“Only the Chinese come close to the Iranian genius for castrating opponents under the negotiating table. Of course, our European allies show up already missing key parts.” – Ralph Peters
Hottest October Ever – Not! Nasa’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), run by Al Gore’s chief scientific ally, Dr James Hansen, announced that last month was the hottest October on record. . . . This contradicted reports of unusual cold in America, the Alps, New Zealand, China.
So what explained the anomaly? GISS’s computerised temperature maps seemed to show readings across a large part of Russia had been up to 10 degrees higher than normal. But when expert readers of the two leading warming-sceptic blogs, Watts Up With That and Climate Audit, began detailed analysis of the GISS data they made an astonishing discovery. The reason for the freak figures was that scores of temperature records from Russia and elsewhere were not based on October readings at all. Figures from the previous month had simply been carried over and repeated two months running.
“Weather forecasts are horoscopes with numbers.” Famous Military Quote (via BurtonBlog)
Sour Grapes. “The president of Iceland has offered Russia the use of an abandoned NATO airbase. The Russians declined, partly because the president of Iceland does not have the authority to make such a deal. What is happening here is that, at the moment, Iceland is unhappy with their NATO allies.” See Strategy Page.
The Worst Ever. Kyle Smith argues that Bush was the worst president ever, except for all the rest.
Everything is the best/worst/funniest/most tragic/most brilliant thing ever, if you’re a high school girl, the hero of “Memento” or a political commentator. Things look different if you extend your memory more than five minutes into the past. Maybe the problem is the lack of a buzzword for the scandal. Here’s one: “Superlativegate.”
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