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I am really beginning to enjoy reading Miranda's columns...
1 posted on 02/26/2005 5:48:50 AM PST by NCjim
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To: NCjim

Yeah, not bad...first time I've read one.


2 posted on 02/26/2005 5:52:43 AM PST by Guillermo ("Now how can a Puerto Rican lose a fly ball in the sun?' - Harry Caray)
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To: NCjim

With a name like that, she just HAS to be PC! Good article, and good on'ya Dr. Crighton.


3 posted on 02/26/2005 5:54:07 AM PST by lafroste (gravity is not a force, dangit)
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To: NCjim
"While breaking the jaws of Greenpeace protesters is not to be recommended..."

Well it may not be 'recommended', but I'll bet it's loads of fun.

4 posted on 02/26/2005 5:56:47 AM PST by Condor51 (May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't. - Gen G Patton)
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"Proof of just how free a pass has been given to the global warming doomsayers came in the recent demolition of a hitherto unquestioned mathematical cornerstone of their theory. The so-called "hockey stick graph" published in 1998 by University of Massachusetts geoscientist Michael Mann became an article of faith, and underpinned the Kyoto Protocol. It purported to plot average surface temperatures of the Northern Hemisphere for the previous 1000 years. Temperatures appear to remain constant until 100 years ago when the graph takes a sudden upturn, supposedly showing the Earth heating up as the industrial revolution kicks in. "

"It took six years and several sacked scientific journal editors before doubt was thrown on the hockey stick. Last year Canadian scientists Stephen McIntyre and Ross McKitrick discovered a fundamental flaw in the computer program which produces the hockey stick. It seemed, whatever random data it was fed, the program almost always produced a hockey stick."

"The Canadians couldn't get their work published by a scientific journal but they put it on the web for all to see."

"That discovery hit me like a bombshell," wrote Richard Muller in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Technology Review. "Suddenly the hockey stick, the poster-child of the global warming community, turns out to be an artifact of poor mathematics." Eureka!"

"The voices of dissenters have been silenced for too long so all power to Crichton for bypassing the gatekeepers and going straight to the people. You can only suspect the pendulum of environmental thought might be swinging back towards the rational, collecting the odd Greenpeace jaw as it goes."


5 posted on 02/26/2005 5:59:37 AM PST by Grampa Dave (The MSM has been a WMD, Weapon of Mass Disinformation for the Rats for at least 4 decades.)
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To: NCjim

If they had their attitude adjusted more often, maybe they would quit their protesting.


6 posted on 02/26/2005 6:00:28 AM PST by Piquaboy (22 year veteran of the Army, Air Force and Navy, Pray for all our military .)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Ernest here is another club to pound the green Willies with.


Apparently, the watermelon's hockey stick math formula was "gamed" to show so called global warming.


7 posted on 02/26/2005 6:05:25 AM PST by Grampa Dave (The MSM has been a WMD, Weapon of Mass Disinformation for the Rats for at least 4 decades.)
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To: NCjim

Thanks for the post.


8 posted on 02/26/2005 6:11:58 AM PST by RadioAstronomer
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To: NCjim
While breaking the jaws of Greenpeace protesters is not to be recommended ...

Whoa there. Let's not be too hasty in rejecting that option ...

9 posted on 02/26/2005 6:12:45 AM PST by IronJack
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To: NCjim
"just Cockney barrow boy spivs",

....as opposed to panty wearing watermelons on the receiving end of a well deserved @$$ kicking.

10 posted on 02/26/2005 6:15:19 AM PST by Feckless
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To: NCjim
I watched Crichton on, I think, C-span the other day doing a lecture on the environment. He was brilliant
11 posted on 02/26/2005 6:18:48 AM PST by Popman
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"That discovery hit me like a bombshell," wrote Richard Muller in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Technology Review. "Suddenly the hockey stick, the poster-child of the global warming community, turns out to be an artifact of poor mathematics." Eureka!

No it is an article of pure and clever deceit. Any reputable scientist would have tested the program against known data or as in the case random data. It probably took a hell of a lot of work to produce the program that would give them the desired answer regardless of the data feed it.

12 posted on 02/26/2005 6:22:34 AM PST by cpdiii (roughneck, geologist, pilot, pharmacist, oil field trash. (OIL FIELD TRASH was fun))
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To: NCjim

"Everybody" says it, therefore it must be true. Never mind that there are no facts to back up "everybody"


13 posted on 02/26/2005 6:25:53 AM PST by Graybeard58 (Remember and pray for Spec.4 Matt Maupin - MIA/POW- Iraq since 04/09/04)
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To: NCjim

I wish the green Nazis would try to storm my workplace; the guards are authorized to use deadly force.


15 posted on 02/26/2005 6:31:26 AM PST by AF68 (A political party that engages in vote fraud won't hesitate to steal all of your rights.)
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To: NCjim

Excellent article. Thanks for posting!

"The voices of dissenters have been silenced for too long so all power to Crichton for bypassing the gatekeepers and going straight to the people. You can only suspect the pendulum of environmental thought might be swinging back towards the rational, collecting the odd Greenpeace jaw as it goes."

Finally! And I really loved the imagery of floor traders beating the snot out of those dopes. Anyone that can work a stock exchange floor has got to be a quick thinker and able to handle anything that comes their way. It was probably like swatting flies for them, LOL!


17 posted on 02/26/2005 6:36:03 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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To: NCjim

The jaws of Greepeace communists should be broken often and at every opportunity.

Greenpeace is one of the lead communist organizations banning DDT. The mosquito borne illness that DDT could control affects 300 million people in the Third World and kills 2 to 3 million citizens, mostly women, children and babies. Greenpeace is engaged in mass murder, but the ICC will never charge them.

I place Greenpeace in the crowd that includes Hitler, Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot.

Every time a jaw of a Greenpeace communist is broken is a cause for celebration. If it were up to me, the United States should declare Greenpeace members as terrorists to be shot on sight.


19 posted on 02/26/2005 6:57:39 AM PST by sergeantdave (Smart growth is Marxist insects agitating for a collective hive.)
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To: NCjim
What [the 35 protesters] were not prepared for was the post-prandial aggression of oil traders who kicked and punched them back on to the pavement . . .

Wonder if there is a video of the event? I'd pay good money to see that.

20 posted on 02/26/2005 7:02:42 AM PST by El Gato (Activist Judges can twist the Constitution into anything they want ... or so they think.)
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To: NCjim

The MSM discover the truth about Bolshevism.


21 posted on 02/26/2005 7:06:27 AM PST by trek
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To: NCjim
The Sidney Morning Herald is the NYT of Australia, but Miranda is a delight and makes the SMH almost bearable.
24 posted on 02/26/2005 10:09:51 AM PST by Chgogal
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