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krazykiwi

Luc, we agree on some matters and disagree on others. She’s a spirited debater though .. and if she decides to pursue the Law side of her double degree then I hope never to be on the wrong side of the court. That said, she and I are pretty much aligned on the climate change matter. She had brought into the whole global warming package, having been force-fed this through school, but my ‘conversion’ about 3 years ago piqued her interest and she’s done her own research and changed her views. She’s unlikely to comment here at KB… but I’ll ask her.
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May 22, 2010 4:41pm
krazykiwi

Prominent Princeton Scientist Dr. Happer Testifies to Congress:

‘Warming and increased CO2 will be good for mankind’

.. and ..

‘CO2 is not a pollutant and it is not a poison and we should not corrupt the English language by depriving ‘pollutant’ and ‘poison’ of their original meaning’

… but we can just ignore this because anyone who doesn’t say what Luc Hansen thinks is correct is clearly not a real scientist.
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May 22, 2010 4:53pm
Falafulu Fisi

Luc said…
I would say you are a dropout during year two…
Wholly shit, a year 2 dropout like me, can debate a complex subject like climate physics with PhDs, professors, scientists at RealClimate? Dang! I must have got a brain equivalent to that of Einstein to be able to understand complex stuff which enables me to debate with your so called real scientists? How many knowledgeable year 2 dropouts there Luc that you know who can stand up to a good scientific debate with the best in climate science? Umm! You would find none.

Luc said…
…and if you really are what you say, it just proves that dumb cunts really can get through uni.

Luc you just described yourself correctly there (as a dumb cunt). Well said Luc.

Luc said…
So good on you, but for my daughter’s sake, get some facts on your side.

Is your daughter the only inhabitant of this planet? There are other things that may kill your daughter before she even get to high school such as a car accident, accidental electrocution, accidental fall, outdoor lighting strike and thousands other reasons. How about you concentrate in raising your daughter and make sure that she won’t encounter early death from one of those scenarios I have highlighted rather than your useless bleating about global warming disaster that awaits her in the future? You should be concerned about things or potential disasters/dangers that we encounter day to day as already stated above, because they’re the dangers that your daughter is going to face rather than imaginary AGW. Your concern is nothing more than leftist/greenie feel good bullsh*t.
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May 22, 2010 4:54pm
Luc Hansen

Good for you KK – it’s interesting that young people these days, in my experience, tend to find the whole scenario a bit overwhelming, but one thing is for sure, when the shit does hit the fan, we will get the blame!

Now I have just spotted your post on Israel’s stats. Israel has always been an impressive nation, but the time is overdue for it to enter the mainstream. Let’s face facts: a bunch of European socialists colonised Palestine (the area known as Palestine for over 2000 years, but not a nation state), caused the majority of the population to flee, then, in total defiance of international law and the specific order of the United Nations, refused to allow them to return.

Eventually, this wrong will be righted. I don’t understand the problem people have with this. Just look at history. Unless swamped or slaughtered, indigenous peoples always regain control, eventually. So the sooner Israel reaches an accommodation with the Palestinians, the better it will be for all.

Then Israelis and Palestinians can set about making the country even more successful. A major dispute will be over the name of the new nation. New Palestine? The Land of Abraham?
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May 22, 2010 4:56pm
wat dabney

http://globalwarming.house.gov/files/HRG/052010SciencePolicy/happer.pdf

William Happer
Cyrus Fogg Brackett Professor of Physics
Princeton University

My name is William Happer,and I am the Cyrus Fogg Bracket Professor of Physics at Princeton University. I have
spent my professional life studying the interactions of visible and infrared radiation with
gases – one of the main physical phenomena behind the greenhouse effect. I have
published over 200 papers in peer reviewed scientific journals. I am a member of a
number of professional organizations, including the American Physical Society and the
National Academy of Sciences. I have done extensive consulting work for the US
Government and Industry. I also served as the Director of Energy Research at the
Department of Energy (DOE) from 1990 to 1993, where I supervised all of DOE’s work
on climate change…Most of the greenhouse effect for the earth is due to water vapor and clouds,. To
get the frightening global warming scenarios that are bandied about, the added CO2
must substantially increase water’s contribution warming. The jargon is “positive
feedback” from water vapor and clouds. With each passing year, experimental
observations further undermine the claim of a large positive feedback from water. In
fact, observations suggest that the feedback is close to zero and may even be negative.
That is, water vapor and clouds may actually diminish the relatively small direct warming
expected from CO2, not amplify it.
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May 22, 2010 5:00pm
Banana Llama

