A Complete Repudiation of the Left

In the next two years or so we will see a lot written about this election. Much of it will be written about Hillary with people in her campaign writing tell-alls and Robbie Mook and Jennifer Palmieri writing books to make them look better after a disastrous campaign. They will blame (in no particular order) Comey, Russia, Bernie Sanders, the media, Obama, the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy (TM), fake news, voter fraud and a plethora of other BS. What they will not blame is the thing that they can never admit--it was their ideology thrust on the country over the last 8 years that was the real reason they have been shunted to the hinterlands. To admit that would mean to admit their entire paradigm is false and a lie.

During the Obama years we've seen the following:

Obamacare: an ill-conceived scheme that gave government control over 1/6 of the economy and had no chance of succeeding. Instead of working with the GOP, they rammed it down the countries throat to the point we actually had the Speaker of the House say this:





Does anyone outside of DC or NYC actually think that's the right way to handle such critical legislation? No, evidently not. Americans wanted a discussion and Democrats just wanted to pass anything. The GOP did not cast a single vote for the bill and then we watched as the exchanges were botched, we lost our doctors, paid way more for worse coverage and the very people needed to prop it up ran away from it.

The Apology Tour: This was one event liberals really never comprehended. To everyone but the most ideologically left zealots America is unique and special. We are the greatest country on the planet and that's as ingrained in the American psyche as anything. To watch a sitting president bow to every despot and apologize for past actions was just too much to handle. Yes, Obama was re-elected after but there were other factors at work as well including a bad GOP candidate and the fear of being labeled racist. But very few actions by Obama were as detested as his groveling on the world stage. America doesn't do that. Liberals believe very deeply that American actions over the last 50 years have been bad for the world versus good. They do not believe in American exceptionalism but believe the exact opposite.

Race Relations: Liberals at their very core believe America to be racist. It's not even a question to them. From the very beginning of his first term Obama made it clear that he was African-American first and American second. It started with the arrest of Harvard Professor Henry gates--an African-American who couldn't get the door to his house open and when he appeared to be breaking in, police were called. The responding officer allegedly had an altercation and the professor was arrested on disorderly conduct charges. Without all the facts, Obama jumped into the fray:

"I don't know, not having been there and not seeing all the facts, what role race played in that. But I think it's fair to say, number one, any of us would be pretty angry; number two, that the Cambridge police acted stupidly in arresting somebody when there was already proof that they were in their own home, and, number three, what I think we know separate and apart from this incident is that there's a long history in this country of African Americans and Latinos being stopped by law enforcement disproportionately." 

His commenting on the event was a clear sign that racial healing was not going to be a strong part of his administration. It just expanded from there eventually hitting a tipping point with Ferguson and the false claim of "hands up, don't shoot". The fact that the words were never spoken was immaterial, it was a rallying cry. The hoax was perpetrated by CNN and others:

Suddenly, all white Americans who did not believe the story or ever questioned it's veracity were labeled racist. A moment known as Black Lives Matter eventually rose out of the incident. Separate event happened in NYC and Baltimore and the media dutifully reported that it was white cops killing unarmed black men when in some cases it was a black cop and the suspect had a weapon. Americans who followed the events were essentially silenced from speaking the truth.  It became clear that white Americans were being excluded from the events in their country. They were scorned by the media and left to wonder whether or not they actually are racist. The fact that they work, socialize and are friends with black and Hispanic people was beside the point.

The Culture Wars: Americans in the aggregate have ceded the culture wars to the left. Gay unions became acceptable, abortion is not nearly the issue it once was except to strong supporters on either side and other issues that conservative fought against for decades became normalized. But liberals couldn't just accept victory and had to keep pushing. It all came to a head when they demanded that bathroom being open to all based on what they identified themselves as that day. When sane people pointed out that this is a major safety concern to us they screamed us down as bigots and homophobes.

Immigration: Americans have had enough of unchecked immigration. The left kept pushing for more and more rights for those who have none in this country. The right to vote, sanctuary cities where those who were already criminals were protected from the federal government and the high instances of crime perpetrated by illegals was too much. Kate Steinle being murdered by an illegal who had been arrested before and should never had even been in the country was enough. When we debated the point we were labeled xenophobic or racist. When we pointed out that ISIS or al-Qaeda can easily traverse the border, we were called Islamophobic and we should just shut the hell up.

