The American Physical Society is an organization representing nearly 50,000 physicists. The society now admits that many of its members disbelieve in human-induced global warming. The leadership of the organization had said before this week that the evidence for man-made global warming was "incontrovertible." The leadership says they "reaffirm that position." But the society is allowing for debate to begin by publishing a paper by Lord Monckton of Brenchley. The paper finds that the IPCC grossly overstated climate sensitivity, or the rate of temperature change a given amount of greenhouse gas will cause. Monckton said, “I was dismayed to discover that the IPCC’s 2001 and 2007 reports did not devote chapters to the central ‘climate sensitivity’ question, and did not explain in proper, systematic detail the methods by which they evaluated it. When I began to investigate, it seemed that the IPCC was deliberately concealing and obscuring its method.”
Professor of Physics Larry Gould of the University of Hartford is Chairman of the New England Section of the APS. He called Monckton’s paper an “expose of the IPCC that details numerous exaggerations and extensive errors."
David Evans is a rocket scientist who has worked at the Australian Greenhouse Office. He writes that he personally "wrote the carbon accounting model (FullCAM) that measures Australia's compliance with the Kyoto Protocol." He makes startling admissions. He writes that "the evidence was not conclusive, but why wait until we were certain when it appeared we needed to act quickly?...Since 1999 new evidence has seriously weakened the case that carbon emissions are the main cause of global warming, and by 2007 the evidence was pretty conclusive that carbon played only a minor role and was not the main cause of the recent global warming." Read the article here: http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24036736-7583,00.html
Friday, July 18, 2008
The American Physical Society Admits There Is Debate On Global Warming
List Of Some Important Obama Flips So Far In This Campaign
Barack Obama is the self proclaimed candidate of "change." All those who realize the fact that Obama is thin on record and experience ask what type of change dooes this man truly represent? The fact that he had the most liberal voting record in the Senate in 2007 probably tells us something about where he really stands.
I know that it may sound a little tiresome to hear the word "flip-flop" again as it was the major Republican assault on John Kerry's 2004 campaign but it needs to be said. Some may try to make lists of alleged McCain flip-flops as well. I do not think all the flips on those lists are as legitimate but it is truly beside the point. It is Barack Obama that warants special attention on this issue. The reason is he has painted himself as an all together new type of candidate representing a new era in politics. It is more relevant to Obama than McCain because Barack is the one who has repeatedly claimed to be the post-partisan candidate, the candidate of change. Showing that he is just as much of a politician as the next guy certainly goes to dispelling those notions. I would like to add that this list is by no means necessarily complete, but that it represents important key indisputable flip-flops. Feel free to add more by posting comments. Here they are:
- CUBA EMBARGO: In January 2004, Obama said it was time "to end the embargo with Cuba" because it had "utterly failed in the effort to overthrow Castro." Speaking to a Cuban American audience in Miami in August 2007, he said he would not "take off the embargo" as president because it is "an important inducement for change."
- DECRIMINALIZING POT: While running for the U.S. Senate in January 2004, Obama told Illinois college students that he supported eliminating criminal penalties for marijuana use. In the Oct. 30, 2007, presidential debate, he joined other Democratic candidates in opposing the decriminalization of marijuana.
- BUSINESSES HIRING ILLEGALS: In a March 2004 questionnaire, Obama was asked if the government should "crack down on businesses that hire illegal immigrants." He replied "Oppose." In a Jan. 31, 2008, televised debate, he said that "we do have to crack down on those employers that are taking advantage of the situation."
- FISA REFORM: In October 2007 the Obama campaign pledged he would filibuster "any bill that includes retroactive immunity for telecommunications companies." In January 2008 Obama issued a statement saying, I "strongly oppose retroactive immunity in the FISA bill." A few weeks ago Barack Obama voted for a bill that did just that.
- THE RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS: After the D.C. handgun ban had been overturned by the Supreme Court Obama said "it looks to me that the D.C. handgun ban overshot the runway. That it went beyond constitutional limits." But the Chicago Tribue reported in November 2007 that "Obama believes the D.C. handgun law is constitutional." Obama had also answered "yes" on a 1996 questionnaire to banning the "manufacture, sale, and possesion of handguns." Obama denied this but Politico reported his handwritting was on the document.
