Fraser Institute uncovers yet another worldwide conspiracy?

cite as: F. Bi. 2009. Fraser Institute uncovers yet another worldwide conspiracy? Intl. J. Inact., 2:64–66

Via DeSmogBlog (sort of): the Fraser Institute recently put up a YouTube video promoting global warming inaction — probably aimed at teenagers, with snazzy music and all. Some highlights:

1′ 19″: “The climate changes naturally. Always has… always will.” Oh no, not this again. As I’ve said elsewhere, it’s like arguing thus:

“Your Honour, the evidence clearly shows that the defendant is guilty of murder.”

“But, Your Honour, people die naturally all the time.”

1′ 39″: Captions: “Ft. Yukon, Alaska — 100°F — 27 June, 1915”; “Antarctica — 59°F — 5 January, 1974”; “Midale, Sask. — 113°F — 5 April, 1937”; etc. When the dates and locations are all over the place, one has to wonder: what’s the sense in throwing out all these statistics?

But the best part of the video has to be… this:

You are in a little maze of twisting think-tanks, all different

cite as: F. Bi. You are in a little maze of twisting think-tanks, all different. Intl. J. Inact., 1:166–167

I’m now convinced that the walls of the Internet maze of free-market think-tanks are wrought with magic, because they’re starting to look like Escher’s paintings of impossible constructions. Consider these:

• Doing a reverse lookup of the IP address 198.161.91.113 yields the canonical domain name secure.acton.org. However, doing a forward lookup on secure.acton.org yields a different IP — 198.161.91.164.
• 198.161.91.138 resolves to mail.fcpp.org, which in turn resolves to 64.201.170.131.
• 198.161.91.202 resolves to www.fraserinstitute.ca, the name of the Fraser Institute web site. This name resolves to 64.40.117.99.
• 198.161.91.203 resolves to www.childrenfirstgrants.ca, which resolves to 198.161.90.18 (Nexus Tennessiæ).

Now, 198.161.91.202 and 198.161.91.203 don’t seem to have anything. However, the web page http://198.161.91.113/ gives something interesting: