Saturday, June 27, 2009

Skeptical Inquirer Abandons Reason, Embraces Global Warming | The Resilient Earth
The tenor of the whole SI edition is perhaps best summed up by another quote from the AAAS article: “[Gore] was mind-boggling in his sincerity,” said enraptured CSI Fellow Leon Lederman, “what Gore did for me the other night because he was so passionate...was [make me determined] never to go anywhere anymore without global warming as my chief topic.” What reasoned discourse! And from a CSI Fellow! This isn't rational thought, it is hero worship verging on hysteria.

By including such tripe editor Frazier stands revealed as a global warming true believer, not a skeptical scientific observer who demands solid empirical evidence to support hypotheses. The debate is on-going but Skeptical Inquirer is not reporting on it, it has chosen to side with the global warming alarmists.

It seems that when the publishing organization of SI changed its name from the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP) to the Committee for Scientific Investigation more was lost than a number of words—it seems a good deal of integrity as sacrificed as well. I do not intend to renew my membership with this organization and I urge others to critically review their affiliation with CSI.
On the House floor | Washington Examiner
By all appearances, the House is about to vote on a very long bill of which it has no completed official copy.
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Global Warming is apparently so urgent that we can't even wait until members of Congress know what they're voting on.
Blue Crab Boulevard » Unsettled Science
The cult managed a seven vote victory in the lower chamber of the US Congress. Now is the time to start pushing back on the science - hard. Because these are, again, unsettled times.

UPDATE: For example, one might want to read this little gem that punctures the “science” of global warming.

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