Monday, 1 March 2010

Prisoner's Dilemma and Bunning's Stuborn Stance

When I took introduction to political science, I was introduced to the concept of the "prisoner's dilemma". The problem is outlined as such.
Two suspects are arrested by the police. The police have insufficient evidence for a conviction, and, having separated both prisoners, visit each of them to offer the same deal. If one testifies (defects from the other) for the prosecution against the other and the other remains silent (cooperates with the other), the betrayer goes free and the silent accomplice receives the full 10-year sentence. If both remain silent, both prisoners are sentenced to only six months in jail for a minor charge. If each betrays the other, each receives a five-year sentence. Each prisoner must choose to betray the other or to remain silent. Each one is assured that the other would not know about the betrayal before the end of the investigation. How should the prisoners act?
The whole point of the exercise is to introduce game theory. Here is a matrix of the possible decisions.

  Prisoner B Stays Silent Prisoner B Betrays
Prisoner A Stays Silent Each serves 6 months Prisoner A: 10 years
Prisoner B: goes free
Prisoner A Betrays Prisoner A: goes free
Prisoner B: 10 years		 Each serves 5 years

The interesting aspect of the game is that each individual would be best served to stay silent. In that scenario they serve a combine 1 year in jail. The other three scenarios have them going to jail for a combined 10 years. The only problem is that the rational choice for each prisoner is to betray. Why? Because they are guaranteed to end up in better shape or equal to the other prisoner if they betray. In the other case they may end up much worse off than the other prisoner.

Ok, I see it is an interesting thought problem, but what does it have to do with Sen Bunning's latest antics?
Kentucky Sen. Jim Bunning on Monday again held up legislation that extends unemployment and health insurance benefits....

Bunning said he supports extending unemployment benefits and he tried unsuccessfully last week to negotiate an agreement with the Senate Democratic leadership.

“We cannot keep adding to the debt,” Bunning said in remarks on the Senate floor. The legislation is not paid for, contrary to a recent pay-as-you-go law that Congress passed and President Barack Obama signed into law.

Basically, Bunning is saying that he is not going to allow Congress to keep spending taxpayer money without first paying for it. The Democrats immediately jumped on him as being against the working class of America.

The Republican senator’s objection to the funding bill has temporarily shut down multi-million dollar construction projects in several states and canceled highway reimbursements to states worth hundreds of millions of dollars, said Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood.

“As American families are struggling in tough economic times, I am keenly disappointed that political games are putting a stop to important construction projects around the country,” LaHood said in a statement. “This means that construction workers will be sent home from job sites because federal inspectors must be furloughed.”

Sen Reid said Republicans were standing in the way of providing emergency help to people in need.

“They said ‘No’ to the families of their own states and all our states who count on us when they need action,” Reid said.

"Because of one senator's irresponsible actions, over 61,000 Michigan workers will begin losing their unemployment benefits on Monday," said Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich. "These workers and their families cannot afford to wait for help."
The evil Republicans just want the common man to suffer! Again, what does this have to do with the prisoner's dilemma? Because it is the same problem that the Democrats are exploiting to trash Bunning. Let's rework the problem to reflect the current situation. On one side we have person unemployed and on the other side we have the rest of society. We have the choice of responsible spending and irresponsible spending. Let's revisit the matrix. The X axis is society and the Y axis is the unemployed individual. The first result inside the matrix is the individuals results and the second is society's result in the game.

  Responsible Spending
 Irresponsible Spending
Responsible Spending
 40, 40
 0, 50
Irresponsible Spending
 50, 0
 1, 1

If the government spends irresponsibly for the people out of work then those people are better off, but the society as a whole loses. Why? Because money spent on them is taken from the rest of society. The rest of society is poorer for the transfer of wealth. The Democrats argue that if we don't help the little guy then all we care about is the rich. The rich will get everything and the poor will be stuck with nothing. For Democrats the only two options are the lower left and upper right quadrants.

The only problem with the Democrat's argument is that they offer the same deal to every group in society. If everyone takes their deal we end up in the bottom right quadrant were everyone loses. For that is where the leviathan of government overwhelms the economy and shreds it into tatters.

The problem Republicans face in convincing people that they are better off with responsible spendingt. They are asking people to give up their bit of government pork for the greater good knowing in the long run they will be better off for it. In the example of the unemployed gentleman. While he may suffer initially from the lack of federal money. In the long term he will be better off without it. The economy will recover quicker without government intrusion and new jobs will be created. Allowing the unemployed gentleman to find gainful employment.

