Journal: ClimateGate, Copenhagen, Integrity

Climategate: Science Is Dying  (WS) The East Anglians’ mistreatment of scientists who challenged global warming’s claims—plotting to shut them up and shut down their ability to publish—evokes the attempt to silence Galileo. The exchanges between Penn State’s Michael Mann and East Anglia CRU director Phil Jones sound like Father Firenzuola, the Commissary-General of the Inquisition. …

Journal: Weak Signals–Triple Crash?

Phi Beta Iota: Reprinted in full to allow emphasis and easier reading.  Original source at logo, “as is.”  Recommended by our physical gold colleagues. ______________________________________ Several financial events this week indicate something big is about to happen, something that may make the 2008 credit crisis seem rather benign.  First, the IMF announced that it is …

Journal: Brazil Whacks US via WTO on Cotton

Brazil Wins WTO Approval to Sanction U.S. Over Cotton (Update2) Nov. 19 (Bloomberg) — Brazil won the World Trade Organization’s approval to start retaliating against the U.S. because of subsidies paid to American cotton farmers. The WTO gave Brazil permission in August to impose $294.7 million in sanctions against U.S. goods — the second-highest amount …

Review: The Vanishing of a Species? A Look at Modern Man’s Predicament by a Geologist (Hardcover)

Posthumous Reflections of Extraordinary Value November 30, 2009 Peter Gretener QUOTES: “The system has had it.” “Environmental science–or engineering–is at best a misnomer and at worst a fraud.” This author, like the author of The Real Global Warming Disaster: Is the Obsession with “Climate Change” Turning Out to Be the Most Costly Scientific Blunder in …