tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44374919151908946822024-03-13T23:45:32.499-04:00Eric Rasmusen's WeblogI take a conservative, evangelical, economistical look at things. I will be posting intermittently, for reference rather than daily reading.
My Wordpress site from before 30 September 2007 is at <a href="http://rasmusen.org/x">http://rasmusen.org/x</a>. It is searched from the search engine below(not above).Eric Rasmusenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01609599580545475695noreply@blogger.comBlogger692125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4437491915190894682.post-24535290308973508072010-01-04T13:38:00.004-05:002010-01-06T09:56:19.884-05:00New Blog Address<p>January 6, 2010: I've had to change the address again. The new address, which I've also modified below, is: <p>
<a href="http://rasmusen.dreamhosters.com/b">http://rasmusen.dreamhosters.com/b</a> <p>
<p>I'm going to try switching back to Wordpress. I can't get trackbacks to work from Blogger, and they're important. Also, Wordpress has some improvements since I switched away a year ago, and I covet features I've seen at the Volokh Conspiracy. I've transferred all of my Blogger posts and comments to the new address, which is at: <p>
<a href="http://rasmusen.dreamhosters.com/b">http://rasmusen.dreamhosters.com/b</a> <p>
I have closed comments on this copy of the blog. Any new comments, even on old posts, should be at the new blog.Eric Rasmusenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01609599580545475695noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4437491915190894682.post-52757259964126634682010-01-02T09:52:00.004-05:002010-01-02T09:56:58.916-05:00Multiple Millions to Secy.of State Clinton by Saudi Arabia, Norway, Kuwait, Qatar, Taiwan,Oman, Jamaica, Mrs. Rich<p>From <a href="http://campaignspot.nationalreview.com/post/?q=OGRlM2M1YjRjY2ZmYzYyZGU0ODI3MjEyM2VjZmVlYTg=">NR</a>: <p>
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In recent years, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia gave between $10 million and $25 million to the foundation run by the husband of our current Secretary of State.<br><br>
"Friends of Saudi Arabia" donated at least another million, perhaps another $5 million. So in short, since 1997, the Saudi Kingdom and its affiliated organizations have provided the Clinton Foundation at least $11 million, and perhaps as much as $35 million.<br><br>
But I'm sure our Secretary of State held a hard line against them. Remember, it was the last President who was a pawn of the Saudis, or at least the left insisted that was so.<br><br>
Other foreign governments contributing to the husband of the nation's chief diplomat: The government of Norway, Kuwait, Qatar, Taiwan's Economic and Cultural Office, Ministry for the Environment & Territory, Italy and the Sultanate of Oman.<br><br>
Jamaica is listed as a donation between $50,000 and $100,000, with the specification, "100% pass through for commodity procurement."<br><br>
For foreign countries to be able to put money into an account controlled by the household of our top diplomat is an egregious conflict of interest, and I cannot believe that the Obama administration shrugged its shoulders at this. The Foundation should have been put into a blind trust; there's just too much potential for foreign governments to try to buy friendship (or access!) under this arrangement.<br><br>
Also donating $250,000 to $500,000? Denise Rich, wife of infamous Bill Clinton pardon subject Marc Rich.<br><br>
UPDATE: Freddie Mac donated between $50,001 and $100,000 to the Clinton Foundation.<br><br>
ANOTHER UPDATE: Insert your own punchline here: The Clinton Foundation received between $10,001 and $25,000 from the 'I Won't Cheat' Foundation.<br><br>
This one surprises me: between $10,001 and $25,000 from "Newsmax Media, Inc." That Newsmax?<br><br></blockquote>Eric Rasmusenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01609599580545475695noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4437491915190894682.post-71998234146149309092010-01-01T12:24:00.010-05:002010-01-11T17:39:59.814-05:00The Standard for Assistant Profs at the IU Dept. of English<P>I've moved my blog. This post has been moved to: <a href="http://rasmusen.dreamhosters.com/b/?p=694">http://rasmusen.dreamhosters.com/b/?p=694</a>, which is where updates might go.
I have closed comments on this copy of the blog. Any new comments, even on old posts such as this one, should be at the new blog. <p>Eric Rasmusenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01609599580545475695noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4437491915190894682.post-10359161096025259332010-01-01T12:13:00.001-05:002010-01-01T12:15:35.661-05:00Web Version of BooksHere's an email I just sent Fred Shapiro, editor of the Yale Book of Quotations:<br><br>
I don't see a web version on the website. There should be one. Your publisher may be worried about losing book sales. What you can do is this:<br><br>
1. Put a serial number in each book.<br>
2. The buyer sends in his serial number an email address.<br>
3. He then gets a password.<br>
4. A new password is emailed to that serial number every year (or month, or whatever), replacing the old one.<br><br>
That would be good enough security to avoid most cannibalization, I think, and would greatly increase the value of the book.<br><br>
Publishers *should* know about simple things like this, but I bet they don't, and think security requires something more burdensome for all concerned.Eric Rasmusenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01609599580545475695noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4437491915190894682.post-10009537692902713272010-01-01T10:33:00.002-05:002010-01-01T11:08:31.853-05:00Golf CoursesFrom <a href="http://www.isteve.com/golf_art.htm">"From Bauhaus to Golf Course:
The Rise, Fall, and Revival of the Art of Golf Course Architecture,"</a>
by Steve Sailer,
published in a shorter version in The American Conservative, April 11, 2005
Assuming an average of a quarter square mile apiece, America's 15,000 golf courses cover almost as much land as Delaware and Rhode Island combined....
Research since the early 80s shows that humans tend to have two favorite landscapes. One is wherever they lived during their adolescence, but the nearly universal favorite among children before they imprint upon their local look is grassy parkland, and that fondness survives into adulthood....
<span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond;">In one amusing <a href="http://notes.utk.edu/bio/greenberg.nsf/0/f60081ef35fba95c85256e6e006a2a77?OpenDocument">study</a>, 1001 people from 15 different countries were surveyed about what they'd like to see in a painting. Then the sponsors of the research, conceptual art pranksters <a href="http://www.diacenter.org/km/painting.html">Komar and Melamid</a>, painted each country's "Most Wanted Painting." Even though the researchers hadn't <a href="http://www.oregonsgolf.com/FeaturedTravelFile_IdahoGolfTrail_NorthernLoop.htm"><img src="http://www.isteve.com/Coeur_DAlene_golf_small.jpg" alt="Coeur D'Alene Resort golf course, designed by Scott Miller. This is the mirror image of the real golf hole so the orientation is the same as in the painting above." width="391" align="right" border="0" height="258" /></a> mentioned what type of picture it should be, the consensus in 13 of the 15 cultures favored landscapes and 11 of the 15 looked surprisingly like golf courses. All over the world, people want to see grassland, a lake, and some trees, but not a solid forest.</span>...
<span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond;">This frenzy of art worship among a minority of golfers has gone almost wholly <a href="http://www.golfclubatlas.com/cypresspoint000161.html"><img src="http://www.isteve.com/Cypress_Point_17.jpg" alt="Cypress Point 17, par 4, 390 yards, Alister MacKenzie designed 1929, Monterey Peninsula, CA" width="312" align="right" border="0" height="195" /></a> unrecognized in the establishment art world, which otherwise has been so quick to discern artistry in such unlikely forms as graffiti and toilet brushes. Top museums do not stage retrospectives on the <a href="http://www.rtj2.com/"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Trent</span></a> <a href="http://linkscountryclub.com/linksccpc/images/SplashScreens/misc/mauna1.jpg"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Jones</span></a> <a href="http://www.reesjonesinc.com/"><span style="text-decoration: none;">family</span></a> or stock golf course photo books in their gift shops.</span>...
<p class="gar"> </p> <p class="gar" style=""><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond;"><a href="http://www.shadowcreek.com/"><img src="http://www.isteve.com/Shadow_Creek_17th.jpg" alt="Shadow Creek 17th, par 3, Las Vegas, designed by Tom Fazio and hotelier Steve Wynn, 1989. To eliminate views of the stark desert, the golf course resides in a 60 foot deep hole in the ground of a half square mile in extent." width="366" align="right" border="0" height="284" /></a>Golf course architecture is one of the world's most expansive but least recognized art forms. Yet this curiously obscure profession can help shed light on mainstream art, sociology, and even human nature itself, since the golf designer, more than any other artist, tries to reproduce the primeval human vision of an <a href="http://www.kansascitygolfguide.com/augusta%2013.JPG"><span style="text-decoration: none;">earthly paradise</span></a>.
<span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond;">Yet even this most unfashionable of arts was swept in the middle of the last century by the same <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/055338063X/002-6933552-6234426?v=glance/vdare">Bauhaus</a>-derived tastes that made post-WWII modernist buildings so tedious. Only recently has golf course architecture begun to revive the styles and values of its golden age in the 1920s.
</span>Hidden in plain sight, golf courses are among the few works of art readily visible from airliners. <span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond;">(A golf architecture aficionado can often identify a course's designer from 35,000 feet.)</span> Assuming an average of a quarter square mile apiece, America's 15,000 golf courses cover almost as much land as Delaware and Rhode Island combined.<a href="http://www.caddybytes.com/cypress_pt_club.htm"><img src="http://www.isteve.com/Cypress_Point_18-med.jpg" alt="Cypress Point 18th hole, par 4, approach to the green. Designed by Alister MacKenzie, 1929. Monterey Peninsula, California." width="507" align="left" border="0" height="380" /></a>
Golf architecture philosophy isn't terribly elaborate compared to the thickets of theory that entangle most museum arts, but one thing all golf designers assert is that their courses look "natural." Growing up in arid Southern California, however, where the indigenous landscape is impenetrable hillsides of gray-brown <a href="http://www.werc.usgs.gov/fire/lv/fireandinvasives/images/bishop_sagebrush_b.jpg">sagebrush</a>, I never quite understood what was so natural about <a href="http://www.caddybytes.com/new_page_20.htm"><span style="text-decoration: none;">fairways</span></a> of verdant, closely-mown <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/sportacademy/bsp/hi/golf/rules/in_play/html/fairway.stm">grass</a>, but I loved them all the same.
