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U.S. government whistle-blower on global warming

U.S. government whistle-blower on global warmingGlobal Warming Agenda = QuackerySorry, but Dr. Hansen has zero scientific credibility. CO2 is warming the planet? OK everyone, all together: hold your breath! Every time you exhale you're destroying the planet! Don't plants need CO2 to create oxygen? Oh, and don't forget that if...

Tags: U.S. Government, global warming

Discussion threads 2009-07-09

James Hansen arrested, as promised

Environmental scientist and activist, Dr. James Hansen, got arrested as he intended. He was prominent among the protestors in West Virginia, where they were protesting mountaintop removal to get at coal deposits. Hansen has advocated banning coal burning within twenty years because of its greenhouse gas emissions. ...

Tags: Hansen, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-06-24

America's #1 global warmer

America's #1 global warmerThe Biggest Global CoolerBack in the late 1970's, Hansen was also the father of the Global Cooling scare. Nobody seems to want to talk about how he was wrong back then too.Science of Fear = Government FundingWhat else needs to be said? Even a third grader...

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Discussion threads 2009-06-22

How to Avoid Collaboration Traps, Create Unity and Get Results

Collaboration - How Leaders Avoid the Traps, Create Unity, and Reap Big Results Morten T. Hansen Harvard Business Press ISBN 978-1-4221-1515-2 The great power of Morten Hansen's book 'Collaboration', the result of fifteen years of research into internal collaboration in...

Tags: Hansen, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-05-10

When Internal Collaboration Is Bad for Your Company...

Morten T. Hansen, a Danish professor in Entrepreneurship at INSEAD business school, has a terrific piece in the April edition of the  Harvard Business Review entitled 'When Internal Collaboration Is Bad for Your Company'. Hansen discusses the political realities of cross unit collaboration very eloquently: 'Collaboration can...

Tags: Hansen, HBS, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-04-07

Global warning: act now

Global warning: act nowI don't think it's sth we can controlI'm not sure we even fully understand how all the elements work in the climate equation.31,000 Scientists say Hansen is full of ithttp://www.oism.org/pproject/RE: Global warning: act nowFunny how all their graphs stop at the year 2000, but don't show the...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, tax, Hansen

Discussion threads 2009-01-19

First scientist to warn Congress on Global Warming: It's certain and we're certainly out of time.

First scientist to warn Congress on Global Warming: It's certain and we're certainly out of time.It's the sun, stupid.The earth has been cooling for the last 10 years. If the current low solar activity keeps up, we could be in deep doodoo.RE: First scientist to warn Congress on Global...

Tags: U.S. Congress, Hansen, data set, global warming

Discussion threads 2008-06-23

Patches in ten f***ing days? Not really, says Mozilla

Mozilla has moved swiftly to put the kibosh on late-night chatter that it can turn around patches for security flaws within ten days.The "ten f-ing days" boast came directly from Mozilla Director of Ecosystem Development Mike Shaver during a Black Hat party conversation with hacker Robert "RSnake" Hansen.We showed up,...

Tags: Security, Patch Management, Mozilla Corp., Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2007-08-06

Beware of that man between you and your Google Desktop

Last month, I wrote a piece about Robert Hansens Mr-T (Master Recon-Tool), a powerful tool that harvests data leaking out of Web browsers. In the post, I talked about how these types of reconnaissance tools could be combined with sniffers and information from vulnerability databases to lay the groundwork...

Tags: Zero-day attacks, Vulnerability research, Viruses and Worms, Spyware and Adware, Spam and Phishing, Rootkits, Responsible disclosure, Pen testing, Patch Watch, Passwords, Open source, Mozilla, Metasploit, Hackers, Google, Firefox, Exploit code, Digital rights management, Data theft, Browsers, Botnets

Blog posts 2007-06-01

eBay to the rescue

Looking for "it"? eBay’s advertising pitch is "Whatever it is, you can get it on eBay.”Even snow. Snow balls, that is.New York City is the Big Apple, but no snow has fallen on the Apple so far this winter.I am not complaining, and I haven’t heard my fellow New Yorkers...

