A Prayer Request for My Friend, Andrew Lawton

Enviroweenies Want To Control Land And Sea Through ‘Biodiversity’
As Climate alarmism fades, meaning the UN and other world and government bodies are losing the means to attempt to control people and property, biodiversity has risen in its place. Here's the latestA growing number of creatures could disappear from the earth, with one-fifth of all vertebrates and as many as a third of all sharks and rays now facing the threat of extinction, according to a new survey assessing nearly 26,000 species across the globe.Do you know how many species there are on Earth?...

Little Change in Opinions about Global Warming
Views about the existence and causes of Global Warming have changed little over the past year. A new Pew Research Center poll finds that 59% of adults say there is solid evidence that the earth’s average temperature has been getting warmer over the past few decades. In October 2009, 57% said this. Roughly a third (34%) say that Global Warming is occurring mostly because of human activity, such as the burning of Fossil Fuels, which also is little changed from last year (36%). The latest...

A Cultural Barrier to Action on Climate Change
It may seem far-fetched to compare the resistance to action on Climate Change to the slow progress toward the abolition of Slavery or the recognition of the fatal effects of smoking, but a University of Michigan researcher says in a new paper that it will take just such a tectonic shift in public attitudes for society to begin to accept the reality of Global Warming and do something about it. Andrew J. Hoffman , who holds joint appointments at the University of Michigans Ross School of...

Climate hawks attack! Ken Buck cowers?
R L Miller comes to the table with thoughtful, informed, insightful, and passionate writing. This guest post is part of a series highlighting the anti-science syndrome suffering hatred of a livable economic system that is prevalent in the new wave of Republican Candidates for Congress. An utter disdain for science, openly using Truthiness-laden talking points that are simply false. To paraphrase a famous question, “Have you no shame, political Candidate, no shame at all?” As I work my way ...

Schwarzenegger Says Prop 23 Fight Should Be National Example: Stand Up Against The Oil Companies
Schwarzenegger Says Prop 23 Fight Should Be National Example: ‘Stand Up Against The Oil Companies’ In an interview with ABC’s Diane Sawyer, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R-CA) said he believes politicians in Washington need to fight the “rich people that have polluted the world” and defend Climate action, as California is now doing. Schwarzenegger has joined with California’s cleantech community, the Climate movement, and economic justice groups to “wip...

Climate change: The iron lawyer
The Climate Fix: What Scientists and Politicians Won’t Tell You About Global Warming. By Roger Pielke Jr. Basic Books; 276 pages; $26 and £18.99. Buy from Amazon.com, buy from Amazon.co.uk THE title of this bright and provocative book is knowingly ambiguous; what sort of fix is it about? At least three distinct fixes, it turns out. There is fix-as-dilemma, fix-as-stitch-up and fix-as-solution. Roger Pielke, a Professor of environmental studies at the University of Colorado, has usefu...

The Glenn Beck Omnibus of Recent Inanities
The biggest problem with covering Glenn Beck on a regular basis is that he’s so damned ubiquitous: a 3-hour Radio Show and a 1-hour tee vee Show every weekday; regular appearances on the Bill O’Reilly All Spin Zone or the Fox & Friends Curvy Couch; live shows, both with and without his falafel sidekick O’Reilly; semi-religious benedictions to large crowds on the National Mall; best-selling books spit out of his Word Whacker on the average of 2 a year, with all the attendant boo...

Pew Research Center: Little Change in Opinions about Global Warming
The latest national survey conducted by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press found that opinions about Global Warming have changed little over the past year. Views about the existence and causes of Global Warming have changed little over the past year. A new Pew Research Center poll finds that 59% of adults say there is solid evidence that the earth's average temperature has been getting warmer over the past few decades. In October 2009, 57% said this. Roughly a third (34%) sa...

PRI: Yes on Prop 23 Will Create 200,000 Jobs in CA
There’s a new report today by Pacific Research Institute which shows how Jobs can be created in the state if employers have the certainty of knowing their Energy Rates aren’t going to go sky high due to “Global Warming laws.”  In other words, vote YES on Proposition 23 to CREATE Jobs in the state.   Vote NO and drive away what companies we still have left. San Francisco — A new study by the Pacific Research Institute, a Free-market Think Tank based i...

Global weirding and the scrambling of terroir
Photo: Stuck in CustomsThe Driftless region in southwestern Wisconsin is renowned for its apples, with their intense flavors favored in marketplaces as far away as Detroit. But when I arrived there in late September to search with friends for heirloom apple varieties, we had trouble finding any apples left on the trees at all. "This has been the strangest year for apple growing within my memory," orchardist Dan Bussey conceded. The apple crop ripened nearly two weeks ahead of time, and due to a ...

The Politics of Global Warming
Los Angeles, Calif. -- If California were a country, it would be the world's 19th largest Polluter. Recognizing that, a few years ago lawmakers here passed AB 32, a first in the nation 'Cap and Trade' type anti-global Warming bill. But come Tuesday, voters here have the opportunity to turn back the clock. Proposition 23 would stop the state's "Global Warming Solutions Act' from taking effect in January. Proposition 23 would put a hold on the new emission standards until the state's Unemployment...

Can California lead the way?
Rejecting The Bullshit by digby There used to be a truism called "as California goes, so goes the nation: Reporting from SacrameNTRO --Despite the struggling economy, most California Voters oppose suspending the state's landmark Global Warming law, which would place strict new environmental regulations on business, a new Los Angeles Times/ USC poll shows. Proposition 23, which would put the new emissions standards on hold, is trailing 48% to 32% among Likely Voters, according to the survey. B...

