Media

What’s Wrong With This Picture?

gore-lies.jpgRemember those picture puzzles where you were supposed to identify as many things as you can that are wrong with it? You would write down all the things you found then go to the answer key to see how you did.

I’m sure that wasn’t Al Gore’s intention when he produced his science propaganda flick, “An Inconvenient Truth.” Gore does, however, embed quite a number of “things wrong” with his Global Warming Crock-umentary — consider the following list:

  • Gore promoted the now debunked “hockey stick” temperature chart in an attempt to prove man’s overwhelming impact on the climate
  • Gore attempted to minimize the significance of the Medieval Warm period and the Little Ice Age
  • Gore insisted on a link between increased hurricane activity and global warming that most sciences believe does not exist
  • Gore asserted that today’s Arctic is experiencing unprecedented warmth while ignoring that temperatures in the 1930’s were as warm or warmer
  • Gore claimed the Antarctic was warming and losing ice but failed to note, that is only true of a small region and the vast bulk has been cooling and gaining ice
  • Gore hyped unfounded fears that Greenland’s ice is in danger of disappearing
  • Gore erroneously claimed that ice cap on Mt. Kilimanjaro is disappearing due to global warming, even while the region cools and researchers blame the ice loss on local land-use practices
  • Gore made assertions of massive future sea level rise that is way out side of any supposed scientific “consensus” and is not supported in even the most alarmist literature
  • Gore incorrectly implied that a Peruvian glacier’s retreat is due to global warming, while ignoring the fact that the region has been cooling since the 1930s and other glaciers in South America are advancing
  • He blamed global warming for water loss in Africa’s Lake Chad, despite NASA scientists concluding that local population and grazing factors are the more likely culprits
  • He inaccurately claimed polar bears are drowning in significant numbers due to melting ice when in fact they are thriving
  • He completely failed to inform viewers that the 48 scientists who accused President Bush of distorting science were part of a political advocacy group set up to support Democrat Presidential candidate John Kerry in 2004

Hat tip to Senator Jim Inhofe, whose Skeptics Guide to Global Warming (PDF) tells us what’s wrong with Gore’s Picture.

Upgrading from Blogspot

domainsImagine having your own domain name for your weblog — you know, like yourname.com or yourorganization.org or yourpetproject.us — think of how much cooler that would be than yourblog.blogspot.com. But wait — there’s more — you also get custom eMail addresses such as nickname@yourblog.com or family@yourblog.com or friend@yourblog.com and so on. Setting up and managing your own weblog domain may be less expensive and easier than you think.

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Malibu Celebrity Homes Threatened

Update III: Not as bad as thought. See RECAP Below.

Update II: Looks like the count is 8 homes destroyed, 5 damaged and no injuries reported.

Update: Live TV Feed.

Breaking news: A wildfire threatens many celebrity homes in the Malibu Colony area.

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Photo: A Structure fully engulfed in flames. Courtesy KTTV Fox News.

Update: Map of the Malibu Colony fire area:

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RECAP: Only 4 homes with significant damage – one guest house destroyed. Many celebrities own homes in the area but no specifics on whether any of them received damage.
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What They Didn’t Tell You Today

Not only do conservatives have to filter the BS out of print and broadcast media, but so do firearms enthusiasts and second-amendment rights advocates. And when we’re not filtering, we have to “fill in the gaps” where important news items have been editorially omitted.

Wayne LaPierre, Executive Vice President of the National Rifle Association, determined to bridge the media gap, is now offering an online weblog to bring the views of gun owners and enthusiasts to the fore, as well as exposing those stories that go unreported in the mainstream media.

Doing my part, I now have an animated sidebar widget that takes you to the NRA News site. You can read Wayne LaPierre’s eMail announcement below the fold.

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There IS Good News

Taken from the front page of DEFEND AMERICA:

British Forces Kill Escaped al-Qaida Terrorist
BAGHDAD, Sept. 27, 2006 — British forces in Iraq say they have killed a leading al-Qaida terrorist who escaped from a U.S. prison in Afghanistan last year.

Terrorist Bomb Expert Captured in Afghanistan
WASHINGTON, Sept. 27, 2006 — Afghan and coalition forces captured a known makeshift bomb expert and terrorist cell leader today during an operation south of Asadabad, U.S. military officials reported.

Weapons Cache Found Near Kathamayan Mosque
BAGHDAD, Sept. 27, 2006 — After several tips from local citizens, Iraqi Special Operations Forces had been given the mission to move on a weapons cache near the Kathamayan Mosque, while U.S. Army soldiers secured the outer cordon and provided observation teams.

Deployed ‘Doc’ Mends Bodies and Minds in Iraq
HUSAYBA, Iraq, Sept. 27, 2006 — U.S. Navy Seaman Samuel L. Blanco is a healer. The hospital corpsman geared up in body armor has a bag of tricks he carries that?s not just healing wounds but also relations and trust between Americans and local Iraqis.

MP Brigade Takes Charge of Detainee Operations
CAMP VICTORY, Iraq, Sept. 26, 2006 — Control of theater-level detainee operations for Coalition forces in Iraq changed hands today, with Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 16th Military Police Brigade (Airborne) from Fort Bragg N.C., taking the helm.

Chances are you will not see or hear these stories anywhere else, so go over and check ’em out!

A Frustrating Job at Best

When being questioned at the August 21, 2006 press conference about the slow progress in Iraq, President Bush answered succinctly and, I imagine, like many of us would have answered:

Q But are you frustrated, sir?

THE PRESIDENT: Frustrated? Sometimes I’m frustrated. Rarely surprised. Sometimes I’m happy. This is — but war is not a time of joy. These aren’t joyous times. These are challenging times, and they’re difficult times, and they’re straining the psyche of our country. I understand that. You know, nobody likes to see innocent people die. Nobody wants to turn on their TV on a daily basis and see havoc wrought by terrorists. And our question is, do we have the capacity and the desire to spread peace by confronting these terrorists, and supporting those who want to live in liberty? That’s the question. And my answer to that question is, we must. We owe it to future generations to do so.

I try not to imagine the future grave state that America would suffer should John Kerry or (worse?) H.R. Clinton ever become president. Or any other rudderless Democrat half-wit for that matter. God forbid.

The Heat of Summer

Do you think it’s a coincidence that the level of anxiety about global warming seems to intensify just before the heat of summer? Neither does Alan Caruba commenting on CNSNews.com.

Are You Bored With Global Warming?

Are you bored with hearing about global warming all the time? Me, too. The din of asinine predictions, warnings and claims that global warming is real, i.e. a rapid increase in the overall temperature of the Earth, always seems to occur just as summer arrives when — surprise — it gets warmer.

It must have been a slow news day on June 23 because my daily newspaper ran the following headline at the very top of the front page: “Global warming is real, scientists warn.”

Since the 1980s, environmentalists have been telling us that the next Ice Age — due any day now — has been cancelled, and instead, the Earth will suffer sizzling temperatures that will make it uninhabitable.

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For an exhaustive list of stuff that global warming messes up go to numberwatch.co.uk. It can keep you busy for a bit, but pick out a couple and have a laugh or two.