Friday pictures and a poll: Formula 1 Jenson Button

Be he this year's winner or not, I have been an big fan of Jenson Button . He is everything I like about Formula one: Scruffy good looking, British and underdog.

But so far it is really hard to believe that he can actually win the world title , even though he is safely ahead and there are only 2 races left.



( Pictures of Jenson Button )

What do you think? Who is going to win:
Jenson Button
Rubens Barrichello
Sebastian Vettel?

Climat change: is it the fault of humans? or did it happen before? and will happen again?

Treemometers: A new scientific scandal:

"A scientific scandal is casting a shadow over a number of recent peer-reviewed climate papers.

At least eight papers purporting to reconstruct the historical temperature record times may need to be revisited, with significant implications for contemporary climate studies, the basis of the IPCC's assessments. A number of these involve senior climatologists at the British climate research centre CRU at the University East Anglia. In every case, peer review failed to pick up the errors."

Read the rest here: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/09/29/yamal_scandal/

Responses from public: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/10/16/briffa_yamal_mailbag/

This somewhat reminds me something baleanoptera posted recently. It makes one very uncomfortable to know that some scientists can take 3-12 trees somewhere in Siberia and build whole climate change and global warming researches on it.