Communists in Copenhagen

Green is the new Red!



References:
A different kind of red and green this Yuletide (Copenhagen Insider)
Bowing to communism at the climategate festival? (Dauphin County Republican Examiner)
Chavez, Mugabe Attack Capitalism and the West at Copenhagen Climate Conference (CNS News)
In Touting 'Climate Justice' Protesters, Networks Oblivious to Communist Participation (Media Research Center)

All Your Emails Are Belong To Us

Emails:

"I've just completed Mike’s Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (ie from 1981 onwards) and from 1961 for Keith’s to hide the decline." - Phil Jones, Director Climatic Research Unit (CRU)

"...it would be nice to try to "contain" the putative "MWP", even if we don't yet have a hemispheric mean reconstruction available that far back." - Michael Mann, Lead Author IPCC (2001)

"I can’t see either of these papers being in the next IPCC report. Kevin and I will keep them out somehow – even if we have to redefine what the peer-review literature is!" - Phil Jones, Director Climatic Research Unit (CRU)

"I'm getting hassled by a couple of people to release the CRU station temperature data. Don't any of you three tell anybody that the UK has a Freedom of Information Act!" - Phil Jones, Director Climatic Research Unit (CRU)

"The two MMs have been after the CRU station data for years. If they ever hear there is a Freedom of Information Act now in the UK, I think I'll delete the file rather than send to anyone." - Phil Jones, Director Climatic Research Unit (CRU)

"...If the RMS is going to require authors to make ALL data available - raw data PLUS results from all intermediate calculations - I will not submit any further papers to RMS journals." - Ben Santer, Lead Author IPCC (1995)

"The fact is that we can't account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can't." - Kevin Trenberth, Lead Author IPCC (2001, 2007)

Subject: John L. Daly [Skeptic] Dead

"...this is cheering news!" - Phil Jones, Director Climatic Research Unit (CRU)

"Next time I see Pat Michaels at a scientific meeting, I'll be tempted to beat the crap out of him. Very tempted." - Ben Santer, Lead Author IPCC (1995)

Breaking News Story: CRU has apparently been hacked – hundreds of files released (WattUpWithThat?)
Climategate: the final nail in the coffin of 'Anthropogenic Global Warming'? (The Daily Telegraph, UK)
Hackers 'expose global warming con': Sceptics claim that leaked emails reveal research centre massaged temperature data (The Daily Mail, UK)
Sceptics publish climate e-mails 'stolen from East Anglia University' (The Times, UK)
Warmist conspiracy exposed? (Herald Sun, Australia)
Wrecking CRU: hackers cause massive climate data breach (The Register)

Viscount Monckton on Climategate: ‘They Are Criminals’ (MND)

This is what they did — these climate “scientists” on whose unsupported word the world’s classe politique proposes to set up an unelected global government this December in Copenhagen, with vast and unprecedented powers to control all formerly free markets, to tax wealthy nations and all of their financial transactions, to regulate the economic and environmental affairs of all nations, and to confiscate and extinguish all patent and intellectual property rights.

The tiny, close-knit clique of climate scientists who invented and now drive the “global warming” fraud — for fraud is what we now know it to be — tampered with temperature data so assiduously that, on the recent admission of one of them, land temperatures since 1980 have risen twice as fast as ocean temperatures. One of the thousands of emails recently circulated by a whistleblower at the University of East Anglia, where one of the world’s four global-temperature datasets is compiled, reveals that data were altered so as to prevent a recent decline in temperature from showing in the record. In fact, there has been no statistically significant “global warming” for 15 years — and there has been rapid and significant cooling for nine years.

Worse, these arrogant fraudsters — for fraudsters are what we now know them to be — have refused, for years and years and years, to reveal their data and their computer program listings. Now we know why: As a revealing 15,000-line document from the computer division at the Climate Research Unit shows, the programs and data are a hopeless, tangled mess. In effect, the global temperature trends have simply been made up. Unfortunately, the British researchers have been acting closely in league with their U.S. counterparts who compile the other terrestrial temperature dataset — the GISS/NCDC dataset. That dataset too contains numerous biases intended artificially to inflate the natural warming of the 20th century.

Finally, these huckstering snake-oil salesmen and “global warming” profiteers — for that is what they are — have written to each other encouraging the destruction of data that had been lawfully requested under the Freedom of Information Act in the UK by scientists who wanted to check whether their global temperature record had been properly compiled. And that procurement of data destruction, as they are about to find out to their cost, is a criminal offense. They are not merely bad scientists — they are crooks. And crooks who have perpetrated their crimes at the expense of British and U.S. taxpayers.

I am angry, and so should you be.

What have the mainstream news media said about the Climategate affair? Remarkably little. The few who have brought themselves to comment, through gritted teeth, have said that all of this is a storm in a teacup, and that their friends in the University of East Anglia and elsewhere in the climatological community are good people, really.

No, they’re not. They’re criminals. With Professor Fred Singer, who founded the U.S. Satellite Weather Service, I have reported them to the UK’s Information Commissioner, with a request that he investigate their offenses and, if thought fit, prosecute. But I won’t be holding my breath: In the police state that Britain has now sadly become, with supine news media largely owned and controlled by the government, the establishment tends to look after its own.

At our expense, and at the expense of the truth.

The Anti Nationalized Health Care Resource

The problem with the U.S. Health Care system is a combination of third party payments, government regulations and an artificial limited supply of doctors. Since the average person does not directly pay for their health care they do not care about the costs. Medical insurance encourages unnecessary procedures and waste due to the illusion of it being "free" via a co-pay. In a true free market, direct price competition would drive down prices and encourage others to enter the market, further reducing costs. The problem is government regulation and organizations such as the AMA (American Medical Association) have created an artificial scarcity of doctors, limiting the supply. This is done by limiting the number of medical schools, medical licenses and increasing requirements. Thus the excessive demand cannot be met by normal market forces. Most people are well aware that a limited supply of a good or service increases it's value (cost). Few are aware that attempting to restrict a good or service's price (price controls) limits it's supply causing shortages. It is thus impossible for government controls to either increase the supply of medical care or lower it's price. Government can only "fix" the U.S. health care system by getting out of the way.

20/20: Sick in America (41 min)



Articles:
A Four-Step Health-Care Solution (Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Ph.D. Professor of Economics)
American Healthcare Fascialism (Thomas J. DiLorenzo, Ph.D. Professor of Economics)
Free Market Medicine (Ron Paul, M.D.)
Healthcare and Insurance on a Desert Island (Gilbert G. Berdine, M.D.)
Let Customers Control The Money And Market Will Cure Health Care (Michael F. Cannon, Director of Health Policy Studies, Cato Institute)
How Medical Boards Nationalized Health Care (Henry E. Jones, M.D.)
How to Cure Health Care (Milton Friedman, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus of Economics, 1976 Nobel Prize for Economics)
Real Medical Freedom (Dale Steinreich, Ph.D. Professor of Economics)
Regulation, Not Size, Is Health Care's Biggest Problem (David Gratzer, M.D.)
The Health Czar Can't Calculate (Gabriel E. Vidal, M.B.A.)
Understanding the Costs of Healthcare (D.W. MacKenzie, Ph.D. Professor of Economics)