Terrorism: This was an enormous part of the equation that ultimately led to Hillary losing and the rise of Trump. The Fort Hood jihadi attack was labeled "workplace violence". A car bomb in NYC, the Boston Marathon bombing and numerous other instances of blatant Islamic terrorism were labeled as "shootings" or "bombings" but never labeled as terrorism. And worse yet, every time an attack occurred, the media and liberals all hoped it was a white man killing minorities but once it became clear it was jihadism, they immediately called for calm and urged that not all Muslims be blamed. The exact opposite happened when a truly deranged white kid attacked a black church and it was blamed on every white person in America. San Bernardino, Orlando and Dallas were treated as normal crimes, not terrorism. When those of us said that this is a concern and something needs to be done, we were scoffed at and called Islamophobes.

Global Warming: This is a bigger repudiation of leftist ideology than anything else. Since the 1990's, the media and left have been pushing global warming as a major issue. Hell, as recently as last June John Kerry labeled it a more dangerous concern than terrorism. Whenever those of us who are skeptical want to debate it we get slammed with the popular "it's settled science" or the erroneous "97% of scientists agree..." bullshit. If you want to spend billions of dollars on a "problem" we at least want the problem identified and the actions expected to be taken.

These things singularly are not that big. These things taken in their entirety is the reason we now have President-Elect Trump. Large sectors of this country have been shoved aside and left out of the American Dream. Obamacare forced their hours from full-time to part-time. Trade agreements have left them jobless when the factories closed. An entire industry that was provided work for generations  was wiped out in the war on coal. The standard of living for millions was reduced and for the first time people had less hope their children would do better than they did. When these very people spoke out and asked why they were ridiculed and called every "ist" in the liberal lexicon.

The entire leftist ideology was put on trial in this election and it lost. Not by much as the country was essentially split but things that liberal hold very dear were repudiated on November 8. They will either do some soul-searching and realize that they have no appeal to half the nation or they will continue with their usual arrogant, elitist attitudes and lose again. I'm betting on the latter.

The Great Global Warming Swindle Unraveling Continues

This blog has been discussing the Great Global warming Swindle for half a decade and the speed with which it's become farce is astounding. in 2009 I discussed just what a scam this was. The US has spent insane amounts of money (but not nearly as much as the Aussies) for nothing more than developing some street cred with the Euros. 

But man are we seeing massive amounts of proof that this was indeed a sham from the beginning:

A chilly Arctic summer has left nearly a million more square miles of ocean covered with ice than at the same time last year – an increase of 60 per cent. 

The rebound from 2012’s record low comes six years after the BBC reported that global warming would leave the Arctic ice-free in summer by 2013.

Instead, days before the annual autumn re-freeze is due to begin, an unbroken ice sheet more than half the size of Europe already stretches from the Canadian islands to Russia’s northern shores.

That's near record numbers that haven't been seen in a long time. In fact, if you read the entire article, the BBC predicted that summer Arctic ice would be completely gone by...2013. 

Of course our intellectual betters are beside themselves trying to figure out how this can be and still claim to the charade they are 95% sure that global warming is man-made. This is up from 90% previously because they want us to know that the extra 5% is important when it comes to this super-exact science that has made them millions. 

How deeply ingrained is this in the brains of liberals? So much that Bill Moyers linked a piece on global warming being the cause of the Syrian civil war. It's as close to religion as any liberal will ever get and they are second only to the Taliban and al-Qaeda when it comes to guarding against apostasy. 

The planet has been cooling for a decade, the high seas and massive unrest following global warming didn't happen and all of Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth was bullshit. It was a vehicle for him to profit while stealing money from corporations under the guise of protecting the environment. 

In Australia and parts of Europe, they squandered enormous amounts of treasure for nothing. There was no reduction and with the windfall we're seeing from fracking and the subsequent reduction in carbon to 1992 levels, we've done it all without government assistance. in fact government is standing in the way. 

Remember all the liberal idiots who excoriated George W. Bush because he was supposedly anti-science? It's funny now that the overwhelming scientific facts are proving that global warming was, well, just weather, that liberals are regrouping and redoubling their efforts even though the facts are now on the other side. 

Saturday Morning News & Notes

Morning y'all.

-Nancy Pelosi says she doesn't want to be Speaker again. That's great because no one wants her to be Speaker again plus the Dems are not taking back the House

-Yes, Obama call the US military "my military". Unless you served sir, you have no right to call them your anything. Ours would be better but would then sound inclusive of liberals and they hate the military.


-LET ALLAH SORT IT OUT 

“So we’re bombing Syria because Syria is bombing Syria? And I’m the idiot?” - Sarah Palin

-I meant to post this last week. An Obama Organizing for America global warming event drew exactly zero people. That seems to be the norm for OFA events. 

