Don't Let 'Em Run It Aground (We're On It)

"For true scientists, one knows the achievements, not the academic credentials. Albert Einstein discovered relativity (everyone knows E = mc2), he discovered the photon, and he discovered gravitational waves. But where did Einstein go to school? Who cares?

What counter-intuitive predictions have the Global Warmers ever made? I invite you to look. I myself could not find a single counter-intuitive prediction made by any major Global Warmer. But I have found cases of them trying to cover up failed predictions.

In The Caine Mutiny, Van Johnson’s character, faced with disaster due to the obviously false predictions made by the ship’s captain (Bogart’s character), tells the crew to ignore the orders of the man with rank but no performance credentials, and saves the ship.

Perhaps we should do the same."

-- Frank J. Tipler, Professor of Mathematical Physics at Tulane University, on the massive NewAge fraud of "climate change science," for Pajamas Media.

What’s Wrong With This Picture?

President Obama flew on Air Force One to Denver to sign the Porkulus bill. Now remember, the economy is bad and people are hurting.

So without knowing any rational reason for the trip when he could have signed it at his desk, here’s partially what that cost
the taxpayers:

In 2000, the operating cost per hour for a 747-400 was $6,750 per hour. That’s just the aircraft.

It does not include ground operations, ground transportation, helicopter transportation, flight crew, security, entourage costs
or costs at the destination.

From D.C. to Denver is about 2,982 miles, round trip. Cruise speed for this aircraft is 567 mph.

Aircraft hours for this round trip is about 5.25 hours, x 6,750/hour =

$35,347.50

Just for the aircraft. On the low side.

So we ask: Why?

In Space, They Can't Hear You're A NewAger

"Global warming,... is being used as a political tool to increase government control over American lives, incomes and decision making."

-- Harrison Schmitt, a former astronaut who resigned from The Planetary Society over the issue of climate change, adding "[This is] one of the few times you’ve seen a sizable portion of scientists who ought to be objective take a political position and it’s coloring their objectivity" - yet another contention this blog has repeatedly championed - the whole story can be found at The Boston Herald.

The Politics Of Fools - I Mean Fear!

“It is the nature of the media and activist groups to find some new panic to ride.”

-- The Editors, on the waning of the Global Warming crusade, for the National Review Online.