Books:
American Health Care: Government, Market Processes, and the Public Interest (Roger D. Feldman, Ph.D. Professor of Economics, 2000)
Consumer-Driven Health Care: Implications for Providers, Payers, and Policy-Makers (Regina E. Herzlinger, Ph.D. Professor of Business Administration, 2004)
Crisis of Abundance: Rethinking How We Pay for Health Care (Arnold Kling, Ph.D. Economics, MIT, 2008)
Destroying Insurance Markets (PDF) (Conrad F. Meier, Registered Health Underwriter, 2005)
Healthy Competition: What's Holding Back Health Care and How to Free It (Michael F. Cannon, J.M. Law and Economics; Michael D. Tanner, 2007)
Lives at Risk: Single-Payer National Health Insurance Around the World (John C. Goodman, Ph.D. Economics, 2004)
Market-driven Health Care: Who Wins, Who Loses In The Transformation Of America's Largest Service Industry (Regina E. Herzlinger, Ph.D. Professor of Business Administration, 1999)
Medicare Meets Mephistopheles (David A. Hyman, J.D. M.D. Professor of Health Law and Policy. 2006)
Origins of American Health Insurance: A History of Industrial Sickness Funds (John E. Murray, J.D. Professor of Law, 2007)
Power to the Patient: Selected Health Care Issues and Policy Solutions (Scott W. Atlas, M.D., 2005)
The Cure: How Capitalism Can Save American Health Care (David Gratzer, M.D., 2006)
Who Killed Health Care?: America's $2 Trillion Medical Problem - and the Consumer-Driven Cure (Regina E. Herzlinger, Ph.D. Professor of Business Administration, 2007)

Historic:
100 Years of Medical Robbery (Dale Steinreich, Ph.D. Professor of Economics)
Health Costs and History: Government programs always exceed their spending estimates (The Wall Street Journal)

Papers:
A BetterWay to Generate and Use Comparative-Effectiveness Research (PDF) (Michael F. Cannon, Director of Health Policy Studies, Cato Institute)
A Gift of Life Deserves Compensation: How to Increase Living Kidney Donation with Realistic Incentives (PDF) (Arthur J. Matas, M.D. Professor of Surgery)
Does the Doctor Need a Boss? (PDF) (Arnold Kling, Ph.D. Economics, MIT; Michael F. Cannon, Director of Health Policy Studies, Cato Institute)
Health-Status Insurance: How Markets Can Provide Health Security (PDF) (John H. Cochrane, Ph.D. Professor of Finance)
Medical Licensing: An Obstacle to Affordable, Quality Care (PDF) (Shirley Svorny, Ph.D. Professor of Economics)
Uncritical Condition (PDF) (Business & Media Institute)


Canada:

20/20: Health Care: Does Canada Do It Better? (6 min)



A Short Course in Brain Surgery (5 min)



Dead Meat (25 min)



Canadacare May Have Killed Actress Natasha Richardson (New York Post)

The Trouble with Canadian Healthcare (The American)

Books:
Canadian Health Policy Failures (PDF) (Brett J. Skinner, Ph.D. Health Sciences, 2009)

Papers:
Access Delayed, Access Denied: Waiting for New Medicines in Canada 2009 Report (PDF) (Brett J. Skinner, Ph.D. Health Sciences)
Health Insurance and Bankruptcy Rates in Canada and the United States (PDF) (Brett J. Skinner, Ph.D. Health Sciences, )
Realities of Health Policy in North America: Government is the Problem, Not the Solution (PDF) (Brett J. Skinner, Ph.D. Health Sciences)
The Hidden Costs of Single Payer Health Insurance: A Comparison of the United States and Canada (PDF) (Brett J. Skinner, Ph.D. Health Sciences)

Wait Times:
Canadians still waiting too long for surgery: Report (National Post, Canada)
Obese dying while waiting for weight-loss surgery (National Post, Canada)
Wait times costing Canada billions: doctors (National Post, Canada)
Wait times for surgery in Canada at all-time high: study (CBC, Canada)
Waiting Your Turn: Hospital Waiting Lists in Canada, 19th Edition (PDF) (Fraser Institute)


Sicko:

20/20: Healthy in Cuba, Sick in America? (5 min)



A Prescription for SiCKO (David Gratzer, M.D.)
Cuba: What a Great Place to Visit! Never Mind the Dictatorship (Business & Media Institute)
Enough Gushing over Moore to Make You 'Sicko' (Business & Media Institute)
Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of 'Free' Health Care (Business & Media Institute)
Michael Moore Checks Into Weight Loss Center (San Francisco Chronicle)
Michael Moore Goes Sicko on Health Care Reform (Cato Institute)
Moore's Sick Rx (Cato Institute)
Re-examining the Cuban Health Care System: Towards a Qualitative Critique (PDF)
Review: 'SiCKO' Doesn't Offer Cure-All for Health Care (Business & Media Institute)
‘Sicko,’ Castro and the ‘120 Years Club’ (The New York Times)
"Sicko" Presents False View of Cuba's Health System (National Center for Public Policy Research)
SiCKO patients got VIP treatment in Cuba (Reuters)
The Anti-Michael Moore (FrontPageMag)
The Myth of Cuban Health Care (National Review)
Who's Really 'Sicko' (David Gratzer, M.D.)

Uninsured:
Uninsured In America (10 min)



Are There Really 47 Million Americans Who Can’t Afford Health Insurance? (Dominick T. Armentano, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus of Economics)
Fact Sheet: America's Uninsured (Business & Media Institute)
Health Care Lie: '47 Million Uninsured Americans' (Business & Media Institute)

Chevy Volt's "230 MPG" Propaganda

The Chevy Volt gets 230 MPG? Really? Using GM's "calculations" if you drive under 40 miles per day, you will get infinite MPG! The reality is that the Chevy Volt runs 40 miles on battery power, then a gasoline generator kicks in and you average around "40 MPG". However, I will wait for the real MPG rating as the Prius's initial 60 MPG rating was a lie - try 45 MPG. But what does a plug-in electrical charge (which is not free) have to do with MPG? Absolutely nothing, it is pure propaganda using it to calculate "MPG". How dishonest has Government Motors become to lie about the Volt's MPG just to sell a car that only the mathematically challenged would buy? Apparently a sucker is born every minute...

"Green vehicles like the Chevrolet Volt and Toyota Prius aren't really all about saving money on gas, but you would like to think that buying one would save you some cash in the long run.

We've crunched the numbers on various hybrids over the years and the result is usually the same -- it takes years to make up for the added cost of a hybrid compared to gas-powered vehicle of the same type." - Edmunds

However, a true 235 MPG concept car does exist - The Volkswagen 1-litre Diesel Car.


References:
Even At 230MPG, Volt Would Still Cost More To Own Than Prius (Edmunds)
Nissan claims 367 mpg for its electric Leaf - even though it doesn't use gas (USA Today)
EPA Won’t Confirm The Volt Gets 230 MPG (Wired)
Questions Surround GM's 230 mpg Chevy Volt Claim (U.S. News and World Report)

The Truth about RealClimate.org

RealClimate.org is assumed by those who do not know any better to be an "objective" source on climate change. It features activist scientists with degrees in Geology, Geosciences, Mathematics, Oceanography and Physics who are all self proclaimed "climatologists". Yet skeptical scientists with equivalent credentials are not (probably because they have not proclaimed it). Essentially the site exists to promote global warming alarm-ism and attack anyone who does not agree with their declaration of doomsday (proven of course by their own computer climate models) and the need for government intervention against the life supporting, atmospheric trace gas, carbon dioxide. Standard operating procedure is to post "rebuttals" to everything they disagree with and then declare victory, making sure to censor comments challenging their position. It doesn't matter if they actual rebutted any of the science or facts just so long as they provide the existence of a criticism. This gives their fanboys "ammunition" to further promote alarmist propaganda across the Internet (and of course declare victory). Their resident propagandist William Connolley's job is to edit dissent and smear skeptical scientists on Wikipedia. In the world of global warming alarmist "science" pretending you win is apparently all that matters because in real debates they lose. The truth is that RealClimate.org is an environmentalist shill site directly connected to an eco-activist group, Environmental Media Services and Al Gore but they don't want you to know that.

