Headlines Friday 5th December

Ours is not to reason why
Andrew Bolt
Columbia Journalism Review’s Curtis Brainard isn’t:

There has been a notable trend in global-warming skepticism among meteorologists; it’s unclear exactly why that is...
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What Jewish targets?
Andrew Bolt
I remember the outrage of Leftist critics when I first suggested some of the Left would soon by relativising or rationalising or moral equivalising the Mumbai massacres. But this effort from the New York Times on the last day of the seige is, surely, among the most stupid attempts to be blind to what occurred:

It is not known if the Jewish center was strategically chosen, or if it was an accidental hostage scene.
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Respect those who showed little
Andrew Bolt
First the Left lead the charge against institutions and authority, but now that they’re in charge they demand a return of what they did so much to destroy:

JOHN Brumby has declared war on the “me” generation of out-of-control young Victorians who lack respect and fuel crime.
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Their country, too
Andrew Bolt
Claims on both sides, and I sure hope the school’s version is right:

A BRISBANE school has banned the national anthem at assemblies and sacked the teacher who asked for it to be played.

Australian International Islamic College teacher Pravin Chand was sacked in November, four months after his proposal for students to sing Advance Australia Fair was ruled to be against the “Islamic view and ethos”.
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“100 metres” Williams demands nuance
Andrew Bolt
ABC Science Show host Robyn Williams says those who contradict him when he makes absurdly alarmist - and false - claims about global warming just don’t understand “nuance”. And the warming alarmist who claimed, in defiance of every scientific paper, that the seas could rise 100 metres this century now says his critics should listen to the scientists.

I’d laugh if I wasn’t stunned by his brazen cheek. How is it that he doesn’t die of shame?

First, the background… This was my notorious exchange with Williams last year when I asked him if global warming would really cause the seas to rise 100 metres this century:

Andrew Bolt: I ask you, Robyn, 100 metres in the next century...do you really think that?

Robyn Williams: It is possible, yes. The increase of melting that they’ve noticed in Greenland and the amount that we’ve seen from the western part of Antarctica, if those increases of three times the expected rate continue, it will be huge.

The maximum sea level rise Williams’ claims is in fact 170 times greater than the even the maximum rise predicted by the alarmist IPCC, and I know of not a single scientist anywhere, not even the maddest, who’d put the rise by 2100 at even a tenth of his plainly bogus figure.

But Williams has never apologised or corrected the record. Rather, in an attempt to justify his absurd exaggeration he once cited as his best authority Professor Jonathan Overpeck, without actually mentioning that Overpeck’s own worst-case estimate was not 100 metres by 2100 but just 1 metre.

The most Williams ever conceded was this, in an interview on Triple J:

Williams: “It is a most unlikely figure.’’

Sharkey: “Is it alarmist?

Williams: ”It could be alarmist, yes.”
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Whites not all right
Andrew Bolt
On now! At Monash University! Come hear this exciting conference on”Re-Orienting Whiteness”.