Tag: antarctica

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

Peer Preview

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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 21, 2014 0

Did anyone else pick up this Pielke prediction?

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From November 11, 2011, RPJr says : The Obama Administration has put off a decision on the Keystone XL pipeline until immediately after the 2012 election. At that point a newly elected Republican president will be able to quickly approve it or President Obama can do the same without concern for an upcoming election. Responding to enviro claims that rejecting the original Keystone application was a victory, RPJr continues: Let’s return to this February, 2013 and see if "victory" still smells as sweet — when plans re-emerge for crude oil flowing south, regardless of who wins the election.

January 9, 2014 0

Breathless in Antarctica Writes

By News Desk

Tweet As of today, both the Akademik Shokalskiy and the Xue Long are in open water SYDNEY, January 08, 13:56 /ITAR-TASS/. The Russian research ship Akademik Shokalsky has finally got out of the ice and reached open water, chief mate Nikolai Velichko told Itar-Tass on Wednesday

January 7, 2014 0

It’s Not a Bug

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Tweet A couple of hours ago, Eli pointed out that the Richard Trolls of the world should be pumping up the Spirit of Mawson expedition as a return to the old time way of privately funding exploration.  After all every bunny knows that goverment funding is the distorting devil, put into words by Richard Lindzen it mostly comes down to the money—to the incentive structure of academic research funded by government grants.