Democrats Refuse to Allow Skeptic to Testify Alongside Gore At Congressional Hearing

Report: Democrats Refuse to Allow Skeptic to Testify Alongside Gore At Congressional Hearing | Climate Depot

Democrats Refuse to Allow Skeptic to Testify Alongside Gore At Congressional Hearing 

Thursday, April 23, 2009By Marc Morano

Washington, DC -- UK's Lord Christopher Monckton, a former science advisor to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, claimed House Democrats have refused to allow him to appear alongside former Vice President Al Gore at a high profile global warming hearing on Friday April 24, 2009 at 10am in Washington. Monckton told Climate Depot that the Democrats rescinded his scheduled joint appearance at the House Energy and Commerce hearing on Friday. Monckton said he was informed that he would not be allowed to testify alongside Gore when his plane landed from England Thursday afternoon.

What are they afraid of??  If they are so certain that global warming is happening and caused by humans, they should be able to counteract any points made by Lord Monckton with little problem.  Or is it that Mr. Gore's testimony wouldn't stand up to any scrutiny whatsoever??

'Quiet Sun' baffling astronomers

BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | 'Quiet Sun' baffling astronomers

The Sun is the dimmest it has been for nearly a century.

There are no sunspots, very few solar flares - and our nearest star is the quietest it has been for a very long time.

The observations are baffling astronomers...

As usual, the "consensus" hasn't got a clue what's going on.  I love how today's scientists pretend they know what's going on in a universe that they believe has been around for BILLIONS of years after studying it for about a hundred of those years.  Pure arrogance.

The question that flummoxed the great orator

 

John Crace: The question that flummoxed the great orator | World news | The Guardian

Barack Obama, the World's Greatest Orator (™all news organisations), didn't exactly cover himself in glory when the BBC's political editor Nick Robinson asked him a question about who was to blame for the financial crisis. Normally word perfect, Obama ummed, ahed and waffled for the best part of two and a half minutes. Here, John Crace decodes what he was really thinking ...

In France, Obama takes no questions from French

 

Washington Times - CURL: In France, Obama takes no questions from French

President Obama held a much ballyhooed town hall in Strasbourg, France, on Friday, touted by the White House as an outreach to Europeans on the second leg of the president's "listening" tour.

But the first person he called on was an American -- and the third, too. By the end of the hour-long session, not a single French citizen got to ask the U.S. president a question.

In all, Obama took just five questions from the thousands of people packed into a sports arena after delivering a lengthy speech read from a teleprompter. And the query topics were on the light side; one asked about the expected acquisition of a family dog, another about whether "you regret to have run for presidency."

Obama Years Ago Helped Fund Carbon Scheme He Is Now Pushing Through Congress

 

Obama Years Ago Helped Fund Carbon Scheme He Is Now Pushing Through Congress - First 100 Days of Presidency - Politics FOXNews.com

In 2000 and 2001, while Barack Obama served as a board member for a Chicago-based charitable foundation, he helped to fund a pioneering carbon trading exchange that is likely to fill a critical role in the controversial cap-and-trade carbon reduction scheme that President Obama is now trying to push rapidly through Congress.

Obama mum on proposal to scrap tax cut

Obama mum on proposal to scrap tax cut - Yahoo! Finance

Obama outlines budget priorities, reserves comment on tax cut

Teleprompter telegraphs Obama caution

Analysis: Teleprompter telegraphs Obama caution

WASHINGTON (AP) - What kind of politician brings a teleprompter to a news conference?

Obama having it both ways on economy?

FACT CHECK: Obama having it both ways on economy?

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama's plea for patience in the economic turmoil Tuesday fits with the view of most economists that a turnaround will take some time. It doesn't fit quite so neatly with his bullish budget.

Wow! And this is from a liberal reporter! Has the "mainstream" media finally woken up and seen the monster it helped create?

 

From anger to madness: A class-warfare crazed government mob is running amok

During the campaign, a fellow journalist confided that "I know Obama is a Manchurian candidate, I just can't figure out what for."

