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I think we’re all agreed that global warming alarmists have used fraud, blackmail, and blackballing to advance their global warming agenda.  The liberal media, if it acknowledges these tactics, is saying that they were simply over aggressive, but that the underlying facts remain true.  AJ Strata, however, begs to differ.  In a heavily scientific post [...]

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From The Weekly Standard: With the release of hundreds of emails by scientists advocates of global warming showing obvious and entirely inappropriate collusion by the authors — including attempts to suppress dissent, to punish journals that publish peer-reviewed studies casting doubt on global warming, and to manipulate data to bolster their own arguments — even [...]

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Am I the only one who has had it up to here and more with the relentless imperative that I buy green?  I have this incredible urge to pollute and waste.  I do not like being bullied, and I am being bullied. When I’m at the store, surrounded by all the little soldiers staggering under [...]

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I just had to laugh.  The New York Times report on the hacked climate change documents starts off pretty honestly: Hundreds of private e-mail messages and documents hacked from a computer server at a British university are causing a stir among global warming skeptics, who say they show that climate scientists conspired to overstate the [...]

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It’s a story that broke first in Europe, but is making its way here.  (I heard about it on NewsFifty, which is constantly adding links.)  Here’s the story, briefly:  Hadley GRU is one of the major climate change advocacy organizations.  Hackers broke into its database and discovered more than a thousand emails and documents indicating [...]

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These stories have nothing to do with each other.  I just thought each was interesting, and therefore pass them on to you: Americans are figuring out that global warming is a scam. That “missing link” is too distantt to be missing — and maybe it is connected to the first story, because both remind us [...]

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Sadie sent me a great trio of stories today, and I want to pass them on to you: The UN wants to make sure that the Western nation’s efforts to protect themselves against cross-dressing jihadists (you know, those guys who don burqas to hide bombs) don’t offend transgendered individuals (who may or may not be [...]

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In his latest opining about world events, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, has certainly managed to assure that every one of his illustrious predecessors is rolling in his grave.  Please recall that Williams is the same Church prelate who advanced Sharia law. He’s now calling for the end of economic growth the save the [...]

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Okay, Steven Chu wasn’t as explicit as my post caption suggests.  Nevertheless, buried within his peculiar remarks about companies deserting the U.S. Chamber of Congress is a profound disdain for the American way of doing business: Our energy secretary applauds and encourages companies to leave the U.S. Chamber of Commerce over its position on climate [...]

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Well, I don’t actually know what happens to a politically driven scientific consensus about man-made global warming when the underlying data is corrupt.  But I can tell you that you can watch this cognitive dissonance begin to play out if you check out the Strata-Sphere post that examines the opinings of economist (and idiot) Paul [...]

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The media repeatedly assures us that there is no question — and cannot be any question — about climate change.  That particular bit of science is settled, with all the data collected, a position the media holds to strenuously despite significant amounts of data that contradict the claim that humans (particularly American humans) are solely [...]

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I’ve got two quick environmental links for you today.  The first has to do with pollution.  You know that I’ve said at this blog all along that cap-and-trade is stupid, not only because it will destroy America’s economy, but because the really big up-and-coming polluters are China and India.  Turns out I was wrong:  they’re [...]

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One of the most prescient books that I ever remember reading as a teenager has to be Alvin Toffler’s 1970 classic Future Shock.  To recap its theme, Toffler predicted that the pace of new information was increasing at such a rapid rate that it would overcome peoples’ capacities to absorb that information. The resulting effect [...]

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One of the major problems conservatives face is the limitations of their own nature.  We’re conservative after all.  Our passion is putting our heads down and getting on with the work of life:  earning a living, raising our families, serving our communities.  We tend not to be protesters.  Or more precisely, protesting is not a [...]

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For many years, the bête noire of Marin County driving was the jam, both North and South, in the 101 corridor at San Rafael.  If you headed south in the morning, that bottleneck could back you up for miles, almost up to Novato.  And if you headed north in the afternoon, it was even worse, [...]

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I blogged the other day about the fact that three Marin County towns had opted out of an expensive green energy plan — and that the local liberal newspaper applauded them.  News comes today that yet another town has now decided that the pocketbook trumps Algore induced environmental panic: [Larkspur] City Manager Jean Bonander said [...]

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The Marin IJ is running two polls today, one concerning employing illegal immigrants and the other asking whether “most Marin residents are environmental posers.”  As to the latter, with 375 votes cast, 82% of voters have answered that, yes, Marin residents are environmental posers.  I was vote number 375 in that regard. It’s a good [...]

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Green is fine if you can be cute about it:  cute little hybrid cars, cute little permanent shopping bags boasting about your green-ness, and cute locally grown arugala.  But is Green still fine if your City requires that, as a matter of law, you spend up to $30,000 to bring your home into compliance with [...]

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So much of what Progressives seek for us is a return to the less than lovely and easy parts of the past.  For example, in the greenie world, who needs warm, efficient, useful incandescent light bulbs?  How much better if we bathe the environment in love by using light bulbs that would have been familiar [...]

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I live in Marin County, which has a very high incidence of breast cancer.  A few years ago, Marin launched a very expensive investigation, asking each Marin woman to fill out a form documenting how often she eats hot dogs and bacon, and whether she lives near power lines.  I was unimpressed, although I dutifully [...]

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Part of the environmentalists’ apocalyptic frenzy about climate change is the fact that natural disasters seem to have worse consequences than ever before, with more property destroyed and more people killed.  Time Magazine, of all journalistic places, puts that into perspective, reminding the hysterics of something they might have forgotten:  we have more people than [...]

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Interesting, isn’t it, how the earth gets warmer and colder, and warmer and colder?

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It’s an old-fashioned concept: Some horrible disaster happens, and the victims (or the observers) ponder it, and then pronounce, “It’s God’s will.” Nobody would say that now, right? We’re rational, scientifically oriented creatures who search for meaning in everything/ We would never shrug and, Job-like, admit that meaning can elude us and that God can [...]

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I’m a scientific ignoramus.  Although I’ve been skeptical of global warming from the start, my skepticism hasn’t been rooted in a sound grasp of facts and scientific principles.  Instead, it arises because of my source problems:  I deeply distrust the people touting climate change. From the moment Al Gore started mouthing off about it, and [...]

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….but you wouldn’t listen.  You had to go ahead and do it anyway, and only now, when things are getting serious, are you figuring it out yourself.  These are words parents say to teenagers, and conservatives say to liberals.  In teenage land, you end up with pregnancies, STDs, and substance abuse.  In liberal land, you [...]

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