Obama wants to increase the search and seizure powers of the feds? Interesting.
The Obama administration is seeking to reverse a federal appeals court decision that dramatically narrows the government’s search-and-seizure powers in the digital age.
Solicitor General Elena Kagan and Justice Department officials are asking the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to reconsider its August ruling that federal prosecutors went too far when seizing 104 professional baseball players’ drug results when they had a warrant for just 10.
Obama Wants Computer Privacy Ruling Overturned | Threat Level | Wired.com
Why is this not surprising in the least? Once more the MSM proves they are worthless.
Leftists and the media.
There’s an Elvis Costello song, "Hand in Hand," which, like many of his songs, seems superficially sweet, but is dark.
I won’t ask you to apologize
You don’t have to forgive me
But if I’m gonna go dow-ow-own
You’re gonna come with me
Hand in Hand
Hand in Hand
Hand in Hand…
I’ve cut out some lyrics there. You get the point. Everytime the left gets blowed up, there’s the media, jumping on the grenade, killing themselves while failing to save any of their comrades.
The controversy surrounding the global warming scandal today deepened after a BBC correspondent admitted he was sent the leaked emails more than a month before they were made public.
Paul Hudson, weather presenter and climate change expert, claims the documents allegedly sent between some of the world’s leading scientists are of a direct result of an article he wrote.
In his BBC blog two days ago, Hudson said: ‘I was forwarded the chain of emails on the 12th October, which are comments from some of the world’s leading climate scientists written as a direct result of my article "Whatever Happened To Global Warming".’
That essay, written last month, argued that for the last 11 years there had not been an increase in global temperatures.
Of Course: ClimateGate File Was Leaked to BBC In October… And Of Course They Failed to Report Their Scoop
This is actually a small part of the post they have up, but it caught my eye because I had actually asked this same question of a friend earlier this very day. “If these computer models are so accurate, how are they at predicting the past?” The answer appears to be “not at all”
Climate "models" can so totally predict the future.
Which is, conveniently, unknowable.
You know what they can’t predict? The past.
Which is unfortunately quite knowable, and so we can check their "predictions" against actual records.
They all fail. They all fail.
None of the multiple computer simulations used by a UN climate-change agency for assessments of global warming appears good enough to predict how India’s monsoon will behave, two Indian scientists have said.
The researchers examined 10 simulations of future climate scenarios used by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and found none could reproduce correctly the behaviour of even 20th-century rainfall.
Not a single model could simulate realistically key features of the Indian monsoon…
In attempts to assess impacts of global warming, the IPCC considered 17 models of how climate would evolve as carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere rose. Some models predict more rainfall over India, but with great uncertainty.
“The models have very serious problems in simulating even 20th century monsoon patterns,” said Madhavan Rajeevan, a senior scientist at the National Atmospheric Research Laboratory, Tirupati, and a co-author of the paper.
“When a model (computer simulation) cannot even show with reasonable accuracy monsoon behaviour in the past, there’s a big question mark over its ability to predict future patterns,” Rajeevan told The Telegraph.
Well, our models can’t "predict" what happened in the past five years, but, you know, they’re gold-standard 100 years in the future.
Chronology: FOIA Requests and the ClimateGate Emails