RealClimate.org

Registrant Organization - Environmental Media Services



Environmental Media Services (EMS) (Discover the Networks)

EMS's founder and President was Arlie Schardt, who also served as the National Press Secretary for Al Gore's 1988 presidential campaign, and as Gore's Communications Director during his 2000 bid for the White House. [...]

EMS officially served as the "scientific" branch of the leftist public-relations firm Fenton Communications; both companies shared the same Washington, D.C. address and office space. For more than a decade, David Fenton (CEO of Fenton Communications) used EMS to run negative media campaigns against a wide variety of targets, including biogenetic foods, America's dairy industry, and President George W. Bush. [...]

EMS also produced many stories condemning the Bush administration's environmental policies. Among these titles were: "Bush Administration Obscures Truth About Toxic Cleanups"; "President Bush Signs Fatally Flawed Wildfire Bill"; "Earth Day Event To Highlight Bush Administration Assault On Environment, Public Health"; "Bush Administration Report Card: 'F' on Protecting Children"; and "National Environmental Groups Launch Campaign to Defeat President Bush." EMS claimed that the data contained in its press releases constituted "the latest and most credible information" provided by "top scientists, physicians, and other experts." These "experts" included officials of Greenpeace, the Natural Resources Defense Council, the World Wildlife Fund, and the Union of Concerned Scientists.

Environmental Media Services (EMS) (Activist Facts)

EMS is the communications arm of leftist public relations firm Fenton Communications. Based in Washington, in the same office suite as Fenton, EMS claims to be "providing journalists with the most current information on environmental issues." A more accurate assessment might be that it spoon-feeds the news media sensationalized stories, based on questionable science, and featuring activist "experts," all designed to promote and enrich David Fenton's paying clients, and build credibility for the nonprofit ones. It's a clever racket, and EMS & Fenton have been running it since 1994. [...]

It's called "black marketing," and Environmental Media Services has become the principal reason Fenton Communications is so good at it. EMS lends an air of legitimacy to what might otherwise be dismissed (and rightly so) as fear-mongering from the lunatic fringe. In addition to pre-packaged "story ideas" for the mass media, EMS provides commentaries, briefing papers, and even a stable of experts, all carefully calculated to win points for paying clients. These "experts," though, are also part of the ruse. Over 70% of them earn their paychecks from current or past Fenton clients, all of which have a financial stake in seeing to it that the scare tactics prevail. It's a clever deception perpetrated on journalists who generally don't consider do-gooder environmentalists to be capable of such blatant and duplicitous "spin."

The first rule of this game is that it’s strictly pay-for-play. For a price, you too can promote your product by maligning the competition with junk-science smear tactics. To Fenton Communications, you’ll be a “client”; down the hall at EMS, though, you’ll join the ranks of its “project partners.” And nobody will be the wiser.

Fenton Communications (Discover the Networks)

Foremost public relations firm of the political left. Past clients have included Marxist dictatorships in Central America. Represents environmentalist groups, pro-Democratic political action committees, labor unions, and the anti-war movement.

Founded in 1982 by activist and public relations veteran David Fenton, Fenton Communications (FC) is the leading advertising and public relations firm for advocacy groups on the political left, with locations in Washington DC, New York, and San Francisco.

FC serves as an "umbrella" for "three independent nonprofit organizations" which it co-founded. These include: Environmental Media Services, which manages publicity efforts for environmental groups; New Economy Communications, a social justice group; and the Death Penalty Information Center, an anti-death penalty lobby.

FC expressly refuses to represent "clients and projects that we don't believe in ourselves." Among the clients and projects that FC has worked for are Marxist-Leninist regimes in Central America and Africa, environmental groups, labor unions, and anti-war organizations. In addition, FC has offered its services to pro-Democrat political action committees and law firms, as well as to political campaigns against the death penalty and gun-ownership rights. [...]

Equally noteworthy has been FC's business partnership with environmental groups. In 1988 and 1989, FC helped one such organization, the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), promote misleading claims about the dangers of Alar, a pesticide then in use by the apple industry. On the basis of NRDC's study of Alar, itself based on exaggerated probabilities rather than concrete empirical data, FC launched a media campaign that stoked consumers' fears and captured the interest of television news programs, daily newspapers and daytime talk shows, fueling a backlash against apple growers. By some estimates, the apple industry suffered $200 million in lost revenue as a result of the FC campaign.

By contrast, FC and its client prospered. David Fenton subsequently boasted that his firm had "designed" the media campaign "so that revenue would flow back to NRDC from the public," noting that FC had gained "$700,000 in net revenues from it." Fenton Communications today cites the Alar campaign as a significant contribution to the "national debate" on pesticides. [...]

Joining forces with the Environmental Working Group, FC has also engineered media campaigns exaggerating the dangers posed by pesticides in tap water and baby food.

In 2003 FC created an ad campaign targeting the automotive industry for the Evangelical Environmental Network. The controversial ads alleged that consumers who bought sport utility vehicles were, in effect, supporting terrorism by using large amounts of fuel imported from the Middle East. [...]

Arlie Schardt, a senior consultant at Fenton Communications and Chairman of Environmental Media Services, served as Al Gore's national press secretary during his first presidential campaign.

David Fenton (Activist Facts)

David Fenton has turned leftist activism into big business with his firm Fenton Communications, the single most easily identifiable nexus of anti-consumer activism in Washington, DC. Fenton and his staff masterminded the mad cow scare campaign, the organic marketing craze, the phony Alar-on-apples food scare, and more. He’s very good at what he does, and groups like the Center for Food Safety, Greenpeace, the Natural Resources Defense Council, the Organic Consumers Association, and SeaWeb are all happy to pony up big bucks to give their radical messages the Fenton touch.

Fenton started out in the music biz, directing public relations for Rolling Stone. He entered the activist fray in the anti-nuclear movement of the late 1970s, co-producing the 1979 “No Nukes” concerts headlined by Bruce Springsteen and Bonnie Raitt. From there, he went on to found his own activism-centered PR empire, Fenton Communications, in 1982. Within that umbrella are “three independent nonprofit organizations” all co-founded by Fenton: the Death Penalty Information Center, New Economy Communications (an anti-globalism outfit), and Environmental Media Services.

Fenton Communications Launches Green-Tech Division (Reuters)

Fenton Communications has been deeply involved in environmental issues since its founding in 1982. The firm publicized the first reports of the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, helped environmental NGOs at the Kyoto Global Warming Summit, and worked with Vice-President Al Gore to publicize the issues.

Climate Science: Is it currently designed to answer questions? (PDF) (Richard S. Lindzen, Ph.D. Professor of Atmospheric Science, MIT)

"Environmental Media Services (a project of Fenton Communications, a large public relations firm serving left wing and environmental causes; they are responsible for the alar scare as well as Cindy Sheehan’s anti-war campaign.) created a website, realclimate.org, as an ‘authoritative’ source for the ‘truth’ about climate. This time, real scientists who were also environmental activists, were recruited to organize this web site and ‘discredit’ any science or scientist that questioned catastrophic anthropogenic global warming. The web site serves primarily as a support group for believers in catastrophe, constantly reassuring them that there is no reason to reduce their worrying." - Richard S. Lindzen, Ph.D. Professor of Atmospheric Science, MIT

Update: East Anglia Confirmed Emails from the Climate Research Unit - 1139521913.txt

"I wanted you guys to know that you're free to use RC in any way you think would be helpful. Gavin and I are going to be careful about what comments we screen through, ...We can hold comments up in the queue and contact you about whether or not you think they should be screened through or not, and if so, any comments you'd like us to include.

