Archive for August, 2007
Things are heating up
Some environmentalists and commentators have suggested that global-warming “denial” be made a crime, much as Holocaust denial is in some countries. Others have proposed that climate-change dissidents be prosecuted in Nuremberg-style trials. The Weather Channel’s Heidi Cullen has suggested that television meteorologists be stripped of their American Meteorological Society certification if they dare to question predictions of catastrophic global warming.
Boston Globe, Hot tempers on global warming
Not being a denialist myself, yuo understand, just wondering at the crazed intolerence of some people. Making a criminal of Freeman Dyson, Professor of Physics at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton seems a little harsh:
My first heresy says that all the fuss about global warming is grossly exaggerated
BBC staff – idle hands and Wikipedia
Wikiscanner is making a splash as Wikipedia’s past edits are trawled. Here’s one I found: someone at the BBC (IP address 132.185.240.120) changed George Bush’s name from George Walker Bush to George Wanker Bush. Evidence here.
Could I stop paying for them please?
Execution and murder
He was the second of the group of twenty-three kidnapped Koreans to be executed by the Taliban…
Robin Denselow, BBC Newsnight
Execute means to put to death after a legal process. Terrorists or criminals do not execute people, they murder them.
In my country it is illegal for me to refuse to pay for this.
