2012 Election Blues: Heartbreak, Scandal and ... CONSPIRACY?!?

I've been MIA the past two months, wanting to blog, but just not up for it.  The bug bit me again over the weekend, and I feel like I'm starting come out of my slump. I'm sure the blogosphere and my bazillions of adoring fans missed me!

Noooo, just being extremely sarcastic with that last comment.  I mean, I've been using these past few years of blogging just as a method of venting.  Spending everyday in public education for over 25 years ... well, the PC-brainwashed Liberal masses make me cah-RAY-ZAY after a while.  I need this blog just to help me gather my thoughts, push me to investigate things, and express my beliefs that are otherwise unwelcome and clearly the minority voice in a sea of acamedic ignorance.  Educators, for the most part, seem to only regurgitate the propaganda of Liberalism and Unions, unwitting victims of the indoctrination they received in college ... and, to some degree, perpetuating with their students.  This blog pushes me to take what I hear and investigate it, or, if anything, at least hear OTHER voices about various subjects.

I've been wondering why my gradual disinterest in blogging, starting over the summer when I typicall have WAAAY more time to blog, winding up pretty much crapped out this fall.  I think perhaps these blogging doldrums might be due to this ongoing, frustrating candidate approval process among the GOP candidates.  Just when I think I might have made my pick of a candidate, something hits the fan, and I start searching again. Will there somebody "other than Romney", as they say, to stand a chance against Obama?

I do like Romney.  Hell, now I'm starting to understand the Left's mentality during the last election with their feeling of "anybody but Bush."  Well, I feel that way about Obama -- ANYbody, short of Stalin, would be better than Obama.  Hell, I'd even vote for Clinton again!  At least Clinton was a leader.  Obama has proven himself time and again that he lacks leadership, a spine, and balls.  What an utter disappointment, and, if his Liberal supporters didn't throw in the towel last summer with his slipshod mishandling of the BP oil spill, they surely must be angry at the ridiculous con game he thinks he's pulling over us -- "Oh, here, let me come up with some solutions for our budget crisis" or "Here, let me put together a Super Committee to make decisions about budget cuts."

Quite frankly, I am still in mourning that Chris Christie decided not to throw his hat in the ring.  My sorrow was renewed when I read Christie's succinct analysis of Obama's recent budget debacle, describing Obama as being just a "bystander."  This from Politico (emphasis added):

Gov. Chris Christie on Monday tore into President Barack Obama in the aftermath of thesupercommittee’s failure to reach an agreement on debt reduction last week, asking the president, “What the hell are we paying you for?”

Calling Obama “a bystander in the Oval Office,” the outspoken New Jersey governor said the White House spent the weekend tossing out a whole lot of “spin” about the supercommittee’s inability to come to an agreement before the Nov. 23 deadline.

“I was angry this weekend, listening to the spin coming out of the administration, about the failure of the supercommittee, and that the president knew it was doomed for failure, so he didn’t get involved. Well then what the hell are we paying you for?” Christie said during a press conference in Camden, N.J. “It’s doomed for failure so I’m not getting involved? Well, what have you been doing, exactly?”

Even though he said both parties deserve blame for talking at each other instead of talking with each other, Christie ultimately maintained that the buck stops with the nation’s highest in command and pointed to his own governance in the Garden State as a model for effective leadership.

“In New Jersey, the reason [problems got solved] is because I called people into the room and said we’re going to solve this problem and I had people of good will on the other side who said they believed it was their obligation, regardless of party, to get done things like pension and benefit reform,” the governor said, adding, “Why the president of the United States refuses to do this is astonishing to me.”

If Obama doesn’t get his act together, he may as well go back to the Senate, Christie suggested.

“If he wanted to run for Senate again and just be 1 of a 100, I’m sure he could have gotten reelected over and over again in Illinois,” he said. “He’s the one in Washington and he’s got to get something done here. And it’s not good enough just to say, ‘Well, I’ll get it done after the election.’”

Could someone please wave a magic wand and make Christie magically appear in the GOP pool?  He surely would skyrocket to the top of the chart and win the nomination.

