Category: General

Now we’ll see some real action.

Class actions in the offing?

A cross examination of global warming science conducted by the University of Pennsylvania’s Institute for Law and Economics has concluded that virtually every claim advanced by global warming proponents fail to stand up to scrutiny.

…found that the climate establishment does not follow the scientific method. Instead, it “seems overall to comprise an effort to marshal evidence in favor of a predetermined policy preference.”

Jason Scott Johnston, Professor and Director of the Program on Law, Environment and Economy at the University of Pennsylvania Law School

on virtually every major issue in climate change science, the [reports of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change] and other summarizing work by leading climate establishment scientists have adopted various rhetorical strategies that seem to systematically conceal or minimize what appear to be fundamental scientific uncertainties or even disagreements.

Now that US tort lawyers have been shown the way, watch for a deluge of class action suits against the AGW deceivers.

Postcard from Portugal

Ferret – I really hope you enjoyed your holidays.  I have spent the intervening time trying to reconcile  the image of something small pink and furry donning  a hi-vis jacket and liney gloves every morning.   Here’s my contribution, for what it’s worth.  1,000 words on the button.

Dear Auntie Araminta and Auntie Bilby

Continue reading “Postcard from Portugal”

Memories

My comment about facebook on Araminta’s blog set me off on a bit of a reverie. (Slow day at work. Finished one project, bit of admin, trying to psyche up for the next substantive bit of work, failing at the moment.)

The second school I attended* was St Andrews C of E Primary School in Uxbridge. My father was in the Royal Air Force and the church and school was just across the road from the main gate of RAF Uxbridge. (The road there has since been rebuilt and the school is now behind a block of rather boring flats.) Because we were a service family, the list of schools I attended never fits in the spaces on forms where you have to ‘list schools attended – not that I fill those out these days. Apart from the odd stand-out detail, most of my recollections of school days are fairly hazy – I wasn’t really that interested, bright but lazy, that’s me, and the friends of my childhood and youth were drawn from the ranks of the other service brats marooned with me on various RAF bases in the wilds of different parts of England. Interested in any more?

Twits- sorry tweets

The working name was just “Status” for a while. It actually didn’t have a name. We were trying to name it, and mobile was a big aspect of the product early on … We liked the SMS aspect, and how you could update from anywhere and receive from anywhere.

We wanted to capture that in the name—we wanted to capture that feeling: the physical sensation that you’re buzzing your friend’s pocket. It’s like buzzing all over the world. So we did a bunch of name-storming, and we came up with the word “twitch,” because the phone kind of vibrates when it moves. But “twitch” is not a good product name because it doesn’t bring up the right imagery. So we looked in the dictionary for words around it, and we came across the word “twitter,” and it was just perfect. The definition was “a short burst of inconsequential information,” and “chirps from birds.” And that’s exactly what the product was.

Jack Dorsey

140 characters; well let’s see:

Continue reading “Twits- sorry tweets”