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More LOL Worthy Global Warming “Bad News”

I’m reminded of “Won’t Get Fooled Again“, by The Who.

I’ll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around me
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
And I’ll get on my knees and pray
We don’t get fooled again
Don’t get fooled again

The entire movement is a fraud. How anyone can believe Al Gore after spewing lies, and then pissing out so much energy from his house, is far beyond my understanding.

New data released Thursday suggests that the Arctic Ocean will be “largely ice free” during summer within a decade.

The report, complied by the UK-based Catlin Arctic Survey and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), is the latest research into ice thickness in the Arctic.

Researchers predict that within 20 years ice cover will be completely gone during the warmer months.

The expedition, which was completed in May, was led by UK explorer Pen Hadow.

He and his team collected data by manually drilling into the ice and noting its thickness along a 450-kilometer route across the northern part of the Beaufort Sea.

They found that the area surveyed was comprised almost exclusively of first year ice.

Scientists think this is significant because traditionally the region has been made up of much older, thicker ice.

Why this study is BS.

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Can We Call You A Dumbass Instead?

Meghan McCain is a dumbass…like the Liberals who are attacking her.

Meghan McCain is breaking her silence following a wave of media attention over a picture she posted on Twitter Wednesday night.

The revealing picture of herself in a tank top, which left little to the twitterverse’s imagination, immediately drew harsh criticism from other tweeters, prompting an upset McCain to declare of the social networking Web site, “What once was fun now just seems like a vessel for harassment.”

The 24-year old daughter of Arizona Sen. John McCain didn’t address the matter in more detail on her twitter account Thursday, but in a new column on the Web Site The Daily Beast — entitled Don’t Call Me a Slut — she lashes out at the national media’s scrutiny of the whole flap.

“I spent most of the next day thinking about…”

Complete Story, if you even care, and I’d be surprised if you do.

Infant Mortality Has Many Factors

And none of them have anything to do with government health insurance. If the Left has any proof against this, I welcome it.

Steve Chapman writes:

No one denies the problem. Our infant mortality rate is double that of Japan or Sweden. But we live different lives, on average, than people in those places. We suffer more obesity (about 10 times as much as the Japanese), and we have more births to teenagers (seven times more than the Swedes). Nearly 40 percent of American babies are born to unwed mothers.

Factors like these are linked to low birth weight in babies, which is a dangerous thing. In a 2007 study for the National Bureau of Economic Research, economists June O’Neill and Dave O’Neill noted that “a multitude of behaviors unrelated to the health-care system such as substance abuse, smoking and obesity” are connected “to the low birth weight and pre-term births that underlie the infant death syndrome.”

African-American babies are far more likely to die than white ones, which is often taken as evidence that poverty and lack of health insurance are to blame. That’s entirely plausible until you notice another racial/ethnic gap: Hispanics of Mexican or Central or South American ancestry not only do consistently better than blacks on infant mortality, they do better than whites. Social disadvantage doesn’t explain very much.

When New York expanded access to prenatal care under Medicaid, the effort reduced the rate of low birth weight infants by just 1 percent. In Tennessee, after a similar effort, researchers found “no concomitant improvements in use of early prenatal care, birth weight or neonatal mortality.”

This issue has nothing to do with health care reform. It has many factors, mostly on the choices the mother makes during pregnancy, that determine the outcome.

Read the rest.

NASA To Measure Thickness Of Ice Sheets

The bold part worries me.

NASA plans to launch next week the first of 17 planned flights to study changes in Antarctic ice and collect data that may help scientists better predict the consequences of those changes, officials said Thursday.

The flights will be conducted by a DC-8 outfitted as a special airborne laboratory with laser mapping instruments, ice-penetrating radar and gravity instruments.

The flights will be able to gather information that a satellite cannot.

“The problem with satellites is, we can’t see through the ice sheet with satellites,” said Robin Bell, a scientist at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory who also is involved in the project. She said the technology carried on the plane will provide researchers a chance to address questions regarding why the ice sheet is changing.

