CURRENT TWTW

JULY 15, 2006

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NEW ON THE WEB: Some oldies from J. Gordon Prather on recycling nuclear fuel -- and still worth reading. And there may be a bright future for thorium as a nuclear fuel (Item #1) .
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The Supreme Court overrules the government on wetlands - but provides no final answers (Item #2). The National Academy overrules EPA on dioxins (Item #3). The Supremes will rule on Massachusetts vs EPA on CO2 control -- after the Circuit Court ruled against Mass. (Item #4).

After a diplomatic NAS report fails to announce the end of the Hockeystick explicitly, we now witness its final burial -and it's about time (Item #5): First, scientific results from proxies, including tree rings and glaciers, pointing to a Medieval Warm Period 1000 years ago that was a least as warm as the 20th century. Then, accounts in the Canadian and US press of the Hockeystick war. And finally, the Wegman report, described in the WSJ of July 14, puts the final nail in the coffin.

TWTW has written a great deal about the Hockeystick battles. This wrap-up says it all.
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Major scientific journals routinely turn down papers skeptical of Anthropogenic Global Warming. Here is a gem from Nature, received by a very distinguished friend of ours. Was it computer-generated?

"In the present case, while we have no doubt that your findings will be of inherent interest to fellow specialists, I regret that we are unable to conclude that the paper provides the dynamics of sort of firmly supported conceptual advance in scientific understanding of the dynamics of annual variations in atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide that would be likely to excite the immediate interest of researchers in a broad range of other disciplines. We therefore feel that the present paper would find a more appropriate outlet in a specialist journal, rather than Nature"
[courtesy Climatesceptics email]
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And a decree:
Decreed: The averages for no hour, day, month, or year may vary more than 0.01 sigma from the established norm for any locality on Earth. Ever! The sun, therefore, is hereby commanded to stop varying its output. Cloud cover, directions and velocities of winds, water vapor content, etc. shall remain constant for each locale. Stasis is the only acceptable operation permitted for nature. This rule applies in all climes at all times. Violations shall be harshly dealt with.

/s/ by royal elitist decree
Al Gore, Chief pseudo-scientist

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