“A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to establish grant programs to provide for education and outreach on newborn screening and coordinated followup care once newborn screening has been conducted, to reauthorize programs under part A of title XI of such Act, and for other purposes.
Overview”
Hey! What could go wrong?
I mean, when the govt gets involved in breeding… it’s always a good… i..dea…
From a self-described conspiracy forum, you’ll find that your favorite senator leads the way in this ultimate invasion of privacy. Really, who are we kidding? There’s no such thing as privacy, except in the minds of those that aren’t paying attention.
I blame geography, plus time, as much as any philosophy.
A question is, how common is it? As common as a car-jacking? A mugging? A home-invasion? A back-alley drug murder?
Every culture has its loathsome bitter blackness…
A point, however, is to be made on behalf of all women: how do you now get on with your day in Tehran, knowing that it happens, or could happen? To you?
And to that Big Pharma Shill story… good for him, I suppose. I hope he’s got a good lawyer, b/c the pharma mafia don’t like to be challenged, or embarrassed, for their immense chicanery, lies, deceit, or the damages that they do to individuals who take some of their more toxic products…
Be interesting to see where it goes, if anywhere. I mean, do you think the public’s gonna care much? Or will the still ‘need their pills’ so very very much, that ethics, reality, truth, honesty, health, science, medicine, and side-effects just don’t make a bit of difference?
I mean, do you think the public’s gonna care much? Or will the still ‘need their pills’ so very very much, that ethics, reality, truth, honesty, health, science, medicine, and side-effects just don’t make a bit of difference?
I think as long as people are afraid and hand over their power and trust to the drug companies, that, no, this won’t make any difference.
Scientists say Global warming is on hold for the time being, apparently due to “natural phenomena”.
So, Al Gore and his GW cardinals of the church of lies-scientific dishonesty-gloom & doom-personal profit and eugenics disguised as environmentalism are not scum-sucking liars, no.
It is God who is messing with the temperature. What a nerve LOL
The hepC test is another non-specific/cross-reactive antibody assay, that is targeted for use in drug users, alcoholics, heavy prescription med-users.
It’s a non-specific liver inflammation, as far as I can tell, with no particular cause, outside of…drug and alcohol abuse…surprise, surprise. And the ‘cure’ they’ll offer you is interferon. And if you want to roll the dice that hard, well… it’s your thing, but do your research.
On the other hand, if you want to fix your liver, you could try this (though I’m not doing it any time soon!):
he’s put himself in a real pickle. (where does that expression come from? “We’re in a pickle!”)?
He’s the pied piper, the Messiah for this movement, with it’s message of imminent cataclysm, and pseudo-environmentalism. And he’s just a guy, just like us…with a gazillion dollar mansion and a major western banking portfolio.
Gotta be tough to be Albert Gore. To know soooo very much, and yet, know so little.
Did you hear? He’s suing Exxon for the destruction caused by Mt. Vesuvius, which was “forced, against its will,” to explode due to carbon emissions from the human population, who were all breathing “too wastefully”, said Gore.
Ooohhh, I don’t know. I mean, she practically conceded last night. She pledged to “support the Democratic candidate” in the Fall.
Look, she broke the gender barrier - good. Now maybe we can get someone who isn’t a farcical liar, who isn’t famous because her husband was president, who can get in on her own merits, who doesn’t become the “Senator from New York” a few months after buying a multimillion dollar residence - in a state she never lived in… who actually votes on issues like War, in line with the Words that Come Out of Her Own Mouth about War, Nafta, Grafta, and all the rest…
You see the image of little Bill standing behind her? Just so full of pain. Why? Because she’s now so terribly hurting and embarrassing the Clinton brand.
It does look grim for her. I’m just not quite convinced that it’s over yet. I’d be glad to be wrong on my Hillary predictions. I won’t celebrate until I hear that she’s actually bowed out of the race.
Oh yeah… she’ll be in the race until January, till Florida alligators are genetically modified to the degree that the ACLU grants them human voting rights!
But she’s yesterday’s bagged lunch, as far as the race goes. O’barry is something different than what we’ve been seeing in politics for awhile. He may stumble, or even mumble, but he holds a different line - not populist rhetoric, as much as internal ethics.
A lot like the Repubs favorite man - Ronny Reagan.
‘The Deniers’ details flaws in the theories on global warming Here
Mark Milke
Special to the Sun
Friday, May 09, 2008
An anti-nuclear, Toronto-based, urban-loving, 1970s peace activist who opposes subsidies to the oil industry might be the last person expected to detail cracks in the science of global warming.
But Lawrence Solomon has done just that in a short book with a long subtitle: The Deniers: The world-renowned scientists who stood up against global warming hysteria, political persecution, and fraud (and those who are too fearful to do so).