-The Brits are rightfully pissed at Obama and by extension the entire US. This is not good news as they have one of the best intelligence operations in the world. We are dissing our respected ally for France whom is only our friends when it serves their interests and is downright hostile when our aims do not. 

-WTF is going on at the Washington Post? 

-Col. Ralph Peters (R) on the non-strategy with regard to Syria. 

AP Still Pushing the Global Warming Scam

Anyone who's been paying any sort of attention knows that the Great Global Warming Swindle fell apart back when thousands of emails were released where such terms as "hide the decline" were prominent. Is the earth warming? Perhaps although data is inconclusive and even seems to show the temperature globally going down in the last decade. But it sure as hell doesn't appear to be caused by man or our inventions.

Still, the AP's environmental "expert" can't seem to let it go because, just like Al Gore, his job relies on perpetuating the myth. Here he is telling us about a report from another agency that relies on continuation of panic and finds that the west coast will see massive sea rising:

The study by the National Research Council gives planners their best look yet at how melting ice sheets and warming oceans associated with climate change will raise sea levels along the country's Pacific coast. It is generally consistent with earlier global projections, but takes a closer look at California, Oregon and Washington. 

Interestingly, I can't find anything from the above writer detailing the stunning change in opinion of the so-called "Godfather of the Environmental Movement" James Lovelock. Lovelock posited many of the theories taken as gospel by global warming climate change adherents. But as any scientist worth their salt can tell you, original theories are just that and facts may change the original thinking. It sure has in Mr. Lovelock's case:

Having observed that global temperatures since the turn of the millennium have not gone up in the way computer-based climate models predicted, Lovelock acknowledged, “the problem is we don’t know what the climate is doing. We thought we knew 20 years ago.” Now, Lovelock has given a follow-up interview to the UK’s Guardian newspaper in which he delivers more bombshells sure to anger the global green movement, which for years worshipped his Gaia theory and apocalyptic predictions that billions would die from man-made climate change by the end of this century. 

Granted, Mr. Lovelock still believes that the planet is warming and we must reduce emissions but he is a true man of science who revised his potion once more facts came to light and his predictions didn't pan. Instead, we have an over-reaching EPA led by Lisa Jackson slowly but surely trying to change businesses and redistribute our money based on theories even Mr. Lovelock now disputes. 

I leave you with one last quote by Lovelock:

 “It just so happens that the green religion is now taking over from the Christian religion,” Lovelock observed. “I don’t think people have noticed that, but it’s got all the sort of terms that religions use … The greens use guilt. That just shows how religious greens are. You can’t win people round by saying they are guilty for putting (carbon dioxide) in the air.”

Amen, brother. 

The Legacy of Rachel Carson

Back in the early seventies, Rachel Carson wrote Silent Spring and the book caused the use of DDT to be curtailed or banned. DDT was a potent pesticide that killed mosquitoes and was highly effective in tropical areas where mosquito-borne disease was rampant. In the years since, an estimated 30-million have  died because of those diseases, mainly malaria.

Carson hypothesized that DDT was harming animals and potentially humans and particularly she guessed that the decline in bald eagles was due to DDT causing eggs to be more fragile. The environmental movement used the symbol of America to reduce and ultimate stop completely the use of the chemical.
This was the first instance in which unproven science was used to attack chemical corporations on a large scale and also sentence millions of children to a preventable death.

Ironically, that same environmental movement is today causing the deaths of thousands of raptors including eagles:

"The greatest threat to migrating birds in my lifetime is unfolding in those mountains," said Jesse Grantham, former California condor coordinator for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. "As for condors, strikes are inevitable. They travel together when a food source appears, so a single turbine blade could take out a lot of them in one swing."

The irrational fight against "climate change" has led us to wind power, which is not exactly proven as a carbon reducer and directly threatens species that have been brought back from the brink by reduced hunting and public knowledge. The California Condor was considered a prime example of rescuing struggling avian populations and now they face a new threat thrust upon them by a radical environmental lobby that acts first (and procures federal tax dollars) before fully investigating the consequences. Kinda sounds like Obamacare in my opinion.

So, here we are, 50 years since Rachel Carson started the movement and we have regressed to the point that that same movement is giving back substantial gains all in the name of reducing a gas all of us exhale hundreds of times per day.

Irony doesn't begin to express it.

Obama: Hey, We Should Really Focus on Climate Change as an Issue

Please do Mr. President, please do:

President Obama is vowing to make the case for action on global warming during the 2012 campaign. 

