Trey Garrison

The Man-Made Climate Change Hoax, By the Numbers

March 2, 2010 By Trey Garrison 22 Comments

global_warming_hoax_button-p145048047397663977t5sj_400 Courtesy Ed Morrissey, here’s a roundup of how the “settled science” behind anthropogenic climate change has been torn down, exposing that it’s nothing more than hoax designed to steer power and funding towards the very people sounding the alarms.

He writes:

In the past four months, media outlets like the Times of London, the Telegraph, the Australian Herald-Sun, and even the Left-leaning paper The Guardian have broken important stories (along with bloggers) exposing the fraud, mismanagement, and unscientific behavior of the core group of AGW advocates:

University of East Anglia e-mails that exposed data destruction, attempts to hide contradictory data, and conspiracies to sabotage the work of skeptical scientists
The East Anglia CRU threw out their raw data, undermining any effort to check their work
NOAA/GHCN “homogenization” falsified climate declines into increases
East Anglia CRU’s below-standard computer modeling
No rise in atmospheric carbon fraction over the last 150 years: University of Bristol
IPCC withdraws claim that AGW will wipe out Himalayan glaciers by 2035
IPCC chief Rajendra Pachauri knew Himalayan claim was bogus for months before exposure
Amazonian rainforest conclusions not based on scientific research but on advocacy group claims
Mountain glacier claims based on unsubstantiated student theses and anecdotes from climber magazine
Search of IPCC report footnotes exposes ten more student dissertations presented as peer-reviewed research
Medieval Warming Period temperatures may have been global, undermining entire AGW case
Measurements used for AGW case were influenced by urbanization, poor location, bad data sets
African-crop claims exposed as false
IPCC researchers excluded Southern Hemisphere data to exaggerate effects of warming on hurricanes
Hurricane claims further exposed as false by actual peer-reviewed research — including by some AGW researchers
Major scientific group concludes IPCC-linked researchers “complicit in the alleged scientific malpractices

Filed Under FAIL, Global Warming Scam, Green Weenies

Poll: Majority Think Government a Threat to Freedom

February 26, 2010 By Trey Garrison 15 Comments

Washington (CNN) – A majority of Americans think the federal government poses a threat to rights of Americans, according to a new national poll.

Fifty-six percent of people questioned in a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Friday say they think the federal government’s become so large and powerful that it poses an immediate threat to the rights and freedoms of ordinary citizens. Forty-four percent of those polled disagree.

Heh.

Filed Under Galt's Gulch

Dallas Sign Ordinance Challenged by Lawsuit

February 24, 2010 By Trey Garrison 2 Comments

I brought up the injustice of the city of Dallas’ small business sign ban, championed by Councilman Dwaine Caraway, last year in my feature on Nanny State Dallas in D Magazine.

The city’s justification for this intrusive, anti-First Amendment law was that it prevented robberies, and it controlled blight. Which is brilliant government thinking. After all, business owners have no incentive to want to prevent robberies at their own stores, and nothing ends blight like having businesses go out of business when they can’t advertise to their customers.

Thankfully, the Institute for Justice has taken up the cause against the anti sign ordinance, and is suing the city of Dallas to have it overturned.

Yes, of course, you’re welcome.

Filed Under Capitalist Superheroes, Meddlesome Scolds

Dallas Tea Party Takes on Whites-Only MSNBC

February 24, 2010 By Trey Garrison 7 Comments

Awesome.

Filed Under Boob Tube, Fort Awesome, Media, Tea Party Animals

The Fix Is In: Toyota To Get Kangaroo Court

February 23, 2010 By Trey Garrison 6 Comments

So whatever legitimate problems that Toyota models have, they’re about to get the union thug treatment, courtesy the majority owner of General Motors, also known as the Federal Government.

The U.S. House has issued its conclusions in advance of hearings – saying here’s the verdict, now let’s have the trial.

WASHINGTON — Leading Democrats on the House Energy and Commerce Committee said Monday that Toyota relied on a flawed study in dismissing the notion that computer issues could be at fault for sticking accelerator pedals, and then made misleading statements about the repairs.

The comments, from Henry A. Waxman, chairman of the committee, and Bart Stupak, a subcommittee chairman, were made in an 11-page letter to James E. Lentz III, the president of Toyota Motor Sales U.S.A. The letter was released Monday on the eve of the committee’s hearing on the Toyota recalls, one of three scheduled.

Kowtowing to union lobbyists, their own vested interest in GM outperforming Toyota, and the fact that Toyota has spent only $24.9 million lobbying versus GM’s $50 million over the last five years — it’s not hard to see why key members of the House committee would embark on a smear campaign. And I’m sorry, but that’s the only way to describe what you’re going to get when you issue your conclusions before you have hearings.

Here’s the best part — even if Toyota presents evidence that vindicates itself, and that shows they were targeted for a public tarring despite the fact that other manufacturers have as many as 10 times as many safety complaints — they won’t be able to do jack or squat about it.

The damage to their reputation among buyers will be done.

Why no recourse? Sovereign immunity.

Seriously — I know American history inside and out, and we’re approaching a level of federal corruption and crony capitalism that eclipses anything short of Tammany Hall. No, this is worse. Boss Tweed was a piker compared to this lot.

When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators. -P.J. O’Rourke

Filed Under FAIL, Mickey Maoist, National Socialization of Industry, Novelty Cake Toppers, Politics

The Party of No Has Too Many Saying Yes, Please

February 22, 2010 By Trey Garrison 7 Comments

zodiac-pig-pic If Dallas people want a streetcar, we should pay for it. We shouldn’t stick our nose in the troth trough and ask the rest of America to support our pet projects. Thanks, Pete. You have a little slop on your collar, there.

The National Republican Congressional Committee, led by Texas Representative Pete Sessions, released a video montage of clips edited to show a series of news anchors and commentators asking “Where are the jobs?”

Sessions, who called the stimulus “a massive spending binge by the Democrat-controlled Congress,” wrote LaHood three times last September and October. Sessions promoted four projects, including a Dallas streetcar line he said “will create jobs in the region and improve the quality of life for North Texans.” The project got $23 million.

Sessions, in an e-mail, called the stimulus an “abject failure” and said he’d vote against it again if he could.

The lawmaker said his objections don’t keep him “from asking federal agencies for their full consideration of critical infrastructure and competitive grant projects for North Texas when asked to do so by my constituents.” Sessions has written agencies supporting six other grants, spokeswoman Emily Davis said.

Filed Under FAIL, Mickey Maoist, Politics

Dallas Police: We Don’t Need No Steenkin’ Warrant

February 18, 2010 By Trey Garrison 31 Comments

Constitution, Schmonstitution. Dallas Police are counting on intimidation and ignorance to search people’s homes without a warrant.

Remember, kids — police without search warrants have the same limits as vampires; they can’t enter your home unless you invite them.

Do what Nancy Reagan says: Just Say No

Filed Under Friendly Police State

Texas Challenges Scientific Illiterates Pushing Greenhouse Gas Rules

February 17, 2010 By Trey Garrison 10 Comments

Dateline Dallas

(Reuters) – Texas and several national industry groups on Tuesday filed separate petitions in federal court challenging the government’s authority to regulate U.S. greenhouse gas emissions.

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