Homogenized, sterilized and pasteurized
The University of East Anglia’s CRU has told the public it no longer stores the raw data upon which it bases its famous global warming theory. The UK Times reports it as saying, “we do not hold the original raw data but only the value-added (quality controlled and homogenised) data.” Scientists at the University of East Anglia (UEA) have admitted throwing away much of the raw temperature data on which their predictions of global warming are based. It means that other academics are not able to check basic calculations said to show a long-term rise in temperature over the past 15

A Blast From the Past
A Harvard Crimson article from 2003 described what fate befell two Harvard scientists who dared to challenge Global Warming. A study by two Harvard researchers quietly published last January in a small research journal has set off a political storm that has led to debate on the senate floor and internal wrangling at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The study, co-authored by two scientists at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, concluded that the 20th century has been neither the warmest century of the past millennium nor the one with the most extre

The Big Mistake
As I suspected in the comments of a previous post, the case against Datu Unsay Mayor Andal Ampatuan Junior, who is suspected of killing 57 people in Philippine election related violence, is unlikely to prosper. The reason is simple. Junior is the son of Senior. And Senior is related to cabinet officials in the Arroyo administration. There are cousins and relatives all up and down the line. Hence the prospect of Junior ever walking the last mile to gurney is somewhere between slim and none. Jojo Robles of the Manila Standard writes:

More AGW Controversy
Watts Up With That? describes the controversy surrounding New Zealand’s official temperature readings after the Climate Science Coalition replotted the raw data and found the “rising temperatures” were really flat. The rises in temperatures reported by the official (NIWA) figures were the result of adjustments. However, the agency defended its adjustments. NIWA’s David Wratt has told Investigate magazine this afternoon his organization denies faking temperature data and he claims NIWA has a good explanation for adjusting

So sue me!
Fox News reports that Navy Seals who captured the mastermind of the attack on the Blackwater convoy through Fallujah in 2004 are being sued by their captive for punching him. Navy SEALs have secretly captured one of the most wanted terrorists in Iraq — the alleged mastermind of the murder and mutilation of four Blackwater USA security guards in Fallujah in 2004. And three of the SEALs who captured him are now facing criminal charges, sources told FoxNews.com. The three, all members of the Navy’s elite commando unit, have refused non-judicial punishment — called an admiral’s mast —