The spark for the book came after an American TV reporter compared those who question the Kyoto Protocol to Holocaust deniers. But Solomon wondered about that so he sought out the experts in specific fields to garner their views.
Consider Dr. Edward Wegman, asked by the U.S. Congress to assess the famous “hockey stick” graph from Michael Mann, published by the UN’s International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which purported to show temperatures as mostly constant over the past 1,000 years — except for a spike in the last century.
The IPCC claimed the hockey stick “proved” unique 20th-century global warming. But it didn’t. Wegman, who drew on the initial skepticism of two Canadians who questioned Mann’s statistical handling, found that his “hockey stick” was the result of a statistical error — the statistical model had mined data to produce the hockey stick and excluded contrary data.
That mistake occurred not because Mann was deceptive or a poor scientist; he’s an expert in the paleoclimate community as were those who reviewed his paper. But that was the problem: The paleoclimate scientists were trapped in their own disciplinary ghetto and not up to speed on the latest, most appropriate statistical methods.
Is Wegman the scientific equivalent of medical quack? No. His CV includes eight books, more than 160 published papers, editorships of prestigious journals, and past presidency of the International Association of Statistical Computing, among other distinctions.
Opinions in The Deniers vary dramatically and Solomon, a non-scientist, does not try to settle the disputes. He instead attempts to give readers insight into how non-settled and fragmentary the science is on climate change.
For example, think the polar icecaps are melting? That’s true at the North Pole but it’s not certain at the South Pole, according to Dr. Duncan Wingham. A portion of Antarctica’s northern peninsula is melting. But that’s a tiny slice of the 14-million-square-kilometre continent. And confounding evidence exists. Since the inception of the South Pole research station in 1957, recorded temperatures have actually fallen.
Wingham is cautious. He doesn’t deny global warming might exist. But his data show the Antarctic ice sheet is growing, not shrinking, and the chapter on why ice measurements are tricky is another fine, informative part of The Deniers.
Is Wingham a flake, a denier in league with flat-earthers? Only if you think the chair of the department of space and climate physics and head of earth sciences at University College London, and a member of the Earth Observation Experts Group, among other qualifications, qualifies for such a label.
The most intriguing part of The Deniers is the attempt by dozens of credible scientists to point out what should be common-sense obvious: The sun might affect Earth’s climate.
“We understand the greenhouse effect pretty well,” Solomon writes, “we know little about how the sun — our main source of energy driving the climate — affects climate change.”
But the IPCC refuses to even consider the sun’s influence on Earth’s climate — it conceives of its mission only to investigate possible man-made effects upon climate. But that’s akin to a hit-and-run investigation where police rule out all cars except one model before they even question witnesses.
No one who reads The Deniers will be able to claim a scientific consensus exists on global warming. (Some scientists even argue the planet’s climate is about to cool.)
But it might leave honest readers with this question: So what? Why not spend billions to reduce possible human-induced climate change just in case?
Because, as Antonio Zichichi (a professor emeritus at the University of Bologna and author of more than 800 papers) argues, global warming is only one alleged calamity that faces the world’s poor. As Solomon writes in his interview with Zichichi, “every dollar and hour diverted to a crisis that might not exist has real and tragic costs.”
The “deniers” and The Deniers matter because the book is about the search for scientific explanations for a complex phenomenon by eminent scientists in a better position than most to judge whether a consensus exists on global warming. Their collective verdict, much varied in the particulars, is “No.”
On this - “Brussels gives green light to Glaxo’s bird flu vaccine” -
They keep adding up the numbers, year by year, of people they either kill with pharma drugs in SE Asia, or who die of toxic poisoning from living there - or both. They’re up to a couple hundred individuals..
From the Pandemic.
In 2.5 years.
You know, the European plagues of the 14th Century killed, within a few years, about half the population in much of Europe.
So, the difference between a few people being poisoned in a toxic environment, and then poisoned in hospitals, and then an entire continent (living in its own excrement) igniting in a sudden and irrevocable fireball of death in the 14th Century (that solved itself, by the way - no vaccines, and then what followed was a sparser population, giving way, slowly to cleaner environments; and then, wouldn’t you know it - general immunity to the plague)…
No, there’s no difference. “Bird Sneeze!” It’s a “pandemic virus”, and you should all stick whatever slurry that Glaxxo is milking out of its ‘health-inducing vaccine’ labs, without consulting anyone, but your local paid representative for the pharma co. (Used to be called “doctors.”)
Fingerprints are considered to be among the most personal of information, and fingerprint databases created and proposed in the name of national security have generated much debate. Recently, “Server in the Sky” — a proposed international database of the fingerprints of suspected criminals and terrorists to be shared among the U.S., U.K. and Canada — has ignited a firestorm of controversy. As have cavalier comments by Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff that fingerprints aren’t “personal data.”
