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"Scientists" Have Lost Public Trust on Global Warming

"Scientists" -- in scare quotes since climatologists seem to be mostly political activists -- are just starting to grapple with the fact that they've completely lost the public trust on global warming.

Here in Britain, the change has been driven by the news media’s intensive coverage of a series of climate science controversies unearthed and highlighted by skeptics since November. These include the unauthorized release of e-mail messages from prominent British climate scientists at the University of East Anglia that skeptics cited as evidence that researchers were overstating the evidence for global warming and the discovery of errors in a United Nations climate report.
Two independent reviews later found no evidence that the East Anglia researchers had actively distorted climate data, but heavy press coverage had already left an impression that the scientists had schemed to repress data.

I don't think it takes a brilliant scientist to interpret the hoard of climategate emails.

From: Phil Jones To: ray bradley ,mann@xxxxxxxxx.xxx, mhughes@xxxxxxxxx.xxx Subject: Diagram for WMO Statement Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 13:31:15 +0000 Cc: k.briffa@xxxxxxxxx.xxx,t.osborn@xxxxxxxxx.xxx
Dear Ray, Mike and Malcolm,
Once Tim's got a diagram here we'll send that either later today or
first thing tomorrow.
I've just completed Mike's Nature trick of adding in the real temps
to each series for the last 20 years (ie from 1981 onwards) amd from
1961 for Keith's to hide the decline. Mike's series got the annual
land and marine values while the other two got April-Sept for NH land
N of 20N. The latter two are real for 1999, while the estimate for 1999
for NH combined is +0.44C wrt 61-90. The Global estimate for 1999 with
data through Oct is +0.35C cf. 0.57 for 1998.
Thanks for the comments, Ray.

Cheers
Phil

Prof. Phil Jones
Climatic Research Unit Telephone +44 (0) 1603 592090
School of Environmental Sciences Fax +44 (0) 1603 507784
University of East Anglia
Norwich Email p.jones@xxxxxxxxx.xxx
NR4 7TJ
UK

It's nice that "two independent reviews" found no wrongdoing, but c'mon. That's absurd. We're not exalted "climatologists" but we can read.

The fact of the matter is that people don't need to understand the science. Scientists ask us to trust them because they know more than we do, but the climategate emails demonstrate that the world's leading global warming proponents are not trustworthy people. It doesn't matter that they're smart and educated. The emails show that they regularly lied to and manipulated the public.

That's that.

Growing Majority Supports Repeal of Obamacare

Despite the near impossibility of overcoming a Democrat filibuster even if Republicans manage to take both houses of Congress and the Presidency by 2012, a growing majority of Americans support the repeal of Obamacare.

Support for repeal of the new national health care plan has jumped to its highest level ever. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 63% of U.S. voters now favor repeal of the plan passed by congressional Democrats and signed into law by President Obama in March.
Prior to today, weekly polling had shown support for repeal ranging from 54% to 58%.

Currently, just 32% oppose repeal.

It's hard for me to envision a scenario in which Obamacare is actually repealed, but I think it is likely to be significantly modified before the major provisions begin to take effect. It will still end up being a huge net loss to our country (as intended by its proponents).

Growing Majority Supports Repeal of Obamacare

Despite the near impossibility of overcoming a Democrat filibuster even if Republicans manage to take both houses of Congress and the Presidency by 2012, a growing majority of Americans support the repeal of Obamacare.

Support for repeal of the new national health care plan has jumped to its highest level ever. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 63% of U.S. voters now favor repeal of the plan passed by congressional Democrats and signed into law by President Obama in March.
Prior to today, weekly polling had shown support for repeal ranging from 54% to 58%.

Currently, just 32% oppose repeal.

It's hard for me to envision a scenario in which Obamacare is actually repealed, but I think it is likely to be significantly modified before the major provisions begin to take effect. It will still end up being a huge net loss to our country (as intended by its proponents).

How ObamaCare Will Destroy Health Care

Paul Hsieh apty describes how ObamaCare will destroy health care:

ObamaCare thus places a noose around private insurers' necks. Insurance companies will be required to offer numerous benefits determined by politicians and lobbyists. But they will be allowed to charge only what government bureaucrats permit. No business can survive long if it must offer $2,000 worth of services to customers but can charge only $1,000.
Although it is tempting to take delight at the insurance industry's self-caused plight, the inevitable collapse of the private insurance market would also leave millions of Americans without coverage. Even though this crisis would be caused by government policies, liberals would gleefully portray it as a "failure of the free market" and demand that the government "rescue" health care. The end result would be a "single payer" socialized medical system like Canada's or Great Britain's, with rationing and long waits for medical care.

Instead of making their Faustian bargain with the government, insurance companies should have advocated for free-market reforms such as allowing customers to purchase policies across state lines, repealing existing mandatory benefits, and allowing patients to use Health Savings Accounts for routine expenses and low-cost "catastrophic-only" insurance to cover rare expensive events. Such free-market reforms could reduce insurance costs up to 50%, while preserving quality of medical care.

He also rightly points out that destroying health care isn't a bug in ObamaCare -- it's the underlying purpose! The point is to destroy the market for health care and force the American people into a completely government-run system. Why? Because it will give the elites more control of our lives and reduce our liberty. They think we're too dumb to be free, so they're trying to help us out.

Reletivistic Abberation of Light

A very cool website that visually explains the abberation of light at relativistic velocities. I think it would be very hard to comprehend without the graphics.

For more relativistic fun, start at the first topic: the C-Ship.

Transforming Apartment

(HT: Top Cultured.)

Science, Technology & Health: May 2010 Archives

"Scientists" Have Lost Public Trust on Global Warming

Growing Majority Supports Repeal of Obamacare

Growing Majority Supports Repeal of Obamacare

How ObamaCare Will Destroy Health Care

Reletivistic Abberation of Light

Transforming Apartment

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