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A recent Gallup Poll finds that 70% of Americans now believe the threat of global warming is real.  Is global warming real?  It depends on who you ask: an environmentalist or a scientist.  The environmentalist will tell you that man is the problem.  Over the last couple of hundred years man has spewed millions of tons of carbon dioxide and sulfur dioxide into the air which has the effect of keeping warm air trapped at the surface. Thus as time passes, the earth warms up more and more.

The other side says there is no way man, who is a mere insect on this planet, can influence the earth in this way.  In this line of thinking man is too insignificant to change earthly patterns.

The truth?  I think the whole global warming thing is a load of garbage.  According to The New American the sun is the guilty party.

The real culprit in “global climate change” is the sun: Long-term studies document that fluctuations in the intensity of solar radiation are closely correlated with warming and cooling trends in the Earth’s temperature. These facts are scrupulously ignored by those determined to use the “global warming” myth to destroy industrial civilization.

Humans can destroy the planet but we can not significantly change the global temperature.  The environmentalists have created a firestorm all on their own.  And they have convinced the MSM, schools, and most Americans that we are indeed able to influence our own global temperature.  As a result President Clinton signed the Kyoto Treaty forcing the United States and other ‘industrialized’ countries to spend a significant amount of money ($350 billion in the US by 2012) to make our factories more ‘green.’  And to think it is all B.S.

In spite of the overwhelming evidence to the contrary, the people of the world has trepidation about Global Warming that borders on panic.  According to the Lone Star Times, Canada has just signed on to the Kyoto Treaty even though sixty of their own scientists are telling the Canadian politicians that global warming is a load of crap.  CNN is doing a study on Global Warming.  And as stated above, most Americans think it is real.  So far, our scientists have not been heard from.  David Holcberg writing for Capitalism Magazine says that most scientists agree that global warming is nonsense.

The evidence debunking global warming is indeed so forceful that 17,000 U.S. scientists signed the 1998 “Oregon Petition,” declaring that “There is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth’s atmosphere and disruption of the Earth’s climate.”

Just to give an example of how insignificant humans are to the world temperature, take the case of Mt. Pinatubo in the Philippines.  It blew up unexpectedly in 1992 and put out more pollution into the air than all cars since their inception.  According to tests, the volcano caused the temperature in the stratosphere to increas as much as 3.5 degrees Centigrade at some latitudes for more than 2 years afterwards.  And the sulfur dioxide released equaled approximately 22 million tons.

How are we as humans ever going to be able to top that?  We can’t.  We are too insignificant by the world’s standards.  Global Warming is a farce, brought on by those who know better, Al Gore for instance.  Lets drop any pretense about how the Kyoto Treaty will help the planet and go on to something more important.  Its time to go to another horror show.  We have beaten this dead horse long enough.

Hat tip: Lone Star Times

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Everywhere you turn, people are saying, “The Democrats are coming! The Democrats are coming!”  At least that is what the Dems are proclaiming.  The question is, do we believe them?  Do they have something, or is this just another empty promise?  From Howard Dean to Nancy Pelosi to the MSM to the moonbat blogosphere, all are predicting a big win by the Democrats in November.  If you read some of the left leaning blogs like the one here, what you get is fairly typical.  They all seem to have some things in common.  One of the main frequently quoted posts is by Carl Bernstein in Vanity Fair.

For one of the guys who broke the Watergate story, he is all over the map, lacing his article with words used to paint a picture of corruption, like Nixon, Watergate, and abuse of power.  Bernstein makes sure his readers understand his message: Bush must go.  His obvious goal is to generate enough of an outcry among Democrats to justify impeaching President Bush.

How much evidence is there to justify such action?

Certainly enough to form a consensus around a national imperative: to learn what this president and his vice president knew and when they knew it; to determine what the Bush administration has done under the guise of national security; and to find out who did what, whether legal or illegal, unconstitutional or merely under the wire, in ignorance or incompetence or with good reason, while the administration barricaded itself behind the most Draconian secrecy and disingenuous information policies of the modern presidential era.