Yet earlier this week, a measure creating a federal fingerprint registry totally unrelated to national security passed a U.S. Senate committee almost without notice. The legislation would require thousands of individuals working even tangentially in the mortgage and real estate industries — and not suspected of anything — to send their prints to the feds. The database and fingerprint mandates were tucked into housing and foreclosure assistance bills that on Tuesday passed the Senate Banking Committee by a vote of 19-2.
* Our elected New York representatives would no longer determine the mandatory schedule of vaccines to attend school; decisions made by the federal Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices would automatically become mandatory.
* All children, infants and toddlers included, in New York would be required to get all vaccines recommended by the ACIP according to the ACIP schedule
* All children in New York up to age 18 would be required to get annual flu shots.
* All girls in New York would be required to get a human papilloma virus shot.
* All junior high school children and college students would be required to get meningococcal shots.
* Doctors would be required to issue certificates for every shot given and parents would be required to maintain the records and provide them to school and other authorities.
George Orwell once wrote that politics was closely related to social identity. ‘One sometimes gets the impression,’ he wrote in The Road To Wigan Pier, ‘that the mere words socialism and communism draw towards them with magnetic force every fruit-juice drinker, nudist, sandal-wearer, sex-maniac, Quaker, nature-cure quack, pacifist and feminist in England’.
Orwell was making an observation. But today a whole body of academic research shows he was correct: your politics influence the manner in which you live your life. And the news is not so good for those on the political Left.
There is plenty of data that shows that Right-wingers are happier, more generous to charities, less likely to commit suicide - and even hug their children more than those on the Left.
Come on, you miserable Lefties…
Prove Peter Schweizer wrong and tell us below why Left-wingers are really more lovable. The three best replies will win a bottle of Bollinger champagne and a donation of £100 to the Red Cross appeal to help Burma cyclone victims…
- Tory joy: Conservative Prime Minister Winston Churchill shows his caring side when meeting a little girl in London in 1950
In my experience, they are also more honest, friendly and well-adjusted.
Much of this springs from the destructive influence of modern liberal ideas.
In the Sixties, we saw the beginning of a narcissism and self-absorption that gripped the Left and has not let go.
The full-scale embrace of the importance of self-awareness, self-discovery and being ‘true’ to oneself, along with the idea that the State should care for the less fortunate, has created a swathe of Left-wing people who want to outsource their obligations to others.
The statistics I base this on come from the General Social Survey, America’s premier social research database, but they are just as relevant to the UK, as I believe political belief systems drive one’s attitudes, regardless of where you happen to live.
Those surveyed were asked: ‘Is it your obligation to care for a seriously injured/ill spouse or parent, or should you give care only if you really want to?’ Of those describing themselves as ‘conservative’, 71 per cent said it was. Only 46 per cent of those on the Left agreed.
To the question: ‘Do you get happiness by putting someone else’s happiness ahead of your own?’, 55 per cent of those who said they were ‘very conservative’ said Yes, compared with 20 per cent of those who were ‘very liberal’.
It’s been my experience that conservatives like to talk about things outside of themselves while progressives like to discuss themselves: how they are feeling and what their desires are. That might make for a good therapy session but it’s not much fun over a long dinner.
Research also indicates those on the Left are less interested in getting married: 30 per cent of those who were ‘very liberal’ said it was important, in contrast to 65 per cent of Right-wingers.
The same holds true when the question of having children arises. Progressive American cities such as San Francisco and Seattle have become ‘childless liberal boutique’ cities, according to Joel Kotkin, an expert on urban development.
While 69 per cent of those who called themselves ‘very conservative’ said it was important for them to have children, only 38 per cent of corresponding liberals agreed.
Many on the Left proudly proclaim themselves ‘child-free’. While some do not want children on ecological grounds, much has to do with the fact that they simply don’t want the responsibility of having a child.
When asked by the World Values Survey whether parents should sacrifice their own well-being for those of their children, those on the Left were nearly twice as likely to say No.
‘I’ll have babies if you pay for them,’ one Leftie blogger said on the social networking website yelp.com.
Billionaire Ted Turner, a self-described socialist, publicly regrets that he had five children. ‘If I was doing it over again, I wouldn’t have had that many,’ he says. ‘But I can’t shoot them now they’re here.’
All of this should not come as a surprise to anyone watching the drift of progressive thinking over the past 40 years.
Starting with British anthropologist Edmund Leach, who said: ‘Far from being the basis of a good society, the family, with its narrow privacy and tawdry secrets, is the source of all its discontents’, feminists, progressives and others have seen the family as an oppressive force.
Feminist Gloria Steinem says on behalf of women: ‘The truth is, finding ourselves brings more excitement and wellbeing than anything romance can offer.’
