A hundred years

Speaking during the 1912 election, President William Howard Taft declared, "The great bulk of our people are not emotional, undiscriminating, superficially-minded, non-thinking, or hero-worshiping. They have the virtue of second sober thought."

Hmmmm. What a different a hundred years make!

Preposterous!

Thus saith Patrick Moore PhD, early member of Greenpeace: I am skeptical humans are the main cause of climate change and that it will be catastrophic in the near future. There is no scientific proof of this hypothesis, yet we are told “the debate is over” and “the science is settled.” My skepticism begins with the believers’ certainty they can predict the global climate with a computer model. The entire basis for the doomsday climate change scenario is the hypothesis increased atmospheric carbon dioxide due to fossil fuel emissions will heat the Earth to unlivable temperatures.

In fact, the Earth has been warming very gradually for 300 years, since the Little Ice Age ended, long before heavy use of fossil fuels. Prior to the Little Ice Age, during the Medieval Warm Period, Vikings colonized Greenland and Newfoundland, when it was warmer there than today. And during Roman times, it was warmer, long before fossil fuels revolutionized civilization. The idea it would be catastrophic if carbon dioxide were to increase and average global temperature were to rise a few degrees is preposterous.

Climate change has become a powerful political force for many reasons. First, it is universal; we are told everything on Earth is threatened.

Second, it invokes the two most powerful human motivators: fear and guilt. We fear driving our car will kill our grandchildren, and we feel guilty for doing it.

Third, there is a powerful convergence of interests among key elites that support the climate “narrative.” Environmentalists spread fear and raise donations; politicians appear to be saving the Earth from doom; the media has a field day with sensation and conflict; science institutions raise billions in grants, create whole new departments, and stoke a feeding frenzy of scary scenarios; business wants to look green, and get huge public subsidies for projects that would otherwise be economic losers, such as wind farms and solar arrays.

Fourth, the Left sees climate change as a perfect means to redistribute wealth from industrial countries to the developing world and the UN bureaucracy.

Read full piece at: http://news.heartland.org/newspaper-article/2015/03/20/why-i-am-climate-change-skeptic

Those who are ignorant of history...

President Obama from 2007 speech in Selma, Alabama: “There was something stirring across the country because of what happened in Selma, Alabama, because some folks are willing to march across a bridge. So they [his parents] got together and Barack Obama Jr. was born.” 

Of course, the bridge march in Selma happened in 1965 and BO Jr was born in 1961. The real question is, which of the 57 states was he born in? After his recent comments about the Crusades and the Inquisition, and his comments last summer when he tried to justify the Bergdahl swap by referring to Washington, Lincoln, and Roosevelt, it has become glaringly obvious that our president is disfunctional when it come to history. He seems to mostly just make it up to fit the current need. One would think he would have someone on his staff to check out the facts before he utters them. But then again, what do the facts matter? It doesn't matter what the facts were in the Furgeson shooting, the protesters were still justified in what they did.

Will Hillary survive Email-gate?