Research since the early 80s shows that humans tend to have two favorite landscapes. One is wherever they lived during their adolescence, but the nearly universal favorite among <a href="http://evolution.anthro.univie.ac.at/institutes/urbanethology/projects/urbanisation/landscapes/indexland.html"> children</a> before they imprint upon their local look is <a href="http://ceae.colorado.edu/%7Eamadei/CVEN4838/BioInspire.1_%2001.15.03.htm">grassy parkland</a>, and that fondness survives into adulthood.<a href="http://www.diacenter.org/km/painting.html"><img src="http://www.isteve.com/Americas_Most_Wanted_Painting_Komar_Melamid.jpg" alt="Komar and Melamid: America's Most Wanted Painting, based on a survey by a marketing research firm of visual preferences" width="415" align="left" border="0" height="276" /></a>
<span style="" class="BodyTextIndentChar">Richard Conniff wrote in <i><a href="http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1511/is_11_20/ai_57042527">Discover</a></i>: "In separate surveys, <a href="http://taz.tamu.edu/architecture/faculty/ulrich/intro.html">Ulrich</a>, <a href="http://www.apa.org/divisions/div10/articles/orians.html">Orians</a>, and others have found that people respond </span><span style="" class="BodyTextIndentChar">strongly to landscapes with open, grassy vegetation, scattered stands of branchy trees, water, changes in elevation, winding trails, and brightly lit clearings..."</span> In one amusing <a href="http://notes.utk.edu/bio/greenberg.nsf/0/f60081ef35fba95c85256e6e006a2a77?OpenDocument">study</a>, 1001 people from 15 different countries were surveyed about what they'd like to see in a painting. Then the sponsors of the research, conceptual art pranksters <a href="http://www.diacenter.org/km/painting.html">Komar and Melamid</a>, painted each country's "Most Wanted Painting." Even though the researchers hadn't <a href="http://www.oregonsgolf.com/FeaturedTravelFile_IdahoGolfTrail_NorthernLoop.htm"><img src="http://www.isteve.com/Coeur_DAlene_golf_small.jpg" alt="Coeur D'Alene Resort golf course, designed by Scott Miller. This is the mirror image of the real golf hole so the orientation is the same as in the painting above." width="391" align="right" border="0" height="258" /></a> mentioned what type of picture it should be, the consensus in 13 of the 15 cultures favored landscapes and 11 of the 15 looked surprisingly like golf courses. All over the world, people want to see grassland, a lake, and some trees, but not a solid forest. And they always want to see it slightly from above. The project was intended to satirize popular taste, but it ended up revealing much about about human desires. Above is <a href="http://www.diacenter.org/km/painting.html">Komar and Melamid's</a> rendition of America's Most Wanted Painting and here's a par 3 from the <a href="http://www.oregonsgolf.com/FeaturedTravelFile_IdahoGolfTrail_NorthernLoop.htm">Coeur d'Alene golf course</a> in Idaho that is similar in outline but aesthetically superior in execution.
<span style="" class="BodyTextIndentChar"><a href="http://www.serengeti.org/index_discover.html"><img src="http://www.isteve.com/Serengeti_Savanna-small.jpg" alt="The Serengeti Savanna in Tanzania" width="484" align="left" border="0" height="150" /></a>The current theory for why golf courses are so attractive to millions (mostly men), perhaps first put forward in John Strawn's book <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Driving-Green-Making-Golf-Course/dp/1558215557/vdare">Driving the Green: The Making of a Golf Course</a></i>, is that they look like <a href="http://www.serengeti.org/download/giraffe2.jpg">happy hunting grounds</a>—a Disney-v</span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond;"><span style="" class="BodyTextIndentChar">ersion of the <a href="http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/thegardendesigner/2002257846_homegard01.html">primordial East African grasslands</a>.</span> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond;"><span style="" class="BodyTextIndentChar">Harvard biologist <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1559631481/104-0596701-7678320?v=glance">Edward O. Wilson</a>, author of the landmark 1975 book </span><i style=""><a href="http://www.isteve.com/Sociobiology.htm">Sociobiology</a></i><span style="" class="BodyTextIndentChar">, once told me, "I believe that the reason that people find <a href="http://www.caddybytes.com/virtualtours/memorial/slides/11th_Hole.html">well-landscaped golf courses</a> 'beautiful' is that t</span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond;"><span style="" class="BodyTextIndentChar">hey look like <a href="http://www.andreamarangoni.it/tanzania/tanzania_serengeti_panorama_.jpg">savannas</a>, down to the <a href="http://www.andreamarangoni.it/tanzania/tanzania_serengeti_buffalo_.jpg"> scattered trees</a>, copses</span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond;"><span style="" class="BodyTextIndentChar">, and <a href="http://www.caddybytes.com/virtualtours/Congressional/slides/2nd_17th.html">lakes</a>, and most especially if they have <a href="http://www.caddybytes.com/virtualtours/Spyglass/slides/Par5_1st.html">vistas</a> of the <a href="http://www.caddybytes.com/virtualtours/Pebble/slides/9th_green.html">sea</a>.</span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond;"><span style="" class="BodyTextIndentChar">"
</span><a href="http://www.edgewood-tahoe.com/course.htm"><img src="http://www.isteve.com/Edgewood_Tahoe_16.jpg" alt="Edgewood Tahoe golf course, Nevada, par-5 16th hole, designed by George and Tom Fazio" width="204" align="left" border="0" height="255" /></a><a href="http://www.andreamarangoni.it/tanzania/tanzania_serengeti_acacia_.jpg">Tasty hoofed animals</a> would graze on the <a href="http://www.wuplet.com/thesis/chapter3.htm"> savanna's</a></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond;"> <a href="http://www.wuplet.com/thesis/chapter3.htm"> grass</a>, while the nearby woods could provide shade and cover for hunters. Our <a href="http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20020814-080050-8863r"> ancestors</a> would study the direction of the wind and</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond;"> the slopes of the land in order to approach their prey from the best angles. Any resemblance to a <a href="http://www.joanndost.com/com/detail.asp?SubCatID=5&offset=12&sku=mvgc-h15-70">rolling golf fairway</a> running between trees is not coincidental.
In 1975, geographer <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/047196235X/104-0596701-7678320?v=glance/vdare">Jay Appleton</a> advanced the similar theory that what people like is a combination of a sense of "refuge," such as the ability to hide in the woods, and of "prospect" across open country. Both theories make the prediction that human beings, especially males, will spend enormous amounts of money to fashion golf courses.
Generally, men (the hunters) tend to prefer sweeping vistas, while women (the gatherers) prefer enclosed verdant refuges. Perhaps it's no accident that a longtime favorite book among little girls is called "The Secret Garden." Similarly, women make up a <a href="http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/mastgard/msg021636238586.html">sizable majority of gardeners</a> while <a href="http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/houseandgarden/story/0,6000,368842,00.html">men often obsess over lawn care</a>.
<a href="http://www.shark.com/gngcd/photogallery/index.php"><img src="http://www.isteve.com/Greg_Norman.jpg" alt="Is this the best job in the world? Greg Norman and one of his designers "spy the land with a golfer's eye," as Bernard Darwin said." width="391" align="right" border="0" height="260" /></a> To create these pleasure grounds, top golf architects typically spend over <a href="http://www.isteve.com/Golf_Why_Golf_Has_Gotten_So_Expenseive.htm">$10 million</a> per course, and because designers oversee the creation of multiple layouts simultaneously, a "signature" architect like <a href="http://www.golfthemidatlantic.com/story/100"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Tom Fazio</span></a> will end his career with his name on a few billion dollars worth of golf courses.
Famous works of "environmental art," such as Robert Smithson's monumental earthwork "<a href="http://www.robertsmithson.com/earthworks/spiral_jetty.htm"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Spiral Jetty</span></a>" in the </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond;"> Great Salt Lake, are dwarfed by golf course</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond;">s in extent and thought required. </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond;">
Among fine artists, only Christo</span><a href="http://www.christojeanneclaude.net/rf.html"><img src="http://www.isteve.com/Christo_Running_Fence.jpg" alt="Running Fence by Christo, 1976, Marin County" width="180" align="left" border="0" height="122" /></a><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond;"> works on a comparable scale, and his projects, such as his recent “<a href="http://www.christojeanneclaude.net/tg.html"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Gates</span></a>” in Central Park, are more repetitious. </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond;">Nonetheless, Christo's “Gates,” which re-emphasized the original lands</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond;">cape architect <a href="http://www.fredericklawolmsted.com/"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Frederick Law Olmstead's</span></a> lovely serpentine pathways, and his 1976 "<a href="http://www.christojeanneclaude.net/rf.html"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Running Fence</span></a>" </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond;">snaking through the undulating grasslands of Marin County, offer some of the <a href="http://www.caddybytes.com/virtualtours/Firestone/slides/16th_green.html"><span style="text-decoration: none;">same visual pleasures</span></a> of following <a href="http://www.caddybytes.com/virtualtours/Quail%20Hollow/slides/15th_green.html"><span style="text-decoration: none;">alluring trails</span></a> as golf architects <a href="http://www.joanndost.com/com/detail.asp?SubCatID=89&sku=et-h16ae">provide</a>.
