Tobacco control how daft can it get

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Candy cigarettes over 18s only The denormalisation of smoking continues with even candy cigarettes being restricted to over 18s, voluntarily of course – but then if even the sight of a packet of cigarettes can instantly cause a child to develop a 60 a day habit what perils being able to put a candy fag in a childs mouth. Of course this could be a tongue in cheek jibe on behalf of the retailer of sweeties, as after all if they were serious about protecting the children they wouldn’t sell any of the sweets to people under 60 without government authorization. Link to the site is here, and who knows what evil would be caused by the “just like dad” alternative.

(Tip of the tifta to Lid on a scream)

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A summer stroll

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As public minded citizens Katabasis and I, have determined to risk our sanity and plan to venture to the wilds of sunny Stratford (Not the on upon Avon nor the Stony variety but the one where those Olympic thingies are happening). Now whilst we would obviously normally obey the government diktat advice that all non-approved citizens should avoid the area around the London 2012 games, we have a mission. That mission as I’ve burbled about before is to make sure that people are aware of the danger they may be in wearing garments not produced by the relevant approved sponsors (though apparently Lord Seb has since changed his mind about that risk), or if they’re partaking in any sort of commercial transaction using one of the special words. After all we wouldn’t want anyone getting into trouble by being unaware that mentioning they had say “a beer garden ideal for a drop of London pride this summer” could result in a fine.

No this we can not stand idly by and allow to happen, so in suitably informative t-shirts and accompanying leaflets we shall perambulate around the environs of east London making sure that people are aware of the risk they may unknowingly be in. If you fancy joining us for this work we may well be in the nearby Wetherspoons for a spot of luncheon and a fortifying drop of something fermented around midday on Sunday (5ht Aug 2012). With luck it will be a gold summer day in London so we can enjoy the Olympic spirit (or failing that a drop of spirits in the bar).

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Something rotten in global warming data

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Significant flaws in temperature adjustments I suspect by now you’ve probably already seen the press release from Antony Watts if carry on nothing new to see here. If you haven’t read it go read it now. Then consider how many policies have been driven by, and how much money has been squandered based on flawed temperature data to solve a problem which looks likely doesn’t exist. Then remember that they’d have you believe that the science is settled, then feel free to be very annoyed. To quote Katabasis:
“Watts’ work has essentially invalidated all of the worldwide land temperature data sets and the thousands of papers based on this data.”
“In case anyone doesn’t understand the immediate implications of this (Anthony Watt’s research) – the U.S. land based temp stations are the best land temp network in the world. The people who made the adjustments to the raw data on these stations are the same people who make adjustments to the (even more flawed) worldwide data sets on the basis of the same siting methodology – the GCHN data set is the one that ALL the other land based data sets are based on (with possible exception of the Japanese record IIRC). Ergo if the warming in the U.S. record is overstated by 50%, so has the warming across the rest of the world (on land based records).”

Lets see how much attention the politicians pay and if anyone admits they may in fact have got it wrong.

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