Higher Planes
Backers of a citizens’ initiative to fully decriminalize marijuana in the state of California announced that they had enough signatures to put the measure before voters in November 2010. Substantive health care reform died.
As predicted in this space last week, the California Coastal Commission voted unanimously to reconsider a Eureka City Council permit that would have allowed Security National to begin work on the Home Depot-anchored Marina Center development, proposed for the Eureka waterfront. The state body’s assumption of authority over the controversial project prompted gloating and/or exclamations of rage around the local blogosphere, whose astroturf mainstays launched advance oppo campaigns around the issue for next year’s elections.
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Railroad!
Proposed lines ‘set rich blood a-tingling’ in early 1900s
Some Other Proposed North Coast Railroads
Choo-choo Fantasies
Exposing this east-west rail nonsense
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Undeterred Will
Will chides Andrew for lack of attention to detail and makes plans for his inevitable victory.
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Jan. 13, 2011
The Golden Boy
Dec. 23, 2010
Wish Lists
Dec. 16, 2010
The Train Geeks Return
Today
44th Annual Kinetic Grand Championship Race
STAFF PICK / events, art, outdoors, sports, for kids, free / 9 a.m.-6 p.m. A 3-day, 42-mile kinetic sculpture race over land, sand, mud and water! LeMans start at the Noon Whistle on the Arcata Plaza. Follow the race through Manila, Eureka and into Ferndale on Memorial Day for the Glorious Finish. kineticgrandchampionship.com. 889-3024.
Flow 2012 Fashion Show
STAFF PICK / events / 8 p.m. Arcata Theatre Lounge, 1036 G St. Student designed and produced clothing. Fundraiser for Arcata Arts Institute. $35/$25 students. artsinstitute.net. 822-1220.
Woodside Preschool's Rummage/Bake Sale
events / 8 a.m.-noon. Woodside Preschool, 900 Hodgson St, Eureka. www.woodsidepreschool.com. 445-9132.
Lanphere Dunes Restoration
STAFF PICK / outdoors / 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Meet at Pacific Union School. Help remove non-native invasives at the Lanphere Dunes Unit of the Humboldt Bay National Wildlife Refuge. Tools and gloves provided, wear work clothes and bring water. Carpool to the protected site. 444-1397.
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Comment / By scott lamorte / Dec. 19, 2009, 3:45 a.m.
Traitors? Fraudsters? Hank, I’m surprised at you. One would think the CRU scientists had been caught red-handed indeed. And yet to date there’s no evidence of fraud at all.
The two most hyped examples of alleged fraud (out of thousands of emails over years of time) are the code for a chart that calls for a significant artificial adjustment, and the ‘trick’ to hide a decline shown by tree ring data that did not match instrumental data. Neither example has panned out as anything even nearing scientific fraud.
The adjusted chart data was not used. The published version of the chart used the unaltered data. Furthermore the paper it was used in was specifically discussing the apparent unreliability of tree-ring data.
The the ‘trick’ to hide the decline was to leave off just the tail end of one (out of many) sets of tree ring data that the original researchers themselves noted back when the study was first published that they did not trust.
To date none of this information is controversial. The problems with the tree ring data has been know for over a decade. No-one anywhere has been able to show any fraud in any published report as a result of these emails. The CRU groups data and results line up well with the same from numerous other labs around the world. The data is sound.
The smoking gun isn’t just not smoking, it’s not even there.
Yours warmly, Scott LaMorte
PS please feel free to post this as a letter to the editor, minus my PS. Thank you!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/dec/11/science-climate-change-phil-jones
http://www.jgc.org/blog/2009/11/very-artificial-correction-flap-looks.html