UN wrongly linked global warming to natural disasters
Times [UK]:
THE United Nations climate science panel faces new controversy for wrongly linking global warming to an increase in the number and severity of natural disasters such as hurricanes and floods.
It based the claims on an unpublished report that had not been subjected to routine scientific scrutiny — and ignored warnings from scientific advisers that the evidence supporting the link too weak. The report’s own authors later withdrew the claim because they felt the evidence was not strong enough.
The claim by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), that global warming is already affecting the severity and frequency of global disasters, has since become embedded in political and public debate. It was central to discussions at last month’s Copenhagen climate summit, including a demand by developing countries for compensation of $100 billion (£62 billion) from the rich nations blamed for creating the most emissions.
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Putting Christianity Back into Canada’s Public Square
By Tim Bloedow, ECP:
The reality is that Christians are facing a serious assault today in Canada and the rest of the Western world when it comes to exercising our religious freedom in the way we live our daily lives, in particular in how we interact with others, especially in the workplace and through the volunteer and charitable sectors.
A Massachusetts Democrat wants to ban Christians from being able to work in hospital Emergency Rooms.
Secular humanists in Canada want to ban Christians from being able to work as marriage commissioners.
Christians in England have had to go to court to defend their jobs as nurses and teachers.
Ontario’s Human Rights Tribunal would ban the social service agency, Christian Horizons, from doing social work Christianly.
Catholics are facing this kind of discrimination in Washington, D.C., with a charitable arm possibly closing because the government won’t allow them to operate if they maintain their position against homosexual adoption.
What we’re seeing is a very significant shift towards centralization or totalitarianism.
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The Islamization of the World
Mark Steyn:
Metronieuws has an interview with Afshin Ellian, a witness for the defense in the Geert Wilders trial in Amsterdam. If you don’t read Dutch, there’s an English translation here. (I’ve modified it slightly, because I think he missed a nuance here and there.) Here’s the key passage:
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Carpe Diem
By Otis A. Glazebrook, IV:
“A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both.” – James Madison
Two major events last week strike me as one of the great weeks in American History; the election of Scott Brown (R-MA) to what the Democrats considered their “ultra-safe Kennedy seat” in the Senate and the Supreme Court’s decision affirming the proposition that free speech applies to the speech not speaker and therefore can not be stifled.
Two of the watch dogs of freedom and liberty the Voters and the Supreme Court finally spoke up. In the Citizens United versus the Federal Election Committee and said not so fast! “We are having none of it.”
As astonishingly: Ditto the voters of Massachusetts.
It is as though our Founding Fathers awoke from their perpetual sleep and sent a lightning bolt to rebuff the Progressive Left’s relentless plan to destroy their Great Work—Federalism.
Make no mistake; the Progressive Left is still within an eyelash of accomplishing their ultimate goal—Consolidation – That is the collapse of Federalism by bankrupting and destroying the States. This is the Progressives’ goal begun under Theodore Roosevelt, amplified by Woodrow Wilson’s collapse of the Senate’s direct responsibility to the States, solidified by FDR’s New Deal, surreptitiously promoted by Carter and Clinton and blatantly pursued under Obama.
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The Real Obama
BY Matthew Continetti:
What does the Massachusetts special election tell us about President Obama? Nothing good. Scott Brown’s victory over Martha Coakley not only ended the Democrats’ filibuster-proof Senate majority. It also exposed as false the White House’s preferred storyline about the president’s ideology, capacities, and temperament—what you might call the Obama Myth.
The Obama Myth rests on three assumptions: (a) Obama is a nonideological pragmatist; (b) Obama is an uncommonly powerful communicator; and (c) Obama has a gut connection with the people. All three are wrong. Only the Democrats’ fantasy that opposition to their agenda is limited to a lunatic fringe has blinded them from seeing the president’s liabilities. Let’s open their eyes.’
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Malaysia and the Myth of Islamic Tolerance
by Rich Trzupek, FrontPage:
Malaysia is often held up as the model of what a modern Muslim-majority nation can be. The ruling class, the bumiputra (literally “princes of the earth”) are largely, though not entirely, Muslim. But when Malaysia’s High Court ruled in late December to lift a government ban on non-Muslims using the word “Allah,” Christian churches became the targets of fire-bombing attacks. This eruption of violence suggests that there is trouble brewing just beneath the surface even in this supposed paradise of Islamic moderation.
At last count, eleven Christian churches and one Sikh temple have been attacked in Malaysia. That makes twelve attacks against places of worship in half a month’s time. What does it say about Islamic values when the impetus for these attacks was the use of a particular word?
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Journalists: traitors, or just morons?
by Kathy Shaidle:
More than any other subject, journalists like reporting on… journalism. Earlier this week, two journalists had a little chat online about their work and how wonderful the Miami Herald is.
Here’s how it started:
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Brown’s truckin’, Obama shifts into reverse
By MARK STEYN:
So what went wrong? According to Barack Obama, the problem is that he overestimated you dumb rubes’ ability to appreciate what he’s been doing for you. “That I do think is a mistake of mine,” the president told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos. “I think the assumption was if I just focus on policy, if I just focus on this provision or that law or if we’re making a good rational decision here, then people will get it.”
But you schlubs aren’t that smart. You didn’t get it. And Barack Obama is determined to see that you do. So the president has decided that he needs to start “speaking directly to the American people.”
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A U.S. ClimateGate?
IBD:
Hoaxes: Climate researchers and the Weather Channel’s founder accuse NASA of the same data manipulation as Britain’s Climate Research Unit. Were weather stations cherry-picked to hide the temperature drop?
We recently commented on how our space agency for two years refused Freedom of Information requests on why it has had to repeatedly correct its climate figures.
In a report on global warming on KUSI television by Weather Channel founder and iconic TV weatherman John Coleman, that reticence has been traced to the deliberate manipulation and distortion of climate data by NASA.
As Coleman noted in a KUSI press release, NASA’s two primary climate centers, the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) in Asheville, N.C., and the Goddard Institute for Space Studies at Columbia University in New York City, are accused of “creating a strong bias toward warmer temperatures through a system that dramatically trimmed the number and cherry-picked the locations of weather observation stations they use to produce the data set on which temperature record reports are based.”
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Major Hasan and the Ideological Blinders
By Walid Phares, AT:
Major Nidal Hasan was not flagged because Washington has disarmed its own analysts with ideological blinders. The Pentagon’s review of the act of terrorism committed at Fort Hood deserves national attention regarding not only its important conclusions, but also what it missed in terms of analysis.
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Impressive Media Malpractice at March For Life
Jack Cashill, AT:
In January 2009 we brought a six-camera crew to Washington to create a documentary on the subject of the annual March for Life called Thine Eyes.
What motivated Steve Sanborn, the organizer of the project and a March veteran, was the media’s historic failure to capture the numbers, the demographics or the spirit of the marchers.
With the advantage of rooftop cameras, we estimated there were about 350,000 participants, about 75 percent of whom were under 25, with more females than males among the young people. I also assigned our six cameramen to find as many pro-abortion protestors as they could. Although we looked hard, none of us could identify a single such protestor. USA Today found a rag tag handful and gave them equal billing.
In covering the 2010 March, the media have morphed from laziness and incompetence to outright fraud. Someone should be fired.
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