Roundup
I’ve got an exceptionally busy day today, and so I’ll probably post something in the evening. But till then, I thought I’d give you a few things to chaw on:
In another huge surprise (not) climatologist Michael Mann, he of the famous hockey stick scam, writes that the Climategate emails don’t amount to much, and that the scientific evidence for AGW is clear. No doubt he’s a neutral and objective observer of the entire undertaking. Note, also, that he follows the usual MSM approach to the topic, which is to act as though the whole ruckus is about a few words (such as “trick”) in a couple of emails, and to completely ignore the enormous disclosures about the data-collection problems with CRU as well as the “Harry read me” file. As for the WaPo, it’s as though it published an op-ed by Gordon Liddy at the height of Watergate.
Obama’s friendliness to Hugo Chavez doesn’t seem to be repaid.
Obamacare loses David Brooks. I doubt it matters—Congress will do what Congress will do—but it’s interesting anyway.
Tom Coburn agrees about the perils of Obamacare. That’s Dr. Tom Coburn to you.
Obama talks at Copenhagen and says, “The time for talk is over.” That Obama, he’s such a can-do man; always in a rush. But he doesn’t like scare tactics, oh no—at least, not when they’re used against his agenda.
What do Barack Obama and Lillian Hellman have in common (besides being from the far Left, that is)? Mary McCarthy famously said of Hellman that every word she wrote was a lie, including “and” and “the.” Well, the same could be said of Obama.
anyone realize that this isnt far from what galileo went through…
a collective sought to control the facts and impose them by other means against others and for the reason of continued public control
According to the CRS statistics, America has 1.32 TRILLION barrels of reserves, or 2.4 times as much as Saudi Arabia, and this doesn’t include all the oil in the shale & tar sands which are mostly in Canada anyway. According to the report, the breakdown of the world’s major reserves are as follows: (in billions of barrels)
1: USA: 1,320
2: Russia: 1,250
3: Saudi Arabia: 540
4: China: 490
5: Iran: 430
Numbers 6 thru 10 belong to the lesser Gulf States, along with Canada at 220, Venezuela at 160, and Nigeria at 130
the final moves are coming together…
they are now testing the waters, and obama will fail
and thats something i have been saying
unlike other countries that do this
the countries opposite are not gonig to sit around like the nice ones did and watch things. they are going to play to take the prize from the idiots who weakend things enough to even attempt grabbing it. which is the point.
Iranian forces take over Iraq oil well
Iranian forces took control of a southern Iraqi oil well on a disputed section of the border on Friday, US and Iraqi officials told AFP.
“There has been no violence related to this incident and we trust this will be resolved through peaceful diplomacy between the governments of Iraq and Iran,” a US military spokesman told AFP at Contingency Operating Base Adder, just outside the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriyah.
if nothing happens, then you can expect to see georgia fall, and other bs all over. like chavez with games with columbia. kim jong…
its open season…
Mann: “Reprehensible things were done (passive voice), but…blah blah…Palin…blah blah…peer-review…blah blah…science clear…blah blah…Palin.”
Shorter Mann: “I am not a crook.”
My favorite part: they excluded the post-1960 tree ring data because they were “unreliable.” Uh, Mike, doesn’t this “unreliability” call the entire validity of the proxy into question? How do we know whether or not the tree ring data antedating thermometers are “reliable?”
America has 1.32 TRILLION barrels of reserves
If one follows the links back, the full quote is:
According to the CRS, the U.S. has 1,321 billion barrels of oil (or barrels of oil equivalent for other sources of energy) if you combine its recoverable natural gas, oil and coal reserves.
Most of those reserve barrels are coal. We have more coal than anyone, but it’s not as easy to use as oil or natural gas.
Nonetheless, it is good to remember that the US has great energy resources, should we ever get around to using them.
A strange side-effect to all the liberal/environmental sandbagging of using our resources is that we will be in far better shape than most of the world, if fuels become scarce later in the century.
Re Mann et al:
Don’t forget that the real “meat” in Climategate is not really in the emails, but in the computer code that really shows all the cute tricks they were up to.
Does it make a difference? Probably not when the conference cheers Chavez and his anti-capitalist screed. I’m going to interested to hear from a student at my college who attended. Of course, the college hailed her as “hero” for attending… sigh. Friday evening and “it’s 5 o’clock somewhere”
I watched some videos of the protestors in “Wonderful, Wonderful Copenhagen.” Gosh, they look just like the protestors that used to try to stop my Navy recruiting efforts in Berkeley back in the 60s. Are these the spawn of all those Berkeleites? Or have these vampires been hanging in a cave, not aging a bit since the 60s? Or is there an endless supply of these gno nothings oozing out of the bogs in old Europe? It is a quandry. But I say to the Danish gendarmes, “To the water canons boys! Give ’em a taste of high pressure and the fun of rolling down the street like a log in a stream. Then bundle ’em off to the paddock for a cooling off period. They’ll fair pray for Global Warming then.”