Linda Hirshman tells women not to have more than one baby so they can concentrate on a career. ‘Find the money,’ she advises. Ah, the important things in life.
Even when they do have children, research carried out at Princeton University shows liberals hug them less than conservatives. My wife thinks they’re too busy hugging trees.
Most surprising of all is reputable research showing those on the Left are more interested in money than Right-wingers.
April 29th, 2008 at 9:09 am
Wise Up Journal - End of
Nations - EU Takeover and the Lisbon Treaty
April 29th, 2008 at 9:10 am
Antarctic
Deep Sea Gets Colder
April 29th, 2008 at 9:11 am
The HPV Vaccine: Herd
Immunity or Human Sacrifice?
April 29th, 2008 at 9:14 am
Sorry
to ruin the fun, but an ice age cometh | The Australian
April 29th, 2008 at 9:15 am
Amazon.co.uk:
Scared to Death: From BSE to Global Warming: Why Scares are Costing Us the
Earth: Christopher Booker,Richard No.
April 29th, 2008 at 9:15 am
Food
Rationing Confronts Breadbasket of the World | The New York Sun
April 29th, 2008 at 9:16 am
In
Lean Times, Biotech Grains Are Less Taboo - New York Times
April 29th, 2008 at 9:18 am
Environmentalist
PR Firms In Green Propaganda Offensive
April 29th, 2008 at 9:20 am
Newborns’
DNA targeted for state research, profiling
April 29th, 2008 at 3:31 pm
National “DNA warehouse” bill passes
http://blacklistednews.com/view.asp?ID=6390
April 29th, 2008 at 5:13 pm
Here it is:
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=s110-1858
“A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to establish grant programs to provide for education and outreach on newborn screening and coordinated followup care once newborn screening has been conducted, to reauthorize programs under part A of title XI of such Act, and for other purposes.
Overview”
Hey! What could go wrong?
I mean, when the govt gets involved in breeding… it’s always a good… i..dea…
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/11/09/ING9C2QSKB1.DTL
Never heard of anything going wrong when governments get involved in breeding!
April 30th, 2008 at 6:06 am
From a self-described conspiracy forum, you’ll find that your favorite senator leads the way in this ultimate invasion of privacy. Really, who are we kidding? There’s no such thing as privacy, except in the minds of those that aren’t paying attention.
Scroll down to the post from “Ghost Avatar”
http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message542343/pg2
April 30th, 2008 at 1:10 pm
“Women Are Being Beheaded for Taking Their Veil Off”: Honor Killings On Rise in Iraq
http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/83710
I LOVE religion!
April 30th, 2008 at 3:27 pm
I blame geography, plus time, as much as any philosophy.
A question is, how common is it? As common as a car-jacking? A mugging? A home-invasion? A back-alley drug murder?
Every culture has its loathsome bitter blackness…
A point, however, is to be made on behalf of all women: how do you now get on with your day in Tehran, knowing that it happens, or could happen? To you?
April 30th, 2008 at 7:32 pm
Iran
dumps U.S. dollars in oil transactions_English_Xinhua
War seems utterly imminent. I give it less than 2
weeks.
April 30th, 2008 at 7:41 pm
Wow. Dropped US currency. Wow. Wow,wow. Wow.
Wow. Big bad wow.
Maybe there’ll be some second thoughts in D.C. right about now, about having a Nine Trillion dollar debt -
and letting our adversaries own that debt.
$9,000,000,000,000
Dollar
Debt.
And China is our major trading partner, owning how many of our Treasury bills?
Bad wow. Big, bad wow.
May 1st, 2008 at 5:01 am
Former Shill for Big Pharma Tells the Truth About Drug Testing
http://www.naturalnews.com/023127.html
May 1st, 2008 at 8:24 am
Two received this am…
YouTube - CBS News: US
Prepares Iran Attack
Fraud by
Hillary132
And to that Big Pharma Shill story… good for him, I suppose. I hope he’s got a good lawyer, b/c the pharma mafia don’t like to be challenged, or embarrassed, for their immense chicanery, lies, deceit, or the damages that they do to individuals who take some of their more toxic products…
Be interesting to see where it goes, if anywhere. I mean, do you think the public’s gonna care much? Or will the still ‘need their pills’ so very very much, that ethics, reality, truth, honesty, health, science, medicine, and side-effects just don’t make a bit of difference?
May 1st, 2008 at 8:36 am
I mean, do you think the public’s gonna care much? Or will the still ‘need their pills’ so very very much, that ethics, reality, truth, honesty, health, science, medicine, and side-effects just don’t make a bit of difference?
I think as long as people are afraid and hand over their power and trust to the drug companies, that, no, this won’t make any difference.
