Democrat administration brings poverty.
=== Bible Quote ===
“[Love for Enemies] "You have heard that it was said, 'Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.' But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be sons of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.”- Matthew 5:43-45
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For more than 20 years Angela Boneva and the U.S. gov't thought the Bulgarian-born 34-year-old was a U.S. citizen — until the State Dept. reportedly had a different opinion.
Ayatollah: Iran to 'Stun' The West on Feb. 11
Supreme leader reportedly says Iran set to deliver 'punch' to 'stun' world powers on anniversary of Islamic revolution
Rep. John Murtha, the first veteran of the Vietnam war elected to Congress, dies of complications from gall bladder surgery. He was 77.
Gov't-Run Climate Care?
Obama administration proposes new Climate Service to examine and report on global warming
Jacko Doc Charged With Manslaughter
Conrad Murray accused of acting 'without malice' in King of Pop's death, according to criminal complaint
Planned Parenthood's Sexplicit Ed
Religious groups decry Planned Parenthood report calling for 'recast' of sex education for kids as young as 10
Police escort Ayhan Memi, the father of 16-year-old daughter Medine whose bound body was discovered in a shallow hole dug in the family's chicken coup / AFP
Bashed woman in three-hour 000 wait
BOY endures three-hour wait for help after mum bashed like a blood-spattered "rag doll".
Rudd, Gillard and the ALP lied about Abbott's comments on women
PEOPLE should calm down about comments on housewives doing the ironing, Tony Abbott says.
No booze before 21, says PM
KEVIN Rudd would like to see the legal drinking age lifted to 21. - what about cigarettes and marijuana? Why did Rudd ask children if that was too harsh? - ed.
"Fearless" baby elephant ready to make her first public appearance at Melbourne Zoo, with handlers describing her as "like a human toddler learning how to play".
Soft drinks increase cancer risk - study
TWO soft drinks a week nearly doubles the risk of developing one of the deadliest cancers.
As the Mid-Atlantic digs out from a historic snowstorm that hit over the weekend, forecasters are predicting another two-footer to blanket parts of the region later this week.
'Bowser bonk' in court over servo sex
A MAN caught having sex at a petrol bowser refused to stop when police asked, court hears.
Top cop takes blame for two-car crash
NSW top cop "as accountable as any other driver" after wife and another driver injured in crash.
Crime fighter faces jail
A FORMER police superintendent has been cleared of any wrongdoing over allegations he interfered with an investigation involving former league player Bryan Fletcher.
First super teachers on salaries of almost $100,000 working in public schools
THE first "super teachers" on salaries of almost $100,000 a year have started work in public schools under a landmark performance pay deal aimed at radically lifting classroom quality. Luisa Bosco, 33, is among an initial intake of 13 superior teachers, known as HATS or highly accomplished teachers, appointed to new-style leadership roles.
Federal Labor MP Belinda Neal skips crucial debate in Canberra to plea to branch members in Woy Woy
FEDERAL Labor MP Belinda Neal failed to turn up to a crucial debate on climate change in Parliament yesterday as she fought to save her career. Ms Neal skipped the first sitting day of the parliamentary week to lobby local branch members.
Tests have caught 180 train workers under influence of drugs including cocaine and ecstasy
DRUG tests have snared 180 train drivers, guards, signallers, controllers and station staff under the influence of everything from cocaine to ecstasy. A new rail industry safety report has also revealed 85 passenger train staff have been found to be drunk at work in the past three years.
Bega schoolgirl killer moved after prison guard's love letters found
THE killer of two Bega schoolgirls has been moved to an undisclosed prison after love letters from a former security guard were found in his cell. Murderer Lindsay Beckett was moved last year after prison management at Port Phillip Prison found the letters and feared they were evidence an improper relationship was forming between the pair, The Age newspaper reported today. The unnamed woman quit her job with prison security firm G4S in June last year, before the letters were found, and has entered the Australian Defence Force.
=== Journalists Corner ===
Exclusive interview with Robert Gates!
How far has our military come in Afghanistan and what work still lies ahead?
Plus, the controversial "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy!
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The Dems' New Bill
They say it will create jobs and increase productivity. So, what's the catch?
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Ad Analysis
Which ads scored at the Super Bowl? Plus, Bernie Goldberg tackles the controversial Tim Tebow spot.
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A 'Hannity' Exclusive!
What are these controversial figures revealing about another terror attack?
