Popular Science Cuts Off Comments, Cause Debate On Climate Change Is Bad

By William Teach September 25, 2013 – 9:17 am

This flows in perfectly with the Warmist notion that debate is great, and they’re willing to debate anyone anytime anywhere, but when challenged disappear and refuse

Why We’re Shutting Off Our Comments

Comments can be bad for science. That’s why, here at PopularScience.com, we’re shutting them off.

It wasn’t a decision we made lightly. As the news arm of a 141-year-old science and technology magazine, we are as committed to fostering lively, intellectual debate as we are to spreading the word of science far and wide. The problem is when trolls and spambots overwhelm the former, diminishing our ability to do the latter.

I guess they haven’t heard of using methods like Bad Behavior, Akismet, Disqus, and others commenting blockers. They aren’t perfect, but certainly cut down quite a bit.

A politically motivated, decades-long war on expertise has eroded the popular consensus on a wide variety of scientifically validated topics. Everything, from evolution to the origins of climate change, is mistakenly up for grabs again. Scientific certainty is just another thing for two people to “debate” on television. And because comments sections tend to be a grotesque reflection of the media culture surrounding them, the cynical work of undermining bedrock scientific doctrine is now being done beneath our own stories, within a website devoted to championing science.

Science like this, where the 1930’s data was changed to be cooler?

The article cited is a NY Times whine-fest about people not buying into “climate change”, ie, people who use lots of fossil fuels and air conditioning blaming Other People for Bad Weather caused by using fossil fuels and air conditioning. Seriously, who would want to discuss the reality of the science of “climate change” when we find out the Himalayan glacier report in the 2007 IPCC AR4 was based on a speculative comment in an email?

(Vox Popoli) Comments aren’t bad for science. Comments are bad for those who are stubbornly clinging to outdated scientific paradigms that are showing obvious cracks.

There are many Warmist websites I’m blocked from commenting at. Same with other Climate Realists like Steven Goddard, Tom Nelson, Anthony Watts, etc. Because Warmists do not want debate: they want people to sit down, shut up, and smile as Government becomes more intrusive and controlling. All based on a lie.

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Oops: Washington Post Notices “If You Like Your Doctor, You Can’t Keep ‘Em”

By William Teach September 25, 2013 – 8:40 am

The Washington Post’s Sandhya Somashekhar and Sarah Kliff spend a long, long time telling us just how super great awesome the new Obamacare premiums will be, based on a DHS report released Wednesday (which is interesting, since the article was posted at 12:01 am on Wednesday)

The report, released Wednesday by the Department of Health and Human Services, showed significant variation in the insurance premiums that Americans shopping on the individual market could pay under the president’s health-care overhaul. Across the 48 states for which data were available, the unsubsidized monthly premiums could be as low as $70 for an individual and as high as $1,200 for a moderate plan for a family of four.

Um, OK. Then we have this buried at the end of the article

But they warn that premiums don’t tell the whole story.

The low rates are possible in part because insurance companies created special plans that include fewer in-network doctors and hospitals than many current plans.

This may not be a problem for healthy people who currently lack insurance. But those with illnesses may discover that their specialists are not covered by an exchange insurance plan. Low-income people accustomed to a certain community clinic may find that going there is no longer an option. And everyone may encounter long waits to see a doctor.

In addition, many of the lowest-cost plans may carry high deductibles, despite a cap imposed by the law that limits out-of-pocket costs to $6,350 per person per year.

Rationing. Limited choice of doctors. And, more importantly, a limited choice of in-network specialists, the people who deal with healing people when some Bad happens. Which is the major point of having health insurance, not having to pay out thousands and thousands when something Bad happens.

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Former U.N. High Commissioner For Human Rights Says All Fossil Fuels Need To Be Left In Ground

By William Teach September 24, 2013 – 3:25 pm

East for Mary Robinson to say, considering he whole political career has been made possible by fossil fueled travel, but now she wants to deny people in 3rd world nations (and everyone else) the same 1st world benefits

(UPI) Governments must leave fossil fuel reserves in the ground unburned and unexploited to really protect the planet, a senior diplomat from Ireland said Monday.

Mary Robinson, a former Irish president and U.N. high commissioner for human rights, is leading a new international push that has a goal of breaking the climate talks stalemate and countering climate change skeptics, The Guardian reported.