I don’t think the Mamluk or Ottoman caliphates will be making a resurgence so what do you mean by the indigenous people? how far do we go back to find the rightful owners? the beginning of Monotheistic culture?
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May 22, 2010 5:18pm
Put it away

Luc “Then Israelis and Palestinians can set about making the country even more successful.”

Uhh, yes of course, the palestinians will bring to the table some of that cultural, political, economic, and religious magic that’s made so many arab nations such wonderful places to live…

What the fuck planet are you living on?
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May 22, 2010 5:28pm
pentwig

Just for you Luc

——————————————————————————–

——————————————————————————–
HEAT OF THE MOMENT

New Ice Age ‘to begin in 2014’
Russian scientist to alarmists: ‘Sun heats Earth!’

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Posted: May 17, 2010
8:42 pm Eastern

By Jerome R. Corsi
© 2010 WorldNetDaily

Habibullo Abdussamatov

CHICAGO – A new “Little Ice Age” could begin in just four years, predicted Habibullo Abdussamatov, the head of space research at St. Petersburg’s Pulkovo Astronomical Observatory in Russia.

Abdussamatov was speaking yesterday at the Heartland Institute’s Fourth International Conference on Climate Change in Chicago, which began Sunday and ends today.

The Little Ice Age, which occurred after an era known in scientific circles as the Medieval Warm Period, is typically defined as a period of about 200 years, beginning around 1650 and extending through 1850.

I suppose that Abdussamatov is just a denier and is plainly wrong.
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May 22, 2010 5:29pm
Falafulu Fisi

Wat, yep climate sensitivity and feedback parameter is what at disputes. I brought up the subject at RealClimate in a debate there in 2007. I put forward in my argument there that the feedback parameter is not a constant but time-dependent. This same issue has been brought up by Roy Spencer, Schwartz’ s , Lindzen and others, even pro-AGW scientist Dr. Judith Curry.

I give a simple example here to demonstrate what I mean.

Let’s have a simple linear relationship as shown below. ‘Y’ is the dependent variable and ‘X’ is the independent variable and ‘a’ is just a proportional constant.

Y = a*X

Let’s assign a value for ‘a’ to make the example much easier to grasp, we can say that ‘a=2’, then the above equation is rewritten as:

Y = 2*X

The parameter ‘a’ is a constant and it will stay constant at 2 (i.e., a=2) for all time until the second coming of Jesus Christ. It will never change.

If ‘a’ is not a constant anymore, i.e., its value will be different at different time instants (time-independent), so it is not constant anymore. Our original equation is NOT:

Y = 2*X

BUT

Y = a(t)*X;

a(t) is a quantity that is time-dependent, i.e., function of time. In other words, its value will be different at various time instants, such as t=t0, t1, t2, t3, t4, t5, …

When such time-dependent parameter is not known in advance, then some numerical methods are then used to estimate it. Popular ones is the Monte Carlo. In other words it is still guess work. The hardest thing for AGW believers to swallow is the possibility that feedback parameter may be indeed time-dependent. Once this parameter is accepted as time-dependent, i.e., not constant, the GCM will collapse, no ifs no buts. The computer model uses a constant and not a time-dependent function.

Anyway my example above just uses linear relationship between X and Y, but climate models are similar but they’re expressed in differential calculus form, which are much more complex.