“We really want to know how much water is under the ice sheet,” she said. The technology will allow scientists to detect that water and see how much is present under the ice.

Because flights cannot cover the entire Antarctic continent, scientists have selected key sites to study that are most prone to change, NASA said.

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Barry Goldwater On “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”

After more than 50 years in the military and politics, I am still amazed to see how upset people can get over nothing. Lifting the ban on gays in the military isn’t exactly nothing, but it’s pretty damned close

Everyone knows that gays have served honorably in the military since at least the time of Julius Caesar. They’ll still be serving long after we’re all dead and buried. That should not surprise anyone.

But most Americans should be shocked to know that while the country’s economy is going down the tubes, the military has wasted half a billion dollars over the past decade chasing down gays and running them out of the armed services.

It’s no great secret that military studies have proved again and again that there’s no valid reason for keeping the ban on gays. Some thought gays were crasy, but then found that wasn’t true. then they decided that gays were a security risk, but again the Department of Defense decided that wasn’t so-in fact, one study by the Navy in 1956 that was never made public found gays to be good security risks. Even Larry Korb, President Reagan’s man in charge of implementing the Pentagon ban on gays, now admits that it was a dumb idea. No wonder my friend Dick Cheney, secretary of defense under President Bush, called it “a bit of an old chestnut”

When the facts lead to one conlusion, I say it’s time to act, not to hide. The country and the military know that eventually the ban will be lifted. The only remaining questions are how much muck we will all be dragged through, and how many brave Americans like Tom Paniccia and Margarethe Cammermeyer will have their lives and careers destroyed in a senseless attempt to stall the inevitable.

Some in congress think I’m wrong. They say we absolutely must continue to discriminate, or all hell will break loose. Who knows, they say, perhaps our soldiers may even take up arms against each other.

Well, that’s just stupid.

Years ago, I was a lieutenant in charge of an all-black unit. Military leaders at the time believed that blacks lacked leadership potential – period. That seems ridiculous now, as it should. Now, each and every man and woman who serves this nation takes orders from a black man – our own Gen. Colin Powell.

Nobody thought that blacks or women could ever be integrated into the military. Many thought that an all-volunteer force could never protect our national interest. Well, it has, and despite those who feared the worst – I among them – we are still the best and will continue to be.

The point is that decisions are always a lot easier to make in hindsight. but we seldom have that luxury. That’s why the future of our country depends on leadership, and that’s what we need now.

I served in the armed forces. I have flown more than 150 of the best fighter planes and bombers this country manufactured. I founded the Arizona National Guard. I chaired the Senate Armed Services Committee. And I think it’s high time to pull the curtains on this charade of policy.

What should undermine our readiness would be a compromise policy like “Don’t ask, don’t tell.” That compromise doesn’t deal with the issue – it tries to hide it.

We have wasted enough…

Read on.

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Dishonest Graphs Of Global Carbon Dioxide Levels

There’s no denying that CO2 is increasing in Earth’s atmosphere, especially since 1850.

But graphs like this and this and this and this are all very scary to the average Internet user interested in the Global Warming debate.

But look at the y axis. It does not start at 0.

T.J. Nelson writes:

Another issue that people are confused about is the rate of increase of carbon dioxide. Some people think that CO2 is rising dramatically. This is probably because of graphs like the one below.

However, in hard science journals, the graph above would be considered dishonest, because the y-axis starts at 290 instead of zero. This misleads the reader into thinking that CO2 levels have undergone a huge increase when in fact, CO2 levels have only increased by 23.7% since 1900. When the data are plotted honestly, with the y axis starting at zero, the true scope of the change becomes clear.

Interesting, ya think? Read the entire report by T.J. Nelson titled “Cold Facts on Global Warming“.

Earth heats and cools. And man has nothing to do with it.

NASA Does Another Useless Thing

Oh dear. Looks like NASA does another useless thing.

Hey, I LOVE science. But bombing the Moon crashing spacecraft into the Moon? Come on…