Andrew Bolt
THESE are the seven graphs that should make the Rudd Government feel sick.
These are the seven graphs that should make you ask: What? Has global warming now stopped?
Look for yourself. They show that the world hasn’t warmed for a decade, and has even cooled for several years.
Sea ice now isn’t melting, but spreading. The seas have not just stopped rising, but started to fall.
Nor is the weather getting wilder. Cyclones, as well as tornadoes and hurricanes, aren’t increasing and the rain in Australia hasn’t stopped falling.
What’s more, the slight warming we saw over the century until 1998 still makes the world no hotter today than it was 1000 years ago.
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How many believers are left?
Andrew Bolt
Evans is particularly strong in describing how no one can detect what’s meant to be the signature of a man-made global warming - a “hot spot” about 10km above the tropics. But for politicians, this conclusion is particularly crucial:
What is going to happen over the next decade as global temperatures continue not to rise? The Labor Government is about to deliberately wreck the economy in order to reduce carbon emissions. If the reasons later turn out to be bogus, the electorate is not going to re-elect a Labor government for a long time. When it comes to light that the carbon scare was known to be bogus in 2008, the ALP is going to be regarded as criminally negligent or ideologically stupid for not having seen through it. -the socially conservative Bolt is asking the economic conservatives to endorse his position. His thesis is that he wasn't wrong to endorse the ALP in recent years, but he was. - ed.
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Catholics easy target
Andrew Bolt
THE reporter on the ABC’s 7.30 Report sounded sad. The Catholic Church couldn’t find enough men keen to be priests, she sighed.
Gosh. Wondered why? Then check, say, the reports the ABC’s Lateline ran to welcome the Pope and thousand of Catholic pilgrims to Sydney.
“Exclusive documents reveal church ignored abuse allegations”, “New evidence in church abuse case”, “Broken Rites president joins Lateline”, “Demonstrators oppose Catholic Church policies”, “Father of assault victims to visit Pope”. And so on.
Hmm. Now why aren’t more Australians joining up to be vilified?
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Like not reporting the fall of the Berlin Wall
Andrew Bolt
Is it usual for an important war to be won with so little acknowledgement in the mainstream media? Now Strategypage joins in noticing what seemed to me clear months ago:
The war is basically over in Iraq...
Then again, why announce that you were wrong in predicting so often and eagerly a catastrophic defeat?
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He needs to ask?
Andrew Bolt
Andrew Frost checks out Sydney’s latest Biennale, and finds it’s maintained the approved ideological position:
Beuys used blackboards to sketch out plans for a socialist utopia. Ormella uses motorised whiteboards to record the social context of environmental campaigns. Is there a connection here? Discuss.
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Of hatred and hypocrits
Andrew Bolt
Glenn Reynolds is as right as he is angry:
IF SOMEBODY DID THIS ABOUT OBAMA it would be a national scandal and evidence of America’s incurable bigotry. But since it’s an artist named Wafaa Bilal and it’s about Bush it’s just “confrontational art”
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There’s not enough wits in Parliament already
Andrew Bolt
Having watched Alexander Downer on Q&A last night, I must ask: Is there no way we can ask him to reverse his decision to retire?
As for that Labor groupie next to him, is that really the face of the party tomorrow? -no, it wasn't. She is pretty for the moment, but her soul is as removed from humanity as the bitterest war veteran. - ed.
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How do greens ever mate?
Andrew Bolt \
NPR drops in on a speed dating session for global warming fanatics in Los Angeles. Some, er, highlight
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Odd way to cut petrol use
Andrew Bolt
Here’s a great idea from the Rudd Government. First, announce a tax to stop people from using petrol. Then hand out subsidies to help companies find more of it
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Not a balance, but a flop
Andrew Bolt
Being in the middle usually means you’ve given a bit to both sides. So you might think Rudd’s emissions trading scheme strikes a good compromise:
The Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, said he expected to be attacked by the left, which wants a purist approach, and the right, which denies climate change. “I’ll cop that,” he said.
But Rudd hasn’t given a bit to both, but nothing to anyone. He’s somehow managing to deliver an expensive plan for a questionable problem that won’t even do what he promised. To one side he offers a plan that isn’t necessary; to the other, he’s giving one that won’t work.
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Global warming surrenders
Andrew Bolt
NPR reports:
Robert Redford Fights Global Warming With Poetry
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ABC reporter arrested
Andrew Bolt
Not good on many levels:
THE ABC’s South Asia correspondent Peter Lloyd is facing drugs charges after being arrested in Singapore…
He faces up to 20 years jail and 15 strokes of the cane if found guilty of drug charges. He is accused of supplying a Singapore man with methamphetamine, or ice. -He has tested positive to meth. The ABC's going to have to work hard on this. One will wish to know how a senior correspondent might be so compromised - ed.
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Salty language to dam the desal
Andrew Bolt
Victoria’s government is determined to build a desalination plant even though a new dam would provide more than twice the water at less than half the price.
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Achtung!: Rudd’s carbon scheme at work
Andrew Bolt
Der Spiegel reports:
The price of European emission permits is rising so rapidly that German companies are threatening to leave the country. Thousands of jobs could be lost. And the environment may, in the end, be no better off…
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Refugee Mums, children need help: expert
Refugee children settling in Australia often have parents suffering post-traumatic stress who are unable to meet their needs, a Melbourne forum has heard.
Brotherhood of St Laurence child and family resource centre manager Janet Williams-Smith said many refugee parents were widowed mothers grieving the loss of their partners, families, homes and way of life.
The impact of this on their children was profound.
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A NZ Mayor's Insane Wish
A New Zeland mayor says he wants to line violent criminals and sexual offenders up against a wall and shoot them.
Carterton Mayor Gary McPhee has told NZPA he has "had a gutful" of what's happening in the world and had 60 bumper stickers made saying: "Make New Zealand a safer place. Kill violent people, bring back capital punishment."
He agreed it wasn't "PC", but said the message was meant to protect the community.
"You're actually doing a public service."
He said the stickers were so popular he was going to have more made.
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Now the rights police demand we discriminate
Andrew Bolt
Dr Helen Szoke, head of the Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission, has had so much trouble finding real discrimination, that I’m not surprised she’s now rewriting her job description in ways that guaranteee her endless work. As she now preaches:
...treating everyone the same does not deliver real equality...
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