- NAFTA: In February 2008, as the campaign moved into the Rust Belt, Obama vowed to invoke a six-month opt-out of NAFTA clause and said he would take "the hammer" to NAFTA. Now, however, Obama says he doesn't believe in unilaterally reopening NAFTA. Obama now says that his anti-NAFTA rhetoric was a bit "overheated." He added that NAFTA has indeed been positive for the U.S. in some ways, and that his criticism, while trying to convince white blue collar voters to vote for him, was "overheated and amplified."
- IRAQ SURGE: Obama said on January 5, 2008, "I had no doubt, and I said when I opposed the surge, that given how wonderfully our troops perform, if we place 30,000 more troops in there, then we would see an improvement in the security situation and we would see a reduction in the violence." One year earlier, however, he said "we can send 15,000 more troops; 20,000 more troops; 30,000 more troops. Uh, I don't know any, uh, expert on the region or any military officer that I've spoken to, uh, privately that believes that that is gonna make a substantial difference on the situation on the ground." That is only one of many statements from Obama predicting the surge would worsen or have no effect on the security situation in Iraq. He flips and now claims he never said or believed things that are on the record.
- LAPEL FLAG PIN: Obama said about his lack of a flag pin on his lapel that the pin was a "substitute for patriotism" and "I decided I won't wear that pin on my chest." Only days after his insulting and elitist comments about a "bitter" small town America "clinging to guns or religion" the pin had made a return to his lapel and he said, "I was never opposed to wearing flag pins." Normally a candidate's lack of a pin would not be an issue but Obama made it an issue by not wearing it specifically to show that he was opposed to Bush's policy and the alleged phony patriotism that comes along with it.
- JEREMIAH WRIGHT: Immediately after the tapes of Obama's pastor and close friend of 20 years Jeremiah Wright declaring "God damn America" and many more very radical anti-American and anti-Israel statements came out Obama reponded that he had "no intention of leaving the church itself" that and that Wright was "like an uncle" who was teaching "social gospel." He then gave a highly covered speech on race relations saying that "I can no more disown him than I can my white grandmother." One month later when the controversy had nonetheless not disappeared Obama did finally denounce Wright and cut him off out of political necessity. His next step was that he officially left Trinity United Church because he realized it was far too radical for most Americans to handle.
- UNDIVIDED JERUSALEM AS ISRAEL'S CAPITAL: In a speech before AIPAC the Senator from Illinois declared unambigously that “Jerusalem will remain the capital of Israel, and it must remain undivided." Soon thereafter Obama said that he "tried to correct the interpretation" of that statement. He switched his position saying that "it's going to be up to the parties to negotiate a range of these issues and Jerusalem will be part of those negotiations.”
- CALIFORNIA MARRIAGE AMENDMENT: Obama claimed he believed the issue of gay marriage should be left up to the individual States. When a constitutional amendment was placed on the November ballot to overturn the California Supreme Court decision legalizing same-sex marriage Obama took a decidedly different approach. He went from saying it should be up to the states to writing to the to the Alice B. Toklas LGBT Democratic Club that "I oppose the divisive and discriminatory efforts to amend the California Constitution."
- PUBLIC FINANCING: Barack Obama answered a Midwest Democracy Network questionnaire in September 2007 saying that "If I am the Democratic nominee, I will aggressively pursue an agreement with the Republican nominee to preserve a publicly financed general election." Obama ended up following the money and opted out of public financing for the general election.
- IRANIAN REVOLUTIONARY GAURD: Obama's campaign has said more recently that the Senator "has consistently urged that Iran's Revolutionary Guard be labeled what it is: a terrorist organization." But before this Obama spent months campaigning on his opposition to and his vote against the Kyl-Lieberman Amendment which did just that.
It seems that Barack Obama declaring himself the candidate of change is not so far off the mark after all.
Time For Some Campaignin'!