But, alas! -- 'tis but a fruitless wish!  The pool as it stands, in my humble and woefully inexperienced opinion? Here you will see the source of malaise --

- Romney, yes I would vote for him, although he has been too much of a flip-flopper on too many issues; but, he could handily take on Obama and, with him being a flip-flopper, he might be seen as more of a centrist and, therefore, more likely to draw some of Obama's disgruntled supporters;

- Cain: like him, the ongoing allegations are going to torpedo his chances (I wonder who's behind those ... it seems a lot of his accusers have questionable backgrounds and track records ... the current accuser, Ginger White, being a prime example); don't really think he's presidential material ... but I would still vote for him over Obama, knowing that Cain has leadership skill (and Obama was far from presidential material);

- Gingrich: hate his marital record, he also seems to be a flip-flopper; but, MAN! the guy is brilliant;  I love how he blows away the debate moderators/ass clowns;  maybe he's a big enough of a shit to get the job done (I think he would definitely show far more leadership than Obama could even begin to picture);

- Santorum: good guy, intelligent, good debater, could do the job; but, the press has blocked him out (as usual, the press is want to choose our candidates for us ...)

- Bachman: press has ridiculed her from the git-go; someone used the expression the other day (sorry, I forget who) about the press pulling out the Sarah Palin playbook on Perry ... I think the MSM did the same with Bachman; she has come off too robotic for me -- sounding a bit too much like slogans she regurgitates; great background ... she'd get my vote, but the press has blacklisted her;

- Paul: BWAAH - hahahahahahhahha!  He sounds like he could unexpectedly suffer a psychotic snap and push "the button"; his ideas of foreign policy are too isolationist and evince a serious lack of international awareness or concern; his lack of support for our military makes him a big, fat zero in my book;

- Perry: as mentioned earlier with Bachman, the press pulled out the Sarah Palin playbook on him and did a major hatchet job ... but, Perry also shot himself in the foot at some of the debates; I do love how his ads call Obama's policies for what they are -- socialist ... and I would still vote for him over Obama!

- Huntsman: Why do I want to take a bath after hearing this guy talk?  And ever since it was announced in January that Huntsman resigned his position as ambassador to China, MSNBCs "Morning Joe" has been pumping out the PR for Huntsman like nobody's business!  I clearly remember hearing one morning Mika piping up with "Love him!" in another one of her incisive analyses ... not! (Go here for my review of "Morning Joe.")  Again, I would vote for him over Obama.  Huntsman has way more experience and fortitude than Obama The Spineless Wonder.

Speaking of Morning Joe, this morning's show had the cast really knuckling down on getting out the word for Huntsman, pointing out that Huntsman is the true conservative. The gang was in hot counterattack mode against the recent endorsements Gingrich has received.  (Here is Scarborough's op-ed piece, or "test", about the GOP candidates: "Who is the real RINO?")  Scarborough does make some interesting observations about the candidate field, making the case for Huntsman being the true conservative compared to Romney and Gingrich ... some good food for thought ...

I just think it a tad odd how hard Morning Joe has been promoting Huntsman ... 

OOOH!  How 'bout me startin' some Huntsman conspiracy theory?  Let's see if it takes hold through the Blogosphere!  

Here goes ... What if MSNBC and Scarborough's minions are actually pumping in loads publicity and financial support to Huntman's campaign, having received some sort of promise in return ... let's say ... GOT IT!  Huntsman gets the nomination and asks Scarborough to be his running mate!

AAAANNNDDDD!!!  Meanwhile, Huntsman is actually the one behind all those women making accusations against Cain in an attempt to bump Cain out of the running.  Also, Huntsman might even be funding the media leeches to dig up trash on the other candidates in order to up his chances for the nomination.  Huntsman is the U.S.'s billionaire number 486, according to Forbes.  He's got the bucks ...

... and I would still vote for him over Obama ... even if Joe Scarborough were his running mate! 

Christmas Shopping: A New Angle for a Weak Economy

This was a great idea forwarded to me by my friend M!  Some great food for thought as you prepare your Christmas shopping "strategery" ...

As the holidays approach, the giant Asian factories are kicking into high
gear to provide North American with monstrous piles of cheaply produced goods -- merchandise that has been produced at the expense of Canadian/American labor. 

This year will be different. This year North Americans will give the gift of genuine concern for others. There is no longer an excuse that, at gift giving time, nothing can be found that is produced by American hands. 

Yes there is!

It's time to think outside the box, people. Who says a gift needs to fit in a shirt box, wrapped in Chinese produced wrapping paper?