The great majority of golfers long thought of <a href="http://www.shark.com/gngcd/brookwater/"><img src="http://www.isteve.com/Brookwater_13th.jpg" alt="A winding pathway; designed by Greg Norman" width="500" align="right" border="0" height="332" /></a> courses mostly in terms of length or difficulty rather than of artistry. Even though the taste of golfers has improved in recent decades, many still judge a</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond;"> course more by the manicuring of its grass than by its design. Moreover, in the U.S., relatively few women are interested in golf before menopause, although the game is fairly fashionable among young women in East Asia and Scandinavia.
In recent decades, however, the golf world has come down with a severe case of connoisseurship, publishing hundreds of coffee-table books and calendars, making cult figures of long-forgotten early 20th Century architects like <a href="http://www.tillinghast.net/"><span style="text-decoration: none;">A.W. Tillinghast</span></a> and Charles </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond;">Blair MacDonald </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond;">and brand names out of living designers like <a href="http://www.golfdigest.com/majors/pga/index.ssf?/majors/pga/gw20040806petedye.html"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Pete Dye</span></a> and <a href="http://www.doakgolf.com/"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Tom Doak</span></a>.
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</span><span style="" class="BodyTextIndentChar"><a href="http://www.golfclubatlas.com/ngla2.html"><img src="http://www.isteve.com/National_Golf_Links_of_America_17-small.jpg" alt="National Golf Links of America, par 4 17th hole, Hamptons, designed by Charles Blair MacDonald, 1909, photo by Ran Morrissett" width="468" align="left" border="0" height="199" /></a></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond;"> Many today truly love good golf design, but until very</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond;"> recently, too few hated poor design enough to name names. Golfers tended to feel that any golf course is nice, so it would be churlish to gripe. It was not until the early Nineties that writing about architecture began to mature when Doak, a young architect</span><span class="style1">,</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond;"> circulated a photocopied samizdat manuscript called the <i style=""><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1886947090/104-0596701-7678320?v=glance/vdare">Confidential Guide to Golf Courses</a></i> that lambasted sacred cows.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond;">
Today, the gathering ground for architecture aficionados is the web discussion board <a href="http://www.golfclubatlas.com/">www.GolfClubAtlas.com</a>, where it's common to find, say, 70 messages denouncing the vulgarity of Fazio's redesign of the 7th fairway's bunker on George C. Thomas's classic 1927 <a href="http://www.golfclubatlas.com/riviera1.html"> Riviera</a> course, where Los Angeles' Nissan Open is played.
</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond;"> This frenzy of art worship among a minority of golfers has gone almost wholly <a href="http://www.golfclubatlas.com/cypresspoint000161.html"><img src="http://www.isteve.com/Cypress_Point_17.jpg" alt="Cypress Point 17, par 4, 390 yards, Alister MacKenzie designed 1929, Monterey Peninsula, CA" width="312" align="right" border="0" height="195" /></a> unrecognized in the establishment art world, which otherwise has been so quick to discern artistry in such unlikely forms as graffiti and toilet brushes. Top museums do not stage retrospectives on the <a href="http://www.rtj2.com/"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Trent</span></a> <a href="http://linkscountryclub.com/linksccpc/images/SplashScreens/misc/mauna1.jpg"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Jones</span></a> <a href="http://www.reesjonesinc.com/"><span style="text-decoration: none;">family</span></a> or stock golf course photo books in their gift shops.
The art community would benefit from exposure to golf architecture simply because the best courses, such as <a href="https://www.clocktowerpress.com/displaybook/000044/PICTORIAL"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Alister MacKenzie</span></a>'s <a href="http://www.caddybytes.com/new_page_6.htm"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Cypress Point</span></a> on the <a href="http://www.joanndost.com/com/detail.asp?SubCatID=69&sku=cpgc-h15-16-17">Monterey Peninsula</a>, are things of <a href="http://www.joanndost.com/com/detail.asp?SubCatID=69&offset=6&sku=cp_h17_1202ae">astonishing beauty</a>, comparable in craftsmanship, complexity, and deceptiveness to the finest efforts of 18<sup>th</sup>-century English landscape artists such as <a href="http://teachers.edenpr.org/%7Erolson/ArcadiaWeb/Brown/CapabilityBrown.html"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Capability Brown</span></a>, creator of the majestic <a href="http://www.igougo.com/photos/journal_photos/lake%2821%29.jpg"><span style="text-decoration: none;">grounds</span></a> for <a href="http://www.blenheimpalace.com/Palace_Gallery_files/pic1.htm"> Blenheim Palace</a>.
</span><img src="http://www.isteve.com/Whistling_Straits_17.jpg" alt="Whistling Straits 17th, par 3, Wisconsin, designed by Pete Dye, 1999, a wholly manufactured version of the wild Irish links" shapes="_x0000_s1027" width="448" align="left" height="266" hspace="12" /><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond;"> The first problem limiting the acceptance of golf design as art is that to nongolfers a course can seem as meaningless as a Concerto for Dog Whistle. That a golf course allows people to interact with interesting landscapes without killing wild animals makes sense in the abstract, but not until you've driven a ball over a <a href="http://www.greenskeeper.org/golf_courses/coursephotos.cfm?module=16&course=163&eid=341">gaping canyon</a> and onto the smooth safety of the <a href="http://www.caddybytes.com/new_page_17.htm">green</a> will the golf course obsession make much sense.
</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond;">The distinction </span>Edmund Burke made in 1757 between <a href="http://www.victorianweb.org/philosophy/sublime/burke.html"> the "sublime" and the "beautiful"</a> applies to golf courses. The beautiful is some pleasing place conducive to human habitat -- meadows, valleys, slow moving streams, grassland intermingled with copses of trees, the whole English country estate shtick. The sublime is nature so magnificent that it induces the feeling of terror because it could kill you, such as by you falling off a mountain or into a gorge.
Beautiful landscapes are most suited for building golf courses, since a golf course needs at least 100 acres of land level enough for a golf ball to come to rest upon. But golfers get a<a href="http://www.pebblebeach.com/page.asp?id=1288"><img src="http://www.isteve.com/Pebble_Beach.jpg" width="271" align="right" border="0" height="188" /></a> thrill out of the mock sublime, where you are in danger of losing not your life, but your mis-hit golf ball into a water hazard or ravine. One reason that Pebble Beach on the Monterey Peninsula is so legendary is because it combines sublime sea cliffs with beautiful (and thus functional for golf) rolling plains...</p><p class="gar" style="">
</p><p class="gar" style=""><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond;"> Conventional artists are urban, golf architects suburban. The art community delights in the venerable game of Shock the Bourgeoisie, while golf courses are too bourgeois to be hip, too <a href="http://www.golfclubatlas.com/kiawah1.html">elegant</a> to be camp....</span></p><p class="gar" style=""><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond;">The thrifty Scots made <a href="http://www.golfclubatlas.com/cruden1.html"><span style="text-decoration: none;">golf courses</span></a> out of sandy, <a href="http://www.golfclubatlas.com/royalaberdeen000143.html"><span style="text-decoration: none;">crumpled</span></a> land of little value for farming. Lacking rich enough soil to grow trees, they are more open to the wind, which adds to the complexity of the game, but they don't furnish the natural pleasure of providing both forest and grassland together that the standard inland American course does...</span></p><p class="gar" style="">
<span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond;"></span></p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Garamond;">Examples of truly horrendous design, fortunately, appear to be rarer in golf architecture than in building architecture, and are generally bulldozed into something more pleasing to the eye within a few years. Still, I can't resist a picture of Desmond Muirhead's legendary "<a href="http://www.greenbuilder.info/research/Chapter2.pdf">Clashing Rocks</a>" par-3 from his 1987 <a href="http://www.stoneharborgolf.com/index.html">Stone Harbor</a> course in New Jersey. Muirhead, who, while partnered in the early 1970s with Nicklaus, was largely responsible for the routing of the superb <a href="http://www.thememorialtournament.com/site.htm">Muirfield Village</a> course, became increasingly enamored with artistic self-expression in </span><span style="font-family:Garamond;font-size:130%;">the 1980s. He explained:</span> <p class="gar" style=""><i>"This hole has been published in hundreds of magazines worldwide, in art and architecture as well as golf. It was based on Jason and the Argonauts. The symbol came from my subconscious where it had probably been hanging around for a great many years. According to Jungian psychology, it is a mandala, a Sanskrit </i><span style="font-family:Garamond;font-size:130%;"><a href="http://www.stoneharborgolf.com/members.html"><img src="http://www.isteve.com/Stone_Harbor_7th_new_3.jpg" alt="Stone Harbor 7th hole, par 3, originally designed by Desmond Muirhead, but now softened." width="406" align="left" border="0" height="113" /></a></span><i>word meaning perfect circle which is the most common archetype drawn in psycho-analysis. The central form is female and the jagged forms are male."</i></p> <p class="gar" style="">Indeed.</p> <p class="gar">Stone Harbor's members, however, found Muirhead's theoretical rhetoric less intimidating than the sand shots over water he'd inconsiderately created for them, and they had the hole rebuilt into something a little more traditional.
