Tech at Night: Free Press, MoveOn, Google, TEA Party, NOAA

By: Neil Stevens (Diary)  |  August 13th at 11:00 PM  | 

So Free Press and MoveOn.org decided to protest Google’s new stance with Verizon on Net Neutrality. They went to Mountain View and everything, but there’s just one catch: they only managed to bring 100 people. (Photo via @mjterave.) Just more evidence that Free Press and MoveOn are the ones taking the radical fringe position on Net Neutrality.

Climategate III: The Search for Peer Review

By: Neil Stevens (Diary)  |  January 17th at 06:02 PM  | 

Peer Review. Ha. Two years ago the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued a benchmark report that was claimed to incorporate the latest and most detailed research into the impact of global warming. A central claim was the world’s glaciers were melting so fast that those in the Himalayas could vanish by 2035. ….Hasnain has since admitted that the claim was “speculation” and was | Read More »

Longest recorded streak of sunspot inactivity broken

By: Neil Stevens (Diary)  |  September 2nd at 01:58 PM  | 

Via Slashdot comes the report that The Sun has broken a 95 year old record. Quoting the Daily Tech: The sun has reached a milestone not seen for nearly 100 years: an entire month has passed without a single visible sunspot being noted. The event is significant as many climatologists now believe solar magnetic activity – which determines the number of sunspots — is an | Read More »