Atkinson Principles.

alphainventions

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If any Madonnaphiles say that she is not cashing in on something horrid, they must be institutionalized.

This song sticks out like a sour thumb on the album Echo. In a good way.

Ok this song fell onto my lap a while ago. I am posting it now because I was hoping that this song would be on Lady GaGa’s new album The Fame Monster. It’s a really good demo and I was really excited to hear GaGa sing it.

The song is a demo, so it’s Akon singing the vocals instead of GaGa. I never knew how pitchy his voice can get.

WOW

A comment or thanks is always appreciated

Das berichtete heute letztens  heise.de:

Eine der größten Geheimniskrämereien der neueren deutschen Politik beginnt sich zu lichten.

Staat und Maut-Betreiber sollen sich ordendlich damit die Taschen füllen, was bei dieser Geheimniskrämerei auch nicht verwundert:

Das jedenfalls legen etliche Dokumente zum Public-Private-Partnership-Projekt nahe, die Wikileaks in diesen Tagen veröffentlichen wird und die heise online vorliegen. Bislang waren alle Versuche gescheitert, die Offenlegung des 17.000 Seiten starken Vertragswerks zu erreichen.

Update

Die Dokumente (PDF) man hier, hier und hier laden.

In a desperate bid to beat out the fierce competition between Rihanna’s Rated R, Lady GaGa’s The Fame Monster and Britney Spears’ Singles Collection, the record label has gone to new lengths. Rihanna’s highly anticipated and critically-medoicre Rated R is being sold as a download from less than a dollar. Yes, the whole album. To tell you the truth, it’s not even worth that much. It’s a really bad album in comparison to Good Girl Gone Bad.

~ Zacharius Zetch, 4th day of the 33rd year.

I have made it along with Balizi through the Shadowed Forest. He does not see the bounty of the land before him. I will make my capitol here upon this citadel before the greater mountains. Zamilidor, I will call it. Balizi will be leaving through the pass and into the desert in the morning. His disband from our group only leaves me with a bitter taste in my mouth.

~ Illani Dan E’ri the first Stwalart

And so they met in the desert 10 years after their departure. Each had prospered on his own side of the valley, and each had conquest in their eyes. As they came together for their first meet in those ten long years,  Zacharius slew Balizi with a dagger. And so the bloody conflict engulfed the desert. And the two nations became mortal enemies. Before that battle in the desert each faction was left without a leader, for Zacharius died of thirst wandering the desert a misfortune of the gods some called it.

Shortly after two leaders emerged bearing new banners of war,  Queen Salth’iri of the Black Roses and Darmurian of The Sacred Swords. Salth’iri was a emmissary of the countries to the far east beyond the sea. She in the best interest of making Zamilidor and it’s countries colonies of the Taborean Empire began to lead under the banner of a Black Rose. A symbol of a darker time in the Taborean Empire.

Darmurian was one of the most loyal knights under Balizi and during the original conflict fought off Zacharius and his men. He emerged taking Balizi’s Sword and carrying it back to Kerotor garnering the respect of it’s citizens.

And both…met 12 years later, under different circumstances they met…me.

If anyone takes huge hiatuses, it would be Sade. She migrates somewhere and gets high for a while and then decides that it’s time for some more ganja, so she slaves to the studio. But, every time she gets there some magic happens. An epoch of chill-out music, if you may. Now, she has decided to come back and give us some more smooth grooves just in time for Valentine’s Day. On February 8th, 2010 Sade is set to release her new album Soldier Of Love, let’s just hope that a new single comes out soon.

The BBC has learned that a water sculpture built as part of the 50m phase one redevelopment of the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast has had to be closed…. From BBC News. Full story

This site may contain information about: atlantic ocean. The blog is also related to: water average.

Gasoline spill on an Ottawa road yields wonderful metallic colours.

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Apparently Juve’s album leaked. Here is 2 tracks I spotted at dajaz1.com.

Download – Juvenile Ft. Q Corvette
Download – I’m Shining – Juvenile

By DeVaughn Douglas

The Top 10 doesn’t have a lot of Hip-Hop on it but we do have a new entry.  Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson enters the charts at in the fifth slot with his latest album Before I Self Destruct.  The queens MC managed to sell about 160,000 copies of his fourth disc which, to date, is the lowest sales the rapper has produced.  The reviews for the album have been mixed but I will say that the movie that comes with it is not bad.  In fact it’s pretty good.  50 has already come forward and said that the album leaked from an international plant which is not hard to believe.  The album was everywhere…but is that the reason for the low sales?  What do ya’ll think?  Nevertheless, this is a hater’s wet dream! The next question is how does an MC that has always spent a lot of time focusing on numbers (especially the numbers of rappers he doesn’t like) deal with the fact that his latest album hasn’t put up good numbers.  I hope its go back to the studio (hungry) and put out another album.  We’ll see.

Overview of the wikileaks release:
  – http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/blog/2009/nov/25/september-11-wikileaks-pager-messages

In-depth coverage of this release and content:
  – http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/11/25/taking_liberties/entry5770280.shtml

Some interesting examples in a dramatic format:
  – http://911stories.net/

Wikileaks Page – Original Source (Raw Data):
  – http://911.wikileaks.org/files/index.html

Remember the fallen.

San Fran drag royalty. Plain wow.

For what reason?

Yes, it’s pretentiously titled Untitled but he might have a good song or a half on there. The album has leaked a week ahead of it’s time. Click here to read all about it.

Mary J. Blige has released the artwork to her new album Stronger With Each Tear, which is her ninth full-lengther. The album was originally and tentatively titled Stronger, but that has changed. There have been three singles released from this album, all of which lackluster. No word yet on which ones will be on the album, let’s hope none. As for the cover, it’s regular but elegant.

Basking in the success of their singles that came after this one, La Roux has decided to re-release the song that made waves for them. Although “Quicksand” is not the greatest song on La Roux, it’s still catchy. With a couple of dance remixes, it will do them justice.

Once you has one huge hit with a seasonal song (“Last Christmas”) it’s hard to shake off the holiday bug. George Michael is releasing a stand-alone single for Christmas titled “December Song (I Dreamed Od Christmas)” and this is a sneak preview at the video. It’s animated, no side-t0-side shaking by George himself.