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In an earlier post, immediately following the earthquake, I stated that "the chips are down, now we will see which countries come through and which do not." Now we have our answers:
Raw footage:
A whack job conspiracy theorist and a blame America firster. Here are a few of his nutty ideas on videotape, right out of his mouth:
"There’s been a coup, have you heard? It’s the CIA coup. The CIA runs everything, they run the military. They’re the ones who are over there lobbing missiles and bombs on countries. … And of course the CIA is every bit as secretive as the Federal Reserve. … And yet think of the harm they have done since they were established after World War II. They are a government unto themselves. They’re in businesses, in drug businesses, they take out dictators … We need to take out the CIA."
It's like two insane people arguing over who's crazier:
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This is pretty much what Dem campaign headquarters looked like late last night:Usually I am far more inclined to watch Fox News. My disdain for CNN goes back decades and will I never forgive them for their awful and biased US politics and Middle East coverage during the 80's and 90's. But in the last year or so, they have begun to make a real effort at straight reporting. Their reporting from Haiti is nothing short of heroic. I never thought I could say something like this: Bravo CNN.
The snotty comment from that Doctor who said "makes me almost ashamed to be an American" is completely out of line. No country is doing more right now than the US, with a huge hospital ship on the way and thousands of troops to maintain order. Other than that, it's a fascinating piece.
UPDATE: Bill Clinton responds to slow response charge, from the above report and reacts to the speed of Israeli field hospital. In this case Clinton is absolutely correct. The US is carrying the heavy load here by far, and there is no place for this type of finger-pointing.
Israeli field hospital commander motivates his troops in Haiti. Operating the largest and most sophisticated hospital in the region at the most critical moment. The worst cases are sent to this hospital:
From that bastion of right-wing hysteria, Al-Arabia, comes this report from Saudi Arabia. These reports are almost a daily occurrence in Saudi Arabia and much of the Arab world. Most of these types of marriages go un-noticed and happen every day.
From the eyes of your typical Israel-hater: Zionist oppressors disturbing the comfortable rest of a Haiti civilian.
The IDF has sent one of the largest medical and rescue operations of any country, to Haiti. Will work under coordinated US command. Multiple rescues in progress. Still waiting for that medical-rescue unit from Saudi Arabia. Lets hope some Arab countries can be embarrassed into doing something.
UPDATE: Great piece on CNN covering IDF field hospital.
The chips are down, let's see which countries talk the talk, and which countries walk the walk, when it comes to rescue and medical aid.
UPDATE: So far, the number of rescue teams or medical assistence pledged from Muslim countries? ZERO.
Great op-ed in the New York Times today by David Brooks. I disagree with a few minor points, but it is a strong piece. It's interesting how most people don't have the slightest clue that every time they use a cell phone or turn on their computers, they are using some form of Israeli-originated technology. Even the hate-Israel/pro-terrorist, boycott crowd, don't realize how the world has passed them by as they bitch and moan, and fantasize about how Jews drink the blood of Palestinian children.
A small example of thousands of inovations pouring out of Israel as we speak:
No smoke-filled back room deals with shady union bosses and machine politics. Just regular folks determined to beat the machine:
Well, 12 is better than zero, and I certainly respect and support those who showed up. But still, the rally was well publicized in advance, and the 'wonderful' Detroit area does have the largest Muslim population in the county. They could only muster 12 people to show up to protest terrorism coming from their own community. The now it turns out that the small group are the subject of death threats. Wow!
All the Western idiots who rushed to Dubai, are discovering a few thing. First, be careful not to default on your mortgage, because there is debtors prison in Dubai. And be careful who you have sex with, because if you have a relationship and are unmarried, or engage in an extra marital fling. expect to go to prison.
Reid: "Obama is light skinned, with no Negro dialect, unless he wants to have one." Now, if anyone other than a racist liberal would have said such a thing, they would have been run out of town faster than you can say 'Trent Lott'. But in the Democrat Party, even ex-Grand Wizards of the Klu-Klux-Clan are warmly welcomed (Robert Byrd anyone?).
Within hours, President Obama rushed to "forgive" the wayward Senate Majority Leader from his own party. Of course, back in 2002, Senator Obama was not so forgiving: "The Republican Party itself has to drive out Trent Lott. If they have to stand for something, they have to stand up and say this is not the person we want representing our party." Hmmmm.
But we are just getting warmed up. The same book that exposed the Reid quote, also has this little doozie from Bill Clinton:
Hillary bungled Caroline, Bill’s handling of Ted was even worse. The day after Iowa, he phoned Kennedy and pressed for an endorsement, making the case for his wife. But Bill then went on, belittling Obama in a manner that deeply offended Kennedy. Recounting the conversation later to a friend, Teddy fumed that Clinton had said, A few years ago, this guy would have been getting us coffee.Well, the Democrat Party was the party of Slavery and Jim Crow.
Beccause that's what we do:
Well, we knew this was comming. Of course, the biggest suckers in this story are my fellow American Jews who voted this guy in. What exactly did they expect from a guy who sat in the Reverend Wright's churce for twenty years.
According to American law, Mitchell said, the US can freeze its support for aid to Israel. He added that all options must remain open and that the sides must be convinced about what their important interests are.
