Chinese manufacturer aigo released the aigopen, a device roughly the size of a large felt-tip marker that scans a page of text and reads the content out loud in either Chinese or English. In other news, researchers at the University of East Anglia in the UK are leveraging known information about audio speech to recognize visual speech. Researchers say computerized lip-reading will benefit counterterrorism and law enforcement units. And speaking of criminals, rapper Prodigy is in jail for his third gun charge.
The latest release of 5,000 emails from the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit (CRU) reconfirms what the 2009's "Climategate" files established: Global warming is more fiction than science. The basic problem with climate research is that it is at best soft science, and this leaked correspondence demonstrate just how unsettled it is. "Observations do not show rising temperatures throughout the tropical troposphere unless you accept one single study and approach and discount a wealth of others," one scientist wrote. "This is just downright dangerous. We need to communicate the uncertainty and be honest." Nonsense, another concluded: "The trick may be to decide on the main message and use that to guide what's included and what is left out." But what if the whole warming phe...
Jesus Christ said in three words what his followers must do: "Love one another." From that command and Jesus' other clear utterances, came a treasure trove of documents, denominations and traditions over the centuries, with competing claims to our consciences. Diarmaid MacCulloch, brought up in a country rectory in East Anglia and now professor of the History of the Church at Oxford, has written a masterpiece of exposition, overview and analysis of what emanates from Jesus' command in "Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years." Every page is clear and concise.
Steve Prisley, Virginia Tech forester and a former member of the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, expresses concern about information from hacked e-mails of climate scientists at Britain's University of East Anglia ("Climategate taints global warming science," Dec. 10 commentary). East Anglia temperature data, used by the IPCC, implicates human use of fossil fuels as a cause of global warming. Prisley's concern about "Climategate" is understandable because some behavior disclosed by the e-mails appears questionable and perhaps unethical. But as the Nov. 27 Roanoke Times editorial "Scientists being human" correctly points out, the e-mails cast no doubt on the many independent studies showing rapid warming in recent decades due to human use of fossil fuels, a po...
The fight against the delusion of dangerous man-made global warming remains an uphill struggle. For decades, the climate debate has been obfuscated by cherry-picking, spin-doctoring and scaremongering by the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and other climate alarmists, including the environmental movement and mainstream media. Their massive campaign to overstate the threat of man-made warming has left its imprint on public opinion. But the tide seems to be turning. The Climate Conference fiasco in Copenhagen, the Climategate scandal and stabilization of worldwide temperatures since 1995 have given rise to growing doubts about the putative threat of "dangerous global warming" or "global climate disruption." Indeed, even Phil Jones, director of the Universi...
Michaels and Balling are more concerned with the demonstrated media bias toward publicizing unrealistically dire global-warming forecasts, and the equally appalling suppression of positive news regarding climate change. On writing for a copy of IPCC data used to calculate their temperature history, Australian researcher Warwick Hughes received this curt reply from IPCC-affiliated scientist Phil Jones, who in December stepped down as head of the Climate Research Unit while the University of East Anglia investigated the climategate email affair: We have 25 years or so invested in the work.
It's the coldest winter on record in Great Britain. Great Britain also has experienced its heaviest snowfalls since the 1920s. The mayor of London, who last year was subjected to a grilling in Parliament over the inability to keep the capital's roads clear, has asked why the government's Meteorological Office ("Met Office") didn't see this coming. The answer is almost certainly an institutional faith in global-warming models that is starting to conflict with reality. The United States needs to make sure it does not go down Great Britain's unplowed road. Almost 10 years ago, the Independent, a leading national newspaper in the United Kingdom, ran a story that has become a joke, circulated by e-mail and on Facebook even among left-wingers. "Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past," was...
... (many connected with the University of East Anglia) claim the bias is small. Perhaps, then, Br...
LONDON - A British university said Thursday it would investigate whether scientists at its Climatic Research Unit fudged data on global warming. Thousands of pieces of correspondence between some of the world's leading climate scientists were stolen from the unit at the University of East Anglia and leaked to the Internet late last month. Skeptics of man-made global warming say the e-mails are proof that scientists have been conspiring to hide evidence showing that global warming was not as strong as generally believed.
Climate change isn't a threat. CO2 isn't a significant factor. But the action we're proposing to take on climate mitigation will devastate our Western economies and impoverish a whole generation. Over the last hundred years, mean global temperatures have increased by 0.7 of a degree Centigrade. That's all. The whole climate scare is all about a fraction of a degree. According to Professor Phil Jones of the infamous Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, there has been no significant warming for the last 15 years.
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