THE BATTLE OF OUR TIMES

The International Green Shirts have arrived. The Big Lie they have concocted is: “Man is causing dangerous Global Warming”.

The global warming story has excited the anti-liberty groups as never before. Here is an issue that can be milked endlessly to achieve income re-distribution, population control, social justice, world government, re-forestation, sustainable development and alternate energy. It will fund vote buying and foreign aid on a massive scale and finance whole new bureaus for government “research”. It can be used to yield detailed data on every business in the land, and life-and-death control over every corporation and industry – a central planner’s dream opportunity.

Jennifer Marohasy » Risking the Reputation of Science: Garth Paltridge

So how is it that the rest of the scientific community, uncomfortable as it is with both the science of global warming and the way its politics is being played, continues to let the reputation of science in general be put at considerable risk because of the way the dangers of climate change are being vastly oversold?” Garth Paltridge*

Cooler weather may slow harvest

GRAND ISLAND, Neb. — Below-normal temperatures have slowed crop development across Nebraska. That could pose some problems for Husker Harvest Days next week in Grand Island.

[Ok, it happened.  Did millions of people die?]: Sea Levels Rose Two Feet This Summer in U.S. East

Now a new report has identified the two major factors behind the high sea levels—a weakened Gulf Stream and steady winds from the northeastern Atlantic.