Farewell to Michael Jackson . You tried so hard to be someone you were not, and maybe never needed to be. Some will miss you, but most will not.
Goodbye to Farrah also. Most will mourn you, but many will not; they were not born yet when you were so hot.
A lot of famous people left us in 2009. If interested click on this link:
www.whosdatedwho.com/.../people/.../celebrity-categories.asp?.
Whew it has been hot here - 101& 102 degrees. Global warming? Not according to David Demming, Geophisist and Associate Professor at the University of Oklahoma.
The mean global temperature is the same as it was in 1979 , further the global sea ice is at the
same level as in 1979.
Professor Deming wrote: "Another cause of global warming hysteria is the infiltration of science by ideological zealots who place politics above truth. Earlier this month, the Obama administration issued a report that concluded global warming would have a number of deleterious effects on the US. In 1995, one of the lead authors of this report told me that we had to alter the historical temperature record by "getting rid" of the Medieval Warm Period.
The Obama report refers to – six times – the work of a climate scientist named Stephen H. Schneider. In 1989, Schneider toldDiscover magazine that "we have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements, and make little mention of any doubts we might have." Schneider concluded "each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective and being honest." Schneider's position is not unusual. In 2007, Mike Hulme, the founding director of the Tyndall Center for Climate Change Research in Britain, told the Guardian newspaper that "scientists and politicians must trade truth for influence."
While releasing a politicized report that prostitutes science to politics, the Obama administration simultaneously suppressed an internal EPA report that concluded there were "glaring inconsistencies" between the scientific data and the hypothesis that carbon dioxide emissions were changing the changing the climate."
If our leaders kept their ignorant opinions to themselves, no harm would be done, but no, they have to make laws for the rest of us and spend our money in the process. What a bunch of kooks!
Speaking of kooks. . .We’re talking about the idea that government bureaucrats can do a better job of allocating capital than free markets. Everyone seems to believe it. They’re allowing a handful of economists – who failed the critical test; not one of them noticed the market tsunami coming last autumn – to direct the flow of trillions worth of savings. They’ve already put at risk more than $12 trillion. Right now, they’re denying the need for more "stimulus," but that is likely to change. - Ira Katz
Some things to consider on this Monday morning.
With Love and Kindness,
THE HATMAN
I think that most rational people would agree that humans need to be concerned about polluting and otherwise despoiling the Earth. We are the only species that can consciously think through and act to minimize environmental damage. BUT... we seem to be in a period where public policy is determined by TV sound bites and pandering politicians (can you say Gore?) rather than hard scientific data. Suppressed reports, cherry-picked data, silenced government scientists- all part and parcel of the hysterical rush to judgment by the environmental lobby and their political accomplices in the Global Warming debate. The idea of Global Warming is now accepted as fact even though there are responsible climate scientists who seem to have contrary data to present. The latest info I have seen is that global average temperatures are now equal to what they were in the mid 20th century and have dropped for each of the last 11 years. I don't think that we know enough yet to be confident that we should be committing vast sums of money and resources to government mandated programs to reduce carbon dioxide.
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