Too bad he didn't see through this President earlier when it might have counted.
Here is the result:
In la la land, It's raciest to point out that a racist radical Muslim, who shouts "kill the Jews" and "go back to Africa", should have been profiled. Schlussel has the details.
Israel's water crisis is expected to be effectively over in the next few years, as more water will be pumped from the Mediterranean, than from the Sea of Galilee (Lake Kinnert). It's an extraordinary achievement which will return the Sea of Galilee to its natural level, increase Israel's water security and reduce water-related tensions in the region in general.
For a politician, it doesn't get much more blatant than this:
When a young man looking like this arrives at the airport with only carry-on luggage, and pays in cash for a one way ticket:
And he comes from a country that does things like this in the name of religion:
Then you might want to consider a secondary search, whether he's on your stupid no-fly list or not. Hey, I'm just saying.
You aren't allowed to yell FIRE in a crowded theater, and you sure as hell should not be yelling ALLAHU AKBAR in any crowded location other than a mosque. The IDF will not publicly acknowledge it, but apparently they have (or at least I hope they have) a small army of attack dogs trained to pounce on anyone they come across who yells ALLAHU KABAR in public. It's not a perfect tool, but it sounds to me like a good little piece in an overall security plan. PETA & the ACLU anyone?
Anyway, here's a list of cool counter terror items entering the inventory. The problem is that our side tends to lean on expensive high-tech toys when some times simple low-tech solutions are the way to go.
This is some old fashion, solid reporting by Robert Windrem and Richard Engel over at NBC.
The base was used to direct and coordinate CIA operations and intelligence gathering in Khost, a hotbed of insurgent activity because of its proximity to Pakistan's lawless tribal areas, former CIA officials said. Among the CIA officers killed was the chief of the operation, they said. Six other people were wounded in what was one of the worst attacks in CIA history.I wonder how many drone strikes took place based on this double agents misinformation. It may be that a good number of these strikes were useless. Perhaps even directed at forces operating against Al Qaeda? Good lord!
Qari Hussain, a top militant commander with the Pakistani Taliban who is believed to be a suicide bombing mastermind, said last week that militants had been searching for a way to damage the CIA's ability to launch missile strikes on the Pakistani side of the border.
Using remote-controlled aircraft, the U.S. has launched scores of such missile attacks in the tribal regions over the past year and a half, aiming for high-value al-Qaida and other militant targets. The most successful strike, in August, killed former Pakistani Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud at his father-in-law's home.
The Washington Post reported Friday that the CIA base has been at the heart of overseeing this covert program. The newspaper cited two former intelligence officials who have visited Chapman as saying that U.S. personnel there are heavily involved in the selection of al-Qaida and Taliban targets for the drone aircraft strikes.
You've got to hand it to the Obama administration. They just can't stop groveling, and they can't even take a hint. Obama sets deadlines that Iran literally laughs at. The deadlines expire and Iran keeps laughing, then sets its own deadline for the weak US President. Now the administration decides to send Senator John Kerry over to play the role of Nevile Chamberlain, and Kerry, begs as he will, can't even get a visa. How pathetic the United States has become. But don't feel bad, a bunch of leftist Euro-weenies like us again. That's me in the photo with Senator Kerry back in the 90's. Good lord.
I can't help but be jealous of Mark Steyn's incredible writing talents.
All you have to do is go the comments section at Huffington Post or Daily Kos to see how "compassionate" liberals can be. When it was announced that Rush had been rushed to the hospital with chest pains, there was literally an eruption of celebrations on the "compassionate" side of the political spectrum. Imagine their heartbreak when they saw this press conference today:
To illustrate just how revolting I find Ron Paul and his merry band of cult-worshipers: I would literally vote for Barack Hussein Obama over Ron Paul if it ever came to such a scenario. And people who read this blog know what that means. More than that, I would write a check to Barack Obama, and I would call all of my friends to write checks for Barack Obama. That's how disgusting and despicable I find that creepy old man.
The man literally parrots Osama Bin Laden. A foreign policy videotape from Ron Paul is almost, word for word, like a videotape from Osama Bin Laden himself. He quotes him, he justifies him, he excuses him and he makes the case for him. And his cult-worshiping, merry band of followers are not much better. If you want to find where almost all of the 9/11 conspiracy nut-jobs and creeps are, look no further than in Ron Paul's squalid camp. The man attracts every kook, nut and crazy in this country. Revolting sewer doesn't even begin to describe the man.
Other than that I have no problem with him.
I'm sure the good people of the third district in Washington State would be interested in who their congressman is fighting for, because it sure isn't them. He is however a star on Al Jazeera. Let's make sure that his political career doesn't survive the next election cycle, so he can spend all of his time helping Hamas:
UPDATE: Oh, OK. It seems that Congressman Baird is not seeking reelection this term, so he decided to follow his disgusting "values", rather than worry about his reelection, so that explains his Hamas-terror hug.
Further proof that a white guy in a suite can get away with anything in this country.
