tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21537866210350742042011-12-07T09:17:23.727-07:00A libertarian voice crying in the wilderness of an increasingly authoritarian world.Desert Rathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01994814571427160862noreply@blogger.comBlogger481100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2153786621035074204.post-13140581554324527722011-12-07T09:17:00.001-07:002011-12-07T09:17:23.732-07:00

Why would anyone sane want to put ANYTHING which you might not want your favorite government snoop reading "in the cloud"?  Here are two stories I saw just today....This story was linked to on the Drudge Report this morning, and I was able to read it earlier, but I suspect that the site is overloaded as it no longer loads:Library of Congress to receive entire Twitter archive -

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Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Real Climate Change We Might Want to Worry AboutThe sun follows an (approximately) 11-year cycle as sunspots ebb and flow. The peak of these cycles, ie the number of sunspots at the cycle’s maximum, is thought to correlate with the strength of the sun’s output. In the past, periods with very low sunspot activity through an entire cycle have correlated with very cold

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Interesting ... on an IBM page, FWIW.Many Eyes : Deaths per TWh by energy sourcesThis visualization compares the energy mix and number deaths related to each of the main sources of energy worldwide - coal, oil, natural gas, nuclear, hydro and biomass. details can be found at http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/03/deaths-per-twh-by-energy-source.html

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I am really glad to see this.  I will remember this next time I cross a border.KNIFE TRICKS: I Am Detained By The Feds For Not Answering QuestionsSherman Oaks, CaliforniaI was detained last night by federal authorities at San Francisco International Airport for refusing to answer questions about why I had travelled outside the United States.The end result is that, after waiting for about half an

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Back to blogging ... been "AFK" for a while. Will try to post links and more a little more often.Morning Links | The AgitatorDepartment of Transportation fines non-profit air ambulance service $30,000 for using the wrong pronoun.

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FOXNews.com - Global Cooling Is Coming -- and Beware the Big Chill, Scientist WarnsContrary to the commonly held scientific conclusion that the Earth is getting warmer, a scientist who has written more than 150 peer-reviewed papers has unveiled evidence for his prediction that global cooling is coming soon.

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Here's a really short, right-on-the-money comment on Congress's spending "like a drunken sailor".» One Sailor’s View of Obama & CongressDvorak Uncensored: General interest observations and true web-log.

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Unfortunately America is becoming more and more like AmeriKa ... "papers please" is becoming the norm, and the Obamination that is our current "leader" isn't making it any better ....The Liberty Papers »Blog Archive » Flex Your Rights Presents: 10 Rules for Dealing with PoliceThe Bill of Rights provides citizens basic protections against unlawful searches and seizures via the Fourth Amendment,

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When you are researching on the Internet, Wikipedia has become the "place to go" for most research.  However, when it comes to climate issues, particularly those related to Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW), Wikipedia can't be trusted.  This has been well documented by several researchers -- if you make a change to an AGW article which mentions climate skeptics favourably, the change will be

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VERY good article about why the IPCC is dead in the water.A perfect storm is brewing for the IPCC - Telegraph

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The big picture: 65 million years of temperature swings « JoNovaDavid Lappi is a geologist from Alaska who has sent in a set of beautiful graphs–including an especially prosaic one of the last 10,000 years in Greenland–that he put together himself (and which I’ve copied here at the top).If you wonder where today’s temperature fits in with the grand scheme of time on Earth since the dinosaurs were

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No surprise here. Armed and Dangerous » Blog Archive » Phil Jones blows the gaff The AGW true believers who determinedly reasserted their faith after the Climate Research Unit emails leaked have just been embarrassed by one of the high priests of the cult. Phil Jones, the former head of the CRU, now admits that there has been no statistically significant global warming since 1995. Reading this