“I suspect that over the next six months, this is going to be a debate that will become part of the campaign, and I will be very clear in voicing my belief that we're going to have to take further steps to deal with climate change in a serious way,” Obama told Rolling Stone magazine in a newly published interview. 

Obama’s comments follow a first term that saw global warming legislation collapse in Congress but several administrative steps to address climate proceed, such as tougher auto mileage rules and first-time greenhouse gas standards for new power plants. 

“Part of the challenge over these past three years has been that people's No. 1 priority is finding a job and paying the mortgage and dealing with high gas prices. In that environment, it's been easy for the other side to pour millions of dollars into a campaign to debunk climate-change science,” Obama said.

Got that? Because of Obama's lame policies, people are more focused on helping their families survive than focus on a theory that has been thoroughly disputed over the last few years. But you see, it's not a flawed theory, it's those evil corporations who "poured millions of dollars" into a campaign to enlighten folks about global warming climate change while Obama was diligently focused--laser-like--on reviving the economy...and playing golf.

 No, it couldn't have been the released emails that showed the leading advocates of climate change legislation urging other scientists to "hide the decline" or the complete obliteration of the work performed by CRU. Oh no, it was those evil one per centers who were trying to fool you. Not only do those rich bastards hate the environment but they hate, you, gays, minorities and puppies (although they've never had them with barbecue sauce like the Commander in Chief has) but they want the oceans to rise and temperatures to soar (albeit it's only one half of one degree centigrade).

 I really hope Obama makes this a central issue of his campaign, but really, what else can he talk about that was successful?

 Exit question: What issues are really important to Americans? Hmm, climate change doesn't seem to be fairing very well.

Beach Front Property in My Future?

According to global warming types, I could be living large in about 18-years:

Backstory:

A new report shows sea levels are rapidly rising and the study predicts the Jersey Shore could be underwater in a matter of decades.

The organization “Climate Central” in Princeton, New Jersey released the ocean study Wednesday.

The group found global warming is expanding sea water and causing ice sheets to melt.

Scientists believe by the end of the century, water levels will be three to four feet higher, with bigger storm surges that could wipe out low lying areas.

Being that I'm about 42 miles inland, I could have a great view of the sunrise and be able to cast a surf rod out my front door.

Sweet!

I'll take it as long as that pig Snooki stays the hell off my front porch. Especially since she's going to look even more beat down than she presently does in a couple of decades.

More Hypocrisy in the Global Warming Propaganda Community

In yet another blow to global warming hysteria peddlers, one of their leaders has destroyed his reputation by presenting false documents as real.

Peter Gleik recently sent documents supposedly from conservative advocacy group the Heartland Institute to several papers that allegedly showed their agenda in fighting the climate change supporters and also released names of donors and other information. At least some of those documents turned out to be true while those that were not were fraudulently acquired, meaning stolen.

The ones that may have been true don't concern me that much, they lay out what we know about the Heartland Institute and its mission. Having documents released by unauthorized personnel is as old as secrets are and we never would have heard the phrase "hide the decline" if that wasn't the case.

The ones that were falsified concern me greatly, however. Putting out false information to attack an individual or organization is not only illegal but says a great deal about the integrity of those who illegally construct them. If falsifying documents is you way to win an argument then your argument wasn't very strong anyway. This is just such an example of that.

Better still, Gleik had the support of some pretty strong allies including the NY Times, Guardian (UK), leading climate change blogs and many other including Bill Gates. Liberal purveyors of information to be sure and now looking like suckered amateurs.

Here's Gleiks weaselly confession and I'm sure we'll see the "fake but accurate" meme resurrected once again but for anyone paying attention, this is a black eye for climate change propagandist's who have berated those of us who don't take studies showing rising temperature at face value just because they say to. The hypocrisy in the movement knows no bounds.

I have one last question for this guy: If you believe every single word of the Heartland documents, why do you not also believe every single e-mail written by the CRU at East Anglia? Those were a million times more devastating to the science of the issue. What about statements recently released by the CRU that greatly contradict what CRU themselves said?

More here.

Update: Much more here.

Update #2: This puts it better than I ever have:

The main issue I am raising is not that the scientists who are at the front line of this research are blind or bellicose – not that they are unscrupulous or fraudulent. Most of the scientists working in the field are not trying to push an ideological position but are genuinely trying to get at the truth. If they can be accused of any moral failing, it is simply the tendencey to go with the flow when it comes to writing grant proposals and alluding to the possibility of global warming as a justification for supporting their research. Nothing horrible about that.