Think of RC as a resource that is at your disposal... We'll use our best discretion to make sure the skeptics don't get to use the RC comments as a megaphone."

- Michael E. Mann, IPCC Lead Author (2001)

References:
A Little Testy at RealClimate (Prometheus)
Is Gavin Schmidt Honest? (Climate Audit)
RealClimate's Touchy Censors (National Center for Public Policy Research)
Rebuttals to RealClimate (Climate Science)
Trying to post at realclimate (Climate Audit)
The Opinionator (Financial Post, Canada)
Wikipropaganda On Global Warming (CBS News)
Wikipedia’s climate doctor: How Wikipedia’s green doctor rewrote 5,428 climate articles (National Post, Canada)

Windows XP Supported until 2014

Microsoft ended Windows XP's Direct OEM and Retail License Availability on June 30, 2008 and System Builder License Availability on January 31, 2009. Which means you will be unable to purchase new copies of Windows XP (except for those still for sale on the market) after this date. Recently Microsoft ended "Mainstream Support" on April 14, 2009 but will continue "Extended Support" of Windows XP Home, Media Center and Professional Editions through April 8, 2014.

"Microsoft will continue to support Windows XP until 8 April 2014 – about five years from now. So what are the differences between Mainstream and Extended?

Mainstream Support provides both consumers and enterprise customers with a full offering of support including complimentary support, design change requests, security updates and other kinds of updates for the product.

Extended Support does alter the range of support a bit, but for the vast majority of customers the essential core remains the same. For example, customers will continue to receive free security updates and can call in for paid support until the second Tuesday in April of 2014."

For a vast majority of users (Over 60% still use Windows XP) , this can mean a savings of a few hundred dollars by not having to buy Windows Vista. You can rest assured that you will receive free security updates until April 8, 2014. Lack of security updates is one of the main reasons people are forced to upgrade. Windows 2000 users will be faced with this problem on July 13, 2010 when extended support runs out. Considering Windows XP is a very reliable operating system with extensive free software and free games available for it, there is no compelling reason to upgrade to Vista unless you require DirectX 10 game support.

References:
Extended Support Begins for Windows XP—Support for XP Continues Until 2014 (Microsoft Support Lifecycle Blog)
Microsoft Support Lifecycle (Microsoft)
Windows Life-Cycle Policy (Microsoft)
XP Freeware - A Windows XP Freeware Guide (Optimize Guides)
XP Games - A Windows XP Freeware Game Guide (Optimize Guides)

The Case Against Sarah Palin (2012)

Even though the U.S. Presidential elections are long over (no I did not vote for and do not support Barrack Obama) there is a lot of talk about Sarah Palin running for President in 2012. I find this absolutely ridiculous as she was not and will not be the most qualified person the Republican party has to run. John McCain chose her for no other reason then with the hopes to pick up disgruntled Hillary Clinton supporters. Picking someone for their race or gender is identity politics and I am firmly against affirmative action. Contrary to delusional social conservatives, Sarah Palin is not only unqualified with irrelevant education for political office but she is on the wrong side of important issues. Social conservatives only care about a handful of issues, mainly abortion and religion. So if a candidate passes this litmus test everything else can be excused, which is ridiculous. No matter how many times I factually proved people wrong about her I am continuously censored and banned by the same people who cry that the left censors them. Which only proves they are hypocrites. I personally was never a Republican but a Libertarian. The Republican party is going down a dangerous path appealing to the right-wing extremists if it seriously considers running Sarah Palin again. You would think that losing badly would teach people a lesson but it appears some people wish to ignore reality and want to pretend people are really "scared" of Sarah Palin's religion, family values, being a strong women or some other nonsense. These same people have obviously never spoken to a liberal of any sort as liberals are only in fear of having an idiot as president. As I will prove here, the case against Sarah Palin is overwhelming.

Sarah Palin Can't Name a Newspaper She Reads


Sarah Palin Can't Name a Supreme Court Case


Sarah Palin - Bailout is about Healthcare


Sarah Palin Doesn't Know What The Bush Doctrine Is


Sarah Palin's Foreign Policy Experience


Sarah Palin Gets Pranked


Fox News: Palin didn't know Africa was a continent


O'Reilly: Palin didn't know Africa was a continent


Palin: Founding Fathers Wrote Pledge of Allegiance (Drudge Report)


Resume

Age: 46

Religion:
- Pentecostal

Education:
- Attended, University of Hawaii at Hilo, 1982
- Attended, Hawaii Pacific University, 1982
- Attended, North Idaho Community College, 1983
- Attended, University of Idaho, 1984-1985
- Attended, Matanuska-Susitna Community College, 1985
- B.A. Journalism, University of Idaho, 1987

Political Experience:
- Former Council Member, Wasilla City Council, Alaska, 1992-1996
- Former Mayor, Wasilla City, Alaska, 1996-2002 (pop: 7,028) (Votes: 909)
- Failed Candidate, Lieutenant Governor, Alaska, 2002
- Resigned, Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, 2003-2004
- Resigned, Governor, Alaska, 2006-present (2.5 years) (pop: 670,053) (4th Smallest State) (0.002% of the U.S. population)
- Failed Republican Vice Presidential Candidate, 2008

Professional Experience:
- First Place, Miss Wasilla Beauty Contest, 1984
- Second Place, Miss Alaska Pageant, 1984
- Television Sports Reporter, 1987-1989
- Director, Ted Stevens Excellence in Public Service, Inc., 2003-2007
- Facebook Blogger, 2008-Present

Accomplishments:
- Spent more than $50,000 in city funds to redecorate her office as Mayor of Wasilla
- Increased Spending by 55% as Mayor of Wasilla
- Secured $27 million in Federal Earmarks as Mayor of Wasilla
- Raised the Sales Tax by 25% as Mayor of Wasilla
- Racked up $20 Million in Long Term Debt as Mayor of Wasilla
- Supported building the 'Bridge to Nowhere' as Governor of Alaska
- Kept $223 Million in Federal Earmarks for the 'Bridge to Nowhere' as Governor of Alaska
- Increased Spending by 31% as Governor of Alaska
- Requested $456 Million in Federal Earmarks as Governor of Alaska
- Alaska's State Economic Freedom Ranking Dropped from 33 to 45 as Governor of Alaska
- Alaska Ranked 48 out of 50 as one of The Worst States for Business as Governor of Alaska
- Raised Taxes on Oil Profits to 25% as Governor of Alaska
- Requested $642 Million of Federal Stimulus Money as Governor of Alaska


Qualified?