May 2nd, 2008 at 5:40 am
Global warming could stop NATURALLY for ten years,’ say scientists
The global warming faithful, grasping at straws…
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=563104&in_page_id=1770&in_a_source=
May 2nd, 2008 at 5:44 am
Press TV - CIA ‘preparing public for Iran war’
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=53925§ionid=351020101
May 3rd, 2008 at 5:42 am
When Worlds Collide: The Cern Stargate
http://www.redicecreations.com/article.php?id=3620
May 3rd, 2008 at 2:15 pm
Widespread Ghostwriting of Drug Trials Means “Scientific” Credibility of Pharmaceutical Industry is a Sham
Some pretty good articles on this site and Mercola’s.
May 3rd, 2008 at 2:15 pm
Monsanto U: Agribusiness’s Takeover of Public Schools
May 3rd, 2008 at 2:16 pm
Received via email from Manu M.:
Scientists say Global warming is on hold for the time being, apparently due to “natural phenomena”.
So, Al Gore and his GW cardinals of the church of lies-scientific dishonesty-gloom & doom-personal profit and eugenics disguised as environmentalism are not scum-sucking liars, no.
It is God who is messing with the temperature. What a nerve LOL
Nice to know that he has a sense of humour…
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/04/30/eaclimate130.xml
May 3rd, 2008 at 5:25 pm
The Associated Press: Medical marijuana user who was denied liver transplant dies
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iiNTqWskznUXcmUi8fblN69gxNNAD90DG7400
May 3rd, 2008 at 5:53 pm
The hepC test is another non-specific/cross-reactive antibody assay, that is targeted for use in drug users, alcoholics, heavy prescription med-users.
It’s a non-specific liver inflammation, as far as I can tell, with no particular cause, outside of…drug and alcohol abuse…surprise, surprise. And the ‘cure’ they’ll offer you is interferon. And if you want to roll the dice that hard, well… it’s your thing, but do your research.
On the other hand, if you want to fix your liver, you could try this (though I’m not doing it any time soon!):
May 3rd, 2008 at 6:13 pm
Good article about Hepatitis C:
Slow Viruses: The Original Sin Against the Laws of Virology
May 3rd, 2008 at 6:26 pm
Well, how do you like this:
Syphilis causes “Hiv Viral Load” to rise, TCells to fall.
Gosh and golly. You mean you don’t have to be “infected” with any thing particular to be very, very “hiv positive”?
May 4th, 2008 at 6:40 am
The Criminalization of Raw Milk
http://www.counterpunch.com/cohen04262008.html
May 4th, 2008 at 4:04 pm
Clinton
Camp Considering Nuclear Option To Overtake Delegate Lead - Politics on The
Huffington Post
Didn’t need to be psychic to see this possibility…
What was I saying about her sliming her way to the
nomination?
May 5th, 2008 at 5:47 am
Hypocrisy Alert: Tiny tribe thorn in Gore’s side — Signs of the Times News
http://www.sott.net/articles/show/152371-Hypocrisy-Alert-Tiny-tribe-thorn-in-Gore-s-side
May 5th, 2008 at 6:44 am
Yup,
he’s put himself in a real pickle. (where does that expression come from? “We’re in a pickle!”)?
He’s the pied piper, the Messiah for this movement, with it’s message of imminent cataclysm, and pseudo-environmentalism. And he’s just a guy, just like us…with a gazillion dollar mansion and a major western banking portfolio.
Gotta be tough to be Albert Gore. To know soooo very much, and yet, know so little.
May 6th, 2008 at 11:16 am
Clinton Camp Tries To Redefine Delegate Math - Politics on The Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/05/06/clinton-camp-tries-to-red_n_100360.html
No honor, no integrity, no ethics. She will “win”.
May 7th, 2008 at 5:32 am
Al Gore Calls Myanmar Cyclone a ‘Consequence’ of Global Warming
http://www.businessandmedia.org/articles/2008/20080506160205.aspx
May 7th, 2008 at 8:24 am
Did you hear? He’s suing Exxon for the destruction caused by Mt. Vesuvius, which was “forced, against its will,” to explode due to carbon emissions from the human population, who were all breathing “too wastefully”, said Gore.
More on history of earth shaking its back:
http://geography.about.com/library/misc/blcenturyworst.htm
http://www.armageddononline.org/worst_natural_disasters.php
May 7th, 2008 at 8:27 am
PS.
Ding dong, the witch is dead
Which old witch? The wicked, dishonest, venally opportunistic, make-believe ‘blue collar’ witch.
May 7th, 2008 at 8:34 am
I wouldn’t celebrate just yet.
May 7th, 2008 at 9:28 am
Ooohhh, I don’t know. I mean, she practically conceded last night. She pledged to “support the Democratic candidate” in the Fall.
