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DeLong and Deltoid: "The thing about a Roger Pielke Jr. train wreck is that you just can't look away." Plus Roger's must-read post that Rabett called "The great Pielke meltdown."
Roger Pielke Jr. has written the most Titanic whine in the history of the climate blogosphere, "Giant Fish, Big Fish and Minnows of the Liberal Blogosphere." And I do mean Titanic with a capital T.
Tim Lambert (aka Deltoid) calls it the "Pielke Pity Party." Eli Rabett calls it "The great Pielke meltdown."
The woe-is-me post is a substance-free ad hominem attack on Berkeley economist Brad Delong and some of the leading science bloggers, including me. What is so fishy about the whole thing is that it tries to paint Pielke as some sort of innocent victim whose only sin is to have — cue violins — "patiently and persistently built upon an academic record of peer-reviewed research on aspects of the climate that they disagree with."
In the real world, of course, Pielke routinely tries to drown the reputation of top scientists — including all three thousand attendees of an Al Gore talk at the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a coauthor of the recent NOAA-led climate impacts report — with no justification whatsoever (click here or see below).
In this piteous post, Pielke announces, "I have a major book on climate coming out next year that will be in bookstores everywhere." How disappointing for those of us who thought he was "voluntarily" going into semi-exile when he shut down his popular Prometheus blog and started his obscure but cleverly named "Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog."
So let's set the record straight. Roger Pielke Jr. is the most debunked person in the science blogosphere, possibly the entire Web. Heck, computer scientist Tim Lambert (aka Deltoid) has a whole category just for Roger, which I commend to anyone who still takes the man seriously. Lambert's latest withering must-read takedown is "Another Pielke train wreck" (reposted by DeLong):
The thing about a Roger Pielke Jr train wreck is that you just can't look away. Check this one out. Pielke claims that there were 1,264 times as many news stories about a Michael Mann study that suggests that hurricanes are at a 1,000 year high as about a Chris Landsea study that found no increase in hurricanes over the past century. (Mark Morano , of course, links to Pielke's post.)
The fun is in the comments as folks try to explain to Pielke that there is a film director called Michael Mann and that maybe Pielke shouldn't count those stories. Pielke comes back with the claim that restricting the search to "Michael Mann" + nature + hurricanes + Aug 13-15 gives 1,412 stories. Some folks might wonder how restricting the search gives you more results, but not Pielke. In fact, if you read what Google says at the link Pielke gave it says that there are "about 20", and if you look at all the results there are just 11. A similar search for the Landsea paper gives 5 news stories. This difference may be due to one paper being published in Nature and the other in The Journal of Climate.
Update: Soon after I posted this, Pielke finally made a correction, allowing that being out by a couple of orders of magnitude was a "bit sloppy". Heaven knows how wrong he would have to be before he admitted to being sloppy or very sloppy.
Where there is a "Another train wreck," you can be sure there is an initial Pielke train wreck and the Pielke train wreck continues. Lambert himself recommends starting with this debunking of RPJ. After DeLong posted an email from someone pointing out that Pielke (Jr) is "dishonest and wrong," came this must-read email exchange where DeLong questions Pielke's sanity.
One could publish an entire book of debunked nonsense by RPJ, but it looks like Roger is going to save us the trouble. I have every confidence his collecution of confused contrarianism will be a poor man's Superfreakonomics, just as "error-riddled" but with only 1% of the sales.
Roger is right less often than a broken clock. He's like a clock that knows what time it is and then shows the wrong time just to get attention.
Back to the the pity party. Roger writes:
Here is how it works. The really giant fish — public intellectuals like Tom Friedman and Paul Krugman — confer authority on the big fish of the liberal blogosphere. They do so by applauding the work of the big fish and saying that they trust them. This is a useful exchange because the big fish amplify the writings of the giant fish in the blogosphere and do the dirty work of taking down their political opponents by playing some gutter politics that the giant fish would rather not be seen playing. This has the effect of establishing the big fish as people to be listened to, not because they are necessarily right about things, but because the giant fish listen to them and the giant fish set political agendas.
Among these big fish feeding the giant fish are Joe Romm, Brad Delong, RealClimate, and there are of course many others, but these are the ones I have first-hand experience with (lucky me). Each of these professionals has great potential to positively influence policy debates in positive ways. Instead they all actively have chosen to engage in pretty embarrassing and unethical behavior that caters to tribal, echo-chamber politics.
[UPDATE: No, the metaphor and his graphic of big fish eating smaller fish eating even smaller fish (similar to the picture above) don't actually make sense, since the really giant fish don't actually eat the big fish, but I digress.]
But wait, Roger Dangerfield gets respect from people in the blogosphere with more readers than he has all the time, too. Well, one person. The Swift Boat smearer Marc Morano is his Boswell. Sure Morano doesn't have a Nobel Prize, but he does have a long history of pushing disinformation, just like Roger.
What do I mean when I say that they engage in embarrassing and unethical behavior? For instance, their blog etiquette is simply a disgrace, especially for people who claim to be professional, e.g., they each disallow substantive comments that they disagree with, either from me or from those supporting things that I have said.
A lecture in blog etiquette from Pielke is like a lecture in business ethics from Bernie Madoff.
Pielke has one primary mission in his professional career and on his blog "" other than working with his colleagues at The Breakthrough Institute (TBI) to spread disinformation aimed at stopping any serious climate action, of course "" and that is to shout down any talk of a link between climate change and extreme weather.
For completeness sake — so there's one post I and others can link to when pointing out "Roger Pielke Jr. is the most debunked person in the science blogosphere" — let me return once again to the most egregious multiperson smear by Pielke (see Unstaining Al Gore's good name, Part 1: The NYT's false "guilty of inaccuracies and overstatements" charge began with a false charge by Pielke):
On February 13, Gore gave his talk at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in which he used the slide. The video is here and the slide is at minute 7. You'll probably end up watching the whole video a few times because you'll find it hard to believe how Pielke spun a perfectly reasonable presentation into a vicious assault not just on Gore, but on the integrity of the hundreds of scientists in the audience….
On February 15, two days after the talk, our old friend Roger Pielke, Jr, wrote a blog post titled, "Not A Peep from Scientists" in which he quoted the CRED report just as I did and then not only sharply criticized Gore for using that slide to make his argument, not only attacked Gore for supposed "blatantly" misleading the audience with "scientific untruths," but attacked every single member of the audience for not objecting:
And of all of those scientists in attendance, here is a list of those who sought to set the record straight on blogs and in the media: OK, I couldn't find any, but if you know of any such reactions, please share in the comments"¦. But as the non-response to Al Gore's in-your-face untruths shows, the misrepresentation of climate science for political gain has many willing silent collaborators.
