…continues. But hey, the models are doing just fine.
Category Archives: Media Criticism
Flights Of Fancy
Bob Zimmerman blasts the SLS and the porkers on the Hill, over at the WSJ.
What If They Had A War On Science?
…and nobody showed up?
Hilarious.
ObamaCare And Small Business
OK, now those racists are saying that it’s forcing them to cut workers’ hours.
Hyperloop, Tesla and Musk Bashing
I have some thoughts on the latest nonsense over at PJMedia.
Little House On The Prairie
No, it’s not a big libertarian conspiracy.
The Phony Benghazi Scandal
An update.
Al Qaeda is alive, and a film maker is in jail.
Climate Hypocrisy
Why don’t they give up air travel?
So why, pray tell, do we spend so much time talking about suburban sprawl and sport utilities, and so little time talking about FedEx and European vacations?
The question answers itself, doesn’t it? Giving up air travel and overnight delivery is much more personally costly for the public intellectuals who write about this stuff than giving up a big SUV. If you live in one of the five or six major cities that contain virtually everyone who writes about climate change, having a small car (or no car), is a pretty easy adjustment to imagine. On the other hand, try to imagine giving up far-flung vacations, conferences, etc. — especially since travel to interesting locales is one of the hidden perks of not-very-well remunerated positions at universities, public policy groups, nongovernmental organizations, and yes, news organizations.
Yup.
Rodeo Clowns
Thoughts on the proposed re-education camps:
All this outrage is really an admission that Obama is weak, and can’t withstand the kind of criticism routinely directed at other presidents, from Nixon to Clinton to Bush. President Asterisk, indeed.
As I noted on Twitter:
Comparing Obama to a rodeo clown was an insult to rodeo clowns everywhere. @ponder68 @WashTimes
— Rand Simberg (@Rand_Simberg) August 13, 2013
[Wednesday-morning update]
Shocker! The president is depicted as an ape!
Obviously racist.
But, 97%!!!
A majority of scientists are skeptical about the global-warming crisis:
One interesting aspect of this new survey is the unmistakably alarmist bent of the survey takers. They frequently use terms such as “denier” to describe scientists who are skeptical of an asserted global warming crisis, and they refer to skeptical scientists as “speaking against climate science” rather than “speaking against asserted climate projections.” Accordingly, alarmists will have a hard time arguing the survey is biased or somehow connected to the ‘vast right-wing climate denial machine.’
Another interesting aspect of this new survey is that it reports on the beliefs of scientists themselves rather than bureaucrats who often publish alarmist statements without polling their member scientists. We now have meteorologists, geoscientists and engineers all reporting that they are skeptics of an asserted global warming crisis, yet the bureaucrats of these organizations frequently suck up to the media and suck up to government grant providers by trying to tell us the opposite of what their scientist members actually believe.
As Freeman Dyson has noted, skepticism is exactly the attitude that a true scientist takes.
[Late evening update]
From a comment:
I have added James Taylor to my list of people that I can’t trust a word they say. That article is a travesty, as are the ones he links to about meteorologist. How dare he say “only 36% of scientists” when the study studied geoscientists who work at Alberta petroleum? Pathetic. Or claim in the other links that “only a minority 30% is very worried about global warming”, ignoring that the study said an additional 42% are _somewhat_ worried. I’m not a big believer in AGW, but the man is obviously in the business of fooling people. You shouldn’t link him either.
Noted for future reference. But the point remains that a) the 97% number is bogus and b) the models are broken.