TWAWKI found something he calls a green hit list.
The “Carbon Capture report” tucks away more meaningless data about you than you could hope to (not) have to read: Factoids you didn’t know existed, don’t want to understand and never cared to compare.
There is so much money sloshing around in The Big Scare Campaign, someone at the University of Illinois has created a massive database with an amazing array of superficial-to-the-point-of-meaningless data. Have you ever wondered what the NewsTone of joannenova.com.au was — and if I told you it to the second decimal place, does that change anything about the weather? Apparently, “0.36” and slightly “green”, whatever that means. The crew-with-too-much-money have created some autobot crawlers (presumably) that check language on tweets and posts and rate it all for polarization, activity, personalization, blah blah and to the nth blah.
Look closely and you can see part of the GNP of the West evaporating. Pfft.
The entry for someone called Joanne Nova is here.
Could this be your tax dollars at work?
I can’t be bothered trying to figure out what these indicators mean. None of it is obvious, the numbers don’t match up with the number of tweets or posts I’ve done, nor the number of tweet “followers” I have, nor any particular fact I can figure with a 2 minute glance. But hey, it’s flattering in an inane, passing kind of way. (ie not much).
As usual, it’s all about perception, and presentation.
You’ve got to wonder:
Find the logic
Let’s spend a moment in the Attention category. I might get 23, but is that good? Steven McIntyre scores 12, but Anthony Watts scores 89, Marc Morano 88, Benny Pieser 4.5, Michael Mann 83, and to make it all nonsensical Phillip Jones redlines it with just 3.36. But James Delingpole is in a class of his own with 0.97 though even he can’t ramp up the “polarization” score above 7.8 out of 100, though he does manage to get the tone into the red half. Congrats James. (Though so does Phillip Jones). The blogging force, Andrew Bolt does not seem to exist. Though nearly everyone else gets an entry: Bob Carter, Andrew Montford, Steven Mosher, Nigel Calder…
My husband “David Evans” has an entry, though his name confounds the bots. The first news entry of his “142 records” does belong to him, but he’s not the David Evans who revised Hudson River dredging methods, and hasn’t written for Reuters India, as far as we know. Don’t buy any “David Evans” puts, calls or futures based on decimals in his tally.
Steven McIntyre is apparently more polarized than Anthony Watts. But actually nearly everyone is polarised at around 6 or 7%. Whatever. I can feel IQ points being drained merely by spending time on the site.
It’s a bit like decoding hieroglyphics, except not as useful. I’m wondering if it’s all cute hoax, and a random number generator filled in the boxes.
Couldn’t someone get these people onto something like SETI, or Brazilian Beetle morphology?
The About section implies some people even pay for this service, and if somehow that covers the costs, and the subscriptions are not from government funded budgets, then good-o, I wish their business the best of luck.
The Carbon Capture Report (http://www.carboncapturereport.org/) is a free and open service of the University of Illinois devoted to being the preeminent global resource for tracking worldwide perception and developments in Climate Change, Carbon Capture, Carbon Credits, Alternative Energy, Renewable Energy, Green Energy, Biofuels, Geothermal, Hydroelectric, Natural Gas, Nuclear, Solar, Wind, Coal, and Oil. With subscribers in more than 100 countries the Report has become the go-to resource for daily insight into the global media discourse.
There is a complete analytical report generated every 24 hours just to imprison a few billion more electrons in futile mindless loops, and quite possibly (who knows) to suck a few more dollars out of pockets of real workers.
Thanks to Helen and TWAKI for the tip.
I love it! IMHO there is just too little of this important type of research being conducted these days. The dials are fantastic, but could be improved with the addition of several more – doesn’t matter what they are metering, the more the merrier.
Whilst we in Australia are being given lessons in the vagaries of Mother Nature, it is truly helpful to realise that there are others in this world who can focus on the really important issues.
/sarc off
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BIG SISTER IS WATCHING YOU!!!!
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The report says
A bit like climate models then. Worthless. A waste of money.