So for Pielke the entire audience of three thousand scientists are "willing silent collaborators" in the "misrepresentation of climate science" because of their supposed "non-response to Al Gore's in-your-face untruths" shows. But this string of "in-your-face untruths" doesn't exist. Please listen to the video yourself and try to find them. I challenge any credible person to find them. Remember, we aren't talking about one or two ambiguous word choices here. You need to find a bunch of blatant in-your-face untruths.
Good luck.
Pielke writes:
In his speech Gore attributed a wide range of recent weather events to human-caused climate change including floods in Iowa, Hurricane Ike, and the Australian bush fires.
No he doesn't…. Gore does show a picture of Ike and say
It is the view of many scientists that the intensity of hurricanes is affected by the warming issues.
That is a fact. I interviewed many such scientists for my book. Indeed, that carefully worded sentence should be a strong clue to any listener that Gore understands the science, that he understands the debates over what can and can't be attributed directly to global warming right now, and is working hard not to make any inaccurate statements. Gore doesn't attribute the 500-year flood in Iowa to human-caused climate change. He does refer to the "heat that puts more moisture into the atmosphere that causes longer downpours," but that is such a well-confirmed impact of warming that even the Bush report cited above acknowledges it.
As for bushfires, Gore says the fires have "ignited a nationwide debate that is very much focused on global warming." That is also a fact. Many Australians who are suffering through a once-in-a-thousand year drought make the climate connection explicitly. For instance, Australia's climate change minister Penny Wong recently said, "All of this is consistent with climate change, and with what scientists told us would happen" (see "Australia faces collapse as climate change kicks in"). So far the non-response of the audience to Gore's quite reasonable statements does not seem very shocking at all. They heard what Gore said, not what Pielke claimed he said.
It is quite clear that Gore is not attributing every single extreme event that he shows to climate change "" that is clear from his wording. Gore is making a statistical argument that we are seeing more extreme weather events and more intense (i.e. record-breaking) weather events "" which is why he has so many "anecdotal" or individual extreme weather event slides "" and that "many can be linked to factors that are worsened by human emissions."
How do I know this is the case Gore is making? Because I went to the page (102) in the book An Inconvenient Truth where Gore has his original figure from Munich Re and other insurers (whose "science experts have made the attribution" of rising extreme events to climate change as Kalee explained to Revkin). Gore writes of " hurricanes, floods, drought, tornadoes, wildfires," and says:
Many can be linked to factors that are worsened by global warming.
All this is quite in the mainstream of scientific analysis. And has been for a long time…
And what is even more unbelievable about Pielke's smear of thousands of AAAS scientists for refusing to speak out when Gore supposedly linked extreme weather events to climate change is that Pielke himself told Nature in 2006:
Clearly since 1970 climate change (i.e., defined as by the IPCC to include all sources of change) has shaped the disaster loss record.
Yes, that is what Pielke said. You can look it up yourself (see Pielke in Nature: "Clearly, since 1970 climate change "¦ has shaped the disaster loss record").
Pielke is the uber-denier. Pielke denies everything, including that which he himself has said. After his latest smear, no other word fits him.
In fact, here's an extended excerpt from the 2006 Nature story, "Insurers' disaster files suggest climate is culprit" (PDF here):
Insurance companies, acutely aware of the dramatic increase in losses caused by natural disasters in recent decades, have been convinced that global warming is partly to blame. Now their data seem to be persuading scientists, too. At a recent meeting of climate and insurance experts, delegates reached a cautious consensus: climate change is helping to drive the upward trend in catastrophes.
The meeting, held near Munich on 25-26 May, was jointly organized by Munich Re, the world's largest reinsurance company, and the University of Colorado in Boulder. It brought together climate, atmosphere and weather researchers with economists and insurance experts to discuss what could be behind recent disaster losses, both economic and human"¦.
Delegates seem to have found the record persuasive. Their consensus statement, to be released on 8 June, says there is "evidence that changing patterns of extreme events are drivers for recent increases in global losses""¦.
"Dissent over the issue is clearly waning," says Peter H¶ppe, head of Munich Re's Geo Risks department, who co-chaired the workshop with Roger Pielke Jr, director of the University of Colorado's Center of Science and Technology Policy Research. "Climate change may not be the dominant factor, but it has become clear that a relevant portion of damages can be attributed to global warming."
Previously sceptical, Pielke says that he is now convinced that at least some of the increased losses can be blamed on climate: "Clearly, since 1970 climate change has shaped the disaster loss record."
Now in his fishy meltdown post, Roger the not-so-innocent victim of attacks by every serious science blogger, writes:
So why me? Maybe I'm just lucky. But maybe it is because I have patiently and persistently built upon an academic record of peer-reviewed research on aspects of the climate that they disagree with, but cannot touch via conventional academic argumentation. Among the arguments I have made (with colleagues of course)…:
1. There is no greenhouse gas signal in the economic or human toll record of disasters.
I apologize for not warning you in advance to put your head in a vise to prevent explosion.
What you fail to realize is that for Roger "climate change" as defined by the IPCC, "global warming" and a "greenhouse gas signal" are obviously and utterly completely different things. Sort of. In a June blog post, Pielke praises a new article, "Tropical cyclone losses in the USA and the impact of climate change "" A trend analysis based on data from a new approach to adjusting storm losses" (subs. req'd), which concludes:
In the period 1971-2005, since the beginning of a trend towards increased intense cyclone activity, losses excluding socio-economic effects show an annual increase of 4% per annum. This increase must therefore be at least due to the impact of natural climate variability but, more likely than not, also due to anthropogenic forcings.
Yes, you read that right.
Pielke says an article that concludes there is a better than 50% chance that human-emissions are contributing to increased losses from hurricanes since 1971 is "a valuable paper."
But he just asserted that his work (with colleagues, of course) makes the case, "There is no greenhouse gas signal in the economic or human toll record of disasters." But he himself told Nature "Clearly since 1970 climate change (i.e., defined as by the IPCC to include all sources of change) has shaped the disaster loss record." But he smeared the professional reputation of thousands of scientists because they didn't complain or walk out when Gore perhaps implied a connection betweenclimate change and the disaster loss record.
