Alert: Unimpeachable IPCC is Impervious to Bias

Fun!   From a Guardian article dated this past Sunday:

There is “virtually no possibility” of a few scientists biasing the advice given to governments by the UN’s top global warming body, its chair said today.

Rajendra Pachauri defended the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in the wake of apparent suggestions in emails between climate scientists at the University of East Anglia that they had prevented work they did not agree with from being included in the panel’s fourth assessment report, which was published in 2007.

The emails were made public this month after a hacker illegally obtained them from servers at the university.

Pachauri said the large number of contributors and rigorous peer review mechanism adopted by the IPCC meant that any bias would be rapidly uncovered.

“The processes in the IPCC are so robust, so inclusive, that even if an author or two has a particular bias it is completely unlikely that bias will find its way into the IPCC report,” he said.

Right.  We saw exactly how “inclusive” the University of East Anglia CRU “processes” were.  It doesn’t take much of a stretch of the imagination to believe that the IPCC processes are probably just as “exclusive” as the CRU processes have been.

Circle the wagons, Mr. Pachauri.  Circle the wagons.  I mean, no one on Earth could possibly believe that any sort of bias could sneak its way into the IPCC report, now could they….

Yeah, that’s the man right there–standing next to Al Gore–receiving a Nobel Peace Prize for his totally unbiased work on global warming.

I mean, Pachauri obviously doesn’t have a dog in this particular fight, does he? 

Too Many Dupes to Count

An incredible revelation

I’ve been watching the news unfold about the E-mails and documents that were somehow pilfered (or leaked) from the University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit (CRU) last week.  I have been reading everything that I can find on the internet about the subject, including the E-mails themselves and some of the programmer comments embedded in the CRU software.

I have been stunned.

So it appears that either a) the science behind anthropogenic global warming (AGW) is dubious, or b) the entire global warming panic has been an outright fraud perpetrated by politically-motivated scientists against an unsuspecting, and largely gullible, world population.  I tend to believe the latter.

Not only am I stunned, I’m also livid.  At the same time, however, I’m also relieved that the priests of global warming now have serious reasons to be worried…if not afraid.  And now I hope the Senate will have more reason to look at the pending cap and trade debate with more skepticism.  Given the current–and very real–economic crisis, we don’t need Congress levying additional taxes with the intent of thwarting a crisis that doesn’t even exist.

Nothing sucks more than that moment during an argument when you realize you’re wrong

I am an AGW denier.  I have always been a denier.  I am proud of the fact that I never fell for what, in my mind at least, always came across as being specious bullshit.  I’m so, so grateful that I’m not among the millions and millions of gullible idiots who took the bait hook line and sinker.

Up until now the term “denier” has been used as a pejorative by global warming adherents to describe skeptics.  But now one is led to ask the question: Who exactly are the real deniers?  Those of us who refuse to believe alarmist prognostications of imminent climatic doom, or those who refuse to recognize and consider evidence that sits before their very eyes?  Again I say the latter.  They are the ones in a deep state of denial, after all.  But why?

Because (probably subconsciously) they simply cannot bring themselves to admit that they have been wrong all along…they cannot admit that they have allowed themselves to be duped.  They have been fooled by perhaps the most outrageous con job of all time, and they cannot bear to face up to that single, pitiful, ignominious truth.  They are sheep, pure and simple.

Case in point: Eugene Robinson of the Washington Post:

Stop hyperventilating, all you climate change deniers. The purloined e-mail correspondence published by skeptics last week — portraying some leading climate researchers as petty, vindictive and tremendously eager to make their data fit accepted theories — does not prove that global warming is a fraud.

If I’m wrong, somebody ought to tell the polar ice caps that they’re free to stop melting.

That said, the e-mail episode is more than a major embarrassment for the scientists involved. Most Americans are convinced that climate change is real — a necessary prerequisite for the kinds of huge economic and behavioral adjustments we would have to make to begin seriously limiting carbon emissions. But consensus on the nature and scope of the problem will dissipate, and fast, if experts try to obscure the fact that there’s much about the climate they still don’t know.

[Goes on to outline the UEACRU E-mail hacking scandal in some detail.]

It would be great if this were all a big misunderstanding. But we know carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas, and we know the planet is hotter than it was a century ago. The skeptics might have convinced each other, but so far they haven’t gotten through to the vanishing polar ice.