What makes it such a difficult sell is that the individual's rational best interest is to take the irresponsible spending. In affect getting a piece of the pie while it is still there. It is difficult to get past this rational with voters when Democrats continually play one group against another. The Democrats have been feasting off this dilemma for years to drive their agenda.

It has worked until recently. People are awakening to see the government nearing the cliffs and are beginning to resist. They are beginning to understand the risks of irresponsible spending and are forming Tea Parties across the country. The move to responsible spending has to start some where and Bunning is leading that charge in the senate. The only question is will people stick together for the common good or resort to their base rationales. We will find out by the general publics reaction to Bunning's stand in the senate.

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Monday, 15 February 2010

Man Made Global Warming Theory Crumbles

The biggest story this year is the climategate exposure at the University Of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit. Exposure of the center's "record keeping" has exploded much of the theory around global warming. Today Professor Phil Jones, disgraced directory of East Anglia's CRU admitted as much over the weekend.

Professor Jones told the BBC yesterday there was truth in the observations of colleagues that he lacked organisational skills, that his office was swamped with piles of paper and that his record keeping is ‘not as good as it should be’.

The data is crucial to the famous ‘hockey stick graph’ used by climate change advocates to support the theory.

Professor Jones also conceded the possibility that the world was warmer in medieval times than now – suggesting global warming may not be a man-made phenomenon.

And he said that for the past 15 years there has been no ‘statistically significant’ warming.

In an unbelievable reversal, Prof Jones admits that we have had not had significant warming in the last 15 years. How can we have run-a-way warming if we have had very little warming in the last 15 years?

Secondly, he admits that temperatures in medieval times were warmer than today. Again a question I have long wanted answered by global warming fear mongers, how do we know it is man made when we have had warmer periods in the last 2000 years? Why is this any different than any other warming trend in our history?

The best part is they have lost the data for the infamous hockey graph. Nothing like losing the data that "proves" man made global warming! How do you lose data that is so vital to the theory?

I think the time has come to say that all of the "modeling" and theories of man made global warming are just wrong. Maybe we can get back to doing real science in climatology and not political fear mongering like the bogus IPCC in order to push a socialistic agenda.

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Thursday, 21 January 2010

Brown Win The Start Of A Tidal Wave

Brown's incredible upset in Massachusetts is just the first of the tidal conservative tidal wave that is sweeping across America this year. A wave that we haven't seen since Ron Lewis won the 2nd congressional district in Kentucky. Democratic over reach has created a backlash that is only now begining to be seen and felt.

In Missouri, the Republican has moved into a lead in the polls. In California, Boxer only has a small lead with approval ratings hovering around 50%. In Nevada, Reid trails by double digits to all of his challengers. Closer to home, Sodrel has surged to an 8 point lead over Democrat Hill in the Southern Indiana congressional race.

On top of that top tier candidates are starting to pop up to challenge what looked to be "safe" Democrats. Even Bayh is beginning to look vulnerable in Indiana. Here in Kentucky, the most vulnerable candidate is Ben Chandler in the 6th district. Chandler's one advantage is his seat on the Appropriations committee. Such a plum position will allow him to rake in money from special interests. He already has $1.6 million dollars in his war chest. Even so, he is vulnerable to a viable candidate.

Republican Andy Barr appears to be such a candidate. He has raised over $300,000 in the first 2 quarters. Even though he trails Chandler in money, Barr doesn't need to spend as much as Chandler. He only has to have enough money to advertise on television. The ads tying Chandler to Pelosi and Obama write themselves. Barr has a solid start, but he needs more. Fortunately, he still has seven or eight months to raise the money he needs.

Personally, I can't wait to start seeing the polls on all of these races.

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Friday, 18 December 2009

Global Warming - The Religion of Socialists

In Copenhagen last night, world leaders are trying frantically to put together a deal that will "save the world". Why? Because we no longer have any time to wait.
"Time is against us, let's stop posturing," said French President Nicolas Sarkozy, one of scores of leaders who addressed the talks on Thursday. "A failure in Copenhagen would be a catastrophe for each and every one of us."
The time is against us. The time is against us. The time is against us. Always the environmentalists talk about how the time is against us. We must act before the world collapses.  You know why they are in such a hurry? Because the canard of global warming is beginning to crumble. Every day we get new stories about manipulating / cherry picking the data to show warming trends that don't really exist. Today we learn that data from Russia had been manipulated to show warming.