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All Hell Breaking Loose Over Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
By Bill O'Reilly
One of the reasons "The Factor" is by far the most dominant cable news program in America is that we are often correct in our assessments.
When Attorney General Eric Holder announced last November that the Obama administration would try Khalid Sheikh Muhammad, the 9/11 mastermind, and four other Al Qaeda thugs in New York City, we immediately said that was a major mistake. And now, many have turned against the decision, including big-time Democrats like Senators Feinstein and Schumer.
In my newspaper column this week, which you can access on BillOReilly.com, I run down why Mr. Holder's decision is so destructive for America. Basically, foreign terrorists should be tried by the military. We have a law stating that, but Holder remains defiant.
In an interview with the left-leaning New Yorker magazine he says, "I don't apologize for what I've done. History will show that the decisions we've made are the right ones."
Holder goes on to say that the "Khalid Sheikh Mohammed trial will be the defining event of his attorney generalship."
But in the same article, it's reported that White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel bitterly opposes Holder's decision. Apparently, Emanuel believes that most Americans, including the entire Republican Party, are so angry that Al Qaeda thugs are getting constitutional protections that it will hurt the president's overall anti-terror agenda.
In Holder's defense, the New Yorker story lays out the case for giving the Al Qaeda killers civilian trials. You should read it to evaluate how strong that argument is.
But again, in my opinion, overseas terrorists must be handled by the military if we are able to win the War on Terror.
In the end, this all comes down to leadership. President Obama has said he allowed Holder to make the final decision, but Holder works for the president, and Mr. Obama should be the decider, as President Bush once said.
Here at "The Factor," we have reported and we have decided. Holder is extremely misguided.
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Camel gas and other warmist nonsense
Piers Akerman
THE insanity all of those who have been engaged in running the great global warming scam is summed up by the decision to recognise belches and farts from domestic camels, and not those emitted by the feral camel population, when calculating a nation’s carbon footprint.
- Tim replied- That sums it up well, Piers. You were right to decry my foolishness with attempting to contribute to wikipedia on the issue. I thank the reader who introduced me to conservapedia, which has some good articles, fair and balanced, on the issue of Global Warming. Those who seized the initiative on wikipedia are still spinning their story and editing out those who question the myth of global warming.
Rudd has had every pin knocked out from under him. The ‘fete a comple’ he had lined up has faltered and collapsed. The slamdunk he had in his sights went bye bye the moment Turnbull was rolled and those damning emails hit the internet. Every thing since has been aftermath. Time is now Rudd’s enemy.
Even the most deluded true believer must acknowledge that AGW is in trouble. We are seeing poll numbers that suggest the average Ray is waking up. Well that’s not quiet fair ...the average Ray has just worked out what an ETS TAX will cost him. Self interest, ya gotta love it.
The blindsided Rudd now has little choice but to distract the public from his massive miscalculation (and poor fortune). The man has decided to go after the Liberals economic credentials - Perhaps his biggest mistake to date.
By my reckoning I give the Libs a 1 chance in 3 of winning the next election - Not too bad as I had them pegged at 1 chance in 10 two months ago.
Rudd is in trouble and he knows it. His election centerpiece is in rubble, interest rates are rising credit conditions are constricting and he has not delivered on anyone of his significant promises.
Could one of you guys do me a favour and list all of Rudd’s broken promises it would really put a cherry on this post
The left will still maintain pride through a string of abuse directed at anyone they don’t like, but that tactic has been around since before Pitt was PM in England and over two hundred years later the tactic still sways the addled and the very young. There is much work to do involving schools which have a curriculum which is not based on science either, but on various left wing myths which take the lives of many people year after year.
I still believe the great threat to prosperity is poverty. Leftwing ideology is a bastion of poverty. It takes from the people and gives to the left. A major problem for conservatives is that no matter how successful, the media can oppose it and put in some abysmal lefties. - ed.
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Let it not all be in vain
Piers Akerman
AS Australians mark the first anniversary of the worst peacetime disaster in our history, the Black Saturday bushfires, it is worth asking whether anything has been learned from the tragedy. - Greens in politics, be they ALP or Green, have no memory of their failures. They take no responsibility for their decisions. They are not the ones risking anything on the bad decisions. They are still profiting from the disasters, making their false claims regarding global warming and collecting well intended donations and diverting funds to irrelevant causes.
They are coordinated in government and opposition and a threat wherever they may be, using the law to abuse their trust. They are a sponge for public monies, and a waster of good will. I am sorry I ever, through being even handed, endorsed anything they said to a child. They have invaded our schools and corrupted our curriculum. I don’t want there to be laws to prevent them. I don’t want people to take extreme action against them. I want responsible people to highlight their weaknesses and failures, and show the light of truth on the issues. The rest will follow. - ed.
