According to this article the Prime Minister accidentally allowed his 3 year old son to 'Tweet'.
"Last week, the people who follow Sarah, my wife, on Twitter received a message of gobbledegook which my younger son had bashed out on the keys and then pressed send while she was out of the room," he said.
"Within an hour, the Downing Street press office was called to ask if she had been the victim of a hacker, the BBC was reporting a mysterious 'tweet', and the online world was asking about various conspiracy theories.
"It started with our mistake and, of course, it was a mistake not to supervise the internet and we were taught a big lesson as a result of that.
"Tanya Byron has often said that to leave a child unsupervised on the internet is like leaving a child at the deep end of a swimming pool without proper supervision," he added.
Sarah Brown has more than a million followers on the site, who were presumably bemused to receive the tweet: "fvdfzsrsazxzzxcvbnmadgfhjjkqwrtyuuuiop".
Shortly afterwards she posted: "In future I will turn my computer off
when I am not using it - to save energy and avoid junior tweet interference."
Well it is hoaxanahgen week so every story has to have a climate change angle!
Good job Sarah wasn't on some of the more salubrious web sites out there. How clever of Brown the younger to miss all of the number keys, the HUGE space bar and also have the presence of mind to hit 'enter' at the appropriate moment. I'd give Mensa a bell Gordon me old mate!
Story number two is that the third runway at Heathrow has passed something called a Carbon Test.
No idea what that test involves or how anything passes or fails it but as it's a government appointed committee in the pay of the government ruling on a massive government infrastructure project costing the taxpayers billions of pounds then what does any of it matter?
"The Committee on Climate Change will report today that 138 million extra passenger could use British airports in 2050, an increase of 60 per cent, without breaching government targets to reduce aviation emissions to below 2005 levels.
The assessment is built on a number of assumptions, including the introduction of more fuel-efficient aircraft and a high-speed rail network. It also assumes that the cost of flying will rise.
A third runway at Heathrow would attract between 24 million and 70 million more people by 2030, according to government data. If it is allowed, as ministers and the owners of Heathrow demand, some regional airports would be able to grow but others would have to curb their expansion plans.
"You can see how you can do the maths and have a third runway and be within the 60 per cent limit," said David Kennedy, the committee's chief executive. "You could have a world where you have an extra runway at Heathrow, where you use it and where you are within that 60 per cent demand growth rate. So they are not inconsistent with each other."
The man who said that the Airport expansion is okay 'climate warming wise' also thinks that extra taxes are the best way to force the public to change their nasty polluting ways!
Apparently he thinks he's done his bit by giving up kebabs and probably planted a tree somewhere!
I'm not kidding, read on.
He does, however, believe that people must change their behaviour and even their diet to ward off global warming. He gave up doner kebabs, his favourite food, because they contain lamb. One study found that producing 1kg (2.2lb) of lamb released the equivalent of 37lb of CO2 into the atmosphere.
The committee's first annual report to Parliament this autumn found that a "step change" was needed to limit CO2 emissions on the roads. The committee, which devised government carbon reduction targets and advises ministers on how to meet them, said that motorists should be charged to drive on British roads as well as paying fuel duty.
Government grants to people willing to buy electric cars might need to be doubled; 8,000 more wind turbines should be built and three nuclear power stations; and a national programme of home insulation adopted. In summary, Mr Kennedy argued that the Government needed "stronger levers" to force us to cut emissions. "We have to have a more forceful policy, and if we do that we can succeed," he said.
Finally for now we come to this man
Professor Andrew Watson who believes the Mann Hockey stick is real and called this man
Mr Marc Morano 'an asshole' on the BBC2 Newsnight program, which goes out live. Professor Watson came out with this utter drivel earlier today.
We non-media-savvy scientists at the University of East Anglia have learnt a hard lesson this week -- the truth is not enough in the face of a media-savvy enemy.
The hackers have picked choice phrases out of context -- and context is all: without it, these statements look awful. In the one most quoted, the director of the Climate Research Unit (CRU), Phil Jones, talks about using a "trick" to "hide the decline". At first reading, this easily translates as "deceiving [politicians, other scientists, everyone] into believing the world is warming when it is actually cooling".
But it doesn't mean that at all. Jones is talking about a line on a graph for
the cover of a World Meteorological Organisation report, published in 2000,
which shows the results of different attempts to reconstruct temperature
over the past 1,000 years. The line represents one particular attempt, using
tree-ring data for temperature. The method agrees with actual measurements
before about 1960, but diverges from them after that -- for reasons only
partly understood, discussed in the literature.
Climate sceptics would have us believe that the CRU data is invalid, and that
the 20th-century warming is a construct entirely in the minds of a few
scientists. This point of view surely has difficulty explaining why Arctic
sea ice is declining and glaciers are retreating so rapidly, and why spring
arrives earlier and autumn later than 50 years ago.
If this clown is admitting to not being 'media-savvy' why is he trying to defend the indefensible in the MEDIA?
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