The 2008 election jibjab satire is finally here. This time it's Bob Dylan’s “The Times, They Are A-Changing” that gets spoofed. Take a look:
Israel Arrests Six Arabs In "Al Qaeda Cell" Conspiring To Assassinate Bush
Reuters reports that Israel charged six Arabs on Friday of "trying to set up an al Qaeda cell in Israel and said one of them had proposed attacking helicopters used during a visit by President George W. Bush." They used a cell phone to film helicopters at a sports stadium in Jerusalem that was used as a landing site for Bush's delegation. Apparently these terrorists were not taking very much precaution as they were posting questions on al Qaeda frequented websites for help in shooting down helicopters. Four of the suspects are Palestinian Arabs of East Jerusalem. The other two are Israeli Arabs. The Shin Bet said the men had met a number of times at Jerusalem's al-Aqsa mosque in attempts to organize a local Al Qaeda network. They said computers seized from several of them contained bomb-making manuals.
Thursday, July 17, 2008
Scene From Debate For Colorado Senate Seat
Republican Bob Schaffer crushes his Democrat opponent Mark Udall in this clip. I don't want to ruin it for you and tell you how, so just watch it and enjoy:
Feds open 3.9 Million Acres Of Land In A Designated Petroleum Reserve In Alaska
Bush took another step today showing that he is serious when it comes to expanded drilling and that he takes the rise in gas prices seriously. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for the Democratic Congress. The Financial Times reports that "the US federal government on Wednesday said it would open 3.9m acres of land in a designated petroleum reserve in Alaska for drilling as a means to help curb rising petrol prices." This Alaska move is unlike the decision on Monday lifting a presidential ban on drilling on the US outer continental shelf that still requires Congress to lift a separate ban on the area before the area can be leased for development. The Bureau of Land Management of the US Department of the Interior says no Congressional approval is necessary and the Alaskan land will be offered for leasing in the autumn.
So let us now discuss what the Democrats have done to help expand the supply of American energy when gas prices are soaring and America is in desperate need of less reliance on foreign oil. Well, the International Herald Tribune reports that "Pelosi is not budging" in her stubborn stance against any new drilling and "she and Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, the majority leader, appear intent on holding the line against calls to approve drilling in areas now off limits." Why am I not surprised?
Samir Kuntar, Terrorist Child-Killer, Gets Hero's Welcome Upon Release To Lebanon That Encourages Further Kidnapping
The French news agency AFP reported that "the coastal road from the Israeli border to the southern port city of Sidon had been covered with Hizbullah decorations, and hundreds of volunteers had been hanging banners to praise Hizbullah’s role in the prisoners’ release throughout the south of the country. In Kuntar’s home in Abey, streets were decorated with banners welcoming the return of the former member of the radical Palestine Liberation Front. “Samir Kuntar is the conscience of Lebanon, Palestine and the Arab nation. Abey welcomes the hero, prisoner Samir Kuntar,” reads one sign. Meanwhile, a senior Hizbullah official has said Israel’s approval of a prisoner swap with his group was an 'official admission of defeat.'" Need I say more. The Israeli government ought to be ashamed with itself.
The following is a link to a video of the festivities upon the return of this scum (for whom words alone cannot describe his depravity) to Lebanon along with other live terrorists in exchange for the remains of two Israeli soldiers:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2008/jul/17/nasrallah?gusrc=rss&feed=worldnews
Here is another link to an article written in 2003 in the Washington Post by Smadar Haran Kaisar. She is the mother of the family that terrorist Samir Kuntar and his henchmen slaughtered. She describes what happened on that awful day:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A2740-2003May17
Hassan Nasrallah celebrates with Samir Kuntar as thousands cheer. This makes me sick to my stomach. It is worse than a disgrace. Hezbollah Leader Hassan Nasrallah declares after Samir Kuntar gives him a kiss that "the age of defeat has passed and the age of victory is upon us." The sad truth is that Nasrallah is right. This can only be interpreted as another victory in a string of victories for Hezbollah. "What we've done now has made kidnapping soldiers the most profitable game in town. There is absolutely no reason why Hezbollah should not invest huge resources now, along with Hamas, in the next kidnapping," said Israeli security expert Martin Sherman. You don't believe an Israeli expert, I hear you say? Take Israel's enemies own words as proof. Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh's spokesman said today that Israel "shows that the only successful way to free the prisoners is by kidnapping soldiers."
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