</p>Eric Rasmusenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01609599580545475695noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4437491915190894682.post-47121144542965722312009-12-31T12:29:00.003-05:002009-12-31T12:57:13.482-05:00Straussianism<p>
Some scattered thoughts.
<ol>
<li> Strauss is like Keynes or Nietzsche. He wrote unclearly, but was very stimulating, so people have fun interpreting him. Like Nietzsche, if not, perhaps, Keynes, he had an Attitude, not a System.
<li> Strauss was like economist Frank Knight at Chicago, someone whose teaching was hugely influential but whose writing was less important--- perhaps even mediocre.
<li> What have been the good Straussian writings? "Persecution and the Art of Writing" by Strauss himself. The Strauss and Cropsey political philosophy survey. Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind, and his translation of The Republic with its essay by far the best things. The wonderfully derogatory review of Rawls---was it by Cropsey, or by Bloom? Bloom and Jaffa on Shakespeare. Paul Rahe's books. Jaffa on Lincoln is supposed to be very good, tho I haven't read it. Rhoads on regulation is first-rate-- up there with Bloom--- though I don't know that it's particularly Straussian. I don't recall anything else right now that should be on the list, though I've read other things by Strauss, Pangle, Fukuyama, and Mansfield that didn't impress me so much.
</ol>Eric Rasmusenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01609599580545475695noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4437491915190894682.post-50591735138402961472009-12-31T09:49:00.002-05:002009-12-31T09:50:55.322-05:00The 'Fire Napolitano' Debate [Andy McCarthy]<p> A post so good from <a href="http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ZGEzMWQ1MTYzOGFhNDc5MDRmZDdlMTk5OWQ5OTI2MmY=">Andy McCarthy</a> that I reproduce it in full:
<blockquote>
<p>A couple of months back, Sean Hannity invited me on his nightly panel on a special show that was dedicated to ten of the more problematic figures in the administration — Van Jones, Kevin Jennings, Carol Browner, John Holdren, and some others. (Napolitano was not egregious enough to be included.) Sean pressed me on whether this one or that one should be fired, and I just shrugged my shoulders. The suggestion (not by Sean, but in a lot of the public debate) had been that these people had not been properly vetted. My reaction was that they had been extensively vetted — the "czars," like Jones, were made czars rather than cabinet nominations precisely because they were the people President Obama wanted but he knew they'd never get through a confirmation hearing. Sure, you could fire those ten, but the same guy who picked them would be picking their replacements.<p>
I never thought we should have created a Department of Homeland Security. People's memories are short. The original idea behind DHS was to solve "the Wall" problem — the impediments to intelligence-sharing that were making the FBI, our domestic intelligence service, ineffective. But while DHS was being debated and built, the FBI and the intelligence community furiously called on their allies on Capitol Hill and protected their turf. By the time DHS formally came into being, they made sure it had no intelligence mission — in fact, it had no real clear mission at all except to be the unwieldy home of a huge agglomeration of federal agencies. Basically, we moved the deck chairs around on the Titanic but did nothing to improve homeland security.<p>
Napolitano is an apt representation of Obama-style detachment from national security: She doesn't know where the 9/11 hijackers came from; she doesn't know illegal immigration is a criminal offense; she won't utter the word "terror" (it's a "man-caused disaster," just like, say, a forest fire); she thinks the real terrorists are "right-wing extremists" aided and abetted by our soldiers returning home from their missions; when a jihadist at Fort Hood massacres more people than were killed in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, she won't call it terrorism and worries mostly about racist blow-back against innocent Muslims; she doesn't see any indications of a larger terrorist conspiracy even after a captured — er, arrested — terrorist tells agents he was groomed for the airplane operation by al Qaeda in Yemen; she thinks the "system worked" on Christmas when every element of it failed; and even her walk-back on the "system worked" comment — i.e., that it worked after the fact because all the planes then in the air were notified to take extra precautions "within 90 minutes" of the attack — is pathetic. You may recall that on 9/11, the first plane hit the World Trade Center at 8:46 a.m. and the second at 9:16 a.m.; the Pentagon was struck at 9:37 a.m., and, thanks to the heroic passengers of Flight 93, the last plane went down a little after 10 a.m. — about 20 minutes from its target in Washington. A lot can happen in 90 minutes.<p>
When DHS came into being, a good friend of mine put it perfectly: "We already have a Department of Homeland Security and its address is 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue." It is there, not at DHS, that the problem resides. The President has in place exactly the team he wants. To clamor for Napolitano's firing when she is just carrying out the boss's program is to shift the blame from where it belongs.<p></blockquote>Eric Rasmusenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01609599580545475695noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4437491915190894682.post-81497008688351084192009-12-30T15:22:00.000-05:002009-12-30T15:23:01.422-05:00The Nigerian TerroristFrom <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/30/opinion/30dowd.html?_r=1&ref=instapundit">Maureen Dowd</a>:
<blockquote>If we can’t catch a Nigerian with a powerful explosive powder in his oddly feminine-looking underpants and a syringe full of acid, a man whose own father had alerted the U.S. Embassy in Nigeria, a traveler whose ticket was paid for in cash and who didn’t check bags, whose visa renewal had been denied by the British, who had studied Arabic in Al Qaeda sanctuary Yemen, whose name was on a counterterrorism watch list, who can we catch?</blockquote>Eric Rasmusenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01609599580545475695noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4437491915190894682.post-48856938500070976352009-12-30T11:16:00.002-05:002009-12-30T11:21:04.925-05:00<p>John Derbyshire is very good in his 2001 <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/derbyshire/derbyshire111501.shtml">Crusading They Went
The deeds and misdeeds of our spiritual kin.</a><p>
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...the Crusaders were our spiritual kin.... Time and again, when you read the histories of this period, you are struck by sentences like these, which I have taken more or less at random from Sir Steven Runciman's History of the Crusades: "[Queen Melisande's] action was regarded as perfectly constitutional and was endorsed by the council." "Trial by peers was an essential feature of Frankish custom." "The King ranked with his tenant-in-chief as primus inter pares, their president but not their master." ...<p>
No sooner had Godfrey of Bouillon been elected supreme ruler of Jerusalem ... than his first thought was to give the new state a constitution. This was duly done, and the Assize of Jerusalem — "a precious monument of feudal jurisprudence," ...What were their notions, their obsessions? Faith, of course, and honor, and then: vassalage, homage, fealty, allegiance, duties and obligations, genealogies and inheritances, councils and "parlements," rights and liberties....<p>
...the virtues of men like Saladin rose as lone pillars from a level plain. They were not, as the occasional virtues of the Crusaders were, the peaks of a mountain range. The Saracens had, in a sense, no society, no polity. Says the Marquis to the Templar in another great Crusader novel, Sir Walter Scott's <span style="font-style:italic;">The Talisman</span>: "I will confess to you I have caught some attachment to the Eastern form of government: A pure and simple monarchy should consist but of king and subjects. Such is the simple and primitive structure — a shepherd and his flock. All this internal chain of feudal dependence is artificial and sophisticated." Well, artificial and sophisticated it may have been, but in its interstices grew liberty, law, and the modern conscience.<p></blockquote>Eric Rasmusenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01609599580545475695noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4437491915190894682.post-69477103658560595072009-12-30T10:51:00.001-05:002009-12-30T10:53:23.011-05:00“I think of all Harvard men as sissies”<p>The Yale Daily News via <a href="http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/yale-wimps-out-again/">Pajamas Media</a>:
<blockquote> The [Freshman Class Council] has decided to change the design of its shirts after the original design, which was submitted by students and voted on by the freshman class, sparked outcry from members within the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community. …<P>
The original design, which won out over five other entries, displayed an F. Scott Fitzgerald quote in the front — “I think of all Harvard men as sissies” — in bold white letters. The back of the long-sleeved, navy blue T-shirt said “WE AGREE” in capital letters, with “The Game 2009” scrawled in script underneath it.</blockquote>
I won't be contributing to Yale for a while, and I don't think I'd want to send my children there. Alas! <P>Eric Rasmusenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01609599580545475695noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4437491915190894682.post-9874578072168981792009-12-30T10:24:00.000-05:002009-12-30T10:40:55.552-05:00"Man, Do I Hate Holiday Travel"<P> Via Instapundit, this <a href="http://iowahawk.typepad.com/iowahawk/2009/12/man-do-i-hate-holiday-travel.html"> Iowahawk </a>story is funny:
<blockquote>Time was, a suicide mission to explode an international jumbo jet was an event full of glamor and excitement; but now it seems to be a endless series of delays, hassles, pushy jerks and third-degree testicular chemical burns.</blockquote><p>Eric Rasmusenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01609599580545475695noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4437491915190894682.post-27834019406100258412009-12-30T10:05:00.003-05:002009-12-30T10:10:11.900-05:00The Low State of English Departments<br>
What I find most appalling <a href="http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/12/28/jews">here</a> is not that the top 20 English departments don't have specialists in Jewish-American literature, a subject of tiny importance, but that they do have specialists in other ethnic literatures. No doubt Asian-American literature, like golf literature or science literature, is a worthy subject of study for someone or other, but to have a specialist in every department is crazy. <p>
And of course it's bad that he uses <span style="font-style:italic;">U.S. News & World Report</span> as his criterion for excellence, even if he tries to backtrack with caveats. <p>
<blockquote>Joshua Lambert, an assistant professor of Hebrew and Judaic studies at New York University, kicked off the discussion with an analysis of <span style="font-weight:bold;">the top 20 English departments (as judged by U.S. News & World Report,</span> a source that he acknowledged was flawed, but that he used to get a group of programs at highly regarded universities). He found that at these departments,<span style="font-weight:bold;"> every one has at least two and typically more specialists in African-American literature. All but two have at least one scholar focused on Asian-American literature. All but five have a Latino literature expert. All but 9 have an expert in Native American literature on the faculty.<p>
