One of the early claims made accusing Peter Gleick of faking the Heartland memo (before he admitted to being the source of the other documents) had to do with his writing style. Supposedly it matched the writing style of the memo. Anthony Watts even suggested people perform stylometry and textometry to see if
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Mind of Dan: Ethical considerations regarding Heartland/Gleick
Note: This is just a personal account of my thinking and subject to change upon further reflection. First I need to stress that I have no real journalism training. I never went to journalism school, and my only real experience as a ‘journalist’ has been blogging for the past 7
Continue readingMind of Dan: The state has no business in the hard drives of the nation
Michael Geist has details Related posts (randomly generated) Business coalition speaks out against Canadian copyright reform Blame Canada for Piracy Apple to give levy back to Canadian iPod owners Putting Canadian “Piracy” in Perspective Anti-camcorder legislation will save the world: MPAA
Continue readingMind of Dan: Double standards
This excerpt of a comment by climatehawk1 gets to an important point that usually doesn’t get enough attention and deserves to be promoted: If Gleick’s reputation is “in ruins,” what about Heartland’s, inasmuch as they have engaged in very elaborate, systematic, long-running misrepresentation? Scientists are held to an impossibly high
Continue readingMind of Dan: New lows?
Keith Kloor is claiming that the Gleick/Heartland stolen documents incident is a new low in the climate wars. But is it? Is tricking Heartland into sending some documents really any worse than hacking into a server at CRU and stealing a bunch of emails? I don’t think so. Is tricking
Continue readingMind of Dan: Here come the lawyers
Over the weekend Planet3.0 reported that the Heartland Institute was threatening to sue anyone who commented on the leaked documents. Well yesterday they sent letters to Desmogblog, Greg Landen, David Appell and others demanding the retraction of blog posts discussing the leaked documents. Joseph Bast the president of the Heartland Institute has
Continue readingMind of Dan: The send-packs-of-lawyers strategy
The Heartland Institute is obviously not happy about those leaked documents. In fact they are so unhappy that they have threatened to sue anyone who has dared comment on the documents stating in a press release that “The individuals who have commented so far on these documents did not wait
Continue readingMind of Dan: Steroids, baseball, and climate change
(h/t Michael Tobis on Planet3.0) Related posts (randomly generated) An illustration of the climate change debate Lost in Deep Time with Richard Alley Quote of the Day Quote of the day Quote of the day
Continue readingMind of Dan: Superb Owl Sunday
Much more awesome than worrying about some sort of allegedly super bowl Related posts (randomly generated) Watch out Korea, Thailand has you beat… in BBQ! Yahoo Music to record execs: No more DRM, ever
Continue readingMind of Dan: The morning sun reflecting off Lake Victoria
We spend our last morning in Uganda on Lake Victoria. The early morning sunlight reflecting on the waves made the entire lake seem as if it was made of liquid gold. Related posts (randomly generated) Uganda! CN says it knew rail car had toxic substance Canadian DMCA To Be Introduced
Continue readingMind of Dan: Chimp Vocalizations
Chimpanzee vocalizations in Kibale National Park, Uganda. Related posts (randomly generated) A day with my closest living relatives… Plan to Sell U.S. Nat’l Parks to Energy Industry Spurs Opposition How old is the Grand Canyon? Park rangers ordered not to tell — might offend creationists Mae Sariang Paradise Lost
Continue readingMind of Dan: About those radical foreign interests opposed to the latest tar-sand pipeline
Rick Mercer injects a whack of sanity and hilarity to the absurd notion that opposition to the Northern Enbridge is driven by “foreign interests” If you are not sure what all of this is about watch this video filled with unintentional hilarity from the slimy ethical oil spokeswomen Kathryn Marshall.
Continue readingMind of Dan: Mountain Gorillas at Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
After making the long journey to the picturesque Bwindi National Park (tightly clutching our gorilla tracking permits), and hiking down 600 metres to the valley bottom where the Mountain Gorillas were busy eating their breakfast we got to spend 1 hour (which was definitely not enough, but is all that
Continue readingMind of Dan: Hunting on New Year’s Eve
This lion (along with 4 others) were hunting 200 metres from our tent on New Year’s eve on the bank of the Nile at Murchison Falls, Uganda Related posts (randomly generated) Duck! Bush Jokes About Cheney’s Bad Aim Sea will rise ‘to levels of last Ice Age’? Koh Adang 750,000
Continue readingMind of Dan: A day with my closest living relatives…
Which would be chimpanzees of course! I am in fact 98% chimp… and so are you. Can you see the resemblance? Its like looking in a mirror that is 98% accurate! Taken in Kibale National Park, Uganda Related posts (randomly generated) Plan to Sell U.S. Nat’l Parks to Energy Industry
Continue readingMind of Dan: Black-headed weaver
Amazing little birds that weave basket like nests. Building a nest: Leaving in search of more nesting material: Taken in Bigodi, Uganda. Related posts (randomly generated) Suit could follow any delisting of marbled murrelet; New count method may remove seabird from U.S. protection Audubon: Common backyard birds becoming less common
Continue readingMind of Dan: More pics from Uganda
Back In Kampala after spending several nights in a tent in Queen Elizabeth National Park surrounded by lions, hyenas and Hippos. Here are a few pictures of the amazing wildlife we have seen. Related posts (randomly generated) Koh Adang Critics Dismiss Plan to Bring Lions, Elephants to U.S. Plains Plan
Continue readingMind of Dan: Uganda teaser pic
So far I have taken over 2500 pictures. But the internet here is too slow for me to upload much, and you probably want me to go through the mountain of pictures and only show the ones worth showing (who needs to see 75 almost identical pictures of the shoebill?)
Continue readingMind of Dan: Uganda!
I am currently sitting at the airport waiting for my flight. I’ll spend the next six weeks somewhere in Uganda trying to see things like this: I’ll be mostly out of internet range so updates will be few and far between, and comments will likely be help up in moderation
Continue readingMind of Dan: The Debunking Handbook
Debunking myths and falsehoods is not always as straight forward as it might seem. Thankfully John Cook and Stephan Lewandowsky have produced a Debunking Handbook that is straight forward. Related posts (randomly generated) UK Woman Charged As Terrorist For Computer Files Quote of the day Climate change: A guide for
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