Everyone -- yes EVERYONE gets their hair cut. How about gift certificates from your local hair salon or barber?
 

Gym membership? It's appropriate for all ages who are thinking about some health improvement.

Who wouldn't appreciate getting their car detailed? Small, locally owned detail shops and car washes would love to sell you a gift certificate or a book of gift certificates.

Are you one of those extravagant givers who think nothing of plonking down the $$$$ on a Chinese made flat-screen? Perhaps that grateful gift receiver would like his driveway sealed, or lawn mowed for the summer, or driveway plowed all winter, or games at the local golf course.

There are a bazillion owner-run restaurants -- all offering gift certificates. And, if your intended isn't the fancy eatery sort, what about a half dozen breakfasts at the local breakfast joint. 

Remember, folks this isn't about big National chains -- this is about supporting your home town
businesses with their financial lives on the line to keep their doors open. How many people couldn't use an oil change for their car, truck or motorcycle, done at a shop run by the American working guy?

Thinking about a heartfelt gift for mom? Mom would LOVE the services of a local cleaning lady for a day.
 

My computer could use a tune-up, and I KNOW I can find some young guy who is struggling to get his repair business up and running.
 

OK, you were looking for something more personal. Local crafts people spin their own wool and knit them into scarves. They make jewelry, and pottery and beautiful wooden boxes.
 

Plan your holiday outings at local, owner operated restaurants and leave your server a nice tip. And, how about going out to see a play or ballet at your hometown theatre.
 

Musicians and Stand Up Comedians need love too, so find a venue showcasing local talent!
 

Honestly, people, do you REALLY need to buy another ten thousand Chinese lights for the house? When you buy a five dollar string of lights, about fifty cents stays in the community. If you have those kinds of bucks to burn, leave the mailman, trash guy or babysitter a nice BIG tip.

You see, Christmas is no longer about draining North America's pockets so that China can build another glittering city. Christmas is now about caring about us, encouraging small businesses to keep plugging away to follow their dreams. And, when we care about our neighbours, we care about our communities, and the benefits come back to us in ways we couldn't imagine. THIS is the new Christmas tradition.

Forward this to everyone on your mailing list -- post it to discussion groups -- throw up a post on Craigslist in the Rants and Raves section in your city -- send it to the editor of your local paper and radio stations, and TV news departments. 

This is a revolution of caring about each other, and isn't that what Christmas is about? Live simply. Love generously. Be kind. Care deeply. Speak kindly. In God we trust.

Dog Loves "Babe"

A border collie, no less!

ClimateGate 2 Scandal Continues to Heat Up: BBC in Cahoots

Ah, yes.  The MSM once again in bed with the Left and its dictatorial policies ... This from the UK's Daily Mail (emphasis added):

BBC sought advice from global warming scientists on economy, drama, music... and even game shows

By David Rose

Last updated at 12:29 AM on 27th November 2011

Britain’s leading green activist research centre spent £15,000 on seminars for top BBC executives  in an apparent bid to block climate change sceptics from the airwaves, a vast new cache of leaked ‘Climategate’ emails has revealed.

The emails – part of a trove of more than 5,200 messages that appear to have been stolen from computers at the University of East Anglia – shed light for the first time on an incestuous web of interlocking relationships between BBC journalists and the university’s scientists, which goes back more than a decade.

They show that University staff vetted BBC scripts, used their contacts at the Corporation to stop sceptics being interviewed and were consulted about how the broadcaster should alter its programme output.

Like the first ‘Climategate’ leaks two years ago, they were placed last week on a Russian server by an anonymous source. 

Again like their predecessors, they have emerged just before a United Nations climate summit, which is to start this week in Durban.

BBC insiders say the close links between the Corporation and the UEA’s two climate science departments, the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) and the Tyndall Centre for Climate Research, have had a significant impact on its coverage. 

‘Following their lead has meant the whole thrust and tone of BBC reporting has been that the science is  settled, and that there is no need for debate,’ one journalist said. ‘If you disagree, you’re branded a loony.’

In 2007, the BBC issued a formal editorial policy document, stating that ‘the weight of evidence no longer justifies equal space being given to the opponents of the consensus’ – the view that the world faces catastrophe because of man-made carbon dioxide emissions.

The document says the policy was decided after ‘a high-level seminar with some of the best scientific experts’ – including those from UEA.

