WRONG!!

James Hansen and the rest of those 1990s IPCC climate modelers are the Dick Cheneys of environmentalism. Just like Cheney got virtually everything wrong when it came to the Iraq conflict (that we would be greeted as liberators, that the war would be completely paid off with oil money, etc.), Hansen and his crew have been fully discredited when it comes to predictions of global warming.........................................................................................a) They predicted far more atmospheric warming than has actually happened (air temperature has actually decreased from the El Nino highs of 1997).......b) They predicted far more oceanic warming than has actually happened (the Argo system has shown a steady ocean temperature since 2003 and any measurements prior to the Argo system are essentially worthless).......c) They predicted that the planet's sea levels would rise somewhere between 26-59 centimeters by 2100, with Al Gore going even farther than that at 20 feet (the Envisat Satellite which has been measuring sea levels since 2004 has sea levels rising at less than 4 centimeters per century).......d) They predicted a particular atmospheric warming in the tropics at about 10 kilometers up and that has fizzled, too (weather balloons have been measuring atmospheric temperatures since the 1960s and no hot spots have ever been uncovered).......e) They predicted that less and less heat would be radiated into space and the absolute opposite has occurred (ERBE instruments have been measuring outgoing radiation from satellites since the1980s).......f) They predicted a positive feedback loop between CO2 and water vapor of anywhere between 2 and 5 (so, instead of getting a 1 degree increase in warming for every doubling of CO2, you get a 2-5 degree increase - something that the geophysical evidence has never once put forth) and on that one they were WAY OFF (the actual feedback as measured by the outgoing radiation, surface temperatures, and CO2 levels has actually been negative; .5 - .6).......g) They predicted a massive reduction in global sea ice and that hasn't happened, either (sea ice as measured by the University of Illinois's Arctic Climate Research Center shows but a miniscule reduction).......................................................................................I think that we just have to face it here, folks. Virtually any other theory with a similar track record would have crashed and burned easily by now. BUT, because there now exist entire government agencies and entire university departments which cannot continue without it, AGW prevails...........................................................................................P.S. And, just for the record, I am not a "denier". I fully recognize that there was global warming from 1850 to 2000 and I am even willing to entertain the notion that human activity contributed to it. My only contention here is that our contribution has significantly been inflated and that these alarmist predictions by Al Gore and other folks are total bullshit. A 20 foot rise in seal levels by 2100. LOL!!

On The Hannity Show

Not enough segments on the Obamas' vacationing.

On the Increasingly Nasty Feud Between Jim Carrey and Fox News

I would probably go with, "idiot on idiot crime", myself.

On Sean Penn's Crazy Son Using the N and F (The One that's Frequently Directed at Gay People) Words

Class begets class, I'm thinking.

Imitation is the Sincerest Form of Propaganda/Miserable Cable

So, have you gotten a load (and, yes, I've selected that term very carefully) of MSNBC's latest rating's disaster/train-wreck; a little something called the, "The Cycle"? Yeah? Well, then you've probably noticed that it's quite frankly little more than a rip-off of Fox News', "The Five". Only instead of having just one liberal (i.e., Bob Beckel) being ganged up on by a bevy of fire-breathing knuckle-dragging conservatives, this show flips it and you only have one conservative (S.E. Cupp) and a bevy of fire-breathing knuckle-dragging liberals (the absolutely despicable Toure' obviously being the worst of them). I mean, I know that these program directors are are morons and totally lack originality and all but, come on, are we so removed from the days of Mike Wallace and Tim Russert that THIS is all that's left? I sure a hell hope not.

I Feel Another Bristlecone Pine Ladened Hockey-Stick Graph Coming On

The archaeological, geological, and historical evidence is OVERWHELMING that the second Holocene warming optimum of 6-8,000 years ago was not just warmer than today but significantly so. Amongst the more compelling pieces of evidence to support this include rock paintings (many of which show that the Sahara, for instance, was actually wet enough to support numerous herds of animals), lake and soil sediments, archaeological sites in Egypt and the Sudan, peat, stalactites, and even fossil pollen. The fact that we have still have pseudo scientific lunatics like Michael Mann trying to undo the work of real scientists is exceedingly troubling, I think........................................................................................Oh, and, just for the record here, the second Holocene warming optimum was a time period in which human beings thrived. Populations grew. Lifespans lengthened. Food became plentiful. Diseases were largely kept at bay. And trade literally flourished. It wasn't until the Akkadian cooling which started about 3600 BC that things really started to deteriorate.

Multiple Choice Quiz

a) Former Governor of Arkansas. b) Fox News ratings king. c) Bible-thumping moron who doesn't believe in evolution and who apparently still thinks that the planet is 6,000 years old. d) All of the above.