Posts by Carol Stewart
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Speaking of Eric Idle ..
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Speaking as one who thoroughly disliked the book - to my surprise as I've loved all Maurice Gee's adult fiction - I'm looking forward to being pleasantly surprised.
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I'm having a hard time keeping up with when I should be shocked and outraged, and when I should be decrying the PC nanny state. Could someone help me out?
Why, I do believe I can, sir. For any particular issue, simply determine Ian Wishart's position on it, and take up a diametrically opposed position.
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Yes, wasn't it wonderful? Great script too, I might add - Nick Hornby has a magic touch. Glad you enjoyed it.
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I believe the better line is "I didn't know you had an older sister!"
This line was deployed to great effect by Peter Sarsgaard in An Education ..
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The gist of the Statistical Review of Manns Hackey Stick series is shown in the wikipedia article
Excellent, Steve, love your Wiki research. How about picking up a recent copy of New Scientist? You could also read Andy Reisinger's excellent , up to date new book Climate Change 101. You might discover for yourself that actually among the scientific community there isn't much of a debate about the reality of climate change. The evidence for it is vast, robust and growing. The more interesting question is the policy response.
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Er, excuse me, Andy, but who says the hockey stick is debunked? The National Academy of Sciences, as reported in Nature, disagrees with you.
As Russell noted, the hockey stick has been replicated many times. In fact you could say it's now a hockey team. -
It does strike me that both sides are guilty of tampering with the evidence.
Actually that's rubbish, Andy. Where's the evidence that climate scientists have been falsifying data on a grand scale? To believe that climate change is a hoax (a la Jim Hopkins, Poneke, Ian Wishart, Rodney Hide and co), you have to believe that thousands and thousands of climate scientists worldwide have colluded in a grand conspiracy for the purposes of ... what, exactly?
The inadvisable and maybe even unprofessional private behaviour of a small handful of scientists working in a hostile environment is not proof that climate change is not real - the science supporting it is far more robust that that. As Danyl put it more elegantly, would black holes cease to exist if Roger Penrose and Steven Hawking deleted a few emails? -
Ben Gracewood is almost a perfect anagram of WE ARE BORG.
How about WE CAN BORE GOD?
Philip's is way better. -
Thanks Scott, that's a beaut piece by James.
Andre, I think you're right. There's a fine line between being a clown and an idiot.