Thursday, January 09, 2014

Prediction Punditry

Key Note presentation by Vicente Barros , Co-chair of Working Group II, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) (Photo credit: Citt)

Global Warming (Photo credit: Rétrofuturs (Hulk4598) / Stéphane Massa-Bidal)

Here's Where Teens Are Going Instead Of Facebook

How Facebook deals with controversial content

Why Everything You Know About Cancer And The Environment Is Wrong

Most Credible Climate Skeptic Not So Credible After All

Kate Sheppard* is a (now former) staff reporter in Mother Jones' Washington bureau. She was previously the political reporter for Grist and a writing fellow at The American Prospect

On this episode of Power Hour, Alex Epstein talks with Dr. Patrick Michaels about global warming and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Dr. Michaels is Director of the Center for the Study of Science at the Cato Institute. He taught Environmental Science for 30 years at University of Virginia. He is a past President of the American Association of State Climatologists, and former Program Chair of the Committee on Applied Climatology of the American Meteorological Society. A former contributing author to the IPCC, he is an outspoken critic of the organization’s politicization of science.

Climatologist Dr. Patrick Michaels on Global Warming and the IPCC

Articles By S. Fred Singer

The Renewable Electricity Standard is a Hoax, a Fraud, and a Rip-Off

Chris de Freitas: Emotion clouding underlying science of global warming

Most people are surprised to hear that no one has uncovered any empirical real-world evidence that humans are causing dangerous global warming. Finding this evidence is crucial, since scientific issues are resolved by observations that support a theory or hypothesis.

No science should have to rely on one group or authority saying, "Just trust us," particularly when tens of millions of dollars of public policy decisions are on the line.

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The Climate Elusion

It was surface temps before it was heat hiding in the deep oceans. It was decreasing snow before it was increasing snow. It was ice extent before it was ice volume. Etc etc. Whatever happens, there is always a new story devised/concocted to “explain” that whatever is happening is wholly compatible with AGW and especially with the “it’s worse than we thought” meme.

We have no way to tell what is scientifically plausible to think about future climates.

GM Crops Do Not Deliver More Nutrition

ASSESSING THE SAFETY AND NUTRITIONAL QUALITY OF GENETICALLY ENGINEEREDFOODS

Obama, the Great Dis-Equalizer

Freedom Rider: Prosecuting Black Victims

Prosecutors go to bizarre lengths to put Black victims of police gunfire in prison. A young man blinded by a cop’s bullet may spend 35 years in prison. A unarmed, mentally ill man who was shot at by police faces 25 years behind bars because the cops wounded two bystanders. Who cares? “The black misleadership class are unconcerned with the plight of the people who are targeted by the system.

On the Front Lines of Class War: Why the Fight for a Livable Wage is Everyone's Fight

“Solidarity unionism” has energized thousands of workers in low wage industries, especially fast food. The movement has been building for more than a decade, in response to the pauperization of the U.S. working class. "There are millions of workers in this industry living in poverty, with no consistent scheduling, no job security and no respect.

Health Care Now

42% of Americans now identify as political independents

A record number of Americans have abandoned both parties and now identify themselves as independents. Gallup: Forty-two percent of Americans, on average, identified as political independents in 2013, the highest Gallup has measured since it began conducting interviews by telephone 25 years ago. Meanwhile, Republican identification fell to 25%, the lowest over that time span. At 31%, Democratic identification is unchanged from the last four years but down from 36% in 2008. The results are based on more than 18,000 interviews with Americans...