The AAAS Award To Michael Mann And The Sad Rot Of Government "Science"

Mann, of course, is the guy who got caught red-handed engaging in clear scientific misconduct in connection with the Hockey Stick controversy -- undoubtedly the scientific controversy with the largest potential for economic damage of our era.  It is beyond incredible that the AAAS has not called him out for the misconduct, let alone that it has now chosen to give him this award.  

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More Reasons To Vacate The Endangerment Finding

It's now more than 10 months ago -- April 2017 -- that my client the Concerned Household Electricity Consumers Council filed a Petition with the EPA calling upon it to reopen and reconsider the so-called Endangerment Finding (EF).  Follow this link for a copy of that original Petition.  The EF -- that's the regulatory power grab by which the bureaucrats at the Obama EPA decided that the colorless, odorless, non-toxic trace atmospheric gas CO2 was a "danger" to human health and safety, which danger could somehow be ameliorated it they orchestrated a scheme to double or triple your cost of electricity, gasoline and air travel.

Unfortunately, despite what you may have read about the hostility of the Trump administration and EPA to "climate"-driven regulation, nothing has yet happened on our Petition for reconsideration.

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Is The Mueller Indictment A Joke?

Ever since the Mueller investigation of Russian "meddling" or "interference" or "collusion" or something like that began a year or so ago, you have probably been wondering, What the heck is the crime?  Granted, there are 5000 or so supposed federal crimes out there.  Nobody has any good idea what all of them are, and plenty of them are so vague that they might criminalize brushing your teeth on an angle.  But still -- "meddling" or "collusion"?  How could such things even be illegal?

So probably you are thinking, the answer must be in this indictment.  Don't get your hopes up.  As far as I can tell there is nothing real about this indictment at all.

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Resounding Echoes Of Watergate In The Susan Rice Email

It has now been a few days since Senators Grassley and Graham released a letter they had sent to ex-National Security Advisor Susan Rice, demanding information from her about a meeting held in the White House on January 5, 2017, and attaching to their letter a redacted copy of a remarkable email describing the meeting that Rice sent to herself on the government email system on January 20, 2017 at 12:15 PM.The Grassley/Graham letter and attached Rice email can be found here.   

You will recognize January 20 at 12:15 PM as being about 20 minutes after Donald Trump was sworn in as President, and therefore the same number of minutes after Susan Rice's term as National Security Advisor had ended. She had no further government business to do, and therefore had no possible legitimate purpose related to government business to write herself this email on the government email system.

 

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How To Change Minds On The Subject Of Climate Hysteria

Unfortunately, as I frequently point out to my colleagues, on important political issues, very few human minds can be changed by mere reason and logic, no matter how ironclad that reason and logic may be.  We may think we are creatures of reason, but that's only a veneer.  The famous quote is attributed to Jonathan Swift:  "Reasoning will never make a Man correct an ill Opinion, which by Reasoning he never acquired."  

On the other hand, there are things that can persuade even those who are very difficult to persuade.

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How Self-Delusional Can We Be On The Cost Of Electricity From "Renewables"?

With the New York Times, when it comes to promotion of the climate sin and redemption narrative, the big question is always the same:  Are they completely ignorant of the subject matter, or do they understand the subject matter, in which case they are intentionally trying to deceive you and their other readers?  It ought to be obvious which of the two it is, but incredibly it is not.  Could there even be a third alternative?  The only one I can think of is that what we have here is an extreme case of self-delusion, brought about by a need to believe in the official religion so overpowering that it prevents any consideration of actual facts or evidence.  

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