If Not Now, When?

Yet more disturbing revelations surrounding IPCC global warming claims:

In its most recent report, it stated that observed reductions in mountain ice in the Andes, Alps and Africa was being caused by global warming, citing two papers as the source of the information.

However, it can be revealed that one of the sources quoted was a feature article published in a popular magazine for climbers which was based on anecdotal evidence from mountaineers about the changes they were witnessing on the mountainsides around them.

The other was a dissertation written by a geography student, studying for the equivalent of a master's degree, at the University of Berne in Switzerland that quoted interviews with mountain guides in the Alps.

I was once told I should "assume the worst." Not a bad tip. Tim Blair has more examples of the rather unsciency approach used by AGW "scientists." It would be funny if it hadn't caused such terror in typically rational people.

All Hail Chantix!

I haven't had a smoke since Jan. 10. I may officially be a non-smoker at this point, which is something I haven't been since my cousin Dave taught me how to inhale when I was 13.

Feels good.

Louie is on the program too. Together, it is like we got a $300 a month raise.

Inaction On a Roll

Inaction strikes again, this time saving us from an increase in hurricanes and floods:

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It based the claims on an unpublished report that had not been subjected to routine scientific scrutiny — and ignored warnings from scientific advisers that the evidence supporting the link too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.

Imagine the world we could create if everyone just did a little less to address climate change.

Inaction Saves Glacier

In yet another astounding way, inaction seems to have yet again helped the climate.

Doing absolutely nothing has now saved the Himalayan glaciers from extinction!:

The UN’s top climate change body has issued an unprecedented apology over its flawed prediction that Himalayan glaciers were likely to disappear by 2035.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) said yesterday that the prediction in its landmark 2007 report was “poorly substantiated” and resulted from a lapse in standards.

The IPCC assured this is an isolated incident of inaction having such a remarkable affect on climate. However, it could not rule out future inactions having further positive affects on the climate as well. With this announcement, inaction is now credited with a far greater affect on future climate than all to-date action combined.

Blue Dogs Leave the Room

Not heard from since Favre became a Viking, Hitler makes an appearance to comment on the victory of Scott Brown in Massachusetts:

Nice Fish Dude

Ya. No one with blond highlights should get credit for world record bass. Alas:

The International Game Fish Association today rocked the bass fishing world by announcing a new world record — or co-world record — caught by Manabu Kurita of Japan. The fish ties the all-tackle record for largemouth bass held for 77 years by George Perry of Georgia.

Not surprisingly this morbidly obese fish, caught on 25-pound test, only fought briefly:

Kurita, 32, of Aichi, Japan, was fishing Biwa that July day using a Deps Sidewinder rod and a Shimano Antares DC7LV reel loaded with 25 lb Toray line when he pitched his bait, a live bluegill, next to a bridge piling. It was Kurita’s first cast to the piling where he had seen a big bass swimming. He only twitched the bait a couple of times before he got bit. After a short, three minute fight he had the fish in the boat.

(Sigh)

He Was For It...You Know the Rest

In light of C-SPAN's efforts to have public business conducted...in public, this promise - made over and over again by Obama - is pretty damning now:



For it, for it, for it, for it, for it, for it, for it, for it....against it!