Environmentalists Pick Up Where Communists Left Off
Charles Krauthammer
Saturday, May 31, 2008
WASHINGTON — I’m not a global warming believer. I’m not a global warming denier. I’m a global warming agnostic who believes instinctively that it can’t be very good to pump lots of CO2 into the atmosphere, but is equally convinced that those who presume to know exactly where that leads are talking through their hats.
Predictions of catastrophe depend on models. Models depend on assumptions about complex planetary systems — from ocean currents to cloud formation — that no one fully understands. Which is why the models are inherently flawed and forever changing. The doomsday scenarios posit a cascade of events, each with a certain probability. The multiple improbability of their simultaneous occurrence renders all such predictions entirely speculative.
Yet on the basis of this speculation, environmental activists, attended by compliant scienti...
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He has to make things up. His resume could be printed on a 3×5 cardFrom: commonsensewonder.com
Post Date: 2008-05-31 11:31:02
Give Obama the potato test
HE GENERATES even more gaffes than Dan Quayle. “We have not exhausted our nonmilitary options in confronting the Iranian threat; in many ways, we have yet to try them,” Sen. Barack Obama says on his Web site. “If Iran abandons its nuclear program and support for terrorism, we will offer incentives like membership in the World Trade Organization.”Â
It was Albert Einstein who first defined insanity as “doing the same thing ov...
more What a guy…it always comes back to the cult of the personality and not a word from Jimmy CarterFrom: commonsensewonder.com
Post Date: 2008-05-31 10:41:30
Troops ‘must back Mugabe or quit’
Zimbabwe’s army chief has told soldiers they must leave the military if they do not vote for incumbent President Robert Mugabe in next month’s run-off poll.
Chief-of-staff Maj Gen Martin Chedondo said soldiers had signed up to protect Mr Mugabe’s principles of defending the revolution, state media reported.
“If you have other thoughts, then you should remove that uniform,” he said. Â
Gen Chedondo was spe...
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