Year of Global Cooling

Posted December 19, 2007, 12:47 p.m.

Here’s the truth about climate change: The nominal 0.7 degree Celsius increase in mean temperature over the last fifty-or-so years is, at best, inconclusive. The average volume and severity of hurricanes hasn’t gotten worse, despite predictions to the contrary. Much of the world has actually been trending cooler for the last few years. I’m a fan of being eco-friendly, and I’ll be among the first in line to buy an affordable fuel cell or electric car once a usable refueling infrastructure is in place, but the evidence points to Al Gore’s ‘inconvenient truth’—for which he ludicrously won a Nobel Peace Prize—being neither particularly inconvenient nor true.

Year of Global Cooling (Washington Times) [link no longer available].
Related: NASA Climate Data Miscalculated . . . Badly.

Scott Bradford has been putting his opinions on his website since 1995—before most people knew what a website was. He has been a professional web developer in the public- and private-sector for over twenty years. He is an independent constitutional conservative who believes in human rights and limited government, and a Catholic Christian whose beliefs are summarized in the Nicene Creed. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Public Administration from George Mason University. He loves Pink Floyd and can play the bass guitar . . . sort-of. He’s a husband, pet lover, amateur radio operator, and classic AMC/Jeep enthusiast.

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Once I conquer Finland, I’ll head south through the Baltics and on to Belarus. Soon, all the world will find me mildly amusing.

The knowledge of God is naturally implanted in all.

Communist morals follow a simple formula. Anything which promotes the communist cause is good; anything which hinders it is bad.

I know, without a special revelation, that the planets move in the orbits traced by the Creator’s finger.

If you betray yourself, if you say untrue things, if you act out a lie, you weaken your character.

You will find that the truth is often unpopular and the contest between agreeable fancy and disagreeable fact is unequal.

The object of a free and wise people should be so to balance parties, that from the weakness of all you may be governed by the moderation of the combined judgments of the whole, not tyrannized over by the blind passions of a few individuals.

I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find them, make them.

The fact that I myself, at the moment of painting, do not understand my own pictures, does not mean that these pictures have no meaning. . . .

I always go into the deal anticipating the worst. If you plan for the worst—if you can live with the worst—the good will always take care of itself.

Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance.

A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote.

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

A modest man is steady, an humble man timid, and a vain one presumptuous.

No plan of operations extends with any certainty beyond the first encounter with the main enemy forces.

But if there is anything that compelled me to write this book, it is to show that success is more a function of consistent common sense than of genius.

The ugly fact is books are made out of books. The novel depends for its life on the novels that have been written.

Everybody calls me Mr. President. It’s true. It’s a funny thing.

Those who have governed, have been found in all ages ever active to enlarge their powers and abridge the public liberty.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

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