Cheryl replied- Cheryl, this article of Piers made me think, and so I posted this. Praxis means ‘action with reflection’ one not denying the other. Rudd has this panicked pitch of “We must do something.” when what he means is he must get paid for something. It isn’t that they aren’t aware of what they are doing or are very forgetful. They are corrupt and there is no examination of their corrupt behavior. Ala Penny Easton. A teen girl marrying the father of a friend .. that was never going to work well, but that is what is inside ALP politicians. They endorse that. They will endorse any corrupt activity they profit from. I don’t mind being contradicted by counter example .. someone please provide one. - ed.
DD ball
that’s PC socialism for you DD.
Selective memory loss as we had in WA
with Carmen Laurence, Alan Bond,
Brian Burke and their ilk after the Burke govts.WA inc. fleecing of WA taxpayers and shareholders.
Nothing has changed in PC Labor - it never does.
Australians are so trusting and
gullible and sadly “gifted” with short memories which renders them unable to sort the wheat from the chaff.
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LABOR COLD
Tim Blair
“Check out the ‘Hot Topics’ atop the right-hand margin of the ALP’s home page,” emails CL. “‘Abbott’ first. ‘Rudd government’ nearly last. And the party’s new symbol is now windmills? What about that lovely dirty Queensland coal?”
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OIL AND STEAM
Tim Blair
Big Climate profits from Big Oil:
UN climate chief Rajendra Pachauri comes under attack for steamy book promoted by BP
Pachauri’s soft-core warmography had other petrochemical assistance:
It was released in Mumbai by Mukesh Ambani – India’s richest man and the head of the oil and gas conglomerate Reliance Industries, the largest private Indian company.
This is almost enough to make me return all my denialist oil money, if I hadn’t already spent it on islands and Concordes.
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NOT THAT THERE’S ANYTHING WRONG WITH THAT
Tim Blair
A BBC reader asks:
Why shouldn’t Iran have nuclear capability? Israel, India, and many other countries which are no more stable than Iran have the capability. Another case of the USA trying to impose it’s homophobic prejudices on the rest of the world and, to my shame, with this country’s backing!Iran’s new status as the Land of the Gays might come as a surprise to various mullahs.
(Via Murph, who writes: “Anyhow, each to their own. Just as long as they test their weapons behind closed doors and don’t flaunt their nuclear capabilities in my face, it’s none of my business ...")
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SCIENTIST SAD
Tim Blair
Poor Phil Jones:
The scientist at the centre of the “climategate” email scandal has revealed that he was so traumatised by the global backlash against him that he contemplated suicide.So now he’s just like all those kids who’ve been made to feel depressed by global warming alarmism. It’s isn’t nice that Jones is upset, but sympathy should be tempered considering that for decades he and his like have been banging on about humankind’s destruction of the planet and our murdering of the poley bears and all. Consider the sadness generated.
Professor Phil Jones said in an exclusive interview with The Sunday Times that he had thought about killing himself “several times”.
It’s interesting how greenoids are reacting to pressure, following years in which their view dominated. Some quit; others are contemplating suicide. Imagine how they would have coped if they’d been condemned as the equivalent of Holocaust deniers or deranged flat-earthers or bribe-receiving frauds. It’s a wonder that any of us realists are still alive or have jobs.
Jones, 57, said he was unprepared for the scandal: “I am just a scientist. I have no training in PR or dealing with crises.”So one of the world’s leading proponents of the view that we’re all at risk from climate change can’t deal with a crisis. Interesting.
The incident has taken a severe toll on his health. He has lost more than a stone in weight and disclosed he is on beta-blockers and using sleeping pills. He said the support of his family, and especially the love of his five-year-old granddaughter, had helped him to shake off suicidal thoughts: “I wanted to see her grow up.”Again, this is very sad. But when you’re at the vanguard of a movement telling others that their grandchildren face life on an uninhabited barbecue grill, it’s difficult to summon any tears.
He remains at risk, still receiving death threats from around the world including two in the past week: “I was shocked. People said I should go and kill myself. They said that they knew where I lived. They were coming from all over the world.”Oh, please. I get more threats than that from fellow Telegraph staffers. And they’re more credible.