That does not say that there are not a few at the top and at the edges who are true believers – who think that behaving as deceivers is ethically the right thing to do given the gravity of the threat (that they perceive) and the ignorance of the masses to that threat (as they perceive).

Al Gore and his army of climate change zealots are the ones at the top and will do anything to stop even one counter argument. To allow any alternative theories would begin to erode the belief in the false god they've constructed and staked their reputations on. But ideology is not their main driving force, AGW has been their golden goose and they've made billions on the biggest scam of the last century. Redistribution is only a happy side effect to them.

East Anglia CRU: Temps Stopped Rising 15 Years Ago

Vindication for those of us who dared challenge the ideology of climate research scientist's? Perhaps.

The supposed ‘consensus’ on man-made global warming is facing an inconvenient challenge after the release of new temperature data showing the planet has not warmed for the past 15 years.
The figures suggest that we could even be heading for a mini ice age to rival the 70-year temperature drop that saw frost fairs held on the Thames in the 17th Century.

Based on readings from more than 30,000 measuring stations, the data was issued last week without fanfare by the Met Office and the University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit. It confirms that the rising trend in world temperatures ended in 1997.

Shocker! Those of us who actually believe that the point of science is to disprove things are vindicated after having been treated like Holocaust deniers for those 15 years. Note that the East Anglia U. CRU are the same idiots who had their emails released showing they were lying through their teeth.

It was too simple an idea and Al Gore took to it like he would the last rib at a barbecue. It was the greatest redistribution plan on record and the idea of taxing the rich to feed the poor is embedded into liberal DNA as much as protecting a woman's right to an kill a fetus or supporting left-wing despots.

Meanwhile, a group of real scientist's (as opposed to those who create evidence to support their conclusions) has signed a letter urging people to not panic with regard to global warming. These are some heavy hitters.

Seriously, this is critical and we are at a tipping point when it comes to global warming actions. Australia recently enacted insane climate change regulations that will cripple their economy in the near future while claiming they want to save the planet from their less that 1% emissions. The US has spent billions on climate research through NASA and state universities hat could have been put to more productive use. Europe was all aflutter about rising temperatures while their socialist economies burned. Meanwhile, China built a new power plant every single week.

Anyone who took a few seconds to think about what the left was saying with regard to rising temps knew it was a scam. When they changed it to "climate change" from global warming it was a clear signal as to their intent.

Instead we had Al Gore making millions, our tax dollars wasted on ridiculous studies and the supposed "green tech" boom that's fizzled and having to listen to ignorant "progressives" tell us that we were the cause as they flew from world environmental conference to world environmental conference in their private jets.

Senator Inhofe School Global Warming Tool

Some liberal yahoo went to Capitol Hill to ambush Senator James Inhofe--a leading sceptic of global warming "science"--outside a conference room as he was leaving. Senator Inhofe beat them over the head metaphorically with a plethora of facts. In fact, he whooped them so bad They edited their video down to about 10% of all video shot. The senator outsmarted them also video taping the interaction and getting it out in full instead of allowing liberals to use their usual editing tactics.

Below is the complete video released by Inhofe and here's the edited one put out the would-be ambusher.



Just as an aside, the new female faces of the GOP are Sarah Palin, Christy Noem and Nikki Haley. Now note the girls on the video. Just sayin in my own right-wing, misogynistic way....

Hat tip: Daily Caller.

We Did Say Global Warming Was a Stealth Redistribution Plan

Anyone paying even semi-attention knows that the Great Global Warming Swindle was about nothing more that a covert plan to redistribute people's hard-earned money to politicians. Hell, I've been writing that for the last eight years on this blog (officially tomorrow).

As if we needed more proof, we have this:

Successive federal governments have spent more than $5.5 billion over the past decade on climate change programs that are delivering only small reductions in greenhouse gas emissions at unusually high costs for taxpayers and the economy.

It’s all been for exactly nothing. The precise cost of the 17 programs analysed is $5.62 billion, which equals the pre-tax average annual wages of nearly 90,000 Australians – every cent of it blown to hell.

And that's just lightly populated Australia. Worldwide, I'd imagine that number is multiplied a thousand times and all for nothing. Meanwhile, we still no clear science showing that it's actually happening.

Oh well, at least Al Gore made his hypocritical billion dollars and can allegedly assault massage therapist's at his leisure.

