The Sound Of Settled Science

Climate Cult 76 Comments

As I was saying, how much colder would you like it to be?

“Global warming will stop until at least 2015 because of natural variations in the climate, scientists have said. Researchers studying long-term changes in sea temperatures said they now expect a “lull” for up to a decade while natural variations in climate cancel out the increases caused by man-made greenhouse gas emissions. The average temperature of the sea around Europe and North America is expected to cool slightly over the decade while the tropical Pacific remains unchanged. This would mean that the 0.3°C global average temperature rise which has been predicted for the next decade by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change may not happen, according to the paper published in the scientific journal Nature.”

A raindrop does not fall in this country without our news media invoking global warming. So how does this profession so keenly atuned to every huff and puff of climate science miss a peer reviewed study that calls it off?

Because You Can’t Say “Useless Tits” In The Newspaper

The Tolerant Left 106 Comments

“The StarPhoenix used ‘Mother-In’ in the headline’!”

About 70 mothers and children attended the event, prompted by a blog post in which NewsTalk 650 producer Tammy Robert commented on a politician’s choice to breastfeed during a press conference. Her entry, entitled Children and the Places They Don’t Belong, created lots of debate after it was posted last week. In it, she criticized Saskatchewan Green party Leader Amber Jones’s decision to include her six-month-old daughter in a media event.

The tolerant left strikes again. In response to Tammy Roberts’ criticism that a baby has no place as a political prop, 35 women arrived with 35 props to protest on her employers’ doorstep.
“I am mammal, hear me roar”.
What else can you say about a woman who would show up for a breast feeding solidarity march, other than that life must be pretty damned dismal if you have to resort to digging about inside your bra to find a sense of importance.

Y2Kyoto: Green On Green

Climate Cult 40 Comments

A proposed Scottish wind farm bites the dust;

The Lewis wind farm – rejected by the Scottish Executive earlier this week – is merely the latest example. The Scotsman reported that “environmental agencies welcomed the news” of the massive wind power project’s demise, thanks to concerns about impacts on rare peat bog and birdlife habitat. Yet according to the developers Lewis Wind Power – a coalition of AMEC and British Energy – the wind farm would have made a substantial contribution to reducing Britain’s greenhouse gas emissions, wiping out a quarter of a million tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions every year. With climate change at the top of the list of political priorities, most now agree that Britain desperately needs to expand its renewables sector. How this can be done without major negative impacts on wildlife and landscape remains one of today’s toughest challenges.
Wildlife groups such as the RSPB have a particularly difficult task in deciding where they stand. The Lewis wind farm’s impact on the landscape would have been substantial – with 181 turbines each standing 140 metres tall, erected on massive concrete bases drilled into the fragile peat surface and connected by dozens of miles of new stone roads, this was unavoidable. And while the developers insisted that strenuous efforts would be made to mitigate the effect on birds, including not putting turbines in areas important to rare species such as merlins and golden eagles, the RSPB objected strongly to the proposal.
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The Lewis project, although supported by the Western Isles Council, received 11,000 objections from members of the public, with only 100 comments in favour.

Got to hand it to those environmentalists – they have the media well trained. A few hundred ducks expire in a Syncrude tailings pond and it’s international news. The tens of thousands sliced and diced each year (in the US alone) by wind generators? Not so much.
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Subscription Of Submission?

Religion Of Submission 96 Comments

Deborah Gyapong;

What if Maclean’s Magazine caves today and decides to accept an offer to “settle” made on behalf of three of the Muslim law students who are not actually parties to the complaints?

Update a first person report, and a first rate rant;

“We’re here because of a goddam ADJECTIVE now?” I “asked” RightGirl, beside me.
My outburst caught the attention of one of the female law students on the dias, and we engaged in a evil eye staring match for the next 15 minutes. Heh. Made ‘er blink.

More reaction now up.
And at the National Post. This sounds reassuring; “Maclean’s did not respond to the proposal yesterday, except to say it will be addressed by the editors in a future issue.”

Top 100 Public Intellectuals

Baiting The Left 75 Comments

A reader emails;

Foreign Policy is having a poll of the top 100 intellectuals. The vast majority of the names that I recognized in their top 100 list are lefties. However there is a provision for writing in a candidate. The criteria is: “Although the men and women on this list are some of the world’s most sophisticated thinkers, the criteria to make the list could not be more simple. Candidates must be living and still active in public life. They must have shown distinction in their particular field as well as an ability to influence wider debate, often far beyond the borders of their own country.”
Under this criteria, I chose to write-in Mark Steyn, Canada, Author.

If ever there was a poll to go horribly wrong… here’s the link; http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=4262

Seven Year American Recession Watch Remains On High Alert

stuff 17 Comments

If you can endure the “bruised”, “hunkered down” reporting of the Associated Press’s Jeannine Aversa for a few graphs, you’ll get to the meat of the thing: US economy grows 0.6%.

