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• Indian Environment Minister to IPCC: Get lost

  
  Bore Patch — Authority: 141
  Seems India isnt willing to keep their population in poverty for Mother Gaia : Im not at all sure what to make of this report just out in the Guardian . Apparently, the Indian Environment Ministry has just issued a report ( here in PDF ) saying that they see no signal of a climate effect of greenhouse gas ...
  18 hours ago

• Experts Say that Fears Surrounding Climate Change are Overblown

  
  Global Climate Scam — Authority: 125
  By Hannah Devlin Alarming predictions that climate change will lead to the extinction of hundreds of species may be exaggerated, according to Oxford scientists. They say that many biodiversity forecasts have not taken into account the complexities of the landscape and frequently underestimate the ability of plants ...
  1 day ago

• The Smell Test

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 511
  Thats the title of an editorial in todays Houston Chronicle.  Its subtitled, " Canine witnesses need tighter judicial leashes ." With very little science to back them up, so-called scent lineupshave been used extensively to convict defendants in Texas courts. Dogs sample the odor ofa suspect and several other ...
  1 day ago

• Michelson-Morley, and the death - and birth - of scientific theories

  
  Bore Patch — Authority: 141
  The science is settled. OK, what about Science Magazine ? A new study in the journal Science has just shown that all of the climate modeling results of the past are erroneous. The IPCCs modeling cronies have just been told that the figures used for greenhouse gas forcings are incorrect, meaning none of the ...
  2 days ago

• Historic UNCONSTITUTIONAL Vote in the People’s House

  
  PA Pundits - International — Authority: 548
  While Congress has overstepped it’s authority on numerous occasions in the past, this one takes the cake. At the behest of Nancy “Astroturf” Pelosi, HR 3962 was barely passed by a vote of 220-215. One lone RINO, Joseph Cao, a newb and apparently not going to be incumbent for long, sided with the sell-outs. On ...
  3 days ago

• Australian PM: Borepatch "too dangerous to be ignored"

  
  Bore Patch — Authority: 141
  Well, "Climate Change Deniers", anyway. Its an honor simply to be nominated : Climate change deniers are small in number, but they are too dangerous to be ignored. They are well resourced and well represented by political conservatives in many, many countries. Thats me. Dangerous! Especially with the bushel ...
  3 days ago

• Well, We Dodged Another Bullet

  
  Elements Of Power — Authority: 108
  Too bad the Politicos and Activists are concentrating on destroying us from within...otherwise they might have noticed. From: Watts Up With That On Friday November 6 th at 2132 UT (16:32/ 4:32PM EST) asteroid 2009 VA barely missed Earth when it flew just 14,000 km above the planet’s surface... ...
  3 days ago

• The Fetus Is Listening

  
  Cuppacafe — Authority: 138
  You know that original promotion for the movie sound system in theaters that had the big creshendo with the slogan, "The Audience Is Listening" ? (see a spoof of this old thing here ) Well, pregnant mommies will get a kick out of this -- German researchers say babies begin to pick up the nuances of their parents ...
  4 days ago

• Warm Mongers

  
  Elements Of Power — Authority: 108
  Heh Heh... Mark Steyn on the Watermelons * : "The environment” is the most ingenious cover story for Big Government ever devised. You float a rumour that George W. Bush is checking up on what library books you’re reading, and everyone goes bananas. But announce that a government monitoring device has been ...
  6 days ago

• An Update on Scent Lineups

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 511
  The Court of Criminal Appeals will be looking at one of the cases involved in scent lineups, that of Richard Lynn Winfrey from San Jacinto County.  His petition for discretionary review was granted by the Court today.  The appellants brief is due December 4th. Todays New York Times article is here .
  6 days ago

• Devastating Takedown of Super Freakonomics

  
  40 Years In The Desert — Authority: 450
  Click for full size Not really such a big patch of territory. You dont have to go far for help I think that the book is an exercise in muddy headed contrarianism: The idea here is if you come to conclusions that are counter intuitive, particularly if they are favor conservatives, you get air time and book ...
  6 days ago

• H1N1 Vaccine – Hurry-Up And Get Vaccinated It’s Good For You

  
  STR THE FREEDOM BLOG — Authority: 113
  Friends there’s been a real campaign of misinformation about the incredible benefits of vaccination. For whatever reason the public seems to think that the excellent products made by GlaxoSmithKline and others are somehow unsafe. Opinion polls now show that over 60% of the US population is suspicious of the health ...
  6 days ago

• Scent Lineup

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 511
  " Picked From a Lineup, on a Whiff of Evidence ," is the title of John Schwartz report in todays New York Times.  Heres an extended excerpt: A dog’s sniff helped put Curvis Bickham in jail for eight months.Now that the case against him has been dropped, he wants to tell theworld that the investigative technique ...
  6 days ago

• UK Court: Man Made Climate Change is a religion

  
  Bore Patch — Authority: 141
  You cant make this sort of thing up : So whats happened? Basically, a former employee has had his right to sue the employer affirmed by an appeals judge, on the grounds that his environmentalist views are a philosophical belief (and not a political view). No such Tribunal has yet been held, but may now take place. ...
  6 days ago

• Claude Lévi-Strauss

  
  40 Years In The Desert — Authority: 450
  Has Died at 100 . He was a ground-breaker in Anthropology. I actually did a structuralist analysis of the Oedipus myth in college in one of my electives.
  1 week ago

• Ethiopia Should Know Better Than This

  
  Blackinformant.com - African-American culture, news commentary, politics — Authority: 585
  Someone is running a game on them. Ethiopia to develop biofuels to cut oil imports (africagoodnews.com) “Ethiopia wants to emulate Brazil by developing biofuels to cut its dependence on oil imports that cost the Horn of Africa nation more than a billion dollars a year, a government official said. Ephrem ...
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• Freeps editor Berton’s environmental clock is ticking

  
  mooseandsquirrel.ca — Authority: 506
  Kind of like a biological clock I guess… Paul “Kumbaya” Berton, girlie-man editor of the London Free Press, wails “ Screw the economy, I want a green baby! ” So, I paraphrased…Here’s what he really said: That leaves us with one sure realization: it’s no longer a question of if we will sacrifice the ...
  1 week ago

• Shut Up, Dr. Suzanne Somers & the Mainstream Media Who Glorify This Celeb Quack

  
  Debbie Schlussel — Authority: 624
  By Debbie SchlusselOne thing I’m really sick of is proud high school graduate celebrities with zero medical experience doling out health and medical advice.  But I’m even more disgusted by the mainstream media who glorify them and give them a forum for their bunk. And that’s not to mention the greedy book ...
  1 week ago

• Can Hardly Wait!!!

  
  Wallycrawler — Authority: 117
  "Wally Out"! or in Canada "Wally Oot"!
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• Taking The Bull Out Of Global Warming

  
  PA Pundits - International — Authority: 548
  Satire by  Shawn Goodwin Somebody call Al Gore, because the British found his crazy environmentalist uncle. Britain’s Lord Stern, the country’s climate czar, has some interesting solutions to the alleged global warming problem. Would he like folks to conserve electricity? Does he want people to by a hybrid ...
  1 week ago

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