The Scientific-Technological Elite

More on climategate:

…the Liberal Icon and Pacifist Saint Dwight David Eisenhower had this to say:

“…the free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution in the conduct of research. Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity. For every old blackboard there are now hundreds of new electronic computers.

The prospect of domination of the nation’s scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present and is gravely to be regarded.

Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.”

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Beautiful.

The Climategate Comedy is Settled

Now that we know global warming numbers were “fixed,” where are the liberals turning to keep the hoax alive? Comedians!

HuffingtonPost.com – Jon Stewart On ClimateGate (VIDEO)

“That guy thinks global warming is debunked every time he drinks a slushy and gets a brain freeze.” Stewart said.

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He is funny, but he is not a scientist.

As always, follow the money on global warming.

Climate Change Data Dumped

More light on the climate change fraud:

SCIENTISTS at the University of East Anglia (UEA) have admitted throwing away much of the raw temperature data on which their predictions of global warming are based.

It means that other academics are not able to check basic calculations said to show a long-term rise in temperature over the past 150 years.

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This is a major blow to the religion of global warming.

I wonder how deep the fraud goes?

Congratulations to the scientists who have been skeptical of the politically driven “consensus.”

Democrats’ Policies Stifle Job Creation

Liberal health care and climate agenda counterproductive in creating jobs.

While President Obama and congressional leaders say they would like to do more to spur job creation, economists and business executives warn that their plans to impose new health care and climate-change costs on corporations would have the opposite effect.

The initiatives, according to this analysis, are likely to overwhelm any positive impact on jobs from stimulus measures by giving businesses a reason to keep laying people off.

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The solution isn’t higher taxes and more government programs. The government must cut taxes and regulations that allow consumers to spend and businesses to respond to the demand with expanding and hiring.

Happy Thanksgiving

For the liberals who still believe in global warming, I hope you are monitoring the temperature of that turkey in the oven more honestly and accurately than the way you monitor global temperatures!

Happy Thanksgiving to all!

The War on Christians

Usually, we see the War on Christmas this time of year.  That is where there is much outcry over the word “Christmas.”  We’re supposed to use “Holiday” to be inclusive of all and not to make anyone of any other faith (or of no faith) angry or upset.  But is this about “Christmas” or about Christians?

Right Pundits finds a Best Buy add wishing readers and shoppers Happy Eid al-Adha.

The war on Christmas continues. Here is a picture of the national Best Buy ad inviting folks to celebrate Thanksgiving and . . . Eid al-Adha, which is a Muslim festival of sacrifice. It’s actually a festival that sacrifices of goats in similitude of Abraham’s willingness to sacrifice his son.

Personally, I believe it’s fine for Best Buy to advertise however the company wants to advertise to bring in the most shoppers.  That’s what advertising and retail is all about.  But will we see any nation-wide boycotts due to singling out one religion while ignoring others?  Or, will this just slip under the radar?

Enron-ing the Data: Global Warming Conspiracy Exposed?

Where to start?  This is all over the web today.  I will just provide the links that I find while surfing.  It does seem as if the curtain has been pulled back, and the Wizard of Oz has been exposed.  (Thank you, Toto!)

• Andrew Bolt from the Australian Herald Sun is all over this.
• Blog Critics: Global Warming Fraud Exposed as Copenhagen Approaches.
• Steve McIntyre from Climate Audit reports.
• Bishop Hill has many columns up.
• The Washington Post:  Hackers steal electronic data from top climate research center.
• From the UK Daily Mail Online:  Hackers “expose global warming con.”
• New York Times: Hacked E-Mail is New Fodder for Climate Dispute.
• Dr. Roy Spencer: Global Warming’s Blue Dress Moment?
• What’s Up With That? is all over this, too.
• There is also a search engine where you can search through the alleged hacked emails.
• The Boston Herald: E-mail leak turns up heat on global warming.
• The San Francisco Examiner: Evidence of a desperate push to pump global warming up… and up.
• From Jay Hancock at the Baltimore Sun: Climate scientists are petty, vindictive.

Of course, bloggers are out there combing the web for new stuff on this.

Not related to the conspiracy, but Salon had a column on Thursday: Scientists baffled by Global Warming’s time-out.  Well, shucks, if the data has been fixed and the scientists duped, maybe the bafflement will subside.

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• Michelle Malkin: The global warming scandal of the century.
• Tim Blair – Bring on the destruction
• Jay Currie with The Dirt.
• The Times of India: Experts tinkered with climate data.
• The Wall Street Journal:  Hacked Emails Show Climate Science Ridden with Rancor.
• The Tech Generation Daily:  Hackers steal confidential global warming data.
• Power Line blog: When In Doubt, Delete.
• James Delingpole at the UK Telegraph: Climategate: how the MSM reported the greatest scandal in modern science.

NY Times Reports Global Warming Hacked Info

Have the beans been spilled on global warming?  Is this even bigger than the Enron phone calls manipulating the energy markets? 

From the New York Times:

“Hundreds of private e-mails and documents hacked from a computer server at a British university are causing a stir among global warming skeptics, who say they show that climate scientists conspired to overstate the case for a human influence on climate change.

“The e-mails, attributed to prominent American and British climate researchers, include discussions of scientific data and whether it should be released, exchanges about how best to combat the arguments of skeptics, and casual comments — in some cases derisive — about specific people known for their skeptical views. Drafts of scientific papers and a photo collage that portrays climate skeptics on an ice floe were also among the hacked data, some of which dates back 13 years.

“In one e-mail exchange, a scientist writes of using a statistical ‘trick’ in a chart illustrating a recent sharp warming trend. In another, a scientist refers to climate skeptics as ‘idiots’.”

You know Dr. Roy Spencer would weigh in on this:

“While it is too early to tell just yet, there seems to be considerable damning evidence that data have been hidden or destroyed to avoid Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) data requests; data have been manipulated in order to get results that best suit the pro-anthropogenic global warming agenda of the IPCC; e-mails that contain incriminating discussions are being deleted. And, on the bright side, we skeptics seem to be quite a thorn in the side of the IPCC.

“In reading these e-mails from the ‘other side’ of the scientific debate I am particularly amazed at the mindset of a few of these scientists. I exchange e-mails with other like-minded (read ‘skeptical’) scientists, as do the IPCC scientists with their peers. But never do I hear of anyone manipulating climate data to achieve a certain end. I must say that I am pleased to see that NCAR scientist Kevin Trenberth admits that it is a ‘travesty’ that no one can explain the lack of global warming in recent years.

“I think there is a good chance that this was an inside job…either a disgruntled employee at CRU, or someone who is simply getting fed up with the politicization of the IPCC’s science and wanted to reveal some of the inner workings of the IPCC process. I’m sure that further revelations will arise in the coming days.”

University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit Hacked?

The details on this are still sketchy, we’ll probably never know what went on. But it appears that
Hadley University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit has been hacked and many many files have been released by the hacker or person unknown.

Also follow the comment thread at Climate Audit.

What does it mean? I’d be careful as this could be a hoax.  Or, it could be the unraveling of the global warming hoax. Too soon to tell, but interesting to note and follow to see if this gains traction.

11.21: Updated story to reflect that it is the East Anglia CRU, not Hadley CRU.

Government Cost Projections Gone Wild

Ah, California! The Golden State! Why, it was just a few months ago that the governor and legislature got together and passed a balanced budget. Problem solved?

Not exactly. Initially, the budget deficit number that came in just a few months after the budget agreement was about $7B. Then, Arnold said maybe it was about $12B. Today, we’re hearing the deficit is over $20B and likely to continue indefinitely.

California’s budget deficit will balloon to $20.7 billion over the next 18 months, a report from the state’s budget analyst predicted Wednesday, all but promising another year of partisan gridlock as lawmakers labor to fill the gap with more spending cuts and efforts to raise taxes.

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And the office says deficits of close to $20 billion or more will haunt the state for years — fed in part by skyrocketing retirement costs for state workers and debt service accumulated after years of borrowing to make ends meet.

Remember this as you’re reading about how much a national health care system is projected (by government folks) to cost, or how much the health care system is projected (by government folks) to save.

Do we really believe any government projections? The Republicans are blaming the Democrats, while the Democrats are blaming the Republicans. Meanwhile, the state of California is rolling in red ink.