As I've written before (see here):
Pielke's obsession on this point is so extreme that he trashes the reputation of any scientist who even suggests that there is the tiniest link whatsoever between climate change and extreme weather "" even though he himself has stated such a link exists. Indeed, he has smeared the integrity of many hundreds of the country's top scientists for merely sitting through a discussion of the issue that doesn't meet his extreme form of political correctness
This is why so many people in the science blogosphere block his comments or ignore his diatribes. It is impossible to engage him in debate because he is the Humpty Dumpty of climate policy:
'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said, in a rather scornful tone,' it means just what I choose it to mean, neither more nor less.'
But Humpty Dumpty isn't the right metaphor. No, when I mentioned to one blogger I was thinking about writing on Pielke's meltdown, he wrote me "require all comments to uses a fish metaphor." And that got me thinking.
If Roger calls Krugman a Giant Fish and me a Big Fish and Lambert a Minnow, what fish is Roger? One fish immediately leapt into my mind's eye — Remoras aka suckerfish or sharksucker. As Wikipedia explains:
The host they attach to for transport gains nothing from the relationship, but also loses little. The remora benefits by using the host as transport and protection and also feeds on materials dropped by the host. There is controversy whether a remora's diet is primarily leftover fragments, or the feces of the host.
Is that not Roger Pielke, Jr.?
Here's the best photo I could find on the Web, something to keep in mind whenever you think of Roger:
Comments are welcome, but please, please — use a fish metaphor or metaphor!
33 Responses to DeLong and Deltoid: "The thing about a Roger Pielke Jr. train wreck is that you just can't look away." Plus Roger's must-read post that Rabett called "The great Pielke meltdown."
Gore is making a statistical argument that we are seeing more extreme weather events and more intense (i.e. record-breaking) weather events
And you accuse Pielke of indulging in diatribes? Get a mirror, buddy.
[JR: Learn the difference between debunking posts with lots of content and multiple links and woe-is-me content free diatribes against every other major blogger in this area.]
So obviously the thing to do is to ignore viciously self-righteous ranting ideologues like Pielke. Because, after all, that's worked so well in the past.
And "Charlie," do please entertain the abstract possibility of learning how to read simple English sentences. Dr. Romm accused Pielke of engaging in self-pitying fabrications, dissembling, misrepresentations, and outright lying; all of which Dr. Romm supported with ample factual evidence. Your post in #2 is one of the more gratuitously egregious forms of specious analogy (http://www.fallacyfiles.org/wanalogy.html) that I've read all day.
People out there actually believe Pielke, along with Spencer, McIntyre, Lomborg, and that whole sorry crew. It's an exhausting job to just come out and debunk them, but here's what happens otherwise: they show up on a blog, sound perfectly reasonable, and get away with lies because many readers don't know any better.
It's not just a matter of the need to expose false and poisonous statements. Obviously, there is a lot more at stake here. I think Joe and many others would rather kick back with an HP Lovecraft book (actually, the characters are similar) than have to slap these guys down. So thanks for doing this irksome work.
The denial pond has been swept clean so many times only reguritated cr@@ is left. Soon all that will be left is for the denierfish to turn cannibal.
If Joe is a "shrill alarmist" what am I?
Joe Romm,
If I was a recipient of any degree from MIT let alone a Ph.D. like yours,
Tom W., since you are so embarrassed by it, please go away and don't come back …
OK, I don't get to make that claim. But as has already been pointed out so many times that anyone capable of reading at a third grade level could understand the problem, playing nice with infantile ideologues like Pielke does not work. It absolutely beggars the imagination how anyone could be so willfully stupid as to believe that playing nice with infantile ideologues like Pielked might possibly work some time in the indefinite future, despite the fact that it has never worked in the entire history of human existence.
Yet as utterly beyond any scintilla of patience as I am with the infantile ideologues like Pielke, the viciously unreflective enablers such as "Charlie" and "Tom W." above (who conveniently and cowardly hide their real identities) simply cause me to delaminate.
thank you "Tom W." (whoever you are, since you provide no identifiable links) for that "amply supported" argument with all of its lavishly developed logical and empirical detail. (That's me being sarcastic, by the way. There was nothing in your announcement which could, be even the most reckless stretch of the imagination, ever be mistaken for an argument, much less a logically valid one.)
I am not, and cannot possibly be presumed to be, speaking for Dr. Romm, and at that moment when I am so out of line that it merits a comment, I will cease providing my less than patient input on this subject altogether. But for now:
It is entirely beyond the capacity of a reasoning person to suppose that the "business as usual" method of pretending that these willfully ignorant — if not out-right stupid and lying — individuals like Pielke Jr & Sr, Inhofe, Crichton, the entire Right-Wing Bloviathon, Exxon-Mobil, etc., in the desperately wishful hope that they might somehow respond to reason. TWENTY-FIVE
[JR: My apologies about any confusion. I snipped Tom W's absurd and factually wrong comment after this post.]
(I can't believe that I hit the key…)
TWENTY-FIVE year of actionable opportunities have been wasted as we tried, without the littlest shred of success, to reason with these people. The only thing these individuals are capable of noticing, much less responding too, is a bludgeon of sufficient size that it leaves a mark.
Once again, as I have already pointed out, Romm's discussion was amply supported by more than a little bit of logic and empirical evidence. And now all we get are the puling and whining, hand-wrining enablers whimpering and flooding the room with their tears because Dr. Romm had the unmitigated audacity to speak the truth about Pielke, and do so without mercy.
(Hopefully the comment currently awaiting moderation will show up before the "part II" that my lack of typing skills slid into place)
Can we start calling him Pastor Pielke Jr.? His preachy sermon is like that of a hypocritical televangelist – complaining about behavior and ad hominens immediately preceding a slew of childish behavior and ad hominens. His post is quite revealing. It's interesting that he never applies such standards of behavior to "skeptics" or even to himself.
He sure doesn't seem to like "liberals" either, a label used in his post towards anyone who disagrees with him, or is supportive of those who disagree with him, including Tom Friedman, a moderate Pulitzer-prize-winning journalist (who supported the invasion of Iraq among other things) and the credentialed climate scientists at RealClimate (whom he's claimed are liars). His post doesn't read all that different than one by Rush Limbaugh. The difference is Limbaugh doesn't really pretend to be something he's not, with a self-appointed "honest broker" label.
I'm glad that Joe Romm is calling out this hypocrisy. Someone has to be willing to get their hands dirty – inevitable when dealing with those kind of posts.