Look, she broke the gender barrier - good. Now maybe we can get someone who isn’t a farcical liar, who isn’t famous because her husband was president, who can get in on her own merits, who doesn’t become the “Senator from New York” a few months after buying a multimillion dollar residence - in a state she never lived in… who actually votes on issues like War, in line with the Words that Come Out of Her Own Mouth about War, Nafta, Grafta, and all the rest…
You see the image of little Bill standing behind her? Just so full of pain. Why? Because she’s now so terribly hurting and embarrassing the Clinton brand.
“I feel your pain… because it’s miiine”
May 7th, 2008 at 9:35 am
It does look grim for her. I’m just not quite convinced that it’s over yet. I’d be glad to be wrong on my Hillary predictions. I won’t celebrate until I hear that she’s actually bowed out of the race.
May 7th, 2008 at 12:13 pm
Oh yeah… she’ll be in the race until January, till Florida alligators are genetically modified to the degree that the ACLU grants them human voting rights!
But she’s yesterday’s bagged lunch, as far as the race goes. O’barry is something different than what we’ve been seeing in politics for awhile. He may stumble, or even mumble, but he holds a different line - not populist rhetoric, as much as internal ethics.
A lot like the Repubs favorite man - Ronny Reagan.
May 9th, 2008 at 6:57 am
The Great HPV Vaccine Hoax Exposed
http://www.naturalnews.com/Report_HPV_Vaccine_0.html
May 9th, 2008 at 7:22 pm
‘The Deniers’ details flaws in the theories on global warming
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/editorial/story.html?id=68c9a6c9-4f1d-4fc8-b330-d26c4b56549a
May 10th, 2008 at 9:10 am
It’s worth a reprint:
‘The Deniers’ details flaws in the theories on global warming
Here
Mark Milke
Special to the Sun
Friday, May 09, 2008
An anti-nuclear, Toronto-based, urban-loving, 1970s peace activist who opposes subsidies to the oil industry might be the last person expected to detail cracks in the science of global warming.
But Lawrence Solomon has done just that in a short book with a long subtitle: The Deniers: The world-renowned scientists who stood up against global warming hysteria, political persecution, and fraud (and those who are too fearful to do so).
The spark for the book came after an American TV reporter compared those who question the Kyoto Protocol to Holocaust deniers. But Solomon wondered about that so he sought out the experts in specific fields to garner their views.
Consider Dr. Edward Wegman, asked by the U.S. Congress to assess the famous “hockey stick” graph from Michael Mann, published by the UN’s International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which purported to show temperatures as mostly constant over the past 1,000 years — except for a spike in the last century.
The IPCC claimed the hockey stick “proved” unique 20th-century global warming. But it didn’t. Wegman, who drew on the initial skepticism of two Canadians who questioned Mann’s statistical handling, found that his “hockey stick” was the result of a statistical error — the statistical model had mined data to produce the hockey stick and excluded contrary data.
That mistake occurred not because Mann was deceptive or a poor scientist; he’s an expert in the paleoclimate community as were those who reviewed his paper. But that was the problem: The paleoclimate scientists were trapped in their own disciplinary ghetto and not up to speed on the latest, most appropriate statistical methods.
Is Wegman the scientific equivalent of medical quack? No. His CV includes eight books, more than 160 published papers, editorships of prestigious journals, and past presidency of the International Association of Statistical Computing, among other distinctions.
Opinions in The Deniers vary dramatically and Solomon, a non-scientist, does not try to settle the disputes. He instead attempts to give readers insight into how non-settled and fragmentary the science is on climate change.
For example, think the polar icecaps are melting? That’s true at the North Pole but it’s not certain at the South Pole, according to Dr. Duncan Wingham. A portion of Antarctica’s northern peninsula is melting. But that’s a tiny slice of the 14-million-square-kilometre continent. And confounding evidence exists. Since the inception of the South Pole research station in 1957, recorded temperatures have actually fallen.
Wingham is cautious. He doesn’t deny global warming might exist. But his data show the Antarctic ice sheet is growing, not shrinking, and the chapter on why ice measurements are tricky is another fine, informative part of The Deniers.
Is Wingham a flake, a denier in league with flat-earthers? Only if you think the chair of the department of space and climate physics and head of earth sciences at University College London, and a member of the Earth Observation Experts Group, among other qualifications, qualifies for such a label.
The most intriguing part of The Deniers is the attempt by dozens of credible scientists to point out what should be common-sense obvious: The sun might affect Earth’s climate.
“We understand the greenhouse effect pretty well,” Solomon writes, “we know little about how the sun — our main source of energy driving the climate — affects climate change.”
But the IPCC refuses to even consider the sun’s influence on Earth’s climate — it conceives of its mission only to investigate possible man-made effects upon climate. But that’s akin to a hit-and-run investigation where police rule out all cars except one model before they even question witnesses.
