Odd Lots

[jeff_duntemann]

I've been low-energy for a month or so, following the worst chestcold I can recall. Still coughing a little bit; still low-energy. I'm working up the nerve to write a a series on health insurance that will doubtless infuriate everyone, but since I'm also furious, I guess it factors out. Stay tuned.

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  HBO is making no friends with their

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[madfilkentist]

George R. R. really ought to speak out on that stunt, if he's heard. Some say he can't do anything because he's signed away the rights, but I don't believe HBO would be indifferent to the resulting fannish wrath.

[jeff_duntemann]

He should speak out against it, but I think you're right in that he likely can't quash such a legal action on his own initiative.

HBO, like most of Hollywood and a great deal of Silicon Valley, has gone over almost completely to emotional thinking. Given what Twitter has been doing (they shadowbanned a good friend of mine for DARING to criticize John Scalzi's books) I'd be reluctant to put anything past a Hollywood corporation. Attacking your own audience? It's been done. And it hasn't turned out well for the attackers.

[tb_doc_smith]

Snopes has more detail on the "steepest drop in global temps" story you linked to at

http://www.snopes.com/2016/12/01/house-science-committees-twitter-promotes-article-mocking-climate-alarmists/.

As you said, a temperature spike is not climate. This applies in both directions, up and down. Once you've filtered out the high-frequency noise, you may see the same thing as the vast majority of atmospheric scientists.

[jeff_duntemann]

What I see is nothing worth destroying the economy over. And I assume the category of atmospheric scientists includes meteorologists, no?