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Category Archives: idiocracy
Against Defamation
CEI accused Michael Mann of various things, and Mann sued for defamation. Now there’s some progress on the case. “The first line of defense you as a defendant can use in a defamation case, when you’ve done a good job, … Continue reading
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Get the benefit while everyone pays the cost
Dr. Rabett has translated Ottmar Edenhofer’s Süddeutscher Zeitung interview from German. Excerpt: OE: Take coal for example. Worldwide there are about 12, 000 gigatons of coal in the ground. If we want to meet the goal of not warming by … Continue reading
Posted in Climate, Global, idiocracy, industry, Science Links
Tagged Climate, coal, Externalities, Ottmar Edenhofer
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Communication between top scientists and public representatives
James thinks it’s a great idea, as he’s one of the “top men persons” himself. Of course, the Heartland institute will soon imitate with their own “experts”. 🙂
The State of the Art of Washing Machines
..is despicable. They take clearly too little water. They take it clearly too slowly. They idle far too much at the beginning. They idle far too much at the end. They do not offer fast forward capability like mechanical machines … Continue reading
Posted in Demotivation, Design, Humor, idiocracy, industry, Motivation
Tagged Design, Rinse, Spin, Washing, Washing Machine, Water
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Crazy World, Part n
of how journalism is interpreted too, or how to drop your company’s stock 15% in a simple interview which has nothing peculiar in it…
The Press Messed Up And They Won't Admit It
The whole climategate affair was a quite successful smear campaign where the press was played easily. Michael Tobis has more and you can comment there if you want or on the blogs he links to. If you want to get … Continue reading
Surveying Some Scientific Publications
So, some guys did a study on who are the top names in climate sciences, by how many publications and how many cites they have etc.. They also looked at what published petitions people had signed so they could have … Continue reading
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BP Phones Child Psychiatrist
How does a corporation respond to a disaster it has created? By seeking the best PR strategy by polling around which response might look like the best move! Is this for real? Thanks to Things Break.
Posted in Demotivation, Energy, idiocracy, Science Links, Uncategorized
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Local is not Global
Some people in the blue islets say and have been saying it’s been cold. It has been, locally, in the US, Europe and Siberia. But globally averaged, January 2010 was warm. At least according to this data. They’ll be checking it … Continue reading
Hollandgate, potentially
BEGIN EDIT: I think I misread the Britannica part. Netherlands has half of it’s area highly developed and half of that highly developed area is low lying, so a quarter of the total. END EDIT The Netherlands is an example … Continue reading