Love it, love it, love it. The Ramora is just delicious. You are now entered into history as a hero for the voices of reason for the last generation of carbon inebriates. You make the irksome smackdown task seem almost fun. Thank you for educating and entertaining me on this 70 degree day in late October in Virginia. I look forward to more KO's until these deniers are finally stalled.
Pielke has asked for examples for his dishonesty and deceit. and for problems with his professional work. i have answered on Deltoid, but i will repost it here:
well, there is currently a major example all over the web: his father and Anthony Watts are using an article written by you to contradict this statement in an AP article:
"Though there are exceptions, the vast majority of scientists agree that global warming is occurring and that the primary cause is a buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere from the burning of fossil fuels, such as oil and coal."
but there is a serious problem with their approach (and the Pileke article):
first, you count positions (answers 6 and 7 in your poll), which suppose that the IPCC report is not representing serious warming issues enough, as a disagreement with the report. but those positions do not contradict the AP claim above! this alone changes the numbers in your poll to 17% vs 77%.
second, the vast majority of "sceptic" answers to his poll, fall into the fourth category:
4. There is warming and the human addition of CO2 causes some of it, but the science is too uncertain to be confident about current attributions of the precise role of CO2 with respect to other climate forcings. The IPCC WG1 overestimates the role of CO2 relative to other forcings, including a diverse variety of human climate forcings.
i strongly doubt, that people in this category can be seen as contradicting the AP claim above. that would leave the sceptic position with 7% vs 92%.
both his father and Anthony Watts got confused by the deceiving elements in his article, mainly the abstract. i am sure, that Roger Pielke will try to demonstrate his honesty, by correcting their errors.
and one more point:
ps: whoever put "The lead scientists know what they are doing." as a part of one answer into the survey, didn t have the slightest clue what he is doing.
Well, true when Roger tries to defend himself he either flounders or carps. This annoys people.
Oh, right, the fish metaphors. I'm definitely now hooked on Joe's verbal tonics. Shall we name a new drink after our dear Ramora a "cold Roger"? or a "Jolly Roger"?
If we're going to name an alcoholic beverage after R. Jr, shouldn't it be something really tacky, cloyingly sweet, but otherwise free of substance (which is to say, alcohol free)? The "Jolly Roger" (which is great name, by the way …) should be a drink that would go really, really well with rum, but actually be rum free.
But there I go snarking again …
Rogers walleyed attempts at reason are bassically filletious?
(Bollocks, that doesn't work either … )
Joe, you definitely cut Pielke up into little pisces.
It's rare that you can point to a single event that decides someone's irrelevance. Poor RPJr – my only regret over his widdle behavior is that it took so long.
I think Junior's floundering, little meltdown demonstrates that it's dawning on him that he's a bottom feeder in this pool. Each time he tries to get a bit of daylight, the big fish are taking lumps out of him.
Or perhaps it's all elaborate performance art?! Perhaps he is doing an aquatic re-make of Monty Python's Black Knight sketch: "Come back here! I'll bite your legs (fins) off!"
> Pielke is the uber-denier.
Isn't he just? He's the Denier's Denier. He even denies being a Denier! It must be fun around a Pielke dinner table. A continual chorus of "I didn't say that! I didn't take it! It wasn't me! Those are not my views! I don't have the salt!"
I'm thoroughly looking forward to his book coming out. Well, not so much that as the gutting it will undoubtedly receive. I'll wager that it's going to end up looking like the floor of Billingsgate Fish Market at the end of a busy day.
Bravo, Joe – give them no quarter!
Although I must say I don't know my fish. And I don't think Pielke is so benign….
Substituting for a WWII analogy I can't help but think Pielke and his Breakthrough Institute gang have a whole lot in common with the isolationists/defeatists prior to WWII. They reached for any straw from "it's not our fight" to "the German forces are unbeatable" (my paraphrasing quotes) and in the process perverting the universal good of peace into a catalyst for nasty and counterproductive attitudes of the right wing.
Both the Civil War and WWII showed we had the wealth, power and knowledge to win – it was just a matter of getting beyond the defeatists/isolationists. Pielke and his ilk are defeatists to be sure, toxic, and a catalyst for the wacko right tactics of obvuscation. Like General McClellan and Lindburgh The Breakthrough Institute's legacy is in danger of being seen as thoroughly wrong-headed and worse.
They deserve no quarter.
Pielke should reread his Nature story and mullet over.
I think that the common thread between Pielke and the SuperFreaks is that they are trying to marginalize Gore and Hansen the rest of the "Global Warming Alarmists."
The problem, for them, is that Hansen and Gore stand pretty firmly on the actual science. So they start trying to do their pin-head dance: "CO2 is not the main villian; okay, yes it is." and "There is no CO2 signal in the extreme weather events; okay, yes there is."
The message of the "educated skeptic" is inherently incoherent: the globe is warming; CO2 is a greenhouse gas; but Global Warming Alarmism is dangerous nonsense. That kind of hair-splitting is welcomed by the politicized masses but rejected by mainstream scientists and politicians. Thus the 'educated skeptic' finds themselves in bed with full blown denialism: the earth is cooling, NOAA is engaged in fraud, Hadley CRU is part of a conspiracy. I don't think the 'educated skeptics' are happy to find themselves sleeping with the wingnuts and have chosen to look for someone else to blame. Maybe they need to reconsider who they count among their 'friends' or just clean up their own dang blog comments.
I'd like to see guys like Pielke Jr and Christy engaging in a discussion of how best to quantify the costs of global warming in order to create a better cost/benefits analysis of the risks. But as long as they keep putting their efforts into splitting hairs and trying to marginalize Gore and Hansen, it ain't going to happen. The wasted effort is just sad.
DavidCOG writes:
"He [Pielke Jr.] even denies being a Denier!"
That's the quote of the day. Pielke Jr. comes across as a Concern Troll.
Sure he claims to support the consensus on global warming and claims to be concerned about it, but spends the vast majority of his time going after climate scientists and promoting the views of deniers. It's kind of like someone claiming they aren't a flat-Earther but spending their time going after those lying alarmist scientists saying the Earth is not flat and promoting the views of flat-Earthers. It's very transparent.
I have learned not to look towards so I don't have to "not look away."
RPJr is completely ignorable as far as I am concerned.
Pielke Jr. has global warming bass ackwards – seems he needs to go back to school.
Concern Troll is a very good description of Roger Pielke.
i took a look at his work, amd was realy shocked by the lack of substance. his "green" or "environmental" side isn t really showing up in his articles. his policy advice is 90% "do nothing".
i especially liked this piece:
asking "so what?" on climate change, seems like a really good and open minded idea. thanks roger for this insight!
