Monthly Archives: January 2014

The Hill: Five Things To Watch For Obama’s 2014 SOTU

A big question for the 2014 SOTU is: will anyone be awake for it? As Peggy Noonan writes Because when I imagine Barack Obama’s State of the Union, I see a handsome, dignified man standing at the podium and behind him Joe Biden, sleeping. And next to him John Boehner, snoring. And arrayed before the […]

When It Comes To Warm Years, We’re Arguing Over Hundredths Of A Degree

Regarding yesterday’s post about 2013 being the 4th7th10th107th10th warmest for the world, Greenie Watch points something out I reproduce below a current news report derived from NOAA and GISS.  You will see that continuing warming is proclaimed with no hint that the data might be troublesome to Warmism.  It is classical warming propaganda much as […]

If All You See…

…is a world killing dog, eating the planet to 200 feet of sea rise, you might just be a Warmist The blog of the day is Nice Deb, with a post on comments regarding IRS rules targeting the Tea Party.

Global Warming Means More Intense Snows Or Something

Hyper-Warmist Bryan Mooney attempts to keep the meme about warming causing more water vapor meaning more snow alive as the US Northeast is buried in lots of the white stuff Believe It: Global Warming Can Produce More Intense Snows We all remember “Snowmageddon” in February of 2010. Even as Washington, D.C., saw 32 inches of […]

Watchdog Says NSA Phone Program Barely Works And Is Illegal

And recommends shutting it down. Good thing the NY Times buries the story on page A14 of the print edition, wanting to protect Obama and his 100% support of the domestic spying program (NY Times) An independent federal privacy watchdog has concluded that the National Security Agency’s program to collect bulk phone call records has […]

Obama Admin Fears Failure To Fix Healthcare.gov Could Bankrupt Insurers

They’ve already wasted hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars building a barely functional website though a no-bid contract to CGI. Now they have to spend hundreds of millions more (Fox News) While the administration publicly expresses full confidence in its health care law, privately it fears one part of the system is so flawed it […]

Surprise: Montreal Bike-Share Program Goes Belly Up

Lots of cities are launching these bike-sharing plans. NYC has one. San Francisco just launched one using electric bikes. Many other cities are giving it a whirl or considering it. How’d it work in Montreal? (Treehugger) Bixi, the Montreal bike-sharing service that debuted in the city in pilot form in the summer of 2008 and […]

Obama Targets Sexual Assault On Campus, Tells Base To Stop It

After watching Obama these past 5 years, color me skeptical that this is anything other than some sort of self-serving political move (The Hill) President Obama will create a new task force to examine how to better prevent sexual assault on college campuses, the Associated Press reported Wednesday. The president is giving the panel three […]

If All You See…

…is warmth created snow, you might just be a Warmist The blog of the day is The Camp Of The Saints, with a post on the number 56,662,169.

2013 Was Really Warm, Meaning Doom

How warm was 2013? Well, Warmist Bryan Walsh wants you to know that despite all that snow and cold and stuff, we’re like doomed (Time) But don’t worry—on a global climatic scale, the heat is still on. That’s the takeaway from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) annual analysis of global climate data, which […]

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