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The White House is clearly leading this attack on free speech and science.

I was listening to Senate Democrats on C-Span radio this morning. The same people who spent the last three weeks refusing to allow a vote on Homeland Security funding, were attacking House Republicans for not allowing a vote on Homeland Security funding. They ranted about how critical all the DHS functions were – the same ones they refused to fund 48 hours ago.

Meanwhile the Republican leadership folded like they do 100% of the time, and handed the dictator another easy victory in his march towards destroying the republic.

Heidi Cullen says that global warming is making winters around the Great Lakes red hot.

Warming Winters: U.S. Temperature Trends | Climate Central

The Great Lakes have all-time record ice cover, with most of the last 13 years normal or above normal ice cover. Apparently Heidi believes that the freezing point of water has changed.

Michigan February temperatures are falling at 69 degrees per century.

On most days, Katherine Hayhoe shovels global warming BS – but today she has to shovel a lighter colored substance.

After reading all of Lois Lerner’s missing E-mails, President Obama announced that there wasn’t “a smidgen of corruption” at the IRS

The IRS’s inspector general confirmed Thursday it is conducting a criminal investigation into how Lois G. Lerner’s emails disappeared, saying it took only two weeks for investigators to find hundreds of tapes the agency’s chief had told Congress were irretrievably destroyed.

Investigators have already scoured 744 backup tapes and gleaned 32,774 unique emails, but just two weeks ago they found an additional 424 tapes that could contain even more Lerner emails, Deputy Inspector General Timothy P. Camus told the House Oversight Committee in a rare late-night hearing meant to look into the status of the investigation.

“There is potential criminal activity,” Mr. Camus said.

IRS watchdog reveals Lois Lerner missing emails now subject of criminal investigation – Washington Times

In 2007, the IPCC predicted with 100% confidence, shrinking sea ice at both poles. How did they do?

 AR4 SYR Synthesis Report – Figure 3.2

Sea ice at both poles has increased since the world’s leading experts made their forecast.

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President Obama wants to make it illegal to dispute expert projections.

Progress is always made by people who went against the consensus.

Continental Drift forms the foundations of geology, yet the consensus fought against it for most of the last century. The last remnants of the clueless consensus didn’t disappear until the 1980s

“Utter, damned rot!” said the president of the prestigious American Philosophical Society.

“If we are to believe [this] hypothesis, we must forget everything we have learned in the last 70 years and start all over again,” said another American scientist.

Anyone who “valued his reputation for scientific sanity” would never dare support such a theory, said a British geologist.

Thus did most in the scientific community ridicule the concept that would revolutionize the earth sciences and revile the man who dared to propose it, German meteorological pioneer and polar explorer Alfred Wegener. Science historians compare his story with the tribulations of Galileo.

Wegener, Alfred

Obama wants to make it illegal to not have faith in his imaginary consensus of experts

Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts

– Richard Feynman

Arctic Sea Ice Gone in Summer Within Five Years?
Seth Borenstein in Washington
Associated Press

December 12, 2007
An already relentless melting of the Arctic greatly accelerated this summer—a sign that some scientists worry could mean global warming has passed an ominous tipping point.

One scientist even speculated that summer sea ice could be gone in five years.

“The Arctic is screaming,” said Mark Serreze, senior scientist at the government’s snow and ice data center in Boulder, Colorado.

This week, after reviewing his own new data, NASA climate scientist Jay Zwally said: “At this rate, the Arctic Ocean could be nearly ice-free at the end of summer by 2012, much faster than previous predictions.”

What happens in the Arctic has implications for the rest of the world. Faster melting there means eventual sea level rise and more immediate changes in winter weather because of less sea ice.

In the United States, a weakened Arctic blast moving south to collide with moist air from the Gulf of Mexico can mean less rain and snow in some areas, including the drought-stricken Southeast, said Michael MacCracken, a former federal climate scientist who now heads the nonprofit Climate Institute.

Arctic Sea Ice Gone in Summer Within Five Years?