Yep.  There’s that “denier” word again coming from the mouth of a denier.  It doesn’t get funnier than that.  And you’ve got to love Mr. Robinson’s flippant comment about melting polar ice caps.  This is especially humorous since researchers have shown that the volume of the polar ice caps stabilized in 2007 and has  been expanding ever since.  In his opinion piece, Mr. Robinson also declares that “climate science is fiendishly hard” to study.  Well, no kidding.  But unicorn science is fiendishly hard to study, too…BECAUSE UNICORNS DON’T EXIST ANY MORE THAN ANTHROPOGENIC GLOBAL WARMING DOES!

Yes, it’s problematic to study something that simply isn’t there, isn’t it?

But let’s name a few of the other dupes that got sucked into believing the AGW myth, shall we?

• Barack Obama
• Just about all of the members of the Obama administration (most notably the eco-fascist Carol Browner)
• Gordon Brown
• Tony Blair
• Angela Merkel
• Nicolas Sarkozy
• The European Union
• The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
• Many members of the U.S. House of Representatives
• Many members of the U.S. Senate (to include John McCain)
• ABC
• NBC (see: General Electric)
• CBS
• MSNBC (see: General Electric)
• CNN
• BBC
• PBS
• The New York Times
• The Washington Post
• The San Francisco Chronicle
• The Los Angeles Times
• Too many other U.S. newspapers to count
• Too many U.S. corporations to enumerate

I didn’t mention Al Gore because he’s among the “dupers,” not among the ”dupes.”  He’s just one of the dudes making hundreds of millions of dollars off of the global warming hysteria scam.

Actually, the list of dupes goes on and on and on and I don’t have time to list them all.  But the scariest dupes of all are the ones who are supposed to report the news and keep the public informed (see all of the television networks and newspapers above).  Most of the news sources listed above are being notoriously silent about the ClimateGate scandal.  This in itself is terribly insidious, given the fact that the Obama administration and the Democratic majority in Congress seem intent on foisting a cap and tax scheme on the American people that will greatly damage businesses in the United States and increase energy costs for all.

Yet, the mainstream media, cognizant of its humiliatingly supine complicity in an apparent world-wide con scheme, remains silent.  They are worthless now.  They have been worthless.

And now we hear that President Obama, despite the revelation of the UEACRU E-mail and document disclosure, intends to attend next month’s climate summit in Copenhagen anyway, where he intends to promise that he will commit America to reducing greenhouse gas emissions while at the same time forfeiting transferring billions of American taxpayer dollars to an apparently fraudulent international carbon blackmail tax scheme.

Good luck, Mr. Obama.  We’re watching you.

The American public is watching you.

As an aside, I wonder if Mr. Obama and his family will watch “The Day After Tomorrow” on DVD this weekend.  Maybe it will help build up his courage to travel to Denmark and betray the American people.

Note

Some of the bloggers at the Telegraph have, indeed, been covering the CRU E-mail story.  Here’s Gerald Warner:

At the more domestic level, the proposed ban on incandescent light bulbs, so supinely accepted in this servile state of Britain, is now provoking a huge backlash in America. US citizens do not like the government coming into their houses and putting their lights out. Voters may not understand the cut and thrust of climate debate at the technical level, but they know when the Man from Washington has crossed their threshold uninvited.

The term that Fox News is now applying to the Climategate e-mails is “game-changer”. For the first time, Anthropogenic Global Warming cranks are on the defensive, losing their cool and uttering desperate mantras such as “You can be sceptical, not denial.” Gee, thanks, guys. In fact we shall be whatever we want to be, without asking your permission.

Good to see a Brit taking a position on this travesty.  James Delingpole (from the same paper) has been doing superb work, too (actually, it’s been Delingbore–as some of Delingpoles’s detractors call him–who has done the yeoman’s work on this story at the Telegraph).  Well done, Sir!

Mary Does It for $300 Million

After weeks of coyly saying, “no, no, no,” Senator Mary Landrieu of Louisiana finally succumbed to the advances of an amorous Harry Reid yesterday.  In the end, it seems, Ms. Landrieu wasn’t exactly the shrinking violet she wanted us to believe she was:

On the eve of Saturday’s showdown in the Senate over health-care reform, Democratic leaders still hadn’t secured the support of Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.), one of the 60 votes needed to keep the legislation alive. The wavering lawmaker was offered a sweetener: at least $100 million in extra federal money for her home state.