Robinson said world governments must get used to the idea of leaving fossil fuels alone so emissions don’t threaten the climate in advance of the report to be unveiled Friday by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Mary’s become quite the Warmist over the years, even establishing the Mary Robinson Foundation – Climate Justice. And taking all sorts of fossil fueled trips. As part of The Elders she took a trip to The Great Lakes (the African ones) just this month. Anyone think she walked there? Or is your bet on “private fossil fueled airplane followed by huge armored SUVs”?

Why not Tweet her through her foundation, ask if she’ll pledge to give up her own fossil fueled travel.

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If All You See..

By William Teach September 24, 2013 – 1:00 pm

…is an evil fossil fueled vehicle that should be banned for Everyone Else, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is No Frakking Consensus, with a post on what the UN IPCC actually is.

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Strange: Paper Finds Climate Realists Share Similar Environmental Values To Warmists

By William Teach September 24, 2013 – 12:14 pm

How could this possibly be?

(The Hockey Schtick) A paper published today in Global Environmental Change finds that “a central organising idea for climate change sceptics” is that climate change is governed by natural cycles, such as ocean oscillations and solar activity, and that “‘sceptics can have pro-environmental values similar to climate change believers.”

According to the authors, “In contrast to other studies that postulate scepticism and denial as individuals’ fear management strategies in the face of climate change threat, we found that the natural cycles view is founded on a reassuring deeper conviction about how nature works, and is linked to other pro-environmental values not commonly found in sceptical groups. It is a paradox of natural cycles thinking that it rejects the anthropocentrism that is at the heart of science-based environmentalism. By contrast, it places humans as deeply integrated with nature, rather than operating outside it and attempting with uncertain science to control something that is ultimately uncontrollable.”

Quite true, most skeptics I know are pro-enviroment for things that actually matter, such as water quality, toxic pollutants, sulfur dioxide, nitrous oxide, atmospheric particulates, etc., but opposed to wasting the majority of environmental efforts on trying to control the weather with the harmless, essential, & trace gas CO2.

Isn’t that something I’ve been postulating for a long, long time? And mentioned many times that one of the things that heavily annoys me about the Warmists is that they fold every real environmental issue under the banner of “climate change”, which diminishes the significance of the environmental issues? I’m not a big fan of oil or coal, not because of CO2, but because they aren’t exactly clean. I’d like to see them replaced, but biofuels aren’t ready yet. I support solar, wind, geothermal, hydrothermal (and nuclear), but solar and wind aren’t ready yet, and I’m against pissing taxpayer money away on programs that reward campaign contributors, increase energy costs (meaning everything goes up), and provides little usable power. Geothermal is making strides, and will be best accomplished by focusing on small projects, particularly for homes, apartments, small buildings. Hydrothermal is typically blocked by enviroweenies, who do not want fish harmed or something.

However, let’s also not that Warmists aren’t really enviros, they’re far left progressives who want to use “climate change” to increase the power and size of Government while instituting far left authoritarian regimes.

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It’s One Blow After Another To ObamaCare

By William Teach September 24, 2013 – 10:33 am

Politico finally notices that Obamacare is a train wreck. Of course, said train wreck is based on a throwaway line the Obama campaign came up with on the spur of the moment because Obama knew nothing about healthcare prior to attending a campaign event. This follows on the heals of the Washington Post noticing that the Exchanges aren’t ready for 3am TV, much less prime-time. And the NY Times notices that Obamacare is going to mean fewer healthcare choices and crummier care. Fortunately, The Politico Knows Who To Blame

Obamacare: One blow after another

The Obamacare that consumers will finally be able to sign up for next week is a long way from the health plan President Barack Obama first pitched to the nation.

Millions of low-income Americans won’t receive coverage. Many workers at small businesses won’t get a choice of insurance plans right away. Large employers won’t need to provide insurance for another year. Far more states than expected won’t run their own insurance marketplaces. And a growing number of workers won’t get to keep their employer-provided coverage.

Every branch of the federal government played a role in weakening the law over the past three years, the casualty of a divisive legislative fight, a surprise Supreme Court ruling, a complex implementation and an unrelenting political opposition. The result has been a stark gap between the promise of Obamacare and the reality — one that has fueled a deep vein of skepticism about the law as it enters its most critical phase.