“The economy is weak but not collapsing,” said Lynn Reaser, chief economist at Bank of America’s Investment Strategies Group. “A recession can’t be ruled out, although the stars are not lined up at this point to definitively say one way or the other.”
On Wall Street, investors found comfort that the GDP figure was a bit better than expected. The Dow Jones industrials were up more than 100 points in morning trading.

They’ll be kicking wastebaskets around in Democratic campaign offices this morning. Oh well, give the media a few more weeks to work their magic…

The Sound Of Settled Science

Climate Cult 61 Comments

Again*, you global warmists: how much colder would you like it to be?”

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La Nina and Pacific Decadal Oscillation Cool the Pacific
The cool water anomaly in the center of the image shows the lingering effect of the year-old La Niña. However, the much broader area of cooler-than-average water off the coast of North America from Alaska (top center) to the equator is a classic feature of the cool phase of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO).

Anthony explains – “If we are lucky, this PDO will be a short event. 2-4 years. If we are unlucky its the full monty phase switch, at 20-30 years.”
More at that well-known denialist website known as NASA.

The shift in the PDO can have significant implications for global climate, affecting Pacific and Atlantic hurricane activity, droughts and flooding around the Pacific basin, the productivity of marine ecosystems, and global land temperature patterns. “This multi-year Pacific Decadal Oscillation ‘cool’ trend can intensify La Niña or diminish El Niño impacts around the Pacific basin,” said Bill Patzert, an oceanographer and climatologist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. “The persistence of this large-scale pattern [in 2008] tells us there is much more than an isolated La Niña occurring in the Pacific Ocean.

“They are just in total chaos, folks.”

Vast Right Wing Conspiracy 36 Comments

Snerdley came in today after seeing Jeremiah Wright. He said, “You realize she’s going to get the nomination, you realize this, don’t you?” And I said, “That’s not in stone yet.” “She is going to get the nomination, and you are going to get the blame because of Operation Chaos.” And I’ve had some other friends say it, because people want the Clinton dragon slain. They just want it out of there. Operation Chaos has many, many battle plans; many, many options. We have foreseen all potentialities, if I may use that word. We have a battle plan if Hillary gets the nomination. We have a battle plan if Obama succeeds and pulls this off.

More…“It seems the website of Barbara Reynolds (the Clinton supporter who arranged Wright’s torpedoing of Obama) has been emptied of all content? What kind of site shuts down when it gets its national attention? Clearly one with something to hide.”
Update – Rush calls an operational pause…

Thank You, CIC

The Tolerant Left 59 Comments

ISLAMIC CONGRESS AND LAW STUDENTS TO MAKE PUBLIC SETTLEMENT OFFER TO MACLEAN’S ON HUMAN RIGHTS COMPLAINTS
Jonathan Kay;

Come to think of it, it’s fair to say that the Maclean’s imbroglio has been one of the biggest shots in the arm to Canadian conservatives in general. It’s turned red-meat right-winger Ezra Levant into a star blogger and a free-speech hero with brand-name recognition in the United States, turned Steyn’s name into a household word, created a debate within the Jewish community over its traditionally doctrinaire support for blanket hate-speech laws (Ezra for CJC president, anyone?), shone a light on the amateurish shenanigans of Canada’s human rights commissions, driven a powerful movement for reform of said commissions, and generally served to marginalize the pro-censorship lobby to the point that its main defender is now a disgruntled former journalist who fills his blog with unhinged conspiracy theories about how everyone who favours free speech is a racist.

More – there’s a big round up of reaction at Shaidle’s place.

“I hope [Steyn] takes the letter, crumbles it up, and dips it in a cup of ketchup and then eats it right there on stage in front of them. Oh God, hear my prayer, please let this happen.”

“I can no more disown him…”

Uncategorized 64 Comments

“… than I can my white grandmother*.”

Speaking before an audience that included Marion Barry, Cornel West, Malik Zulu Shabazz of the New Black Panther Party and Nation of Islam official Jamil Muhammad, Wright praised Louis Farrakhan, defended the view that Zionism is racism, accused the United States of terrorism, repeated his view that the government created the AIDS virus to cause the genocide of racial minorities, stood by other past remarks (“God damn America”) and held himself out as a spokesman for the black church in America.
In front of 30 television cameras, Wright’s audience cheered him on as the minister mocked the media and, at one point, did a little victory dance on the podium. It seemed as if Wright, jokingly offering himself as Obama’s vice president, was actually trying to doom Obama; a member of the head table, American Urban Radio’s April Ryan, confirmed that Wright’s security was provided by bodyguards from Farrakhan’s Nation of Islam.

A roundup of reaction.

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