Common Folk Using Common Sense

From Lawrence Solomon at the Financial Post:

All told, (U.K. scientist and Green Party activist William) Connolley created or rewrote 5,428 unique Wikipedia articles. His control over Wikipedia was greater still, however, through the role he obtained at Wikipedia as a website administrator, which allowed him to act with virtual impunity. When Connolley didn’t like the [...]

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From Conspirology.com:

Using a highly reliable measuring system know as the five senses, human beings in their billions have come to the conclusion, that the only certainty about the weather on planet earth, is that it keeps on changing in very strange ways. Some times hot, sometimes cold, sometimes wet, sometimes dry. [...]

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Via The Wall Street Journal:

Officials gather in Copenhagen this week for an international climate summit, but business leaders are focusing even more on Washington, where the Obama administration is expected as early as Monday to formally declare carbon dioxide a dangerous pollutant.
An “endangerment” finding by the Environmental Protection Agency could pave the way for the [...]

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Via FOX News:

ABC didn’t cover it. CBS didn’t either. And NBC apparently wouldn’t go near it.
The network news broadcasts have ignored a growing scandal over evidence of a potential climate cover-up — and now they’ve even been scooped by the fake news at Comedy Central.
“The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” produced its “reporting” on Climate-gate [...]

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Nothing here I haven’t been saying for years.
From the UK Daily Express:

The scientific consensus that mankind has caused climate change was rocked yesterday as a leading academic called it a “load of hot air underpinned by fraud”.
Professor Ian Plimer condemned the climate change lobby as “climate comrades” keeping the “gravy train” going.
In a controversial talk [...]

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From the UK Times Online:

People will need to turn vegetarian if the world is to conquer climate change, according to a leading authority on global warming.
In an interview with The Times, Lord Stern of Brentford said: “Meat is a wasteful use of water and creates a lot of greenhouse gases. It puts enormous pressure on [...]

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Says Alex Renton in Sunday’s UK Guardian:

Fewer British babies would mean a fairer planet.
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It’s not the growing number of people in poverty who are causing climate change, it’s the rich.
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The worst thing that you or I can do for the planet is to have children.
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By today’s standards, a cull of Australians or Americans would be [...]

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Over at The Heritage Foundation I learned the following:

Greenhouse gases comprise only 2% of Earth’s atmosphere, or 0.02. Nitrogen, oxygen, and argon make up 99.96% of the atmosphere.
CO2 gases comprise only 3.62% of all greenhouse gases, or 0.0724% of the atmosphere (although Microsoft Encarta and Wikipedia says it’s only 0.03-0.04%).
Humans only create 3.4% of [...]

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From FOX News:

A top Republican senator has ordered an investigation into the Environmental Protection Agency’s alleged suppression of a report that questioned the science behind global warming.
The 98-page report, co-authored by EPA analyst Alan Carlin, pushed back on the prospect of regulating gases like carbon dioxide as a way to reduce global warming. Carlin’s [...]

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Democrats in the US House passed, by a 219-212 razor margin, Obama’s climate and energy legislation Friday evening. Now this bill moves to the Senate. Next to Obama this legislation is a big win for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA).
The complex bill mandates a 17-percent cut in greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 and [...]

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Carol M. Browner is President-elect Barack Obama’s pick as global warming czar.
Beh. I’m still convinced that all the global warming hysteria is nothing more than an Socialist excuse to redistribute global wealth and not any impending doom of the planet due to driving SUVs.
Now we’re learning that Carol Browner is a card-carrying [...]

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From the UK Telegraph:

Easily one of the most important stories of 2008 has been all the evidence suggesting that this may be looked back on as the year when there was a turning point in the great worldwide panic over man-made global warming. Just when politicians in Europe and America have been adopting the most [...]

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From FOX News:

Global warming was blamed for everything from beasts gone wild to anorexic whales to the complete breakdown of human society this year — showing that no matter what it is and where it happens, scientists, explorers, politicians and those who track the Loch Ness Monster are comfortable scapegoating the weather.

1. Cannibalism: In [...]

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From FOX News:

The clock is ticking.
At 12:30 a.m. EDT Wednesday, scientists on the Franco-Swiss border will flip the switch on the Large Hadron Collider, a 17-mile underground ring where subatomic particles will be accelerated to astonishing speeds and then smashed into each other.
It’ll be months before any usable data comes out from the experiments, but [...]

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Due to the ever-increasing temperature of the world’s oceans, from the Global Warming caused by Evil Conservatives™ in the USA driving their eco-angry SUVs, many gentle and pacifist sea creatures are venturing inward towards the cooler temperatures of this nation’s major rivers.

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