Has the AGW argument imploded?

http://hotair.com/archives/2011/08/31/has-the-agw-argument-imploded/

"Hey, I know this woman is crazy because all my friends and the media tell me so, but I'd so like to look like her!"

http://jammiewearingfool.blogspot.com/2011/08/i-have-women-who-come-in-with-photos.html


Redrant:  I can get the same hair look with under $1 Suave shampoo and conditioners and I am a 61 year old male.  It depends on what you have to work with with hair in the first place.  Greg Lang

'I Have Women Who Come in With Photos With the Face Cut Out Sometimes'

"Hey, I know this woman is crazy because all my friends and the media tell me so, but I'd so like to look like her!"

Apparently this is what's going on in New York salons as women are looking for the Michelle Bachmann hairdo. Or at least that what this halfwit is telling us.

Top stylists from New York to Hollywood told me their liberal clients are guiltily requesting the Bachmann Look.

"A lot of clients have asked for Sarah Palin hair in the past four years, and now, it's Bachmann," says Andi Scarbrough of Byu-ty Hair Therapy in L.A. "Politicians are the new celebrities, because they're real. They didn't just spring up out of the red carpet."

However, she admits, "I have women who come in with photos with the face cut out sometimes."

"She has great coppery color that warms her up a little bit," said Angelo David at his E. 43rdSt. salon, who confirmed a spike in copycat requests for the candidate's look. "Not everybody wants to look like Kim Kardashian."

Bachmann's style "is safe, but not soccer mom. It's sexy," said Alma Qeraxhiu at her AlmaG Salon and Spa on E. 21st. St.

"I have found it a little bit amazing how many women have been coming in asking for her hair style, even though they don't agree with her politics."

They might agree more with Hillary Clinton, who has always been criticized about her hair.

Indeed, I never notice many women looking like Hillary or, say, Janet Napolitano. Still, some may want to look like Bachmann yet are still trembling in fear over her.

"A look like Bachmann's would run you $150 to $300" - higher if the stylist comes to you," as in Bachmann's case, said Angelo David.

And you'll be in the chair for about two hours, and you've got maintain it every six weeks.

Most liberals just don't have the time. They're too busy protecting us from airheads like Bachmann.

These people need "protecting" from Bachmann?

Pathetic.

TRUTH-TELLING ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2011/08/truth-telling-on-the-campaign-trail.php

"Next, Michele Bachmann. In Florida, she said yesterday that the United States has the world’s largest energy resources, but we are prevented from exploiting them by radical environmentalists:

With untapped oil reserves in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and off the nation’s coasts, shale oil in Western states, and rich natural gas and coal deposits, she said the U.S. “is sitting on a mother lode of treasure.”

“The United States is the number one country in the world for energy resources,” the Minnesota congresswoman told a central Florida town hall meeting, arguing that in shale deposits alone the U.S. easily outstrips the total oil supply of Saudi Arabia. “That doesn’t even include … all the oil in Alaska.”

But Bachmann said environmentalists were preventing resources from being exploited, leaving the U.S. dependent on energy imports. …

“The radical environmentalists have demanded that we lock up all our energy resources,” she added. “President Bachmann will take that key out of the door. I will unlock it.”

The crowd at the upscale retirement community cheered wildly.

As well they should. I hope Bachmann keeps up this line of attack. As we have pointed outmore than once, she is correct: the United States has more fossil fuel energy resources than any other country (Russia is second and Saudi Arabia third). The Obama administration has perversely gone out of its way to suppress energy development here at home, instead preferring to ship high-paying jobs to Brazil and other countries. It would be a great thing if the presidential primary campaign serves to pound that lesson home.

CERN: 'Climate models will need to be substantially revised' New atomsmasher research into cloud formation.

Redrant: Strong sunspots are due to a very strong magnetic field. This repels "cosmic rays" basically very weak and distant "gamma rays". Weak sunspot activity like we now have allows for more "cosmic rays" to reach the earth. As CERN confirmed, this leads to more cloud "seeding". Normally, 90% of rain falls over water (70% of the earths surface is covered with water). Cosmic seeding differences can have a major on weather, specifically precipitation on land. Gosh! Didn't Al Gore tell us that there was "overwhelming scientific consensus" and that "the science is settled"? Greg Lang

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/08/25/cern_cloud_cosmic_ray_first_results/

Read story at link.

