AGW: The Pattern of Data Manipulation is Worse Than It Looks on the Surface

From The Telegraph:

The reason why even the Guardian‘s George Monbiot has expressed total shock and dismay at the picture revealed by the documents is that their authors are not just any old bunch of academics. Their importance cannot

“The “Dubai vision,” which has suffered a crushing blow from the freewheeling Gulf emirate’s sudden debt crisis, is the creation of one man who failed to apply the rules of open governance.  The city state’s rapid growth revolved around the

SOUTHFIELD, Mich. — “At most colleges, marijuana is very much an extracurricular matter. But at Med Grow Cannabis College, marijuana is the curriculum: the history, the horticulture and the legal how-to’s of Michigan’s new medical marijuana program….The only required reading:

“Two years ago, Congress ordered the nation’s gasoline refiners to do something that is turning out to be mathematically impossible.  To please the farm lobby and to help wean the nation off oil, Congress mandated that refiners blend a rising

Doctor Charles Krauthammer, National Review, on the Obama/Pelosi/Reid health care bills:

The bill is irredeemable. It should not only be defeated. It should be immolated, its ashes scattered over the Senate swimming pool.

Doctor Howard Dean, via DRJ,  Patterico’s Pontifications

Some time ago, David blogged about Nadya Suleman:

I suppose after delivering fourteen children, posing for Christie Hefner is out of the question.   Suleman is going  have busy changing nappies and will be hard pressed to pay for a dipper

I suppose verbally beating up on mental midgets like George Monbiot, is all too easy.  Thing is, somebody’s got to do it. He’s still trying to minimize the damage of the global warming theorists and their deception , their outright

Over at Watts Up With That? they’ve reposted a story from TBR, which says in part:

The New Zealand Government’s chief climate advisory unit NIWA is under fire for allegedly massaging raw climate data to show a global warming trend

One of the chief reasons that Obama has sought Biden’s advice on a range of pressing foreign-policy questions — most notably, in recent months, on policy in Afghanistan — is that Biden has a deep knowledge of, and an intuitive

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• POLS AS PROBLEM SOLVERS: You should read Thomas Sowell’s column today. A taste:
  

  No one will really understand politics until they

“More British soldiers were killed during the “Cyprus emergency” in the 1950s than have died in Iraq or Afghanistan. So why has it been forgotten and what hope is there of reuniting the island?  On Remembrance Sunday, about 500 relatives

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• CLIMATEGATE? That’s what Iain Murray is callling it, and I suppose it fit was well as any moniker.
  

  This may seem

“Sen. Joseph Lieberman, speaking in that trademark sonorous baritone, utters a simple statement that translates into real trouble for Democratic leaders: “I’m going to be stubborn on this.”  Stubborn, he means, in opposing any health-care overhaul that includes a “public

George Monbiot, who is likely the biggest global warming propagandist in the press today, looks at the Global Warming emails that have been the topic of so much discussion lately and admits:

It’s no use pretending this isn’t a