This is vewwwy vewwwy sewwwious

cite as: F. Bi. 2009. This is vewwwy vewwwy sewwwious. Intl. J. Inact., 2:78

Question: Out of the following events, which is the most serious of them all?

1. The Heartland Institute, a think-tank which opposes global warming regulation (among other things), was found to move its ‘conference’ audios around on its web server, causing some hyperlinks to the audios to become broken for a short while.
2. Global warming ‘skeptic’ Anthony Watts reports that another ‘skeptic’, Steve McIntyre, suddenly finds that some files originally on a climate research center’s web server are now missing. The files might have been purged, they might have been moved; who knows. But let’s just assume that there’s something really big and really sinister going on. [cached]
3. A think-tank was found to send anti-climate-regulation letters with forged letterheads to a US Senator. (A brave act of civil disobedience, I suppose.) [cached]
4. Watts slaps a bogus DMCA complaint onto a YouTuber for reproducing the cover page for one of his ‘reports’. [cached]
5. I need a drink.

Answer: According to Watts, the correct answer is 2. But I beg to differ: the answer should be 5.

And now, the Orgone Petition

cite as: F. Bi. 2009. And now, the Oregon Orgone Petition. Intl. J. Inact., 2:50–52

The global warming ‘skeptics’ are at it again. RealClimate reported that the neoliberal Cato ‘Institute’ was spamming climate scientists in order to get signatures for its petition against global warming regulation. And now that the petition’s published, we have the International Climate ‘Science’ Coalition claiming that the petition was signed by “over 100 climate scientists”.

Now, the petition has 115 signatories, including

More fun with the "2009 International Conference on Climate Change"

cite as: F. Bi. 2009. More fun with the “2009 International Conference on Climate Change”. Intl. J. Inact., 2:46

Listen to a quick-and-dirty remix of Monckton’s speech (256KB, 1′ 4″ MP3). Background music source: played by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com).

Update 2009-03-26: An improved version.