TMZ says it has obtained a never-before published photograph which appears to show John F. Kennedy on a boat filled with naked women -- "it's a photo that could have altered world events":
Update: Now The Smoking Gun claims that TMZ have fallen for a hoax, and that the photo was in fact part of a 1967 photo shoot for Playboy. Personally, I like the Kennedy story better. But the hoax is pretty good too.
DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano said that the thwarting of the attempt to blow up the Amsterdam-Detroit flight this week demonstrated that "the system worked."
Asked by CNN's Candy Crowley on "State of the Union" how that could be possible when the young Nigerian who sought to set off the bomb was able to smuggle explosive liquid onto the flight, Napolitano responded: "We're asking the same questions."
Napolitano added that there was "no suggestion that [the bomber] was improperly screened."
After Richard Reid (no known relationship to Democrat Harry Reid), tried to blow up an airliner over the Atlantic ocean with his shoes, every American has since been forced to remove their shoes at security before boarding an aircraft.
Now that Muslim radicals have invented the stealth underwear bomb, does that mean that we all have to remove our underwear at security? How about some PROFILING So the rest of us can be a little less burdened? Here's some basic, commonsense suggestions. None of these categories are alone enough to trigger suspicion, but surely two or three of categories involving the same person should raise flags?
Traveling alone on a one way ticket
No carry-on
Between the ages of 14 to 40,
Most likely male
Ticket paid for in cash
Travel Originating from a largely Islamic country
Displays nervousness, haste or is overly friendly
Is Muslim
Now notice that being Muslim alone is not enough to trigger suspicions, but being Muslim with two or three additional categories should be enough for secondary inspection. The rest of us can then move along. Is that kind of profiling really discrimination? I don't think so. When the threat fades in the years down the road, so will the profiling.
It seems the US dodged another bullet today as an Al Qaeda operative tried to blow a packed US passenger liner from the sky. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, 23, of Nigeria is the confirmed attacker. The substance that he was trying to ignite, failed to detonate, thus all the souls on the plane, and lives on the ground, were spared. A Simple case of luck.
UPDATE: Notice how the media are refraining form mentioning the attacker's name, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, 23, of Nigeria. And notice how the media are bending over backwards from mentioning that he is a Muslim. Would anyone receive such deference? To the White House's credit, this time they have not tried to hide the subject of 'terrorism', as they so embarrassingly did after the Fort Hood incident. Obama hasn't even asked anyone to "refrain from jumping to conclusions". Perhaps he learned his lesson from Fort Hood, when he became a laughingstock for describing the incident as everything but terror.
Will you read your poem to me? Notice the "wow" at the end. Good lord!
When you get groupie, cult-worshiping, state-run media turning on you, you know things are bad:
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Image: Time Magazine and it's confusion over the years. First it was global cooling, now it's global warming... and tomorrow?
From the UK Daily Express:
1) There is “no real scientific proof” that the current warming is caused by the rise of greenhouse gases from man’s activity.
2) Man-made carbon dioxide emissions throughout human history constitute less than 0.00022 percent of the total naturally emitted from the mantle of the earth during geological history.
3) Warmer periods of the Earth’s history came around 800 years before rises in CO2 levels.
4) After World War II, there was a huge surge in recorded CO2 emissions but global temperatures fell for four decades after 1940.
5) Throughout the Earth’s history, temperatures have often been warmer than now and CO2 levels have often been higher – more than ten times as high.
6) Significant changes in climate have continually occurred throughout geologic time.
7) The 0.7C increase in the average global temperature over the last hundred years is entirely consistent with well-established, long-term, natural climate trends.
8) The IPCC theory is driven by just 60 scientists and favourable reviewers not the 4,000 usually cited.
9) Leaked e-mails from British climate scientists – in a scandal known as “Climate-gate” - suggest that that has been manipulated to exaggerate global warming
10) A large body of scientific research suggests that the sun is responsible for the greater share of climate change during the past hundred years.
11) Politicians and activiists claim rising sea levels are a direct cause of global warming but sea levels rates have been increasing steadily since the last ice age 10,000 ago
12) Philip Stott, Emeritus Professor of Biogeography at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London says climate change is too complicated to be caused by just one factor, whether CO2 or clouds
13) Peter Lilley MP said last month that “fewer people in Britain than in any other country believe in the importance of global warming. That is despite the fact that our Government and our political class—predominantly—are more committed to it than their counterparts in any other country in the world”.
14) In pursuit of the global warming rhetoric, wind farms will do very little to nothing to reduce CO2 emissions
15) Professor Plimer, Professor of Geology and Earth Sciences at the University of Adelaide, stated that the idea of taking a single trace gas in the atmosphere, accusing it and finding it guilty of total responsibility for climate change, is an “absurdity”
16) A Harvard University astrophysicist and geophysicist, Willie Soon, said he is “embarrassed and puzzled” by the shallow science in papers that support the proposition that the earth faces a climate crisis caused by global warming.
17) The science of what determines the earth’s temperature is in fact far from settled or understood.
18) Despite activist concerns over CO2 levels, CO2 is a minor greenhouse gas, unlike water vapour which is tied to climate concerns, and which we can’t even pretend to control
19) A petition by scientists trying to tell the world that the political and media portrayal of global warming is false was put forward in the Heidelberg Appeal in 1992. Today, more than 4,000 signatories, including 72 Nobel Prize winners, from 106 countries have signed it.