On Tuesday, the Moscow-based Institute of Economic Analysis (IEA) issued a report claiming that the Hadley Center for Climate Change based at the headquarters of the British Meteorological Office in Exeter (Devon, England) had probably tampered with Russian-climate data.

The IEA believes that Russian meteorological-station data did not substantiate the anthropogenic global-warming theory. Analysts say Russian meteorological stations cover most of the country’s territory, and that the Hadley Center had used data submitted by only 25% of such stations in its reports. Over 40% of Russian territory was not included in global-temperature calculations for some other reasons, rather than the lack of meteorological stations and observations.

The data of stations located in areas not listed in the Hadley Climate Research Unit Temperature UK (HadCRUT) survey often does not show any substantial warming in the late 20th century and the early 21st century.

The real hurry is that if we wait to long the earth will continue its cooling trend until they can no longer claim that we have run-away warming. There agenda will die.

What is the agenda? Why would they manipulate the data to show artificial warming? Two reasons: money and socialism. There is a lot of money to be made in scientific fear mongering. It leads to more money for government research. It leads to even more money for people dealing in environmental policy. Ask Al Gore. The man who made a billion dollars off this clap trap.

That is only half the story. The more onerous side of the story is the underlying desire to destroy capitalism. These "green" activists are socialists. They see this as a perfect opportunity to overthrow capitalism and replace it with socialism. Don't believe me? Let's take a peak into the Copenhagen convention.
Then President Hugo Chavez brought the house down.

When he said the process in Copenhagen was “not democratic, it is not inclusive, but isn’t that the reality of our world, the world is really and imperial dictatorship…down with imperial dictatorships” he got a rousing round of applause.

When he said there was a “silent and terrible ghost in the room” and that ghost was called capitalism, the applause was deafening.

But then he wound up to his grand conclusion – 20 minutes after his 5 minute speaking time was supposed to have ended and after quoting everyone from Karl Marx to Jesus Christ - “our revolution seeks to help all people…socialism, the other ghost that is probably wandering around this room, that’s the way to save the planet, capitalism is the road to hell....let’s fight against capitalism and make it obey us.”  He won a standing ovation.
He won a standing ovation. Read back over what he said and realize it led to a standing ovation. Make no mistake. This is a fight between capitalism and socialism. The reason they need to hurry is because their "proof" of man made global warming is crumbling. They are running out of time before the world rejects their latest strategic attempt to destroy capitalism. They realize the stakes. If they miss out now, they may never get a chance again. We as Americans need to understand this and fight with everything we have against them. We need to take a stand for the American way. We must stand up for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Those are principles which will dissappear under the socialistic despotism the fools in Copenhagen are planning.

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Thursday, 10 December 2009

Attack of Socialism

The socialist leaders in the world are gathering this week in Copenhagen to plot the destruction of capitalism. All of which is done under the guise of "saving the planet". They continue warning of dire consequences if they don't act now.
Keeping global temperature rise under 2C (3.7F) will be almost impossible unless carbon emissions begin to fall within a decade, analysis suggests. (emphasis added)
How do they plan to reduce carbon emissions? You guessed it by capping our capacity to create energy. Such a move will skyrocket the cost of energy. The cost of all goods will in turn skyrocket causing a collapse of our economic markets. Make no mistake this is the end game. They have been building up global warming for the last decade for just such a moment.

They will not be stopped. Especially not by data that shows the planet has been cooling the last 10 years. No instead they have been manipulating the data to show warming where there hasn't been. The good people at http://wattsupwiththat.com have been looking into the data and have found some interesting results.

First they have been looking through the source code and have found some interesting manipulations of the data. Including the following source code bit.
2	; Apply a VERY ARTIFICAL correction for decline!!
3	;
4	yrloc=[1400,findgen(19)*5.+1904]
5	valadj=[0.,0.,0.,0.,0.,-0.1,-0.25,-0.3,0.,-0.1,0.3,0.8,1.2,1.7,2.5,2.6,2.6,2.6,2.6,2.6]*0.75   ; fudge factor
As you can see they are creating a variable called yrloc which is an array to hold the years. The second variable is an array named valadj which has a nice padding that is skewed toward the later years. I bet it is just coincidence that these adjustments just happen to resemble a hockey stick. It is a good thing the comments are there to help clarify why these adjustments are being made.