Thanks Joe, for the pains-taking work,
the scales have fallen from my eyes about Jolly Roger. "Fin."
Romm is the closest thing to a superhero we have these days!
NathanS (28) — I'd throw in Jim Hansen and Bill McKibben as well.
There are a small army of superheros working against The Disinformation Machine: GreenFyre, Tim Lambert, greenman3610 (YouTube) and many others that skewer the Deniers from different angles. And an even larger army of footsoldiers who combat the idiocy that is posted to forums across the 'net.
It's tough being a Denier nowadays – you've barely published your latest distortion opus and half a dozen excoriations are handed out by return. It's heartening to watch!
You folks need to wake up and smell the cold coffee…
"Repect the man who seeks the truth…suspect the man who claims to have found it."
Mark Twain.
Don't hate…Debate!
[JR: I take it you suspect all your doctors!]
Hey, Y'all: Debate isn't necessarily the best way to find the truth. Research works pretty well.
I watched 2 minutes of your linked Gore presentation and found 5 exaggerations. How could anyone sit though that presentation with out puking?


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47Netherlands proposes banning gas, diesel car sales by 2025
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Holland's lower house of parliament approved the proposal, but will it go any further?
29Porsche 911 GT3 RS ends up in canal near dealership
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Tesla Model 3 may generate 100,000 reservations within the first 24 hours of availability.
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Ribbon of solar-paneled bike path is indeed generating some electricity, but not enough to justify the investment.
14Jon Olsson's 1,000-hp Audi RS6 Avant stolen at gunpoint, burned
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Volkswagen's office in the Netherlands responded to popular demand on social media with this video showing a supposedly semi-autonomous baby stroller.
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The Forze VI is a hydrogen fuel cell racer from a group of Dutch students, and the car is now finished with its first major shakedown after running around some cones for 40 minutes. The team eventually wants to take the car to the Nordschleife.
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Nissan enjoys a 95 percent share of the EV market in Holland, which just so happens to have a Smart Highway that glows in the dark just like this Leaf. If ever there was a specific car that was meant to drive on a specific road, surely this is it.
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Myself well, my only qualification for commenting is that a friend took me and a bunch of other people on a sunset tour of the park last week, but that being said, I do think "fucking magnificent" will come to be a common descriptor.
Here are some images from our tour of the park-in-progress, starting with Serra's Wake, which was still awaiting its gravel bedding when I walked through. Below that are two reasons I love the park already the view of Seattle it provides is dense and cosmopolitan, but reprioritized, with the retro nostalgia of the Space Needle shrunken down to appropriate size and a lot of room left over for imagining the city anew. Below that is an Aspen grove. And below that is Mark Dion's Nurse Log (currently being nursed by a cocoon of green netting and mist-squirters, which made us all quite jealous).
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Who does not crave to view the quirky, craziness of the starving artist, maybe one will
chop off their ear or inscribe a tat on their tonsil.
On their tonsil? Hahahahahaha. I'll give this "reality" show a chance. But, I'll watch the repeats. 10PM is way late for this early to rise worker bee.
Separate from the review of the show, Mary Louise, you did a great job of summing up what's wrong with the reality show template. Accurate, insightful description.
hmmmmm. doesn't this remind you of the silly "watch the artist paint" events, wherein artists complete a work of art in a given amount of time. Or even worse, are on site "painting" during an exhibit of their works. what a zoo!
Yeah, Judith, who was that guy who showed us how to create a landscape in a half hour on TV way back? It's not quite THAT predictable, but it's close. This show really represents a waving a white flag, a giving up on the idea that art can be popular among mainstream audiences without being painfully dumbed down. There's got to be something between PBS's "Art:21" (brilliant, to be sure, but not a break out hit with the mainstream) and "Work of Art." The question is, what would that actually look like?
I would have to guess that this concept may be hinged more so on improving Bravo's ratings than educating. Hm. No less, it fits right in with everything (almost) on television. Despite the Brooklyn Art exhibit offer, $100,000 seems rather paltry in comparison to what the networks stand to gain. It also comes off more so as dangling a carrot in front of a horse (artist).
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Mary i only watched the first episode, and i agree that the whole concept of a "reality" TV show about art/artists is absurd, (which is part of the fun of watching it). i mean insiders like us can actually laugh at things the masses don't notice-the misrepresentations of an Artist, critique responses, etc. The challenge of making a tv show about art for the mass American audience is that American TV viewers don't actually want to think so cliches are great for them. That aside, It has/had the potential to be an entertaining educational show if it wasn't for the MTV inspired ultra-fast-choppy, ADD cuts, movements, only the jist approach to filming and audio editing who's main intent is to create mystery and a hope to get a closer look in the coming scene. This glossing over and breezing through everything really dissapointed me--they overdid it to the point where it was hard to watch. how many second of artwork did they actually show? 1 hr to get to know 14 people, AND see the making of a challenge? the editing was so manipulated i wondered if they were all actors, or their interviews guided. I feel they didn't care for the artists development and achievement because they need to make money. but if they cared, it wouldn't be on bravo, and it wouldn't make money. i still think they could've found more creative ways to create drama and suspense while educating those that want an insight into an artist's mind.
I felt Jerry said some worthwhile things with the seconds that he got. I wish they let him and other judges talk more, Jerry is great at using enticing colorful language with an enthusiastic tone.
the best thing about this show is no matter how true to artists or art-making it is, it nevertheless brings an awareness of art to the world. I just hope its
I watch Russian TV once in a while, and although they are mostly stuck in the past, which results in TV shows even more absurd than this, albeit in a diff. way, there are some shows that actually have people discussing culture or some educational content. they are more slow in filming and aren't jumpy like Bravo and MTV. there was a show called "Cultural Revolution" where two guests debated the question, "Is it a must for real art to be impossible to understand?" it was very educational, but it would die on mainstream American TV.
I also think that visual art, the art genres Bravo is using are incompatible for TV. its hard to put up an image of a painting for 5 seconds and not lose part of the audience. Painting, photography, and much of sculpt/installation is static, whereas TV viewers want movement, which these forms don't offer.
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Anyone have any thoughts on the Legend of the Five Rings saga?
I have the first six book series, but haven't read any of them yet. The storyline in the card game was pretty good, so I'm hoping the books live up to their potential.
