Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
I think it’s pretty clear that Audi meant to show that its car is so environmentally pure, it can withstand any scrutiny. (Michelle Malkin shows just how committed to environmental “purity” Audi purports to be.) However, its Superbowl commercial very effectively (and probably inadvertently) managed to show precisely what life
Continue readingThis 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
Continue readingSince 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
Continue readingSome things go out with a whimper. Global warming may well be going out with a bang. The latest news from Russia is the claim that the global warming scientists didn’t just have faulty code and highly massaged numbers. It turns out that they also messed with the underlying data,
Continue readingThe law of unintended consequences is a fascinating one. I blogged the other day about the tax on restaurant food that’s eaten “here” as opposed to “to go.” In cafes, smart people order food “to go,” and then consumer it here. The result is garbage cans filled with food containers.
Continue readingEvery year, there’s that one December weekend when every event converges. This past weekend, which really ended only yesterday, was that weekend. Friday we went to the Cirque du Soliel. I’ve seen every show since the Cirque burst onto the national scene in the mid-1980s. This show was exquisitely beautiful,
Continue readingMy 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
Continue readingI 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
Continue readingIn 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
Continue reading[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgPUpIBWGp8[/youtube] 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.
Continue readingLaer Pearce, who blogs at the wonderful Cheat-Seeking Missiles, is on temporary hiatus right now as he works on a big writing project (which I can’t wait to read when it’s completed). Meanwhile, he sends me interesting emails, including the following, which I publish with his blessing: Director of East
Continue readingThe whole sordid story of the corruption of science at one of the world’s premier institutions that has been pushing the man-made global warming theory sounded vaguely familiar to me, but I couldn’t figure out why. It was only last night that I finally realized that the debate perfectly parallels
Continue readingI 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
Continue readingI 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.
Continue readingFrom 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
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