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Yup. It’s official. The west has gone insane.
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I’m straying off topic but at the CanDo website I read the following comment Philip Impey from .
Having just emailed Gary Stewart at 2sm, talk overnight I re-posted the contents of my email.
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I noticed that this COMMUNIST monitoring is conducted by the “University of Illinois.”.
If you click on the “About/Contact” link you discover that there is an email address
leetaru@illinois.edu
There are two people mentioned on their web site:
http://www.carboncapturereport.org/about-leadership.html
A “Kalev Leetaru” and a “Hannes Leetaru” who seem to share this email address.
Make sure that you add THEIR email address to your hit list and send them your thoughts and what you think of them!!!!!!!!
NOW THEY ARE ON MY HIT LIST!!!
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Maybe if your score is too low, you get Shawed.
http://tinyurl.com/46w5aof
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Yes this is confusing and totally uninformative. So I conclude that they are expert in Public Communications.
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Jo,
You know that it is content and correctness that matters and not readership of the masses. If this blog was a full time gig then you’d be pumping different stories constantly like WUWT.
Quality vs quantity. 🙂
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It’s just another lame Left/Green attempt to devise a better form of agit-prop, sending their useful idiots to troll blogs which fit a particular profile. More fiddling while Rome freezes…..
But where’s the ‘Big Oil Funded’ dial…. 🙂
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I get a mention in this report (under my “real life name”) and I was just as baffled as to its value.
Too much money, too much time , too little brains… at least that’s someones problem…
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Such attention to meaningless data has an air of Pathological Science.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pathological_science
But then again, so much of the ‘science’ on climate …
Pointman
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Even by its own standards, the project is worse than useless. I regularly comment at a number of AGW-topical sites, but the ‘bot only picked up three posts over the last two years. Moreover, the ‘bot is incapable of distinguishing the master blog article from comments, much less individual comments from each other, so the common back-and-forth catfight in comments (for example, the notorious exchanges at the Guardian or Delingpole that often run to over 300 comments) all get dumped together and evaluated, which may explain why everyone gets the same rating.
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On the subject of wasted money, will the people involved in the decision making process for building the desal plant in Brisbane be charged with criminal negligence? Although unlikely I hope the plant actually gets washed away in the floods. It would be a fitting end to it. After all, this is not the first time such an extreme weather event occurred there. It has happened many times before due to the fact that Australia is a land “of droughts and flooding rains” because of the El Niño/La Niña Southern Oscillation. It will happen again and again. So, the floods should have been expected, and some did expect them but they were ignored or laughed at thanks to the AGW nonsense who had nearly everyone conned into believing the droughts would be never ending. Note too there’s no point the AGW alarmists now saying the floods are due to AGW. If they do then they are admitting they got it totally wrong so their theories are totally useless. Back to the drawing board for them. Better still back to kindergarten.
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My gut instinct tells me that this seems like a waste of time, but maybe they might become serious about having a “green” hit list.
If there’s anyone who deserves to be on that list it should be companies such as Monsanto, Halliburton, Goldman Sachs and globalists such as David Rockerfeller, Jacob Redshield (Rothschild), Henry Kissinger, Maurice Strong and Al Gore.
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Looks like somebody was given the mandate to make an “enemies” list and couch it in as arcane a way as possible.
While this looks innocuous and trivial, it is not only an invasion of privacy (common information, once collated and “filtered” to show bias) and is pejorative in the extreme.
There can only be a negative outcome from such an activity and that site and the use of its information bodes no good will.
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whois info for carboncapturereport.org
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And with all of that (alleged) brainpower – they somehow managed to put a biographical list that is alphabetized by first name, rather than last name, and without a search function.
I have to agree with the earlier comment – the west has now officially gone insane!
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http://www.kalevleetaru.com
It appears that he works for a political science department at a university and does software and data research. From what I can tell, he’s not as good at it as he claims.