Jones believes that the unit was maliciously targeted with multiple FoI requests by climate change sceptics determined to disrupt its work.When freedom of information requests are seen as “disruptive”, you’ve got to wonder what sort of information you’re trying to deliver.
UPDATE. This seems apposite. James Delingpole responds to environmental writer Geoffrey ”apocalyptic obliteration” Lean:
We love our world; we want our children and grandchildren to grow up with jobs and to be able to enjoy looking at landscapes which haven’t been destroyed by wind turbines; we understand that the richer an economy grows the more environmentally conscious it can afford to be. We believe in life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Your side, Geoffrey, does not.They might, if it was written by some dozy kid and included in an IPCC report.
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PLANET STILL DOOMED
Tim Blair
Old-fashioned alarmy talk from the Age‘s Kenneth Davidson:
Britain’s Met Office says the world is on a path towards a potential increase in global temperatures of 4 degrees as early as 2060. If this occurs, only about half a billion people out of about 9 billion will survive, according to Professor Kevin Anderson, director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate change and adviser to the British government.This sort of stuff seems almost quaint in 2010. And who these days cites the Met as any kind of authority?
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TALK TO THE HAND
Tim Blair
Sarah Palin torments her enemies.
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Rudd with more Qs than As
Andrew Bolt
No transcript or video yet, but Kevin Rudd will be worried about his reception on the ABC’s Q&A last night.
Everything was in his favor. Host Tony Jones if a fellow warming alarmist. The live audience comprised school children of the “aware” kind. The usual format was junked so that Rudd had no fellow panellists to challenge him.
And yet, while most of the students still seemed indeed of the Left, as you’d expect from that age group, the evening did not go smoothly.
Rudd was openly laughed at for his mannerisms and tendency to blather. Never have I heard the phrase “you know what?” said so often. He was challenged on his broken promises.
There was huge laughter and prolonged applause when Jones noted that in answering whether he supported lifting the drinking age to 21, Rudd first said “of course”, then claimed he’d rely on “evidence” before having an opinion, and then (so characteristically) asked for a show of hands on whether such a ban would be good. Tell me what to think. I couldn’t think of a more classic demonstration of Rudd’s essential emptiness.
One student even asked him whether the Climategate and IPCC scandals, and the Dutch Government’s decision to review the IPCC advice, made him think twice about relying on the IPCC, too. Even more interesting, the question got sustained applause and Rudd was visibly angered. He refused to look at the student while answering, knowing the young man had his hand in the air, wanting to object to his claim that the IPCC just comprised 4000 (sic) scientists who just “measured things”. True, there was even more applause for Rudd’s I’ll-save-you-from-warming exhortation, but the strong division among the students was extraordinary. The great scare is crumbling, even on Rudd’s turf.
Another student, again with applause, noted that the Copenhagen climate summit was a farce, and Rudd struggled to show it wasn’t.
They’re on to him, these students. On to the scares, on to the spin, on to the populism.
UPDATE
David Penberthy agrees.
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Media Watch grills not the media but the sceptic
Andrew Bolt
Al Gore has reputedly been made a billionaire by hyping man-made warming, even though he spreads so many false claims, lies and exaggerations that he was even taken to court and had nine of his worst errors attacked by a British judge.Yet when he comes to Australia to drum up more green business and is given fawning media coverage, Media Watch attacks one of the few journalists who point out his record. It does not question Gore’s hype, his falsehoods or his blatant conflict of interest.
Lord Monckton is brought to Australia by two retired businessman, one an environmental scientist, to counter the hype and panic unleashed by Gore. This time many in the media vilify him for his looks (the symptom of Graves disease), refuse to cover his actual arguments, report ironic jokes as serious lies, and in various other ways disgrace their profession. Never, for instance, have I seen such a vile sniggering as The Age’s effort above.
But Media Watch is onto it! Last night it turned its hostile eye on ... Monckton. This time it is interested in possible vested interests (none). And it had the temerity to actually suggest the ABC was open to debate when the truth is that the ABC’s treatment of Monckton showed the disgraceful opposite.
It offers only a single criticism of Monckton’s scientific argument against the warming alarmism - by suggesting he’s wrong to say that the sea temperatures of the Great Barrier Reef have not risen over the past 30 years, claiming instead they’ve risen over the past 130. Of course, the one claim does not at all contradict the other. Media Watch has failed.
To add to the joke, Media Watch last night even scolded a reporter for trusting observations over scary climate model predictions.
