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Friday, March 07, 2014

If The Evidence Doesn’t Support Your Preconception, Hide It

The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has downplayed evidence that the global climate is considerably less sensitive to greenhouse gases than climate models are estimating.

Global Warming IS REAL, argues sceptic mathematician - it just isn’t THERMAGEDDON

Posted by Thomas E. Brewton on 03/07 at 02:33 PM
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Thursday, March 06, 2014

Liberal-Progressive Foreign Policy Fallacy

Liberal-progressives are so involved in self-admiration and congratulating themselves on their moral superiority that they fail to note that much of the rest of the world does not share their views about acceptable international conduct.

Tuesday, March 04, 2014

We Dismissed God And Hired Obama

Obama’s Journey from Arrogance to Incompetence

Posted by Thomas E. Brewton on 03/04 at 11:42 AM
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Monday, March 03, 2014

Obama Gets Tough With Putin

The Russian dictator better be careful. No ‘red line’ this time; Obama has drawn a line with invisible ink and he’s sent John Kerry to pontificate sternly at Putin.

Posted by Thomas E. Brewton on 03/03 at 04:35 PM
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Thursday, February 27, 2014

Liberal-Progressives Will Teach Us What To Think

‘Academic Justice’: Inside the Abyss of the Academy, which appears on the FrontPage website, conjures up visions of ruthless, all-encompassing political rule by George Orwell’s Big Brother in the novel 1984. Arthur Koestler’s Darkness at Noon, based on Stalin’s 1938 purges of dissidents in the Moscow show trials, also comes to mind.

The common theme is that no one, under liberal-progressive ‘social justice,’ can be allowed to express opinions other than those approved by the ruling intellectual elite. Anyone who ventures to question the elite must be liquidated, or at least, in the manner of the Democrat/Socialist Party, tarred with the brush of treason and racism.

Posted by Thomas E. Brewton on 02/27 at 10:51 PM
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Wednesday, February 26, 2014

The Cost Of Junk Science

GERMAN GOVERNMENT ADVISERS CALL FOR ABOLITION OF RENEWABLES SUBSIDIES

BASF, the world’s biggest chemical maker by sales, will make the most of its capital investments outside Europe for the first time, as it responds to the continent’s higher energy costs and growing demand in North America and emerging markets such as China. “In Europe we have the most expensive energy and we are not prepared to exploit the energy resources we have, such as shale gas. We have relatively high wage costs and we have a stagnating market,” said Kurt Bock, BASF chief executive. Mr Bock has been a prominent critic of German and European Union climate and energy policies, arguing these are ineffective, raise costs for industry and cause job losses.—Chris Bryant, Financial Times, 26 February

If anyone thinks Germany’s move to renewable energies has been a success, you may want to take a few minutes and read what center-left news weekly Der Spiegel has just written. Overall Germany’s energy revolution has made the country’s energy unaffordable, unreliable and has ruined its own idyllic landscape, and ravaged rainforests abroad as well. “Rising energy costs are becoming a problem for more and more citizens in Germany. Just from 2008 to 20111 the share of energy-poor households in the Federal Republic jumped from 13.8 to 17 percent.” Much of the rapid increase in energy prices is owing to Germany’s growth in expensive wind and solar energy. Ironically, despite more than 20% of Germany’s energy now being supplied by renewables, CO2 emissions have been rising just the same.—Pierre Gosselin, No Tricks Zone, 24 February 2014

Posted by Thomas E. Brewton on 02/26 at 12:11 PM
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Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Al Gore, Abort Mission To Seize Weather Control And Return To Earth

Farmers’ Almanac More Reliable Than Warming Climate Models

Posted by Thomas E. Brewton on 02/25 at 01:01 AM
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Sunday, February 23, 2014

Socialist Labor Unions Get What They Deserve

New ObamaCare Losers: Public Employees

Posted by Thomas E. Brewton on 02/23 at 11:28 AM
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Revelations From Our Pagan Weather Gods

Today’s frenzied adulation for ‘global warming’ or ‘climate change’ is a throw-back to primitive paganism.

The tribal shaman was thought to have power because he could incant a secret name for an object or phenomenon. In the same way today’s radical environmentalists - those of the ClimateGate variety, President Obama, and John Kerry - believe that giving names to climate phenomena and creating fantastical computer models gives them special power over the future of earth’s weather.

To support their claims to the power of omniscience they invoke a non-existent concurrence by ‘all the world’s scientists.’

Charles Krauthammer dissects The myth of ‘settled science’

Posted by Thomas E. Brewton on 02/23 at 12:33 AM
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