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Well said, good explanation of the AGW crowd.Armed and Dangerous » Blog Archive » Naming and shaming the AGW fraudstersJames Delingpole, in Climategate: Time for the Tumbrils, noting the public collapse in credibility of AGW “science” utters a fine rant summed up in this wise (parochial references to British political figures and organizations omitted):I’m in no mood for being magnanimous in

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Here's another story about (probably fraudulent, certainly unverifiable) data being used in a now-discredited story that forms one of the cornerstones of the rapidly-crumbling AGW edifice:Chinese Urbanization Study | Climate SkepticWhy it mattersThe Guardian writes:[I]t is important to keep this in perspective, however. This dramatic revision of the estimated impact of urbanisation on

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Climategate Update 1: The China Syndrome* - Hit & Run : Reason MagazineClimategate just gets more interesting all the time doesn't it? The Guardian is reporting that the Climatic Research Unit (the U.K. research group at the center of the Climategate affair) has somehow lost critical temperature data again, in this case data from Chinese weather stations that are supposed to prove that the urban

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» Study: Earth Self-Regulation Discovery may make Carbon Credits, Etc. Irrelevant Dvorak Uncensored: General interest observations and true web-log.Despite the apparent bias of many climate researchers, they do have one thing right; carbon levels have risen notably over the twentieth century from about 300 ppm to 375 ppm. While still far from the estimated levels of around 3,000 ppm during the

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And now for something completely different -- sort of.  Maybe the Mormons are right -- stockpile enough supplies to survive for a year independently. If a solar flare of the magnitude of the "Carrington Event" were to occur tomorrow, the world would be in Serious Trouble ...Cliff May : The Sun Also Flares - Townhall.comThe strongest solar storm on record is the Carrington Event of 1859, named

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dispatches from TJICistan » Blog Archive » offense intendedThe main difference between welfare recipients and stray animals is that there’s actual demand for stray animals.

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Fascinating blog post with some very convincing links comparing Google searches for "Climategate" to Bing searches for the same thing.  Disturbing, to say the least ...Climate Observer: Those Who Control The Information Try To Control The Debate.The rise and exposure of Climategate did more than just show the email correspondence of a few climate scientists who were determined to shut down

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Notes from the Massachusetts Senate Race - Reason MagazineNigerian Zionists for Coakley. Irish Republicans for Brown. It is becoming increasingly difficult to make sense of any of this.

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Fascinating blog post with some very convincing links comparing Google searches for "Climategate" to Bing searches for the same thing.  Disturbing, to say the least ...Climate Observer: Those Who Control The Information Try To Control The Debate.The rise and exposure of Climategate did more than just show the email correspondence of a few climate scientists who were determined to shut down

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NASA Caught in Climate Data Manipulation; New Revelations Headlined on KUSI-TV Climate Special | SpaceRef - Your Space ReferenceClimate researchers have discovered that NASA researchers improperly manipulated data in order to claim 2005 as "THE WARMEST YEAR ON RECORD." KUSI-TV meteorologist, Weather Channel founder, and iconic weatherman John Coleman will present these findings in a one-hour

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Good column by John Stossel, the former ABC maverick who is now with Fox Business Network TV and also writes for Reason Magazine.Let's Take the "Crony" Out of "Crony Capitalism" by John Stossel on Creators.com - A Syndicate Of TalentWhen Judge Richard Posner, the prolific conservative intellectual, released his book "A Failure of Capitalism: The Crisis of '08 and the Descent Into Depression" (

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This is the first I've heard of these studies of deep ocean currents, yet this was presented in 2008. DAVID ROSE: The mini ice age starts here | Mail Online The bitter winter afflicting much of the Northern Hemisphere is only the start of a global trend towards cooler weather that is likely to last for 20 or 30 years, say some of the world’s most eminent climate scientists.Their predictions –

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Wonderful!  You need to visit Bruce Schneier's blog entry on this if only to see the first logo entry.Schneier on Security: TSA Logo ContestTSA Logo ContestOver at "Ask the Pilot," Patrick Smith has a great idea: Calling all artists: One thing TSA needs, I think, is a better logo and a snappy motto. Perhaps there's a graphic designer out there who can help with a new rendition of the agency's