UPDATE
First, Media Watch accuses Lord Monckton of fabricating claims of vested interest against warmist Sir John Houghton, without giving the background which suggests that whatever errors Monckton made in framing his allegations, the real substance of his allegation were drawn from media reports. The real vested interests here - that of the IPCC chairman - are the real disgrace.
And to make even clearer the failure of Media Watch to disprove Monckton on the science, here is what its target actually said:
The Barrier Reef Authority has established that sea temperatures in the region of the reef have not changed at all over the last 30 years… I have the figures from the Barrier Reef Authority. I have their chart. I’ve got it in my slides. I’ll be showing it at the ball room of the Sofitel Hotel at 5.30 in Melbourne today.Here is how little effort Media Watch put into checking Monckton’s information:
Well, we weren’t at his Lordship’s lecture, so we don’t know what figures were on his slide.Here is the Media Watch ”rebuttal:
The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority says it doesn’t measure sea temperatures itself, and doesn’t know where his figures come from.And here is John McLean’s health warning on that “rebuttal”:
But its chief scientist says that what’s important is the trend over the past century or so.The peer reviewed science we rely on indicates that there has been an increase in ocean temperatures in the last 130 years
Jonathon Holmes showed a graph of temperatures over the last 100 years, with average temperatures for each period, I think of 20 years (it might have been ten, it was shown so fast). A rising trend was indicated on that graph.
The graph source was the HadSST2 dataset and since I have a copy of the same data and can extract the relevant data, I can make the following comments.
1 - HadSST2 is based on 5 degree Latitude x 5 degree longitude grid cells. The grid cell that includes the top of Cape York also has sea temperatures from the Gulf of Carpentaria. The other two grid cells cover a substantial area out into the Coral Sea and it’s dubious to claim that the temperature in each cell is an accurate recording of reef temperatures. (In fact these temperatures are reported by ships but what ships would deliberately sail along the reef when it threatens to tear the bottom out of the ship?)
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The end of the world is nighish
Andrew Bolt
Tim Blair is rightly amazed that Age writer Kenneth Davidson could still peddle such apocalyptic tripe:
Britain’s Met Office says the world is on a path towards a potential increase in global temperatures of 4 degrees as early as 2060. If this occurs, only about half a billion people out of about 9 billion will survive, according to Professor Kevin Anderson, director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate change and adviser to the British government.UPDATE
As an antidote, read Dr Dennis Jensen’s fine speech in Parliament yesterday on global warming hysteria and the Rudd Government’s deceitfully named ETS:
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How to blame humans for anything
Andrew Bolt
Niche modeller David Stockwell is profoundly unimpressed with what’s billed as the latest “proof” of man-made warming - that winds are now pushing rain away from Western Australia, and dumping snow on Antarctica. And the funny thing is that not even the man spruiking this ”proof”, Professor Tas van Ommen, seems to have much faith in it:
The basic conclusion is that if this is being driven by human impact then you would expect it to continue but as climate change continues to change, the current situation changes too.So if this keeps going, that’s evidence of man-made warming. And if it doesn’t, that’s evidence of climate change. It’s a win-win. And when you see van Ommen’s reasoning for assuming man is to blame you see exactly the same kind of heads-I-win-tails-you-lose reasoning:
This pattern has strengthened in the past 30 years and some of the computer models that reproduce this are showing that it looks like it has happened because of greenhouse gases – carbon dioxide – and also ozone (being depleted).The models that reproduced this warming must be believed, but the blame-man ones that didn’t should be ignored.
And here’s the seal to the deal: this great change in the Antarctic oscillation just brings us to where we were in 1960. From Jones, J. M. and M. Widmann, 2004. Early peak in Antarctic oscillation index. Nature, 432, 290–291:
Here we reconstruct the austral summer (December–January) Antarctic oscillation index from sea-level pressure measurements over the twentieth century5 and find that large positive values, and positive trends of a similar magnitude to those of past decades, also occurred around 1960, and that strong negative trends occurred afterwards. This positive Antarctic oscillation index and large positive trend during a period before ozone-depleting chemicals were released into the atmosphere and before marked anthropogenic warming, together with the later negative trend, indicate that natural forcing factors or internal mechanisms in the climate system must also strongly influence the state of the Antarctic oscillation.(Thanks to reader Berfel and also to reader Andrew on Stockwell’s thread.)
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And it may not even work
Andrew Bolt
All that pain - for what?
Junior climate change minister Greg Combet was unable to guarantee the ETS would reduce Australia’s emissions by 2020(Thanks to various readers.)
