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Jan. 26, 2009 | The greatest task of the Obama administration -- and the next 10 presidents -- is to avoid catastrophic global warming.

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Maybe Joe Romm’s employers over at the Center for American Progress have a vision for how his tantrums and fits serve their interests on advancing climate policy. I certainly can’t see how his antics do anything more than paint the CAP as a hotbed for intolerance and ignorance.

Stimulus Plan: Non-Existent Unemployed Climate Modelers Get $140 Million » The Foundry

President Barack Obama’s trillion dollar stimulus plan, has morphed into an appropriations bill devoid of debate. The process forgoes any pretense of targeting unemployed people and resources.

For instance, the bill reads “Provided further, That not less than $140,000,000 shall be available for climate data modeling.” This raises the question of how many unemployed climate modelers are out there pounding the pavement.

When presented with that question, last Friday, Pat Michaels, former president of the American Association of State Climatologists stated “I don’t know one unemployed modeler.”

On Slumdog Millionaire - Sudeshna Sen-Columnists-Opinion-The Economic Times

Personally, though, I think it should be made mandatory viewing for all climate change, environmental, child labour, anti-outsourcing and other such well-meaning but clueless activists in the west, just so they stop talking nonsense all the time. Now, I don’t have to constantly explain the truth behind the ‘alleged’ exploitation of child labour making carpets and selling newspapers, or why we won’t give money to beggars, or cut carbon emissions and dismantle our call centres to every third random stranger I meet. I just tell ‘em to go see the movie.
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