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I cannot get audio player to work in firefox 8.0.1 on my Windows 7 64 bit machine. Not just on my site, but on any site using the plugin.
Works fine on my windows xp machines.
Anyone else having this issue? Any suggestions?
I cannot get audio player to work in firefox 8.0.1 on my Windows 7 64 bit machine. Not just on my site, but on any site using the plugin.
Works fine on my windows xp machines.
Anyone else having this issue? Any suggestions?
Anyone else having this issue? If you are running:
Windows 7 64-bit
Firefox 8.0.1
Shockwave Flash 184.108.40.206
Please let me know if the audio players on this page work for you.
Audio player plugin on your site is working fine for me.
- Win 7, 64 bit, FF 8.0.1, Shockwave Flash 18.104.22.168. It also appears to be functioning properly in IE9. I'm afraid I can't duplicate the issue.
@ClaytonJames- Thanks! It's driving me crazy. When I hover over the play arrow, instead of turning solid white (as it should) it flickers back and forth between black and white, and when I click it, nothing happens.
Working well on my end. Have you tried uninstalling the flash plugin, dumping your browser cache(s) and then reinstalling the plugin? Sounds whacky, I know, but stranger things have happened. I have had several flash plugin crashes in FF8 with this version of flash on my 64 bit laptop, but I can't recall having any issues on any of the 32 bit machines.
Yep. Completely uninstalled flash using the adobe uninstaller, rebooted, deleted everything in C:\Windows\system32\Macromed\Flash and C:\Windows\syswow64\Macromed\Flash, ran the 64-bit installer for firefox, and still no joy. Checked all my FF settings seem OK. Like you, no problem on my 32 bit XP laptop running same FF and Flash versions (except for 32-bit).
ran the 64-bit installer for firefox
Ahhh... we might have a fundamental difference here. I'm running Firefox out of the x86 Program Files directory, which indicates a 32 bit instance of FF, I believe. - Yep', sure enough. My task manager shows firefox running as firefox.exe *32.
I apologize for the confusion. You seem to be running FF in 64 bit, while I am running it in 32 bit on a 64 bit OS. I can also confirm that my IE9 instance is running in 32 bit mode. Sorry about that, I never gave it a thought!
I just opened your site in the 64 bit version of IE9, and the player still worked normally. No problems in IE9 64 bit version for me.
Firefox 8.0.1 is the only browser on the 64-bit machine with the problem. IE9, chrome, safari, all work.
If you have time, and can try FF 64 bit, I'd be interested to know if it works for you.
Thanks, Rob
I just installed FF 64 bit from the nightly builds, (testing) seems to be working perfectly on your site.
[edit] Crap! Be careful if you try and then uninstall the nightly, it can remove your FF8 bookmarks and settings if you aren't paying attention. Going to do a quick backup/restore. Yikes! :-)
That's my next step- to try a beta version. I'll do that later tonight or tomorrow and post back.
I'd be interested to know if this stable version works for you.
Thanks Clayton, for taking the time to help me troubleshoot this- much appreciated!
Confirmed. My 64 bit version of firefox, with the stable flash plugin version you posted, is working fine for me on your site.
I'm stumped. :-)
But you're using a different firefox version. I'll try that tomorrow and let you know if it works. Thanks for trying to help me figure this out!
Tried the nightly version with no luck.
ran the 64-bit installer for firefoxWhat I meant was the 64 bit flash installer. I'm running FF out of the x86 Program Files directory (32 bit) too. I wonder if I can install a 32 bit version of flash player?
ran the 64-bit installer for firefox
Me too. I ran the 64 bit flash installer from the link you gave me, and it worked fine.
I wonder if I can install a 32 bit version of flash player?
I don't see why not.
Something else that might be worth checking into; I remember having some issues with a flash video player quite a while back. I recall that the solution had something to do with removing a corrupted flashplayer/browser local profile from the user settings. I don't recall exactly. Definitely a stretch, but not beyond the realm of possibilities I suppose.
Clayton- Really appreciate your help! I'll look into profiles. I've read that others have had flash issues related to profiles. I also wonder if the firefox flash plugin might somehow be conflicting with the IE flash player, which is a separate program.
I may just have to give up on this and hope that a future flash or firefox update straightens it out. I've tried everything I can think of.
I uninstalled all flash players (using adobe's uninstaller), I uninstalled firefox, I deleted deleted everything in C:\Windows\system32\Macromed\Flash and C:\Windows\syswow64\Macromed\Flash, I deleted all residual firefox and flash files in user folders, and reinstalled everything from scratch, and get the same result.
I tried the 32 bit flash plugin, and get the same results.
I'm definitely stumped. I'm sorry we couldn't pin it down!
I'm gonna try creating a new firefox profile.
No luck with the new firefox profile- same behavior. Maybe someone on the Mozilla or Adobe boards will offer a solution, or maybe someone will stumple across this thread who had and solved the same issue.
SOLVED IT. You will not fracking believe it! It was my windows display settings! Was set to large (150%). I switched it to medium (125%) and now the audio player works! Unbelievable, but isn't that the way it so often turns out- just something ridiculously stupid. Thanks ClaytonJames for helping me troubleshoot all the more likely causes. [Insert appropriate Expletive Here!]
Who in the heck would have ever that could be the cause? Just one of those odd-ball things! Glad you got it working. :-)
Let me know if you can duplicate it:
> Go to Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Display.
> Set dpi to 150%
> Save (log out - log back in)
> Open this page in Firefox 8.0.1
> Click on any audio player.
> Let me know if it plays.
If a few people confirm it, I'll submit as a bug at Mozilla.
And... we have a winner!!
I just now tried it on a win 7 32bit box, 22 in display at 1680x1050.
I set the dpi at 150%, made the change, visited the page, and guess what?
When I hover over the play arrow, instead of turning solid white (as it should) it flickers back and forth between black and white, and when I click it, nothing happens
That is exactly what I now see. I don't think it's a 32 -vs- 64bit issue.
Good find on that one!
Thanks so much, ClaytonJames. It's good to know I'm not totally losing my mind. At one point in this diagnostic process, it appeared that the problem was unique to my machine- which drove me nuts, since I'm borderline OCD about maintaining my computers.
Once I get a couple more confirmations from users on the Mozilla thread, I'll post a bug report. After all, one shouldn't have to adjust screen settings every time one wants to play a clip, and old guys like me can't deal with the 125% setting on a high rez monitor without going blind.
