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Some of you may have heard about the global warming report that has been suppressed by Obama’s EPA.  Here is the author, Dr. Carlin, explaining one of the graphs to Glenn Beck.

As you can see, what temperatures are actually doing (blue and green lines) is much different than the UN and other alarmists have been predicting (orange and red lines).  Ever heard of extrapolating?  Temperatures have been falling despite increasing carbon saturations. 

Some will say that the earth would still be cooler if not for carbon emissions.  That may or may not be true, but the point is, there are obviously a myriad of factors that determine temperature and those natural factors heavily outweigh whatever influence, if any, carbon has on the temperature.

How many of us trust what the weatherman says the weather will be like in a week?  Yet, despite that, we have Obama and the Dems pushing the biggest tax increase in history based on predictions of temperature for the next 70 to 80 years.  The graphs show that those predictions have already been proven wrong, so why use them as a basis for putting the economy into a full-fledged depression?

What comes to mind when you think of each of the following words?  Leave your responses in the comments.

Fannie Mae

Freddie Mac

DMV

Post Office

Public Health Clinic

Public Housing Projects

Public Health Care

A team of prominent atmospheric scientists sent this Open Letter to Congress today .

OPEN LETTER TO THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES: YOU ARE BEING DECEIVED ABOUT GLOBAL WARMING

You have recently received an Open Letter from the Woods Hole Research Center, exhorting you to act quickly to avoid global disaster. The letter purports to be from independent scientists, but that Center is the former den of the President’s science advisor, John Holdren, and is far from independent. This is the same science advisor who has given us predictions of “almost certain” thermonuclear war or eco-catastrophe by the year 2000, and many other forecasts of doom that somehow never seem to arrive on time.

The facts are:

The sky is not falling; the Earth has been cooling for ten years, without help. The present cooling was NOT predicted by the alarmists’ computer models, and has come as an embarrassment to them.

The finest meteorologists in the world cannot predict the weather two weeks in advance, let alone the climate for the rest of the century. Can Al Gore? Can John Holdren? We are flooded with claims that the evidence is clear, that the debate is closed, that we must act immediately, etc, but in fact

THERE IS NO SUCH EVIDENCE; IT DOESN’T EXIST.

The proposed legislation would cripple the US economy, putting us at a disadvantage compared to our competitors. For such drastic action, it is only prudent to demand genuine proof that it is needed, not guesswork, and not false claims about the state of the science.

DEMAND PROOF, NOT CONSENSUS

Finally, climate alarmism pays well. Many alarmists are profiting from their activism. There are billions of dollars floating around for the taking, and being taken.

Robert H. Austin
Professor of Physics
Princeton University
Fellow APS, AAAS
American Association of Arts and Science Member National Academy of Sciences

William Happer
Cyrus Fogg Brackett Professor of Physics
Princeton University
Fellow APS, AAAS
Member National Academy of Sciences

S. Fred Singer
Professor of Environmental Sciences Emeritus, University of Virginia
First Director of the National Weather Satellite Service
Fellow APS, AAAS, AGU

Roger W. Cohen
Manager, Strategic Planning and Programs, ExxonMobil Corporation (retired)
Fellow APS

Harold W. Lewis
Professor of Physics Emeritus
University of California at Santa Barbara
Fellow APS, AAAS; Chairman, APS Reactor Safety Study

Laurence I. Gould
Professor of Physics
University of Hartford
Chairman (2004), New England Section of APS

Richard Lindzen
Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Fellow American Academy of Arts and Sciences, AGU, AAAS, and AMS
Member Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
Member National Academy of Sciences

End Reprint of Open Letter. #

Editor’s Note: Woods Hole Research Center is an environmental activist group — not affiliated in any way with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

http://climatedepot.com/a/1745/Scientists-Write-Open-Letter-to-Congress-You-Are-Being-Deceived-About-Global-Warming–Earth-has-been-cooling-for-ten-years

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Al Franken is in, a check and balance is out.

