Quick Fact: Drudge, Washington Times falsely claim allegedly hacked emails show global warming is not real
NASA's Gavin Schmidt: Critics "are using language used in science and interpreting it in a completely different way." Wired's Threat Level blog reported on November 20 that Gavin Schmidt, a climate scientist at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, said: "There's nothing in the e-mails that shows that global warming is a hoax. ... There's no funding by nefarious groups. There's no politics in any of these things; nobody from the [United Nations] telling people what to do. There's nothing hidden, no manipulation. It's just scientists talking about science, and they're talking relatively openly as people in private e-mails generally are freer with their thoughts than they would be in a public forum. The few quotes that are being pulled out [are out] of context. People are using language used in science and interpreting it in a completely different way." Schmidt is a contributor to the Real Climate blog, which has stated that some of the stolen CRU emails "involve people" at Real Climate.A salute to a real hero, Witnesses say reservist was a Fort Hood hero
Three weeks after 13 people were shot and killed at Fort Hood in Texas new details are emerging about an Army Reserve captain who died trying to fight off the gunman before police arrived.
Investigators are still sorting out the actions of Capt. John Gaffaney, 56, a psychiatric nurse. According to varying eyewitness accounts, Gaffaney either picked up a chair and threw it at the gunman or physically rushed him from across the room. Army Maj. Nidal Hasan, a psychiatrist, has been charged with murder.
Army Maj. Gen. Lie-Ping Chang, commander of the reserve force to which Gaffaney belonged, said that two eyewitnesses recounted how the reservist threw a folding chair and “tried to knock (the gunman) down or knock his gun down.” Chang included this account in an essay submitted to USA Today.
Army Reserve Col. Kathy Platoni, a clinical psychologist who served with Gaffaney, said she was told that he rushed Hasan to within inches before being shot several times.
Platoni said she comforted Gaffaney as he lay dying in a building nearby where soldiers brought him after he was mortally wounded, ripping off pieces of their uniform to use as pressure bandages or tourniquets to stem his massive bleeding from multiple wounds.
“I just started talking to him and holding his hand and saying, ‘John, you’re going to be OK. You’re going to be OK. You’ve just got to fight,’” Platoni recalled.
He died shortly after that, she said. “I was still yelling, ‘John, don’t go. John, don’t go.’” Regardless of what actions Gaffaney took, soldiers were able to escape the gunman when Gaffaney confronted him, Chang said. Gaffaney’s widow, Christine, said one female soldier told her that he saved her life.