The ‘Climategate 2’ emails disclose that in private some of those same scientists have had doubts about aspects of the global warming case.

For example, Professor Phil Jones, the head of the CRU, admitted there was no evidence that the snows of Kilimanjaro were melting because of climate change, and he and his colleagues agreed there were serious problems with the famous ‘hockey stick’ graph – the depiction of global temperatures that suggests they were broadly level for 1,000 years until they started to rise with industrialisation.

But although there is now more scientific debate than ever about influences on climate other than CO2, prompted by the fact that the world has not warmed for 15 years, a report from the BBC Trust this year compared climate change sceptics to the conspiracy theorists who blame America for 9/11, and said Britain’s main sceptic think-tank, the Global Warming Policy Foundation, should be given no air time.

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[loads more good reading if you go to the original article!]

McCaskill Challenges Obama Admin over Sole-Source Vaccine Contract

It's getting pretty bad for Prince Barack when one of his major supporters (read "Obamatron"), Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo) calls for an investigation into the administration's contract with a smallpox vaccine manufacturer ... which happened to be a big contributor to his campaign.  From Will Rahn of The Daily Caller (emphasis added):

McCaskill asks for investigation into Obama administration’s sole-source vaccine contract

Sen. Claire McCaskill, a Missouri Democrat, has asked The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to review the Obama administration’s award of a $443 million sole-source contract to a company owned by a major Democratic donor. 

The Los Angeles Times reported earlier this month that the Obama administration has taken unusual steps to procure an experimental smallpox vaccine from a company owned by a major Democratic donor despite concerns from some experts that such a drug was unnecessary and would not be effective.

Citing “serious questions” about the contract, the Los Angeles Times reported that McCaskill has asked the inspector general of HHS to investigate. McCaskill is the chair of the Senate Subcommittee on Contracting and Oversight.

The New York-based Siga Technologies was awarded a contract in May to deliver 1.7 million doses of an antiviral pill called ST-246. It was the only company asked to submit a proposal, and the price tag of $255 a dose is well above what government specialists said was reasonable. When a contracting specialists at HHS was resistant to pay so much, the company complained and the lead negotiator was replaced.

Ronald Perelman, a billionaire and longtime Democratic Party donor, owns Siga Technologies. After the government put a renewed emphasis on protecting the nation from chemical and biological attacks in the wake of September 11, 2001, Perelman bought a controlling stake in Siga through his holding company.

A year after Perelman’s investment, in 2004, President George W. Bush signed Project BioShield, a $5.6 billion, ten-year program to stockpile medications in the event of such an attack.

ST-246, the company’s most promising new compound, was purchased from a Pennsylvania company two months later. It then began lobbying heavily for U.S. government contracts.

Britain Prepares for Collapse of the Euro

This is some very somber and sobering news from the UK's The Telegraph (via The Gateway Pundit) -- emphasis added:

Prepare for riots in euro collapse, Foreign Office warns

British embassies in the eurozone have been told to draw up plans to help British expats through the collapse of the single currency, amid new fears for Italy and Spain.

The Treasury confirmed earlier this month that contingency planning for a collapse is now under way  

Photo: BLOOMBERG

By James Kirkup, Deputy Political Editor

10:00PM GMT 25 Nov 2011

As the Italian government struggled to borrow and Spain considered seeking an international bail-out, British ministers privately warned that the break-up of the euro, once almost unthinkable, is now increasingly plausible.

Diplomats are preparing to help Britons abroad through a banking collapse and even riots arising from the debt crisis.

The Treasury confirmed earlier this month that contingency planning for a collapse is now under way.

A senior minister has now revealed the extent of the Government’s concern, saying that Britain is now planning on the basis that a euro collapse is now just a matter of time.

“It’s in our interests that they keep playing for time because that gives us more time to prepare,” the minister told the Daily Telegraph.

Recent Foreign and Commonwealth Office instructions to embassies and consulates request contingency planning for extreme scenarios including rioting and social unrest.

Greece has seen several outbreaks of civil disorder as its government struggles with its huge debts. British officials think similar scenes cannot be ruled out in other nations if the euro collapses.

Diplomats have also been told to prepare to help tens of thousands of British citizens in eurozone countries with the consequences of a financial collapse that would leave them unable to access bank accounts or even withdraw cash.

