Whatever Happend to Global Whatever?

Am I missing something?

All this time we have suffered virtually zero Global Warming, about 13+ years if we are to believe “scientists,” – have the CO2 emissions stopped suddenly?

Has the industrial revolution ended while I was busy blogging?

Has my car suddenly stopped polluting?

 I understand the concept of “punctuated equilibrium” as it applies to evolution and it makes sense in that context, but if we are pumping scads (that is a technical term) of CO2 (and more importantly, methane) into the atmosphere each hour – how do we get the past several years of slight cooling?

Has the CIA suddenly invented a laser that cleans the atmosphere? Beats me.

For 13 consecutive years we have had increasing gunk (another technical term) from increasing people doing increasing stuff (technical, again) to the atmosphere, but the results have been…NOTHING?

There have been 13+ years of nothing significant happening, EXCEPT (of course) being harangued by nannies telling us we are ruining the planet by being happy. During the entire time we have debated Global Whatever on THIS Blog, NOTHING was happening except slight cooling!

They are worse than nannies – they are Puritans!

(“Puritanism – the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.” H. L. Mencken)

California Scheming

The Obama administration is dangling $4.3 BILLION in education money (Race to the Top), and California hopes to get $700 million of that – but first it must reform certain education practices – including linking teacher evaluation to student scores.

Many large school districts are refusing to sign on, including state’s second largest, the San Diego Unified, and, naturally all of the teachers unions.

The last thing in any ‘educators” mind(sic) is the word “accountability.”

The head of the California Teachers Association (340,000 members — and that number alone should make you think “Greece”) sent an e-mail to local unions urging them not to sign onto the Obama plan.

Obama is Learning From His Own Mistakes (Slowly)

 KSM was exactly the situation of the new Taliban leader, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar,.

Both were picked up by a COMBINATION of ISI and CIA.

We are always the lead agency in these cases (whomever has the gold makes the rules) and WE determine who will have control of the individual.

In KSM, we determined that we could break him with interrogation methods currently banned – and we did – but subsequently we banned those methods so THIS TIME we let ISI hold the terrorist.

Current and actionable intelligence is what we want. Time is of the essence, and we are rolling up high value targets almost daily in Pakistan.

Many high value targets talk instantly in the hands of ISI, or Egyptian or even Jordanian interrogators because of their KNOWN methods. If you can’t hold out until death you are well-advised to spill quickly to avoid the pain trying to protect information you will eventually give up anyway.

The top terrorists know this – they are very smart and well-informed on methodology. Just the threat of Pakistani, Egyptian or Jordanian  interrogation has broken many valuable subjects without laying a hand on them.

WE decided that Pakistani ISI would hold Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar. He is cooperating in ways that he would not do with us, because he know what the ISI is capable of, and he knows we are banned from doing similar things. 

President Obama made the decision, himself. That is how high these decisions go in “high value” cases.

Eric Holder didn’t get a vote.

The AGW Horse Has Come Up Lame

Ever since the editor of the IPCC report admitted all of the mistakes, the e-mail releases of the undercurrent of fraud, and now the recently resigned head of the CRU at East Anglia admitting that there has been virtually no warming for 13+ years — the air has gone out of the Left on AGW. I suspect there is more to come, and it looks like this will be another cool year to add to the list.

The balloon was kept inflated by public support, but the Pew Report found GW now ranks 24th — of 24 subjects — in the public mind.

Crises have a short shelf-life, and if the people cannot be stampeded quickly, the moment is gone. (See Public Option Health Care.)

Dead-enders remain fighting rear guard action for the general retreat. Politicians will give it up last because it was a potential source of HUGE governmental profit. But it is over. We are into a mopping-up action.

Personally I think Al Gore should be sued for fraud, but he has a defense – he is not sufficiently bright to have ‘intent.”

George Will on Palin

George Will is exactly right this morning – we have assigned our government to the academics:

“America, its luck exhausted, at last has a president from the academic culture, that grating blend of knowingness and unrealism. But the reaction against this must somewhat please him. That reaction is populism, a celebration of intellectual ordinariness. This is not a stance that will strengthen the Republican Party, which recently has become ruinously weak among highly educated whites.”

Will is right. He says in his article today that Sarah Palin is not the answer, but she is the passion in an otherwise moribund political party.

How mush excitement can you generate by offering to do nothing – take a break, even though that is what the nation needs. The President has offered to take a spending break – next year.

Every election is a reaction. Obama is not Bush, and the next election will be “Not Obama.’

Fine, but we have more than one selection to get to this point. I think the electorate agrees that in retrospect, if we had to have “Not Bush” that the nation would have been better off with Hillary, but we are past that and have to live where we are.

And Will is correct. Palin is not the answer. But she is better than she is being portrayed.

Filed Under : Wheels Continue To Fall Off

 

AMSTERDAM (AP) – Top U.N. climate change official Yvo de Boer told The Associated Press on Thursday that he was resigning after nearly four years, a period when governments struggled without success to agree on a new global warming deal.

His departure takes effect July 1, five months before 193 nations are due to reconvene in Mexico for another attempt to reach a binding worldwide accord on controlling greenhouse gases. De Boer’s resignation adds to the uncertainty that a full treaty can be finalized there.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20100218/D9DUKH501.html