No one who reads The Deniers will be able to claim a scientific consensus exists on global warming. (Some scientists even argue the planet’s climate is about to cool.)
But it might leave honest readers with this question: So what? Why not spend billions to reduce possible human-induced climate change just in case?
Because, as Antonio Zichichi (a professor emeritus at the University of Bologna and author of more than 800 papers) argues, global warming is only one alleged calamity that faces the world’s poor. As Solomon writes in his interview with Zichichi, “every dollar and hour diverted to a crisis that might not exist has real and tragic costs.”
The “deniers” and The Deniers matter because the book is about the search for scientific explanations for a complex phenomenon by eminent scientists in a better position than most to judge whether a consensus exists on global warming. Their collective verdict, much varied in the particulars, is “No.”
May 10th, 2008 at 9:51 am
But the IPCC refuses to even consider the sun’s influence on Earth’s climate
Yes, talk about denial!!
The sun’s energy is not constant. But let’s just throw that aside, because there’s an agenda that must be adhered to.
May 13th, 2008 at 9:13 am
Sent by Dan, via Sepp H’s site:
http://www.iceagenow.com/
Everybody’s gotta theory!
May 17th, 2008 at 7:28 am
http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=51170
Can you discover what’s wrong with this report?
May 20th, 2008 at 9:37 am
Brussels gives green light to Glaxo’s bird flu vaccine
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/may/19/glaxosmithklinebusiness.pharmaceuticals
May 20th, 2008 at 9:38 am
31,000 Scientists Dispute Man-Caused Warming
http://www.blacklistednews.com/view.asp?ID=6596
May 20th, 2008 at 9:41 am
Dark Skies Ahead - Global dimming plan to curb warming
http://www.redicecreations.com/article.php?id=3780
May 20th, 2008 at 10:00 am
On this - “Brussels gives green light to Glaxo’s bird flu vaccine” -
They keep adding up the numbers, year by year, of people they either kill with pharma drugs in SE Asia, or who die of toxic poisoning from living there - or both. They’re up to a couple hundred individuals..
From the Pandemic.
In 2.5 years.
You know, the European plagues of the 14th Century killed, within a few years, about half the population in much of Europe.
So, the difference between a few people being poisoned in a toxic environment, and then poisoned in hospitals, and then an entire continent (living in its own excrement) igniting in a sudden and irrevocable fireball of death in the 14th Century (that solved itself, by the way - no vaccines, and then what followed was a sparser population, giving way, slowly to cleaner environments; and then, wouldn’t you know it - general immunity to the plague)…
No, there’s no difference. “Bird Sneeze!” It’s a “pandemic virus”, and you should all stick whatever slurry that Glaxxo is milking out of its ‘health-inducing vaccine’ labs, without consulting anyone, but your local paid representative for the pharma co. (Used to be called “doctors.”)
Jesus, what a damn racket.
May 22nd, 2008 at 8:58 am
an InCONvenient Guilt Trip
http://www.aninconvenientguilttrip.com/index.asp
May 25th, 2008 at 6:08 am
No kidding! Climate change spreads to Jupiter, Mars
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=65165
May 25th, 2008 at 3:16 pm
Remember,
Never question science!
http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2007/03/27/the-nuremberg-doctors-trial-60-years-later/
Never Question Marketing!
http://aconstantineblacklist.blogspot.com/2008/03/coca-cola-nazisbritish-comedian.html
May 27th, 2008 at 9:02 am
Fingerprint registry in housing bill!
http://www.openmarket.org/2008/05/23/fingerprint-registry-in-housing-bill/
May 28th, 2008 at 2:33 pm
Two for thought, from the Maltese falcon ( http://elmaltes.blogspot.com/ ):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Visit
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Far_Away_%28play%29
June 2nd, 2008 at 9:27 am
http://www.rense.com/general82/mandi.htm
http://www.granitebaypt.com/detail/85754.html
From the Rense piece:
Looks like teen fascism, duntit?
June 2nd, 2008 at 9:37 am
Every adult in Britain should be forced to carry ‘carbon ration cards’, say MP
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1021983/Every-adult-Britain%20-forced-carry-carbon-ration-cards-say-MPs.html
June 2nd, 2008 at 10:28 am
Climate guilt for kids!!
This appears to be no joke.
TV Network Tells Kids How Long Their Carbon Footprint Should Allow Them to Live
http://wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com/2008/05/31/tv-network-tells-kids-when-their-carbon-footprint-says-they-should-die/
June 2nd, 2008 at 10:30 am
Climate change tour on Russian icebreaker gets trapped in ice.