The manipulations aren't just related to the findings in code. The same site also started looking at data collection from the Darwin airport in Australia. They found that someone had been incorrectly manipulating the temperature readings from there. I am sure you would be shocked to learn that temperatures had been manipulated UPWARD.

Take some time and read the whole thing.

The game is up and the socialists know it. That is why they are hyperventilating about the need to do something now. Here in the U.S. they have taken a major step by declaring air as a pollutant. The EPA is now set up to regulate EVERYTHING. I suspect they will use that power if they can't get cap-n-trade passed by the legislators. I guarantee you that Kentucky will be hard hit by these coming regulations.

This is dangerous stuff. Our economy. Our way of life is the firing line of socialists. Make no mistake. They intend to destroy capitalism.  It is the only way they can bring about their socialist paradise.  Take some time to read Karl Marx. He explains it nicely. The only way socialism succeeds is that capitalism must first fail. These socialists are attempting to use "global warming" as a means to destroy our economy and hasten capitalisms demise. If we care about liberty and freedom, we must beat back this attack. Fortunately, it looks like the public is beginning to turn against the theory behind man made global warming. We just have to hold out long enough for the socialist's magical science to be exposed for the bunk it is.

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Tuesday, 1 December 2009

Global Warming Hoax Exposed

As we begin to learn more about the emails from the Climate Research Unit of the University of East Anglia, we begin to learn more about how they have manipulated the data to get the results they wanted. The world has finally been exposed to what can only be called the crime of the century.

Global warming is a scam, pure and simple. By any objective measure, it’s the crime of the century, with a dollar value that dwarfs the sins of Bernie Madoff or Enron. People like Al Gore have become millionaires by selling books and “carbon credits” to their marks… many of whom knew perfectly well they were being taken for a ride, but felt political pressure to play along, or saw opportunities created by the exercise of raw government power. The economic damage from legislation passed in response to this hoax will run into trillions of dollars, if Barack Obama’s disastrous cap-and-trade legislation passes the Senate....

… but no private corporation could do anything like this, could they? The global warming scam is the kind of crime that only Big Government can mastermind.

Can you imagine if a private company had used iffy science and false advertising to sell more of their product? How hard would the government come down on them? Ask the cigarette companies about it. They have been almost run out of business and have battled our government for decades. And they have been now where near as manipulative and fear mongering as the global warming crowd.

The good news is that the global warming science may be experiencing its own economic bubble.

This has long been one of the credibility issues with the AGW movement from the beginning, although one built into government grants for research in general.  Government grants create a market for research, which universities and other institutions create supply to meet, as Stephens rightfully notes.  That gives government a great deal of power to distort academic markets, if you think of them in those terms — and a massive incentive for the providers to endorse the reasoning behind the supply.  After all, concluding that an issue is negligible or nonexistent means the end of such grants.

But researchers have ethics and a sense of responsibility as scientists, some will argue in return.  That may be true in many or even most fields, but the e-mails exposed at the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit — one of the premier institutions pushing the anthropogenic global-warming theory — show that the AGW field was not among them.  The e-mails repeatedly discuss ways to hide bad and contradictory data and ways to attack other scientists arguing against their conclusions.  The charitable conclusion to draw from this is that they believe in AGW so much that they became high priests instead of researchers; the less charitable conclusion was that they didn’t want the gravy train to end.  Either or both, they stopped doing science a long time ago.

With the discarding of the raw data by East Anglia CRU, the pretense at science has ended.  The cash incentives for reaching those conclusions should end as well.  If AGW is real, then let the scientists build a transparent and complete data set for all to review openly that proves it, instead of only publishing subsets of “adjustments” and destroying the raw data.  Science welcomes critical review; corrupted advocates shrink from it and conspire to block it.  While some may argue over the benefits and problems with government funding of the former, no one can argue that the latter deserves a red cent of public money to encourage it.

We can only hope so! And the sooner it happens the better.







