So What Do We Do About Global Whatever?

There is a vast difference between scientific consensus and political consensus.
We are much like a patient who has been diagnosed with a serious illness by a doctor.
What is our confidence in the doctor? What is our confidence in the test results? If the prognosis is dire, do we even want to afford the proposed solution [...]

Gosh! You’re Kidding, Right?

U.S. local government pension costs exceeds $530 billion: govern
Wed Dec 23, 5:43 pm ET
NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. state and local governments face more than $530 billion in unfunded public pension liabilities and most do not have funds set aside to pay for them, a government report showed on Wednesday.
As of June, state governments were on the hook for [...]

Redistributionists

I don’t think that liberals deny that they want redistributionist policies — although they may dislike the word.
It is a bit harsh, because it is blunt. They probably prefer something like “helping the less fortunate,” which certainly sounds nice until you realize that it is not they who they want to “help the less fortunate” [...]

The Market Speaks

 
Carbon prices fall in wake of Copenhagen
By Chris Flood and Fiona Harvey
Published: December 22 2009 02:00 | Last updated: December 22 2009 02:00
“Carbon prices plunged yesterday in the aftermath of the Copenhagen conference on climate change, dealing a blow to the credibility of the European Union’s carbon-trading scheme.
Prices for carbon permits for December 2010 delivery, [...]

Trouble Ahead For Democrats

The troubles in Washington with agreement on a healthcare reform bill, and the problems in Copenhagen with Global Whatever are very similar – agreement would break a lot of rice bowls, and people don’t want their rice bowls broken when they do not see the need.
There appears to be general agreement among the populace that [...]

Copenhagen Is a Leftist Plot to Steal

Copenhagen has little to do with Global Whatever, it is just another excuse for poor countries to us AGW (read “White Guilt” for being economically successful) to demand a transfer of wealth from rich countries to poor countries.
At the conference, Venezuela’s Chavez got a rousing ovation with this line “our revolution seeks to help all [...]

The Copenhagen Snowstorm

I would hope that even liberals would oppose what is apparently going on in Copenhagen.
(I say “apparently” because it is like the Senate Healthcare Bill – no one knows what is being discussed!)
I assume that the United States will “promise” about $30 billion a year to match the European nations, and of course the “developing [...]

Chapter Four of CRU E-Mail Kerfuffle

In this chapter, I investigate the culture in which scientists fudge data, threaten others who hold competing theories with bodily harm or blackballing from publishing.
It should be noted that scientists are human, with the same human foibles as most of the rest of us, but they deal in a subject so distant from most that [...]

Mass Transit Strikes (our pocketbook) Again

Bullet train streaks through money
By: Ken Garcia
Examiner Staff Writer
12/15/09 1:29 PM PST
“California’s high-speed rail system is still years in the making and it has already being slowed down by its own projections.
A new report released this week says that the costs for passengers will be much higher than expected, causing millions of them to [...]

Chapter Three of CRU E-mails

Chapter three:
It was not just other CRU scientists who were concerned about the quality of the data, as revealed by the e-mails published from CRU, East Anglia.
(As an aside it might be noted that there are charges that the e-mails were “private” and “stolen” – and that may or may not be partly true – [...]