Climategate and “Hide The Decline” In Context

Steve McIntyre puts the Climategate emails into a new light, by filling in the contextual holes surrounding the emails.

This makes matters look even worse, bring the IPCC into the picture.

Relevant Climategate correspondence in the period (September-October 1999) leading up to the trick email is incomplete, but, in context, is highly revealing. There was a meeting of IPCC lead authors between Sept 1-3, 1999 to consider the “zero-order draft” of the Third Assessment Report. The emails provide clear evidence that IPCC had already decided to include a proxy diagram reconstructing temperature for the past 1000 years and that a version of the proxy diagram was presented at the Tanzania meeting showing the late twentieth century decline. I now have a copy of the proxy diagram presented at this meeting (see below).

Nails in the Coffin of “Global Warming” Hoax

Widespread skepticism by scientists against “Global Warming” started brewing years ago.  But with so much research funding spent on Global Warming Climate Change research, there’s reluctance to pop the research bubble.   Think of the “.com bubble” and the denial preceding the .com collapse.

Scientifically, skepticism is a good thing.   This is why published research is supposed to go through peer review.   Data is to be provided to the community at large, and experiments proving theories can be easily reproduced by other scientists.  When peer reviews fail, trust in the objectivity of scientists will fall, and science as a whole is demeaned.

And so the reluctance of the original researchers in Global Warming Climate Change research to release their original raw data, then conspire to hide the decline,  this indicates the basic original research is corrupt.  Of course, those who stand to loose say there’s nothing to see here.

Making the rounds today are reports that other agencies have made unexplained changes to the raw data, as well.

The politicians will thrive on this, of course.

Muslim Militias in the USA

Robert Spencer posted this clip, and I want to pass it along:

Now, why would fully garbed Muslim women go through militia training on US soil?

Misrepresentations of Darwin

Charles Darwin’s work is often mischaracterized, and he is often misquoted.

The authors at the Darwin Correspondence Project published Six things Darwin never said – and one he did.   You’ll be surprised.  For example, Charles Darwin never said or wrote:

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change.

I found this site while researching a topic on Darwin, and was amused to find Charles Darwin did say this:

I am quite conscious that my speculations run quite beyond the bounds of true science.’

Health Care Tax Hikes, Enumerated In Full

Americans for Tax Reform (ATR) have posted list of all the tax hikes in Dingy Harry’s Senate Health Care bill (the Senate substitute to H. R. 3590).

KILL THIS BILL!

Friday News Dump – KSM Bombshell

This is insanity.   A war crimes tribunal wouldn’t be held in US territory, and is arguably more appropriate.  Letting him set foot on US soil changes everything, and exposes all involved to much more risk.

Interpretations of Islam

Incredulous claims of Islam being a “Religion of Peace”  took another hit in Fort Hood, Texas this week.   While the government seems unwilling to recognize the peacenik arguments internal to Islam are losing, we have an Army Major with Islamist red flags infiltrating our armed forces.   Fox News picked up on this, as well.

From the Telegraph article, note the following statement (emphasis mine):

Kamran Pasha, the author of Mother of the Believers, a new novel relating the story of Islam from the perspective of Aisha, Prophet Mohammed’s wife, was told of the al-Awlaki connection from a Muslim friend who is also an officer at Fort Hood. Using the name Richard, the recent convert to Islam described how he frequently prayed with Hasan at the town mosque after Hasan was deployed to Fort Hood in July. They last worshipped together at predawn prayers on the day of the massacre when Hasan “appeared relaxed and not in any way troubled or nervous“.

How’s that work?   Quite well, thank you, if your core religious beliefs train you it’s acceptable to murder.

Islamic Terrorism at Fort Hood, Texas

The country just witnessed straight up Islamic terrorism at Fort Hood.  There.  I said it out loud.

How is this possibly arguable?

Robert Spencer writes it up.

12 Months Later, GOP Declared Victor in 2008 Elections!

Well, if Nancy Pelosi can claim election night 2009 was a win for Democrats, I guess the GOP could rightly claim victory in the 2008 elections.

After all, who else could have launched such a severe shift toward conservatism but the leftist, radical, Mao-favorite-appointing, . . . President Barack Hussein Obama?

Dems in Oversight Committee Change Locks on Republican’s Door

Come on, they changed the locks on the Republican’s door?  It’s retribution for posting this video, taken after Republicans demanded a vote on subpoenas for Bank of America VIP loan information: