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You can't make it up LI - sometimes climate change is good, and sometimes it isn't
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11 mar 14 |
According to the authoritative New Zealand website, "horsetalk.co.nz", 800 years ago, a warming climate helped Mongolia. Fortunately (for the Mongols), it was accompanied by increased rainfall. Today, however, it is accompanied by drought. No danger of Mongol invasions now. http://horsetalk.co.nz/2014/03/11/climate-fueled-rise-horse-numbers-crucial-great-empire-study
Talking of Mongolia, one thing
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You can't make it up L - just because global warming stopped doesn't mean it's not happening
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27 feb 14 |
This article is surely a spoof. Note a couple of clues: it describes the fact that global temperature hasn't risen for 17 years as a "slowdown" rather than a "halt". It refers to the National Academy of Sciences and the Royal Society as authorities, when the motto of the latter defines it as the negation of argument from authority - "Nullius in verba". Finally, the arbitrariness of the time periods
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Correction - the Daily Mail, not the Guardian, has conquered America
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27 feb 14 |
EXCLUSIVE - An 'affair' with white sheriff's daughter, drugs and claims of a race hate crime cover-up: Disturbing death of American Idol star's brother found naked with his tongue missing, eyes gouged and throat slit on a Texas ranch
In a previous post, I claimed the UK's Guardian newspaper had "conquered America". But the Guardian can't compete with headlines like this from the Daily Mail.
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"Frank's good, but Beefheart's the real thing"
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25 feb 14 |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBa8bS_vZkM
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A serious commentary on the current situation in the Ukraine
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25 feb 14 |
The newly-overthrown president was seen in Balaclava. No, not in A balaclava, just in Balaclava, the city. He may be trying to flee to Russia, like when Louis XVI tried to flee to Austria. If he does go to Russia, he could borrow a balaclava from Pussy Riot, who wear them (see picture).
Balaclava is in the Crimea. It is where balaclavas were invented, during the Crimean war. The Earl of Cardigan w
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The Stones, Hyde Park, 1969
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22 feb 14 |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-YCqUMQ29U
How many people know that the Eagles' "Hotel California" contains a misquote from Jagger quoting Shelley?
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You can't make it up XXXXIX - acidification moves seawater toward neutral pH
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18 feb 14 |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_acidification
This correctly reports the pH of the oceans at around 8.14, but it somehow skips the important point that this is alkaline.
The authors included a graph with the comment 'NOAA provides evidence for upwelling of corrosive "acidified" water onto the Continental Shelf' and explain that this "corosive 'acidified'" means corrosive of calcium carbonate.
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You can't make it up XXXXVIII - current UK floods are unprecedented: apart from 1362, 1607, and 1953
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14 feb 14 |
Graph: UK precipitation has hardly changed in 100 years
On February 14, the Guardian told us in six different headlines that the flooding in the UK is clear evidence of global warming. The argument goes like this: 1. There has been global warming. 2. There is flooding. 3. Therefore, global warming causes flooding.
Climate change: expert's verdict - It is here, it is now and we must act
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Facebook restricts users' gender to a mere 50 values
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14 feb 14 |
I once worked in an insurance company which allowed for 65,537 values for 'gender' in its database. See if you can work out how. http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/feb/13/transgender-facebook-expands-gender-options
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Dead giraffes, Dawkins and Darwin
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13 feb 14 |
There's a fuss in the news about a zoo which killed a giraffe. One interesting thing about dead giraffes is you can dissect them and find the route of the laryngeal nerve. It is an example of 'bad design' - evidence for evolution : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cO1a1Ek-HD0
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This wouldn't happen in America
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10 feb 14 |
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You can't make it up XXXXVII - global warming allegedly one of the causes of war in Syria
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04 feb 14 |
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The dangerous life of American football players
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03 feb 14 |
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Is this another great country or WHAT??!!?
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31 jan 14 |
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Is this a great country or WHAT??!!?
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28 jan 14 |
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Is nature trying to tell us something?
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26 jan 14 |
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You can't make it up XXXXVI - worldwide cold caused by global warming
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08 jan 14 |
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Silverlight for Linux
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08 jan 14 |
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Don't use agoda.com - they won't accept a complaint about a locked emergency exit at a hotel
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03 jan 14 |
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You can't make it up XXXXV - the "Clitanic" disaster
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28 dec 13 |
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What to do when Git decapitates you
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28 dec 13 |
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More revisionism from Bletchley Park
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26 dec 13 |
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Gradually Getting Git
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25 dec 13 |
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You can't make it up XXXXIV - global warming skeptics banned
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19 dec 13 |
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You can't make it up XXXXIII - weather isn't climate, except when it is
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04 dec 13 |
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You can't make it up XXXXII - Greenpeace activists compared to Warsaw Ghetto insurgents of 1943
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24 nov 13 |
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More early Soft Machine
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17 nov 13 |
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A gift to Pearl Harbor conspiracy theorists
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13 nov 13 |
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You can't make it up XXXXI - Philippines typhoon deaths blamed on - guess what?
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09 nov 13 |
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A final farewell to Microsoft
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02 nov 13 |
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You can't make it up XXXX - trust in science correlated with political opinion
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17 oct 13 |
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The Bonzos - look out there's a monster coming
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15 oct 13 |
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You can't make it up XXXIX - Fox News defends the scientific method
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01 oct 13 |
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How close America has come to nuclear disaster
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21 sep 13 |
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You can't make it up XXXVIIII - global warming scaremongers right even if they're wrong
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18 sep 13 |
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Did Britain really invent EVERY sport?
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07 sep 13 |
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You can't make it up XXXVIII - deadly cold snap in Peru symptom of global warming...
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05 sep 13 |
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You can't make it up XXXVII - the analogy between drug and climate hysteria
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25 aug 13 |
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How to install Rails 4 on a Celeron 4GB netbook
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21 aug 13 |
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Romanian princess charged in Central Oregon cockfighting racket
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17 aug 13 |
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Correction to "When Git lies to you"
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11 aug 13 |
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Soft Machine Live 1970 - complete concert
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29 jul 13 |
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You can't make it up XXXVI - a prediction so alarmist even climatologists hesitate to endorse it
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25 jul 13 |
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You can't make it up XXXV - climate scientists predict the past
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23 jul 13 |
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A surprisingly coherent criticism of Edward Snowden from a 'terrorism analyst'
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21 jul 13 |
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You can't make it up XXXIV - we are going to die of NOT ENOUGH CO2
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03 jul 13 |
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Ruby Two's Day
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27 jun 13 |
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The Guardian conquers America
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24 jun 13 |
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Comment in Guardian deleted
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28 may 13 |
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You can't make it up XXXIII - BBC admits there has been no warming for 15 years
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21 may 13 |
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I saw the 17-year cicadas in New York in 1996 - now they're back
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20 may 13 |
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Obama agrees - 97% of climate scientists believe in global warming
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18 may 13 |
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You can't make it up XXXII - science is a democracy after all
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17 may 13 |
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Once bitten, twice shy
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13 may 13 |
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The Guardian contradicts my article about bike riding in Cornwall
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07 may 13 |
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Why it's not always worth helping Google correct their bike map of the USA
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04 may 13 |
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Scientists say they didn't mention the Higgs particle, because its existence was 'obvious'
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28 apr 13 |
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"Calling out" - Obama supporters use Maoist techniques to stifle debate
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26 apr 13 |
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Darwin strikes again - this time in Wales
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23 apr 13 |
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You can't make it up XXXI - sing for the climate
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19 apr 13 |
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You can't make it up XXX - another hockey stick bites the dust
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06 apr 13 |
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You can't make it up XXIX - cold weather linked to... guess what?
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25 mar 13 |
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Finally, a social media site I can see the point of
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24 mar 13 |
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You can't make it up XXVIII - campaign to reinstate 'debate' about climate change in schools
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20 mar 13 |
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You can't make it up XXVII - an article about hunting in the Guardian
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