NC Media Watch: Climate science data wars

Is this how NASA does science? Gavin Schmidt is one of the principle bloggers at Real Climate a blog often used to by liberals posting here to support their claims of run away global warming and the need for AB32 greenhouse gas reduction legislation. This just is another example why realclimate.org has no credibility at NC Media Watch.

Harry’s Circus: Gavin alleged to have written letters. | The Blackboard

This (evidently trivial) incident is now creating spin-off incidents.

Hot Air » Blog Archive » Forgotten treasure: Ticket to Heaven

One of the best movies I’ve seen has only occasionally become available for home viewing. Ticket to Heaven, a 1981 film based on the book Moonwebs: Journey into the mind of a cult, presented a chilling look into a social problem that hit its peak just prior to its release — religious cults. Now a DVD release of the film gives a new generation of viewers a look at that era...
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Nick Mancuso portrays David, a lost and somewhat dissolute soul, who stumbles into a Young Pioneers commune project of a self-proclaimed Jakartan Messiah. The film shows how the commune breaks David down, brainwashing him into the cult, with the help of Kim Catrall’s Ruthie, one of the true believers. They turn him into a fanatic who can no longer think for himself, trained to attempt suicide if apprehended or kidnapped. His friends and family, led by his closest friend Larry (Saul Rubinek), scheme to kidnap him and “deprogram” him from the cult.

Teach Your Children Well - Edward John Craig - Planet Gore on National Review Online

Al Gore made some news recently when he told a 3,000-attendee youth conference on global warming climate change that “There are some things about our world that you know that older people don’t know. . . . New knowledge, new understandings are much more widely available, sometimes to young people who are in school who aren’t weighed down with the old flawed assumptions of the past.” FOX News’s Glenn Beck played the audio earlier this week.

Hmm. I wonder why that is, Al? How did young people acquire this precious new knowledge? Perhaps because they’ve been inundated with climate propaganda through games, “tweaked” holiday celebrations, and their school curricula, all with the ready cooperation of teachers' unions and the teachers' colleges?