What does it mean that the sunspot count for the first three months of 2009 (when 87% of days were without ANY sunspots) is even lower than the average for last year (2008, when 73% of all days had no sunspots), which was the lowest year since 1913? See this article on sunspot activity.

What does it mean that the output of the sun’s extreme UV is down 6%? And that radio emissions from the sun are the lowest they’ve been in 50 some years (since they started tracking it)?

What does it mean that the average temperature …

When I see the news with its talk of ruin, injustice, inequities (and iniquities) and failures in the world, it all seems very “gloom and doom”. Terrorism, the rise of militant Islam in the world, the impossibly high cost of health care, the high taxes, the unemployment, the failing educational system, man-made global warming etc., hurricaines, earthquakes, ad nauseum. The things that they are trying to get us to believe in so we’ll be too upset to resist their efforts at control because we’ll ASK them to come in and protect us from the bogey-men.

I try to keep my …

Global warming is happening – there’s little controversy over that (although with snow here in Oregon in mid April, it’s sometimes hard to believe that other areas are warming up enough to average it out). There’s a lot of controversy over how much, and to what degree it is caused by human activities.

Here’s a cute little test of your knowledge of Global Warming, in honor of Earth Day. How hysterical should we all be, and to what degree should we all be trying to shut down carbon emissions and cripple industry, in an attempt to …

I have finished reading the book, “Unstoppable Every 1,500 Years Global Warming” by S. Fred Singer and Dennis T. Avery.

DailyTech – Temperature Monitors Report Widescale Global Cooling – this is an interesting article at Daily Tech about a drop in the last year of the temperature worldwide. It’s a fairly significant drop. Anecdotally, we’ve had a colder winter here in Oregon than is usual. The daffodils are about two weeks late in coming up.

While it’s certainly too early to predict any kind of trend on this data, it’s interesting that the info shows that worldwide temperatures are actually dropping over the course of the last year. Is it a blip in the data? Is it a trend? Stay …

The manufacturers of Risperdal and Seroquel, widely-prescribed anti-psychotic drugs, have been sued by the Montana Attorney General for injury or deaths of Montanans.

I hope more state Attorneys General will get on this particular band-wagon. These drug companies have very deep pockets (billions of dollars of profits per year) and are using extremely aggressive marketing campaigns to get doctors to prescribe these drugs off-label, for things that they were never approved to do by the FDA. The pseudo-science of psychiatry is in bed with Big Pharma on this, and are guilty of pushing the whole “bad brain chemistry” …

The Federalist (a great newsletter for those interested in preserving and protecting the Constitution of the USA), published this posting today on bets being placed on the Global Warming scam by scientists who are not media sycophants from the gloom and doom school:

FRONTIERS OF JUNK SCIENCE: GLOBAL WARMING SNOW JOB MELTING?

According to a recent National Center for Policy Analysis report, last year’s declaration of impending doom from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in the form of its Fourth Assessment Report was based on opinion instead of science. As hard

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If you’ve read much of this blog, you’ve probably figured out I am not a believer in the myth of man-made global warming. I’ve seen enough evidence to come to an understanding that the average temperature Earth may have risen a degree or so during the last 150 years. Even that fact is not 100% completely sure.

John Stossel has put together an interesting video about global warming that is making the rounds on YouTube. It’s a good video in that it presents a case for the opposition.

The debate’s not over, no matter how much they would like …

Quoting some common sense:

“Climate change is a non problem. The right answer to a non problem is to have the courage to do nothing. The UN conference is a complete waste of our time and your money and we should no longer pay the slightest attention to the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change).”

—UK climate researcher Lord Christopher Monckton

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Here’s a great quote fom John Coleman, a meteorologist and founder of the Weather Channel:

“It is the greatest scam in history. I am amazed, appalled and highly
offended by it. Global Warming; It is a SCAM. Some dastardly scientists with
environmental and political motives manipulated long term scientific data
to create in allusion of rapid global warming. Other scientists of the same
environmental whacko type jumped into the circle to support and broaden the
‘research’ to further enhance the totally slanted, bogus global warming
claims. Their friends in government steered huge

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