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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (841159)	3/8/2015 1:00:28 PM
From: Brumar89	1 Recommendation Recommended By FJB Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576894

The issue is that Google is turning over their search algorithms to leftwing political correctness guides.

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (841159)	3/8/2015 1:00:47 PM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 1576894

Climate scientists accuse Democrat of McCarthyism by Cardigan • 03/08/2015 • 4 Comments Watchdog.org: Judith Curry, a decorated climate scientist at Georgia Tech, says research tells her the earth is warming. But she’s isn’t sure how much of a role humans have played. For that, Curry says, she has been targeted by members of Congress in a new version of McCarthyism. “It’s ridiculous,” Curry said in a telephone interview Friday. “It’s just ridiculous.” Curry is one of seven climate scientists whose universities received a letter from U.S. Rep. Raul Grijalva, D-Arizona, the ranking Democrat on the House Committee on Natural Resources. The letter last week questions their impartiality and demands the schools provide Grijalva financial information about the scientists. Read more at http://iotwreport.com/?p=277354#MxocTy032E7K4fTR.99 ........... Curry says she has not received any improper payments from the fossil fuels industry — or any other source. “If someone sends me a million dollars, yeah, that’s another story,” Curry said in a telephone interview. “But niggling about my travel, it’s just insane … On the green side of it, there’s a whole lot more funding and a whole lot more conflicts. So once you start opening the can of worms and looking at this on the other side, I think it’s going to show up much worse.” The controversy highlights an ongoing battle within the climate science community. Some who say governments need to tackle climate change immediately and aggressively have called colleagues who question them “climate deniers;” the more skeptical have responded by calling opponents “climate alarmists.” Climate scientist Michael Mann, who has appeared at political events supporting candidates calling for the U.S. government to act more forcefully, said in 2011, “I gave up on Judith Curry a while ago. I don’t know what she thinks she’s doing, but it’s not helping the cause.” [ "The cause?" He just outed himself as an activist, not a scientist. ] “It’s just a ludicrous situation when independent thought on this subject and speaking out publicly is not allowed to happen,” Curry said. “Certain people are going to be labeled as deniers and, for scientists, that’s a very sad state of affairs. And it’s not (just) politicians, it’s other scientists that label me as a denier. “I’m an independent thinker,” Curry said. “I’m not going to spout other people’s judgments. I’m going to look at the evidence myself and draw my own conclusions and assessments about uncertainty, and that’s what the job of a scientist is.” The American Meteorological Society sent its own letter to Grijalva on Friday. “Publicly singling out specific researchers based on perspectives they have expressed and implying a failure to appropriately disclose funding sources — and thereby questioning their scientific integrity — sends a chilling message to all academic researchers,” the group wrote. ........... Curry worries about what message the congressional letter sends to younger scientists. Just nine days before the Grijalva letters were sent, Curry posted a letter on her blog from a Ph.D. student who complained about “massive group think” among climate academics that frustrated him so much that he left the field to work in finance. “That’s what my big concern is,” Curry said. “The best minds are not attracted to a field like this … People are leaving the field because of this craziness.” ............. http://watchdog.org/203008/climate-scientists-mccarthyism/ The Michael Mann's of the world don't care about the best minds, they want minds committed to the CAUSE.

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (841159)	3/8/2015 1:09:28 PM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 1576894

There are lots of good reasons to not use Google ... I don't. I use duckduckgo: DuckDuckGo (DDG) is an Internet search engine that emphasizes protecting searchers' privacy and avoiding the filter bubble of personalized search results. [1] DuckDuckGo distinguishes itself from other search engines by not profiling its users and by deliberately showing all users the same search results for a given search term. ........... DuckDuckGo positions itself as a search engine that puts privacy first and as such it does not store IP addresses, does not log user information and uses cookies only when needed. Weinberg states "By default, DuckDuckGo does not collect or share personal information. That is our privacy policy in a nutshell." .............

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (841159)	3/8/2015 1:12:19 PM
From: Brumar89	1 Recommendation Recommended By FJB Respond to of 1576894

Smithsonian Describes Wind Farms As “Bird Death Traps” Posted on March 8, 2015 by stevengoddard How Many Birds Do Wind Turbines Really Kill? \| Smart News \| Smithsonian Wind supporters respond with claims that cats and buildings kill large quantities of birds too. However, that's not a good comparison. First, predators like cats and objects like buildings mostly take a toll of species that exist in vast quantities like sparrows, blackbirds, starlings, while wind turbines kill large numbers of raptors and carrion eaters. These are soaring predators and carrion eaters that have smaller populations and play important roles in the balance of nature. Second, we're not going to be vastly expanding the number of cats and buildings. Wind promoters call for vastly expanding (say by 50-100 X the current level) the number of wind turbines. The toll on key bird species would multiply accordingly. Then of course, there are bats.