New San Francisco bridge built in China to be shipped to USA

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/8602786/New-San-Francisco-bridge-built-in-China-to-be-shipped-to-US.html

First, China made cut-price clothes and knick-knacks. Then it learned how to make mobile phones and iPads. Now it is making a 2,050ft-long bridge spanning the San Francisco bay.  (READ MORE AT LINK)

I RECALL OBAMA REASSURING USE THAT THE GOVERNMENT WOULD GARANTEE ALL GOVERNMENT MOTORS WARRANTIES.

I RECALL OBAMA REASSURING USE THAT THE GOVERNMENT WOULD GARANTEE ALL GOVERNMENT MOTORS WARRANTIES.

* New GM said not responsible to fix Impala made by old GM http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/19/gm-impala-lawsuit-idUSN1E77I0Z820110819

NEW YORK, Aug 19 (Reuters) - General Motors Co (GM.N) is seeking to dismiss a lawsuit over a suspension problem on more than 400,000 Chevrolet Impalas from the 2007 and 2008 model years, saying it should not be responsible for repairs because the flaw predated its bankruptcy.

Conrad Black on Warren Buffett

http://www.futureofcapitalism.com/2011/08/conrad-black-on-warren-buffett


REDRANT:  THESE "PAY MORE TAXES" TYPES CAN ALWAYS WRITE A CHECK TO THE GOVERNMENT.  I LIKE A LOT ABOUT WARREN BUFFETT BUT HE HAS COME ON THE BUSINESS CHANNELS TO TRY TO "CALM" RIGHT BEFORE A SERIOUS MARKET DOWNTURN. THIS COULD HAVE A "BACKFIRE' EFFECT WITH PEOPLE THINKING THAT IF WARREN BUFFETT IS TRYING TO CALM AND REASSURE IT IS MUCH WORSE THAN THOUGHT.  NOTHING CRIMINAL BUT THE MARKET IS BASED HEAVILY ON PSYCHOLOGY.

Conrad Black has a dispatch on the risks of what he calls "Buffettism": A wealth tax or some other tax-the-rich scheme, Black warns, "would open the gates to terrible abuse, as legislators who are afraid to cut spending, pare entitlements to those who don't need them, raise the actuarial presumptions about Social Security 67 years after its adoption and after the average life expectancy of participants has risen by over ten years, and other steps that will have to be taken, would resort to tokenistic fiscal persecution of the most affluent. Few living things, animal or vegetable, are more tenacious than a politician clinging to an envisioned panacea to justify the deferral of hard decisions. The country waited for the bust of the stimulus monstrosity, and then for the Simpson-Bowles report to be shelved, and for various futile and demeaning bipartisan jawbonings; if anyone took this Buffettism seriously, it would push things out into the next presidential term."

Lawyers be warned that there is some lawyer-bashing in the Black piece, though if anyone's paid enough legal fees to be entitled, it's him.

"Under President Bachmann you will see gasoline come down below $2 a gallon again," Bachmann told a crowd Tuesday in South Carolina. "That will happen."

http://money.cnn.com/2011/08/18/news/economy/bachmann_gas_prices/index.htm?hpt=hp_t2#disqus_thread

THE COMMENT I POSTED BELOW


"In her home state of Minnesota and in the Midwest in general she might get gas down to $3 per gallon but I don't see $2.  The greatest increase in production would be in th North Dakota, the east side of the Rockies and Canada if the KeystoneXL pipeline is built.  These have pipelines going to Midwest refineries.

They say that oil is "fungible" but already they are rail unit trains of tanker cars transporting oil out of the "Bakken".  There i a $20 spread between benchmark Texas light sweet crude and Brent North Sea light sweet crude."