How about observation? Well, when this parameter has a negative value, then the temperature dip in the 1950s to 1970s is explained (i.e., model fits the data). GCM does not explain the dip in the 1950s to 1970s, because the model uses only a positive feedback (and not negative). This is more likely to be the case, i.e., the feedback parameter changes its values at different time, meaning it is time-dependent and not a constant.
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May 22, 2010 5:31pm
philu

“..Collected below are some of our favourite games on t’internet, so get stuck in..”

http://whoar.co.nz/2010/the-greatest-internet-sports-games-of-all-time/

phil(whoar.co.nz)
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May 22, 2010 5:32pm
Steve

I read somewhere that Pacman is 30 today. Pacman, designed from a pizza with a slice missing has a reputation for eating dots. Well I rekon us Kiwis should invite Pacman to Kiwiblog to gather the excessive dots used by illiterate stoners.
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May 22, 2010 5:34pm
MikeNZ

Kris K (2296) Says:
May 22nd, 2010 at 10:51 am

Great Post Kris well done.
do you get the email from Anne Bafesky of Eye on the UN?

Thank you Falafulu Fisi
Have a great weekend.
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May 22, 2010 5:38pm
nickb

Is anyone else getting anxious over the prospect of a Floyd Mayweather/Manny Pacquiao fight?

It has to happen, would be the most hyped boxing event since Ali/Foreman.
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May 22, 2010 5:38pm
Luc Hansen

wat

Like Garth Paltridge I mentioned earlier, he’s just out of date.

Read this:

http://www.science.unsw.edu.au/news/water-vapour-doubles-global-warming-case-closed/
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May 22, 2010 5:39pm
philu

fulla-shit is full of it tonight….eh..?

is he ‘smarter’ than these dudes/dudettes….?

http://whoar.co.nz/2010/the-earth-is-warming-thanks-to-the-human-industrial-complex-we-must-price-carbon-emissions-in-some-way-and-soon-to-avert-catastrophe-and-brace-ourselves-for-inevitable-fallout-from-the-climatic-havoc/

“…This warning’s been issued thousands of times before, and it’s forcefully repeated yet again in three reports released Wednesday by the National Research Council, the research arm of the preeminent scientific advisory body in the U.S.,…

… the National Academies of Science.

For the journalist’s standpoint, these reports present a quandary.

Scientists say climate change is real, and we should respond…

Really.

Now.

With fewer qualifications than ever.

Questioning the likely impact of the new science tomes, Bradford Plumer at The New Republic writes, “we’ve been deluged with studies and assessments and summaries and reviews …

… and anyone who’s still deep in denial about the problem probably isn’t going to be convinced by yet another fat volume of graphs and citations.”

In most editors’ minds, another such warning simply doesn’t make a good “front-page thought.”

That said, the time is ripe to revisit some basic climate science.

The Associated Press’s Seth Borenstein filed a story soon after the reports’ release Wednesday …

… noting that they “come after a winter in which mainstream climate science took a beating” because of controversial e-mails hacked from the University of East Anglia that stirred up the “Climategate” furor …

… and minor errors found in the last report from the International Panel on Climate Change that poured fuel on the fire.

We also recently saw the much anticipated climate summit in Copenhagen come to nothing, after world leaders failed to agree to new restrictions on greenhouse gas emissions.

Add to the mix recent poll numbers showing that Americans’ concern about global warming is on the slide …

… and you have a pretty powerful case that now is about as good a time as ever to dive into the Academies’ reports.

At first blush, some of the contents might sound familiar, but this latest scientific salvo is different from previous ones in key respects.

Some conspiracy minded climate change deniers have gotten a lot of mileage out of the fact that so much of the scientific basis for climate change has been organized and presented by a body that is affiliated with, of all the unholy un-American organizations on the planet …

… the United Nations.

Yet “the three NRC panels also feature a set of players rather different from those who compromised IPCC,” Science reported.

“Economist Gary Yohe of Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, an IPCC veteran, recalls how the inaugural meeting of the panel on adapting to the impacts of climate change was his first such gathering in a decade in which three-quarters of his fellow panel members were unfamiliar to him.”

