Scottish Sceptic

FEBRUARY 19 — The Heartland Institute has sent legal notices to numerous Web sites, blogs, and publications asking them to take down the stolen and forged documents and what it views as malicious and false commentary based on them.
The following statement by Heartland Institute President Joseph L. Bast may be used for attribution. For more information, contact Director of Communications Jim Lakely at jlakely@heartland.org or 312-377-4000. (NOTE: The Heartland Institute’s first response to the posting of stolen and faked documents can be found here.)
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The big problem for anyone who published any material, is that there is no public defence. So, I shall no go and check my own comments and see if they are fair comment or spreading stolen information.

Obviously we all know the Guardian reports blatant lies** so it is not surprising that when all other papers have cut down on their non-science over global warming, the Guardian like some tantrum toddler continues to rant and scream.
So, having been banned from the Guardian for saying that the UEA broke the law (just like that), when I felt like a bit of fun pointing out to eco-zealots the lie about BIG-OIL, the continuous diarrhoea from the Guardian was …. irresistible? …. no! The last resort, because there’s almost no warmists left posting anywhere except the Guardian (and a few US backwaters).
But, what did I find when I looked through all their recent global warming non-science?
NO COMMENT!
Clearly, even the Guardian comments, where the most blatant double standards applied (anyone could delete anything sceptic … but no one could delete anything pro … and it was filled with lurking trolls who worked as teams to provoke the sceptic into getting banned) even the Guardian is now so filled with sceptics that they’ve had to ban comment or risk having their junk journalism continuously shown up for its hypocrisy and economy of truth.
**In faked documents.

For the last couple of years (since swine flu) I’ve visualised the ending of the non-science of global warming as being the same kind of growing lack of interest that appeared at the end of swine flu, and that appears after most media scares.
But I’m increasing worried by this analysis. I know civil servants and public officials will never declare an end (voluntarily) and so they will go for the head in the sand approach hoping it will go away. Continue reading →

Note. The following has been reproduced without permission from this site: http://climatechange.mensnewsdaily.com/2012/02/17/big-oil-money-for-me-but-not-for-thee/ who I have not been able to contact as yet to ask permission.

The Sierra Club takes fossil fuel money. So does the Nature Conservancy and Rajendra Pachauri’s sustainability conference. So why is the Heartland Institute being torn to pieces for the same behaviour? Continue reading →

Note: I’m having problems getting the table formatting to display the internal grid, but I’m going to post now, rather than wait to work out how to get around this.
The following is a comparison of the climategate and Heartland document release. I chose to compare them using the criteria provided by the PCC.  As far as I can see this is a pretty well open and shut case. The publication of information stolen from the Heartland Institute is against PCC code of conduct because there is no public interest and it breaks numerous sections whereas the release of climategate emails was fully justified by public interest.

As I sat down to read the latest gossip before doing something more useful, little did I realise that today would reveal the story that is the final nail in the Global warming scandal.
Deniergate started when someone released a number of documents of which some appear to be genuine Heartland Documents and one clearly isn’t (and there’s no way a professional organisation would produce something like that).
Like climategate there has been a scandal, there may even have been some law breaking (but what was the release of the UEA emails?) But the real scandal is that so many journalists from the Guardian to the Black Propaganda at the BBC were ready and willing to print this story without checking the facts. Continue reading →

Inspired by the true story that captured the hearts of people across the world, the rescue adventure Big Miracle tells the amazing tale of a small town news reporter (John Krasinski) and an animal-loving volunteer (Drew Barrymore) who are joined by rival world superpowers to save a family of majestic gray whales trapped by rapidly forming ice in the Arctic. … With time running out, Rachel and Adam must rally an unlikely coalition of Inuit natives, oil companies and Russian and American military to set aside their differences and free the whales. As the world’s attention turns to the top of the globe, saving these endangered animals becomes a shared cause for nations entrenched against one another and leads to a momentary thaw in the Cold War.
(Circle.http://www.everybodyloveswhales.com/story.php)

As the American Spectator put it:

I saw a preview for this on Saturday.  My first thought at the image of three whales hopelessly trapped in the ice pack was that global warming must is now be passé in Hollywood.

(http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2012/01/the_unofficial_end_of_global_warming.html#ixzz1kMrUsFGU

Continue reading →

In the real sense, Scotland has never been a nation. It was always a country of several parts: Gaelic Speaking Highlands and Western Isles, Norse Orkney, Shetland and much of the NE, English/Northumbrian speaking SE.
So, I’m not one of these romantics who think that the “Scots” (the name of an Irish group who took over Pictland in much the same way the Normans took over England) have a inalienable right to “Pictland”.
But, having lived in Scotland most of my life … but also having lived in England and particularly around London, I can see how much of the wealth of the UK has been stolen by the SE. It comes down to something very simple: a minister in London, asks a civil servant to do something. That civil servant then ask their (London) contacts which firm could help and that civil servant then goes to the firm best suited to them in London. Continue reading →

It really should be “Happy NewYear”, but no! As I’m still recovering from a bad cough which left me in bed after Xmas I come back to read the comments and someone is complaining that someone else is calling them something that someone would rather that someone else would not call them.
And eventually searching for “lying murdering piece of filth scottish sceptic”, I find something that might be the offending comments. At which point I begin to wonder whether the comments are accurate. Which leads me to think of all the reasons one could justify such comments … which I quickly realise is a ridiculous line of argument as grown men really shouldn’t need to resort to such STUPID name calling.
It really does seem to be common on the internet to find such “flaming”. The lack of personal interaction may be the reason: we can’t see the other side getting more and more irate …. or perhaps it is that we know they are getting irate, but we also feel “safe” behind the protective anonymity of the internet and physical separation.
Unfortunately … or perhaps fortunately for the pair involved, there doesn’t seem to be an easy way on wordpress to penalise/premoderate individuals … except put everyone on pre-moderation.
… And just now on the radio I hear the headline about the man who was stabbed in Perth, which just makes me glad that I’m not trying to arbitrate this dispute in the real world where the outcome of escalating abusive comments could be far worse.
So, all I can say is Happy New Year to one and all!