Arnold Hints At What's Next
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is open to the idea of a return to making movies --- "if people come to me with a great script, a great idea." He will probably be writing one or two books --- even if the task won't be easy because in the past "I have never had the patience." And he'll be giving speeches to defend and push forward some of his administration's agenda, including the environment and Public Works. That glimpse into Schwarzenegger's future aft...

Where Does the Country Stand on Climate Change?
A new Pew Research Center poll gives us a clearer picture of where the country stands on Global Warming. According to the poll, the country’s stance on Global Warming has pretty much stayed the same during the last year. About 59 percent of Americans say there is “solid evidence” that the earth is warming, up slightly from this time last year, when 57 percent of Americans said the same thing. Fewer Americans, 34 percent, believe that the earth is Warming as a result of human ...

2010 Election Propositions: The Complete Guide
Are you ready for Election Day? The big Day is only a few weeks away, and chances are there are many voters who don’t understand one or more of the propositions they will see on their ballot. Here to help you is a guide to understanding the nine propositions to be voted on this year. This information is from the Secretary of State's office: Proposition 19: Allows citizens 21 years old or older to possess, cultivate, or transport marijuana for personal use. This would still be illegal unde...

Issue Guide: 2010 Midterm Elections
Economic issues have dominated the 2010 U.S. Midterm Elections, with Unemployment and U.S. Deficit concerns generating more attention than Foreign Policy and National Security. But the upcoming 112th Congress will have to address a number of significant Foreign Policy issues like ratifying the New START Treaty between the United States and Russia, funding the War in Afghanistan, and whether to expand the U.S. trade agenda. The following collection of materials from CFR.org and Foreig...

Al Gore visits North Dakota
I will explain this after this message from the National Weather Service: Urgent — winter weather message National weather service Bismarck ND 435 am cdt tue oct 26 2010 …blizzard warning for northwest and North central North Dakota Tuesday morning through Wednesday morning… …blizzard warning for south central North Dakota Tuesday evening Through Wednesday afternoon… .a low pressure over southern Minnesota will intensify significantly As it moves into northern Min...

C+I+G+(X-M) Hides All the Action
Daniel Kuehn will not like my latest column in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, in which I criticize modern macroeconomists’ - and, particularly, Keynesians’ - naive aggregates. Predicting anything in complex system is just an exercise in statistics with confidence intervals, known inputs, adjustments for confounding variables, etc. once you get past a simple system like a solar Eclipse. For example, predicting drugs safety, predicting Global Warming, predicting weather, et...

The 'Terminator' Team Reunites for the Environment
The director James Cameron and the actor-turned-governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, who worked on the “Terminator” films together, have teamed up again, but this time to shoot a political ad urging Californians to vote against Proposition 23, a Ballot initiative that would put California’s Global Warming Act of 2006 on hold. “I’ve made movies about a cyborg assassin set to annihilate humanity, an unsinkable ship on a collision course with an iceberg, and about a mineral-rich alien

Your Midterm Mandate Is Clear, Republicans: Stop Obama
Suppose you own an older home, and you want to give it a Makeover. A major Makeover. Maybe even take it into “Extreme Makeover” territory. Before you can build the new rooms, walls, and so forth, you have to plan. And that plan must include, among other things, destroying at least some of what’s there. Take a look at this time lapse video to see what I’m talking about. Tear down the old house, replace it with another one. That’s a pretty fundamental transformation. ...

Democratic Party Uses Bible to Attack Indiana Pro-Life Candidate
For the second time in two days, a state affiliate of the Democratic party is coming under fire for using religion to attack Pro-Life Candidates. This time, the Indiana Democratic party sent an election piece to voters in Indiana using The Bible and claiming Pro-Life southern Indiana Congressional Candidate Todd Young wants to stifle contributions to churches. The mailer, which features various pictures of churches and worshippers, claims the Sales Tax plan Young favors would somehow reduce...

Disgusting. Indiana Dems Send Out Slanderous Mailer Attacking Pro-Life Republican Todd Young Say He Wants to Ban Church Donatio
Unreal. Democrat Baron Hill is in a tight race in southern Indiana. To help him out, local Democrats mailed a disgusting deceitful ad to constituents attacking Republican Todd Young. The democrat mailer claims that pro-life Republican Young is against church donations. It’s a complete lie. Life News reported, via Free Republic: For the second time in two days, a state affiliate of the Democratic party is coming under fire for using religion to attack pro-life Candidates. This time, the ...

Daniels' PAC spends big in Indiana
The Indy Star's Mary Beth Schneider notes that 40% of all the PAC's contributions have gone to just two Candidates. The Governor's Political action Committee, Aiming Higher, has spent nearly $1 million so far to deliver control of the Indiana House of Representatives to Republicans, with more likely to be spent before voters go to the polls Tuesday. While the money is spread among 27 House Candidates and one Senate candidate, about 40 percent is devoted to two candidates: Kyle Hupfer, Daniels'...

Can Frank Go Down?
The worst headline I ever wrote. Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com » 16 Comments Diogenes Sarcastica October 27th, 2010 It surely wouldn’t be the first time, would it! 3   0     RKae October 27th, 2010 Sorry, nothing’s going to beat Rush’ line that “Barney Frank’s seat isn’t safe.” 8   0     Brown Shirt Army October 27th, 2010 Yes he CAN!!!! Unless we forget the Remember November Fight Song: We...

Indiana's 9th District: Baron Hill vs. Todd Young
Being the Congressman from Indiana's 9th District is a little like playing political Twister. You've got to keep your left foot firmly planted to the northwest, in your largest city, Bloomington, with its young, Democratic-leaning population around Indiana University. At the same time, you've got to reach southeast with your right hand, to Clark County and its Republican-trending Louisville suburbs along the Ohio River. Then there are the descendants of the proslavery Butternuts in the rural...