Y2Kyoto: I’ll Miss The Polar Bears

Climate Cult 37 Comments

When did they learn to do this!

The study, published Tuesday in the Canadian Journal of Zoology, tracked 52 female polar bears in the southern Beaufort Sea off Alaska. Between 2004 and 2009, a period of extreme summer-ice retreat, about a third of those bears made swims exceeding 48 kilometres in distance, according to the study results.
The 50 recorded ultra-marathon swims averaged 155 kilometres, and one bear was able to swim nearly 354 kilometres, according to the study results. The duration of the long-distance swims lasted from most of a day to nearly 10 days.

I blame the overcrowding.
h/t Mike

The Tyranny of Cliches

The "W" Word 49 Comments

Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
Rich Lowry, April 6th – Needless to say, no one at National Review shares Derb’s appalling view of what parents supposedly should tell their kids about blacks in this instantly notorious piece here.
Virginian-Pilot, May 1st – “Church and Brambleton. Church and Brambleton. Church and Brambleton.”
(Editors Note – the top quote was originally attributed to the wrong author. Post has been corrected.)

Y2Kyoto: The Final Solution

Baiting The Left 33 Comments

All programs of the left follow the same trajectory;

Sterilisation has been mired in controversy for years. With officials and doctors paid a bonus for every operation, poor and little-educated men and women in rural areas are routinely rounded up and sterilised without having a chance to object. Activists say some are told they are going to health camps for operations that will improve their general wellbeing and only discover the truth after going under the knife.
Court documents filed in India earlier this month claim that many victims have been left in pain, with little or no aftercare. Across the country, there have been numerous reports of deaths and of pregnant women suffering miscarriages after being selected for sterilisation without being warned that they would lose their unborn babies.
Yet a working paper published by the UK’s Department for International Development in 2010 cited the need to fight climate change as one of the key reasons for pressing ahead with such programmes. The document argued that reducing population numbers would cut greenhouse gases, although it warned that there were “complex human rights and ethical issues” involved in forced population control.

All of them.
h/t Bemused

A Return To None Of Your Business As Usual

Vast Right Wing Conspiracy 28 Comments

Oh, the humanity!

Fiscal restraint is rippling through Canada’s national statistical agency, prompting it to start slicing surveys and warn staff of cost cuts and impending layoffs in what it calls a “year of sacrifice” at the organization.
Not only is Statistics Canada facing reductions from the federal budget of about 8 per cent, it is also grappling with an “unprecedented” drop in revenue from other government departments that fund surveys, its chief statistician says.

h/t Maz2

We Don’t Need No Stinking French Fry Grease

Alternative Subsidy 17 Comments

G&M;

Royal Dutch Shell PLC RDS.B-N and Iogen Corp. have killed a plan to build a next-generation biofuel plant in Canada, and the Ottawa-based technology company is laying off 150 people.

Imagine that, in a country floating on conventional? But not all is lost – where there’s government mandate, there’s hope!

In a release Monday, the two partners said they will continue with a smaller-scale research project to development cellulosic ethanol from agricultural waste.

h/t Maz2

Scratch a Leftist

Baiting The Left 27 Comments

Find an anti-Semite; (link fixed!)

Johan Galtung, Norwegian sociologist nicknamed the “father of peace studies,” made anti-Semitic and anti-Israeli remarks while lecturing at the University of Oslo, in an article published afterward in the Norwegian press and in an interview with Haaretz that followed.
Among other statements, Galtung claimed that a possible connection exists between the terrorist responsible for the massacre of children in Norway last summer, and the Mossad. “The Jews control U.S. media, and divert for the sake of Israel,” wrote Galtung in an article published in Norway.

Related.
h/t EBD

Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!

Political Animal 28 Comments

Super Smart Left Wing Academic – Right-wingers are less intelligent than left wingers, says study
Super Duper Smart Left Wing Academic – “Once all the writing competition submissions have been graded, these scores, as well as the law school transcripts of all those who have chosen to release the, are submitted to a Selection Committee made up of the President ad two other Review editors who have been elected by their fellow editors.”
h/t FFoF

“My views, I suspect, differ from beginning to end.”

What He Said 50 Comments

From Robert Wenzel’s ‘David’ speech.

Please allow me to begin with methodology, I hold the view developed by such great economic thinkers as Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich Hayek and Murray Rothbard that there are no constants in the science of economics similar to those in the physical sciences.
In the science of physics, we know that water freezes at 32 degrees. We can predict with immense accuracy exactly how far a rocket ship will travel filled with 500 gallons of fuel. There is preciseness because there are constants, which do not change and upon which equations can be constructed.
There are no such constants in the field of economics since the science of economics deals with human action, which can change at any time. If potato prices remain the same for 10 weeks, it does not mean they will be the same the following day. I defy anyone in this room to provide me with a constant in the field of economics that has the same unchanging constancy that exists in the fields of physics or chemistry.
And yet, in paper after paper here at the Federal Reserve, I see equations built as though constants do exist.

(h/t Me No Dhimmi)

Is There Nothing That Obama Can’t Do?

2012 48 Comments

The Rise of the President’s Permanent Campaign.

Barack Obama has already held more re-election fundraising events than every elected president since Richard Nixon combined, according to figures to be published in a new book.
Obama is also the only president in the past 35 years to visit every electoral battleground state in his first year of office.
[…]
Doherty, who has compiled statistics about presidential travel and fundraising going back to President Jimmy Carter in 1977, found that Obama had held 104 fundraisers by March 6th this year, compared to 94 held by Presidents Carter, Ronald Reagan, George Bush Snr, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush combined.
Since then, Obama has held another 20 fundraisers, bringing his total to 124. Carter held four re-election fundraisers in the 1980 campaign, Reagan zero in 1984, Bush Snr 19 in 1992, Clinton 14 in 1996 and Bush Jnr 57 in 2004.

h/t Maz2

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