This miserable:
How miserable does a bishop look when surrounded by the unwashed occupying his cathedral?
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Climategate 2
The global warming alarmists have been telling porkies again, this time, Professor Richard Muller who portentously announced the demise of global warming scepticism in the Wall Street Journal recently.
Following this revelation, Prof Judith Curry from the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology accused Muller of hiding the fact that there has been no warming for the last 13 years.
Ironically, the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature project, of which Muller is founder and chairman, has “A transparent approach based on data analysis”, emblazoned on its web page.
Read more here:
It was hailed as the scientific study that ended the global warming debate once and for all – the research that, in the words of its director, ‘proved you should not be a sceptic, at least not any longer’.
Professor Richard Muller, of Berkeley University in California, and his colleagues from the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperatures project team (BEST) claimed to have shown that the planet has warmed by almost a degree centigrade since 1950 and is warming continually.
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a leading member of Prof Muller’s team has accused him of trying to mislead the public by hiding the fact that BEST’s research shows global warming has stopped.
Prof Judith Curry, who chairs the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at America’s prestigious Georgia Institute of Technology, said that Prof Muller’s claim that he has proven global warming sceptics wrong was also a ‘huge mistake’, with no scientific basis.
Prof Curry is a distinguished climate researcher with more than 30 years experience and the second named co-author of the BEST project’s four research papers.
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As for the graph disseminated to the media, she said: ‘This is “hide the decline” stuff. Our data show the pause, just as the other sets of data do. Muller is hiding the decline.
The St. Paul’s occupation
From here:
Fears that St Paul’s Cathedral will become a ‘new Dale Farm’ deepened today after a legal battle began to evict protesters camped outside.
The City of London Corporation and cathedral officials each decided to go ahead with court actions as the landmark reopened after being closed for a week because of the anti-capitalist demonstration.
I’m surprised no-one has thought of the obvious solution. Get Canon Giles Fraser back to preach non-stop outdoor sermons to the occupiers. They would be gone within the hour.
Here is the Guardian’s latest comment on the attempt to oust the protesters. For once, they have it about right.
The whole episode reminds me a little of the delightful 1963 film, Heavens Above: in it the new vicar played by Peter Sellers invites a group of displaced gypsies to live in the vicarage with the inevitable consequences. The whole thing is on Youtube. Here is part 4:
The disaster presidency
From here:
Whether it was the bitter cold or the wrath of Hurricane Irene, a major weather alert never seemed to be far away in 2011.
Tropical Storm Lee prompted President Barack Obama to pledge disaster aid to the areas of Louisiana battered by the storm last month.
That makes 90 disasters declared by the commander-in-chief, a new record in yearly disaster declarations – and 2011 isn’t even over yet.
And the biggest disaster has yet to be declared: Obama.
Satan prevented from speaking at Tyndale University, Toronto
Well, the next best thing: George Bush.
The Canadian Evangelical Left has blocked former President George W. Bush from speaking at evangelical Tyndale University in Toronto, deriding him as a virtual war criminal.
An online petition by faculty and students, fueled by reporting by the Toronto Star, evidently ensured the event’s cancellation last month. One Tyndale professor, in his own anti-Bush op-ed, implicitly accused the former president of “blasphemy” and “heresy’ for daring to have employed scriptural language in citations of dreaded American exceptionalism during his administration.
Apparently, Dr. Arthur Paul Boers is heartbroken over the absence of careful deliberation, discernment or debate about the arrogant theological actions and assertions of George W. Bush. If only Bush had attended Tyndale University, he would, no doubt, have emerged with his theology conformed to the received leftist Tyndale dogma, whereupon he would have metamorphosed into Jimmy Carter and given interviews to Playboy to discuss lust instead of invading Iraq.
Perhaps Boers and Bush could come to an agreement: Bush is not a theologian, so he will cease all theological utterances and Boers is not a politician (thank God), so he will keep his nose out of politics, confining himself to mystical mutterings in the comfort of his sacerdotal ivory tower.
Anglicans have a liturgy for everything
According to the WHO:
- HIV/AIDS kills 1.78 million people per year.
- Diarrhoeal disease kills 2.46 million people per year, many of them children and is easily treatable.
Guess which gets a day dedicated to it? The former: World Aids Day is coming up on December 1st.
Guess which disease the Anglican Church of Canada has taken upon itself to enshrine in liturgy? I know, it’s like shooting fish in a barrel: Aids.