The difference isn’t just the scientists;…

… it’s the data, too…”

phil(whoar.co.nz)
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May 22, 2010 5:40pm
Luc Hansen

here is a link esp for Falafulu feces

http://www.grist.org/article/series/skeptics/
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May 22, 2010 5:41pm
Luc Hansen

Banana Llama – many Palestinian villages can document their history back to the Roman era. How far back do YOU want to go?
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May 22, 2010 5:43pm
Luc Hansen

PIA- that’s just irrelevant. You are citing white supremacism as justification for stealing an ancient peoples lands. That’s plain racist.

i guess you would vote for Rand Paul if you could.
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May 22, 2010 5:46pm
Banana Llama

That would be a good start we could kick all those nasty squatters off the land that the Ptolemaic and Roman Dynastys brought in, then we could tell the Turks that they should head on back to Mongolia.
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May 22, 2010 6:02pm
pentwig

PIA
Who knows what planet Luc comes from but if he reads the crap that he linked FF to it helps explain his lunatic ramblings on KB.

Maybe that is it: Luc = Lunar = Lunatic – ergo the moon.

It is certainly a no worse association than the AGW alarmists promote.
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May 22, 2010 6:10pm
wat dabney

Luc,

I followed your link, and it’s dated February 2009. Yet the Princeton scientist opinion I posted is from May 2010.

So it can hardly be said that I am out of date.

Rather, you have to stop pretending that sceptics don’t have a thorough scientific basis for their opinion.

My suggestion to you is to stop jerking off and address the science.

Can you do that?

Falafulu Fisi,

You are wasting your time at Realclimate. They censor data which contradicts the alarmist case.
They are charlatans and crooks.
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May 22, 2010 6:11pm
philu

here is vid of john key lying through his teeth….promising ‘not to raise gst’…should he be elected…

http://whoar.co.nz/2010/the-lies-that-john-key-toldvideo/

(as you can/will see…

…he’s quite good/practised /clever at it..eh..?..)

phil(whoar.co.nz)
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May 22, 2010 6:15pm
pentwig

phool

Are interested at looking at some of the games.

I have a problem in that I do not wish to taint my computer by going to your blog – new comp yunno.

How about putting the better links directly on KB.

Ta so much.
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May 22, 2010 6:15pm
Luc Hansen

Turks are Central Asian originally, but we aren’t talking about the Turks. Bedouin claim a link to the land going back 7000 years. Without doubt, Palestinians are a mixture of ethnicities, but that’s just all irrelevant.

Let’s start in 1947, when the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from Palestine by the European immigrants, mainly illegal (undocumented in today’s parlance) began.

How do you justify that?

PS I would love to talk to Kim Hill on this point.
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May 22, 2010 6:15pm
Put it away

Luc – once again, you can’t argue against what I actually said so you made up something completely different and argued against that instead. Thank you for admitting you have no response to what I actually said.
What does race have to do with it ? What I said was “cultural, political, economic, and religious”. Do you propose that those attributes are genetically coded? I’m sure arabs are fine citizens once they abandon their religion and most of their culture.
How can the Israelis be “stealing” their own land. The ARE the ancient people who the land belongs to. The question is should they allow the arab interlopers back in as guests? On evidence of the way arabs run countries where they are the majority, the answer is pretty obvious. If you don’t agree, what is your example of an arab country that has worked out well, that you hope the palestinians would be able to emulate? What positive contribution do they bring to the table of a hypothetical new state?
And how cavalier of you to say that it’s “irrelevent” what these people are like, before letting millions of them into the middle east’s only really functioning democracy, with a working economy, free press, rights for women etc etc etc. You would throw away the region’s only truly “impressive” ( your word) country without a thought?
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May 22, 2010 6:21pm
Hurf Durf

Yo Puke, chill out, it’s global cooling now. We all have to buy radiators now.

Though maybe you’d rather dangle from the rafters instead, and sort out your contribution of evil carbon and your self-loathing in one fell swoop.
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May 22, 2010 6:24pm
Luc Hansen

wat

Fair enough. I stand corrected.

He’s not out of date, just in denial. The science precedes his nonsense.
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May 22, 2010 6:25pm
philu

pentwig..can i suggest full-body protection…?

i always don it before entering this ‘pond’….

when will farrar clean-up this sewer..?…

and make commenters use their real names…?

mmm..???

phil(whoar.co.nz)
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May 22, 2010 6:28pm
philu

hurf advocates suicide…by hanging…

a personal nadir there…?…

..durf..?

phil(whoar.co.nz)
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May 22, 2010 6:30pm
Hurf Durf

Actually, Paul and his father do share one policy that I like, that the US should keep their military on their bases – at least we could all sleep easier if that was the case.

