Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Wow. Here’s something you won’t read in the NY Times. Peter Glover of the American Thinker reports that Dr. James Hansen (yeah, I only wish it’d been the Goracle), head of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), falsified data to make October 2008 appear to be the hottest on record. It wasn’t.
In October, [...]
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Tagged Data, Falsified, Fraud, Fraudulent, GISS, Global, Goddard, Hansen, Institute, James, Mistaken, NASA, Space, Studies, Warming
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I might have the headline wrong, but the creation of a black hole would definitely end drunk driving, n’est pas?
Anyway, while Al Gore and his crew of eco-warriors worry endlessly and obsessively about how much carbon we’re creating and how much fun we’re having, there’s a crew over in Europe somewhere trying to create black [...]
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Tagged arXiv, Black, Decay, End, EOW, Glenn, Hole, Holes, Instapundit, LHC, Protons, Reynolds, World
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The Associated Press reports that violence spiked in Barack Obama’s hometown of Chicago last weekend on the eve of the Pennsylvania primary, although media outlets and Obama’s campaign failed to acknowledge a connection between the uptick in deadly attacks and tomorrow’s crucial vote.
In the bloodiest day of the campaign season, militants launched several attacks across [...]
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Tagged Attacks, Chicago, Insurgent, Iraq, Militant, Obama, Peace, Police, Sadr, Uprising, Violence, Vote
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Black Five comments on Time Magazine’s decision to run a “global warming” cover modeling Iwo Jima. Hasn’t gone over all that well with veterans. The real diamond in the dirt is a comment made by Time managing editor Richard Stengel regarding the role of the press in reporting the news.
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Tagged Battle, Bias, Flag, Global, Green, Iwo Jima, Magazine, Photo, Time, Tree, Veterans, Warming, WWII
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Barack Obama, in a speech that harkens back to Robert Reich’s and Felix Rohatyn’s calls for a national industrial policy during the early 1980’s, promises that the federal government will use its regulatory authority and the Strategic National Reserve to lower oil prices and shield US consumers from the big oil companies.
Democrat Barack Obama would [...]
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Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Scientists, put your pencils down. Seth Borenstein of the AP has declared definitively that global warming is a man-made phenomenon.
The fingerprints of man-made climate change are evident in seasonal timing changes for thousands of species on Earth, according to dozens of studies and last year’s authoritative report by the Nobel Prize-winning international climate scientists. More [...]
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Tagged AP, Associated Press, Borenstein, Change, Christy, Climate, Global, Gore, IPCC, John, Nobel, Seth, Spring, Warming
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The Drudge headline screamed “GREENSPAN: FINANCIAL MESS WORST SINCE WWII…“ , hawking the story like a newspaper boys in an old black & whites. I doubted that Greenspan said that, but was curious as to what he had to say. Here’s the quote that spawned the headline.
“The current financial crisis in the US is likely to be judged in retrospect [...]
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Monday, December 10, 2007
Al Gore and the IPCC are slated to receive their Nobel Peace Prize today, and his comments are priceless. I know, I know… it’s not the messenger, it’s the message. Unless we’re talking about the war; then unless you’re wearing a CIB and are willing to press your adult children into service, you’re a “chickenhawk”.
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Human Rights Watch has grabbed the AP’s attention to call on NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg to confront the Chinese on their human rights record, and their tradition of supressing the press.
New York-based Human Rights Watch said Bloomberg, who is visiting China this week, is obligated to express concern about media freedoms because of his background [...]
Here’s an AP story from Bali about developments at the UN Climate Change Conference. China, as you may know, has surpassed the US as the leading carboin emitted in the world, and is a cuntry that is in the midst of an “at all cost” economic expansion. If you doubt how reckless they’ve been in [...]