Yep, physics guy, the sun must be over the yardarm somewhere. ‘Tis time to queue up for the daily ration of grog.
Mann and not a few others need to do serious jail time pour encourage les autres.
Then bundle ‘em off to the paddock for a cooling off period.
Nah, let ’em cool off in holding pens out on the street for a few hours first.
Are these the spawn of all those Berkeleites?
I don’t if “spawn” is properly applied to the products of mitosis.
The articles by Dr. Mann (so called; PhD in this case stands for Piled higher and Deeper) is completely fatuous.
Why bring Sarah Palin into this at all? Redherring!
“. . . manipulated data to ‘hide the decline’ in global temperatures.” I winced when I read that in her op-ed. She needs a good science adviser.
However, anyone who has followed this closely knows it is not about the recent temperature decline, but the validity of the proxy reconstruction including the earlier values. Misdirection by Mr. Mann. This too:
“It could not possibly have referred to the claim that global temperatures have declined over this decade — a claim that is false (the current decade, as has been recently reported, will go down as the warmest on record). ”
The claim is not false-temperatures have declined very slightly during the last decade. And the fact that the current decade is the warmest is not a surprise, being it is very possiblity at the end of a 30 year warming cycle (climate having a roughly 60 year warming/cooling period).
There are other parts of this that could be critisied too. However, I will end it with this.
“Scientific evidence for the reality of human-caused climate change includes independently replicated data documenting the extent of warming; unprecedented melting of glaciers; rises in global sea levels; increasingly widespread continental drought; and models that predict all of these things but only when human impacts are included.”
Dr.Mann should read this article by a statistician,
http://wmbriggs.com/blog/?p=1417 and heed the advice – When your in a hole stop digging!!
Mr. Chavez seems to be very sensitive to offensive odors. However, as my older brothers used to tell me “The first smeller is the dirty feller.”
I suggest that at the next meeting where Mr. Chavez broaches the topic he be very diplomatically (and ostentatiously) presented a bottle of Beano. Maybe that would solve his problem.
OT: The Blog at the Weekly Standard has a series of links (posted at 9:21 AM) to some classic Krauthammer articles. I just read a few, and they are a fantastic reminder of what we had to deal with during the Bush years. Highly recommended.
Just found this link at NRO:
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/cruise-missiles-strike-yemen/story?id=9375236
Barry sent some cruise missles to Yemen.
The CARTOON just gets better and better. Nobody on the planet takes The Bamma seriously except himself. Very. Iranians are demonstrating how scared they are of His Majesty–Weakness IS provocative. Chavez is openly insulting–and popular–in the Climate Warming Ponzi Forum in blizzard bound Copenhagen. Barack’s WH Thugs are threatening retribution on Ben Nelson if he doesn’t ‘fold-um’. The Health Ponzi is a SHIPWRECK and the Left is offending most of America..And, still they push for Socialized Medicine. And STILL The Messiah wags his finger sternly and claims that “the American people are waiting”. Yep, Neo-Neocon, he’s a lying liar who lies.
Clueless. Delusional. Left. Dedicated to the Diminishment of American Liberty & Exceptionalism.
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Steve WH, please don’t show this a-hole Mann any deference by referring to him as “Dr.” It demeans those who are actually deserving of the honorific.
I suspect the political class leaders are being badly – possibly fatally – served by their handlers.
There is NOTHING that a politician cannot survive if the media stays on board… and The Won is the Silver Streak special of PC expresses.
That’s the conventional wisdom, at least.
The handlers aren’t stupid, but they are conditioned to have the breaks go their way… and goodness knows they don’t know hard science, so they are ill equipped to judge just how damaging Climategate really is.
The data is out. It’s not easy to soundbite gigabytes of data analysis.
But putting up the analysis, with narrative and all work shown?
Now that’s doable. And that is what is getting the traction.
Cap and Trade is going to go the way of socialized medicine – no matter how fast they try to shove the crap through, the facts will be out and they won’t get sixty votes.
I am interested in seeing how badly the statists handle this.
The Russians have exposed the climate changers’ sloppy work.
See http://www.dakotavoice.com/2009/12/climategate-sequel-from-russia-with-love/
Apparently, 40% of Russian territory was left out of calculations, and only 20% of data stations were used. Using all stations the Russians saw no warming in the last century. Russia is 12.5% of the earth’s land mass and would have had a damping effect on worls data.
I see at Drudge that Ben Nelson has folded. My Gawd, Full Speed Ahead for The Shipwreck!