Posted by
On the Right on Friday, July 18, 2008 8:16:34 PM
Evidence doesn't bare out
alarmist claims of global warming - THESE are the seven graphs that should make the Rudd Government feel sick.
These are the seven graphs that should make you ask: What? Has global warming now stopped?
Look for yourself. They show that the world hasn't warmed for a decade, and has even cooled for several years.
Sea ice now isn't melting, but spreading. The seas have not just stopped rising, but started to fall.
Nor is the weather getting wilder. Cyclones, as well as tornadoes and hurricanes, aren't increasing and the rain in
Australia hasn't stopped falling.
What's more, the slight warming we saw over the century until 1998 still makes the world no hotter today than it was
1000 years ago.
In fact, it's even a bit cooler. So, dude, where's my global warming? (Andrew Bolt, Herald Sun)
Fabricating
Temperatures on the DEW Line - Today I received an email that contained some startling revelations about the
Weather Stations that were put in place on the DEW Line, a network of cold war era radar monitoring stations in
Canada and Alaska, that have now been abandoned. It makes for interesting reading. I won’t reveal the name of the
sender just yet, but I don’t doubt the accuracy of the report. (Watts Up with That?)
Democrats Should Let Us Drill - Now that an
executive branch ban on offshore oil exploration has been lifted, the time has come for Democrats in Washington to
lift their own ban on increased domestic supply. Americans are demanding that Congress do something about
record-high gas prices. They recognize that prices will not go down unless supplies go up. And they also know that
the only thing now standing in the way of more domestic supply is the Democratic refusal to allow it. (Wall Street
Journal)
Drilling in the
Offshore: Unleashing the oil companies. - After trading at a record high of $147 a barrel Friday, the price of
oil saw its largest one-day drop since the 2003 beginning of the Iraq war on Tuesday, falling $6.44 a barrel.
Wednesday, it fell another $3.71, to $135.03, and at one point was trading as low as $132.
So what happened? As is usually the case with markets, a variety of factors caused this dramatic drop. According to
the Associated Press, the Energy Information Administration announced that U.S. crude-oil supplies rose by 3 million
barrels; beleaguered banks have been selling off valuable energy contracts to pay for other debts; and there’s
even some speculation that computer programs used by Wall Street may create a “cascading effect” once prices
start to drop.
But bizarrely, the AP didn’t mention that on Monday — again, the day of the single biggest one-day drop in oil
prices in five years — President Bush removed the executive order imposing a moratorium on offshore drilling in
the United States.
To think that this dramatic and unexpected move by the Bush administration didn’t have a significant effect on oil
prices is folly. Even Democrats admit that relatively small margins in oil production could have a huge impact on
prices. (Mark Hemingway, NRO)