Slaughter Your Second and nth Children, Jewish-Chinese People

Endorphin-addled confused-person Glenn Beck suggests here (without saying as much) that the climate change movement is akin to Chairman Mao Tse Haman demanding that the future children of all people on the earth be minced to shreds in the malicious air Cuisinarts that are now popping up around many unpopulated areas in the American west. He is correct.

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Be sure to paint your door post with the blood of kung pao lamb.

Crashing to Earth

Here’s some interesting news. Turns out, NASA destroyed their own extraordinarily expensive weather satellite last year, apparently for completely stupid reasons. The wise tarsier of Brenchley has this to say:

”Not greatly to my surprise – indeed I predicted it – the satellite crashed on take-off because the last thing they want is real world hard data,” he told a climate sceptics’ lunch in South Yarra yesterday.

NASA understood that getting the satellite into orbit would have demonstrated ”the whole darn thing” – climate-change science – ”is nonsense”.

Which Way Will the Amateur Dendros Go?

A recent NAS study suggests that trees in the Chesapeake region are growing at a faster rate than they have been in the past. Some scientists hypothesize that this may be due to increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, thereby suggesting that forests may be able to absorb more CO2 than previously thought. To establish this, the scientists in question relied on…wait for it… tree ring studies, an otherwise maligned bastard child of the climate science community. So the question is whether this new finding counts as support for the claim that climate change may not be as dramatic as has been projected.

Smashing

Old habits die hard. Looks like Yuri Luzhkov, mayor of Moscow, doesn’t much care for houses (or the people in them).

The first positive annulment of private property – crude communism – is thus merely a manifestation of the vileness of private property, which wants to set itself up as the positive community system.

Communism (α) still political in nature – democratic or despotic; (β) with the abolition of the state, yet still incomplete, and being still affected by private property, i.e., by the estrangement of man. In both forms communism already is aware of being reintegration or return of man to himself, the transcendence of human self-estrangement; but since it has not yet grasped the positive essence of private property, and just as little the human nature of need, it remains captive to it and infected by it. It has, indeed, grasped its concept, but not its essence. (Marx, Private Property and Communism)

Estrangement is one thing. Estrangement in -20 C is something else entirely.

Verdict is In

The so-called “Mann Inquiry” has concluded. For those living under a rock for the past several months, Penn State climatologist Michael Mann is under investigation by a preliminary panel of his own colleagues to determine if another panel should investigate incidents of wrongdoing at Penn State with regard to the alleged wrongdoing uncovered through the nefarious purloining of several thousand e-letters in the previous decade — an incident known to many as “climategate,” or to others as, “CRU-hack,” depending on their perspective. Findings will be released soon.

Oh, sure, I could dispense with the drama, but that would be far less fun. It’d be boring to paint such a panel as standard procedure in these sorts of affairs.

Meanwhile, a friend points me to this recent article. Kinda old analysis, IMHO, but shrug, I’m not one to leave a party before it ends. Plus, the metalheads over in the corner keep beating the same tin drum.