Tags: Local, Search, Culture, eBay, Amateur Content, Marketing, Self-Promotion, ecommerce, snow, Hansen, Mary Walker

Blog posts 2007-01-19

Govt. scientists still being muzzled

Back in January, NASA's James Hansen made headlines when he accused administrators and the public affairs office of trying to stop him from speaking honestly about his climate change research. NASA Administrator Michael Griffin later created a policy stopping the practice, which satisfied Hansen and other scientists. Hansen at the...

Tags: climate-change research, Hansen, NASA

Blog posts 2006-04-06

Next Generation 9-1-1 Initiative Detailed

During the Mobile VoIP sessions at CTIA, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration contractor project coordinator Jenny Hansen described her take on the U.S. Department of Transportation's Next Generation 9-1-1 Initiative.Currently under study and due for final enactment in 2008, the Initiative will seek to solve several pressing issues. Hansen provided...

Tags: Hansen, 9-1-1

Blog posts 2006-04-05

NASA's new comms policy gets thumbs up from scientists

Back in February, the scientific community was up in arms over NASA public affairs officials' alleged muzzling of Dr. James Hansen, NASA's top earth scientist, who had spoken directly about the impact of the the Bush Administration's nonaction on global warming. After Hansen's handler, George Deutsch, resigned amid...

Tags: agency, Hansen, NASA

Blog posts 2006-03-14

While tech watchers fret about Google, US censors chief climatology expert

Are policy officials censoring scientists? James Hansen, the top climate scientist at NASA, says he is being censored after calling for reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, the New York Times reports. Hansen said that officials at NASA headquarters had ordered the public affairs...

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Blog posts 2006-01-30

Additional Resources

This is going to blow some fuses among global warming deniers

RE: This is going to blow some fuses among global warming deniers"The current Pope, a self-proclaimed Christian..."???Is that writing from ignorance of Catholicism, Christianity, both, or taking a swipe at the largest Christian denomination?global waming journalist...afraid to lose a job?when people realize that CO2 caused global warming is a...

Tags: global warming, global warming denier, NASA, fuse

Discussion threads 2009-11-09

Strategic Thinking before Operational Actions: The Enterprise 2.0 Tool Cargo Cult Problem

Three posts about 'failure' in the 'Enterprise 2.0' space in the last few days from Sameer Patel ('Five ways to avoid Enterprise 2.0 failure' guest blogging on Michael Krigmans' 'IT Failure blog here on ZD Net), Dion Hinchcliffe (14 Reasons Why Enterprise 2.0 Projects Fail) and now Dennis Howlett (Enterprise...

Tags: Enterprise 2.0, Strategic Thinking, Dennis, Morten Hansen, Morten, Superstructure, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-08-27

U.S. government whistle-blower on global warming

Dr. James Hansen is at it again: criticizing his employer for not being serious about dealing with global warming. The proposed Waxman-Markey bill--not even sure to get through the Senate--is already too namby-pamby. For Hansen's exact words, click here. Hansen blames the gutless American government's approach/avoidance of...

Tags: U.S. Government, Global Warming, James Hansen, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-07-09

Waxman-Markey bill set for vote in U.S. House

Some are fer it, some agin it. The White House seems pleased. Waxman and Markey still have their names on it. Greenpeace evironmentalists despise it, so does Dr. James Hansen we hear. Right wing groups like Heritage Foundation and Americans for Tax Reform are using words like...

Tags: Bill, NRDC, Taxes, Financial Planning, Finance, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-06-25

Coal: more on the fall-out

There are vastly different ways to look at coal in the U.S. Coal's plentiful, it's American, it's relatively cheap to obtain and burn. And it will produce electricity for the rest of your children's lifetime. Coal burning is destroying our atmosphere, our climate and turning an already...

Tags: China, Coal, Construction, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-06-25

News to know: Vizio; Apple-Psystar; Buffett; Facebook status; Palm Pre; AT&T

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Sean Portnoy: Vizio spills the beans on its Internet TV plans Sam Diaz: Court allows Apple-Psystar case to resume...

Tags: Steve Jobs, Facebook, Hewlett-Packard Co., Palm Inc., AT&T Corp., Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Sam Diaz, Data Centers, Software As A Service (SaaS), Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Microsoft Windows, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Emerging Technologies, Security, Operating Systems, Software

Blog posts 2009-06-25