And so it came to pass that Landrieu walked onto the Senate floor mid-afternoon Saturday to announce her aye vote — and to trumpet the financial “fix” she had arranged for Louisiana. “I am not going to be defensive,” she declared. “And it’s not a $100 million fix. It’s a $300 million fix.“

It was an awkward moment (not least because her figure is 20 times the original Louisiana Purchase price). But it was fairly representative of a Senate debate that seems to be scripted in the Southern Gothic style. The plot was gripping — the bill survived Saturday’s procedural test without a single vote to spare — and it brought out the rank partisanship, the self-absorption and all the other pathologies of modern politics. If that wasn’t enough of a Tennessee Williams story line, the debate even had, playing the lead role, a Southerner named Blanche with a flair for the dramatic.  [Emphasis added.]

Keep reading the article and you’ll discover that Landrieu wasn’t the only Southern belle who betrayed her convictions, if not her morals, for a price yesterday.  There’s a certain Blanche Dubois Lincoln of Arkansas who sold out, too.

At first blush, this series of events is comical.  But it’s really not funny when you consider that the $300 million price tag for Landrieu’s soul will be paid for with taxpayer money.

There’s a word that aptly describes disreputable behavior of the sort practiced by Landrieu yesterday, but….

Mary Landrieu and Blanche Lincoln could have put this health care reform nightmare to bed for good with “nay” votes yesterday.  Instead they chose to enrich themselves.  Their treacherous actions will be long remembered—in their own states and in the nation as a whole.

Landrieu and Lincoln would be quick to remind us that yesterday’s vote was merely for cloture–that the Senate must now move on to actually debating the bill itself.  But that only makes me wonder how much money Harry Reid will have to pay for their services when it comes to the vote that really counts?

Arizona Cardinals Week 11

So this week the 6-3 Cards play the 1-8 Rams in St. Louis.  The outcome might sound like a foregone conclusion, but the Rams put up a good fight against the unbeaten New Orleans Saints last week, losing by only a 5-point margin.

Once again I think the outcome will depend on which of the Cardinals teams show up: the winners or the slackers.  You never know from week to week which one will show up.

Here’s an interesting fact from AZCentral.com:

Quarterback Kurt Warner has been with the Cardinals long enough that it no longer feels strange for him to play in St. Louis in something other than a Rams’ uniform.

Sunday will be Warner’s fifth trip to St. Louis since joining the Cardinals in 2005. He’s already played in more regular-season games with Arizona (55) than he did in six years with the Rams (53).

I didn’t know that.  Says Warner:

[I]‘ve been entrenched here with the Cardinals so long that I definitely consider myself a Cardinal….

Well, one would hope so.

Here’s another funky fact.  In the NFL league standings, the Cards are bunched up in a group of six teams who are all tied with 6-3 records:

1. Arizona Cardinals
2. Dallas Cowboys
3. Denver Broncos
4. New England Patriots
5. Pittsburgh Steelers
6. San Diego Chargers

You don’t often see the Arizona Cardinals listed among a group of teams of that caliber.  Seems like an odd grouping.  Kind of makes a guy feel better about an otherwise lackluster win/loss record.

Just sayin’.

The Cardinals are still on top of the NFC Wimp West Division with a two-game lead over the San Francisco 49ers (4-5).  San Francisco is playing Green Bay (5-4) this week, so if the Cards win and the 49ers lose (a possibility on both accounts), we could open a three-game lead in the NFC Wimp West.  Wins are a must for the Cards right now, because we have the distinct burden of playing Brett Favre and the Minnesota Vikings (8-1) at home in a couple of weeks.  We need all the wins we can get!

Go Cards!

Yesterday: Obama Administration Wins The Trifecta

It was a stellar day for the Obama administration yesterday.  Matt Drudge chronicled the trifecta:

Third place finisher: Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board caught lying fudging.

Here’s a stimulus success story: In Arizona’s 15th congressional district, 30 jobs have been saved or created with just $761,420 in federal stimulus spending. At least that’s what the Web site set up by the Obama administration to track the $787 billion stimulus says.