20) It is claimed the average global temperature increased at a dangerously fast rate in the 20th century but the recent rate of average global temperature rise has been between 1 and 2 degrees C per century - within natural rates
21) Professor Zbigniew Jaworowski, Chairman of the Scientific Council of the Central Laboratory for Radiological Protection in Warsaw, Poland says the earth’s temperature has more to do with cloud cover and water vapor than CO2 concentration in the atmosphere.
22) There is strong evidence from solar studies which suggests that the Earth’s current temperature stasis will be followed by climatic cooling over the next few decades
23) It is myth that receding glaciers are proof of global warming as glaciers have been receding and growing cyclically for many centuries
24) It is a falsehood that the earth’s poles are warming because that is natural variation and while the western Arctic may be getting somewhat warmer we also see that the Eastern Arctic and Greenland are getting colder
25) The IPCC claims climate driven “impacts on biodiversity are significant and of key relevance” but those claims are simply not supported by scientific research
26) The IPCC threat of climate change to the world’s species does not make sense as wild species are at least one million years old, which means they have all been through hundreds of climate cycles
27) Research goes strongly against claims that CO2-induced global warming would cause catastrophic disintegration of the Greenland and Antarctic Ice Sheets.
28) Despite activist concerns over CO2 levels, rising CO2 levels are our best hope of raising crop yields to feed an ever-growing population
29) The biggest climate change ever experienced on earth took place around 700 million years ago
30) The slight increase in temperature which has been observed since 1900 is entirely consistent with well-established, long-term natural climate cycles
31) Despite activist concerns over CO2 levels, rising CO2 levels of some so-called “greenhouse gases” may be contributing to higher oxygen levels and global cooling, not warming
32) Accurate satellite, balloon and mountain top observations made over the last three decades have not shown any significant change in the long term rate of increase in global temperatures
33) Today’s CO2 concentration of around 385 ppm is very low compared to most of the earth’s history – we actually live in a carbon-deficient atmosphere
34) It is a myth that CO2 is the most common greenhouse gas because greenhouse gases form about 3% of the atmosphere by volume, and CO2 constitutes about 0.037% of the atmosphere
35) It is a myth that computer models verify that CO2 increases will cause significant global warming because computer models can be made to “verify” anything
36) There is no scientific or statistical evidence whatsoever that global warming will cause more storms and other weather extremes
37) One statement deleted from a UN report in 1996 stated that “none of the studies cited above has shown clear evidence that we can attribute the observed climate changes to increases in greenhouse gases”
38) The world “warmed” by 0.07 +/- 0.07 degrees C from 1999 to 2008, not the 0.20 degrees C expected by the IPCC
39) The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says “it is likely that future tropical cyclones (typhoons and hurricanes) will become more intense” but there has been no increase in the intensity or frequency of tropical cyclones globally
40) Rising CO2 levels in the atmosphere can be shown not only to have a negligible effect on the Earth’s many ecosystems, but in some cases to be a positive help to many organisms
41) Researchers who compare and contrast climate change impact on civilizations found warm periods are beneficial to mankind and cold periods harmful
42) The Met Office asserts we are in the hottest decade since records began but this is precisely what the world should expect if the climate is cyclical
43) Rising CO2 levels increase plant growth and make plants more resistant to drought and pests
44) The historical increase in the air’s CO2 content has improved human nutrition by raising crop yields during the past 150 years
45) The increase of the air’s CO2 content has probably helped lengthen human lifespans since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution
46) The IPCC alleges that “climate change currently contributes to the global burden of disease and premature deaths” but the evidence shows that higher temperatures and rising CO2 levels has helped global populations
47) In May of 2004, the Russian Academy of Sciences published a report concluding that the Kyoto Protocol has no scientific grounding at all.
48) The “Climate-gate” scandal pointed to a expensive public campaign of disinformation and the denigration of scientists who opposed the belief that CO2 emissions were causing climate change
49) The head of Britain’s climate change watchdog has predicted households will need to spend up to £15,000 on a full energy efficiency makeover if the Government is to meet its ambitious targets for cutting carbon emissions.
50) Wind power is unlikely to be the answer to our energy needs. The wind power industry argues that there are “no direct subsidies” but it involves a total subsidy of as much as £60 per MWh which falls directly on electricity consumers. This burden will grow in line with attempts to achieve Wind power targets, according to a recent OFGEM report.
51) Wind farms are not an efficient way to produce energy. The British Wind Energy Association (BWEA) accepts a figure of 75 per cent back-up power is required.
52) Global temperatures are below the low end of IPCC predictions not at “at the top end of IPCC estimates”
53) Climate alarmists have raised the concern over acidification of the oceans but Tom Segalstad from Oslo University in Norway , and others, have noted that the composition of ocean water – including CO2, calcium, and water – can act as a buffering agent in the acidification of the oceans.
54) The UN’s IPCC computer models of human-caused global warming predict the emergence of a “hotspot” in the upper troposphere over the tropics. Former researcher in the Australian Department of Climate Change, David Evans, said there is no evidence of such a hotspot
55) The argument that climate change is a of result of global warming caused by human activity is the argument of flat Earthers.