Minneapolis-based firms are putting lawyers in western North Dakota to catch their share of the black-gold rush.

http://www.startribune.com/business/127613278.html

Rick Perry to delight climate sceptics by running for president

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/aug/12/rick-perry-climate-sceptics-president

Texas governor Rick Perry's bid for the Republican expected nomination has cheered climate sceptics who share his view that global warming is a 'phony mess'
(FULL STORY AT LINK)

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2011/08/al-gore-jumps-every-shark-in-the-ocean.php

POSTED ON AUGUST 9, 2011 BY STEVEN HAYWARD

AL GORE JUMPS EVERY SHARK IN THE OCEAN

Al Gore is not a well man.  I’ve always thought he was philosophically dangerous—in fact he isa de facto follower of Heidegger—but he literally appears to be losing his mind.  Making the rounds right now is this recording of a recent Gore appearance in Aspen, where I guess he thinks shouting expletives will be more convincing than his gauzy mockumentary.  Some excerpts:

And some of the exact same people — I can go down a list of their names — are involved in this. And so what do they do? They pay pseudo scientists to pretend to be scientists to put out the message: “This climate thing, it’s nonsense. Man-made CO2 doesn’t trap heat. It may be volcanoes.” Bullshit! “It may be sun spots.” Bullshit! “It’s not getting warmer.” Bullshit! . . . There’s no longer a shared reality … It’s no longer acceptable in mixed company — meaning bipartisan company — to use the goddamn word “climate.”

To paraphrase one of Randall Jarrell’s great lines, you have to hear it, not to believe it.  (If you care about the particulars of Gore’s rant—volcanoes, sunspots, etc, Marc Morano’s indispensible ClimateDepot site has the goods on each of these inconvenient truths.)

His comparison of climate skeptics to “tobacco scientists” would be risible on its own terms, but is especially ironic given Gore’s famous embrace of tobacco on the presidential campaign trail back in 1988:

Throughout most of my life, I raised tobacco. I want you to know that with my own hands, all of my life, I put it in the plant beds and transferred it. I’ve hoed it. I’ve dug in it. I’ve sprayed it, I’ve chopped it, I’ve shredded it, spiked it, put it in the barn and stripped it and sold it.

He later excused his insensitivity to the evils of tobacco to his own “emotional numbness.”

Really, Gore is the gift that keeps on giving.  I hope he never shuts up.  (By the way, if you want a good compilation of Gore’s greatest gaffes, see this site.)

UPDATE:  It turns out that Gore didn’t know he was being taped, even though the event was being live-streamed on that wonderful invention of his.  But the most salient feature of this story is that Gore’s talk was 89 minutes long.

69% Say It’s Likely Scientists Have Falsified Global Warming Research

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/current_events/environment_energy/69_say_it_s_likely_scientists_have_falsified_global_warming_research

69% Say It’s Likely Scientists Have Falsified Global Warming Research

Wednesday, August 03, 2011

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The debate over global warming has intensified in recent weeks after a new NASA study was interpreted by skeptics to reveal that global warming is not man-made. While a majority of Americans nationwide continue to acknowledge significant disagreement about global warming in the scientific community, most go even further to say some scientists falsify data to support their own beliefs.

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of American Adults shows that 69% say it’s at least somewhat likely that some scientists have falsified research data in order to support their own theories and beliefs, including 40% who say this is Very Likely. Twenty-two percent (22%) don’t think it’s likely some scientists have falsified global warming data, including just six percent (6%) say it’s Not At All Likely. Another 10% are undecided. (To see survey question wording, click here.)

The number of adults who say it’s likely scientists have falsified data is up 10 points from December 2009.

Fifty-seven percent (57%) believe there is significant disagreement within the scientific community on global warming, up five points from late 2009. One in four (25%) believes scientists agree on global warming. Another 18% aren’t sure.

Republicans and adults not affiliated with either major political party feel stronger than Democrats that some scientists have falsified data to support their global warming theories, but 51% of Democrats also agree.

Men are more likely than women to believe some scientists have put out false information on the issue.

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The National Organization for Women defends Bachmann against Newsweek.

http://dailycaller.com/2011/08/08/the-national-organization-for-women-defends-bachmann-against-newsweek/

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One of presidential candidate Michele Bachmann’s major political opponents is defending her against what it says is blatant sexism on the part of Newsweek magazine.

Monday, the National Organization for Women (NOW) spoke out against Newsweek’s most recent cover, which features an extreme close-up of Michele Bachmann and the title “The Queen of Rage.”

