Tuesday, August 30, 2011

A Hurricane, Evolution and Rick Perry - Yahoo! News
The pro-science posture then, is to recognize the limitations of what we can currently predict and to remain open to evidence. Shrieking your insistence that the "science is settled" only demonstrates an unscientific and dogmatic orthodoxy.
Twitter / @rileyorionradio: Officially coldest summer ...
Officially coldest summer for 20 years - let down by Global Warming again.
Global Warming and Mental Disorders — Brian Sussman
I’m totally convinced that liberalism is a mental disorder. I’m just as sure that believing in human-caused global warming–despite being confronted with all the facts–is also a sign of cerebral ataxia; or it’s a sign of committed socialist or communist who is willing to ignore the truth in order to put forward a terrible lie.
Krugman Fails Climate Science 101 | FrontPage Magazine
Krugman’s central thesis is that theory that mankind is causing catastrophic climate change has to be true, because “97 to 98 per cent of scientists” agree that it’s true. You’ll see the “97 to 98 per cent” number appearing quite often now. It’s become a key talking point of the alarmist crowd, as they struggle to regain relevance in a world that has a harder and harder time taking them seriously. But where does that amazing number come from? It arises from a 2009 survey that two University of Illinois researchers conducted. 10,257 Earth scientists responded and, much to the U of I professors’ chagrin, the results were far from satisfying to the alarmist crowd.

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