56) The manner in which US President Barack Obama sidestepped Congress to order emission cuts shows how undemocratic and irrational the entire international decision-making process has become with regards to emission-target setting.
57) William Kininmonth, a former head of the National Climate Centre and a consultant to the World Meteorological Organisation, wrote “the likely extent of global temperature rise from a doubling of CO2 is less than 1C. Such warming is well within the envelope of variation experienced during the past 10,000 years and insignificant in the context of glacial cycles during the past million years, when Earth has been predominantly very cold and covered by extensive ice sheets.”
58) Canada has shown the world targets derived from the existing Kyoto commitments were always unrealistic and did not work for the country.
59) In the lead up to the Copenhagen summit, David Davis MP said of previous climate summits, at Rio de Janeiro in 1992 and Kyoto in 1997 that many had promised greater cuts, but “neither happened”, but we are continuing along the same lines.
60) The UK ’s environmental policy has a long-term price tag of about £55 billion, before taking into account the impact on its economic growth.
61) The UN’s panel on climate change warned that Himalayan glaciers could melt to a fifth of current levels by 2035. J. Graham Cogley a professor at Ontario Trent University, claims this inaccurate stating the UN authors got the date from an earlier report wrong by more than 300 years.
62) Under existing Kyoto obligations the EU has attempted to claim success, while actually increasing emissions by 13 per cent, according to Lord Lawson. In addition the EU has pursued this scheme by purchasing “offsets” from countries such as China paying them billions of dollars to destroy atmospheric pollutants, such as CFC-23, which were manufactured purely in order to be destroyed.
63) It is claimed that the average global temperature was relatively unchanging in pre-industrial times but sky-rocketed since 1900, and will increase by several degrees more over the next 100 years according to Penn State University researcher Michael Mann. There is no convincing empirical evidence that past climate was unchanging, nor that 20th century changes in average global temperature were unusual or unnatural.
64) Michael Mann of Penn State University has actually shown that the Medieval Warm Period and the Little Ice Age did in fact exist, which contrasts with his earlier work which produced the “hockey stick graph” which showed a constant temperature over the past thousand years or so followed by a recent dramatic upturn.
65) The globe’s current approach to climate change in which major industrialised countries agree to nonsensical targets for their CO2 emissions by a given date, as it has been under the Kyoto system, is very expensive.
66) The “Climate-gate” scandal revealed that a scientific team had emailed one another about using a “trick” for the sake of concealing a “decline” in temperatures when looking at the history of the Earth’s temperature.
67) Global temperatures have not risen in any statistically-significant sense for 15 years and have actually been falling for nine years. The “Climate-gate” scandal revealed a scientific team had expressed dismay at the fact global warming was contrary to their predictions and admitted their inability to explain it was “a travesty”.
68) The IPCC predicts that a warmer planet will lead to more extreme weather, including drought, flooding, storms, snow, and wildfires. But over the last century, during which the IPCC claims the world experienced more rapid warming than any time in the past two millennia, the world did not experience significantly greater trends in any of these extreme weather events.
69) In explaining the average temperature standstill we are currently experiencing, the Met Office Hadley Centre ran a series of computer climate predictions and found in many of the computer runs there were decade-long standstills but none for 15 years – so it expects global warming to resume swiftly.
70) Richard Lindzen, Professor of Atmospheric Sciences at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, wrote: “The notion of a static, unchanging climate is foreign to the history of the Earth or any other planet with a fluid envelope. Such hysteria (over global warming) simply represents the scientific illiteracy of much of the public, the susceptibility of the public to the substitution of repetition for truth.”
71) Despite the 1997 Kyoto Protocol’s status as the flagship of the fight against climate change it has been a failure.
72) The first phase of the EU’s Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), which ran from 2005 to 2007 was a failure. Huge over-allocation of permits to pollute led to a collapse in the price of carbon from €33 to just €0.20 per tonne meaning the system did not reduce emissions at all.
73) The EU trading scheme, to manage carbon emissions has completely failed and actually allows European businesses to duck out of making their emissions reductions at home by offsetting, which means paying for cuts to be made overseas instead.
74) To date “cap and trade” carbon markets have done almost nothing to reduce emissions.
75) In the United States , the cap-and-trade is an approach designed to control carbon emissions and will impose huge costs upon American citizens via a carbon tax on all goods and services produced in the United States. The average family of four can expect to pay an additional $1700, or £1,043, more each year. It is predicted that the United States will lose more than 2 million jobs as the result of cap-and-trade schemes.
76) Dr Roy Spencer, a principal research scientist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, has indicated that out of the 21 climate models tracked by the IPCC the differences in warming exhibited by those models is mostly the result of different strengths of positive cloud feedback – and that increasing CO2 is insufficient to explain global-average warming in the last 50 to 100 years.
77) Why should politicians devote our scarce resources in a globally competitive world to a false and ill-defined problem, while ignoring the real problems the entire planet faces, such as: poverty, hunger, disease or terrorism.
78) A proper analysis of ice core records from the past 650,000 years demonstrates that temperature increases have come before, and not resulted from, increases in CO2 by hundreds of years.
