Wednesday, 18 March 2009












Wednesday, 18th March 2009

That fabled consensus again

11:27am

To date, objections to man-made global warming theory have rested on such positions as a) there is no evidence that current warming levels are deviating from historical patterns; b) studies claiming the existence of such evidence tend to be sloppy, inaccurate or fraudulent; c) claims of already visible effects of such warming are demonstrably false; d) the theory rests upon dubious computer modelling, which boils down to ‘rubbish in, rubbish out’; e) something as complex as climate cannot be predicted in such a simplistic manner.

But now a new study has been published which states flatly that the very idea of anthropogenic global warming ‘lies outside any science’. Physicist Dr. Gerhard Gerlich, of the Institute of Mathematical Physics at the Technical University Carolo-Wilhelmina in Braunschweig in Germany, and Dr. Ralf D. Tscheuschner co-authored a July 7, 2007 paper entitled ‘Falsification of...

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However they twist this, it's still a Red Line

10:41am


After a meeting on Monday of the EU’s foreign ministers, there were growing calls for the EU finally to turn its back on the ‘Durban II’ UN anti-Israel hate-fest scheduled to take placed in Geneva next month. The Czech Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg said there was a ‘strong call to withdraw’ because of general scepticism about the direction of the final Declaration that was being prepared. The German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeiersaid:

I am in favor of canceling participation in the conference, unless the documents are changed substantially within the next hours and days.

Yesterday, the Durban negotiators released the latest version of the draft Declaration which they had striven to sanitise to meet such objections. But asAnne Bayefsky reports, although some of the more egregious demonisation of Israel has been removed, along with some...

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Demonising the victim

12:30am


At Hudson New York, Thomas Landen makes a striking point about the way in which the prevailing totalitarian liberal consensus in the west is demonising Jews or anti-Islamofascists as ‘Nazis,’ ‘racists’ or ‘far-right extremists’ who are ‘beyond the pale.’ Pondering examples as various as the demonisation of the murdered Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn, German activists opposing the construction of a giant mosque in Cologne and the British Anglican Islam expert Patrick Sookhdeo, Landen observes:

People are demonized as Nazis, and subsequently Nazi methods are used to eliminate them. The authorities, meanwhile, do not come to the aid of the victims since the latter are ‘Nazis.’ On the contrary, sometimes the authorities even praise the aggressors for their vigilance and their ‘intolerance’ in the fight against ‘Nazism.’

Nazis have become 'victims' and their victims become 'Nazis' -- and...

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