Friday, 2 February 2007
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Er, don’t be evil….
Apparently the New Zealand government did not like what this blogger wrote.
If anyone is interested I have a fair bit of hosting space available. Email me.
(via Tim Blair)
Written by jay on February 4th, 2007 with no comments.
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Columnist Mahmoud Habbash also acknowledged that the fighting had caused grave damage to the Palestinians on the international arena. The internal fighting, he said, has distorted the image of the Palestinians in the eyes of the world.
“The world is watching how the Palestinians are destroying their institutions and achievements with their own hands. They see how we are mercilessly slaughtering innocent people. We are losing the sympathy of the world. I’m afraid the world will now view us differently.” jerusalem post
Not differently. Rather as authors of your own misfortunes.
Written by jay on February 4th, 2007 with no comments.
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Though the mass media are now well-programmed to focus on the more alarmist aspects of the
report, the halving of the sea-level projection is in effect a declaration, from the heart of the
“consensus”, that the consequences of warmer worldwide weather will be minor and may be
beneficial, that the worst scenarios are no longer probable, and that the panic is officially over. Viscount Monckton (pdf)
Unfortunately, global warming hysteria tends to overwhelm rational analysis and so we have the spectacle of our Prime Minister rushing to come up with an environmental policy based on the panic the erroneous 2001 report of the IPCC created.
It is fascinating that the 2007 report confirms that those of us skeptical of the 2001 report were correct. As Lord Monckton points out, the current report confirms that the 2001 report overestimated human influence on global warming by roughly 1/3 and has halved the 2001 report’s best estimate of sea level rise to a mere 17 inches by 2100.
What this suggests is that it would have been foolish to base any significant policy initiative on the 2001 report because, as the scientists have now shown, the science in that report was uncertain and incorrect in many particulars.
A good example of why it is foolish lies in the Stern Report which predicated its economic prescription on the science of the 2001 IPCC report. now that the 2001 report has been revised (not to say discredited) the entire basis of Stern’s draconian and invasive policies has been destroyed.
Similarly, the scientific basis for the Kyoto agreement has been pretty effectively demolished by the very people who created it. Kyoto was founded upon panic induced by the hockey stick projections and, as evidence is accumulated and models are refined it is becoming apparent that this panic was unjustified.
Refining projections is what scientists should be doing. They should be looking for confirming data and they should be looking for data which does not confirm their original projections.
Policy makers, on the other hand, should be looking for strategies which take into account the fact climate science is uncertain, that computer models are, at best at the mercy of the data which they are fed, that projections can and, as we see in the 2007 report, do change. They should balance the very real present cost of proposed programs against the merely possible future benefits of such programs.
(thanks to SDA for the Monckton tip)
Written by jay on February 4th, 2007 with 1 comment.
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