Steve Fielding recently asked the Obama administration to reassure him on the science of man-made global warming. When the administration proved unhelpful, Mr. Fielding decided to vote against climate-change legislation.
If you haven’t heard of this politician, it’s because he’s a member of the Australian Senate. As the U.S. House of Representatives prepares to pass a climate-change bill, the Australian Parliament is preparing to kill its own country’s carbon-emissions scheme. Why? A growing number of Australian politicians, scientists and citizens once again doubt the science of human-caused global warming.
But we need to get Cap and Trade passed NOW!!! Before our congress members even read it.
Among the many reasons President Barack Obama and the Democratic majority are so intent on quickly jamming a cap-and-trade system through Congress is because the global warming tide is again shifting. It turns out Al Gore and the United Nations (with an assist from the media), did a little too vociferous a job smearing anyone who disagreed with them as “deniers.” The backlash has brought the scientific debate roaring back to life in Australia, Europe, Japan and even, if less reported, the U.S.
In April, the Polish Academy of Sciences published a document challenging man-made global warming. In the Czech Republic, where President Vaclav Klaus remains a leading skeptic, today only 11% of the population believes humans play a role. In France, President Nicolas Sarkozy wants to tap Claude Allegre to lead the country’s new ministry of industry and innovation. Twenty years ago Mr. Allegre was among the first to trill about man-made global warming, but the geochemist has since recanted. New Zealand last year elected a new government, which immediately suspended the country’s weeks-old cap-and-trade program.
The rest of the world is putting cap and trade plans on hold but we have to rush head first into it for no other reason than a few people in DC want to do it.
The number of skeptics, far from shrinking, is swelling. Oklahoma Sen. Jim Inhofe now counts more than 700 scientists who disagree with the U.N.—13 times the number who authored the U.N.’s 2007 climate summary for policymakers. Joanne Simpson, the world’s first woman to receive a Ph.D. in meteorology, expressed relief upon her retirement last year that she was finally free to speak “frankly” of her nonbelief. Dr. Kiminori Itoh, a Japanese environmental physical chemist who contributed to a U.N. climate report, dubs man-made warming “the worst scientific scandal in history.” Norway’s Ivar Giaever, Nobel Prize winner for physics, decries it as the “new religion.” A group of 54 noted physicists, led by Princeton’s Will Happer, is demanding the American Physical Society revise its position that the science is settled. (Both Nature and Science magazines have refused to run the physicists’ open letter.)
But we can’t wait a second longer.
The collapse of the “consensus” has been driven by reality. The inconvenient truth is that the earth’s temperatures have flat-lined since 2001, despite growing concentrations of C02. Peer-reviewed research has debunked doomsday scenarios about the polar ice caps, hurricanes, malaria, extinctions, rising oceans. A global financial crisis has politicians taking a harder look at the science that would require them to hamstring their economies to rein in carbon.
Credit for Australia’s own era of renewed enlightenment goes to Dr. Ian Plimer, a well-known Australian geologist. Earlier this year he published “Heaven and Earth,” a damning critique of the “evidence” underpinning man-made global warming. The book is already in its fifth printing. So compelling is it that Paul Sheehan, a noted Australian columnist—and ardent global warming believer—in April humbly pronounced it “an evidence-based attack on conformity and orthodoxy, including my own, and a reminder to respect informed dissent and beware of ideology subverting evidence.” Australian polls have shown a sharp uptick in public skepticism; the press is back to questioning scientific dogma; blogs are having a field day.
Mr. Fielding, a crucial vote on the bill, was so alarmed by the renewed science debate that he made a fact-finding trip to the U.S., attending the Heartland Institute’s annual conference for climate skeptics. He also visited with Joseph Aldy, Mr. Obama’s special assistant on energy and the environment, where he challenged the Obama team to address his doubts. They apparently didn’t.
]]>Republicans in the U.S. have, in recent years, turned ever more to the cost arguments against climate legislation. That’s made sense in light of the economic crisis. If Speaker Nancy Pelosi fails to push through her bill, it will be because rural and Blue Dog Democrats fret about the economic ramifications. Yet if the rest of the world is any indication, now might be the time for U.S. politicians to re-engage on the science. One thing for sure: They won’t be alone.
http://record-eagle.com/local/x91129335/Daniel-Ellsberg-speaks-via-Skype
]]>The South Korean government, in an effort to raise money for its military, wants to sell nearly a million antique M1 rifles that were used by U.S. soldiers in the Korean War to gun collectors in America.
The Obama administration approved the sale of the American-made rifles last year. But it reversed course and banned the sale in March – a decision that went largely unnoticed at the time but that is now sparking opposition from gun rights advocates.