You've been an awesome partner in this process. I guess we'd better close this out, since it's not really an audio player issue- and I think we turned it into the longest thread under this tag :)
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The chefs were very friendly and energetic. It was a night full of laughs with great company. It is definitely a dining experience worth attending. Do not expect to learn how to really make any of the food however, you will learn the different folding techniques of empanadas which comes in handy when identifying what to purchase at other locations.
Must do for anyone.
This turned out to be one of the best nights in Argentina. Pay the extra and do the mixology class. Well worth it. Would highly recommend.
We went to this on our first night, which was great because they introduced us to the most common local food and drinks and then we knew what to order when we were out on our own. The food was excellent and the alcohol plentiful. The two guys were very dynamic, knowledgeable, and friendly. They did a great job explaining how each food connected to the culture and even taught us how to order our beef. It was also fun to meet people from other countries.
A great evening. A lot of fun and the perfect way to begin your stay in Buenos Aires. Definitely do the Mixology option at the beginning. Great fun
Bex Australia
Such a great night out, good way to meet other travellers and really good food too. A must do!
What an incredible evening.
The staff were entertaining. They made the evening fun.
Great way to enjoy empanadas.
Highly recommend this event.
All four of us including 2 teenagers loved this experience. It was fun and the food was delicious! We also enjoyed meeting and talking to the other travelers at our table. The staff went out of their way to meet every need including finding us a cab home at the end. We even learned very useful information about traveling in Argentina. It was a fantastic experience and I would recommend it to anyone!
Empanada making was fun and tasty, the steak was the best ever. The staff was a lot of fun and we really enjoyed visiting with the guests at our table
Barbara C USA
This was a wonderful experience. I love the way it was set up where we were able to sit with people from all over the world. I even met people that were on my cruise ship.
The chefs keep us entertained and explained the culture as well as the food.
The food was fantastic. We started with a great cheese appetizer with sauces in which we dipped bread. The steak was much better any I found in a restaurant while in Buenos Aires and I now have a favorite new food, empenadas. There was so much food that it was impossible to eat all of it. One person even took leftovers back to the ship.
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A most due if you like cooking, drinking wine and meeting new friends.
The dinner was amazing. Also, the chefs/staff were brilliant. They were engaging and accommodating. It was fun to make empanadas and alajores. Also, the food was delicious. Finally, it was fun to meet travelers from all over the world. I would highly recommend this experience.
This was a great night...food wonderful, wine flowed copiously, hostess was fun, and the evening just great!!!! Would do it again!!!
This is a great experience. Do not be fooled, this is not a cooking class, but a chance to experience Argentina food, culture and meet new friends. This is held in a private restaurant with about 20 guests and several hosts who make this a special evening. The Steak and wine was worth the cost. Highly recommended for anyone visiting Buenos Aires for the first time.
Amazing - the entire event was outstanding - the staff, food, other dinner guests and introduction to Argentine culture. Best steak we had during our BA visit!! Would highly recommend it to all who visit BA!!!
Had a wonderful time, met some great people, Empanada making was fun and the food and wine capped off the evening. Would definitely recommend it to anyone touring Buenos Aires.
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Amazingly interactive evening with great food and fun company.....a must do when visiting BAires
We had a great time! The staff was funny and knowledgeable, the food and wine were wonderful, and we learned a lot.
Fun to be involved in these activities.
Gray way to see the glacier, Perito Moreno. Transportation to and from the park was a breeze. Wish the tour guide had translated in English more frequently. But, it was still a great experience.
MUST DO THIS ACTIVITY!!! I had such an amazing experience from the moment I walked through the door and was handed a welcome drink. The wine flowed all night and the laughs were endless. I loved all of the instructor interactions and learning about the Argentinian culture. They made the experience tons of fun and was truly the highlight of my 4 weeks in Buenos Aires. The only thing is that we semi-prepared the items and did not cook them ourselves. Just a heads up :
FUN TIMES, WELL DONE, the crew did a great job !!!
The hosts were wonderful, personable, fun, and funny. The food was excellent, probably the best meal we had during our week long visit. And the wine flowed all night long. We even had a lesson on Argentinian hand gestures and expressions. This was the best thing we did while in BsAs. You need to go!
FANTASTIC!!! My in-laws loved every minute, from experiencing the "mixology" class where we became "certified" :) bartenders per Fernando (but we called him El Stephan) to the empanada contest....just pure delight!!! LOVE LOVE LOVE!!! Must do for a cultural experience of a lifetime!
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NZ First leader Winston Peters had called it a "secret side
deal"in questions to Parliament yesterday.
Mr Key rejected the claim saying the casino had talked to
TVNZ about buying the land itself - but has no accepted no
approach had been made.
A spokesman for Mr Key said: "The Prime Minister is happy to
accept the assurances from TVNZ this morning that no approach
has been made."
Mr Key also pulled back from comments about a possible
"commercial deal"between the state broadcaster and SkyCity.
His spokesman said the Prime Minister had now been told no
sale agreement had been made and it was "a commercial matter
between the parties".
The confusion arose after Mr Key told Parliament the casino
had worked out it needed more land to build a large
convention centre. The larger design came after Mr Key's
instruction to "think outside the box"resulted in a design
for much larger convention centre.
Mr Key told Parliament yesterday he was aware "if SkyCity was
to build a larger convention centre than the original one
they wanted, at some point I was aware that they would need
to acquire land".
He said: "It is pretty straightforward. SkyCity, after it
decided it would be prepared to enter an expression of
interest process to have a larger convention centre, went off
to its architects. Its architects designed such a thing,
realised they needed more land, worked out who owned the
land, and approached Television New Zealand."
Mr Key was quizzed over how an approach could be made without
the TVNZ board being aware of it. He responded: "I cannot
speak for the Television New Zealand board, but I am finding
it reasonably hard to believe that Television New Zealand
entered a commercial agreement with Skycity to sell land that
it owned, and it did so without its board knowing."
Mr Peters said TVNZ's board had heard nothing of land being
sold and asked if Mr Key had promised the casino he would
"privatise TVNZ's assets" as part of the deal.
Mr Key responded by saying a lack of knowledge might show
"board process needs to be improved, and maybe the
mixed-ownership model would work for it". He added there were
no plans to sell TVNZ or change its structure.
TVNZ spokeswoman Megan Richards told the Herald on a number
of occasions last year there had been no approach by SkyCity
for the land and no deal had been done.
Today, she said the position had not changed. "We have had no
approach from SkyCity. We have no commercial arrangement with
SkyCity. If we were to be approached by SkyCity we would have
to consider it on its merits."