Only two of the institutions have a tenure-track faculty member whose area of expertise is American Jewish literature</span>, he said. (The University of Michigan, where Lambert earned his doctorate, is so ahead of the pack, with seven, that someone later referred to it with admiration as a shtetl.) </blockquote><P>Eric Rasmusenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01609599580545475695noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4437491915190894682.post-34750304634290224462009-12-29T12:11:00.005-05:002009-12-29T12:21:04.422-05:00Regressions and Global Warming<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_GWtbNudSJUY/Szo5vztURHI/AAAAAAAAACw/FgRDPnah-fs/s1600-h/warming1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 667px; height: 231px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_GWtbNudSJUY/Szo5vztURHI/AAAAAAAAACw/FgRDPnah-fs/s400/warming1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5420708594990728306" border="0" /></a>
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<!--[endif]--></span><span style=";font-family:";" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:";" ><span style=""> </span>So don’t go and use a linear model when eyeballing the data tells you it isn’t appropriate. When you have a simple regression in which only one variable explains another, use your eyes first, and software second.<span style=""> </span>Do remember, though,<span style=""> </span>that checking for statistical significance--- and autocorrelation and all those other things--- are useful too, so long as you start off right.<span style=""> </span>Here, the question is not just “Have temperatures been rising with time over the past 30 years?” but, separately, <span style=""> </span>“Have temperatures been rising with time over the past 10 years?”<span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:";" ><span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span>The way to start addressing that with regression, by the way, is to do<span style=""> </span>a<span style=""> </span>regression of temperature on four variables:<span style=""> </span>Constant, Year,<span style=""> </span>a dummy equaling 1 if the year is after 1999 and 0 otherwise, and an interaction of that dummy with Year.<span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:";" ><span style=""> </span>If a lot of people are interested, I could apply the serial correlation corrections to the artificial data or do this 4-variable regression on the real data, but maybe somebody else can take over now. <span style=""> </span>My Excel spreadsheet is at <a href="http://rasmusen.org/t/2009/warming.xlsx">http://rasmusen.org/t/2009/warming.xlsx</a>, this document at <a href="http://rasmusen.org/t/2009/warming.pdf">http://rasmusen.org/t/2009/warming.pdf</a>, I’m Eric Rasmusen at <a href="mailto:erasmuse@indiana.edu">erasmuse@indiana.edu</a>, and this is December 29, 2009, and I've put a pdf of this post at </span><span style=";font-family:";" ><a href="http://rasmusen.org/t/2009/warming.xlsx">http://rasmusen.org/t/2009/warming.pdf.</a></span></p> Eric Rasmusenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01609599580545475695noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4437491915190894682.post-13462103975226939942009-12-24T16:06:00.006-05:002009-12-24T16:09:06.104-05:00Merry Christmas!<p>
Merry Christmas to all! (though sad, too--- our card is <a href="http://rasmusen.org/special/memorial/Xmas09-card.pdf">here</a>)<br>Eric Rasmusenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01609599580545475695noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4437491915190894682.post-16768999777841811242009-12-24T15:27:00.003-05:002009-12-24T15:31:04.916-05:00Spending on Global Warming Research<p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.samefacts.com/2009/12/uncategorized/lomborg-spend-100byr-on-green-energy-rd/#comment-35891"> Mark Kleiman</a> writes
</p><p><a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704517504574589952331068322.html"></a></p><blockquote><a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704517504574589952331068322.html">Bjorn Lomborg turns out not to be a global-warming denialist</a>. He wants to spend $100 billion a year on what he calls “green energy research and development.”... I’m waiting to hear all the Republicans and libertarians who love to cite Lomborg as a guru when he’s attacking Ky0to and its progeny endorse his proposal, and the new taxes required to pay for it. But I’m not going to hold my breath.</blockquote><p></p><p>
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</p><p>I'm a definite skeptic, and I certainly would not reject Lomborg's proposal without mulling it over. I think a lot of skeptics would support it, in fact--- even those who would put the probability that carbon dioxide is causing temperature growth at only 20%. It's a matter of cost and benefit. Here are some reasons: </p><p>
1. $100 billion per year is small compared to the cost of the carbon-reduction proposals that have been made. </p><p>
2. Whether the research is making progress or nor would be much easier to see than whether a carbon-reduction proposal is working. </p><p>
3. Some of that money, I hope, would be used for seeing whether global warming is actually occurring. I know this would benefit the climatologists who have been such frauds, but if the money were spent on honest research, that would be very useful. </p><p>
4. Research has a good hope of finding a way to solve the problem. Carbon-reduction proposals just slow down the growth of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere (well, almost all of the proposals-- that Canadian editorial's ruthless "one-child" policy would work). Roughly, instead of the temperature rising X much by 2100, the typical leftwing proposal has it rising X much by 2120. </p><p>
5. Research spending can be done unilaterally and succeed. Germany, for example, could decide to go-it-alone and spend the $100 billion, find the solution, and give it away. </p>Eric Rasmusenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01609599580545475695noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4437491915190894682.post-39046760385868894512009-12-23T10:33:00.002-05:002009-12-23T10:35:13.268-05:00Rose Friedman<P> Somehow I hadn't realized that Rose Friedman died this fall. <a href="http://www.stanford.edu/~johntayl/Rose.pdf">John Taylor</a> has a good one-page note on her and "TV Ears". She sounds like such a fun person to know. <p>Eric Rasmusenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01609599580545475695noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4437491915190894682.post-30054478738995221772009-12-22T12:16:00.000-05:002009-12-22T00:16:48.580-05:00Latest Links on Global Warming<br>
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I've decided to use this page for lots of global warming posts. I'll cut and paste it to the top of my blog every once in a while, so I can have easy access to it. The bottom items in it will be the older ones.
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<a href="http://rasmusen1.blogspot.com/2009/12/petition-i-am-thinking-of-circulating.html">"A Petition I Am Thinking of Circulating." </a> My draft ClimateGate petition for economists to sign, which has lots of ClimateGate email excerpts on the two topics of fiddling with journals and hiding data. <p>
<li> <a href="http://climateaudit.org/2005/10/15/we-have-25-years-invested-in-this-work/">This 2005 post</a> at ClimateAudit thoroughly discusses the open-data policies of the US funding agencies that the East Anglia people ignored (and the US D. of Energy condoned). It has the story of the famous Philip Jones email quote, when refusing to disclose his data: "We have 25 or so years invested in the work. Why should I make the data available to you, when your aim is to try and find something wrong with it."<p>
<li> <a href="http://www.nature.com/news/2009/012345/full/news.2009.1155.html">Dec. 18 in NatureNews</a>, two prominent climatologists not at East Anglia, Von Storch and Allen, show their total unconcern with the unethical practices displayed in the Climategate Emails: "We welcome debate about the ethics of science prompted by the language of some of these e-mails, which, rightly or not, have created concerns about the scientific process."
<li> <a href="http://climateaudit.org/2009/12/21/climategatekeeping-siberia/#more-9646">This 2009 post</a> has the story of the Kamel Siberia paper that Jones boasted of having gotten rejected. "In the case of another paper (Aufhammer et al )[the economists], obstruction has delayed publication of the paper by six years but the authors are still endeavouring to get the paper into print. This was not the case with the Kamél paper; Kamél himself had abandoned the field."
<li> <a href="http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailings/2009/20091216_TemperatureOfScience.pdf">This pdf article</a> by James Hansen is a good survey of lots of global warming issues from his warmist point of view. It shows what a fraud he is, too. Two things I note are (1) when he discusses the year-2000 mistake, he fails to point out that it was a skeptic who found it in spite of Hansen's total lack of cooperation, and (2) when he discusses the failure of temperature to rise over the past decade he says that temperature did rise, because the 11-year moving average rose. (This last is blatantly deceitful, because if temperatures are rising and then flatten, it will take 11 years before the 11-year moving average stops rising! Note, too, that 1998 was by his own admission a year that was unusually warm for reasons unrelated to CO2.) The best place to prove a man's lack of integrity is from his own writing. <p>
<li> December 20, 2009
<a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/12/a_climatology_conspiracy.html">A Climatology Conspiracy?</a>
By David H. Douglass and John R. Christy. On the conspiracy to slow down an article's appearance in print till the warmists could write a response (and the editor's acquiescence and apparent guarantee of acceptance). <p>
<li><a href="http://climatedebatedaily.com/"> Climatedebatedaily</a> is a very good site that in two columns links to Warmist and Skeptic webposts, and even links to "Ripostes" and "Replies" to each webpost. It is especially useful for the Warmist column, I think--- better than RealClimate. <p>
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<a href="http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fpcomment/archive/2009/12/19/lawrence-solomon-wikipedia-s-climate-doctor.aspx?CommentPosted=true#commentmessage">Wikipedia’s climate doctor: How Wikipedia’s green doctor rewrote 5,428 climate articles</a>
December 19, 2009, Lawrence Solomon<p>
<li>There;s a good post by a statistician showing step by step how to do your own Hockey Stick, at<p>
<a href="http://iowahawk.typepad.com/iowahawk/2009/12/fables-of-the-reconstruction.html">http://iowahawk.typepad.com/iowahawk/2009/12/fables-of-the-reconstruction.html</a><p>
I'd like to try this out myself, but I haven't yet. He even limits himself to free spreadsheet statistical software (Star OpenOffice--Excel doesn't have the tools). Any statistician could have found out what was wrong with the Hockey Stick paper, one of the most important in the field, if he'd been allowed to see the data and techniques.