Fuelling the fears of financial markets for the euro, reports in Madrid yesterday suggested that the new Popular Party government could seek a bail-out from either the European Union rescue fund or the International Monetary Fund.

There are also growing fears for Italy, whose new government was forced to pay record interest rates on new bonds issued yesterday.
...

The Italian government yesterday said that in talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Prime Minister Mario Monti had agreed that an Italian collapse “would inevitably be the end of the euro.” 

The EU treaties that created the euro and set its membership rules contain no provision for members to leave, meaning any break-up would be disorderly and potentially chaotic.

If eurozone governments defaulted on their debts, the European banks that hold many of their bonds would risk collapse. 

Some analysts say the shock waves of such an event would risk the collapse of the entire financial system, leaving banks unable to return money to retail depositors and destroying companies dependent on bank credit.

The Financial Services Authority this week issued a public warning to British banks to bolster their contingency plans for the break-up of the single currency.

Some economists believe that at worst, the outright collapse of the euro could reduce GDP in its member-states by up to half and trigger mass unemployment. 

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Press Goes Viral with Erroneous Story About Melting Greenland

Sorry I am so slow in posting this ... it's from September.  But, it's another example of how the media will go viral with an erroneous report with no retraction getting as much press as the error.  Sadly, the error was caught, of course, by that evil global-warming denying bastion known as FoxNews (emphasis added):

Times Atlas Apologizes for Global-Warming Error

Climate-gate, Himalaya-gate, and now … Atlas-gate?

Publishers of the Times Comprehensive Atlas of the World scrambled Tuesday to correct a controversial statement that Greenland had lost 15 percent of its permanent ice cover over the last 12 years -- an assertion scientists labeled "incorrect and misleading."

The latest "Times Comprehensive Atlas of the World" shows Greenland with 15 percent less ice cover between 1999 (left) and 2011 (right).

The claim came in a HarperCollins press release on the publication of the 13th edition of the atlas, stating that global warming was "turning Greenland 'green.'" The gradual melting was also depicted in the atlas itself, as cartographers carved out huge chunks of ice to reflect the apparent results of a warming planet. 

That was a mistake, scientists say.

Poul Christoffersen, a glaciologist at the Scott Polar Research Institute at the University of Cambridge, said the 15 percent decrease in permanent ice cited "is both incorrect and misleading." He believes the actual number is closer to 0.1 percent.

“It is regrettable that the claimed drastic reduction in the extent of ice in Greenland has created headline news around the world,” Christoffersen said. “There is to our knowledge no support for this claim in the published scientific literature.”

HarperCollins on Monday tried to justify its position. “We are the best there is. We are confident of the data we have used and of the cartography,” a company spokesman explained to the Guardian. “We use data supplied by the U.S. Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Col. They use radar techniques to measure the permanent ice. We have compared the extent of the ice surface in 1999 with that of 2011. Our data shows that it has reduced by 15 percent. That's categorical.”

But with mounting pressure from the scientific community, the publisher took an about-face one day later, retreating from earlier claims and admitting the company may have been “misleading with regard to the Greenland statistics.”

"The conclusion that was drawn from this, that 15 percent of Greenland's once permanent ice cover has melted away, was highlighted in the press release, not in the Atlas itself,” HarpersCollins said in a statement. "This was done without consulting the scientific community and was incorrect. We apologize for this and will seek the advice of scientists on any future public statements."

Maintaining the accuracy of the new maps though, may not be enough. When comparing the maps to recent satellite images Christofferson and his team found “numerous glaciers and permanent ice cover where the new Times Atlas shows ice-free conditions and the emergence of new lands.”

"In the aftermath of 'Himalayagate,' we glaciologists are hypersensitive to egregious errors in supposedly authoritative sources," Graham Cogley of Trent University in Canada told the BBC, referring to a debunked claim that the world’s glaciers were melting so fast that those in the Himalayas could vanish by 2035.

"Climate change is real, and Greenland ice cover is shrinking. But the claims here are simply not backed up by science; this pig can't fly."

HarpersCollins did not return FoxNews.com requests for comment.

Revisionist History: Wayne Perryman Sets The Record Straight

I caught this great video clip over at Bob Park's site Black and Right:



MRCTVOne's caption: "Rev. Wayne Perryman spoke about the revised history in our nation, where the truth is politically incorrect and where the race card is played without shame."

