The Smug Baldy Speaks

Last July, I wrote in favor of bringing back the Congressional Office of Techchnology Assessment, or OTA. This was the non-partisan, scientific advisory body that was eliminated in 1995 by Newt Gingrich and other newly empowered republicans. As we now know, during the subsequent years, including the entire tenure of the Bush administration, the Republican-controlled [...]

So the Heartland Institute’s Conference on Climate Change has come and gone, and they’re touting it as a “Smashing Success”, and saying: The alarmists in the global warming debate have had their say–over and over again, in every newspaper in the country practically every day and in countless news reports and documentary films. They have [...]

For better than 30 years, the Republican party has consistently misused and abused science and scientific knowledge for the purpose of advancing the social agenda of party conservatives, and promoting the economic agenda of its large corporate supporters. That’s not to say that Democrats have not also abused science as well, but the Republicans have, [...]

Many news sources are reporting that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) latest report makes a strong statement that human activity is “very likely” responsible for global warming. For example, the BBC reported today that: Dr Rajendra Pachauri, the IPCC chairman, said: “It is extremely encouraging in that the science has moved on from [...]

This letter appeared in today’s Mobile Press-Register, and it raises a few questions about the science and politics behind the so-called global warming “debate”. I’ll present it in it’s entirety, and will then address some specific issues. Global warming claim a ‘hoodwink’ Nancy Pelosi, in addition to being speaker of the House, has apparently become [...]