Cap and Tax Craters

That sound you heard earlier today was the sound of a million liberal skulls exploding in unison. They got a watered down (yet still horrific) healthcare bill, Gitmo is still open, Obama increased troops in Afghanistan instead of bringing them home and now the Dems are selling them out on their long-held and most desired wet dream:

WASHINGTON—The U.S. Senate is shelving efforts to pass legislation that would limit emissions of heat-trapping gases linked to climate change, dealing a major blow to one of President Barack Obama's top priorities.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D., Nev.) said Thursday that neither he nor the White House had persuaded 60 senators to support even a limited proposal seeking to restrict emission from electric-power companies. Mr. Reid offered no timetable for action on such a bill, but said Democrats would continue trying to build support for such legislation.

Mr. Reid said the party's leadership will push instead for more limited legislation, aimed at holding oil giant BP PLC "accountable" for the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Specifically, he said the measure would include a provision to remove the cap on economic damages paid to residents and small businesses by oil companies after oil spills. Mr. Reid said the bill would also include incentives to encourage the production and purchase of vehicles fueled by natural gas, and to fund various land and water-conservation programs.

It's all bullshit as anyone with a brain knows. The public has no patience for a new law that will increase energy prices potentially 30-50%, will cause a drastic rise in consumer prices, destroy what ever profits small business makes and, in light of the Climategate scandal, will probably serve no good purpose.

Reid knew full-well that this bill would have been used like a club to beat incumbent Dems with and would have ensured the loss of both chambers.

Sorry libs, greens and watermelons (green on the outside and red on the inside) but your dream of forcing us to pay exorbitant prices for energy have taken a backseat in the name of politics.

Climate Change Debunked Everywhere But Newsweek

Newsweek magazine was forced to retract a 1975 article in which they did a whole issue on global cooling and the world havoc that would result from it. This from a magazine that published a false story about flushing a Koran down a toilet that led directly to deaths.

With the rest of the world seeing clearly that global warming "science" is widely skewed and realizing that they've spent billions of dollars that could have been better spent on helping their own citizens, Newsweek remains firmly in the global warming cocoon.

Walter Mead explains, in-depth, how the last gasps of the global warming swindle remain but largely how the myth has been debunked so easily and quickly. It's been a tough few months for our green brothers and sisters as it's finally dawned on them that they've been had. They bought into a cult that was designed for nothing more than enriching people like Al Gore and redistributing money from wealthy nations to poor ones.

But not Newsweek. No, when presented with facts that show the "science" was a scam, they hold their collective hands over their ears and utter passages from An Inconvenient Truth really loudly. They are bitter and are taking out their ire on one man who was a loud sceptic from the beginning. In what can only be labeled a rant from a whiny teenager, Sharon Begley goes off on Lomborg without facts, reason or thinking that could even be considered rational.

This is the last gasp of a dying religion and one can only be thankful that it will be relegated to the dustbin of history with other false pseudo-religions like communism and Nazism.

Exit question: Does Begley look exactly like the smug, rebuked global warming supporter you thought?

"No Global Warming Since 1995"--Phil Jones

So says the central "scientist" whose writings and hypotheses have been the basis of the entire global warming movement. Here's the goods (or bads if you were suckered in by this lying weasel and believed in the global warming swindle):

Professor Jones also conceded the possibility that the world was warmer in medieval times than now – suggesting global warming may not be a man-made phenomenon.

And he said that for the past 15 years there has been no ‘statistically significant’ warming.

The admissions will be seized on by sceptics as fresh evidence that there are serious flaws at the heart of the science of climate change and the orthodoxy that recent rises in temperature are largely man-made.

Read it all but that's it for the biggest scam of modern times. The entire premise was that the world was warmer now than at any time, including medieval times. Without that basis, the entire house of cards comes tumbling down and we'll see a whole gaggle of politicians and "scientist's" stumbling and mumbling about why they spent enormous amounts of money on a theory that was created by a guy who can't keep correct data and now admits that the holy grail was nothing but an empty dixie cup.

Vindication for those of us who saw through this scam from day one and who were treating as outcasts, heretics and labeled "flat Earthers". We saw through the "hockey stick" BS and the claims that seemed to be rooted in anything but science. People like Tim Blair and James Delingpole who went against a much stronger current of environmental zealotry than anyone in the US has. As an aside, Americans are inherently sceptical and I would imagine that's why we never went as insane with GW policy as Europe did.

Perhaps the non-politicians of the world will be sceptical of everything thrown out there by liberals who wish for nothing more than a huge shift of wealth where they can get their piece of the pie at the expense of nations who are first world.

Update: Much more at Watt's Up With That?