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Bob Molloy is right, it’s already started:
“”Australia has been known for more than a hundred years as a land of droughts and flooding rains, but what climate change means is Australia becomes a land of more droughts and worse flooding rains,” said David Karoly from Melbourne University’s school of earth sciences.
Professor Karoly stressed individual events could not be attributed to climate change. However, he said the wild extremes being experienced on the continent were in keeping with scientists’ forecasts of more flooding associated with increased heavy rain events and more droughts as a result of high temperatures and more evaporation.”
Heard Karoly on ABC TV today and he’s quoted here at: http://www.watoday.com.au/environment/fates-conspire-to-concoct-a-recipe-for-disaster-20110111-19mp7.html?from=watoday_sb
Of course he’s the same guy who said not so long ago that out of all the peer reviewed research papers published not one disagreed with the IPCC (I’m paraphrasing because I can’t be bothered finding his exact quote). He was of course wrong then and is even more wrong now as scientists learn more about what drives our climate.
Naturally he didn’t back up his statement today with any evidence that Australia has become a land of “more droughts and worse flooding rains”. It would be too much to expect an IPCC lead author to back up what he says with any real evidence.
I’ve had a quick look at the list of ‘notable’ floods on record in Australia and major droughts, and there appears no evidence to support Karoly. Perhaps someone had better capture the data before it gets ‘adjusted’ to suit the climate change story?
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Just making an enemies list for their new world order.
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Jo,
Do commenters get on this or is it a sort of “pot luck”?
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PhilJourdan @ 21:
I think you are correct! I was happy to see that my name was not listed (that I could find)
A good reason to NOT use a real name I think………
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Reminds me of the network diagram from early last year, where Jo gets a gurnsey but Joe Romm is nowhere to be seen. Its amazing how well the climate argument has gone over the last year, seeing that the ones on the sceptics’ side are almost all one person bands, and the AGW supporters side are mostly big organisations and their employees. Shows just how powerful truth is when it can get out to the people.
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Another new and innovative way to get your ticket for the greenhouse gravy train.
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And we thought Michael Mann was wasting time and money. Wow!
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The Stasi used to compile such reports as well.
But of greater quality.
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Alarming report on Brisbane River flood risks covered up!!!!!!!!!
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/alarming-report-on-risks-covered-up/story-e6frg6nf-1225986634328
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Mark D: #23
Ah, but if everybody uses an assumed name, as a matter of course, then they would know! So the safest thing would be to use your own name so that they think it is an assumed name used just to confuse them. Better still, use somebody else’s real name. The real Rereke is getting so much hate mail … and not all from me either.
It has been a long day …
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Bernd Felsche: #27
I take it you have seen the movie, “Other People’s Lives”?
If you want a vision of what life will be like under the new world order, it is worth the DVD rental fee.
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I think he needs less dials and more knobs. Oh wait, there’s plenty of knobs in there.
This looks the offshoot of an evolved version of Leetaru’s SPEED project. A classic example of yet another academic jumping aboard the gravy train. He’s a description from his bio @ http://www.kalevleetaru.com
One can’t help but think Leetaru is wasting his intelligence by trying to automate the codification of ethics, not just facts. I hope he’s having a good time chasing those rainbows.
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@31,
Does anyone know what “computational social science: is?
I’ve heard of social science and don’t think it has any legitimate claim to be a science. But where does this thing come from? How can you hope to evaluate a constitution according to a 1,200 question protocol? I’d sure like to see those questions.
How many ways can you spell “self-righteous”?
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So I went looking for their list of questions for evaluating constitutions — and I found it. It basically wants to measure a constitution against criteria that expect it to preserve and protect every little aspect of human endeavor. Does it protect even the arts and what rights does it guarantee to artists? There are questions about terrorism provisions, economic plans (as in central planning).
They intend this list of questions to be a guide for new constitutions — one of the questions asks what the source document for the constitution was. Welcome to the new world order!
You can read this here.
And here you can find a constitution apparently based on this model — the Constitution for the New Socialist Republic in North America from the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA. Loquacious to say the least.
When will they learn?
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