"The Climategate Emails describe how a small band of climatologists cooked the books to make the last century seem dangerously warm.
"The emails also describe how the band plotted to rewrite history as well as science, particularly by eliminating the Medieval Warm Period, a 400 year period that began around 1000 AD.
"The Climategate Emails reveal something else, too: the enlistment of the most widely read source of information in the world — Wikipedia — in the wholesale rewriting of this history.
"The Medieval Warm Period, which followed the meanness and cold of the Dark Ages, was a great time in human history — it allowed humans around the world to bask in a glorious warmth that vastly improved agriculture, increased life spans and otherwise bettered the human condition.
"But the Medieval Warm Period was not so great for some humans in our own time — the same small band that believes the planet has now entered an unprecedented and dangerous warm period. As we now know from the Climategate Emails, this band saw the Medieval Warm Period as an enormous obstacle in their mission of spreading the word about global warming. If temperatures were warmer 1,000 years ago than today, the Climategate Emails explain in detail, their message that we now live in the warmest of all possible times would be undermined. As put by one band member, a Briton named Folland at the Hadley Centre, a Medieval Warm Period 'dilutes the message rather significantly.'"
Saturday, December 19, 2009
JOSEPH C. PHILLIPS OP-ED: King Of The Blacks
"Conventional wisdom says that black parents are less actively involved in their children’s education; that there exists an anti-intellectualism in the black community such that academic achievement is seen as acting white; that Black students do not read or write as well as their white and Asian [c]ounterparts and that the middle class achievement gap is due to racism as opposed to a gap in work habits. In addition, convention says Black boys are angry, prone to violence and better athletes than they are academics. And sometimes we black folk do things that play into the mythology. My son told us about a Korean girl in his class whose opinions command influence among the other Asian girls in the school, or at least she thinks they do. According to him the students refer to her as the 'queen of the Asians.' She is a straight A student. My sons’ little brother asked if there was a 'Queen of the Blacks' at the school. 'Well,' my son replied, 'there is a king of the blacks.' 'Who is that?' his little brother asked. My son responded, 'He is this boy that got held back last year.' I cringed. My wife cringed. No doubt there is more to the story but on its face it is damning. How is it that the 'queen of the Asians' is a straight “A” student while the 'king of the Blacks' is the kid that flunked 8th grade?"
Obama Forced To Address Climate Skepticism In Bad Tempered Tantrum
"A visibly frustrated President Barack Obama was forced to address climate skepticism during his ill-tempered tantrum today in Copenhagen, desperately claiming that man-made climate change was 'not fiction,' a view not shared by the majority of Americans he has failed to represent as he attempts to ram through a huge transfer of wealth to the new world order."
Study: 'Stimulus' package helps Democrats, not the economy
"A new study has confirmed that Obama's 'stimulus' spending is disproportionately targeting Democratic districts and being used for partisan constituent payoffs.
"The study, conducted by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University in Virginia, found that the porkulus funds have gone to Democrat districts almost twice as often as Republican districts."
"The study, conducted by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University in Virginia, found that the porkulus funds have gone to Democrat districts almost twice as often as Republican districts."
Grape Juice Can Reverse Memory Loss
"The participants were given memory tests, such as memorizing lists and placing items in a specific order, at regular intervals during the three months. 'While there were no significant differences between the groups at baseline, following treatment, those drinking Concord grape juice demonstrated significant improvement in list learning,' Krikorian said in a statement. 'In addition, trends suggested improved short-term retention and spatial (nonverbal) memory.'"
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