"So, Sarah Palin. The man who would be the oldest to embark on a first presidential term has chosen as his possible successor a person of negligible experience." - George Will, Conservative Columnist (The Washington Post)

"The vice president's only constitutional duty of any significance is to become president at a moment's notice. Palin is not ready. Nor is Obama. But with Palin, the case against Obama evaporates." - Charles Krauthammer, Conservative Columnist (The Washington Post)

"Can anyone say with a straight face that Palin would have gotten picked if she were a man?" - Ramesh Ponnuru, Conservative Columnist (National Review)

"The Palin pick shows a low opinion of the vice presidency, and it shows conservatives in a bad light." - Rick Brookhiser, Conservative Columnist (National Review)

"Obama, for all his far-left socialism, picked a running mate who is perceived as giving the ticket more experience. McCain, in defiance of all logic, undermined his strong suit by selecting a political neophyte who waters down his key advantage over Obama." - Michael Savage, Conservative Talk Radio Host (Michael Savage)

"Ms. Palin's experience in government makes Barack Obama look like George C. Marshall. She has zero foreign policy experience, and no record on national security issues. Mr. McCain's supporters argue that he is more serious about national security than Barack Obama. But the selection of Sarah Palin invites the question: How serious can he be if he would place such a neophyte second in line to the presidency?" - David Frum, Former Speechwriter for President George W. Bush (National Post)

"She's not qualified, she doesn't have the judgment, to be next in line to the president of the United States," - Larry Persily, Former Congressional Liaison, Alaska Governor's Washington DC Office (Bloomberg)

"I think it's a stretch to, in any way, to say that she's got the experience to be president of the United States." - Chuck Hagel, Republican Senator from Nebraska (Omaha World Herald)

"I do not think that Barack Obama or her are experienced enough to be President of the United States - neither one of them, ...certainly Joe Biden is much more qualified than Sarah Palin" - John Ensign, Republican Senator from Nevada (Las Vegas Sun)

"I don't think at the moment she is prepared to take over the reins of the presidency" - Lawrence Eagleburger, Former Secretary of State for President George H.W. Bush (The Washington Post)

"I think it has very much undermined the whole question of John McCain’s judgment. You know what most Americans I think realized is that you don’t offer a job, let alone the vice presidency, to a person after one job interview. Even at McDonald’s, you’re interviewed three times before you get a job." - Ken Duberstein, Former Chief of Staff for President Ronald Reagan (Politico)

"I don't believe she's ready to be president of the United States, which is the job of the vice president. And so that raised some question in my mind as to the judgment that Sen. McCain made." - Colin Powell, Former Secretary of State for President George W. Bush (L.A. Times)

"Palin is in no way qualified to take over the presidency should, God forbid, McCain die in office." - Diane McCarty, Former Mayor of Tenakee Springs, Alaska (Juneau Empire)

"Her interviews with ABC's Charles Gibson and CBS's Katie Couric were downright embarrassing. Her knowledge of American political history and international issues was disgraceful. Is she spunky? Is she ambitious? Is she attractive? Can she sometimes deliver a powerful speech? Yes to all. Is she dumb? Well, let's put it this way: She's clearly no intellect." - Bonnie Erbe (U.S. News & World Report)

"As we’ve seen and heard more from John McCain’s running mate, it is increasingly clear that Palin is a problem. Quick study or not, she doesn’t know enough about economics and foreign policy to make Americans comfortable with a President Palin should conditions warrant her promotion." - Kathleen Parker, Conservative Columnist (National Review)

"The most qualified? No. I think they went for this - excuse me - political bullshit about narratives," - Peggy Noonan, Conservative Columnist (Politico)


Polls

82% believed Sarah Palin caused John McCain to lose the election (CNN)
81% of independent voters said they were less likely to vote for McCain because of Palin (Los Angeles Times / Bloomberg)
80% of women voters believe McCain picked Palin for Political Reasons not Qualifications (Garin-Hart-Yang Research Group)
79% of uncommitted voters did not believe Palin won the VP Debate (CBS News / Knowledge Networks)
75% of likely voters did not believe Palin has the right experience to be president (AP / GfK)
72% of registered independent voters were not very comfortable with Palin as President (FOX News / Opinion Dynamics)
72% of voters say that McCain's choice of Palin did not make them inclined to vote Republican (San Francisco Chronicle)
70% of voters do not believe Sarah Palin is qualified to step in as President (FOX News / Edison/Mitofsky)
68% of voters were not very comfortable with Palin as President (FOX News / Opinion Dynamics)
66% of likely voters were not very comfortable with Palin as Vice President (FOX News / Opinion Dynamics)
61% of voters did not believe Sarah Palin is ready to serve as President (USA Today / Gallup)
60% of voters do not believe Palin is Qualified to be President if Necessary (CNN Exit Polls)
60% of women under 50 have an unfavorable opinion of Sarah Palin (The Pew Research Center)
60% of Americans do not think Sarah Palin has enough experience to be President (ABC News)
59% of voters said Sarah Palin is not qualified (New York Times / CBS News)
58% of Americans do not think Palin is qualified to assume the presidency (CNN / Opinion Research)
58% of likely women voters do not have a positive opinion of Palin (Time Magazine)
57% of likely voters said Palin does not have the personal qualities a president should have (CNN / Opinion Research)
56% of registered women voters trust Hillary Clinton more than Sarah Palin (Blum & Weprin Associates)
55% of registered voters did not believe Palin is qualified to step in as president (Newsweek / Princeton Survey Research Associates)
55% of voters said Sarah Palin is unqualified (NBC News / Wall Street Journal)
52% of women voters said Sarah Palin is not qualified (Quinnipiac University / Wall Street Journal)
51% of likely voters view Sarah Palin unfavorably (ABC News / Washington Post)

2012 Presidential Poll: Obama blows out Palin 55-35 (Public Policy Polling)


Issues

Bailout:

Sarah Palin: Bailout or Great Depression. Choose (U.S. News and World Report)


Bridge to Nowhere:

Palin's Bridge Claim Sinks (Video) (CBS News)
Palin backed 'bridge to nowhere' in 2006 (USA Today)
Palin "bridge to nowhere" line angers many Alaskans (Reuters)
Palin touts stance on 'Bridge to Nowhere,' doesn't note flip-flop (Anchorage Daily News)
Record Contradicts Palin's 'Bridge' Claims (The Wall Street Journal)

ADN: "Would you continue state funding for the proposed Knik Arm and Gravina Island bridges?"
PALIN: "Yes." - (Anchorage Daily News, 2006)

Palin hung on to 'bridge to nowhere' funds (United Press International)
Palin Administration Still Pursuing ‘Nowhere’ Project (Pro Publica)


Budget Surplus:

Alaska sees $1.25 billion budget gap on oil price drop (Reuters)

"Sliding oil prices and production have prompted Alaska officials to forecast a state budget shortfall of $1.25 billion in the next fiscal year instead of the surplus they predicted just two months ago." - Reuters

Drug Use:

She Smoked Pot! (The Atlantic)
Sarah inhaled (Salon)


Earmarks:

Alaska 1st, Ariz. last in pork spending (USA Today)
Palin Admits Backing Earmarks (The Washington Post)
Palin used system she now opposes (Los Angeles Times)
Palin's earmark requests: more per person than any other state (The Seattle Times)
Palin's Project List Totals $453 Million (The Wall Street Journal)
Palin's Small Alaska Town Secured Big Federal Funds (The Washington Post)
Setting The Record: Palin's Earmarks (CBS News)


Economy:

Alaska Ranks 48 of 50 as one of The Worst States for Business (Forbes)
Alaska Ranks 45 of 50 States in Economic Freedom (PDF) (Pacific Research Institute)

"Between 2004-2008 Alaska dropped 12 spots from 33 to 45 out of 50 states in Economic Freedom. It ranks 49 in welfare spending, 31 in Government Size and 30 in fiscal policy." - Pacific Research Institute

Energy Expert:

Palin's Nonsensical Answer On Domestic Energy




Family Values:

Palin says daughter, 17, is pregnant (Reuters)
Levi Johnston reveals that Sarah Palin knew he and Bristol were having sex (The New York Daily News)
Levi Johnston: Palin is lying (Politico)


Fiscal Policy:

Sarah Palin's wasteful ways (Salon)
Spending rose in Palin's Alaska administrations (USA Today)


Global Warming:

Palin acknowledges global-warming threat (The Seattle Times)
Biden, Palin in complete agreement: Carbon caps are coming (The Industry Standard)
MODERATOR: "...do you support capping carbon emissions?"
PALIN: "I do. I do." (Transcript)

STATE OF ALASKA OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR: ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER NO. 238

"I, Sarah Palin, Governor of the State of Alaska, under the authority of art. III, secs. 1 and 24 of the Alaska Constitution establish the Alaska Climate Change Sub-Cabinet to advise the Office of the Governor on the preparation and implementation of an Alaska climate change strategy.

