*According to Al Gore, the interior of the earth is hotter than the sun. But don’t worry, you can trust him about global cooling warming climate change. After all, he’s got no reason to lie to you, right?
RELATED: Galileo Silenced Again, by Willie Soon and David R. Legates.
“Reduced sunspot activity and solar energy output, stable or even cooling planetary temperatures, concerns over the high cost of proposed cap-and-trade legislation, political developments in Washington and Copenhagen, and other factors have caused more people to question manmade global warming disaster claims. This has led to consternation among scientists and organizations that have supported those claims.
However, as scientists, we are profoundly concerned by this behavior from a professional society that is supposed to serve science and its members. The AGU certainly had the right to reject our proposed session at the outset or before the solar variability session was merged with it. But given the topic of our session and the good faith approach we have taken in accepting papers from the cancelled solar variability session, it seems odd (at the very least) that our session was summarily dissolved, and that the AGU refuses to discuss the matter.
The AGU action is hardly reasonable. Indeed, it is counter-productive to the scientific method and to promoting open scientific discussions. It smacks of censorship. Something is rotten in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Scientific inquiry has once again been silenced … just as it was 400 years ago.
*The Killer Bow, by Jennifer Rubin.
“So, is “the bow” Obama’s “killer rabbit” moment — a silly and seemingly small event that comes to encapsulate growing unease with a president who hasn’t quite figured out that the world is a dangerous place and that it is his job to perceive dangers and act decisively to protect American interests?”
RELATED: Handy Tips for President Obama on Behavior in Foreign Countries, by Frank J. Fleming.
“On some of his foreign trips, he’s seemed a bit befuddled on how to behave himself. It’s almost like Obama has never been to a foreign country, which certainly has to be a blow to conspiracy theorists who think he was born in one. His recent bowing before the Japanese emperor was so lame it even embarrassed the Japanese. It’s like Obama learned his Japanese etiquette from watching The Karate Kid.”
Heh. Read the whole thing.
*John Scalzi on Left 4 Dead 2: “…even more fun than the original.” If you haven’t read his book, Old Man’s War, do so, you won’t regret it. (And no FCC, I am not receiving compensation for the recommendation).
*Awesome: Dems Alarmed as Independents Bolt.
*Obama’s Prissy America, by Victor Davis Hanson.
ALSO By Hanson: When Rhetoric Catches Up to Reality
“We may see one of two things happen: Either the country will move more to the left in four years than it has in the last 50; or Obama will take down with him both the Democratic Congress and the very notion of responsible liberal governance, thereby achieving a Jimmy Carter–type legacy. The next year will be one of the most interesting in memory.”
*It’s No Way to Fight a War on Terror, by Jonah Goldberg.
*Bush Continues His Uncanny Imitation of Herbert Hoover, by Ilya Somin.
