November 2015 archive

The NATION Turns: Leftist Magazine Prints its first Climate Skeptic Article: Could this be a Signal?

The climate-change hysteria promoted by worldwide governments is about to bust. Hard. The false predictions and outrageous claims of the climate-change socialists simply cannot withstand open sunlight. Already one-third of Americans regard the climate-change hysteria as a “total hoax.” Almost no one on “the right” regards global warming as anything other than a leftist push …

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New Study Suggests that Peer-Review Process may Prevail in the End regarding Climate Change.

William N. Butos and Thomas J. McQuade are scholars of the tragic role of government funding in scientific scholarship. They have authored a study entitled, “Causes and Consequences of the Climate Science Boom,” which appears in the Fall 2015 issue of The Independent Review. See here. Butos and McQuade find that the domineering role of …

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Another Government University Discriminates against Governmentally-Incorrect Thought: Cal State Professor Punished After Sending Students to Event at Reagan Library

America’s government-funded and supported universities are dens of extremist pro-government thought control and discrimination. Now an English professor at Cal State Northridge (a public institution subject to the equal protection and free-speech provisions of the Bill of Rights) has been subjected to Star Chamber Disciplinary proceedings for . . . (wait for it!) . . …

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Yale University Erupts in Violent Screaming as Students Demand a Campus “Safe” from Intellectual Diversity

Not only are American colleges generally staffed with extreme trusters of the state. See here. The drive for “safety” from alternative ideas now predominates student discussions and drives out all principles of intellectual openness, freedom or diversity. Witness this video of students shouting down a Yale University officer for suggesting he has a duty to …

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New Study Finds Earth’s Changing Orbit Has More Effect on Temps than Greenhouse Gasses Do

It turns out that the Earth’s orbit around the sun changes a great deal from time to time. A new study concludes this changing orbit path has more to do with earth temperature changes than any other factor. See here.

Government Temp “Adjustments” Turn a Cooling Period into a Warming Period

As hype over alleged global warming heats up, more people are looking into the constant “adjustments” of temperature records by government agencies and government-funded scientists. Here is a good article on the subject. “[The National Climatic Data Center] pulls every trick in the book to turn the U.S. cooling trend into warming. The raw data …

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In the world of climate-change alarmists, funding non-government-approved science is “keeping the public in the dark”

The government-worshipping Salon.com site is back with another essay on the politics of global climate change. According to Salon, Exxon may have spent as much as 16 million dollars during a 7-year period from 1998 to 2005 on “organizations [which] muddy the scientific waters.” Two points: (1) $16 million is NOTHING. Exxon has spent vastly …

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Medicaid patients are 13 percent more likely to die than those without insurance

A 2011 University of Virginia study found that surgical Medicaid patients are 13 percent more likely to die than those without insurance. Of the 893,658 surgical operations reviewed between 2003-2007: Patients on Medicare were 45% more likely to die than those with private insurance; the uninsured were 74% more likely; and Medicaid patients 93% more …

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The Claim That Exxon Is Funding Climate Skepticism Evaporates Under Scrutiny

Here are two great sources of info on the now-popular claim that the fossil fuel industry massively funds skepticism of the government’s climate-change agenda. The entirety of the claim rests on hyperbole. In fact, Exxon and the other major oil companies have funded MUCH MORE pro-government propaganda on the issue than skepticism.

Update on N.O.A.A.’s Concealment of Temp Data

We previously reported that NOAA (the government agency charged with monitoring and studying the climate and atmosphere) is refusing to provide the temp data calculations it used for its published study claiming there has been no pause in global warming. The June report said the rate of global warming in the last 15 years has …

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