<li> <a href="http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/2009/12/busy-man.html">EUReferendum</a> reports on the truly remarkable number of conflicts of interest thatDr Rajendra Kumar Pachauri, chairman of the IPCC, has. It's about as bad as if he were a director of Exxon. The number of directorships and consultantcies he has must make him a very rich man. Pegasus Capital, Siderian Ventures, The Sustainable Future Fund Iceland, International Risk Governance Council, Asian Development Bank, GloriOil Limited,Chicago Climate Exchange, Inc. , Oil Trade Associates Singapore, Climate Change Advisory Board of Deutsche Bank. Some of these are "advisory board" positions, so maybe they aren't paid much, but it makes one wonder. <p>
<li> A good<a href="http://www.samizdata.net/blog/archives/2009/12/climategate_the.html"> post on public opinion</a>: "You can feel that most crucial of propaganda processes happening with Climategate: the reversing of the burden of proof." <p>
<li> <a href="http://mapcenter.hamweather.com/records/7day/us.html?c=maxtemp,mintemp,lowmax,highmin,snow">Hamweather</a> record weather events mapped over the US for last week. <p>
</p></li><li> RealClimate, the main Warmer blog, has been surprisingly quiet about ClimateGate. Below are their most recent updates on it. These are useful because they present the Warmer case, which essentially is "I'm a very good guy and so is Phil Jones and it's a shame people are saying bad things about him " without mentioning anything specific. There's not a sign of contrition. Don't take my word for it--- read these. <blockquote><p><strong>Further update:</strong> <a href="http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v462/n7273/full/462545a.html">Nature’s editorial</a>. </p> <p><strong>Further, further update:</strong> <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering/browse_thread/thread/d3aec95a5f27fbb6">Ben Santer’s mail</a> (click on quoted text), the <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704107104574571613215771336.html">Mike Hulme op-ed</a>, and <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/kevin-trenberth-standing-ipcc-process">Kevin Trenberth</a>.</p><p></p></blockquote><p>
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<a href="http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/07/05/pielk-sr-responds-to-ncdcs-talking-points-about-surfacesations-org/">"Pielke Sr. responds to NCDC’s “Talking Points” about surfacestations.org"</a>. Arguments that the US raw temperature record is of dubious value for looking at long-term trends. Very feeble response from the weather station people, it seems. <p>
</p></li><li> <a href="http://rasmusen1.blogspot.com/2009/12/climate-research-dispute-over.html">"The Climate Research Dispute over Publishing Soon and Baliunas"</a>. Response of the journal editor to complaints about his publishing a Skeptic article. <p>
</p></li><li> It's interesting how comments are so often better informed and wiser than the writer. This <a href="http://meganmcardle.theatlantic.com/archives/2009/12/stifling_dissent.php#comments">Megan McCardle </a>post is about death threats to climatologists after ClimateGate. The comments note that the only evidence that such threats were really made comes from the same scientists who have been discredited in the scandal itself. <p>
</p></li><li> <a href="http://iowahawk.typepad.com/iowahawk/2009/12/fables-of-the-reconstruction.html">Fables of the Reconstruction
(Or, How to Make Your Own Hockey Stick)</a>. This goes through it, supplying the temperature and proxy data and telling you how to download and use OpenOffice to do principal components analysis. I'll do this myself when I have time. I emailed the author asking why principal components was a better technique than just regression here. <p>
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From <a href="http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ZmY4YjE1ODE3YmUxZmIwY2E1NDM3MGRkYjA0YjEwOWM=">Mark Steyn: </a>
<blockquote> <p> The documents were leaked on the Internet, the CRU confirmed their authenticity, they've announced that they've thrown out all their raw data, the head guy has stepped down . . . But that's no reason not to "continue to look into the issue" for another, oh, three, four, seven months before running a story. I like this fellow's sign-off:</p><p>
</p><blockquote> Slice your average environment correspondent through the middle and you're going to find a left-leaning liberal arts graduate who is utterly out of his/her depth. Their world view is being swept from underneath them and they are being shown — in ways that they do not really and have never had to understand — that the guys they thought were the goodies are in fact "at it" and that those they have spent a decade disparaging as deniers were in fact spot on.<p>
I would find that hard to report too.</p></blockquote><p>
Like eight year olds that just found out there's no Santa. Kind of earth shattering and traumatic. Lied to by those you most trusted. </p></blockquote><p>
</p></li><li> The <a href="http://www.anenglishmanscastle.com/HARRY_READ_ME.txt">Harry Read Me </a>file is worth having a link to.<a href="http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/03/climategate-as-rorschach-test/?apage=3#comment-523847"> Here</a> are some excerpts. One of them: “So with a somewhat cynical shrug, I added the nuclear option — to match every WMO possible, and turn the rest into new stations … In other words what CRU usually do. It will allow bad databases to pass unnoticed, and good databases to become bad …”<p>
</p></li><li> In my regulation class this week, a Taiwanese student jokingly suggested that the way to solve global warming would be to kill any children born to a family that already had one child. Then this Op-Ed appeared in one of the top Canadian newspapers:
<a href="http://www.financialpost.com/story.html?id=2314438#ixzz0ZLhX3n48">"The real inconvenient truth:
The whole world needs to adopt China's one-child policy"</a><p>
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<a href="http://meganmcardle.theatlantic.com/archives/2009/12/climategate_was_data_faked.php">Megan McCardle </a>very gently brings up the Darwin data fraud and politely asks if there's some reason it's not as bad as it looks. She hopes the warmist blog RealClimate will say something about it. I've been checking that site regularly, and they seem to have adopted the strategy of saying very little about ClimateGate and related scandals, probably because they can't give good answers and they don't want to even give their readers access to any details that might upset their views. <p>
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Look at the comments on this <a href="http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/green/greenblog/2009/12/harvard_professor_weighs_in_on.html">Boston Globe blog</a> in which Harvard Prof. McCarthy tries to dismiss ClimateGate. The amount of scorn heaped on the Globe is amazing. <p>
</p></li><li> <a href="http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/bellamy-twenty-eight-years-on-tv-then-blackballed-for-challenging-agw-pjm-exclusive/">Bellamy: Twenty-Eight Years on TV, Then Blackballed for Challenging AGW
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</p></li><li> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_G_-SdAN04">Global Warming US Cities Getting Warmer</a>: This is a You-Tube video a geneticist made with his son showing how only the urban temperatures in the US are going up, not rural stations. "A comparison of GISS data for the last 111 years show US cities getting warmer but rural sites are not increasing in temperature at all. Urban Heat Islands may be the only areas warming." The emperor really does have no clothes. I've wondered about that myself, but I thought people in the field had surely looked at something so simple. <p>
</p></li><li> <a href="http://nlt.ashbrook.org/2009/12/climate-scientist-to-revkin-we-can-lo-longer-trust-you-to-carry-water-for-us.php">Climate Scientist to Revkin: "we can no longer trust you" to carry water for us.</a> Another incredible email leak. A well-known U. of Illinois scientist condemns a NY Times liberal writer for making light of global warming and threatens to cut off his sources. These people have no shame, and no sense of humor either. <p>
</p></li><li> It is worth keeping in mind that maybe people who say they don't believe in absolute truth and who believe that the most important things for scientists to do is to help people, not to advance science, actually mean what they say, in which case they believe that a scientist has a duty to lie about his results if he thinks that will advance social justice. And if they believe that, they'll do it. <p>
</p></li><li> <a href="http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v462/n7273/full/462545a.html">
Nature</a> has an editorial belitting the importance of ClimateGate and making misstatemetns such as that Antarctic sea ice is diminishing. Read it, and think less of that journal. <p>
</p></li><li> A good<a href="http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/03/climategate-as-rorschach-test/?apage=2#comment-523703"> Levitt-Dubner comment</a> on why anything happening with glaciers is unrelated to global warming (for example-- where glaciers are melting, temperatures aren't rising!)