Yeah, so China and Russia can rampage around on their borders.

You gotta love Puke. Just another reconstructed Marxist Cloward-Pivenite who bailed out of organised socialism after the USSR fucked off and embraced Gaia as the means to ultimate power and collectivist control. You people are so easy to read.
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May 22, 2010 6:31pm
wat dabney

Luc,

So, to summarise, you are saying that this Professor of Physics at Princeton University, who has spent his professional life studying the interactions of visible and infrared radiation with gases – one of the main physical phenomena behind the greenhouse effect and who has published over 200 papers in peer reviewed scientific journals and who is member of a number of professional organizations, including the American Physical Society and theNational Academy of Sciences and who has done extensive consulting work for the US Government and Industry and served as the Director of Energy Research at the Department of Energy (DOE) from 1990 to 1993, where he supervised all of DOE’s work on climate change is “in denial.”

Do you realise what a complete prick you make of yourself when you bleat such stupidity?

Please, say something more. It’s hilarious. The way you pretend that your ignorant opinion counts for fuck all.
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May 22, 2010 6:33pm
Luc Hansen

PIA

C’mon, give me a break. Where’s the evidence for your point of view? Visit my blog, take note of my reading list, and then get back to me.

You are using the same arguments that justified colonialism, genocide, and slavery by us superior white folks. it’s disgusting.

I don’t care what Israel has supposedly achieved (with billions of US dollars to fund it all) the facts are it is a colonial project doomed to failure for the reason i expressed above AND, most importantly, because it deserves to fail.

If you read Shlomo Sand, The Invention of the Jewish People, your historical misconceptions will be corrected. This book was on the best seller lists in Israel for some 19 weeks, and he is still alive and free and teaching in Israel. Why? Because they all know it’s true!

Did you catch the Israeli joke (not so funny for Palestinians) I posted a little while ago? It goes: 75% of us are atheist or agnostic, but 100% of us believe God gave us this land.

Says it all, really.

By the way, if you are willing to give European Jews Palestine because of a mythical 6000 year old connection, how about we give back the Ureweras to Tuhoe who have a fully documented connection to their land dating back only a few centuries?
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May 22, 2010 6:39pm
Banana Llama

No it is not Irrelevant, it is the root cause of conflict that has been going on in the area since man first threw a rock at another man and the principle that has been set by wave after wave of conquerer and conquered. We cannot reasonably expect motivated and resourceful cultures to forgo their history and heritage.

A two state solution would probably be the best chance for peace in light of everything but both sides see it as unacceptable so they revert to the tried and true method, to claim one side has more moral legitimacy over the other is absurd.
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May 22, 2010 6:40pm
philu

so..wat…

you think ‘the National Research Council, the research arm of the preeminent scientific advisory body in the U.S.,…

… the National Academies of Science..’

is ‘wrong’…

and you are ‘right’..

..eh..?

what was that about..’Do you realise what a complete prick you make of yourself when you bleat such stupidity?..”

eh..?

so..really..after weighing it all up..

..’your ignorant opinion counts for fuck all..’…really..

..eh…?

phil(whoar.co.nz)
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May 22, 2010 6:41pm
wat dabney

..mispeled words…

..feeble attempt at humour…

sad attention-seeking pointless posting from lonely man…

(incoherent contradictory rambling…)?

…pathetic belief that spending other people’s money makes ME a generous person…

childish view of the world suggesting I’m retarded..

Link to hobby web page which would make a 14 year old blush

..inability to follow or understand basic logic…?

(more preening and name calling..)

…fail to grasp the simplest economic or moral argument!

..suggestions of imminent nervous breakdown…
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May 22, 2010 6:44pm
Luc Hansen

wat

He’s an outlier. A spike. A natural born contrarian.

Go to the NAS website and see what they say about climate change.

