Now that President Obama has declare a magnificient victory in Copenhagen after accomplishing none - that’s zero - of the climate summit’s goals, it’s a good time to note the mindset that drives such stuff.
It’s important to remember that statists, such as the Democrats who run the White House and [...]
Not only is the global warming shakedown falling apart in Copenhagen, so too, it seems is the image of Nobel Peace Prize winner, Barack H. Obama.
Vanity Fair, not exactly a nest of right-wing whackos, put it this way: “He came, he saw, he disappointed.”
And not only didn’t the president [...]
The mad rush to impoverish us, roll back civilization to the horse-and-buggy era and grant government-created fortunes to Hugo Chavez, Al Gore and a few other self-anointed global warming elites has run into yet another snag: The Constitution.
This just-in Associated Press news flash (you’d think [...]
“Analysing the temperature trends received from (U.K.) Met stations, it is hard to get rid of the impression that they do not show any noticeable trend to warming in second half of the 20th and beginning of 21st centuries,” says the Moscow-based Institute of Economic Analysis.
Some context, courtesy the [...]
We’re shocked (of course we aren’t) to learn today that global warming “researchers” (read propagandists) cherry-picked temperature data to show temperatures to be higher than actually were in Russia.
Separate reports about the U.K. Met Office from a Russian think tank say so.
U.K. climatologists “probably tampered with Russian-climate data” [...]
We’ve long suspected (actually more than suspected) that the obsession with global warmism is closer to faith than to science. Now comes Tony Blair, former U.K. prime minister, who says that it doesn’t matter whether the science is right.
Blair said the science may not be “as certain as its [...]
Some incredible things have come out of the mouth of Joe Biden, but we never cease to be amazed nonetheless. The latest is his report on his boss’ so-called clean-energy initiative, and how many jobs it will create.
Hold on to your hat. Joe says it will help create more than [...]
Oh that Arnold Schwarzenegger. What a kidder. We’re gonna miss him when he’s gone. Well, maybe not. Appearing in frigid Copenhagen, the governor actually said we don’t have to choose between a clean environment and economic growth. OK, that’s reasonable. But then he delivered the punch line:
“We’ve proved that [...]
We see Steve Poizner chipped in about 15 million bucks out of his own pocket to finance his run for governor. That’s chump change for Steve, one of two reputed billionaires in the race (and the other ain’t Jerry Brown).
Seeing that we’ve got such money bags on the [...]
The public’s about evenly split on which they trust more to manage the state budget: Britney Spears or the state Legislature. So says Wilson Research’s statewide poll.
The question was: “And, who do you think would do a better job handling your family’s budget California legislators or Britney Spears?”
1.    California Legislators  [...]
As we noted earlier today, you won’t find much except the global warmists’ talking points in the Associated Press’ allegedly exhaustive report on Climategate. But you’ll get the best summary yet out of the Daily Mail in the U.K.
The Wall Street Journal’s James Taranto noticed too. Says he in today’s [...]
Reader Don Easterbrook submits this via e-mail on the “warmest decade” which also happens to have declining temperatures. (emphasis ours)
As he says: “The decade of 2000 to 2009 appears to be the warmest one in the modern record, the World Meteorological Organization reported in a new analysis on Tuesday. … [...]
This is the finest summary of Climategate I’ve seen anywhere, so far. It’s here.
The Associated Press should be ashamed of itself. Rather than it’s so-called “comprehensive” report over the weekend which only regurgitated warmists’ talking points, the AP could have done some real reporting like this article in [...]
Has anyone got an answer to some global warming questions?
If the “science is settled,” why do we have to spend another dime, much less hundreds of millions of dollars, researching global warming? Shouldn’t those guys give that money back?
But if more research is needed, how did they know in advance [...]
In Europe, where they have heavily subsidized some companies while effectively taxing and chasing others out of town in the name of saving us from global warming, they also have instituted that darling of the movement, the new carbon market, selling commodities literally made out of thin air.
This is [...]
Remember when Barack Obama said his cap-and-trade program would bankrupt the coal industry? As Gary Bauer points out, America gets half of its electricity from coal.