79) Since the cause of global warming is mostly natural, then there is in actual fact very little we can do about it. (We are still not able to control the sun).
80) A substantial number of the panel of 2,500 climate scientists on the United Nation’s International Panel on Climate Change, which created a statement on scientific unanimity on climate change and man-made global warming, were found to have serious concerns.
81) The UK’s Met Office has been forced this year to re-examine 160 years of temperature data after admitting that public confidence in the science on man-made global warming has been shattered by revelations about the data.
82) Politicians and activists push for renewable energy sources such as wind turbines under the rhetoric of climate change, but it is essentially about money – under the system of Renewable Obligations. Much of the money is paid for by consumers in electricity bills. It amounts to £1 billion a year.
83) The “Climate-gate” scandal revealed that a scientific team had tampered with their own data so as to conceal inconsistencies and errors.
84) The “Climate-gate” scandal revealed that a scientific team had campaigned for the removal of a learned journal’s editor, solely because he did not share their willingness to debase science for political purposes.
85) Ice-core data clearly show that temperatures change centuries before concentrations of atmospheric CO2 change. Thus, there appears to be little evidence for insisting that changes in concentrations of CO2 are the cause of past temperature and climate change.
86) There are no experimentally verified processes explaining how CO2 concentrations can fall in a few centuries without falling temperatures – in fact it is changing temperatures which cause changes in CO2 concentrations, which is consistent with experiments that show CO2 is the atmospheric gas most readily absorbed by water.
87) The Government’s Renewable Energy Strategy contains a massive increase in electricity generation by wind power costing around £4 billion a year over the next twenty years. The benefits will be only £4 to £5 billion overall (not per annum). So costs will outnumber benefits by a range of between eleven and seventeen times.
88) Whilst CO2 levels have indeed changed for various reasons, human and otherwise, just as they have throughout history, the CO2 content of the atmosphere has increased since the beginning of the industrial revolution, and the growth rate has now been constant for the past 25 years.
89) It is a myth that CO2 is a pollutant, because nitrogen forms 80% of our atmosphere and human beings could not live in 100% nitrogen either: CO2 is no more a pollutant than nitrogen is and CO2 is essential to life.
90) Politicians and climate activists make claims to rising sea levels but certain members in the IPCC chose an area to measure in Hong Kong that is subsiding. They used the record reading of 2.3 mm per year rise of sea level.
91) The accepted global average temperature statistics used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change show that no ground-based warming has occurred since 1998.
92) If one factors in non-greenhouse influences such as El Nino events and large volcanic eruptions, lower atmosphere satellite-based temperature measurements show little, if any, global warming since 1979, a period over which atmospheric CO2 has increased by 55 ppm (17 per cent).
93) US President Barack Obama pledged to cut emissions by 2050 to equal those of 1910 when there were 92 million Americans. In 2050, there will be 420 million Americans, so Obama’s promise means that emissions per head will be approximately what they were in 1875. It simply will not happen.
94) The European Union has already agreed to cut emissions by 20 percent to 2020, compared with 1990 levels, and is willing to increase the target to 30 percent. However, these are unachievable and the EU has already massively failed with its Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), as EU emissions actually rose by 0.8 percent from 2005 to 2006 and are known to be well above the Kyoto goal.
95) Australia has stated it wants to slash greenhouse emissions by up to 25 percent below 2000 levels by 2020, but the pledges were so unpopular that the country’s Senate has voted against the carbon trading Bill, and the Opposition’s Party leader has now been ousted by a climate change sceptic.
96) Canada plans to reduce emissions by 20 percent compared with 2006 levels by 2020, representing approximately a 3 percent cut from 1990 levels but it simultaneously defends its Alberta tar sands emissions and its record as one of the world’s highest per-capita emissions setters.
97) India plans to reduce the ratio of emissions to production by 20-25 percent compared with 2005 levels by 2020, but all Government officials insist that since India has to grow for its development and poverty alleviation, it has to emit, because the economy is driven by carbon.
98) The Leipzig Declaration in 1996, was signed by 110 scientists who said: “We – along with many of our fellow citizens – are apprehensive about the climate treaty conference scheduled for Kyoto, Japan, in December 1997” and “based on all the evidence available to us, we cannot subscribe to the politically inspired world view that envisages climate catastrophes and calls for hasty actions.”
99) A US Oregon Petition Project stated “We urge the United States government to reject the global warming agreement that was written in Kyoto, Japan in December, 1997, and any other similar proposals. The proposed limits on greenhouse gases would harm the environment, hinder the advance of science and technology, and damage the health and welfare of mankind. There is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of CO2, methane, or other greenhouse gasses is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth’s atmosphere and disruption of the Earth’s climate.”
100) A report by the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change concluded “We find no support for the IPCC’s claim that climate observations during the twentieth century are either unprecedented or provide evidence of an anthropogenic effect on climate.”
If you are currently in Copenhagen, if you are a "scientist" at East Anglia University, if you think Little Green Footballs is a smart blog, than this may be a beyond your ability to comprehend:
Of course, global warming hysteria is nothing new. Here is some fun global warming hysteria from well over fifty years ago. We're all going to die!
