We are already intimately familiar with the media elites, uniting in solidarity to cut off Canadians from viewing the “offensive content” produced by the Danish cartoonists a few years ago. In their own eyes, they were righteous in their roles as gatekeepers of knowledge, to keep us from offensive content then.But now, with Bill C-10 and the government’s efforts to save Canadian taxpayers from paying for porn and snuff, they are crying out that it is ludicrous to talk about censoring... Read Full Story
So I have occasionally used this blog to ask the question — what observations would be inconsistent with model predictions?
The answer that keeps coming up is “no observations” — though a few commenters have suggested that a temperature change of 10 degrees C over a decade would be inconsistent, as too would be the glaciation of NYC over the next few years. These responses certainly are responsive, but I think help to make my point.
Others, such as climate modeler James Annan, suggest that my... Read Full Story
My column, below, appeared April 12 in National Post (Toronto). It relates to the global warming issue.
Wikipedia’s Zealots
As I’m writing this column for the Post, I am simultaneously editing a page on Wikipedia. I am confident that just about everything I write for my column will be available for you to read. I am equally confident that you will be able to read just about nothing that I write for the page on Wikipedia.
The Wikipedia page is entitled Naomi Oreskes, after a Professor of... Read Full Story
Blasting Junta, UN Halts Cyclone Aid
Posted: 1 hour, 50 minutes ago
Filed Under: Myanmar Cyclone, Natural Disaster, World News
AP
In a drastic move, the United Nations stops sending cyclone aid to Myanmar, saying the country’s military government has seized aid intended for the victims. More than 1 million people were left homeless by the storm, which also killed at least 23,000 people. Some officials fear that death toll will top 100,000 as entire villages were wiped out. Read Full Story
“I’ll take Mexican ‘justice’ any day over human rights grillings in Canada”
“It has recently been documented that employees of this publicly funded agency [the Human Rights Commission] routinely logged onto anti-immigrant and racist websites and posted vulgar, hate-filled messages to stir things up. And they did so by stealing access to an unsuspecting citizen’s wireless Internet connection.
“According to the commission, no rules were broken because there are no rules.
“Seriously.
“In less... Read Full Story
Parents of a third-grade student at Chatham Park Elementary School approached the administration on April 16 to ask for help in making a “social transition” for their child.
The Haverford School District consulted experts on transgender children, then sent letters to parents advising them that the guidance counselor would meet with the school’s 100 third-grade students to explain why their classmate would now wear girls’ clothes and be called by a girl’s name.
How inclusive of them to be so... Read Full Story
PRIME MINISTER HARPER ANNOUNCES CITIZENSHIP FOR CANADA’S LAST KNOWN SURVIVING VETERAN OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR
May 9, 2008
Ottawa, Ontario
Prime Minister Stephen Harper today announced that John Babcock, Canada’s last known surviving veteran of the First World War, is to be granted Canadian citizenship in recognition of his military service to Canada and his expressed desire, at age 107, to become a citizen of the country where he was born.
“We are proud to welcome Mr. Babcock back... Read Full Story
Thus while Climate Science agrees that there is a significant concern on water available from the Colorado River, and planning should be a major priority with respect to long-term drought, the multi-decadal global model predictions are just hypotheses and their use as part of the computation as definitive, skillful predictions to present quantitative probabilities of Lake Mead drying out is misleading to the policymakers. This is yet another example of overselling the skill that exists in... Read Full Story