There’s one problem, though: There is no 15th congressional district in Arizona; the state has only eight districts.

And ABC News has found many more entries for projects like this in places that are incorrectly identified.

Late Monday, officials with the Recovery Board created to track the stimulus spending, said the mistakes in crediting nonexistent congressional districts were caused by human error.

“We report what the recipients submit to us,” said Ed Pound, Communications Director for the Board.  [Emphasis added.]

Bad, bad recipients! How could you trick the administration like that?

Makes a guy wonder if anyone is bothering to check the facts lies at the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board before they post them on Recovery.gov.

Second place finisher: German global warming zombie goes off on The One.  Traitor!

 U.S. President Barack Obama came to office promising hope and change.  But on climate change, he has followed in the footsteps of his predecessor, George W. Bush.  Now, should the climate summit in Copenhagen fail, the blame will lie squarely with Obama.

[...]

Obama lied to the Europeans.  [Emphasis added.]

Excellent.  You really should go read the whole thing.  This eco-Nazi is having a serious tantrum!  Whatever happened to that Euro-trash unconditional love for the Dear Leader?  I particularly enjoyed the part where this bonehead defined climate change as being “the single most important issue for an American president who likes to imagine himself as a world citizen.”

I almost blew chunks when I read that one.

And in first place: China, of all places, looks askance at Obama administration plans to socialize medicine.

Guess what? It turns out the Chinese are kind of curious about how President Barack Obama’s healthcare reform plans would impact America’s huge fiscal deficit. Government officials are using his Asian trip as an opportunity to ask the White House questions. Detailed questions.

Boilerplate assurances that America won’t default on its debt or inflate the shortfall away are apparently not cutting it. Nor should they, when one owns nearly $2 trillion in assets denominated in the currency of a country about to double its national debt over the next decade.

Nothing happening in Washington today should give Beijing any comfort or confidence about what may happen tomorrow. Healthcare reform was originally promoted as a way to “bend the curve” on escalating entitlement costs, the major part of which is financing Medicare and Medicaid. That is looking more and more like an overpromised deliverable.  [Emphasis added.]

It warms my heart when Obama and his minions have a bad day like that.

Oh, I forgot to mention that His Highness was sitting at -12 on the Rasmussen Daily Presidential Tracking Poll yesterday, as well.

I love it when a plan doesn’t come together.

Anthropogenic Global Fail

For now at least.  And wasn’t it just a year ago that our vaunted leader warned that “he has no intention of softening his goals for reducing emissions, even amidst the global economic downturn”?  How exactly did he put it way back then?  Ah, I remember (but only with the help of Matt Drudge):

Delay is no longer an option. Denial is no longer an acceptable response.

Yeah, that’s the quote I was looking for.  Grave and ominous words, were those!  But who, exactly, was in denial?

Here’s an excerpt from Robert Burns’ poem “To a Mouse”, Mr. Obama:

But Mousie, thou art no thy lane,
In proving foresight may be vain:
The best laid schemes o’ mice an’ men
Gang aft agley,
An’ lea’e us nought but grief an’ pain,
For promis’d joy!

Well, Barack!  Maybe no worldwide global warming treaty this year.  Maybe not in Copenhagen.  But there will be other times…other silly places.

In the meantime rest easy in the knowledge that there are millions of other Chicken Littles on this Earth who are as hysterical as you.  You have my permission to commiserate with them.

The sky is falling, after all.

Arizona Cardinals Week 10

Update: It wasn’t pretty, but they won!

Ugh.  Last year the Cards practically couldn’t lose at home.  This year they can’t win at home.

Strangely, they’re perfect on the road this year.  This, of course, is totally out of character for Kurt Warner and the Cards.

From AZCentral.com:

Now that the Cardinals have fattened up on the road with four consecutive victories away from home, their coach has three little words he wants drilled into his players’ heads:

Protect the nest.

Arizona was 12-4 at University of Phoenix Stadium in Ken Whisenhunt’s first two seasons here. This year, the Cardinals are just 1-3 at home and, despite owning a two-game lead atop the NFC West, that simply is not good enough.

