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January 27, 2014 0

Gauntlet Tossing

By News Desk

Eli Prof. Curry, perhaps you would be kind enough to reconcile the claim in your written testimony that increasing Antarctic sea ice extent as reported in the AR5 WGI report weakens the case for attributing most of the warming to human influences can be reconciled with your 2010 PNAS paper, Accelerated warming of the Southern Ocean and its impacts on the hydrological cycle and sea ice the abstract of which reads: The observed sea surface temperature in the Southern Ocean shows a substantial warming trend for the second half of the 20th century. Associated with the warming, there has been an enhanced atmospheric hydrological cycle in the Southern Ocean that results in an increase of the Antarctic sea ice for the past three decades through the reduced upward ocean heat transport and increased snowfall

January 27, 2014 0

Steyn doesn’t understand the picture

By News Desk

It’s from his blog post . He seems to think the hand covering his mouth belongs to Michael Mann, but it’s actually his lawyer’s. Didn’t work though, so his legal analyst team appears to have had enough:               They can quit him, it turns out, and the blog post is an indication why.

January 26, 2014 0

Were You Aware the NFL is Treated as Non-Profit and thus Exempt From Taxes? Should it Be?

By News Desk

Please consider a Fairleigh Dickinson University report Your Tax Dollars into NFL Owners’ Pockets? Americans may love football, but few support the use of public funds and tax breaks for the National Football League and a vast majority were unaware the NFL is a not-for-profit entity, according to a recent national survey from Fairleigh Dickinson University’s PublicMind.

January 26, 2014 0

Peer Preview

By News Desk

Tweet A neat little Indian carryout opened near Eli’s house, and they play this stuff non stop.  Food is good too. For those interested in peer review try this about how a cat became a co-author to deal with the editor demanding a second author if the text used the pronoun we and the pre-word processor delight of retyping a paper to meet the demands of peer review. “Why was I willing to do such an irreverent thing

January 25, 2014 0

Economist’s Absurd "Divided Thailand" Commentary

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In their latest article, " Political crisis in Thailand: You go your way, I’ll go mine ," one of these lobbying firms comes to mind -  fellow Chatham House corporate member Amsterdam & Partners .  Robert Amsterdam  is currently representing deposed dictator, accused mass murderer, and convicted criminal Thaksin Shinawatra, as well as his "red shirt" enforcers. It claims: Indeed, many red shirts say Bangkok is already lost. Mr Suthep has nearly free rein there, closing down most government offices.