Journal: ClimateGate Week One

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Dearth of valid information about climate change has clouded our minds

Copenhagen climate summit: ocean acidification an ‘underwater time-bomb’

Ocean acidification is an “underwater time-bomb” that threatens fish stocks, marine life and coastal communities around the world, a Natural England report has warned.

Al Gore and the Wizards of Climategate

Like Dorothy’s dog Toto, the posting of emails and documents on the internet from the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit has pulled back the green curtain on the secret world of leading climate scientists, exposing a disturbing pattern of apparent scientific misconduct.

GOP Senators Urge U.N. to Appoint Independent Investigator Over ‘Climate-Gate'

A band of 28 Republican senators is calling on the United Nations to appoint an independent investigator to probe leaked e-mails they claim raise serious questions about the science behind global warming.  . . .  they want an investigation “that is truly independent of the IPCC and the U.N.” — in the style of the independent investigation led by former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker in the wake of the Oil for Food scandal.

Climategate: Don't Bet On It

But don’t count on the so-called “Climategate” to spell the end for CO2 regulation. . . . In fact, outside the more partisan media outlets and blogosphere, the whole Climategate story is fading fast.

Inhofe: Climategate Will End Cap-and-Trade Battle

Oklahoma Sen. Jim Inhofe tells Newsmax that the climategate scandal is the “clincher” that kills once and for all the cap-and-trade proposal to curb greenhouse gas emissions.

Call for Papers: Deadline 31 Dec 09 Nature-Inspired Collective Intelligence in Theory and Practice

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Special Issue on: NATURE-INSPIRED COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

Call for papers – Special issue: Data Mining for Software Trustworthiness

Call for Papers – Special Issue: Virtual Agent and Organization Modeling: Theory and Applications?

Call for papers – Special issue: Nature Inspired Collective Intelligence

Call for papers – Special Issue on BIO-INSPIRED AMBIENT INTELLIGENCE SYSTEMS

Phi Beta Iota: Over a decade ago we conceptualized “Global Presence” such that every single conference on every single topic of interest to national intelligence would be covered by a graduate student from the nearest university.  More recently we have conceptualized a “virtual harmonization” of all existing journals and all existing publishing houses so as to prioritize and address gaps in our knowledge.  Very little progress has been made since 1986-1992, in part because the world lacks a multinational engagement network that is open, ethical, and free.

Journal: ClimateGate–“The Trick” in Detail

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IPCC and the “Trick”

Steve McIntyre
Climate Audit
December 10, 2009

The emails show that the late 20th century decline in the Briffa reconstruction was perceived by IPCC as “diluting the message”, that “everyone in the room at IPCC” thought that the Briffa decline was a “problem” and a “potential distraction/detraction”, that this was then the “most important issue” in chapter 2 of the IPCC report and that there was “pressure” on Briffa and other authors to show a “nice tidy story” of “unprecedented warming in a thousand years or more”.

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Journal: Wall Street & the Obama Administration

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Obama's Big Sellout

The president has packed his economic team with Wall Street insiders intent on turning the bailout into an all-out giveaway

MATT TAIBBI
Rolling Stone
Dec 09, 2009

Phi Beta Iota: We include the entire article below to share Chuck Spinney's value-added highlights.  See the original article without highlights by clicking on the graphic.

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CENTCOM Week in Review Ending 10 Dec 09

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AA: Beirut must stand up to Riyadh 12/06/09

AA: Iran's Vision of Saudi Arabia 12/09/09

AA: Israel, Lebanon, and the Middle East conflict 12/04/09

AA: Killing bin Laden key to Al-Qaeda defeat: mcchrystal 12/09/09

AA: UK accused of rendition over men arrested in Iraq 12/07/09

AE: Full support for UAE nuclear programme 10/10/09

AF: Adm Mike Mullen: US is losing war in Afghanistan 12/08/09

AF: US Occupation Forces Kill 15 Civilians in Afghanistan 12/08/09

EG: Egypt: Brotherhood feels wrath of state; leaders arrested 12/07/09

IR: Iran: Security forces condemned for protest crackdown 12/08/09

JO: Czech troops could spend half year clearing mines in Jordan 12/08/09

LB: Hariri, Jumblatt say their alliance remains strong 12/06/09

PK: Detained Americans in Pakistan for “Jihad”: Officials Tell CBS that FBI has Met 5 Men from D.C. Area with Possible Links to Pakistani Militants 12/10/09

YE: Yemen teeters on brink of failure 12/06/09

Below the Fold: Instability, Special Operations, Security Forces, Foreign Affairs, Crime

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Event: 11 Dec 09 DC Bob Woodward & John Koehler at Association for Intelligence Officers (AFIO)

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AFTERNOON:  Bob WoodwardAssistant Managing Editor for Investigative News, Washington Post, Pulitzer Prize winning investigative journalist, Author of Bush at War and  Maestro: Greenspan’s Fed And The American Boom among other publications.

EDIT of 9 Dec 09:  AFIO has updated its notice to say that Woodward is working on a new book focused on intelligence.

MORNING:  John Koehler, a journalist for nearly 40 years. Koehler is a former U.S. Army Intelligence Officer specializing in counter-espionage and intelligence collection, and served as an advisor to President Reagan

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Journal: Weak Signals–US Dirty Drinking Water

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Millions in U.S. Drink Dirty Water, Records Show

More than 20 percent of the nation’s water treatment systems have violated key provisions of the Safe Drinking Water Act over the last five years, according to a New York Times analysis of federal data.

Phi Beta Iota: We alerted on this August 21, 2007 with our review of  The Blue Death–Disease, Disaster, and the Water We Drink.  America has many other problems, below are just a few titles, all persist for lack of a Strategic Analytic Model able to help Congress and the White House harmonize policies intelligently.

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