I laughed then, but no more. Obama represents a secular religion that believes, no matter the malady, Washington is the antidote. More government is the chicken soup of his tribe.

Global and Northern Hemisphere Tropical Cyclone Activity [still] lowest in 30-years

coaps.fsu.edu | Ryan Maue's Seasonal Tropical Cyclone Activity Update

Tropical cyclone (TC) activity worldwide has completely and utterly collapsed during the past 2 to 3 years with TC energy levels sinking to levels not seen since the late 1970s. This should not be a surprise to scientists since the natural variability in climate dominates any detectable or perceived global warming impact when it comes to measuring yearly integrated tropical cyclone activity.

UW-Milwaukee Study Could Realign Climate Change Theory

UW-Milwaukee Study Could Realign Climate Change Theory - Milwaukee Weather News Story - WISN Milwaukee

MILWAUKEE -- The bitter cold and record snowfalls from two wicked winters are causing people to ask if the global climate is truly changing.

The climate is known to be variable and, in recent years, more scientific thought and research has been focused on the global temperature and how humanity might be influencing it.

However, a new study by the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee could turn the climate change world upside down.

Pew poll: Obama's public support is eroding

Pew poll: Obama's public support is eroding | McClatchy Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON — A new poll by the independent Pew Research Center for the People & the Press has found that President Barack Obama's popular support is eroding,

Obama's Poll Numbers Are Falling to Earth

Obama's Poll Numbers Are Falling to Earth - WSJ.com

By DOUGLAS E. SCHOEN and SCOTT RASMUSSEN

It is simply wrong for commentators to continue to focus on President Barack Obama's high levels of popularity, and to conclude that these are indicative of high levels of public confidence in the work of his administration. Indeed, a detailed look at recent survey data shows that the opposite is most likely true. The American people are coming to express increasingly significant doubts about his initiatives, and most likely support a different agenda and different policies from those that the Obama administration has advanced.

Increased Number Think Global Warming Is “Exaggerated”

Increased Number Think Global Warming Is “Exaggerated”

PRINCETON, NJ -- Although a majority of Americans believe the seriousness of global warming is either correctly portrayed in the news or underestimated, a record-high 41% now say it is exaggerated. This represents the highest level of public skepticism about mainstream reporting on global warming seen in more than a decade of Gallup polling on the subject.

Why The Founding Fathers Would Want Obama's Plans to Fail

www.dcexaminer.com >> Politics

By Byron York

Chief Political Correspondent 3/10/09

James Madison was not specifically contemplating Barack Obama, or Nancy Pelosi, when he wrote Federalist No. 63. But reading the document — one of the seminal arguments in favor of adopting the U.S. Constitution — it’s clear Madison knew their type. And he knew they would come along again and again in American history, if Americans were lucky enough to have a long history.

Obama and Pelosi, along with their most ardent supporters, are the types to see a crisis, like our current economic mess, as a “great opportunity,” as the president put it last Saturday. They are the types, after a long period out of power, to attempt to use that “great opportunity” to push through far-reaching changes in national policy that had only a tangential connection, if at all, to the crisis at hand. And they are the types the Founding Fathers wanted to stop.

Obama's fear-mongering

Obama's fear-mongering - Los Angeles Times

The president and his aides say they don't want to waste a crisis. That's a cynical way to exploit a national emergency.

Jonah Goldberg
March 10, 2009

Imagine a child falls down a well. Now imagine I offer to lend the parents my ladder to save her, but only if they promise to paint my house. Would you applaud me for not letting a crisis go to waste? Or would you think I'm a jerk?
I ask because I'm trying to come to terms with Rule No. 1 of the Obama administration.
"Rule 1: Never allow a crisis to go to waste," White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel told the New York Times right after the election. "They are opportunities to do big things." Over the weekend, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton told members of the European Parliament, "Never waste a good crisis." Then President Obama explained in his Saturday radio and Internet address that there is "great opportunity in the midst of" the "great crisis" befalling America.

Is it amateur hour at the Obama White House?

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Examiner Editorial: Is it amateur hour at the Obama White House?