Guess the reason for this – choose one of the following:
- The Anglican Church of Canada is more interested in sexually transmitted diseases than other diseases that kill more people, especially if the other diseases involve diarrhoea. That is because sex is a part of the Anglican spiritual journey and diarrhoea is just yucky.
- The Anglican Church of Canada is obsessed with the Anglican spiritual journey, therefore it is obsessed with sex. At the outer reaches of the Anglican spiritual journey we find homosexual sex. So it is particularly obsessed with that.
- The Anglican Church of Canada has so many homosexual priests that their interest in Aids is really the expression of a desire for self-preservation: homosexual sex is still the preferred way to contract Aids.
- All of the above.
Plans to evict anti-capitalist protesters from St. Paul’s
And the first one to go is Canon Giles Fraser:
Canon Dr Giles Fraser, chancellor of St Paul’s Cathedral, has resigned amid plans to forcibly remove Occupy London anti-capitalist protesters from the landmark’s churchyard.
Blenheim, lesbians and Tim Hortons
Blenheim is a small town in Ontario where the major source of entertainment on a Saturday night is cow tipping – so my wife, who knows more about
sleepy Canadian towns than I, tells me.
Nevertheless, the town is big enough to have a Tim Hortons and at least two lesbians who, while on a quest to find a more stimulating form of entertainment than bovine unbalancing, decided to grope one another in full view of those partaking of Tim Hortons’ more modest delicacies.
We may never know whether the negative reaction from a local pastor and the restaurant’s manager was due to Blenheim being a hotbed of prudishness or whether the titillation that men supposedly experience when women kiss was outweighed by the undeniable ugliness of the specimens in question, but the pair was asked to leave.
There aren`t many things more faddish than lesbians but the occupy something to protest the impalpable with a view to changing the intangible movement is one of them. So now we have Occupy Timmies. This is almost certainly a self defeating effort since Timmies will double their intake selling coffee and doughnuts to imported well-heeled yahoo occupiers – while the rest of the sleepy town goes back to cow tipping.
How to deal with the Windows scam
From here:
The so-called “Windows” ruse involves the bad guys, many of whom have researched their targets well, posing as Microsoft technicians calling to rescue you, and your computer, from a catastrophic virus that will kill your computer and compromise all your banking information and passwords.
The hook: after guiding the victim through some bogus Online hocus-pocus to save their computer from an imaginary virus the bogus technician will ask for a credit card payment ranging from the tens to thousands of dollars.
Scores of National Post readers, and readers at large, have been targeted by the bad guys. Some have been victimized, sadly, but many others have gone on the attack by playing dumb with the scammers — knowing it was a scam — and then pouncing on them with a good old Canadian comic punchline or a good old-fashioned scolding.
I’ve received a number of these calls; the latest was this afternoon.
Here is a way to give these twerps a poke in the eye. After wading through 20 minutes of looking at things like the Windows event viewer, eventually you will be transferred to a “certified technician”. He will ask you to access a website – probably, www.logmein123.com. It is quite harmless and will bring up a screen like this:
Your Indian friend will give you a number to enter into the box and ask you to click on the “Connect to technician” box – this will run a program that will give him control of your computer.
- Don’t click on the box; instead tell him a message appeared saying the code is expired.
- Write down the code.
- He will probably scurry off and get another code.
- Repeat back to step 1 until he hangs up
You now should have a collection of PIN codes. They are distributed and maintained by a legitimate software manufacturer. On their website you will find a phone number: 1-866-478-1805. Call them, explain what happened and give them the PIN codes you have collected. They are well aware of the con artists making use of their software and they will deactivate the PIN codes so that they can no longer be used.
Celebrate in the certain knowledge that you have struck a blow against a bunch of witless bastards who make a living preying on defenceless computer users who have better things to do than waste their time becoming computer nerds.
Rev. Dr. Giles Fraser, the puppet of bankers and corporate interests
Giles Fraser is a regular contributor to the left-leaning Guardian and is director of St. Paul’s Institute where he enjoys admonishing bankers on “the right use of money”. He is also Chancellor of St Paul’s Cathedral which is losing £20,000 in revenue daily because of the mob occupying its steps.
The cathedral is now seeking a legal remedy to its plight and, in spite of Giles Frasers’ protestations to the contrary, it probably is all about the lost income.
Rev. Giles Fraser is a liberal so he supports same sex marriage, doesn’t like Operation Christmas Child because it evangelises and is Islamophobic, and would like us to think that Jesus was a Marxist.
Bearing all this in mind, it was with considerable satisfaction that I listened to this clip of a protester declaring that “St. Paul’s is backed by the City, by the very bankers and corporate interests which we are here to protest against.”