It’s a sad day to see one party control two branches of the government. I’m not just saying this because it happens to be the Democrats. The same could be said when Bush had this support during his presidency. I made this comment on Twitter when I heard the news that Al Franken officially won, and a friend responded with this comment (paraphrased): Things like public transportation work would only get approved with democratic control. He might have a point; I do enjoy the nice improvements being made to the roads I drive on in Utah and Colorado. However, let’s look at the other “improvements” that would only get passed by the current democratic control:

• Overhaul of the health care system
• Cap-and-trade
• Nationalization of the auto industry
• Nationalization of the finance industry
• Nationalization of [fill in industry here]

Yesterday was the sentencing of ponzi king Bernie Madoff.  Mr. Madoff received the maximum sentence of 150 years for his crime.  He is 71 years old and will probably only serve a fraction of the time before he dies.  I am happy to say that Mr. Madoff deserves all he got and more.  Next up, Mr. Stanford.

As demonstrated by the hyper-miler I had to drive behind yesterday, this version of lame driver has two (three) objectives:

1. Maximize the number of miles per gallon
2. Minimize carbon emissions
3. Annoy me

To accomplish these objectives, a variety of methods are used, such as:

• If a light ahead is red, slow down WAY before and begin coasting in an attempt to arrive as it turns green (you will probably be right behind this driver and then get stopped as the light goes back to red)
• Never accelerate faster than 2000 rpms (to estimate this speed, practice the moonwalk – its about that fast)
• Drive at 50 mph on the 65 and 70 mph freeways (some choose the far left lane instead of the far right lane to not have to deal with on and off ramps)
• Remove unnecessary weight from car such as mirrors and seats (and common sense)
• Extreme hyper-milers may even put car in neutral, then turn off car while traveling on the freeway (nothing unsafe here)

By utilizing these methods, there is no doubt that they are achieving goal 3… BUT they are definitely not achieving 1 and 2 for anyone besides themselves. In fact, they are increasing everyone else’s carbon emissions and lowering everyone else’s mileage efficiency by reducing the “predictability” of the road.

The purpose of driving laws is to ensure safety and predictability. If you see a 65 mph sign, carbon emissions are at their lowest and mpg are at their highest if everyone travels at the same rate. A single car breaking this pattern causes all others to have to modify their driving behavior. Further, breaks in this predictability cause car accidents and pile-ups. This was researched by a group of MIT scientists (see video here).

So, for my sanity… Hypermilers – buy a bike.

Obama likes to call Cap and Trade a green jobs bill.  Well, if Spains experience teaches us anything, it is a jobs killing bill.  Oh yeah, and Obama likes to point to Spain as an example of all the green job creation. 

Dr. Gabriel Calzada, an economics professor at Juan Carlos University in Madrid, said the United States should expect results similar to those in Spain: 

“Spain’s experience (cited by President Obama as a model) reveals with high confidence, by two different methods, that the U.S. should expect a loss of at least 2.2 jobs on average, or about 9 jobs lost for every 4 created, to which we have to add those jobs that non-subsidized investments with the same resources would have created,” wrote Calzada in his report.”

With two huge votes coming up, these articles should be required reading.  The rest of the world is increasingly questioning the science of global warming, including France, Japan, Australia, the UK and other parts of the EU.  Something I’ve been writing about on the blog for some time. 

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124597505076157449.html

Also, Safeway has shown that health care costs can be contained when people are given the right incentives, i.e. lower health care costs.  I find it ironic that Obama thinks providing free healthcare will make people want to be more healthy.  I would assume that if people have to pay something when they go to the doctor, they’d want to be healthy so they don’t have to go as often.  I guess good health by itself isn’t enough to incentivize people to be healthy. 

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124536722522229323.html

Since EVERYTHING will cost more, how do you choose what to give up?

Say what you want about the alleged King of Pop, but undoubtedly he was an amazing musician and dancer who popularized electronic pop music like few others. 

He was only 50 years old.  

You can read the full story on none other than, TMZ.com.  Also, thanks Dana for real-time update!

http://www.tmz.com/2009/06/25/michael-jackson-dies-death-dead-cardiac-arrest/