Bookworm on Jan 16 2013 | Filed under: Science
Tweet Bear with me here, because I’m about to prove how simplistic and primitive my mind is. I need you all to help enlighten me. Some high school students I know got an assignment to set up and complete an experiment. Some of the experiments they came up with include looking at plant growth under [...]
Danny Lemieux on Aug 10 2012 | Filed under: Climate change
Basically, these volcanic events have to do with the puzzling appearance and disappearance of hot water masses in the Pacific Ocean that affect the flow of currents and, consequently, air masses that affect our global climate.
Bookworm on Jul 16 2012 | Filed under: Climate change
Tweet The news tells me that the US is suffering the biggest drought since 1956. Does that mean that anthropogenic global warming was as bad in 1956 as it is today? And if the Dust Bowl drought of the 1920s was even worse (and the news article doesn’t mention it), does that mean AGW was [...]
Bookworm on Jul 03 2012 | Filed under: Climate change
Tweet A couple of weeks ago, I asked you all to link to a General Knowledge Quiz that DK publishing hosts. I disclosed at the time that this was not a purely altruistic act, even though I thought the quizzes were fun and I think the world of DK books. In exchange for promoting [...]
Danny Lemieux on Jun 06 2012 | Filed under: Climate change, Environmentalism, Uncategorized
Tweet Years ago, the Bookworm Room took a leadership position in challenging man-made global warming dogma and I would comfortably assert that we have been winning the arguments. However, the battle is far from over. Today’s Chicago Tribune posted a column published by two credentialed climate scientists from the U. of Illinois, attributing this winter’s [...]
Bookworm on Mar 27 2012 | Filed under: Climate change, Media matters
Tweet The Science Channel’s Alien Encounters is a two-part pseudo-documentary that interweaves footage of real scientists and novelists talking about possible alien encounters, with faux footage of the world dealing with an actual alien encounter. Alien Encounters has gotten decent press from the usual suspects. I disagree. As a science show, it’s not impressive. The [...]
Bookworm on Jan 31 2012 | Filed under: Climate change
Tweet I’m not the most observant person in the world. It was probably in around 1976 when I suddenly realized that the CBS nightly news, which my parents watched religiously, was no longer giving daily updates about the number of dead and wounded in Vietnam. That information had provided a backdrop to my childhood dinners, [...]
Danny Lemieux on Dec 19 2011 | Filed under: Al Gore, Barack Obama, Capitalism, Climate change, Economics, Energy, Environmentalism, Government, Iraq, Islam, Israel, Leftist morality, Liberal blogs, Muslim violence
Tweet Here’s a Robert Samuelson article, “bye bye Keynes” that should give us all pause: the arguments he uses to write Keynes’ obituary are arguments that we all posited in our own excoriation of Keynes in years past, in response to a string of commentators, ranging from A to Z. I’ve been reviewing our last [...]
Danny Lemieux on Feb 07 2011 | Filed under: Climate change
Tweet Are we entering the next ice age? One of the foundations of scientific inquiry is skepticism. Contrary to what some believe, science is not about consensus but about leaving all doors of inquiry open to all possibilities. It takes only one point of evidence to disprove an entire theory. Progress in science has occurred [...]
Bookworm on May 18 2010 | Filed under: Al Gore, Climate change
Tweet I have to say that this video actually made me giggle, because having all of Al Gore’s doom-and-gloom compressed to less than 2 minutes, and then playing Pomp & Circumstance in the background, is more like a cartoon than anything else. Then again I didn’t have to listen to the whole blather, and I [...]
Bookworm on Feb 24 2010 | Filed under: Climate change
Tweet I’ve been reading Fermat’s Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World’s Greatest Mathematical Problem, by Simon Singh. Normally, I’d shy away from a book like this — after all, it’s about math! — but it was required reading for my book club, and it’s proven to be delightful. To the extent there is [...]
Bookworm on Dec 19 2009 | Filed under: Climate change
Tweet This is one of Steyn’s best, and that’s saying a lot. Here are my two favorite parts from his column on Copenhagen: [T]he Prince of Wales is simultaneously heir to the thrones of Britain, Australian, Tuvalu, and a bunch of other countries. His Royal Highness was also in Copenhagen last week, telling delegates that [...]
Bookworm on Dec 17 2009 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Capitalism, Climate change, Communism, Media matters
Tweet Since the beginning, climate change skeptics have said that the hysteria of the man-made global warming movement, aside from being based on manifestly shoddy and often dishonest science, was in fact a Leftist political gambit. The Communists, having failed to win the world over with a Cold War had regrouped and were seeking to [...]
Bookworm on Dec 11 2009 | Filed under: Climate change
Tweet My daughter is a very reluctant Girl Scout, only because her best friend, an equally reluctant Girl Scout, is in there due to parental pressure. In Spring, we sell cookies, and I buy the minty kind. Might have to stop selling and buying, though, because it turns out that, not only have the Girl [...]
Bookworm on Dec 07 2009 | Filed under: Climate change
Tweet I can’t do better than to quote from the Wall Street Journal on the EPA ruling, which constitutes nothing more than an undemocratic takeover of all business activity and most government activity in this country: EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson said yesterday that her ruling that greenhouses gases are dangerous pollutants would “cement 2009′s place [...]
Bookworm on Dec 06 2009 | Filed under: Climate change
Tweet In the wake of the emails that an anonymous whistleblower published, those of us who aren’t scientists have been able to figure out that something is very, very wrong with the AGW data. Still, all the science stuff is confusing, especially the bit about “hide the decline.” Thankfully, at American Thinker, Marc Sheppard takes [...]
Bookworm on Dec 02 2009 | Filed under: Climate change
Tweet I don’t find Stewart at all amusing — but I love the fact that, through his leaden efforts, a generation that relies on him for the news is being told that they’ve been force-fed Kool-Aid.
Bookworm on Nov 30 2009 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Climate change
Tweet I realize that, with readers all over the world, speaking about “morning” is a bit silly, but I can only function according to the rules of my own time zone. I’m up, but so are the kids, and the “getting ready for school” drill is in full swing. It’s definitely morning for me, and [...]
Bookworm on Nov 23 2009 | Filed under: Climate change
Tweet 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 [...]
Bookworm on Nov 22 2009 | Filed under: Climate change, Media matters
Tweet 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 — [...]
Bookworm on Nov 22 2009 | Filed under: Climate change
Tweet 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 [...]
Bookworm on Nov 20 2009 | Filed under: Climate change
Tweet 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 [...]
Bookworm on Oct 22 2009 | Filed under: Climate change, Military
Tweet 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 [...]
Bookworm on Oct 21 2009 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Climate change, Judges, Judicial activism, Media matters, United Nations
Tweet 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 [...]
Bookworm on Sep 28 2009 | Filed under: Climate change
Tweet 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) [...]
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