Actually, Climategate is not merely about filling in the temperatures that were missing in the record to complete these climate studies. It was filling them in with the “right” numbers and then not being particularly frank about it. GIGO, as they say.
The leaked (hacked?) Climate Research Unit e-mails [...]
Why, you might ask, would anyone want to regulate carbon dioxide, that innocent natural emission you make when you exhale?
Oh, there might be a buck in it.
“Behind the scenes, large financial houses are moving in stealthily. In 2008, carbon trading worldwide reached $126 billion and is projected to grow to [...]
Those who questioned the “science” behind the computer models that global warming alarmists use to whip up panic for new laws, new regulations, new taxes and billions in profit and reparations have tended to be right of center, politically. Climategate is proving bipartisan in the outrage it’s whipping up.
We quote [...]
How long can they get away with costly regulations, taxes, penalties and other Draconian measures using global warming as their excuse? We posed that question earlier today, and we may be getting an answer already.
In an admittedly partisan effort (are there any other kinds these days?) congressional Republicans [...]
Jovan Jackson, owner of a medical marijuana dispensary, was acquitted yesterday of possession of medical marijuana and selling it for profit. He had been ensnared in a sting operation whereby an undercover cop lied to a doctor to get a recommendation, which he then used to get marijuana from [...]
What everybody who has studied the matter even a little knew going into Obama’s speech last night was that he simply had no good options — even stopping military action and beginning troop withdrawal immediately, which I have advocated, would have some possible downsides in the [...]
Things are happening fast as the big pow wow in Copenhagen nears when 192 nations will try to agree how to remove your money from your wallet and degrade your way of life in order to save us from what’s looking more and more like a fictitious threat. [...]
Senator Abel Maldonado told the Fresno Bee Editorial Board that he will seek election for lieutenant governor of California regardless of whether or not his appointment by Governor Schwarzenegger is confirmed by the State Legislature.
That solves that mystery.
I find it particularly interesting that Senator Maldonado is running even though he [...]
Yahoo! released its list of top ten politician Internet search list data yesterday. Topping the list is the President with Sarah Palin as the runner up. And down the list is California’s own Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. Here is the complete list:
Top 10 Searched Politicians for 2009
Barack Obama
Sarah Palin
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…there goes the neighborhood.
All kidding aside, the Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi will be addressing the Orange County Democrats at their Annual Harry Truman award dinner this Friday:
The Democratic Party of Orange County proudly presents
THE 15TH ANNUAL HARRY TRUMAN AWARDS & DINNER
The Airport Hilton Hotel
Crystal Ballroom • 18800 [...]
In this piece — fairly long but interesting throughout — scholar and former member of the US Policy Planning Council for the Middle East (I reviewed his excellent book on Iraq a few years ago), makes the case that if we don’t start withdrawing from Afghanistan we are [...]
Here’s a searchable database of the East Anglia University climate change e-mails, in case anyone’s interested in going to the source.
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[...]According to Yahoo, the Top Ten Searches for 2009 were:
Michael Jackson, The Twilight Saga, World Wrestling, Megan Fox, Britney Spears, Naruto, American Idol, Kim Kardashian, NASCAR and Runescape.
I searched for none of the above and some I had never heard of. If I were a cynical sort I might [...]
Unless Obama surprises us completely tonight — I’ll be staying to listen and to do an edit for tomorrow and maybe a blog post or two — it looks as if we’re going to have almost as much escalation as Afghan ground commander Gen. Stanley McChrystal asked for — [...]
Because Switzerland stays neutral in wars and has somehow managed an accommodation among residents with different national roots — French, Italian, German — through an extremely decentralized system, there’s a tendency to think of it as liberal (in the classic sense) and tolerant. That image has been damaged seriously, [...]
Climategate, aka the Mother of all Global Warming Oops Moments, has generated some of the more pleasing headlines we’ve read in a while. A sampling:
Global Warming E-mails Scandal Show Scientists May Have Cooked the Facts
As the Senate begins fairly serious debate on the health insurance proposal put forward by majority leader Harry Reid today, the forecast is for hundreds of amendments. One possible amendment that hasn’t gotten too much attention is from Christian Science leaders who want an amendment reimbursing Christian Science practitioners who [...]
I’m still holding my options open as to whether the revelations in various e-mails at the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit completely undermine the theory of human-induced climate change. But the more that comes out the worse it looks. The revelation that all kinds of climate data [...]
Well, if you consider the Politico.com site national news. It is national on the Internet and it’s run fairly seriously with a lot of print-experienced reporters. A lot of us political junkies visit it regularly.
Anyway, they built a little puff story out of anticipation as to what marginally [...]
I’m fascinated by all the huffing and puffing over the Virginia couple who crashed Obama’s first state dinner last week. All right, there’s some legitimate concern about somebody who had not been pre-screened getting close enough to the president to shake his hand (horrors! a president shaking an unscreened [...]
One of the most damning of the e-mails to emerge from Climategate has been this one from Phil Jones of the UK’s Climate Research Unit talking about scientific papers he didn’t like (emphasis ours):
“The other paper by MM is just garbage – as you knew. De Freitas again. Pielke [...]
It’s difficult to absorb the wave after wave of revelations and comments on Climategate, but here are a few snippets:
“The case is blown to smithereens and this whole theory should be destroyed and discarded and Copenhagen conference should be closed,” said UK astrophysicist and non-zealot Piers Corbyn, in [...]
It looks like the UCLA Bruin is wearing a little cardinal and gold. There must be a football game this weekend. Darn vandals.
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[...]Steve Greenhut will be guest hosting a radio spot on KFI AM 640 this Sunday night from 7pm-10pm.