</li></ol>Eric Rasmusenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01609599580545475695noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4437491915190894682.post-76499819923034297082009-12-22T09:53:00.002-05:002009-12-22T09:58:22.956-05:00Affirmative Action and Incompetent Doctors<p> Affirmative action kills. I just came across the <a href="http://aad.english.ucsb.edu/docs/dmartin.html">New York Times obituary</a> for Patrick Chavis, one of the five medical students whose race gave them admission over Bakke in the famous case.<p>
<blockquote>In 1996, Senator Edward M. Kennedy called him a "perfect example" of how affirmative action worked. "... The University of California at Davis has no records of what the four blacks admitted with Dr. Chavis are doing, a spokeswoman, Julia Ann Easley, said. By 1996, Dr. Chavis was using liposuction to help women lose weight after giving birth. He was accused of mistreating eight liposuction patients, one of whom died. In 1998, the Medical Board of California revoked his license for "gross negligence, incompetence and repeated negligent acts." <p>
His professional difficulties began in 1993, at Long Beach Memorial Hospital, when he was accused of mishandling a delivery, and the hospital began monitoring him.<p>
He sued, charging racism. In a jury trial, he won $1.1 million in damages, but a judge overturned the verdict. By 1997, he said he had delivered 10,000 children and performed thousands of abortions. About that time, he added liposuction to his practice. His personal and professional life then took a further downturn. In 1997, The Associated Press found in court records that he had been sued 21 times for malpractice and had settled some suits with no admission of guilt.<p>
He declared bankruptcy and went through the second of two divorces. In 1997, his license was suspended, for not paying child support, but he continued to practice. The medical board used that as one of more than 90 counts in revoking his license the next year...</blockquote>Eric Rasmusenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01609599580545475695noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4437491915190894682.post-80598943887340251952009-12-21T11:48:00.003-05:002009-12-21T11:51:38.730-05:00Updating Blog Posts<br>
Here's features I would like for my blog:<p>
<ol>
<li> A way for commenters to be emailed future comments on a thread. Volokh Conspiracy has that.<p>
<li> A way to make sure that a particular post is "sticky" and stays as the first or the second or the n'th post appearing. VC has something like that too. <p>
<li> A way for any post that I update to move from whatever date location it is in to the top of the list, with a note as to its original and new date. <p>
</ol>Eric Rasmusenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01609599580545475695noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4437491915190894682.post-42096127828766373942009-12-20T10:03:00.003-05:002009-12-20T10:10:07.240-05:00Aspirin as First Aid for Heart Attacks<br>
<p> I was talking with Pastor Bayly the other day and asked him why he had a pillbox on his keychain. He told me that if you have a heart attack, you should immediately chew up two aspirin. I googled and found that <a href="http://www.acc.org/qualityandscience/clinical/guidelines/stemi/Guideline1/InitRecognition.htm#6_3_1_4">that's true</a> (though it seems one aspirin is probably enough). It makes sense-- aspirin reduces clotting, which is why it bothers some people's stomachs. I saw one comment which pointed out that you should also tell the 911 operator that you took the aspirin, so the ambulance people don't give you more (via a suppository if you are unconscious, say) and you get too much. <p>
Note, too, that if you have aspirin on hand you can help out the improvident heart attacked who neglected to bring theirs. One more reason, till you get round to buying your keychain pillbox, to attend <a href="http://site.shepherdchurch.com/app/">Pastor Bayly's sermons</a>.Eric Rasmusenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01609599580545475695noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4437491915190894682.post-72394955257776281642009-12-19T15:56:00.000-05:002009-12-19T15:57:07.590-05:00The Just Price<br>
<P>Suppose I am the only person who can sell a widget to John Doe. It costs me $10 to sell it to him, including the cost of my time and a standard profit rate. He would pay up to $30 for it, if he had to. What price am I justified in charging, if I can make a take-it-or-leave-it offer?<p>
Note that I am leaving John Doe better off than if he never met me even if I charge him $29.<p>Eric Rasmusenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01609599580545475695noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4437491915190894682.post-3555522387569119332009-12-17T18:53:00.002-05:002009-12-17T19:01:41.916-05:00Applying Time Series Econometrics to Temperature and Carbon Dioxide<p>
For an economist, what I suggest below is obvious, but I wonder if anybody has done it. <p>
<ol>
<li> Does the world temperature rise over time? Check the statistical significance of a time trend.
<li> Next, check for serial correlation, and re-check for whether there is a time trend.
<li> Now regress temperature on carbon dioxide levels. Is there a significant relationship?
<li> Now add a time trend for 1950-2009. Does it explain temperature better than carbon dioxide?
<li> Now start applying some time series econometrics. I don't know that stuff really. But what we'd want to do is to detrend the variables and include lagged values.
</ol>
<p>Eyeballing the data, it's hard for me to believe there's a significant relationship. The temperature is highly variable from year to year, and the amount of average increase 1970-2000 is tiny compared to year-to-year variation. Once we allow even for first-order autocorrelation, finding an effect would be tough. <p>
As I said, to an economist this is the obvious way to proceed. But has anybody done it? Now that we are finding out how poorly constructed the temperature series are, we'd better ask about all kinds of things. <P>Eric Rasmusenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01609599580545475695noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4437491915190894682.post-425849813386309282009-12-17T11:16:00.003-05:002009-12-17T11:19:27.126-05:00The Direct and Indirect Implications of the ClimateGate Emails<br>
<p> I was just reading a post and comments by <a href="http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~cook/movabletype/archives/2009/12/climategate_how.html">a reputable statistics blogger</a> who seems blind to the implications of ClimateGate. My sense is that he hasn't really looked into it much--- he doesn't seem to realize that the Medieval Warm Period's existence has important implications, for example. My comment: <p>
It is true that only a few climatologists are implicated in the appalling emails about concealing data and pressuring journals. But just as CO2 is the just the direct driver for warming and the real action comes from indirect effects, we need to look at a second layer: the response of other climatologists. <p>
In my field, economics, if it were revealed that top people in the field had sent emails like this, they would be repudiated by the rest of us. I have had my PhD for 25 years and I've never heard of anything like this. There's sloppy work and contrived results, but we don't need to use FOIA to get people's data. <p>
But in climatology, where's the condemnation? The response seems to be, "Oh, this kind of things is just how scientists talk in private," and "Well, other scientists have reached much the same results, so this isn't really misleading," or "How dare someone leak private emails!". I don't trust *anyone* in a field that responds like that. If they say this is humdrum behavior, we can assume they do it themselves, or are so intimidated that they don't dare publish papers contrary to what the East Anglia people like to see. <p>Eric Rasmusenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01609599580545475695noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4437491915190894682.post-46386091195589610672009-12-16T15:11:00.003-05:002009-12-16T17:23:55.280-05:00Attitudes towards Murderers<br>
<p> From the December 7 <a href="http://www.heraldtimesonline.com/stories/2009/12/07/news.q p-3072806.sto">HT</a> (I need to update this to add the newspaper comments, which is what's really the point):
<blockquote>
Blade Reed, 14, sentenced to 30 years in home invasion, attack"<p>
Physical and sexual abuse as a toddler followed by emotional
trauma, foster care placements and then adoption into a
dysfunctional family marked Blade Reed’s first 14 years.<p>
The teen will now spend the next 14 behind bars for his part in a
brutal attack against elderly neighbors last year that left 84-year-
old Richard “Dude” Voland dead and his wife of almost six
decades shot and stabbed. A judge sentenced him today to 30
years in jail, of which he will serve half; he gets credit for nine
months spent in jail since his arrest. ...<p>
<p>
The Reed brothers rode their bicycles a mile or so to the Volands’
Helmsburg home in the early morning hours of Nov. 15, 2008,
intending to steal beer. The two took along a .25 caliber handgun
stolen from another neighbor. They knocked on the door and
asked to use the phone. When Bennie Reed pointed his gun at
Dude Voland and said “no one needs to get hurt,” the 50-year
National Rifle Association member drew his own weapon. Reed
tried to knock it from the man’s hand, and a bullet fired from the
gun hit him in the arm. The teen then fired back, and a bullet from
the stolen gun struck the man in the head.<p>
Bennie Reed then shot Mary Voland in the stomach with her
husband’s handgun after she came out of the bedroom and
provided medical care to her husband and also to Reed.<p>
As the boys were leaving the house, without beer and wearing
bloody clothes, Bennie Reed told his brother to cut the woman’s
throat since she had witnessed her husband’s shooting. The
then-13-year-old admitted he sawed back and forth on the
woman’s neck with a kitchen knife.<p>
This afternoon, he pleaded guilty to aggravated battery and
robbery resulting in serious injury. ...<p>
During a previous hearing back in November, Brown Circuit Judge
Judith Stewart determined that despite an agreement between the
prosecutor and defense attorney that Blade Reed should spend the
time until his 18th birthday not in prison but at the Indiana School
for Boys with other offenders his age, the law does not allow that
placement. So Reed will be incarcerated with other youthful
violent offenders in a special housing unit at Wabash Valley
Correctional Facility, a maximum-security prison in Carlisle.<p>
Brown County Prosecutor Jim Oliver said justice was served.
“This plea was justice. He committed an adult crime and he has
received adult consequences,” Oliver said in a written statement.
“Blade Reed pled guilty to what he agreed with his brother to do
that night, which was to commit an armed robbery. He received
the maximum disposition for his attack on Mrs. Voland.”<p>
Cited among aggravating circumstances at the sentencing hearing
was the recognition that the boys played on Richard Voland’s
kindness to gain entry to his home that night. Oliver listed three
mitigating circumstances: the boy’s age, that he didn’t intend for
anyone to get hurt and his accepting responsibility for his
actions....</blockquote>
<p>
This is the front line of the Culture Wars. We have Tim Bayly and
we have Dawn Johnsen, to name two of our citizens with national
(if specialized) reputations. Massachusetts and Idaho are safe
territory for each side, but not Bloomington.<p>
A
<A HREF="
http://www.suntimes.btinternet.co.uk/intersite/swjokes.html">
joke:
</A>
<blockquote>Two social workers were walking through a rough part of the town
in the evening. They heard moans and muted cries for help from a
back lane. Upon investigation, they found a semi-conscious man
in a pool of blood."Help me-I've been mugged and viciously
beaten" he pleaded. The two social workers turned and walked
away. One remarked to her colleague:"You know the person that
did this really needs help".</blockquote>Eric Rasmusenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01609599580545475695noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4437491915190894682.post-79173615881489499942009-12-16T10:47:00.003-05:002009-12-21T11:47:16.580-05:00Latest Links on Global Warming<br>
<p>
</p><p>
I've decided to use this page for lots of global warming posts. I'll cut and paste it to the top of my blog every once in a while, so I can have easy access to it. The bottom items in it will be the older ones.