“It’s sexist,” NOW president Terry O’Neill told TheDC. “Casting her in that expression and then adding ‘The Queen of Rage’ I think [it is]. Gloria Steinem has a very simple test: If this were done to a man or would it ever be done to a man – has it ever been done to a man? Surely this has never been done to a man.”

While some have pointed out that Newsweek has used unflattering photos of men such as Rush Limbaugh and John McCain on its cover, O’Neill says that is not the issue.

“Who has ever called a man ‘The King of Rage?’ Basically what Newsweek magazine – and this is important, what Newsweek magazine, not a blog, Newsweek magazine – what they are saying of a woman who is a serious contender for President of the United States of America…They are basically casting her as a nut job,” O’Neill said. “The ‘Queen of Rage’ is something you apply to wrestlers or somebody who is crazy. They didn’t even do this to Howard Dean when he had his famous scream.”

NOW is diametrically opposed to Bachmann on practically every political issue. Bachmann is pro-life, NOW is pro-choice. Bachmann wants to make significant cuts to entitlements, while NOW it pushing to protect Social Security and Medicare. The list is practically infinite. Nevertheless, NOW is rallying to her side for all women in politics.

“The main reason why we would stand up for Michele Bachmann and defend her against these kind of misogynistic attacks is we want women to run for office. Of course my job is to defeat Michele Bachmann and I intend to do so. But good women will not run for office if Newsweek magazine can do this to such a prominent politician and get away with it.”

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2011/08/08/the-national-organization-for-women-defends-bachmann-against-newsweek/#ixzz1UXHj8BTB

Rick Santelli: If Not For Tea Party, U.S. Would Be Rated BBB

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/08/08/rick_santelli_if_not_for_tea_party_us_would_be_rated_bbb.html

"You know what leadership means? It means that it doesn't really matter what S&P says. We all know deep inside that no country is the same as it was 5 years ago. And the market seems to be okay with it. And as for stocks going down we were already Ralph Cramden (of Honeymooners) on thin ice. Now an infant jumped on our shoulders. It’s just even more weight.

"In the end, in the end we need to address problems we know exist. A Treasury Secretary or a President should be out here not fighting S&P, not grabbing the other coach and slapping him around, taking the umpire behind the barn. He should be getting the team psyched to overcome.

"See I remember I had a professor in college. I wrote a great paper. Could never please this guy. But it made me better. Okay? We’re better than this. Don’t get caught up in the minutia. All this BS. We’re better than this. We need to prove it. We’re off the track. Whether we're better than some other country or not, the real issue is we're on the wrong path.

"Blame the Tea Party? Geez, no wonder Kerry did so well in an election. If it wasn't for the Tea Party, they would have passed the debt ceiling thumbs up, we would have been rated BBB."

(source: The Right Scoop)

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Four years ago today the Minneapolis 35W bridge collapsed.

http://kstp.com/article/stories/S2223310.shtml?cat=1

A typo during the original construction resulted in the gusset plates which connected all girders being half an inch thick rather than one and a half inch thick.  Before, during and after the construction no one caught the error.

Just after the collapse a news story casually mentioned that the steel gusset plates had worn down to three-quarters of an inch.  I was thinking that stationary steel plates do not "wear down".   Rust and paint may make them thicker.

Had someone with the engineering knowledge started from scratch and looked at the bridge design they might have said "What the f____" when they saw the half inch gusset plates.  If this was discovered structural reinforcement would have been easy.  Thbe only other US example of this I can think of the is the New York City Citi-Corp headquarters.  (It has the distinct "Lean To" roof..  An architectural student studied the building and concluded that it could collapse in a hurricane force wind.  After rechecking the calculations the student presented the finding to the architect.  The architect, concluded the students calculations and conclusions were correct.
The architect first contemplated suicide but then took on a fix which was done at night and weekends  in secret to not panic neighbors and employees.   Basically it meant  bolting and welding gusset plates to the existing girders.  It worked and now the CitiCorp NY building is one of the strongest in NYC. Had someone discovered the same flaw in the Minneapolis 35W bridge a Citicorp type fix would be possible.

Thirteen people died in  the collapse.  Fine decent people who really were "victims".  I used the bridge frequent so I figure my probabily was around one million to one to be on the bridge during the collapse.