Update: There's been a ton of bad things blamed on GW. I guess that it wasn't Mother Nature's fault after all. Maybe the snow we've gotten is because she's pissed we blamed her when it was a lying scientist who was actually playing fast and loose with the facts.

Senate Global Warming Meeting Canceled Due to Snow

Further proof that Gaia just doen't want us discussing global warming:

- The Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works will hold a hearing entitled, "Global Warming Impacts, Including Public Health, in the United States."

Humorous.

All the snow we've had has been a royal pain in the ass but it's had one good effect and that's shutting down the Senate and keeping those buffoons from making any new laws.

Global Warming Belief Melting Away

In the seven years I've been writing this blog (damn, 7 years is an eon in the blogosphere but I digress) I've pointed out numerous instances where the facts presented about global warming just didn't add up. Let's just say I was one of the sceptics back when being a sceptic made one a pariah--especially in the environmental business in which I make my living. It was kind of like eating a roast beef sandwich for lunch while working for PETA.

Anyway, in the last six months or so, we've seen the carefully constructed "science" behind the case for man-caused global warming be obliterated. From the "hide the decline" e-mail leak to the Himalayan glacier embarrassment, it's been a non-stop rebuke to those who made their name and their money from perpetuating this myth. Somewhere along the line, too many governments and too many universities got in on the act and it snowballed to the point that it was no longer about the science but about the cash one could make by adjusting the numbers and calling it science.

When the Climate Research Unit e-mails were released, we got an unprecedented look at just how important it was to those who were leaders in global warming studies to make the data fit their preconceived notions--about as unscientific as anything can be. Science is disproving things and looking at all the data to determine a hypothesis, not fudging numbers to make your work look better. These guys were the world leaders on climate science and billions if not trillions of dollars have been spent by nations around the world based on what these guys wrote and passed off as legitimate science. That's billions of dollars, shekels, rupees, euros, pesos and pounds that could have been spent on needy places like Haiti and Ghana. Instead the money was moved in the biggest Ponzi schemes ever devised in an effort to redistribute money from the 1st world to the 3rd. A liberal wet dream is there ever was one.

But now the jig is up and the news is out, the world is starting to catch on that we've been had. The Brits have been huge supporters of carbon emissions reduction and belief in the Great Global Warming Swindle but that's changed dramatically and just in the last three months:

The Populus poll of 1,001 adults found 25% did not think global warming was happening, a rise of 8% since a similar poll was conducted in November.

The percentage of respondents who said climate change was a reality had fallen from 83% in November to 75% this month.

And only 26% of those asked believed climate change was happening and "now established as largely man-made"...

"It is very unusual indeed to see such a dramatic shift in opinion in such a short period," Populus managing director Michael Simmonds told BBC News.

"The British public are sceptical about man's contribution to climate change - and becoming more so," he added.

"More people are now doubters than firm believers."

This is from the very liberal BBC I should note.

I know that weather and climate are two mutually exclusive things but people are out in weather every day and have discerned that it's not been getting warmer in the aggregate, but getting colder. I know that the fot of snow I'm looking at right now outside my window is what it's always been; winter precipitation and nothing more. But when we get hit with two huge storms in a month and a half, people start to get sceptical. Add to that the fact that these global warming zealots have said it's because of global warming that we are having these storms and the average persons bullshit meter pegs at eleven.

Climate change politics and global warming rhetoric is not dead but it's waning. Once more people realize that it's OK to ask questions and not be labeled a "flat earther" or some other such garbage, the more people will realize they've been had. Once that happens, the money will start to dry up and the issue will fade until the next one comes along and the next after that.

Until that battle, we are seeing the beginning of the end of the Great Global Warming Swindle.

Update: California Republicans have launched a ballot initiative that would suspend greenhouse gas emission rules in the state until the unemployment rate improves to 5.5% or better. I bet it will pass too.

Noted Environmentalist Warns of Global Warming

Quoth the leader of the International Panel on Climate Change:

leader blamed the United States and other industrialized nations for climate change and said the only way to prevent disaster was to break the American economy, calling on the world to boycott U.S. goods and stop using the dollar...

..."The effects of global warming have touched every continent. Drought and deserts are spreading, while from the other floods and hurricanes unseen before the previous decades have now become frequent,"...

...leader noted Washington's rejection of the Kyoto Protocol aimed at reducing greenhouse gases and painted the United States as in the thrall of major corporations that he said "are the true criminals against the global climate" and are to blame for the global economic crisis, driving "tens of millions into poverty and unemployment."...

