Politiks As Usual: In The News 4/26/10

No Deal Yet For Financial Overhaul Bill As Test Vote Looms

'Decision Points': George Bush Memoir Coming Soon

Why Does Tea Party Need Infiltrating?

Race In The Least Of The Problems

Critics Point Out Movie About Dr. Kevorkian Is 'One-Sided'

Sex-selective Abortion A Rising Concern

Christian Theologian On Earth Day: 'Climate Change Is The Totalitarian's Dream Come True

A Final Act For The Debate Over Reparations

Inhofe: Cap-and-Trade Has No Chance In Senate

Another State Considers Arizona Eligibility Plan

Strained Obama-Israeli Relations Spur NYC Protests

'Victory' Over Obama? Hannity Shows How It Can Be Done

'Idol Gives Back' -- To Pro-Abortion Groups

Once Again, Obama Breaks Promise To Call Armenian Genocide 'Genocide'

Senator James Inhofe Calls For EPA Probe Of Scientists' Climate Change E-mails

FOXNews.com:

The Senate's top global warming skeptic on Tuesday said he will ask the Environmental Protection Agency's inspector general to probe the use of climate change data now at the center of an international inquiry for an endangerment finding that gives the EPA authority to regulate greenhouse gases.

Sen James Inhofe, R-Okla., said EPA administrator Lisa Jackson's decision to rely on information from the U.N.'s International Panel on Climate Change to institute the endangerment finding is

"The EPA accepted the IPCC's erroneous claims wholesale, without doing its own independent review," Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., said about

"So EPA's endangerment finding rests on bad science," Inhofe said at a Tuesday morning hearing.

Good job by Senator Inhofe. These leftwing scientists have been caught out there time and time again with with lies and hyperbole on "climate change", yet their enablers in the liberal media refuse to call them out. But we're talking matters critical to the future of humanity (much less taxpayers pockets) in the harsh glare of intense global scrutiny and scientists have a responsibility for accuracy & integrity. In other words, they need to face the music.

Oh, and good question: Where is Al Gore?

Politiks As Usual: In The News 12/7/09

Obama Aides Fine-Tune Meaning Of Afghan Withdrawal Date

PETA Mixes Playboy Nudity With Holy Cross At Xmas Time

2nd Gay Bishop For Episcopal Church, Anglicans

Sen. Max Baucus Recommended Girlfriend For Gov't Job

Feds Authorize Use Of Embryonic Stem Cells

Palin: OK To Press Obama's Eligibility

Why Huckabee Ain't Dead Yet

'Family Ties' Mom: Coming Out Is A 'Political Act'

Bronx Pastor Stands Firm Against Same-Sex 'Marriage'

Inhofe: It's 'Dishonest' For Obama To Attend Global Warming Summit

Who Says There's No Difference Between Democrats And Republicans?

GOP To Look Into Email Climate Change Scandal

CNN.com:

An online debate over global warming science has broken out after an unknown hacker broke into the e-mail server at a prominent climate-research center, stole more than a thousand e-mails about global warming and posted them online.

Global warming skeptics are seizing on portions of the messages as evidence that scientists are colluding and warping data to fit the theory of global warming, but researchers say the e-mails are being taken out of context and just show scientists engaged in frank discussion.

The Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, is one of the United Kingdom's leading climate research centers and has been a strong proponent of the position that global warming is real and has human causes. The center confirmed the hack occurred in an e-mail statement to Wired.coml.

"We are aware that information from a server in one area of the university has been made available on public websites," the statement read. "We are extremely concerned that personal information about individuals may have been compromised. Because of the volume of this information we cannot currently confirm what proportion of this material is genuine."

The stolen cache includes more than 1,000 e-mails and more than 3,000 documents, some containing code. They were posted anonymously to an FTP server in Russia. The hacker then posted a link to the 61-MB file on the blog Air Vent.

The GOP wants to investigate the leaked emails:

An e-mail by one of the university's professors, Phil Jones, has been singled out by skeptics as proof that scientists have deliberately misled the public on the issue. In the 1999 e-mail, Jones wrote of using a "trick" to hide an apparent decline in recent global temperatures on a chart being prepared for use by a meteorological organization.

But in a statement posted on the university's website Saturday, Jones said that the e-mail had been "taken completely out of context" and that there had been no misrepresentation of data. "The word 'trick' was used here colloquially as in a clever thing to do. It is ludicrous to suggest that it refers to anything untoward," Jones said. Skeptics of man-made global warming disagreed, trumpeting the e-mails online. "The Death Blow to Climate Science," one website headlined. Another hailed a "Warmist Conspiracy."

Last week, the leading Republican on the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, James M. Inhofe of Oklahoma, declared 2009 "The Year of the Skeptic"; on Saturday, a spokesman for environment committee Republicans, Matt Dempsey, said the e-mails, if authentic, "would have a profound impact on the debate" over the climate bill.

Somewhere Al Gore is cringing.

Jim Inhofe Quote of the Day!

"Believe me, he knew. He kind of looked like a clown when I was talking to him."

- Jim Inhofe, an Oklahoma Republican, saying he meant no offense when he called a fellow Senator, Minnesota's Al Franken, a "clown"

Jim Inhofe: Cap-and-Trade DOA In Senate

Newsmax.com:

The cap-and-trade bill to curb carbon emissions has passed the House of Representatives, but there's "not any way in the world" that it will pass the Senate, Sen. Jim Inhofe tells Newsmax.

The Oklahoma Republican, Ranking Minority Member on the Committee on Environment and Public Works, says the bill — strongly backed by the Obama administration and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi — currently has only 34 supporters in the Senate.

That is not only far short of the 60 votes needed to defeat a filibuster, it is also short of the 51 votes needed for a majority in the Senate.

The House bill requires a 17 percent reduction of greenhouse gases — mainly carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels such as coal — by 2020 from 2005 levels, and about an 80 percent reduction by mid-century. It would also allow polluters to buy and sell emission allowances as a way to ease the cost of compliance.

"The House of Representatives passed it with 219 votes," Sen. Inhofe told Newsmax.TV's Ashley Martella.

"That's just one over the 218 that would be required. So there's a lot of arm-twisting.

"All the far-left extremist environmentalists were celebrating. The Al Gore guys thought it was the greatest day in the world. And yet they knew all the time that there's not any way in the world they're going to be able to get that passed out of the Senate.

Good. And tell ManBearPig that he can take his global warming alarmism and can go to hell while you're at it.