10. the opportunities to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from Alaska sources.

12. the opportunities to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the operations of Alaska state government;

13. the opportunities for Alaska to participate in carbon-trading markets, including the offering of carbon sequestration."

Illegal Immigration:

Palin: "I support a path to citizenship for illegals" (Hot Air)


Military Experience:

'Commander' Palin and the Alaska National Guard' (Anchorage Daily News)

"Palin has never personally ordered the state guard to do anything." - ADN

Pipeline:

Alaska lawmakers question gas line's economics (USA Today)

"The Canadian company won an exclusive state license to build the pipeline under the Alaska Gasline Inducement Act, and with it up to $500 million in state incentives. Another company, formed by ConocoPhillips and BP PLC, is proposing its own pipeline without the incentives.

The global recession, combined with the new sources of natural gas, are creating surpluses in the Lower 48 that could depress prices for years to come, and possibly stall the Alaska project. Natural gas was trading around $7 per 1,000 cubic feet when the Legislature passed the inducement act in 2007 and briefly soared to more than $10 in 2008, making the project more enticing. But on Wednesday, prices settled at $3.68 per 1,000 cubic feet, and that’s not the only thing dropping. The state budget is facing $1.3 billion shortfalls this year and next.

Still, the gas pipeline will not be in service until 2019 at best and state officials say lawmakers need to focus on a long-term prize that could be the state’s next economic lifeline.

Natural gas is plentiful in the Lower 48 and becoming ever more so thanks to new sources like shale to bolster dwindling supplies of conventional gas. In just the last 10 years, more than 20,000 miles of new natural gas pipeline have been built and brought online and another 10,100 miles are planned by 2010, according to the Energy Information Administration. If completed, the nation’s natural gas capacity would jump by more than 38 percent, the EIA said.

Still, no matter how rosy a picture the energy analysts and state officials paint, it’s the big oil companies that hold the leases to Alaska’s gas. And while the two pipeline competitors said they are moving toward a 2010 open season — where it’s hoped that producers will bid on space in the line to ship the gas — it’s not at all certain that will happen. The oil and gas companies have complained that the state’s tax structure and fiscal terms are too uncertain for them to make that 25- to 30-year bet." - USA Today

AP: Palin pipeline terms curbed bids (USA Today)
No guarantee gas pipeline will be built (USA Today)
Palin's Pipeline Is Years From Being a Reality (The New York Times)


Private Sector Experience:

Sarah the CEO? (Inc.com)

"Both returns name Todd Palin as proprietor and the couple's Wasilla home as a main office. On her public financial disclosure form, Palin describes the business as a sole proprietorship owned by her husband" - Inc.com

Pro-Life:

Palin picks former Planned Parenthood board member for Alaska Supreme Court (Associated Press)
Sarah Palin considered aborting Down's syndrome son 'for a fleeting moment' (The Guardian, UK)


Reformer:

Mean Girl (Salon)

"Palin's reputation as a reformer stems primarily from her headline-grabbing ouster of state GOP chairman Randy Ruedrich from the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission for flagrant conflict-of-interest abuses. At the time, Palin was heralded in the press as a whistle-blower, but it was later revealed that she was guilty of the same charge that she had brought against Ruedrich -- using state office equipment for partisan political business. (While still mayor of Wasilla, she sent out campaign fundraising appeals from her office during her race for lieutenant governor.)

Others suspect that Palin had self-serving reasons for taking on Ruedrich and resigning her seat on the commission. The state energy panel had ignited a public firestorm in Palin's home base, Mat-Su Valley, by secretly leasing sub-surface drilling rights on thousands of residential lots to a Colorado-based gas producer. Outraged farmers and homeowners, who woke up one morning to find drilling equipment being hauled onto their land, were in open revolt against the commission. While Palin initially supported the leasing plan, she was shrewd enough to realize it was political suicide to alienate conservative property owners in her own district. According to some accounts, she was also growing tired of commuting to state offices in Anchorage and poring over dry, tedious technical manuals for her job. All in all, it seemed like the right move to jump ship -- and going out a hero was an added plus.

"Sarah quit the commission to make political hay," Halcro asserted.

In the end, Ruedrich admitted wrongdoing and settled the ethics case by paying $12,000 in civil fines. But Palin did not drive the well-connected Republican operative into exile. In fact, he remains the party's state chairman and he could be seen on the floor of the Republican convention in St. Paul, Minn., hugging the newly crowned vice-presidential candidate and cheering her feisty speech against greedy old boys like, well, him.

"The idea that Sarah shook up the state's old-boy network is one big fantasy, it's complete bullshit," Halcro said. "She got all this public acclaim for throwing people who backed her under the bus -- but she only did it after they became expendable, when she no longer needed them.

"The good old boys in Alaska are still the good old boys -- they're alive and kicking. Randy is still running the Republican Party -- he wasn't happy about being turned into a national poster boy for corruption, but he went along with the program." - Salon

Religion:

Palin once blessed to be free from 'witchcraft' (USA Today)



Does Sarah Palin Have a Pentecostal Problem? (Time Magazine)


Where she was saved (Salon)

"When she's in the state capital, Palin attends the Juneau Christian Center, an Assemblies of God (Pentecostal) Church" - Salon

Palin's preacher problem (The Guardian, UK)


Jewish voters may be wary of Palin (Politico)

McCain’s VP Wants Creationism Taught in School (Wired)


Renewable Energy:

- Alaska Generates Only 0.1% of it's Electricity from Renewable Energy (Not Hydroelectric) (EIA)


Socialism:

Fact Check: Palin's Alaska spreads its wealth (FOX News)

"We're set up, unlike other states in the union, where it's collectively Alaskans own the resources. So we share in the wealth when the development of these resources occurs." - Sarah Palin, 2008

Palin enthusiastically practices socialism, Alaska-style (Anchorage Daily News)
Palin: Government Can Fix Social Ills (CBS News)


Taxes:

Alaska Raises Tax On Oil Profits To 25% (CBS News, November 17, 2007)
Alaska Gov. Palin signs bill to hike oil tax (Reuters, December 19, 2007)
Palin owes thousands in Back Taxes (Anchorage Daily News)
Palin Now Owes Taxes on Payments for Nights at Home, State Rules (The Washington Post)


The case against Sarah Palin is overwhelming to any rational human being. I have nothing against her personally only the disinformation campaign launched by her cult like supporters. 'Palintologists' as I like to call them obsessively spread lies and propaganda about her and try to silence all opposing arguments. They have successfully moved to have all dissenters banned and censored from conservative web sites. Dissent will not be tolerated in the new Palin collective. Apparently when they cannot win the argument through debate they will have you silenced. The problem with that is the more you try to silence me, the louder I get - Palintologists be warned.

