THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER

Apollo astronaut Harrison Schmidt: “Recent disclosures and admissions of scientific misconduct by the United Nations and advocates of the human-caused global warming hypothesis shows the fraudulent foundation of this much-ballyhooed but non-existent scientific consensus about climate.” Welcome aboard, sir.

The faith in man-made global warming: “a tissue of assertions impervious to evidence, assertions which everything, including a historic blizzard, supposedly confirms and nothing, not even [fifteen years] absence of warming, can falsify.”

I’m glad Gov. Perry and AG Abbott are  suing to stop Obamalot’s EPA from damaging the Texas and U.S. economies in pursuit of resolving, at best, speculative man-made global warming. Hanging the suit on the credibility of EPA’s reliance on the IPCC report looks smart. But it seems that whether the agency’s planned intervention survives [...]

Via the Science and Public Policy Institute.

Hundreds of feet thick ice in the Himalayas has been under threat of melting for two years now from, what else, global warming. Now the United Nations is riding to the rescue. Their agency for “climate change” is, uh, reconsidering. Seems they had zero proof after all. Just an old New Scientist clipping they liked. [...]

Claude Cooper, our OCS alumni group’s president-for-life, took this shot because he lives nearby. It’s the North Carolina source of the very old New River which flows north to become one of West Virginia’s major water ways. Too many rapids for it to freeze there, but not here in NC with its recent record freezes. [...]

Whew. The six experiments for Mr. B.’s school science project took four hours. Not counting an hour’s worth of breaks, one of them a trip to the grocery for more supplies. I hesitate to explain the thing until it’s turned in later this month and the grade is given. Who knows whether the competition might [...]

That’s me, the climate contrarian. I still think it’s overblown, if not altogether bunk. But I find this Scientific American answer to the seven most prominent quibbles reasonably persuasive. UPDATE:  ON the other hand…

Doctor Zero goes all out on Copenhagen and its calls for squeezing industrial economies: "We’re not going to politely ignore swarms of private jets and limos ferrying you to carbon-belching ‘climate summits,’ where you draw up plans for the Western proletariat to live as primitive hunter-gatherers." Heh. Worth a look.

As Barry prepares to jet off to Copenhagen to promise to continue our descent to the poorhouse by cutting our carbon emissions to make the dictator’s club (i.e. the UN) happy, the climate naysaying is mounting. Statistician, AMS member and blogger William M. Briggs shows the illogic in Barry’s logic: "Diminishing glaciers did not prove [...]