The Other McCain

"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

James Manzi Will Regret This But Once, and That Will Be Continuously

He has written a very dismissive attack on Mark Levin’s Liberty and Tyranny. Levin will surely respond, as always, with overwhelming rhetorical force. Manzi focuses his attack on Levin’s chapter about anthropogenic global warming (AGW), a topic on which Manzi considers himself something of a lay expert. While I have no personal quarrel with Manzi and […]

Democracy As An Obstruction To Swift Action Is A Valid Point

by Smitty Bluegrass Pundit posts: Noted Environmentalist James Lovelock and developer of the Gaia theory thinks democracy is getting in the way of fighting climate change. Also, he thinks Humans are too stupid to prevent climate change It is certainly the case that providing for regular elections and separation of powers cuts down on the […]

Isn’t It Time for a Charles Johnson Global-Warming Downfall Video?

Lake Erie frozen over for the first time in 14 years. So much of this ClimateGate stuff for comic fodder. Surely the geniuses who put together all those YouTube videos a working on a new Hitler-in-the-bunker Little Green Footballs script even as we speak. UPDATE: Via Cynthia Yockey and Bookworm Room, this is pretty close:

‘Trust Us, We’re Experts!’

Another triumph of expertise: The academic at the centre of the ‘Climategate’ affair, whose raw data is crucial to the theory of climate change, has admitted that he has trouble ‘keeping track’ of the information. Colleagues say that the reason Professor Phil Jones has refused Freedom of Information requests is that he may have actually […]

Evolution, Anthropogenic Global Warming and Other Non-Falsifiable Theories

Michael Walsh at Big Journalism takes on MSNBC’s bizarre claim that the D.C. blizzard proves that climate-change skeptics are wrong: MSNBC apparently borrowed their talking points from the New York Times which, as Walsh notes, invoked the authority of “most climate scientists” for the assertion that climate change caused the massive snowstorm. Even before we learned of the […]

Notes From A Dream In Which I Was An Idiot

by Smitty Halifax, Nova Scotia could need to rebuild the whole waterfront, if a new study floating the possibility of a 2 1/3 foot rise in ocean levels pans out. The really dreamy part was how the ocean picked up all the swelling in Eastern Canada only, while the rest of Mother Earth wobbled about […]

Idiot Liberal Woman Eve Ensler Thinks Global Warming Causes Earthquakes

The “Vagina Monologues” author was putting down Sarah Palin on Joy Behar’s show: ENSLER: Well, I just think the idea that she doesn’t believe in global warming is bizarre. BEHAR: Every scientist at every note believes in it but Sarah Palin doesn’t believe in it. ENSLER: And I think we just kind of have to […]

First ‘ClimateGate,’ Now This: Punxsutawney Phil Sees His Shadow

The global warming “consensus” can’t possibly survive: PUNXSUTAWNEY, Pennsylvania (Reuters) – An American groundhog delivered his annual weather prediction on Tuesday, declaring that there will be six more weeks of winter after seeing his shadow. The science is settled. Don’t be a Groundhog Day denier. UPDATE: People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals claims the groundhog is being […]

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