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Sunday, 4 October 2009

Michael Moore - Hypocrite Extroardinare

As you might already know, Michael Moore has a new movie called "Capitalism: A Love Story". I haven't seen the movie, but I have read that is a massive propaganda piece about how evil capitalism is. Asked about the hypocrisy of making a movie disparaging capitalism while amassing a fortune of over $50 milllion dollars Moore claims that capitalism has done nothing for him.
CNSNews.com then asked Moore: “Critics would say he’s [Moore] been very successful under a capitalist system. How would you justify making a movie where you paint capitalism as evil?”

Moore said: “Well, capitalism did nothing for me, starting with my first film.”

“You know, I had to pretty much beg, borrow and steal,” he said. “The system is not set up to help somebody from the working class make a movie like this and get the truth out there.”

“In fact, in Fahrenheit 9/11 if you remember, capitalism, the Disney Corporation, tried to kill that film--tried to make it so that people couldn’t see it,” said Moore. “My book Stupid White Men--Harper Collins tried to kill that book so that people couldn’t see it. It's
only because I put the light of day on it and told people what was going on did people get the chance to see these things.”
The rank hypocrisy of this statement is incredible. Capitalism did nothing for him? Let's see he was able to create a product that people wanted to watch. He then sold it to those people and made $50 million dollars. That is the definition of capitalism!!!! The whole point of capitalism is to create an environment (free market) where you can sell your labor. If what you provide is valuable you will get paid for your work. If it doesn't have any value then you aren't paid. Thus it is a system that promotes productive use of labor and resources.

I find it  laughable when he complains how the system is not set up to help somebody from the working class. Yet somehow he managed to do it. If he can do it why can't others? It makes me laugh when poltroons like Moore complain that success in capitalism isn't easy. Success is NEVER easy regardless of the system.  Anyone that promises something for nothing is selling a lie. Which is why socialism is such a sick disease. It corrupts people into thinking they can get something for nothing. The only thing you get for nothing is abject poverty and slavery.

The only thing I can come up with is he doesn't understand the idea of capitalism. I noticed that most of his complaints are surrounded around large corporations. Maybe he is just anti-large company. There is a big difference between large companies and capitalism. While a capitalistic environment can lead the creation of large corporate entities, it is NOT capitalism. Regardless his screed against large companies fails due to his own success story. If it is impossible to succeed with these large companies about, then how did you do it Mr. Moore?

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Tuesday, 29 September 2009

The Global Warming Joke

I find it embarrassing that the news media and people in academia still insist that global warming is taking place.

There's little doubt climate is getting warmer across the globe, and all it takes is a look at history to prove it, said a British professor who spoke at the IdeaFestival Thursday.

Advertisement “It's not just an academic question,” said Chris Turney. “It's getting warmer. It's actually happening on the ground.”
Are these people serious? We are looking at the coldest winter in a Decade. That will be the 11th year in a row of cooling temperatures. Not exactly the upward trend that was promised by run-a-way global warming advocates. Heck I know this has been one of the coldest years in Louisville in a long time. The summer was exceptionally mild. But with the mounting evidence against global warming, these hucksters continue to ply their wares.

During Turney's hourlong talk at the IdeaFestival, being held through Saturday at the Kentucky Center, Turney pointed to historic data to show how temperatures have slowly risen over time....

....Climate data only goes back to about 1880, but by looking at other sources, such as journals and artwork, some information about weather and climate can be extrapolated. But beyond that, scientists must tease out information.

Ahh yes, the "hockey stick" graph. Well this evidence that he is pimping may not be very solid after all.


The graph above shows what happens to the “Hockey Stick” after additional tree ring data, recently released (after a long and protracted fight over data access) is added to the analysis of Hadley’s archived tree ring data in Yamal, Russia.

All of the sudden, it isn’t the “hottest period in 2000 years” anymore.

Oops. Turns out that the "hockey stick" very well could be the result of cherry picked data. The more we learn about "global warming" the more we are coming to understand that is a MYTH. And yet, the left clamors for more and more regulation to stop "global warming". When in reality all they want to do is destroy capitalism.  Don't believe me? Check out cap-n-trade. It will cost the average family $1700 a year. It will put the breaks on much of the economy and destroy numerous industries. Lucky for us, the horse they are riding, global warming, isn't very healthy. In fact is is quite sickly. As evidence against it continues to mount, it will  be very easy to ignore their shrill calls for economic suicide.

We are fortunate that we are able to disprove this academic garbage before real damage could have been inflicted on our economy and way of life.