A State Department spokesman said the administration’s decision was based on concerns that the guns could fall into the wrong hands.
“The transfer of such a large number of weapons—87,310 M1 Garands and 770,160 M1 Carbines—could potentially be exploited by individuals seeking firearms for illicit purposes,” the spokesman told FoxNews.com.
What a BS answer. There’s nothing more inherently risky about this than other shipments from overseas, and the guns being talked about are already legal to own in the US. But why I really bring it up is this -
Asked why the M1s pose a threat, the State Department spokesman referred questions to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. ATF representatives said they would look into the question Monday afternoon, but on Wednesday they referred questions to the Justice Department. DOJ spokesman Dean Boyd referred questions back to the State Department.
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The White House referred questions on the issue to the Pentagon, which referred questions to the U.S. Embassy in South Korea, which deferred back to the State Department.
It’s all about passing the buck.
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]]>If you get a good dealer then he can make the deal of buying a second hand car a smarter choice than buying used car. There are some people who offer their cars for sale when they cannot afford the lease. Such cars are less used and if you take over the lease then it would be the best deal for you because such cars are in no way less than a new car that you can get at low price.
According to a car dealer a car is new if it is just one year old. Such used cars are in very good condition and you can get them at 20-40% lesser than the cost of a new car. So if you can get such a car then it is good. This not at all means that cars older than this are not good to buy but then you need to be more diligent in checking the history of the car.
Car sale is a big business these days so you can get almost all the cars in the used categories that are available for sale. So you can get the car of your choice and still save a lot of money. Although the dealers would have the staff for new and used car on sales who know more than you about the cars but when you are talking to salesperson offering you the used cars then try and keep the control over the conversation so that you are not guided to buy what he wants to sell rather you get to know more on what you want to buy.
You should do your homework before you go to the dealer. Keep all your questions ready so that you do not get confused on seeing so many offers in front of you. The customer has all right to negotiate on deals and say yes only when you are happy with the price and you are convinced that the car that you have chosen is justifying the amount that you are paying for it.
Apart from this check the technical aspects of the car. There may be cars that may need immediate servicing or repair after you buy so keep that amount in your mind when you pay for the car. There may be cars that might have history of some accident. It is important to know the complete details of the legalities associated. used cars Australia should have complete papers of the car ready. This would help you in staying away from all complications later. All the certified used cars dealers are accountable for all the cars sold through them.
]]>I would imagine that people don’t trust the government to do both, but with such mis-trust, how do you reach a reasonable outcome? I suppose it would be possible to seal the border totally without additional reform, but at what cost? Wouldn’t it be smarter to attack the problem from both sides of the issue. By all means, build fences and get more equipment down there to make it harder to walk over. But why not also tackle the number of illegals trying to enter? A guest worker program would probably lead to fewer entering illegally, thus making border control easier (and cheaper). Couple that with some kind of path to citizenship, and you will get a hold of who’s in your country already, which is something I understand is vital to your national security.
Do you people here think that comprehensive immigration reform is needed? And should border security be separated from said reform?
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To elaborate on ‘secure the border first’. If the mis-trust is too big, and/or if the issue is overly politicized then what’s stopping immigration reform from containing language addressing the issues of mis-trust?. Example) A guest worker program will be set up starting January 2012. The infrastructure needed to secure the Tuscon border shall be in place january 2012. If it isn’t, the start of the guest working program will be post-poned.
Stockholm, Sweden (CNN)—The founder and editor of the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, is wanted in Sweden after accusations of rape and molestation, a spokeswoman for the Swedish prosecutor’s office told CNN Saturday.
Spokeswoman Karin Rosander said Assange was arrested in absentia Friday night, and faces charges in relation to two separate instances, but she didn’t have more detail about when the alleged crimes occurred or who the alleged victims are.
Assange denied the allegations in a posting Saturday on the WikiLeaks Twitter page, saying, “The charges are without basis and their issue at this moment is deeply disturbing.”
This is the lead story in all our news papers. One of the accusors, a 30 year old woman, has spoken to one of our news papers. She is the one accusing him of molestation. She’s not giving details, but according to her both cases are about sex which started out as consensual, but from there on went on to molestation in one case, and rape in the other. The second woman remains silent thus far.
Swedish news papers have received e-mails from Assange, where he denies the charges. And he also says that he will turn himself over to Swedish police soon.
EDIT: The prosecutors no longer need him for questioning, saying that the rape charge is gone. Strange…
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When the Muslims want prayer in schools, what do they get? Everybody in unison? PRAYER IN SCHOOLS.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/580789/posts
When students ask for the traditional general prayer at a high school graduation, what do they get? Everyone? An ACLU lawsuit!!!
http://www.snopes.com/politics/religion/sneeze.asp