I don’t think you can find any better demonstration of the profoundly anti-science mentality of the Climategate “researchers” than the following, which appeared in today’s WSJ: In 2004, retired businessman Stephen McIntyre asked the National Science Foundation for information on … Continue reading →
Here’s some momentary relief from the dubious pleasures of Climategate. I was doing some You Tube surfing the other night, and as way led on to way, I began wondering whether Natalie Wood’s transcendent work as Deenie in “Splendor in … Continue reading →
And it’s a lot like the way sausage is made—only a bit uglier. I can’t say I understand all the technicalities here; I welcome comments from those who do. But it seems to me that “garbage in, garbage out” hardly … Continue reading →
…dream on. Even if the science of AGW were true (which does not at the moment appear to be the case), the idea that the UN could do anything positive about it is laughable. After all, their track record is … Continue reading →
It is interesting to me that people who doubt AGW are often referred to as skeptics—and that’s one of the nicer things they’re called. What is the definition of a skeptic? Let’s see: 1. One who instinctively or habitually doubts, … Continue reading →
This Guardian editorial will be published in 56 newpapers around the world. It issues a clarion call to Copenhagen; did you realize we have only fourteen days to save the world? And Climategate? Never heard of it. Today 56 newspapers … Continue reading →
Today is the sixty-eighth anniversary of the December 7, 1941 Pearl Harbor attack. The generation that reacted to it by mobilizing and fighting World War II is on its last legs. But they were the ones we still call “the … Continue reading →
Read his cri de coeur here: I find it rings flat with me to have to face people asking where the scientists were when we were overcoming so many many obstacles to get a rare fair hearing. The scientists have … Continue reading →
I agree with Andrew McCarthy’s dire assessment of Obama’s cynical Afghanistan policy, except for one thing: I don’t think it’s fooling either side, right or left. Come to think of it, maybe that’s two things.
Continue reading →[McChrystal’s] chance came at an Oct. 8 meeting of Obama’s principal advisers, presided over by Jones — the “dress rehearsal” for a full-scale National Security Council gathering the president would hold the next day. Speaking by video link from Kabul, … Continue reading →
This is Paloma Faith, an English actress and singer. I’d never heard of her before, but the following outfit was probably designed to remedy that condition. If so, it succeeded admirably: And here’s a closeup, which I sought because I … Continue reading →
Joe Lieberman really does seem to warrant the description “independent.” Well worth reading.
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