Global Cooling in 2008

2008 was a year of Global Cooling contrary to the propaganda promoted by Al Gore and the mainstream media about a "warming earth". Hundreds to thousands of people froze to death in India, China and Afghanistan. There was record breaking cold temperatures and snow falls yet the hysteria continued - a climate tour icebreaker got stuck in Arctic ice, AGW activists learned the hard way that the Arctic still had ice and snow fell as the UK's House of Commons debated Global Warming legislation. Ironic? Yes but the empirical evidence clearly shows that the climate is cooling:


2008 - Cold Weather Kills 38 in Northern India (FOX News, January 2, 2008)
2008 - Indian cold wave toll kills 90 (The Earth Times, January 3, 2008)
2008 - A cold spell soon to replace global warming (RIA Novosti, January 3, 2008)
2008 - Cold Stretches Throughout East; Flurries Reported in Florida (FOX News, January 3, 2008)
2008 - Br-r-r! Where did global warming go? (The Boston Globe, January 6, 2008)
2008 - Snow, winds close highways, collapse roofs in Wash. (USA Today, January 8, 2008)
2008 - First snow for 100 years falls on Baghdad (AFP, January 11, 2008)
2008 - Saudi Arabia covered with snow in coldest winter for 20 years (RIA Novosti, January 11, 2008)
2008 - Russian scientist says Earth could soon face new Ice Age (RIA Novosti, January 22, 2008)
2008 - China battles "coldest winter in 100 years" (Reuters, February 4, 2008)
2008 - Canadian Scientists Fear Global Cooling (NewsBusters, February 8, 2008)
2008 - Solar Activity Diminishes; Researchers Predict Another Ice Age (DailyTech, February 9, 2008)
2008 - Record Cold for Northern Minn.: 40 Below (Associated Press, February 11, 2008)
2008 - Madison breaks its record for winter snowfall (USA Today, February 12, 2008)
2008 - China's freak cold weather killed 107 (Reuters, February 13, 2008)
2008 - Record cold kills cattle and rice in Vietnam (The Earth Times, February 13, 2008)
2008 - Freezing weather kills over 900 people in Afghanistan (RIA Novosti, February 16, 2008)
2008 - Cold weather kills 60,000 cattle in Vietnam (China Daily, February 18, 2008)
2008 - 4 sources say "globally cooler" in the past 12 months (Anthony Watts, Meteorologist, February 19, 2008)
2008 - ISRAEL: Cold weather kills 14 homeless people (Reuters. February 21, 2008)
2008 - Global Cooling: Amazing pictures of countries joining Britain in the big freeze (Daily Mail, UK, February 21, 2008)
2008 - Forget global warming: Welcome to the new Ice Age (National Post, Canada, February 25, 2008)
2008 - Temperature Monitors Report Widescale Global Cooling (DailyTech, February 26, 2008)
2008 - Global warming sceptics buoyed by record cold (The Daily Telegraph, UK, February 26, 2008)
2008 - Cold kills 1,300 in Afghanistan (RIA Novosti, February 27, 2008)
2008 - Record snow smothers New England (USA Today, February 28, 2008)
2008 - Coldest Winter in Memory (NewsMax, March 4, 2008)
2008 - Globe may be cooling on Global Warming (Scripps Howard News Service, March 5, 2008)
2008 - Layers of snow cause 5 roofs to collapse (Forbes, March 5, 2008)
2008 - Extreme cold kills 1,000 Tibetan gazelles (China Daily, March 7, 2008)
2008 - Coolest Winter Since 2001 For U.S., Globe, According To NOAA Data (Science Daily, March 15, 2008)
2008 - It was the coldest Easter for more than 40 years (Daily Mail, UK, March 25, 2008)
2008 - The Oceans Have Stopped Warming! (Canada Free Press, March 26, 2008)
2008 - Global temperatures 'to decrease' (BBC, April 4, 2008)
2008 - No Global Warming Since 1998 As Planet Cools Off (Prison Planet, April 4, 2008)
2008 - Global Warming? Northeast Skies Through a Snowy Season (The New York Sun, April 4, 2008)
2008 - Global warming? Scotland sees its best snow in a decade (The Times, UK, April 19, 2008)
2008 - The Antarctic deep sea gets colder (Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, April 21, 2008)
2008 - Glacier resumes growing in Mount St. Helens crater (The Seattle Times, April 21, 2008)
2008 - Sorry to ruin the fun, but an ice age cometh (The Australian, April 23, 2008)
2008 - Global warming may 'stop', scientists predict (The Daily Telegraph, UK, April 30, 2008)
2008 - May Day storm brings snow to Colorado mountains (USA Today, May 1, 2008)
2008 - New Jason Satellite Indicates 23-Year Global Cooling (Hawaii Reporter, May 7, 2008)
2008 - U.S. Has 36th Coolest Spring on Record (NOAA, June 6, 2008)
2008 - Global Temperature Also Cooler in May (Anthony Watts, Meteorologist, June 6, 2008)
2008 - Global Warming Movement Turns Cool (James Spann, AMS Certified Meteorologist, June 22, 2008)
2008 - Warming on 11 year hiatus? How about cooling? (Anthony Watts, Meteorologist, June 23, 2008)
2008 - Astronomical Society of Australia publishes new paper warning of solar quieting and global cooling (Anthony Watts, Meteorologist, June 28, 2008)
2008 - Australian Researchers Warn of Global Cooling (DailyTech, July 1, 2008)
2008 - Charlotte temperature hits 123-year low (The Charlotte Observer, July 2, 2008)
2008 - UAH Global Temperatures, June 2008 still low (Anthony Watts, Meteorologist, July 2, 2008)
2008 - Glaciers on California's Mt. Shasta keep growing (USA Today, July 8, 2008)
2008 - Four scientists: Global Warming Out, Global Cooling In (Anthony Watts, Meteorologist, July 12, 2008)
2008 - Shifting of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation assures global cooling for the next 3 decades (Don J. Easterbrook Ph.D. Professor of Environmental Geology, July 20, 2008)
2008 - Anchorage’s record setting cold summer (Anchorage Daily News, July 24th, 2008)
2008 - More Global Cooling Ahead, Study Says (The Heartland Institute, August 1, 2008)
2008 - Could the Earth be cooling its heels? (Delta Farm Press, August 7, 2008)
2008 - Solar radio waves could signal global cooling (Financial Post, Canada, August 11, 2008)
2008 - Is there a cold future just lying in wait for us? (Belfast Telegraph, UK, August 13, 2008)
2008 - Decade has had fewest 90-degree days since 1930 (Chicago Tribune, August 13, 2008)
2008 - Dearth Of Sunspot Activity To Herald New Ice Age? (Prison Planet, August 14, 2008)
2008 - Hadley Climate Center Data shows global cooling in the last year (Anthony Watts, Meteorologist, August 15, 2008)
2008 - Mexican scientist warn Earth will enter 'Little Ice Age' for up to 80 Years Due to decrease in solar activity (Right Side News, August 19, 2008)
2008 - Global cooling gains momentum among scientists (Delta Farm Press, August 25, 2008)
2008 - Former head of CSIRO’s division of space science says global cooling may be on the way (Canberra Times, Australia, August 26, 2008)
2008 - 'Snowfall' shocks Kenyan village (BBC, September 3, 2008)
2008 - Global Warming’s Kaput; 2008 Coolest in 5 Years (NewsMax, September 8, 2008)
2008 - Old Farmers Almanac: Global cooling may be underway (USA Today, September 9, 2008)
2008 - NAS reports: 50 million year cooling trend (The Christian Science Monitor, September 25, 2008)
2008 - Global cooling sign: Solar winds at 50-year-low (Financial Post, Canada, September 28, 2008)
