Sunday, November 7, 2010

Countering the GW skeptics

Nov. 7: Climate Scientists Team Up to Counter Attacks by Global-Warming Skeptics (Chronicle of Higher Education)

     Hundreds of climate scientists are joining a campaign to push back against critics, including politicians skeptical of climate change who have investigated or threatened to investigate researchers, the Chicago Tribune reported. The campaign, which the American Geophysical Union is expected to announce on Monday, represents a shift among climate scientists, many of whom have avoided the news media but now say they are willing to speak out against what they see as misinformation. “This group feels strongly that science and politics can’t be divorced,” said Scott A. Mandia, a professor of physical sciences at the State University of New York’s Suffolk County Community College, “and that we need to take bold measures to not only communicate science but also to aggressively engage the denialists and politicians who attack climate science and its scientists.”

Vote gap narrows slightly

Nov. 7:
THOMAS "T.J." PRENDERGAST
105,467 - 50.6%

KEVIN M. MULDOON
102,787 - 49.4%

—As of 5:00 p.m. today. See Registrar of Voters for daily updates.
    See also Votes Left to Count

    I've spoken with local politicos in the know, and they seem pretty confident that Prendergast will hang on to his lead, given that he has had one continuously since election night. Plus he still has a 2700 vote lead.

Now remember, Tea Partiers: these things aren't real

Nov. 7:
● Geoffrey Crawley, 83, Dies; Gently Deflated a Fairy Hoax (New York Times; 11/6)
● The original photos

Roy's obituary in LA Times and Register: "we were lucky to have you while we did"

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