You mention one person – thousands have an opposing view AND many have had peer reviewed articles published in that prestigious journal, or others like Science and Nature. Not all are 100% correct, true, but the weight of evidence is overwhelming except for contrarians and deniers like your good self.
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May 22, 2010 6:46pm
Luc Hansen

Banana, honestly, you are completely wrong.

Even Israeli archaeologists admit the original Jews were Arabs, maybe Palestinian Arabs, maybe Mesopotamian Arabs, but Arabs they were!

They were not European Jews, ever.

The Bible is full of myths stolen from earlier religions, as are the myths of all extant religions.
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May 22, 2010 6:51pm
philu

so..wat…

you….vs…..’‘the National Research Council, the research arm of the preeminent scientific advisory body in the U.S.,…

… the National Academies of Science..’

now…who should we believe…?..wat..?..them….or you…?

.who would you believe..?..wat…?

(could it be put more simply for you…?..and the other drooling fucking morons..?..eh..?..)

should we email them to tell them that ‘wat sez you’ve got it wrong..eh..?’..

..should we do that..”..wat..?

what was that you said about…..’Do you realise what a complete prick you make of yourself when you bleat such stupidity?..”

mmm..???

and ..y’know..!

..’.’your ignorant opinion counts for fuck all..’…really..’..

,,eh..?

how can it not..?

..eh..?

phil(whoar.co.nz)
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May 22, 2010 6:52pm
Viking2

Anyone know the ETS vote results from the Nats. conference today. Or has it been kept secret???
Call the secret squirrel. The children are out at play.
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May 22, 2010 6:53pm
wat dabney

Luc,

“He’s an outlier. A spike. A natural born contrarian. Go to the NAS website and see what they say about climate change.”

Perhaps you could point us as the NAS relevant page. Note that we’re not interested in their opinion, we’re interested in the investigation they undertook, the evidence they sifted, and the science they scrutinised.
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May 22, 2010 7:07pm
Banana Llama

European Jews? Honestly? so the Jewish culture which has been dispersed to the four corners of the world by conquering army’s can no longer lay any historical or cultural claim to Judea because of their ethnic heritage.

Aint going to happen.
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May 22, 2010 7:08pm
Luc Hansen

Banana

Judaism was spread by proselytizing and conversion.

Where are you getting your history from?
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May 22, 2010 7:14pm
Banana Llama

Well i just finished listening to a lecture from Philip Daileader so i hope he is able to stand up to your critique.
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May 22, 2010 7:35pm
Luc Hansen

Maybe you should listen to Graham Leonard, University of Tennessee, lived in the ME since 1950. Look for him on itunes.
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May 22, 2010 7:41pm
philu

“..Perhaps you could point us as the NAS relevant page. Note that we’re not interested in their opinion, we’re interested in the investigation they undertook, the evidence they sifted, and the science they scrutinised…”

do yr own fucken research..try googling nas…eh..?

you really are speaking from a position of total blind ignorance…aren’t you..?

just braying yr foolishness..eh..?

phil(whoar.co.nz)
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May 22, 2010 7:42pm
nickb

Phil, when does the library close?
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May 22, 2010 7:49pm
nickb

Has anyone here followed or read much about the David Bain case in any detail?

I have just finished reading the reprinted David and Goliath by Karam, and am now starting the McNeish book.

Any thoughs on his guilt or innocence?

[DPF: I thought the McNeish book answered the question of motive quite well]
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May 22, 2010 7:54pm
philu

remember when jenny shipley lowered the alcohol age..?

in hindsight…

..she was just doing the bidding of the booze-pushers…eh..?

all that talk of ‘mature-drinking’ by 18 yr olds..(yeah right..!..)

..was just so much horseshit/spin…

..to ‘sell’ the idea….

..and to make even more profits for the ‘sirs’ of the alcohol-pushing industry…

(and i repeat…labour are as much ‘owned’ by those booze/drug-pushers…as national..)

.(and…they can fucken advertise..!..w.t.f..!..

..they can push their ‘the only way you are a man..is if you love getting bladdered/pissed…to teenagers..

to get them hooked…

…usually for life…

evil fucks…!

phil(whoar.co.nz)
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May 22, 2010 7:56pm
philu

nick..when does your mind open..?

phil(whoar.co.nz)
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May 22, 2010 8:00pm
wat dabney

Luc,

Just to confirm, you are coming back to us aren’t you, detailing the thorough investigation that the NAS undertook prior to its press release?