2008 - Ireland: Coldest September for 14 years (The Press Association, October 1, 2008)
2008 - Boise gets earliest snow on record (The Idaho Statesman, October 11, 2008)
2008 - Alaskan Glaciers Grow for First Time in 250 years (DailyTech, October 16, 2008)
2008 - Thirty years of warmer temperatures go poof (National Post, Canada, October 20, 2008)
2008 - Chill in the air: record low temps in 10 states (Anthony Watts, Meteorologist, October 26, 2008)
2008 - London has first October snow in over 70 years (The Guardian, UK, October 29, 2008)
2008 - Tibet's 'worst snowstorm ever', 7 killed (Xinhua, October 30, 2008)
2008 - NOAA: U.S. breaks or ties 115 cold and sets 63 new snowfall records (Anthony Watts, Meteorologist, October 30, 2008)
2008 - Global Cooling is Here (Global Research, November 2, 2008)
2008 - Alarmists Still Heated Even As World Cools (Investors Business Daily, November 04, 2008)
2008 - Third building collapses under weight of snow (Ottawa Citizen, November 10, 2008)
2008 - Bitter cold shatters record (The Charlotte Observer, November 19, 2008)
2008 - UK brought to standstill as five inches of snow falls (The Daily Telegraph, UK, November 25, 2008)
2008 - Glaciers in Norway Growing Again (DailyTech, November 27, 2008)
2008 - Early Snowfalls In Europe Hit 'Historic Levels' (Ski Report Europe, December 3, 2008)
2008 - Rare 50 year Arctic Blast Sets Sights On Southern California (Ontario Weather Service, December 8, 2008)
2008 - Oscillation Rules as the Pacific Cools (NASA, December 9, 2008)
2008 - Houston ties earliest snowfall record (Houston Chronicle, December 10, 2008)
2008 - Rare snow falls in south Louisiana, Miss., Alabama (ABC News, December 11, 2008)
2008 - Worst ice storm in decade hits New England (Nashua Telegraph, December 12, 2008)
2008 - Cold weather sets records in several cities (Great Falls Tribune, December 14, 2008)
2008 - Denver breaks 107 year old record (Thornton Weather, December 15, 2008)
2008 - Dangerously cold temperatures set records in Denver (Thornton Weather, December 15, 2008)
2008 - Record low temperature set this morning in Seattle (The Seattle Times, December 15, 2008)
2008 - Northeast Siberia braces for extreme cold of -60C (RIA Novosti, December 15, 2008)
2008 - Record cold chills out Colorado (The Gazette, December 15, 2008)
2008 - Record cold grips southern Alberta (The Lethbridge Herald, Canada, December 15, 2008)
2008 - Record snow hits Nanaimo in British Columbia, Canada (Times Colonist, Canada, December 15, 2008)
2008 - Record setting cold continues for Thornton and Denver (Thornton Weather, December 16, 2008)
2008 - This year is coolest since 2000 (BBC, December 16, 2008)
2008 - St. Cloud, Minnesota Records fall to weather system (St. Cloud Times, December 17, 2008)
2008 - The Cause of Cold Weather Is Global Warming? (FOX News, December 18, 2008)
2008 - Global cooling is here (Seattle Post-Intelligencer, December 18, 2008)
2008 - Record snow fall paralyzing Spokane (The Seattle Times, December 18, 2008)
2008 - Frigid Storm Closes California Freeways, Drops Snow in Malibu (FOX News, December 18, 2008)
2008 - Las Vegas gets heaviest snow fall in 30 years (The Daily Telegraph, UK, December 18, 2008)
2008 - Carports collapse under heavy snow (Las Vegas Sun, December 18, 2008)
2008 - Bihar cold wave death toll rises to 24 (The Bihar Times, India, December 19, 2008)
2008 - The Alps have best snow conditions 'in a generation' (The Daily Telegraph, UK, December 19, 2008)
2008 - Global cooling brings early white Christmas (Ventura County Star, December 20, 2008)
2008 - Albany Breaks 1887 Snow Record (North County Gazette, December 21, 2008)
2008 - The Spotless Sun Continues as Global Cooling Arrives (Joseph D’Aleo, M.S. Meteorology, CCM, AMS Fellow, December 21, 2008)
2008 - Beijing's coldest December day in 57 years (Danwei, Hong Kong, December 22, 2008)
2008 - 40-Year Record Snow Buries Portland Area (The Oregonian, December 22, 2008)
2008 - Heavy snow causes a roof to collapse in Portland (The Oregonian, December 22, 2008)
2008 - Record amount of snow on the ground in Calgary (Financial Post, Canada, December 22, 2008)
2008 - Snow causes roof collapse at Calgary Soccer Centre (Calgary Herald, Canada, December 22, 2008)
2008 - Snow causes roof collapse at Marysville business (The Seattle Times, December 22, 2008)
2008 - Cold weather kills 10 in Maryland since October (The Baltimore Examiner, December 23, 2008)
2008 - It's Cold Outside, But Global Warming Industry Still Hard At Work (Human Events. December 23, 2008)
2008 - An inconvenient truth: The Earth is cooling (The Baltimore Examiner, December 23, 2008)
2008 - Snow, again? Vegas sets another record this morning (Las Vegas Sun, December 23, 2008)
2008 - Deep freeze, heavy snows blast US; holiday travel snarled (AFP, December 23, 2008)
2008 - Record snow buries Beaver Creek, Colorado (Vail Daily, December 24, 2008)
2008 - Half of the USA is covered in snow (Anthony Watts, Meteorologist, December 25, 2008)
2008 - San Juan County, New Mexico experiences rare white Christmas (The Daily Times, December 25, 2008)
2008 - Canadians get first national white Christmas in nearly four decades (The Canadian Press, December 25, 2008)
2008 - For the First Time in Years, Western Part of Lake Superior Freezes Over (ICECAP, Wisconsin, December 26, 2008)
2008 - Green Bay snowfall breaks 1887 record for December (Green Bay Press-Gazette, December 26, 2008)
2008 - Heavy snow causes roof collapse at Olympia high school (The Seattle Times, December 26, 2008)
2008 - Snowfall immobilizes rural communities in eastern, central Turkey (Todays Zaman, December 26, 2008)
2008 - Spokane sets snow record, tops 45 inches (Yakima Herald-Republic, December 26, 2008)
2008 - Two Flagstaff strip malls closed after roofs collapse due to heavy snow (The Arizona Daily Sun, December 26, 2008)
2008 - Cold creates record energy demand (Great Falls Tribune, December 27, 2008)
2008 - Thousands trapped in -15 degree snowstorm in Sikkim, India (The Times of India, December 27, 2008)
2008 - White Christmas in Hawaii (Big Island Video News, December 27, 2008)
2008 - Olympia Horse-arena roofs collapse under snow (The Seattle Times, December 28, 2008)
2008 - Record-breaking cold descends on Switzerland (Swissinfo, Switzerland, December 28, 2008)
2008 - Ice age on its way (The Arizona Republic, December 28, 2008)
2008 - It's official: Snowfall record for single month tumbles (Wisconsin State Journal, December 29, 2008)
2008 - Snowfall amounts set records across North Dakota (Associated Press, December 30, 2008)
2008 - Record December snow at Grand Forks (Associated Press, December 30, 2008)
2008 - Spokane digs out from record-breaking snow (Associated Press, December 30, 2008)
2008 - 1958 Parry Sound Canada snow record broken (Parry Sound North Star, December 31, 2008)
2008 - 48 inches of snow in Fox Valley Wisconsin buries previous record set in 1968 (Appleton Post-Crescent, December 31, 2008)
2008 - Spokane roofs collapse under record snow (The News Tribune, December 31, 2008)
2008 - Arctic Sea Ice Ends 2008 at Same Level as 1979 (DailyTech, January 1, 2009)