No, it wasn't the leader of the IPCC (but could easily have been as he's been known to slam the US and lie to get his way), it's Osama bin-Laden allegedly in a new video. Brilliant actually, nothing will motivate the world's leftists like blaming America for destroying the world with our large emissions of carbon dioxide. Hell, that could have easily been Barbara Boxer uttering those words instead of the man responsible for the deaths of 3,000 people in lower Manhattan.

I'm sure the global warming schemers have already devised a mechanism in their fetid little minds whereby they conveniently forget and forgive that the dust from the towers, the carbon released from the burning of the fuel and the oil released by the French supertanker Limburg into the Red Sea. The Earth was just collateral damage in the greater battle.

A new alliance is born, folks. On one side we have theocratic ideologues who hate the US and will abide no questions contradictory to their religion and on the other we have al-Qaeda. A marriage made in Paradise.

Pure Brilliance in Exposing Climategate

Check this out: Kent Clizbe sent the following e-mail to 27 colleagues of Michael Mann at the Earth System Science Center at Penn State University who developed the "hockey stick" BS that was the nexus of the entire global warming movement:

Hi,

Greetings and best wishes for a prosperous New Year.

National Search
After the recent whistleblower revelations of emails between climate researchers and data from the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit, there are on-going investigations into potential fraudulent use of grant funds in Climate Research in the US. I am assisting interested parties who may have details of fraud in climate research to make contact with the proper authorities, and to share in the rewards paid when the funds are recovered.

Whistleblower Rewards Program
The federal government has established vigorous programs to identify and prosecute fraudulent grant applications and administration. The US Department of Justice (DOJ) administers the False Claims Act. It allows rewards for those who come forward with details of grant fraud to share in the recovery of federal funds. This reward can be as much as 30% of the total amount reclaimed. The program is almost completely reliant on insiders to report their knowledge of the fraud in their institutions.

Attorney Literally “Wrote the Book” on Fraud Recovery Lawsuits
Joel Hesch, Esq., of Hesch and Associates, literally wrote the book on how to report federal fraud. He has an extensive background in representing whistleblowers in all types of federal funding fraud cases, including Educational/ Research Grant Fraud. According to Mr Hesch: “Many institutions receive grants, whether for research or educational purposes. When they lie to get the grant or keep the grant or if they use the funds for purposes outside the grant, they are liable under the DOJ program. There have been many grant cases brought by whistleblowers. ”

If you know of anyone who might have details about fraudulent statements or actions by recipients of federal grant funds for climate research, please have them contact me immediately at the below email or cell phone. Alternatively, they may also contact Mr Hersch directly, and let him know that they were referred by me. All communications are completely confidential. They may want to consider using a third party email service (Yahoo, Hotmail, or other) instead of work email to communicate.
30% of $50 million is more than $12 million. Ask your friends to do the right thing, and be rewarded for doing it.
Our country, and in fact, the entire world is counting on someone to stand up and tell the truth about climate research. The effects of moving forward with taxes and policies based on fraudulent science could potentially cripple the US economy and cost lives and jobs for generations.

Look forward to hearing from you.

All the best

Kent Clizbe

Needless to say, I'm sure it was a chilly day at Penn State.

This is one of the reasons I love the internet and the free exchange of ideas. People with a bit of smarts and the right motivation can expose scams by the dozens--a job once held by the US media (and one now carried on valiantly by the UK and Aussie media). This is sheer brilliance on the part of Mr. Clizbe and I hope he succeeds beyond his wildest dreams.

Awesome.

H/T: Insty's link to James Delingpole.

Saturday Morning News & Notes

The college bowl season continues with a nice win by Penn State over LSU yesterday. The Flyers lost at Fenway yesterday so it was a wash.

Anyway, here's what's news:

-Evan Thomas always gets it wrong from inside his liberal bubble. America is not in the center but center-right and always has been.

-Tim Blair on teaching our young to serve the old.

-Expect Obama's poll numbers to suffer once he starts the immigration debate. The GOP will play it as amnesty and pound the fact that we have the worst unemployment in decades.

-Obama's "bin-Ladin determined to strike in US" moment.

-Reason #1,254,809 to not watch the NBA and it's collection of pampered thugs.

-Britain facing worst winter in 100-years. CRU better hide the decline.

-The One loses the CIA.

-The Navy of the future will be a far cry from the Navy I knew. Much, much cooler, though.

-Here's time lapse video of the rink being constructed at Fenway (via Ace):

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Global Warming hits South Jersey

A little bit of climate change right here in South Jersey:


The second biggest storm in history. Is Al Gore staying in Philly? No hiding this lack of decline.

That's a six-foot fence BTW.