Oh, the irony!
http://www.iceagenow.com/Arctic_Sea_Ice_Traps_Climate_Tour_Icebreaker.htm
June 5th, 2008 at 6:52 am
Army: Sun, Not Man, Is Causing Climate Change
http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/06/army-vs-global.html
June 11th, 2008 at 5:30 am
Beach bonfires may be banned
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/366025_bonfire06.html?source=mypi
Global warming madness/hysteria in full bloom.
June 15th, 2008 at 9:15 am
Don’t listen to the liberals - Right-wingers really are nicer people, latest research shows
George Orwell once wrote that politics was closely related to social identity. ‘One sometimes gets the impression,’ he wrote in The Road To Wigan Pier, ‘that the mere words socialism and communism draw towards them with magnetic force every fruit-juice drinker, nudist, sandal-wearer, sex-maniac, Quaker, nature-cure quack, pacifist and feminist in England’.
Orwell was making an observation. But today a whole body of academic research shows he was correct: your politics influence the manner in which you live your life. And the news is not so good for those on the political Left.
There is plenty of data that shows that Right-wingers are happier, more generous to charities, less likely to commit suicide - and even hug their children more than those on the Left.
Come on, you miserable Lefties…
Prove Peter Schweizer wrong and tell us below why Left-wingers are really more lovable. The three best replies will win a bottle of Bollinger champagne and a donation of £100 to the Red Cross appeal to help Burma cyclone victims…
- Tory joy: Conservative Prime Minister Winston Churchill shows his caring side when meeting a little girl in London in 1950
In my experience, they are also more honest, friendly and well-adjusted.
Much of this springs from the destructive influence of modern liberal ideas.
In the Sixties, we saw the beginning of a narcissism and self-absorption that gripped the Left and has not let go.
The full-scale embrace of the importance of self-awareness, self-discovery and being ‘true’ to oneself, along with the idea that the State should care for the less fortunate, has created a swathe of Left-wing people who want to outsource their obligations to others.
The statistics I base this on come from the General Social Survey, America’s premier social research database, but they are just as relevant to the UK, as I believe political belief systems drive one’s attitudes, regardless of where you happen to live.
Those surveyed were asked: ‘Is it your obligation to care for a seriously injured/ill spouse or parent, or should you give care only if you really want to?’ Of those describing themselves as ‘conservative’, 71 per cent said it was. Only 46 per cent of those on the Left agreed.
To the question: ‘Do you get happiness by putting someone else’s happiness ahead of your own?’, 55 per cent of those who said they were ‘very conservative’ said Yes, compared with 20 per cent of those who were ‘very liberal’.
It’s been my experience that conservatives like to talk about things outside of themselves while progressives like to discuss themselves: how they are feeling and what their desires are. That might make for a good therapy session but it’s not much fun over a long dinner.
Research also indicates those on the Left are less interested in getting married: 30 per cent of those who were ‘very liberal’ said it was important, in contrast to 65 per cent of Right-wingers.
The same holds true when the question of having children arises. Progressive American cities such as San Francisco and Seattle have become ‘childless liberal boutique’ cities, according to Joel Kotkin, an expert on urban development.
While 69 per cent of those who called themselves ‘very conservative’ said it was important for them to have children, only 38 per cent of corresponding liberals agreed.
Many on the Left proudly proclaim themselves ‘child-free’. While some do not want children on ecological grounds, much has to do with the fact that they simply don’t want the responsibility of having a child.
When asked by the World Values Survey whether parents should sacrifice their own well-being for those of their children, those on the Left were nearly twice as likely to say No.
‘I’ll have babies if you pay for them,’ one Leftie blogger said on the social networking website yelp.com.
Billionaire Ted Turner, a self-described socialist, publicly regrets that he had five children. ‘If I was doing it over again, I wouldn’t have had that many,’ he says. ‘But I can’t shoot them now they’re here.’
All of this should not come as a surprise to anyone watching the drift of progressive thinking over the past 40 years.
Starting with British anthropologist Edmund Leach, who said: ‘Far from being the basis of a good society, the family, with its narrow privacy and tawdry secrets, is the source of all its discontents’, feminists, progressives and others have seen the family as an oppressive force.
Feminist Gloria Steinem says on behalf of women: ‘The truth is, finding ourselves brings more excitement and wellbeing than anything romance can offer.’
Linda Hirshman tells women not to have more than one baby so they can concentrate on a career. ‘Find the money,’ she advises. Ah, the important things in life.
Even when they do have children, research carried out at Princeton University shows liberals hug them less than conservatives. My wife thinks they’re too busy hugging trees.
Most surprising of all is reputable research showing those on the Left are more interested in money than Right-wingers.
Continued
June 22nd, 2008 at 2:01 pm
Exposed: Harvard Shrink Gets Rich Labeling Kids Bipolar
http://www.alternet.org/healthwellness/88333/