Congress's New Science Chairman to Fight "Global Freezing" : TreeHugger

Is it too much to ask that the Science Chairman in the United States Congress have a basic understanding of one of the preeminent scientific topics of the day? I mean, not even the wildest, most asinine climate skeptic on the planet -- not even Lord Monckton or Rush Limbaugh -- would suggest that there's something called "global freezing" going on (okay, maybe Glenn Beck would).

Sigh.

CHESSER: All lights on Upton - Washington Times

About the light bulb ban, Mr. Upton said, "We have heard the grassroots loud and clear, and will have a hearing early next Congress. The last thing we wanted to do was infringe upon personal liberties - and this has been a good lesson that Congress does not always know best."

A promise to hear testimony is hardly a strong signal that Mr. Upton intends to pursue a repeal of the ban. Even more telling is that there was nothing in his personal constitution - much less in the U.S. Constitution - that told him a light bulb ban curbed basic freedoms. He needed a lesson for this?

Wet Cold and Hot Dry Cycles « Musings from the Chiefio

It also looks like we are not only at a cold inflection of the 60 year PDO cycle, but also a cold inflection of the 600 year quasi cycle AND a cold inflection of the 1500 year cycle. If that’s in fact the case, we’ve got a big problem. It would explain the high peak in 1998 as all three reached a high roughly together, but it also implies a big plunge right after it. Very “Not Good”.