Mort baby, what were you thinking?

On this Bastille Day of all days, Mort Zuckerman had a piece printed in the Wall St. Journal that sounds way too much like real truth-telling:
        The Economy is Even Worse Than You Think!

He starts with the fact that the length of time the average person is unemployed is now longer than it has ever been, since measurements began in 1945, and he goes on to chronicle a laundry list of bad economic news items that have received little notice from Obama’s cheerleaders in the press corps and the TV nightly news programs.

Unfortunately, Mort takes a very different lesson from all of these carefully researched facts than I do. Mort thinks we need “STIMULUS PACKAGE II – THE RETURN OF THE WISE AND NOBLE CONGRESS!”

An Inconvenient Global Hypocrite

Al Gore has never been one of my favorite people. At times pompous, arrogant and yet often clueless, he is simply a politician, not a scientist, and his college grades proved the point.

Ironically, he received his lowest grade, a D, in Natural Sciences, had very poor showings in higher-level math classes, and avoided courses in logic – all of which made him spectacularly unqualified to render evaluations and judgments on possible causes of warming in the complex biosphere of the earth.

In addition to all of these, one must note a level of hypocrisy that is almost stunning in its magnitude, although predictably common among the “man-made global warming” crowd. These are the folks who parade the gospel of limiting consumption, cutting back world economies, and reducing human activities in the name of saving the planet. Yet they constantly scoot around the world in private jets, limousines and yachts, using a far larger “eco-footprint”, and creating far more “greenhouse gases”, than dozens or hundreds of ordinary folks.

They bring new meaning to the phrase “Do as I say, not as I do!”

A trenchant example off this is shown in the following e-mail that has been circulating for over a year now, which compares the choices in housing made by two very high profile citizens of the USA:

The coming Global Cooling?

Much as I don’t want to focus on a single topic, I have had very little time to post recently, and an e-mail just arrived with some very interesting info. It was chain-forwarded, but appears to have originated with Mark Duchamp of the Iberica.org institute.

I’ll reproduce the e-mail in full – there are some links that provide additional info if you care to follow them up.

You be the judge – but the evidence seems to be mounting that man-made global warming is a myth that has achieved widespread acceptance as “conventional wisdom”, but is nonetheless a myth!

The e-mail is contained in full after the break.

Russia’s outloook on Global Warming

Even the Russians are starting to think that man-made global warming (AGW – antropogenic global warming) is not the threat that the media and Al Gore have made it out to be. (and James Hansen at NOAA as well).

Here’s an excerpt from today’s Pravda (Jan 11, 2009):

The earth is now on the brink of entering another Ice Age, according to a large and compelling body of evidence from within the field of climate science. Many sources of data which provide our knowledge base of long-term climate change indicate that the warm, twelve thousand year-long Holocene period will rather soon be coming to an end, and then the earth will return to Ice Age conditions for the next 100,000 years.

Ice cores, ocean sediment cores, the geologic record, and studies of ancient plant and animal populations all demonstrate a regular cyclic pattern of Ice Age glacial maximums which each last about 100,000 years, separated by intervening warm interglacials, each lasting about 12,000 years.

Of course, you have to keep in mind that Pravda is the official mouthpiece of Vladamir Putin and his Russian government, but it is interesting to see this nonetheless.

Can’t help but wonder what this will do to all the European socialists, and those with similar leanings here in the USA, who will have to somehow reconcile two dissonant beliefs – that the Russians are our friends and are always right (while the USA is always wrong), versus the idea that Global Warming is occurring even though the Russians are saying the next Ice Age is almost upon us.

It will be interesting to see if their heads explode with this amazing set of contradictions!

Read the whole story for yourself here.

Was Global warming Disproved in 2008?

Recently I e-mailed some friends a link to a story in The Telegraph
(London, England) by a fellow named Christopher Booker:
Man-made Global Warming Disproved in 2008

One of my friends replied:

Utter nonsense. Christopher Booker has no scientific
credentials whatsoever:
Denialists scraping the bottom

Here is my response (with a few edits and corrections since I first sent it off). What do you think?

Fixing Global Warming?

From the British newspaper – The Times of London.
This article analyzes the potential effects (miniscule)
and costs (enormous) of the current world-wide
plans to reduce global warming.
Why cut .0003 degree in Global Warming?

(Bjorn Lomberg is the author of The Skeptical Environmentalist.)