This snake-oil is just an older version of Al Gores An Inconvenient Truth. It's interesting that this version from over fifty years ago uses footage of natural ice cleaving from the same glacier, Perito Moreno, in Argentina, that Gore used in An Inconvenient Truth. Only problem is, that glacier has grown since then.
Not mentioned in this little clip it that this USV is stealth to radar, capable of launching torpedoes against large surface ships, and even has a self destruct mechanism to avoid being captured. Unbelievable.
This may be a case of the far left looking for trouble. And they might find it.
Actual attack here:
Liberals have finally discovered an enemy that they are "bravely" willing to confront. With this imaginary enemy, no physical risks are necessary, no courage or strength are required... unless you mean strictly in the abstract sense. They will pursue this "national security threat" to the ends of the Earth, or at least to cocktail parties in Copenhagen.
So you were wondering where the economic stimulus money went to. For a tiny example of how the funds have basically ended up in the hands of political allies and cronies of this administration, look no further than here.
History 101:
Apparently Harry Reid does not know that it was the Democrat Party, his own party, that largely supported the institution of slavery, and that the Republican Party was established to put an end to slavery. Harry Reid does not know that the Great Emancipator, Abraham Lincoln was a Republican. Harry Reid does not know that it was his party, the Democrat Party, that established and supported Jim Crow laws throughout the South for many decades. Harry Reid apparently doesn't know that every single segregationist in the South, from Bull Conner to George Wallace, were all Democrats. Every one of them. He does not know that almost all of those who filibustered the 1964 Civil Rights Act were Democrats. That is basic History 101. Good lord Harry! It's as if the Nazi party (National Socialists), came back and started blaming the Holocaust on the Christian Democratic Union party in Germany today.
The EPA now declares the stuff that every plant on earth needs to survive, a "pollutant". With every breath you take and every move you make, you are polluting the planet and should be taxed. Total control of the individual, and restrictions on individual freedoms is the goal.
Carbon is the 15th most abundant of elements in the Earth's crust, and the fourth most abundant element in the universe by mass after hydrogen, helium, and oxygen. It is present in all known lifeforms, and in the human body carbon is the second most abundant element by mass (about 18.5%) after oxygen. This abundance, together with the unique diversity of organic compounds, make this element the chemical basis of all known life.Now, according to the Obama administration, it is a pollution to be controlled and regulated. Meaning life itself, and every human activity, is to be controlled and regulated by government.
I'm always amazed at how individuals around the world make their own opinion videos, which in many cases are far more informed than MSM. Here's an example from Romania:
You gotta love it when Liberals say what they really think:
Charles Johnson has proven himself to be a scoundrel and a low-life. I can't believe that I used to respect his work over at LGF. Now he has taken to calling anyone skeptical of 'Global Warming', "deniers". Of course, the term "denier" is meant to conjure up visions of holocaust deniers, the lowest form of humanity. It's hard to imagine a greater abuse of holocaust imagery, just to make a cheap political point.
Of course, it would be easy to turn the argument on Johnson by calling him a "climategate denier", but that would be stooping too low.
Not content with comparing anyone who questions the great Global Warming fraud to Holocaust deniers, Johnson was quick to smear the entire Swiss people for voting to restrict Muslim minarets across Switzerland. He compared the vote to "turning Jews over to the Nazi's", another typical abuse of Holocaust imagery. Muslim minarets (not a requirement of the religion) are tall towers above mosques meant to dominate the skyline, and symbolize the dominance of Islam. They are usually fitted with loudspeakers that blare out Muslim calls to prayer five times a day. Gee I can't imagine why they should be restricted in Switzerland. Remember, Mosques are not restricted, just the minarets. Johnson thinks that's the same as truing Jews over to Nazi's. A truly sick individual who has lost his mind.
This was no big deal for the Israeli player, but for the Iranian player it was an act of bravery, because back home in Iran, he could be arrested by the Islamo-fascist regime for such a simple act of humanity. Good for him.
AP writers Matt Apuzzo, Sharon Theimer, Tom Raum, Rita Beamish, Beth Fouhy, H. Josef Hebert, Justin D. Pritchard, Garance Burke, Dan Joling and Lewis Shaine contributed to this report.
Wow. That’s ten “AP writers” plus Calvin Woodward, the AP writer whose twinkling pen honed the above contributions into the turgid sludge of the actual report. That’s 11 writers for a 695-word report. What on? Obamacare? The Iranian nuke program? The upcoming trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed?
No, the Associated Press assigned 11 writers to “fact-check” Sarah Palin’s new book, and in return the 11 fact-checkers triumphantly unearthed six errors. That’s 1.8333333 writers for each error. What earth-shattering misstatements did they uncover for this impressive investment? Stand well back:
I'm sorry but this woman is a complete idiot and a publicity hound. Those conservatives who signed her on as some kind of spokeswoman were duped (not this site thankfully). Here she is lecturing Larry King about being "inappropriate". I hope her raunchy sex video is posted on YouTube (apparently there are 17 of them). How is that for "inappropriate"?