Perryman has a book for sale that I think I might have to check into:

Why are most blacks in America Democrats?

You will have to answer that question yourself. After reading this book, you will understand that:
 
 for over 150 years, blacks were victims of terrorist attacks by the Democrats and their Klan supporters, including lynching, beating, rapes and mutilations

On the issue of slavery, the Democrats literally gave their lives to expand it; the Republicans gave their lives to ban it.

Many believed the Democrats had a change of heart and fell in love with blacks. To the contrary, history reveals the democrats didn't fall in love with black folks, they fell in love with the black vote knowing this would be their ticket into the white house.

Perryman's website looks like a keeper!  There are some other great videoclips to watch.

ClimateGate 2: It Hits the Fan Again

Last month, it was a huge news story about a global warming skeptic announcing that he agreed that the earth was warming.  Richard Muller broke with his earlier findings and issued a statement that the earth is, indeed, warming (see Huffington Post article here), but Muller's research never addressed the cause of global warming.  That part of the story oddly didn't get emphasized very much.

This month; however, Scandal has once again reared its ugly head with regard to global warming.  It appears that there is a "Part Deux" to ClimateGate from two year ago.  First, this headline on Nov. 22nd from James Delingpole of the UK's The Telegraph (emphasis added):

Uh oh, global warming loons: here comes Climategate II!

Breaking news: two years after the Climategate, a further batch of emails has been leaked onto the internet by a person – or persons – unknown. And as before, they show the "scientists" at the heart of the Man-Made Global Warming industry in a most unflattering light. Michael Mann, Phil Jones, Ben Santer, Tom Wigley, Kevin Trenberth, Keith Briffa – all your favourite Climategate characters are here, once again caught red-handed in a series of emails exaggerating the extent of Anthropogenic Global Warming, while privately admitting to one another that the evidence is nowhere near as a strong as they'd like it to be.

In other words, what these emails confirm is that the great man-made global warming scare is not about science but about political activism. This, it seems, is what motivated the whistleblower 'FOIA 2011' (or "thief", as the usual suspects at RealClimate will no doubt prefer to tar him or her) to go public.

A few days later, the UK's The Daily Mail offered more information: 

Second leak of climate emails: Political giants weigh in on bias, scientists bowing to financial pressure from sponsors

More than 5,000 documents have been leaked online purporting to be the correspondence of climate scientists at the University of East Anglia who were previously accused of ‘massaging’ evidence of man-made climate change.

Following on from the original 'climategate' emails of 2009, the new package appears to show systematic suppression of evidence, and even publication of reports that scientists knew to to be based on flawed approaches. 

And not only do the emails paint a picture of scientists manipulating data, government employees at the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) are also implicated.

One message appeared to show a member of Defra staff telling colleagues working on climate science to give the government a ‘strong message’. 

The emails paint a clear picture of scientists selectively using data, and colluding with politicians to misuse scientific information.

‘Humphrey’, said to work at Defra, writes: ‘I cannot overstate the HUGE amount of political interest in the project as a message that the government can give on climate change to help them tell their story.  'They want their story to be a very strong one and don’t want to be made to look foolish.’

The Daily Mail also linked to a related article about the exaggeration of doomsday predictions:

Climate change fears 'have been exaggerated' and doomsday predictions are overestimates, scientists say 


Apocalyptic predictions about climate change are likely to be wrong, a study says. Dire forecasts by activists who say that carbon dioxide levels will 'double' and cause temperature rises of 10C are 'unlikely'. Instead, the maximum increase is likely to be 2.6C. 

Writing in the journal Science, Andreas Schmittner of Oregon State University said he and colleagues studied how changes in carbon dioxide levels during the last ice age affected temperature. It shows that figures used routinely by pressure groups are simply wrong.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s best guess is 3c, with an upper limit of 4.5c.  However, it also says that ‘values substantially higher than 4.5c cannot be excluded’.

The ice age, 21,000 years ago, provided a 'clean' comparison where human activities had no effect on atmospheric levels of CO2. The period was not as cold as previously believed.

I imagine that there are lot of scientists running scared, either of being ostracized by colleagues and academia. or afraid of the power backing this global hysteria.  There is an awful lot of power and money up for grabs.  And, the Obama administration keeps plowing ahead with its green agenda regardless of cost to the American taxpayer and ignorant of failed green policies in other countries, such as Spain.