President Obama’s Energy Secretary Steven Chu wants a European-style gasoline tax, as he told the Wall Street Journal in 2008: “Somehow we have [...]
What’s not to like about the Copenhagen-gate global warming confab? As columnist Deroy Murdock points out, the treaty they are working up merely would require “transfer of technical and financial resources from developed countries (that’s us) to developing countries (that’s folks who didn’t invent the stuff, develop it or [...]
Thanks to yet another “leak” (we suspect whistle-blowers) the world gets a glimpse into what the global warming scare industry really is all about (emphasis ours):
“The UN Copenhagen climate talks are in disarray today after developing countries reacted furiously to leaked documents that show world leaders will next week [...]
Some of the best news we’ve read in a while (on a day of some of the worst news we’ve read in a while.). Some folks have stepped up to thwart that bureaucrat’s dream - Assembly Bill 32, the presumptuously named Global Warming Solutions Act, which promises to [...]
Steve McIntyre has been a pain in the (pick your own part of anatomy) for global warming zealots. McIntyre is the noted global warming debunker who has shot down hockey-stick graphs that distort historic temperature readings that gave the impression we’re about to cook to death.
McIntyre points up [...]
Our global warming quote of the day, courtesy Climategate:
“We have 25 or so years invested in the work. Why should I make the data available to you, when your aim is to try and find something wrong with it.” - Phil Jones, top guy at the U.K. East Anglia Climate [...]
Anthony Watts’ blog has a wonderful piece by a real scientist, Robert Greiner, who is agnostic about global warming but has some pretty harsh words for the global warming advocates who, in his words, “call themselves ’scientists’ (but) work outside of ethics and ignore the truth to fit their pre-conceived [...]
The global warming alarmists continually insist that the “science is settled,” the authorities have spoken and the case is closed. As the Climategate papers reveal, even the alarmists doubted their own data because they couldn’t make it jibe with what they said it should be.
Here’s just a few rather [...]
Professor of environmental studies Roger Pielke Jr. has waged a long battle with the agenda-driven “science” behind global warming alarmism. He has a nice summary that brings us up to date, in light of Climategate:
In early 2005, almost five years ago, I began criticizing the scientists at RealClimate, including Gavin [...]
Remember when someone suggested only the wacky rightists are obsessing about Climategate?
Not so, says Blogger James Delingpole in the U.K. He posts this fascinating ranking:
Climategate is now huge. Way, way bigger than the Mainstream Media (MSM) is admitting it is – as Richard North demonstrates in this fascinating [...]
When know it’s getting serious when the scalps from Climategate aren’t limited to insider global warming elitist scientists who seem to have cooked the books. Two Hollywood types now have called for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to rescind the Al Gore’s gold Oscar statuette that [...]
In the wake of Climategate, that Rasmussen poll that showed 59 percent of Americans say they think the “science” behind global warming hysteria is likely to have been rigged must be considered in context.
Most people haven’t heard of the scandal yet. Imagine once they get wind of the shenanigans.
James [...]
Just the other day someone was saying it’s only those wacky right-wing nuts who are paying attention to Climategate and the unraveling prayer cloth of global warming. Hm. Here’s what Rasmussen says today:
“Americans Skeptical of Science Behind Global Warming”
Golly. And this (emphasis ours):
“Fifty-nine percent (59%) of Americans say [...]
There’s a report that the 2,129 staff members of the California Legislature are paid about $61,728 a year, “which places them in the upper range of private-sector salaries and higher than the state’s average per-capita income.”
If we’re supposed to be miffed these people are paid a tad more than [...]
The governor yesterday tried to stir up fear (again) by predicting horrendous effects from (you guessed it) global warming!
“In 2100, Fisherman’s Wharf would become Fisherman’s Bay, the baseball diamond at AT&T Park would flood and two major Bay Area airports would better serve seaplanes under a climate change model unveiled [...]
Sacramento has led the assault on businesses with its onerous taxes, oppressive regulations and meddlesome “help.” The result? We haven’t seen it summarized any better than this Forbes.com story’s lead:
BURLINGAME, Calif. — A friend of mine who is a successful venture capitalist shared a depressing observation over dinner [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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
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 [...]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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