She said there were portions of land which TVNZ might
consider it could sell and others which it would not. She
said SkyCity had historically expressed an interest but not
in recent years and never in relation to the proposed
International Convention Centre.
The casino's desire for land emerged in the Auditor-General's
report into the proposed deal. In August 2010, then-economic
development minister Gerry Brownlee asked the casino if it
was able to get more land for a bigger convention centre.
The report linked the bigger design to the Gambling Act
changes the casino wanted, stating: "SkyCity recalls the
Minister indicating at the meeting that the Government's
willingness to consider regulatory reform depended on SkyCity
meeting the requirements of a bigger convention centre on a
larger site."
In September 2010, the casino produced a design showing more
land was needed, telling the Government it wanted it to buy
the land for the project.
- By David Fisher of the New Zealand Herald
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Updated: May 26, 2006, 2:53 PM ETBy Nancy Lieberman | Special to ESPN.com
It's called "midseason form" for a reason.
And as is the case with every professional league just starting a new season, several of the WNBA's teams were nowhere near that level of play when the 2006 schedule tipped off Saturday.
As expected, Connecticut and Sacramento did look at the top of their games, but most squads still need a little time to fine tune. A look at some quick Week 1 observations:
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I have an asp.net application c# that uses session state to store a variable when the user logs in. This is their log in name and its used extensively throughout the user area. Problem is that the session keeps losing the information on certain computers. I dont know enough about session state really and i wanted to know why this was happening. An example. When a user goes through different selections on a grid, after about 2 mins the label which shows the session state variable on the screen is empty, causing problems for the person when they want to add a record as the database requires their username to stamp onto a record.
So in summary. what would cause a session state variable to lose its value after only a few minutes and not on all computers. ( i have no problem on my computer only on the clients machine- typical isnt it)
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i use the session in the server side code, ie
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and also the hosting i have is a shared hosting environment which means i have very little to do with the iis settings (fairly cheap job im afraid) Will try the web config change and report back . Thanks for all the answers.


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Clam farmers back in business in red tide-free Cedar Key
Published: Sunday, January 1, 2006 at 4:33 a.m.
Last Modified: Sunday, January 1, 2006 at 12:00 a.m.
GAINESVILLE -- The end of red tide provided the perfect gift for Cedar Key clam farmers.
"It saved Christmas," said Craig Parks, process manager for B&E Seafood, a clam wholesaler.
The toxic algal bloom had forced the closure of shellfish harvesting areas in Levy and Dixie counties for the better part of the past two months. The last area of Cedar Key that had been shut down reopened for harvesting three days before Christmas. Just a small area near the Levy and Dixie border remains closed.
"We're just about back to being free of red tide," said Mark DeHaven, an environmental specialist for the state Department of Agriculture's aquaculture division.
All water samples in the two counties have tested clean of red tide, and clams are safe to eat, he said. A final test of oyster meat from the only closed area, near the mouth of the Suwannee River, will be conducted this week to determine whether it can reopen.
Red tide is an algal bloom that discolors water, kills fish and causes people who eat infected shellfish to get nausea and diarrhea. While blooms are a regular occurrence in other parts of the Gulf Coast, there have been just four documented in Cedar Key in 30 years.
The latest bloom was unprecedented in its size and length. The bloom briefly closed farms in September before completely shutting down harvesting from Cedar Key to Horseshoe Beach in late October, continuing for all but a brief period until this month.
Perhaps no place felt the impact more than Cedar Key. The state's 1995 ban on certain types of net fishing devastated the local economy, before anglers were trained to farm clams and given leases on sites off the shore.
The area now touts itself as the U.S. leader in clam farming, producing over 100 million clams and generating $10 million in annual revenue.
Clam farmers big and small felt the pinch of the closure. Mike Smith, operations manager at Cedar Key Aquaculture Farms, said the company lost $200,000 in sales in December alone. Workers spent time doing maintenance and other odd jobs during the closure.
"It was just a couple weeks of boredom for us," he said.
Parks said he was out of work for nearly two weeks, costing him more than $3,000 in lost wages. He supplemented his income by remodeling a bathroom in St. Petersburg and building a pole barn near Cedar Key, but the reopening came at an opportune time.
"We managed to put food on the table, and the kids had a good Christmas," he said.
Half of Cedar Key's clam farms reopened on Dec. 15 and the remainder on Dec. 22, allowing for clams to be harvested for the busy holiday season. But members of the clam industry say they must repair relationships with customers and get out the word that red tide is over.
Customers are still unsure whether clams are safe to eat, said Mike Atkins, owner of Atkins Seafood.
"It's not so much the industry, it's everyone who calls here. It's the first thing out of their mouths," he said.
While clam farmers get back to work, state researchers are taking a breather after the state's worst red tide in decades. The bloom affected Southwest Florida for most of the year, littering beaches with dead fish and causing coastal residents to have respiratory problems.
The state's coastal areas are now mostly free of red tide except for an outbreak in the Keys, said Cindy Heil, senior research scientist with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Research Institute. Researchers will boat the Gulf of Mexico to determine if a bloom still lingers farther off the coast, she said.
Researchers will then turn their attention to the cause of the event's severity, which has been hypothesized as being related to everything from unusually warm Gulf waters to hurricanes carrying nutrient-rich African dust.
Research is also planned to study whether man-made pollution was a factor, Heil said.
Before this year, red tide had generally occurred in smaller stretches and only in the late summer or early fall. Heil said she's hoping next year will get back to normal.
"We're hoping things stay quiet for a while," she said.
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When I run rake db:create, I get: The bundled mysql.rb driver has been removed from Rails 2.2. Please install the mysql gem and try again: gem install mysql. rake aborted!
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Hundley Library and Center for Graduate Studies taking shape
Construction of the Emily W. Hundley Library and Center for Graduate Studies is near record pace as the mild winter has allowed crews to begin piecing together the super structure. By March 1, the first beams of steel were in place and just five days later, the skeleton of the whole right side of the building was standing tall.
As of March 10, the main portion of the building was in place and the steel form for the cupola was set.
The project is on a 12-month schedule and, weather permitting, should be ready by late December 2012.
The recent mild weather allowed work crews on the St. Catharine College campus to begin the first stages of building the new Emily W. Hundley Library and Center for Graduate Studies back in November 2011.
Workers from M&J Construction have begun work on the footers, while truckloads of concrete were being delivered to pour the bottom section of the elevator shaft.