Hard hitting global and local news
Hard hitting global and local news
Eli Rabett Eli Rabett Eli Rabett is a not quite failed professorial techno-bunny, a chair election from retirement, at a wanna be research university that has a lot to be proud of but has swallowed the Kool-Aid. The students are naive but great and the administrators vary day-to-day between homicidal and delusional
Eli Rabett Eli Rabett Eli Rabett is a not quite failed professorial techno-bunny, a chair election from retirement, at a wanna be research university that has a lot to be proud of but has swallowed the Kool-Aid. The students are naive but great and the administrators vary day-to-day between homicidal and delusional.
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More: J Bowers" Has the gazelle just fired a shot across the nose of everyone’s favorite hyena?
26/10/12 2:36 PM Lotharsson said… "It may be one paper but it is about the most important aspect of global warming, manmade or naturally caused?" Er…if I’m not badly mistaken (a) not really and (b) your implication does not follow. The one paper in question is primarily about doing a hemispherical historical temperature reconstruction – which had not been done before.
Letters, Eli Gets Letters, and Email and Twits Off the top of the pile, a letter to the Gibraltar Chronicle (by way of Barry Bickmore ) from Alfred Cortes, but first some background. The government of Gibraltar held a Thinking Green Forum last Saturday, with Al Gore and Juan Verde, the former known to all, the latter a former high Department of Commerce Official who presented the position of the Obama administration on renewable energy and how the US election will affect Europe (that would be nice to know). This, of course, attracted the flies, and who shows up but everyone’s favorite martian, the Lord Monckton, spewing as usual, and he got a pretty good press in Gibraltar before going totally off the rails as Eli hinted yesterday. So, what lit the fuse. Barry Bickmore came up with the smoking letter: The on-going campaign by the Chronicle against Al Gore and the parallel promotion of the views of Lord Monckton is hard to understand. Al Gore, Nobel Peace Prize Winner, Elected on four occasions to the US Senate and deprived of the Presidency by a biased US Supreme Court, can hardly be placed on an equal footing to an obscure climate sceptic who represents nobody, as the Chronicle seems to be attempting to do