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As those of us in the earth sciences have been saying for years: Power Line - It Didn't Start With Climategate The whistleblower at the University of East Anglia who leaked emails and other documents that reveal the fraud that is being perpetrated by the world's leading global warming alarmists did us all a great service. But it is important to realize that the deception didn't just begin:

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HT: TigerHawk

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Cap and Trade: A License Required for your HomeThinking about selling your house - A look at H.R. 2454 (Cap and trade bill) This is unbelievable!Only the beginning from this administration! Home owners take note & tell your friends and relatives who are home owners!Beginning 1 year after enactment of the Cap and Trade Act, you won't be able to sell your home unless you retrofit it to comply with

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Well explained ...Howard Bloom: Climate Change Is Nature's Way - WSJ.comClimate change activists are right. We are in for walloping shifts in the planet's climate. Catastrophic shifts. But the activists are wrong about the reason. Very wrong. And the prescription for a solution—a $27 trillion solution—is likely to be even more wrong. Why?Climate change is not the fault of man. It's Mother

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Eco-Hypocrites II « John StosselCalifornia's Mojave Desert was to be the site of 13 solar plants and wind farms -- creating those "green energy" jobs that we're told will save both the planet and the economy. But Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein plans to prevent that with a bill to block development of a million acres of the Mojave. The New York Times quotes a well-known environmentalist who has

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Amusing, and not at all surprising.  A couple of useful links in the Stossel story:Then They Came for the Toilet Paper and I Did Not Speak Out « John StosselHaving solved the rest of the world's problems, environmental groups like Greenpeace and the Sierra Club have turned their attention to our toilet paper. As you might expect, they don't like soft toilet paper. They think it's too soft.Why

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Well explained ...Howard Bloom: Climate Change Is Nature's Way - WSJ.comClimate change activists are right. We are in for walloping shifts in the planet's climate. Catastrophic shifts. But the activists are wrong about the reason. Very wrong. And the prescription for a solution—a $27 trillion solution—is likely to be even more wrong. Why?Climate change is not the fault of man. It's Mother

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Howard Bloom: Climate Change Is Nature's Way - WSJ.comClimate change activists are right. We are in for walloping shifts in the planet's climate. Catastrophic shifts. But the activists are wrong about the reason. Very wrong. And the prescription for a solution—a $27 trillion solution—is likely to be even more wrong. Why?Climate change is not the fault of man. It's Mother Nature's way. And sucking

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My studies were just a little before this time -- got my AB in Geology in 1974 and my MS in Geophysics in 1980 (about -- my memory is a little fuzzy on the exact date ;-), but I remember these days, and this is why I have *_ALWAYS_* been skeptical of the theories of Anthropogenic Global Warming.  This is a great blog post that all geologists (make that all geoSCIENTISTS) should read:Dumb Looks

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Why am I not surprised?FOXNews.com - Fraud in Europe's Cap and Trade System a 'Red Flag,' Critics SayThe top cops in Europe say carbon-trading has fallen prey to an organized crime scheme that has robbed the continent of $7.4 billion -- a massive fraud that lawmakers and energy experts say should send a "red flag" to the U.S., where the House approved cap-and-trade legislation over the summer

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I couldn't have said it better than Eric S. Raymond does:Armed and Dangerous » Blog Archive » Copenhagen Conference CrashesWell, it’s happened. The Copenhagen climate conference has concluded with a three-page fig-leaf over its naked failure that even the New York Times can’t spin as good news for the AGW alarmists. It’s kind of entertaining to watch them try, actually, but the glum tone of the

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An unarmed man is not a citizen, he is a subject.Tucson Sammy » Blog Archive » Tucson Celebrates Bill of Rights DayCharles Heller, host of the “Swap Shop” and “Liberty Watch” radio shows heard on KVOI 1030 AM, and all around good guy, arranged the event and acted as the moderator. The food was catered by Fourth Avenue Delectables; it was fantastic. Folks volunteered to take turns reading the

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Seen online at a password-protected site:There has been an argument for years as to when and why human brains started to grow large. The early hominids had brains no bigger than a chimp. One argument was that the brain got big then we started to walk because that freed the hands and the use of the hands forced the brain to develop. That is all very Lamarckian which should have made people wonder.

