Glaciergate

Pachauri: the real story behind the Glaciergate scandal - Christopher Booker

The scientist behind the bogus claim in a Nobel Prize-winning UN report that Himalayan glaciers will have melted by 2035 last night admitted it was included purely to put political pressure on world leaders.

Dr Murari Lal also said he was well aware the statement, in the 2007 report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), did not rest on peer-reviewed scientific research.

Glacier scientist: I knew data hadn't been verified - David Rose

Last week, the IPCC, led by its increasingly controversial chairman, Dr Rajendra Pachauri, was forced to issue an unprecedented admission: the statement in its 2007 report that Himalayan glaciers could disappear by 2035 had no scientific basis, and its inclusion in the report reflected a "poor application" of IPCC procedures.

What has now come to light, however, is that the scientist from whom this claim originated, Dr Syed Hasnain, has for the past two years been working as a senior employee of The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), the Delhi-based company of which Dr Pachauri is director-general.

Climategate: The Wheels Come Off for the IPCC - by Charlie Martin

The result was that the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) — after Dr. Rajendra Pachauri, chair of the IPCC, called the 2035 story “voodoo science” — eventually had to withdraw that section of the report.

Climate chief was told of false glacier claims before Copenhagen - Ben Webster

Rajendra Pachauri was told that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change assessment that the glaciers would disappear by 2035 was wrong, but he waited two months to correct it. He failed to act despite learning that the claim had been refuted by several leading glaciologists.

The Election of Scott Brown

Feeling the Heat, Obama Pours Kool-Aid - Jonah Goldberg

The question isn’t, “Do you regret tackling these issues?” The question is, “Do you regret how you tackled these issues?” According to Obama, there was no other way than his way. And these ungrateful, confused, angry voters just don’t understand that.

The Meaning of Brown - Charles Krauthammer

The reason both wings of American liberalism — congressional and mainstream media — were so surprised at the force of anti-Democratic sentiment is that they’d spent Obama’s first year either ignoring or disdaining the clear early signs of resistance: the tea-party movement of the spring and the town-hall meetings of the summer. With characteristic condescension, they contemptuously dismissed the protests as the mere excrescences of a redneck, retrograde, probably racist rabble.

The Context Of Middle-Class Frustration - Doctor Zero

The middle class is the great enemy of collectivist politics, under any of its names: progressivism, communism, fascism, or “liberalism.” As far back as Karl Marx, the apostles of collectivism have understood that they must subjugate the middle class before they can claim total victory.

The Economy - January 2010

America's New Year's Unemployment Hangover - by Rep. John Carter



Bernanke and the Beast - N. Gregory Mankiw

IS galloping inflation around the corner? Without doubt, the United States is exhibiting some of the classic precursors to out-of-control inflation. But a deeper look suggests that the story is not so simple.

"Fear the Boom and Bust" a Hayek vs. Keynes Rap Anthem


ObamaNomics: An Endless Downward Spiral - BoomerJeff



A REALITY CHECK FOR A LAME WASHINGTON ESTABLISHMENT TALKING POINT - Glenn Reynolds

Note that the following table is of actual and estimated annual federal budget deficits, not the cumulative national debt.

Bush Staff Interviews

The John Yoo Interview
Jon Stewart interviewed the "torture memo" author John Yoo. Here is the link to Daniel Foster's entry at The Corner, which has links to the videos.

The Marc Thiessen Interview
CNN's Christine Amanpour interviews Marc Thiessen on enhanced interrogation.