jccalhoun says:

wow, so not only is Curry a 9/11 Truther he also believes in “alternative energy.” What a loon…

Hugh Ripper says:

It is just me or is Adam Curry a total wanker? The whole ‘fuck you everyones doing it hard’ bit made me wanna reach through the screen an punch his lights. Hes clearly the type who thinks that running out of reggiano is ‘doing it hard’.

brian t says:

Would someone please remind Adam that structural steel does not need to MELT to fail under load? You don’t see any investigators claiming that the steel in WTC melted – but “truthers” keep harping on this as if that’s what it takes for a building to fall. I have no opinion on whether there’s a conspiracy or not, but I have studied structural steel, and the “melting steel” claim is a straw man.

There’s a reason why structural steel MUST be given proper fireproofing. The load-bearing capacity of A36 (the most common structural steel in the USA) drops dramatically at temperatures above 750°F: down to about 66% at 1000°F, or about 35% at 1200°F. (Steel’s melting point is around 2500°F.) I recommend reading some of the AISC publications (www.aisc.org) on structural steel, e.g. search for “Facts for Steel Buildings” – unless you think the American Institute of Steel Construction is in on the conspiracy?

Mister Mustard says:

Hoo boy. You lost me with the real-time rendition of discredited “journalist” Christopher Booker’s diatribe against global warming.

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Booker’s articles in The Daily Telegraph on asbestos and also on global warming have been challenged by George Monbiot in an article in The Guardian [1].
Booker’s scientific claims, which include the false assertion that white asbestos (chrysotile) is “chemically identical to talcum powder” [2] were also analysed in detail by Richard Wilson in his book Don’t Get Fooled Again (2008). (The chemical formula for talc is H2Mg3(SiO3)4 or Mg3Si4O10(OH)2, while the formula for chrysotile, the primary ingredient of white asbestos, is Mg3(Si2O5)(OH)4).
Wilson highlighted Christopher Booker’s repeated endorsement of the alleged scientific expertise of John Bridle, who has claimed to be “the world’s foremost authority on asbestos science”, but who in 2005 was convicted under the UK’s Trade Descriptions Act [3] of making false claims about his qualifications, and who the BBC has accused of basing his reputation on “lies about his credentials, unaccredited tests, and self aggrandisement”.[4].
Christopher Booker’s scientific claims about asbestos have been criticized several times by the UK government’s Health and Safety Executive. In 2002, the HSE’s Director General, Timothy Walker, wrote that Booker’s articles on asbestos had been “misinformed and do little to increase public understanding of a very important occupational health issue.”[5].
In 2005, the Health and Safety Executive issued a rebuttal[6] after Christopher Booker wrote an article suggesting, incorrectly, that the HSE had agreed with him that white asbestos posed “no medical risk”[7].
In 2006, the HSE published a further rebuttal[8] after Christopher Booker had claimed, again incorrectly, that the Health and Safety Laboratory had concluded that the white asbestos contained within “artex” textured coatings posed “no health risk”. [9].
In May 2008, the Health and Safety Executive accused Booker of writing an article that was “substantially misleading”[10]. In the article[11], published by the Sunday Telegraph earlier that month, Booker had claimed, falsely, that a paper produced in 2000 by two HSE statisticians, Hodgson and Darnton[12], had ‘concluded that the risk of contracting mesothelioma from white asbestos cement was “insignificant”, while that of lung cancer was “zero”‘.
In December 2008, an article by Booker was published in The Daily Telegraph, ‘Facts melted by ‘global warming”[13] and subsequently in The Australian, ‘More inconvenient cold weather, snow and polar ice’.[14] The article claims that “Without explanation, a half million square kilometres of ice vanished overnight.” That claim is false as an explanation was provided on 13 December and Booker’s article was published on 21 December.[15].

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