I mean, if it turned out that they didn’t perform such an investigation, and that in fact only a tiny subset of the NAS membership agreed to this position, then you’d look a bit foolish, wouldn’t you.

So, please do provide details of the NAS investigation of all the evidence which led up to this press release, and let us know what proportion of the NAS membership agreed to it.
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May 22, 2010 8:16pm
big bruv

nick

Read them both, anybody who has an interest in the case should do so before coming to the obvious conclusion that Bain is a guilty as sin.
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May 22, 2010 8:22pm
philu

if you had followed the link…to that noted commie rag..the columbia journalism review…

“..Science and several other outlets mentioned that although the three new reports generally echo the findings of the IPCC, they also bring considerable new information to bear …

… drawing on the past five years of research that wasn’t available to IPCC researchers.

The new data support projections that in some cases are direr than in the earlier reports.

For instance, the Academies say “that ocean levels could rise by as much as five feet by the end of the century …

…compared to the IPCC estimate of a foot and a half increase,” the Los Angeles Times’s Thomas H. Maugh II reported.

Although there’s a strong case that the new reports are significantly different and worthy of sustained media attention ..

.. if the day-one coverage is any indication … they will be given little more than a passing mention.

That’s better than the yawn that met a letter published in Science earlier this month …

… and signed by 255 members of the National Academy of Sciences…

.. in protest of the “recent assaults on climate science and, more disturbingly, on climate scientists by climate change deniers.”

The letter was almost uniformly ignored by major media outlets…”

phil(whoar.co.nz)
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May 22, 2010 8:24pm
nickb

Yea that seems like the conclusion the book is drawing DPF, about half way through.

Karam’s book seemed to highlight a huge amount of forensics and evidence gathering the police fucked up, but didn’t seem to conclusively rebut the more compelling evidence (what if the dog transferred blood etc, and other implausbile possiblities).

Bain should still be in jail in my opinion, I would love to have been a fly on the wall in the jury room…
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May 22, 2010 8:59pm
nickb

On the subject of the NZ justice system, has anyone read A City Possessed?

If there is one man in NZ that deserves a hefty compensation payout, it is Peter Ellis….
Wasn’t Simon Power meant to be looking into a Royal Commission?
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May 22, 2010 9:07pm
Dazzaman

Our friend Luc is totally and utterly blinded by his belief system.

That’s about the size of it…he doesn’t realize most just scroll past his shit! You know, like we mostly do with philu…
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May 22, 2010 9:49pm
Luc Hansen

Daz

keep on scrolling

for some obscure reason this blog has a lot more readers than posters. So be it.

wat

you are joking, surely. For answers to your questions, ask them!

Go on…they don’t bite!
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May 22, 2010 9:59pm
Boloni

Philu There is no drinking age,If you are under 18 you can not drink on licenced premises or purchase alcohol from an on licence, In my experience in the hospitality business there is a percentage of people that cannot handle the liquor.age has nothing to do with it.
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May 22, 2010 10:24pm
wreck1080

Hilarious, chinese want to extradite some chinese crooks from nz, yet they won’t extradite kiwi crooks in china (the ones who stole the westpac cash).
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May 23, 2010 8:03am
XChequer

Sure there has been a bit of invective thrown around but the quality of debate thrown round (belief systems to the side for a mo) between Luc vs the rest has been fantastic. Have read this thread this morning (sans philu – thanks RIP) and enjoyed every minute.

Question for Luc: How would you feel if the government legislated on what you are allowed to say on this website? Would you feel aggrieved?
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May 23, 2010 8:32am
XChequer

And as a little follow up check out this critique of Rand Paul’s performance on the the Rachel Maddow Show. Funny.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyBOSL6njFM&feature=player_embedded
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May 23, 2010 8:49am
Viking2

Oh dear, that’s the world cup screwed. How is Key gonna pay for the stadiums other than rip off us taxpayers?
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