They fell into the trap of thinking the ends justifies the means.

Cuomo’s extra-jurisdictional push is a bad thing period. He’s only hounding Bank America to use as a springboard to Albany, that’s all.

It won’t go to court as all he’s looking for is a settlement of say $50 million and the ability to declare victory. His father was an incompetent but was never this ruthless.

I see you’re back as Mill?

Very interesting. Further enquiries could elicit valuable information for younger readers. The kids have so few role models that we can speak of as heroes. True heroes. True American heroes.

I trust this is not welfare-queen banker whoredom speaking.

For the benefit of younger reasons can we hone in on the particulars of this mans heroism. Any good hero is worthy of emulation. We want to get right down to his derring-do. His bravery under fire. His bold yet honest moves. His fending off of temptation in the face of generalised brutalitarian thieving.

More details please.

I think that is bad news for you, Steve. Look at what happens to temps following 1998 once the El Nino disappeared as it is disappearing here, and add into that the on-going decline in ocean heat content.

Stop counting your skeptic eggs before they’re all hatched, DB.

I’m conservative so I never do that, Steve, but I’m wondering about you.

What, like January 2010 being the hottest January in the UAH 30 year record? (And that being just a tad under the 1998′s all time high?) Stop counting your skeptic eggs before they’re all hatched, DB.

As opposed to the “4000 humourless scientists” Rudd refers to as the IPCC. Steve from B, you really are a little desperate for good news these days.

Whereas, if they were more sensible, they would realise that something like the issue of whether the Himalayan glaciers take 30 or 300 years to melt will not be a big issue if temperatures have increased (say) 4 degree in 150 years.

So ‘sensible’ scepticism requires you to be more speculative? BTW, it is very unlikely that temps will rise by 4 C in the next 150 years.

Considering the manner many have treated Bolt, it is of a piece. Marr reading a paper while Bolt spoke of AGW on Insiders, Crabb referring to a study Bolt might have raised as being from the University of East Bumcrack. How amusing to find that the leaked emails dubbed Climategate emerged from the CRU based at the University of East Anglia. Speaking of bumcracks….

A distraction. What appears in the comments of a blog is irrelevant so far as the civility of a debate is concerned; I was referring to the principals in any debate: the scientists, journal editors, news reporters, opinion writers, etc., not what Bird or anyone else might have to say on a blog. CL is right about the warmists being ‘schooled’, I’d also add they’ve been chastened by the last three months. As for annoyance, please, what condescending twaddle which is beside the point. Firstly, that is precisely what civility is supposed to moderate; and secondly, where not talking about commenters on blogs but about the work of Douglass, McIntyre, Pielke Sr, Spencer, etc. which can’t simply be brushed aside as wrong. Moreover, we’ve seen that the responses of scientists like Mann to McIntyre’s claims as in one instance being ‘bizarre’ were in fact accurate. What you interpret as annoyance is often an incapacity to formulate a coherent response.

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