Minority report: 50 year warming due to natural causes: 06/08/10 By Roy W Spencer, PhD

So, what if we use the statistics BEFORE the last 50 years to come up with a model of temperature variability, and then see if that statistical model can “predict” the warming over the most recent 50 year period? That would be much more convincing because, if the relationship between temperature and these 3 climate indicies for the first half of the 20th Century just happened to be accidental, we sure wouldn’t expect it to accidentally predict the warming which has occurred in the second half of the 20th Century, would we?

Shame on REUTERS: News Agency Caught Doctoring Flotilla Photos – “Photos of Bloody Knife Wielding Humanitarian’s” cropped prior to publication

Rueters has been caught editing photos of “knife weilding humanitarians” as they stood over wounded IDF soldiers. Rueters cropped out the knifes and pools of blood clearly visable in the original photos.