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Movie produced by global-warming skeptics exposed as fraudulent

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 POSTSCRIPT: In case you missed it, I had ANOTHER POST on global warming earlier today.

Pat Boone is a funny guy

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As you oldsters out there probably remember, Pat Boone was a popular recording artist about 50 years ago. He has since evolved into something of a political humorist, as evidenced by this HILARIOUS LITTLE ESSAY in which he likens Democratic efforts at health-care reform to waterboarding.

Disturbing excerpts from college essays

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Global warming to worsen in next five years?

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 A new study authored by scientists at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory and NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies indicates that the world faces record-breaking temperatures as the sun’s activity increases, leading the planet to heat up significantly faster than had been predicted for the next five years.

 But the subheadline on THIS STORY about the study wrongly suggests that the new findings might silence global-warming skeptics. In reality, nothing will change the minds of some of these flat-earthers.

 UPDATE: Predictably enough, this post has drawn comments from the usual gang of climate-change skeptics, several of whom seem to think that unseasonably cool conditions in various American locales this summer is proof that global warming is bunk.

 In reply to such silliness, I offer this chart, which clearly shows that the gradual climb in global temperatures over the past 130 years has not been perfectly steady. There have been downward spikes from time to time, but the general upward trend over the long term is unmistakable — to everybody, that is,  but the wingnuts:

 UPDATE II: Organizations that subscribe to mainstream theories on man-made global warming include the following:  American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Astronomical Society, American Chemical Society, American Geophysical Union, American Institute of Physics, American Meteorological Society, American Physical Society, American Quaternary Association, Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society, Canadian Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Sciences, Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society, European Academy of Sciences and Arts, European Geosciences Union, European Science Foundation, Geological Society of America, Geological Society of London-Stratigraphy Commission, InterAcademy Council, International Council of Academies of Engineering and Technological Sciences, International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics, International Union for Quaternary Research, National Research Council, Network of African Science Academies, Royal Meteorological Society and World Meteorological Organization.

(Note: For reasons I’m not going to bother to explain, those organization names look like links, but they’re not.)

GOP senator says his party is too Southern

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 U.S. Sen. George Voinovich (above), an Ohio Republican, SAYS the GOP is in decline because it’s become too Southern.

 Hey, George, I’ve been saying that for months.

 UPDATE: Kos has SOME NUMBERS showing that the South is not like the rest of America.

Manzullo badmouths his government health plan, says unions get a better deal

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 (Photo courtesy of McHenry County Blog)

 Conventional wisdom holds that the health insurance provided for members of Congress is a pretty sweet deal.

 But U.S. Rep. Don Manzullo, a Republican who represents the Rockford area, begs to differ.

 Read about it HERE and HERE. (Note: This stuff is a couple of weeks old, but it has only now come to my attention.)