Real Climate Science

This is the comrade who sabotaged the air conditioner when Hansen testified in 1988.

Former Senator Timothy Wirth, representing the Clinton-Gore administration as undersecretary of state for global affairs, stated that public concern about global warming could be used to advance that cause: “We have got to ride the global warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing in terms of economic policy and environmental policy.”

http://blogs.forbes.com/

In a UN Foundation conference call about climate change, from Svalbard, Norway on Thursday, Wirth said, “[W]e have to–I think, again as I’ve suggested before–undertake an aggressive program to go after those who are among the deniers, who are putting out these mistruths, and really call them for what they’re doing and make a battle out of it. They’ve had pretty much of a free ride so far, and that time has got to stop.”

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Criticizing a wrong theory is a “mistruth.” In Oceania.

Earth Summit chairman Maurice Strong left no doubt about where to place blame for global problems, stating in the conference report: “It is clear that current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class…involving high meat intake, consumption of large amounts of frozen and convenience foods, ownership of motor vehicles, golf courses, small electric appliances, home and work place air-conditioning, and suburban housing are not sustainable…A shift is necessary toward lifestyles less geared to environmentally damaging consumption patterns.”

Addressing the Summit audience, Strong also suggested a primary remedy, whereby: We may get to the point where the only way of saving the world will be for industrialized civilization to collapse.”

http://blogs.forbes.com/

McCarthy told parishioners an anecdote about a brutal night of killings in Newark, N.J., where he was previously head of the police department. McCarthy said that after he got home that night, he turn on the TV to relax, and tuned in to Sarah Palin’s Alaska.

“She was caribou-hunting and talking about the right to bear arms,” McCarthy said. “Why wasn’t she at the crime scene with me?”

http://www.suntimes.com/

Around 1981, I ran all the way across the Southern Rockies – mostly at night – by myself.

It was about 60 miles up and down between 11,000 feet and 7,000 feet. There was a full moon, but clouds darkened the sky for hours at a time. Somehow I made it across without twisting an ankle or getting eaten my a mountain lion.

The Rio Grande is the drainage to the west. The Valles Caldera and Los Alamos are on the other side of the river. Santa Fe is just south. You can see smoke from a fire currently burning to the north.

I was really sore the next day.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_tax_revenue_as_percentage_of_GDP

At the time of the Revolutionary War, the king was taxing the US at 12% of GDP.

Bicyclist seriously injured after being hit by Fort Collins police car

A Fort Collins police officer responding to a call struck and injured a bicyclist with his patrol car in the intersection of Elizabeth and Remington streets early this morning, police said.

Thomas Wagner, 21, of Fort Collins, was hospitalized in serious condition at Poudre Valley Hospital following the approximately 2 a.m. collision with Officer Todd Brubaker’s 2005 Crown Victoria sedan, police said.

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A Fort Collins police officer who hit a cyclist while responding to a call in May has been charged with careless driving resulting in injury.

Fort Collins police announced tonight that 11-year veteran Officer Todd Brubaker was charged with a class-one traffic misdemeanor after a speed reconstruction of the accident at Elizabeth and Remington streets found his patrol car was traveling between 40 to 45 mph on Elizabeth Street when he hit cyclist Thomas Wagner about 1:50 a.m. May 24.

http://www.coloradoan.com/

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Note the YouTube URL for this video. Someone at Google has a sense of humour.

http://thinkprogress.org/

Our green friends hope to bring the same joy to the west!

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