Major Hasan was a Home-Grown Terrorist
There’s no doubt about it now. The shooting was pre-planned and he attempted to co-ordinate it with al Qaeda recruiter al-Awlaki. The Washington Post reports: In the months before the deadly shootings at Fort Hood, Army Maj. Nidal M. Hasan intensified his communications with a radical Yemeni American cleric and began to discuss surreptitious financial transfers and other steps that could translate his thoughts into action, according to two sources briefed on a collection of secret e-mails between the two… “He [Hasan] clearly became mo

Found in the CRU Document Dump: Michael Mann and History
Part of an e-mail sent from Michael Mann in 1999: Hi Phil, SOrry that you have taken such a negative spin from this. I had hoped it was all resolved pretty amicably, and emphasized to Keith and Tim that I was being perhaps overly picky this time PRECISELY to avoid the misunderstanding that happened last time around w/ Science. Trust that I’m certainly on board w/ you that we’re all working towards a common goal. That is what is distressing about commentarys (yours from last year, and potentially, without us having had approprimate input, Keith and Tim’s now) that appear to “divide and conquer”. The sk

Found in the CRU Document Dump
A letter written by climate scientist Tom Wigley in response to a solicitation from a group of 11 climate scientists who were soliciting support for “immediate control of emissions” prior to the Kyoto agreement. The letter is dated 11/25/97: Dear Eleven, I was very disturbed by your recent letter, and your attempt to get others to endorse it. Not only do I disagree with the content of this letter, but I also believe that you have severely distorted the IPCC “view” when you say that “the latest IPCC assessment makes a convincing economic case for immediate control of emissions.&#

MSNBC Should Fire Norah O’Donnell
This is a case of grade A media bias. It’s so blatant that only MSNBC could pull something like this and not be ashamed. Remember this video? Click here to view the embedded video. Susan Roesgen, the CNN reporter in that clip, was fired three months later. Kudos to CNN for not allowing this blatant display of bias to define their network. Now have a look at this clip (just watch the first 20 seconds): Click here to view the embedded video. What you don’t see just before the clip starts is a long roving shot of Norah just walkin

Global Warming Hysterics Get Burned by Predictions
From Der Spiegel: The planet’s temperature curve rose sharply for almost 30 years, as global temperatures increased by an average of 0.7 degrees Celsius (1.25 degrees Fahrenheit) from the 1970s to the late 1990s. “At present, however, the warming is taking a break,” confirms meteorologist Mojib Latif of the Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences in the northern German city of Kiel. Latif, one of Germany’s best-known climatologists, says that the temperature curve has reached a plateau. “There can be no argument about that,” he says. “We have to