Examiner Staff Writer 3/10/09

It was embarrassing enough that President Barack Obama insulted British Prime Minister Gordon Brown last week by handing him 25 movie videos as the chief executive’s diplomatic gift to the visiting representative of America’s most important ally. Compared to Brown’s gifts, which included a pen holder made of wood from a British warship that helped stamp out the slave trade, Obama’s gift, in the words of The Telegraph, looked like the kind of thing the White House might hand out to the visiting head of a minor African state. Even worse is the context in which this huge diplomatic gaffe took place — a six-week succession of miscues, oversights, miscalculations and outright errors that suggest things have gone seriously awry in the White House.

Obama to extend Iraq withdrawal timetable; 50,000 troops to stay

Obama to extend Iraq withdrawal timetable; 50,000 troops to stay | McClatchy Washington Bureau

well, well, well...

is this the same guy who said he would have all "American forces" out of Iraq within 16 months?  Now it's longer and only "combat troops" that are coming home.  What, exactly, will 50,000 MARINES be doing?

It’s Obama spreading panic

TheHill.com

It’s Obama spreading panic

President Obama, in his pursuit of liberal big-government spending, has totally neglected the role of the president of the United States in reversing global panic. To the contrary, his every remark and the constant preoccupation of his Cabinet is to heighten the sense of crisis and to escalate the predictions of doom if we do not do as they tell us and raise spending now and taxes later.
Instead of being a firewall, reassuring Main Street even as Wall Street crashed, he has become a conduit of panic, spreading the mood of desperation from the stock exchange floor to kitchen tables across the world.

Arctic Sea Ice Underestimated for Weeks Due to Faulty Sensor

Bloomberg.com: News

Feb. 20 (Bloomberg) -- A glitch in satellite sensors caused scientists to underestimate the extent of Arctic sea ice by 500,000 square kilometers (193,000 square miles), a California- size area...

Obama Staff Arrives to White House Stuck in Dark Ages of Technology - washingtonpost.com

Obama Staff Arrives to White House Stuck in Dark Ages of Technology - washingtonpost.com

If the Obama campaign represented a sleek, new iPhone kind of future, the first day of the Obama administration looked more like the rotary-dial past.

Yes, but were the "O"s missing from all the keyboards????

Get used to it Obama.  This is what technology looks like when you have national security and freedom-of-information to worry about at the same time.  The giant US bureaucracy doesn't run on Facebook and Blackberries...

Will Obama break 1981 Reagan record for inauguration Nielsen ratings? No.

Updated: Will Obama break 1981 Reagan record for inauguration Nielsen ratings? No.

Amazing isn't it?  What has been purported to be the most significant inauguration in history was watched by 4 million LESS people than watched Ronald Reagan take the oath in 1981.  Two factors to also consider here:  there were 80 million LESS people (about 26% less) in the country in 1981 and DVRs didn't exist (yes, they count in the ratings if they are watched the same day...)

On the Money Trail: Inauguration Perks Go To the Rich

ABC News: On the Money Trail: Inauguration Perks Go To the Rich

President-elect Barack Obama billed his inauguration an event "for all Americans." But in the nation's capital this long weekend, wealthy visitors are finding themselves a bit more equal -- and warmer -- than others.

Feds Say Obama Prayer Leader Is From Group Linked to Hamas

Feds Say Obama Prayer Leader Is From Group Linked to Hamas

A Muslim scholar chosen to speak at President-elect Barack Obama's inaugural prayer service Wednesday is the leader of a group that federal prosecutors say has ties to terrorists.

It didn't seem to matter with Bill Ayers. Why should we think the public will care about this? Ties to terrorists? All the better to negotiate with them....right?

Obama Hosting Pricey Party in Hard Times

Obama Hosting Pricey Party in Hard Times

WASHINGTON - Unemployment is up. The stock market is down. Let's party.

The price tag for President-elect Barack Obama's inauguration gala is expected to break records, with some estimates reaching as high as $150 million. Despite the bleak economy, however, Democrats who called on President George W. Bush to be frugal four years ago are issuing no such demands now that an inaugural weekend of rock concerts and star-studded parties has begun.