“After two and half years of being here and just getting killed for not being any good on the road, it’s certainly nice to play better on the road,” Whisenhunt said Monday, a day after the Cardinals throttled the Bears 41-21 in Chicago.

“But now we’ve got to play better at home. If we can do that, maybe we’re on to something.”

In going 4-0 on the road – not accomplished by a Cardinals team since 1982 – Arizona has outscored its opponents 123-58. At home, the Cardinals have been outscored 106-69.

Outscored 106-69 at home!  Crap.  That pretty much says it all.

I feel that sense of impending doom coming on again.  San Francisco gained a game on the Cards last Thursday night by beating Chicago (so that 2-game lead mentioned in the AZCentral.com article above no longer stands).  The Cards are 5-3 and the 49ers are 4-5.  If we can reverse our home losing streak and beat the Seahawks today, we can get that 2-game lead back in the NFC West.

But I ain’t holding my breath….

Our Humble President

A Barack Obama quote from The New Yorker via Jeff Jacoby of the Boston Globe:

I think that I’m a better speechwriter than my speechwriters. I know more about policies on any particular issue than my policy directors. And I’ll tell you right now that I’m gonna think I’m a better political director than my political director.

His own words from early 2007.

God!  It feels so good to have a self-effacing president for once….

We Hold These Truths….

From Wikipedia:

The quotation “All men are created equal” is arguably the best-known phrase in any of America’s political documents. Thomas Jefferson first used the phrase in the Declaration of Independence as a rebuttal to the going political theory of the day: the Divine Right of Kings. It was thereafter quoted or incorporated into speeches by a wide array of substantial figures in American political and social life.

The emphasis was added by me.

But I guess now days the famous phrase should be amended to “All men are created equal, unless they are a King.”  A case in point:

Yep, that’s Barack Obama bowing to Emperor Akihito of Japan.

Another case in point:

Yep, that’s Obama bowing to King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud of Saudi Arabia.

Doesn’t  Obama’s apparent propensity to prostrate himself before monarchs go a long way toward obviating the original meaning of the most quintessential of American sentiments—that all men are created equal?

Here’s a fun bit from that bastion of conservative journalism, the LA Times:

How low will the new American president go for the world’s royalty?

This photo will get Democrat President Obama a lot of approving nods in Japan this weekend, especially among the older generation of Japanese who still pay attention to the royal family living in its downtown castle. Very low bows like this are a sign of great respect and deference to a superior.

To some in the United States, however, an upright handshake might have looked better.

Indeed, how low will he go?  To the extent that the LA Times is poking fun at him, I guess he’ll go pretty low.

I know, I know!  One might argue that he didn’t kowtow like that to Queen Elizabeth.  But then he seems to have a deep-seated loathing for the British.  Or could it be that he’s a royalty-worshipping misogynist?

Regardless.  It’s downright unseemly for an American president to bow to any foreign leader, particularly a king or queen.  It goes against everything this country stands for.

Bush, Cheney To Stand Trial In New York

Oh, there’s also that tangential bit about five terrorists (including self-proclaimed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed) facing trial in New York City, as well.

As part of his announcement that he would move the terrorists from Guantanamo Bay to New York for trial, Attorney General Eric Holder said, “I would not have authorized the prosecution of these cases unless I was confident that our outcome would be a successful one.”

But a trial by military tribunal would have been successful, too–the outcomes would have been the same.  So why is Holder so intent on dragging out the process for (potentially) years and adding millions and millions of dollars in unnecessary court costs?  What would be the difference in the two venues?

You guessed it.  If the terrorists had been tried by military tribunal, the supposed “crimes” of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney would never be publically aired.  And that would be intolerable to the ACLU.  But mostly it would be intolerable to Barack Obama and Eric Holder who feel beholden to a far left Democratic base who have been frothing at the mouth in their demands to humiliate–and “take revenge”–on Bush and Cheney.  So Obama and Holder felt compelled to succumb to their demands. 

Holder announced their intentions yesterday, but not before giving his boss a chance to escape to Japan where he could keep his head down as the initial, and inevitable, firestorm erupted.

It just goes to show what a vengeful, childish, churlish and sophomoric bunch this current administration is…and what a chickenshit our Coward in Chief is.  It makes me sick.

I can’t wait to see what the inevitable public opinion polls will reveal about this abortion.