There is a mouthful there.  Either the President knew what he was doing and lied to the American people.  Therefore we need to impeach him.  Or Bush did not know what his subordinates were doing and he was incompetent.  Therefore we need to impeach him.  Either way, Bush is bad!  The evidence should speak for itself.  There has not been a terrorist attack on this country since 9/11.  Bernstein goes on with a litany of unsubstantiated charges, distortions, or outright lies to encourage the radical left to support impeachment and win back Congress.  Among the charges include: torture at Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo, wholesale N.S.A. domestic wiretapping in violation of the law; brutal interrogations of prisoners, the nonexistence of W.M.D. in Iraq; the role of Karl Rove and Dick Cheney’s chief of staff in divulging the name of an undercover C.I.A. employee; the non-role of Saddam Hussein and Iraq in the events of 9/11; the death by friendly fire of Pat Tillman, the lack of a coherent post-invasion strategy for Iraq, the so-called Downing Street Memo and the need to invent almost any justification for going to war in Iraq (including sending up an American U-2 plane painted with U.N. markings to be deliberately shot down by Saddam Hussein’s air force, a plan hatched while the president, the vice president, and Blair insisted to the world that war would be initiated “only as a last resort”).

Oh, my gosh!  What kind of kool-aid is Bernstein drinking? While we are at this stage of blaming the President for everything we can think of, lets continue the barrage.  I am sure George Bush had something to do with the steering of Hurricane Katrina into the overwhelmingly black town of New Orleans, because he hates black people.  He knew about 9/11 before it happened having been warned ahead of time by the Saudis.  His family had JFK killed.  The Bush family controls the world’s supply of oil.  Have I left out anything?  Next thing these moonbats will claim is that Bush is secretly working with Extraterrestrial Life to take over the world.  The problem with the article is that none of the President’s actions occurred in a vacuum.  If there was a Presidential abuse of power (there wasn’t), then Congress let him do it.  The Legislature has the power of the purse to stop funding of any program.  They can call witnesses and generally cause havoc within the offending agency involved in abuses of any kind.  The problem is all their witnesses say the President is right.  The Democrats could change the way we do things, but they don’t want to fix anything, they are complaining to gain a political advantage.  And by the way, there was no torture at Gitmo or at Abu Ghraib, Saddam did have WMDs, and the President has the authority to wiretap phone calls to other countries.  As for the rest, I am not even going to waste my time explaining B.S.

The other thing that these left leaning posts have in common is the fact they want to use the impeachment of the President issue (or at least the attempt to impeach President Bush) to gain both houses of Congress.  The article Bernstein for example goes on and on, before he eventually gets around to saying why he is writing this article.  Twice he mentions the talk in the White House where there is talk of a nightmare scenario in the Republican camp in which

…the Democrats successfully make the November congressional elections a referendum on impeachment—and win back a majority in the House, and maybe the Senate too.

The other shoe drops.  The Dems are playing politics with the security of this country.  Win at all costs is their motto. The only nightmare scenario I see is if the American people believe this load of nonsense and vote Democrats into both houses of Congress.  Then President Bush’s lost momentum on his agenda will be the least of his problems as the Dems will come up with any excuse to belittle, emasculate, or impeach the President.

In contrast to these left leaning blogs, Michael Barone writing for Real Clear Politics gives a very concise view of how the Democratic Party could conceivably capture Congress without using the impeach Bush mantra.

If the president’s job rating is above 50 percent, his party tends to suffer only narrow losses or even, as in 1934 and 1998 — and almost in 1962 — makes gains. If the president’s job rating is significantly under 50 percent, his party tends to lose lots of seats.

It is a simple numbers game all tied to the President’s job approval rating.  There may very well be a majority of Americans who wish to see a change after several years of Republican rule, but to turn Congress over to the Party who does not know how to secure America is not very smart.  As Hugh Hewitt said in his book, “If it’s not close, they can’t cheat;” the Democrats can not be trusted with the security of this nation, ever. (paraphrased)

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