Remember those three Americans of questionable judgment who went hiking near the Iraq-Iran border and were arrested by Iranian forces? They have been formally charged with espionage and will stand trial. There is concern—well-founded, methinks—that the Iranians will attempt to use these prisoners as bargaining chips for their nuclear program. Our esteemed president must avoid … Read more
…and I’m pretty sure it’s anthropogenic. Heh. Since our last action-packed episode—hacked emails and reports detailing doubts, destruction of evidence, conspiracy to sabotage peer reviews, deceitful data omission, good stuff like that on “global warming,” remember?—it seems Phil Jones, head of the climate research unit at the University of East Anglia, has resigned in disgrace. … Read more
In case you haven’t heard—and given the shameless bias of most mainstream news sources (particularly on the topic of global warming), you may well not have—hackers recently breached the network of a prominent British climate research organization and released about 61 megabytes of confidential information “into the wild.” To say the released information is damning … Read more