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Eric Raymond, one of my favorite geek-libertarians, has a few choice words for the AGW proponents in his blog Armed and Dangerous:From Russia, with loveOh, it just keeps getting better. As the Copenhagen conference collapses, word comes from Russia that the Moscow-based Institute for Economic Analysis has found evidence of skulduggery and fraud in the CRU’s treatment of Russian climate data.This

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Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » San Francisco: Progressive Paradise or Bankrupt Banana Republic?I always laugh when folks tell me that government intervention is needed because private industry is too short term oriented. But no one is more short term oriented than politicians looking to the next election or closing this year’s budget hole. In particular, capital maintenance is always ignored

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Fascinating lecture if you can take the time to watch it. » Lecture on Global Warming. It’s the Sun. Dvorak Uncensored: General interest observations and true web-log. This guy is a research analyst who does the most wonkish job of slamming global warming fears thus far. This lecture is from 2008. About one hour long. Update Wednesday, 16 Dec 2009Here's a shorter Q&A session of his: Peter Taylor

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Well said ... Government v. The Market | QandO ... the burger at Jack in the Box is safer than the mystery meat your child is served at school. Children are served tons of chicken in school each year that KFC won’t touch (KFC doesn’t do “spent hens” but your child does). Jack in the Box and KFC have to please and answer to customer demands if they want to stay in business. If KFC makes you sick

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This is one of the main reasons I am skeptical about AGW theory.The Sun, Cosmic Rays, Clouds And All Of That … | QandOWhich leaves me asking – again – how can such “science” that disregards the sun’s effect and raises an 800 year lagging effect (CO2) into a “cause” be taken seriously by intelligent and seemingly rational adults? Forget “consensus” and “conspiracy”. How did the Sun get ignored

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If you live in Arizona or went to the UofA, this might be of local interest. One of the emailers exposed in ClimateGate is a UofA prof, and here's some news about his response to a local reporter's questioning:Arizona's Own Espresso Pundit: Malcolm Hughes RespondsThe local media is starting to engage on the Climate Gate scandal. Nearly three weeks ago, I pointed out that the UA’s Malcolm Hughes

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Does the Second Amendment Apply in Chicago? - Reason MagazineLater this term, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in McDonald v. Chicago, a case that centers on whether the Windy City’s notorious handgun ban violates the 14th Amendment. As we’ll see, it most certainly does. The text of the 14th Amendment, the historical events leading to its adoption, the goals of its framers, and the

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Quick Links: Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Health Care Cost Control Good editorial today in the WSJ on the myth of government health care cost control: Chicago’s Thick Blue Wall | The Agitator My crime column for Reason this week look at the Chicago Police Department, which despite accumulating misconduct scandals continues to push for policies that make its officers less accountable to the public

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The main-stream media is starting to find out about the faulty foundation underlying the AGW edifice. BusinessDay - End ‘authority’ on climate change Prof Bruce Hewitson (Uninformed vitriol, November 19) pontificates on Andrew Kenny’s assessment (Ideology and money drive global-warming religion, November 16). Unfortunately for him, there has been a reformation. The time for pontification is over

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Interesting way to look at the AGW issue: Climate as an Indicator of Faith in Government » The Antiplanner In short, the real issue is not, “Is anthropogenic climate change happening?” Even if they could decipher the science behind the debate, which few of them can, the answer to this question doesn’t even matter to either progressives or libertarians. The real issue is, “What should we do

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