From Nate Beeler’s Toons in the Washington Examiner – Joe Lieberman plunges into the debate . . .
December 2009
Pelican Point
That is not the actual name of Point Vicente, but it seemed appropriate as these California Brown pelicans soared along the cliffs today. Catalina Island can be seen in the distance with historic Point Vicente Lighthouse on the left. Click on the image to enlarge.
According to WikiPedia, the Brown Pelican was listed as endangered since 1970 when its numbers dipped to 10,000. Since then, the population of Brown Pelican had been climbing and was recently removed from the list in November 2009. Current estimates place the population at 650,000 individuals.
This flight of a baker’s dozen was the largest number of birds that passed us today. Other groups that passed were as few as two, and averaged about five or six.
Amazing Craftsmanship
Image: Model of a WWII F4U Corsair
Mr. Y Park, of New Zealand, makes some of the most amazing, meticulous models I have ever seen. Just look at these beauties – the controls work – you just need a pair of TWEEZERS and you’re in business.
Image: Model of a WWII P51 Mustang
I have personally worked on both of these aircraft, flown in one (the Corsair) and am absolutely dumbfounded by the precise replication I see in the pictures at the forum where this got posted.
Please, PLEASE go see the amazing details!
Government Healthcare for the Herd – Illustrated
In poll after poll, the voice of the American people is clear: They don’t like the government-run health care experiment that the Obama-Pelosi-Reid Democrats are ramming through Congress because they think it’ll raise taxes, raise costs, increase the deficit, and reduce quality of care.
Hat Tip to Damsel for the photo – taken in Tombstone Arizona (clickenbiggen machen).
A Review of Climate Coverage
With all the attention being given by the conservative media (certainly NOT by the MSM) on the recent disclosures about falsifying temperature data by the CRU, now would be a good time for us to review some of our climate references.
We have been following the Anthropogenic Global Warming scam very closely for a number of years. At the risk of being called a ‘denier’ or other such terms, we have not only been skeptical, but have done some of the science homework and research. The following content may always be found on the “Climate and Global Warming” page listed in the sidebar.
Selected Articles from this website
- Earth’s Oceans – A Mesozoic Hot Tub — Scientific Evidence that Atlantic Ocean temperatures may have once reached 107° (42°C) – about 25°F (14°C) higher than ocean temperatures today and warmer than a hot tub.
- Ultimate Global Warming – SPF 2 Million Won’t Be Enough — The Sun is a star – a main sequence star whose business is to fuse hydrogen atoms into helium atoms. Fusion is a steady but somewhat unstable and potentially violent thermonuclear process.
- The “O” Zone — Think of the ozone layer as Earth’s sunglasses, protecting life on the surface from the harmful glare of the sun’s strongest ultraviolet rays, which can cause skin cancer and other maladies.
- Correlating Sunspots to Global Climate — This is a study in two observations made over the last 400 years: observed annual sunspot numbers and derived global temperatures.
- The Indefensible Hockey Stick — The “hockey stick” (the graph resembles a hockey stick) graph emerged in 1995 and purports to depict average global temperatures over the last 1000 years or so. The basis of this paradigm, however, can be shown to be flawed.
- Cosmic Rays, Solar Flux and Global Warming — When you consider the context of this galactic radiation effect, the impact of CO2 emissions caused by humanity literally fade away into climatic insignificance.
- Apocalypse – Not! — These four essays, “The Four Horsemen of the Non-Apocalypse,” as it were, are grouped into a page entitled “Good news, Mr. Gore, the Apocalypse has been postponed.”
International Conference on Climate Change (this is NOT the UN’s IPCC)
Climate Websites and Blogs
- CO2 Science
- World Climate Report
- Still Waiting for Greenhouse (Australia)
- Global Warming and the Climate (Norway)
- Senator James Inhofe’s EPW Blog
- Planet Gore (National Review)
- What’s Up With That?
And a few of my favorites
- John L. Daly: The ‘Hockey Stick’ – A New Low in Climate Science
- Senator James Inhofe: A Skeptics Guide to Global Warming (PDF)
- Michael Crichton: Aliens Cause Global Warming (PDF), A lecture presented to JPL in 2003.
- Visit Michael Crichton’s Speeches Page — “The Impossibility of Prediction” and “Fear, Complexity, Environmental Management in the 21st Century” are particularly good.
- Mark Alexander: Global Warming: Fact, Fiction and Political Endgame
- National Center for Policy Analysis: Global Warming Primer (PDF)
Media Resources
- The antidote for Al Gore’s gross misrepresentation, “An Inconvenient Truth,” is Martin Durkin’s “The Great Global Warming Swindle.”
Comfort Food
Since it was a dark and rainy day today, Damsel prepared one of our favorite “comfort food” dishes – chicken and dumplings. Day-yam – I swear it is the best batch she ever made. Now, I’m too full to blog so click on the picture above and see if you can refrain from drooling on your keyboard.
Not Exactly the Sistine Chapel
Damsel and I saw Michelangelo’s “The Creation of Adam” on the ceiling of “Capella Sistina,” the Sistine Chapel. This cartoon is a crude, but clever satire of the “Job Creationism” this Administration and Congress has tried to foist upon the American Taxpayer as a ‘legitimate’ tactic.
Critics of the administration (including us) believe that until the tax burden is lifted from the small business owners and working class taxpayers, jobs will continue to decline. The recent 0.2 percent ‘reduction. in unemployment is likely to the credit of year-end hiring bubble for the Christmas sales season.
It’s interesting that God in the cartoon is depicted as Uncle Sam. To all you entitlement freaks out there, he’s your Uncle Sam – Not your Sugar Daddy!