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Thursday, 3 September 2009

Political Bumper Stickers - Good or Bad?

The question today is are political bumper stickers a good idea? Most people would agree that they are a positive for a campaign. For starters, they help a candidate with name recognition. What better way to reach people than to have a traveling bill board. On top of that, it helps fire up those working on the campaign when they see their candidate's bumper sticker on another car. I know when I see a candidate's bumper sticker of a preferred candidate I perk up a little bit. So bumper stickers are good, right?

Not so fast. Campaigns are all about name recognition. But they want positive name recognition. The problem that bumper stickers present is the fact that they can be put on the car of a bad driver. Instance today. I am driving home and some idiot is in the left lane doing 70 going side by side with another car. No one is in front of him. I am 2 cars back and pissed that we are stopped by this moron who doesn't understand the left lane is for passing. As I turn off the interstate I see he has a Rand Paul for Senate bumper sticker. If I didn't follow politics, I would be left with a negative impression Paul. If I go to the ballot box and don't know much about the candidates who would I not vote for? Paul. (Note: This isn't about Paul. I see tons of political bumper stickers on cars with people who can't drive. Paul just happens to be the latest example)

I have to ask the question again. Are bumper stickers on the back of cars a good thing? In the day of road rage, I am not so sure it is a good idea. Then I thought back to my college days when I attended a class on being a youth coordinator for political campaigns. We were taught to put bumper stickers on the front of cars because more people pass a car in the front than from behind. At the time, I wasn't a believer. People want bumper stickers on the back of their cars. But when faced with the problem of negative feelings from bad drivers, I think it might be the only place where campaigns should put bumper stickers. They get all the benefit of name recognition without the negatives of being placed on cars with bad drivers.

Are bumpers stickers a good idea or bad idea? I think it depends upon where they are placed on the car. In the front of the car, it is a good thing. In the back of the car, I think it actually hurts the campagin.

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Monday, 24 August 2009

Temeratures Continue To Drop - But Global Warming Still Exists!

The global temperatures have been declining for years. This year looks to continue the downward trend.

Official government measurements show that the world's temperature has cooled a bit since reaching its most recent peak in 1998.

That would mean that we have now had over 10 years of temperature decline. But don't tell the global warming advocates that there is no such thing as global warming.

Many scientists agree, however, that hotter times are ahead. A decade of level or slightly lower temperatures is only a temporary dip to be expected as a result of natural, short-term variations in the enormously complex climate system, they say.

"The preponderance of evidence is that global warming will resume," Nicholas Bond, a meteorologist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory in Seattle, said in an e-mail.

"Natural variability can account for the slowing of the global mean temperature rise we have seen," said Jeff Knight, a climate expert at the Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research in Exeter, England.

Yeah, that is the answer. It is just natural fluctuations in temperature. Wait a second. I thought global warming was a run-a-way phenomenon. I didn't think there was anyway we would ever see cooler temperatures. But now all of a sudden it is no longer run-a-way. It is natural fluctuations. But this is my favorite quote from the story.

"It's entirely possible to have a period as long as a decade or two of cooling superimposed on the long-term warming trend," said David Easterling, chief of scientific services at NOAA's National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C.

"These short term fluctuations are statistically insignificant (and) entirely due to natural internal variability," Easterling said in an essay published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters in April. "It's easy to 'cherry pick' a period to reinforce a point of view."

Cherry pick? You have to be kidding me? The entire hockey stick graph that "proved" global warming exists was nothing but cherry picked data. If we go back a few hundred years before the hockey graph starts we will see temperatures near the peak of 1998. But beyond that, the fact that we could have decades of cooling and believe global warming is still taking place is ludicrous. One or two years is a "flucuation". Decades is a trend.

The funny thing is I actually agree that the cooling we are currently undergoing is a natural fluctuation. Just like the warming trend of the last 50 years was nothing less than a natural fluctuation in temperatures. The sad truth is that global warming scare was nothing less than a hoax. Much like the "ice age" scares of the 70's, it was a ginned up "crisis" that socialists in the environmental movement used in an effort to destroy capitalism. Fortunately, the world is watching their theories fall apart due to the current cooling trend. It couldn't have happened soon enough. A few more years of this nonsensical global warming scam and government may have actually implemented damaging economic policies. Policies that would have severely hampered our economy.

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