So, the cheerleaders at the Politico won’t blame the law itself? The one that’s going to leave 500K kids without coverage? The one that is already causing doctor rationing in California? The one where premiums are skyrocketing? The one causing company after company after company to drop coverage and/or reduce employee hours? The one in which Congress is exempted from?

But only 16 states and the District of Columbia decided to take the lead. Six others are partnering with the federal government. The federal government will run insurance exchanges by itself in the other 28 states.

And the federal government isn’t ready to run the exchanges for the start on October 1st. Insurers are dropping out of the exchanges in droves. Obamacare is one of the main reasons the economy has stagnated. And, since the employer mandate has illegally been extended to 2015, after the 2014 mid-terms, many of the employer based issues will not hit till late in 2014.

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Students Suspended, Face Expulsion Over Air-Soft Gun Usage On Private Property

By William Teach September 24, 2013 – 10:20 am

Yet it’s extraordinarily difficult to terminate tenured teachers who commit crimes. Where’s the Schoolkids Union when you need them?

(WAVY) A suspended seventh grade Virginia Beach student will find out soon if he is expelled for the rest of the year for shooting an airsoft gun.

Like thousands of others in Hampton Roads, Khalid Caraballo plays with airsoft guns. Caraballo and his friend Aidan were suspended because they shot two other friends who were with them while playing with the guns as they waited for the school bus.

The two seventh graders say they never went to the bus stop; they fired the airsoft guns while on Caraballo’s private property.

Aidan’s father, Tim Clark, told WAVY.com what happened next lacks commons sense. The children were suspended for possession, handling and use of a firearm.

Khalid’s mother, Solangel Caraballo, thinks it is ridiculous the Virginia Beach City Public School System suspended her 13-year-old son and Aidan because they were firing a spring-driven airsoft gun on the Caraballo’s posted private property. “My son is my private property. He does not become the school’s property until he goes to the bus stop, gets on the bus, and goes to school.”

The law in Virginia Beach is somewhat contradictory regarding whether or not it is illegal to fire an air-soft type gun, but, regardless, the police aren’t bothering with the matter. The school, though, has suspended the boys and they faced an expulsion hearing Monday. At what point did common sense die in this country in favor of hysterical morons?

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Bummer: World Headed For A Heart Attack Cause “Climate Change”

By William Teach September 23, 2013 – 6:34 pm

Remember, this is what is considered rational and civil adult conversation amongst Warmists (via Tom Nelson)

World is heading for a heart attack, says climate expert

Political leaders who reject urgent action to cut emissions should be punished at the ballot box because the world is heading for a “heart attack” caused by rising temperatures, according to one of the UN’s top climate officials.

Halldor Thorgeirsson was speaking before today’s opening of a meeting of scientists and government officials from around the world to negotiate the final wording of a major report on climate change…

Oh, and it’s also like having cancer

“…If we look back at the temperature record over the past 100 years or so we see times when the earth’s surface was warming rapidly and times when it was slower, so in that sense it is no surprise,” Professor Rintoul says.
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Professor Sherwood likens decadal changes in warming rates to a cancer sufferer. While they may feel a little better one week compared with the next, it does not mean they are rid of the disease.
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But Professor Sherwood strongly rejects suggestions that the changes are an admission of past error. He returns to his cancer patient analogy: If the prognosis is the patient is going to die, but there is some uncertainty on exactly when, you do not just throw out the initial prognosis of death.

Of, course, the doctor and and the others involved would practice science, not make crap up. If the doctor was telling you to take a holistic approach, you’d probably tell him/her to go **** themselves, and search out a doctor who practices medicine, not new-world mumbo jumbo.

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If All You See…

By William Teach September 23, 2013 – 1:00 pm

…are the cars of the future to save Gaia from getting a fever, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Astute Bloggers, with a post on multiculturalism gone wild.

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Celebrations For Victory Girls And Gator Doug!

By William Teach September 23, 2013 – 12:24 pm

The ladies at Victory Girls are celebrating their 1st!

Gator Doug is cough mumble years old.

Stop by and say hello. In the meantime, pirate dance and grog for all!

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