Via the always titillating Sondra Kay: The lefty-gay Hillbuzz blog is coming clean on Bush. Finally acknowledging that although imperfect like all of us, he is a good and decent man. The trigger was George and Laura's quiet visit to Fort Hood immediately following the terrorist attack, but the reversal is sweeping:
You may be as surprised by this as we are ourselves, but from this day forward George W. and Laura Bush are now on the same list for us as the Clintons, Geraldine Ferraro, Stephanie Tubbs Jones, and the other political figures we keep in our hearts and never allow anyone to badmouth.Read the entire thing. Read the comments. I was absolutely floored and moved. These guys clearly have integrity.
Criticize their policies academically and intelligently and discuss the Bush presidency in historical and political terms…but you mess with the Bushes personally and, from this day forward, you’ll answer to us.
We hope someday to be able to thank George W. and Laura in person for all they’ve done, and continue to do. They didn’t have to head to Ft. Hood. That was not their responsibility.
The Obamas should have done that.
I hate to say this, but Americans are collectively proving to be about as dumb as dumb gets. David Horowitz explains:
A Muslim fanatic with an Internet site praising Islamic suicide bombers as defenders of their comrades is a Major in the U.S. Army with access to military intelligence and lethal weaponry. And it’s not as though the army didn’t know that he was a Muslim fanatic and supporter of the Islamic jihad against the West. He was under investigation for six months because of his anti-American, jihadist rantings. He did not want to be deployed. He wanted to be discharged.
But despite his identification with America’s enemies, the army kept him in its officer corps. How in God’s name was this possible? But it was. And so, after calling America the “aggressor” in Afghanistan and Iraq this Muslim jihadist traitor army officer picks up his semi-automatic weapons and heads for the center at Ft. Hood where soldiers are being deployed to fight the jihadists in Afghanistan to conduct his massacre. Yet this morning the Fox News Channel chiron says “Investigators search for a motive in the Ft. Hood killings.” Is everybody out of their mind?
The President of the United States no less, declares that we "should avoid jumping to conclusions" about a man shouting Allahu Akbar while massacring US soldiers. That we should all keep an open mind about a Jihadist who worshipped at the same mosque as three of the 9/11 hijackers. Lets remember that even during WWII, US soldiers were never massacred in the United States. It was the worst terror attack in America since 9/11, yet the media have taken to pretending that they have no idea what may have motivated the Muslim fanatic to kill US soldiers. Even worse, they broadcast excuses for his actions. Laughably, they refrain from even suggesting what is obvious to any person with any degree of intelligence. 
You can call him "French youth", or a Swedish grandmother, or someone suffering from "PRE" traumatic-stress disorder. He is certainly the victim because somebody may have called him a bad name at some point in his life. The President of the United States even says that we should "not jump to conclusions" about a man shouting "allahu akbar" and murdering everyone in site. We should all keep an open mind about that. Of course, any reference to the 'religion of peace' would be discrimination... and God forbid that we should discriminate between good and evil.
You probably don't remember the name Eric Hoffer. He was a longshoreman who turned into a philosopher, wrote columns for newspapers and some books. He was a non-Jewish American social philosopher. He was born in 1902 and died in 1983, after writing nine books and winning the Presidential Medal of Freedom. His first book, The True Believer, published in 1951, was widely recognized as a classic.
Here is one of his columns from 1968 -- 41 years ago! Some things never change.
ISRAEL'S PECULIAR POSITION...by Eric Hoffer - LA Times 5/26/68
The Jews are a peculiar people: things permitted to other nations are forbidden to the Jews. Other nations drive out thousands, even millions of people and there is no refugee problem. Russia did it, Poland and Czechoslovakia did it.
Turkey threw out a million Greeks, and Algeria a million Frenchman. Indonesia threw out heaven knows how many Chinese and no one says a word about refugees. But in the case of Israel, the displaced Arabs have become eternal refugees.
Everyone insists that Israel must take back every single one. Arnold Toynbee calls the displacement of the Arabs an atrocity greater than any committed by the Nazis.
Other nations when victorious on the battlefield dictate peace terms. But when Israel is victorious, it must sue for peace. Everyone expects the Jews to be the only real Christians in this world. Other nations, when they are defeated, survive and recover but should Israel be defeated it would be destroyed.
Had Nasser triumphed last June [1967], he would have wiped Israel off the map, and no one would have lifted a finger to save the Jews. No commitment to the Jews by any government, including our own, is worth the paper it is written on.
There is a cry of outrage all over the world when people die in Vietnam or when two Blacks are executed in Rhodesia. But, when Hitler slaughtered Jews no one demonstrated against him. The Swedes, who were ready to break off diplomatic relations with America because of what we did in Vietnam, did not let out a peep when Hitler was slaughtering Jews. They sent Hitler choice iron ore, and ball bearings, and serviced his troops in Norway.
The Jews are alone in the world.
If Israel survives, it will be solely because of Jewish efforts. and Jewish resources. Yet at this moment, Israel is our only reliable and unconditional ally. We can rely more on Israel than Israel can rely on us.
And one has only to imagine what would have happened last summer [1967] had the Arabs and their Russian backers won the war, to realize how vital the survival of Israel is to America and the West in general.
I have a premonition that will not leave me; as it goes with Israel so will it go with all of us. Should Israel perish, the Holocaust will be upon us all.
H/T: Arnold Steinberg
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