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Submission + - Y2K Bug in NASA's Climate Data (dailytech.com)

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proudfoot

on Saturday August 11, 2007 @05:47PM

proudfoot writes: "NASA has now silently released corrected figures, and the changes are truly astounding. The warmest year on record is now 1934. 1998 (long trumpeted by the media as record-breaking)all occur before World War II. Anthony Watts has put the new data in chart form, along with a more detailed summary of the events.moves to second place. 1921 takes third. In fact, 5 of the 10 warmest years on record now all occur before World War II. The effect of the correction on global temperatures is minor (some 1-2% less warming than originally thought), but the effect on the U.S. global warming propaganda machine could be huge."

Submission + - FBI - Reading Material Suspicous - Man Questioned (creativeloafing.com)

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proudfoot

on Saturday July 28, 2007 @04:59PM

proudfoot writes: "The FBI questions a "dark haired, bearded" man, based off a tip off that he was reading something suspicious. They managed to find his mother, and from her, tracked him down. The reading material in question? Hal Crowther's "Weapons of Mass Stupidity" from the Weekly Planet, a free independent out of Tampa, an article that criticizes the actions of the current administration.

From the agent involved: "In this post-911 era, it is the absolute responsibility of the FBI to follow through on any tips of potential terrorist activity," Parris says. "Are people going to take exception and be inconvenienced by this at times? Oh, yeah. ... A certain amount of convenience is going to be offset by an increase in security.""

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