This is a chance to call in and rib him a little.
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[...]Israel’s ministry of health has been ordered to complete, within four months, a detailed set of regulations for medical marijuana, with an emphasis on making it genuinely available to patients. They’re still fixated on making sure it isn’t available to “recreational” users, but this is certainly progress — [...]
We don’t want to read too much into this, but what’s the deal with the President. The picture in our paper shows Barack Obama entirely veritcal when he greeted the India Prime Minister.
No bow. What’s up with that? Should Manmohan Singh be offended? What’s Japan and Saudi [...]
Some defenders of the revealed information from the U.K. Climate Research Unit leaked e-mails essentially say, “Oh, you’re taking things out of context,” or “It’s only a little piece of the big picture, which is really still is valid, trust us.”
“Trust us.” You’ve gotta love it. Why would anyone cook [...]
This might not be the most appropriate item for the day before Thanksgiving, but we do well to face facts. Gold hit a new high today of $1,189 an ounce (India bought a bunch), and the dollar hit a 15-month low. Should we be thankful to see evidence that [...]
The Chinese blogger and activist known for his efforts to help victims of the Sichuan earthquake in 2008 has been sentenced to three years in prison this week.
We have become accustom to the Chinese government’s free speech-squelching antics and authoritarian policies and this is another example.
Chinese authorities claim that blogger [...]
Even though Phillip Carter is a former WaPo staffer, this story on him resigning as asst. SecDef for detainee affairs doesn’t even pretend to try to dig for possible deeper reasons for the resignation, contenting itself with the official boilerplate about “personal and family reasons.” Whatever the reason — [...]
Jonah Goldberg at National Review Online makes another point about the unfolding story of the global warming scandal unearthed in those hacked (stolen?) documents. There’s more than e-mail…
“Although the e-mails are open to interpretation, there is also a lot of computer code included that is being waded through. [...]
Sen. Abel Maldonado, rated by the California Republican Assembly as the least Republican-acting state legislator and rated by the Howard Jarvis Taxpayer Association as the worst Republican in the Senate when it comes to taxes, told us a few minutes ago he’s delighted to be selected to be leuitenant governor [...]
Ever wonder why the mainstream press has fawned over and uncritically accepted the global warming scare stories? Since the leak (theft?) of thousands of documents revealing what’s been going on behind closed doors, it’s become clearer what role the press has played.
Jonah Goldberg sums up nicely:
“The elite press [...]
South Carolina Republican Gov. Mark Sanford, he of the Argentine firecracker affair, has now been hit with 37 ethics violation charges, most of them somewhat connected to the way he conducted the affair — misuse of campaign funds, violation of airplane travel rules and the like. These are civil [...]
Global warming true believers have insisted for decades the “science is settled” and great minds have figured out we’re headed to global catastophe based on their best calculations.
Then the internal communications hit the fan with the leak (or theft) of hundreds of documents previously seen only by those great minds [...]
According to this item Lou Dobbs is considering a presidential run, presumably as some kind of Independent, but his wife will make the final call. It seems a curious quest to me. Why do it if you have little or no chance to win — unless he really thinks [...]
It’s been fairly widely reported that moderate Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu of Louisiana got $300 million in increased Medicare benefits, much defined so it will go to Louisianans, as a partial inducement to vote for closure on the Senate health bill Saturday night. Less well known is that a [...]
Tim Cavanaugh at Reason bursts another doomsayers’ myth — that an increase in foreclosures will increase crime and violence. On the surface it seems a reasonable conclusion — empty houses will invite vandalism, maybe even squatting and turning foreclosed houses into heroin “shooting galleries, etc., etc., and as Tim [...]
If this pending socialized health care bill becomes law, or some other version of ObamaCare, what will it mean? The CATO Institute lists just a few of the remifications:
1. Eight of 10 of the most recent major medical innovations (like MRIs and hip replacements) came from the U.S. [...]
Gget a load of these comments in light of the data dump of inside, confidential information from the U.K.’s climate research center at East Anglia:
Charlie Martin at Pajamas Media blog says there are at least three scandals:
First, a real attempt by a small group of scientists to subvert the [...]The redoubtable scholar John McWhorter, bouncing off another killing in the Bronx, calls on Obama to end the drug war in the New Republic, though he suggests 2014, midway into the second term, would be good timing. Much as I would prefer yesterday, he might be shrewd politically. Meantime [...]
James Fallows, an old journalistic hand now living in Tokyo and blogging for the Atlantic, thinks the U.S. media that proclaimed Obama’s recent Asian trip a rank failure because of not getting concrete agreements and concessions from various Asian c0untries got it pretty wrong. Although Fallows is usually worth [...]
No one’s more surprised than we are to find that the New York Times, no less, already has acknowledged the global warming oops of the year:
“Hundreds of private e-mails and documents hacked from a computer server at a British university are causing a stir among global warming skeptics, who [...]
As folks worldwide are pouring over the data broken free from the clutches of those who would keep it secret, we’ve come across a pretty good summary of the data that reveals how global warming alarmists may have cooked the books to make their case (and protect their research grants) [...]
As we noted today, California’s nannies have ordered us no longer to buy and sell TVs they don’t like, even if we do like them and don’t mind paying to run them. Thanks so much Big Brothers, and you know who you are.
Well, despite the fearful likelihood that [...]
Have we heard this before? Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger - the enabler of last January’s historic tax increase - says now he is opposed to tax increases to close the state’s (latest) budget deficit.
Memo to the governor: Where was that conviction a few months ago?
Media SoCal Conservative Orange
Brian Calle, by Alan Bock, Register editorial writer, Mark Landsbaum
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