Nov 11

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

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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 for more big government.

Many are asking: when will the climate-change boom go bust?

Does this article in THE NATION–a premier magazine of the socialist left–signal that socialists are preparing to acknowledge that the end is near for their outrageous claims?

The article, by Sam Khoury, lays out well-known sources of skepticism regarding the government’s warmist hysteria. What is remarkable is the venue for the article: one of the most hard-left, pro-socialist magazines in the western world.

Nov 11

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

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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 government funding of “climate change science”–all of which is aimed at gaining more control for government over energy–has created an inflated “boom” in such science. This boom–just as any boom in a financial sector–must ultimately go bust.

The climate realities do not reflect the claims of the government-funded science boom. NASA recently admitted that south-polar ice is at its highest level ever recorded by satellite. Ice at the North Pole has expanded by hundreds of miles. Satellites have measured no global warming whatsoever in 18 years, and weather-related natural disasters are down 80 percent from a decade ago.

The only ‘science’ bolstering the alarmists’ view are (1) government-funded computer models which are known to overestimate global warming by an average of two to five times, and (2) government-funded SURFACE temp data which are constantly “adjusted” by government-funded scientists to suit the government.

But although Butos and McQuade are highly critical of the peer review process generated by the boom, they suggest that the process may yet prevail. It may take decades, however.

Nov 10

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

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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!) . . . having students attend an event at the nearby Ronald Reagan Library.

Extremist pro-government students complained that panelists at the event didn’t provide sufficiently governmentally correct responses to questions about gay adoption. (The questions were initiated by the pro-government students themselves and reportedly not even pertinent to the panel discussion.) See here.

Nov 09

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

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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 ensure intellectual freedom on the Yale campus.

No, the students shout. Yale is supposed to provide a campus “safe” from any objectionable ideas. Here is a write-up of the affair on reason.com.

Nov 09

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

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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.

Nov 09

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

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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 shows cooling since the 1920s,” a science blogger who goes by the name Steven Goddard told The Daily Caller.

Nov 06

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

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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 greater amounts on government-sponsored and approved climate “research” and messaging; and (2) $16 million is an UTTERLY TINY sum compared to the vastness of government funding (which is in the high hundreds of BILLIONS) of the climate-change-by-CO2-is real hysteria.

Salon repeats assertions that fossil-fuel businesses should be investigated by the government for investigating climate-change claims, and suggests that funding for climate change research of a skeptical nature is somehow illegal.

Several questions arise from this chain of reasoning:

* Are energy companies not allowed to debate in a scientific area where their commercial interests are involved?
* Are business not legally permitted to challenge a government’s scientific assertions?
* Are business not even allowed to look into governmental science claims?
* Isn’t the scientific process about inquiry, doubt, testing and skepticism? Since when do scientists want LESS research into a scientific question?
* Doesn’t any governmental ‘investigation’ into private science funding set a bad precedent by chilling inquiry? Or might that be the purpose of the New York State Attorney General’s Office?

Nov 06

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

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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 likely. That is to say, despite the fact that we will soon spend more than $500 billion a year on Medicaid, Medicaid beneficiaries, on average, fared worse than those with no insurance at all.

See here.

Nov 05

The Claim That Exxon Is Funding Climate Skepticism Evaporates Under Scrutiny

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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.

Nov 02

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

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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 been “as fast or faster than that seen during the latter half of the 20th century.” This contradicted earlier findings.

Satellite and weather balloon temp records show NO WARMING WHATSOEVER for almost two decades. Yet the most powerful agents of government (including the U.S. president and most of the presidents of the world’s most powerful governments) continue pushing for more power to fight ‘global warming.’

NOAA’s purported study claimed that the 18-year ‘pause’ in global warming doesn’t exist! That temps have actually continued warming, and thus that the known satellite data is incorrect.

Congressman Lamar Smith has subpoenaed the temp data used by NOAA to produce its study. See here. According to Smith:

“The American people have every right to be suspicious when NOAA alters data to get the politically correct results they want and then refuses to reveal how those decisions were made,” Smith said in a statement. “NOAA needs to come clean about why they altered the data to get the results they needed to advance this administration’s extreme climate change agenda.”