Wednesday, April 22, 2009

David S. Van Dyke, American Thinker: UFOs and AGW
Depending on how you phrase the questions, approximately the same percentage of the public believes in global warming as believe in alien visitors. Polls vary widely depending on when the poll is taken, who is asking the questions and how the questions are asked
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The whole global warming, "the end is near" issue is near and dear to me. I am not a climatologist or a meteorologist, but I have a very thorough background in science, statistics and critical thinking. In fact, almost 20 years ago I was initially a believer in anthropogenic global warming. The concept fascinated me so I decided to do some reading and educate myself. We all know what happens when you read the "real" science on the subject. You become a skeptic. I'm skeptical about a lot of things.
American Thinker: Green up, Man! It's Freaking Earth Day!
"We're in a race between a biological collapse and an economic collapse. I'm cheering for the economic collapse to come first."
- Stewart Brand, editor of the Whole Earth Catalogue
(quoted in The Big Bang, Buddha, and the Baby Boom by Wes Nisker)

On this 39th annual celebration of Earth Day, the eco-trippers may believe they are realizing their dream of economic collapse. Choosing April 22nd for their green consciousness-raising celebration was no idle choice as Utopian Socialist hero, Vladimir Lenin was born on the same day. History sadly recalls Lenin's Bolshevik conversion of the Russian economy from a developing agricultural and industrial juggernaut into the vodka-swilling centrally-planned land of shortages and shoddy goods it remained throughout the 20th century.

The dramatic national advance of the Democrats in the 2008 elections elevated legions of like-minded central planners into positions of power. As Barack Obama dabbles in Bolshevism redux, fiddling with Cap-and-Trade legislation, and nationalizing banks and car companies for starters, he appears determined to limit our mobility and resign American commuters to driving organ donor cars to our state-sponsored jobs .
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So try to maintain your sense of humor today. Remember that not all of us believe that meat is murder or that Obama Motors will come up with a solar-powered automobile to keep us off the streets at night. Just remember that those meek substitutes for the leonine savages that used to populate the environmental picket lines truly intend to inherit the earth. They are staying up at night with Sierra Club lawyers trying to change the will.
Alarmist journalist Tom Yulsman continues his allegedly unbiased, "let's go where the facts take us" policy
Climate skeptics got their undies all in a bundle this past weekend over publication of an article in The Australian headlined, “Revealed: Antarctic ice growing, not shrinking” describing, among other things, the findings of The Antarctic Climate Change and the Environment Report. Even though the story was published over the weekend, as I write this on Tuesday it has been the most read piece in the online edition of the paper, no doubt because climate skeptic blogs are flogging the issue like there’s no tomorrow.
Hey Tom--What's the scientific basis for your claim about knowing the positioning of my undergarments?

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