</p><ol>
<li>
<a href="http://rasmusen1.blogspot.com/2009/12/petition-i-am-thinking-of-circulating.html">"A Petition I Am Thinking of Circulating." </a> My draft ClimateGate petition for economists to sign, which has lots of ClimateGate email excerpts on the two topics of fiddling with journals and hiding data. <p>
<li><a href="http://climatedebatedaily.com/"> Climatedebatedaily</a> is a very good site that in two columns links to Warmist and Skeptic webposts, and even links to "Ripostes" and "Replies" to each webpost. It is especially useful for the Warmist column, I think--- better than RealClimate. <p>
<li>
<a href="http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fpcomment/archive/2009/12/19/lawrence-solomon-wikipedia-s-climate-doctor.aspx?CommentPosted=true#commentmessage">Wikipedia’s climate doctor: How Wikipedia’s green doctor rewrote 5,428 climate articles</a>
December 19, 2009, Lawrence Solomon<p>
<li>There;s a good post by a statistician showing step by step how to do your own Hockey Stick, at<p>
<a href="http://iowahawk.typepad.com/iowahawk/2009/12/fables-of-the-reconstruction.html">http://iowahawk.typepad.com/iowahawk/2009/12/fables-of-the-reconstruction.html</a><p>
I'd like to try this out myself, but I haven't yet. He even limits himself to free spreadsheet statistical software (Star OpenOffice--Excel doesn't have the tools). Any statistician could have found out what was wrong with the Hockey Stick paper, one of the most important in the field, if he'd been allowed to see the data and techniques.
<li> <a href="http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/2009/12/busy-man.html">EUReferendum</a> reports on the truly remarkable number of conflicts of interest thatDr Rajendra Kumar Pachauri, chairman of the IPCC, has. It's about as bad as if he were a director of Exxon. The number of directorships and consultantcies he has must make him a very rich man. Pegasus Capital, Siderian Ventures, The Sustainable Future Fund Iceland, International Risk Governance Council, Asian Development Bank, GloriOil Limited,Chicago Climate Exchange, Inc. , Oil Trade Associates Singapore, Climate Change Advisory Board of Deutsche Bank. Some of these are "advisory board" positions, so maybe they aren't paid much, but it makes one wonder. <p>
<li> A good<a href="http://www.samizdata.net/blog/archives/2009/12/climategate_the.html"> post on public opinion</a>: "You can feel that most crucial of propaganda processes happening with Climategate: the reversing of the burden of proof." <p>
<li> <a href="http://mapcenter.hamweather.com/records/7day/us.html?c=maxtemp,mintemp,lowmax,highmin,snow">Hamweather</a> record weather events mapped over the US for last week. <p>
</p></li><li> RealClimate, the main Warmer blog, has been surprisingly quiet about ClimateGate. Below are their most recent updates on it. These are useful because they present the Warmer case, which essentially is "I'm a very good guy and so is Phil Jones and it's a shame people are saying bad things about him " without mentioning anything specific. There's not a sign of contrition. Don't take my word for it--- read these. <blockquote><p><strong>Further update:</strong> <a href="http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v462/n7273/full/462545a.html">Nature’s editorial</a>. </p> <p><strong>Further, further update:</strong> <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering/browse_thread/thread/d3aec95a5f27fbb6">Ben Santer’s mail</a> (click on quoted text), the <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704107104574571613215771336.html">Mike Hulme op-ed</a>, and <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/kevin-trenberth-standing-ipcc-process">Kevin Trenberth</a>.</p><p></p></blockquote><p>
</p></li><li>
<a href="http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/07/05/pielk-sr-responds-to-ncdcs-talking-points-about-surfacesations-org/">"Pielke Sr. responds to NCDC’s “Talking Points” about surfacestations.org"</a>. Arguments that the US raw temperature record is of dubious value for looking at long-term trends. Very feeble response from the weather station people, it seems. <p>
</p></li><li> <a href="http://rasmusen1.blogspot.com/2009/12/climate-research-dispute-over.html">"The Climate Research Dispute over Publishing Soon and Baliunas"</a>. Response of the journal editor to complaints about his publishing a Skeptic article. <p>
</p></li><li> It's interesting how comments are so often better informed and wiser than the writer. This <a href="http://meganmcardle.theatlantic.com/archives/2009/12/stifling_dissent.php#comments">Megan McCardle </a>post is about death threats to climatologists after ClimateGate. The comments note that the only evidence that such threats were really made comes from the same scientists who have been discredited in the scandal itself. <p>
</p></li><li> <a href="http://iowahawk.typepad.com/iowahawk/2009/12/fables-of-the-reconstruction.html">Fables of the Reconstruction
(Or, How to Make Your Own Hockey Stick)</a>. This goes through it, supplying the temperature and proxy data and telling you how to download and use OpenOffice to do principal components analysis. I'll do this myself when I have time. I emailed the author asking why principal components was a better technique than just regression here. <p>
</p></li><li>
From <a href="http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ZmY4YjE1ODE3YmUxZmIwY2E1NDM3MGRkYjA0YjEwOWM=">Mark Steyn: </a>
<blockquote> <p> The documents were leaked on the Internet, the CRU confirmed their authenticity, they've announced that they've thrown out all their raw data, the head guy has stepped down . . . But that's no reason not to "continue to look into the issue" for another, oh, three, four, seven months before running a story. I like this fellow's sign-off:</p><p>
</p><blockquote> Slice your average environment correspondent through the middle and you're going to find a left-leaning liberal arts graduate who is utterly out of his/her depth. Their world view is being swept from underneath them and they are being shown — in ways that they do not really and have never had to understand — that the guys they thought were the goodies are in fact "at it" and that those they have spent a decade disparaging as deniers were in fact spot on.<p>
I would find that hard to report too.</p></blockquote><p>
Like eight year olds that just found out there's no Santa. Kind of earth shattering and traumatic. Lied to by those you most trusted. </p></blockquote><p>
</p></li><li> The <a href="http://www.anenglishmanscastle.com/HARRY_READ_ME.txt">Harry Read Me </a>file is worth having a link to.<a href="http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/03/climategate-as-rorschach-test/?apage=3#comment-523847"> Here</a> are some excerpts. One of them: “So with a somewhat cynical shrug, I added the nuclear option — to match every WMO possible, and turn the rest into new stations … In other words what CRU usually do. It will allow bad databases to pass unnoticed, and good databases to become bad …”<p>
</p></li><li> In my regulation class this week, a Taiwanese student jokingly suggested that the way to solve global warming would be to kill any children born to a family that already had one child. Then this Op-Ed appeared in one of the top Canadian newspapers:
<a href="http://www.financialpost.com/story.html?id=2314438#ixzz0ZLhX3n48">"The real inconvenient truth:
The whole world needs to adopt China's one-child policy"</a><p>
</p></li><li>
<a href="http://meganmcardle.theatlantic.com/archives/2009/12/climategate_was_data_faked.php">Megan McCardle </a>very gently brings up the Darwin data fraud and politely asks if there's some reason it's not as bad as it looks. She hopes the warmist blog RealClimate will say something about it. I've been checking that site regularly, and they seem to have adopted the strategy of saying very little about ClimateGate and related scandals, probably because they can't give good answers and they don't want to even give their readers access to any details that might upset their views. <p>
</p></li><li>
Look at the comments on this <a href="http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/green/greenblog/2009/12/harvard_professor_weighs_in_on.html">Boston Globe blog</a> in which Harvard Prof. McCarthy tries to dismiss ClimateGate. The amount of scorn heaped on the Globe is amazing. <p>
</p></li><li> <a href="http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/bellamy-twenty-eight-years-on-tv-then-blackballed-for-challenging-agw-pjm-exclusive/">Bellamy: Twenty-Eight Years on TV, Then Blackballed for Challenging AGW
</a><p>
</p></li><li> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_G_-SdAN04">Global Warming US Cities Getting Warmer</a>: This is a You-Tube video a geneticist made with his son showing how only the urban temperatures in the US are going up, not rural stations. "A comparison of GISS data for the last 111 years show US cities getting warmer but rural sites are not increasing in temperature at all. Urban Heat Islands may be the only areas warming." The emperor really does have no clothes. I've wondered about that myself, but I thought people in the field had surely looked at something so simple. <p>
</p></li><li> <a href="http://nlt.ashbrook.org/2009/12/climate-scientist-to-revkin-we-can-lo-longer-trust-you-to-carry-water-for-us.php">Climate Scientist to Revkin: "we can no longer trust you" to carry water for us.</a> Another incredible email leak. A well-known U. of Illinois scientist condemns a NY Times liberal writer for making light of global warming and threatens to cut off his sources. These people have no shame, and no sense of humor either. <p>
</p></li><li> It is worth keeping in mind that maybe people who say they don't believe in absolute truth and who believe that the most important things for scientists to do is to help people, not to advance science, actually mean what they say, in which case they believe that a scientist has a duty to lie about his results if he thinks that will advance social justice. And if they believe that, they'll do it. <p>
</p></li><li> <a href="http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v462/n7273/full/462545a.html">
Nature</a> has an editorial belitting the importance of ClimateGate and making misstatemetns such as that Antarctic sea ice is diminishing. Read it, and think less of that journal. <p>
</p></li><li> A good<a href="http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/03/climategate-as-rorschach-test/?apage=2#comment-523703"> Levitt-Dubner comment</a> on why anything happening with glaciers is unrelated to global warming (for example-- where glaciers are melting, temperatures aren't rising!)
</li></ol>Eric Rasmusenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01609599580545475695noreply@blogger.com