climate-change
Canada says "no" to Yes Men website
When corporate pranksters The Yes Men staged a December stunt against the Canadian government’s emission proposals, the group had no idea that the resulting backlash would take down more than 4,000 unrelated websites. Whatever you think of the hoax, the saga is a reminder of the power of ISPs and Web hosting companies. If they don’t like what you’re saying and doing, there are often no consequences to shutting down or blocking sites, even when tremendous collateral damage ensues.
Continue reading »And it didn’t come to pass …
p2pnet news view Movies :- “Supernova 2012 is taking BitTorrent by Storm,” says Andrew aka Comeoncomecast over in Oz, going on »»» Do you believe teh world will end in 2012? just like the LHC, Y2K, Oh and What happened to the world-network-crippling Conficker? heh And Who can forget ‘The day after Tomorrow’ where the world began an ice-age from an idiot who managed to drill a hole into the Antarctic ice and half the shelf broke off (huge block of ice moving towards civilization pushing all the water) — and somehow was linked to “Climate Change” I don’t think its healthy for h-wood to profit from people’s paranoia But thats Show Business, baby! So what got Andrew aka Comeoncomecast all wired?
Continue reading »Yes Men punk US Chamber of Commerce on climate change, sued
In late October, a troupe of comedic pranksters called the Yes Men took on the United States Chamber of Commerce over its stance on climate change via a parody that was hard to distinguish from the real deal: a fake press conference, press releases, and a modified version of the Chamber’s own website, hosted at a similar address. The Chamber responded by getting the Yes Men’s ISP to pull the site, which drew the Electronic Frontier Foundation into the fight. Now, it looks like all these parties may be meeting in court, as the Chamber has filed a suit alleging that the parody crossed the line into fraud.
Continue reading »Talk of "global cooling" based on bogus statistics
There’s an inevitable problem with trying to find trends in data that is subject to a great deal of random variability: unless the most recent point was a record high, it will always look like there’s a downward trend. We’re currently seeing that happen with the global temperature record, where the warmest year ever recorded, 1998, is receding into the past. As a result, reports of “global cooling” are appearing in the popular press, and smaller percentages of the US public are confident that the globe is warming.
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