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Baillieu plays the race card
Andrew Bolt
I’m as opposed to racisim as is Ted Baillieu, but the Opposition Leader is feeding a damaging myth here - with only the Left to applaud him:
RACIST thugs have been put on notice with Opposition Leader Ted Baillieu saying Victoria has serious problems with racist behaviour and racial violence…As I’ve reported several times. the race problem behind many of these bashings is not the one Baillieu so easily suggests. But I guess to point out such facts would be racist.
This follows a virulent anti-Australian campaign in the Indian media after a rise in the number of reported assaults on Indian students and cab drivers.
In a move aimed to wedge the Brumby Government on its record on law and order, Mr Baillieu said racist attacks had been increasing for four years, especially against international students
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So many visions, so little action
Andrew Bolt
Another Rudd vision involving plenty of speeches and blueprints, and nothing practical:
THE Rudd government has outlined its grand plan to create a scientifically-engaged Australia. It wants to get Australians thinking more about science and will establish, for the first time, a national framework aimed at “catapulting science into classrooms, boardrooms and lounge rooms”.It’s like the 2020 ideas summit in slow motion, with precisely the same lack of action. Spin, spin, spin.
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Your future, as advertised
Andrew Bolt
The Superbowl coverage today featured Audi’s new “Green Police” ads, which are either laughing with or at…
Another version:
The scary thing is that when you first see them you’re not sure if they’ve a warning or endorsement - such are our times. I mean, check the question in the campaign’s earnest interactive quiz, when a Green Police officer starts: ”I come to your house for surprise visit, what kind of a light bulb should I find there?”
Hey! Is this actually a training aide for Kevin Rudd’s own light globe police?
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No, Prime Minister. That drought wasn’t man-made, either
Andrew Bolt
Melbourne University alarmist David Karoly once claimed a rise in the Murray Darling Basin’s temperatures was “likely due to the increase in greenhouse gases in the atmosphere from human acitivity” and:
This is the first drought in Australia where the impact of human-induced global warming can be clearly observedPrime Minister Kevin Rudd grabbed the scare and exploited it:
BRENDAN Nelson was yesterday accused of being “blissfully immune” to the effects of climate change after he said the crisis in the Murray-Darling Basin was not linked to global warming…But now comes the latest evidence that Rudd and Karoly were wrong: in fact, there’s no evidence in the Murray Darling drought of man-made warming, says a new study in Geophysical Research Letters:
In parliament yesterday, Kevin Rudd attacked Dr Nelson, accusing him of ignoring scientific facts.
“You need to get with the science on this,” the Prime Minister said. “Look at the technical report put together by the CSIRO and the Bureau of Meteorology.”
Previous studies of the recent drought in the Murray-Darling Basin (MDB) have noted that low rainfall totals have been accompanied by anomalously high air temperatures. Subsequent studies have interpreted an identified trend in the residual timeseries of non-rainfall related temperature variability as a signal of anthropogenic change, further speculating that increased air temperature has exacerbated the drought through increasing evapotranspiration rates. In this study, we explore an alternative explanation of the recent increases in air temperature. This study demonstrates that significant misunderstanding of known processes of land surface – atmosphere interactions has led to the incorrect attribution of the causes of the anomalous temperatures, as well as significant misunderstanding of their impact on evaporation within the Murray-Darling Basin…What’s causing the evaporation and temperatures is not (man-made) warming. It’s kind of the other way around: more sunshine, through lack of cloud cover, and lack of rain and therefore evaporation is causing higher temperatures.
However, to accept the correlation [between temperature and rainfall] as the sole basis for the attribution of cause to human emissions is to implicitly assume that the correlation represents an entirely correct model of the sole driver of maximum air temperature. This is clearly not the case.
And guess which scandal-ridden and alarmist IPCC report relied on Karoly’s claims? Reader Baa Humbug:
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Apocalypse delayed
Andrew Bolt
Fifty per cent of hype deducted:
Glaciologists at the Laboratory for Space Studies in Geophysics and Oceanography (LEGOS РCNRS/CNES/IRD/Universit̩ Toulouse 3) and their US and Canadian colleagues (1) have shown that previous studies have largely overestimated mass loss from Alaskan glaciers over the past 40 years. Recent data from the SPOT 5 and ASTER satellites have enabled researchers to extensively map mass loss in these glaciers, which contributed 0.12 mm/year to sea-level rise between 1962 and 2006, rather than 0.17 mm/year as previously estimated.(Via Watts Up With That.)
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