“So even as the evidence grows that earth’s climate is warming and that people are responsible for at least part of the change, the toughness of the modeling problem is often cited by those who oppose international action to cut the emissions of heat-trapping gases.” – from a story on the science of global warming in today’s New York Times. Has it occurred to the Times that this sentence (which reads like it was plopped in by some meddlesome uber-editor) has it backwards? Perhaps some scientists are actually scientists, i.e. they simply don’t accept something as proven until it has been proved. The ‘toughness of the modeling problem’ requires no political agenda to cast doubt on the science of global warming – but the Times has to discredit such skepticism as fueled by politics. Later on in the (actually very helpful) piece, we find out that “a small change in the way droplets form could have a large impact on the climate, said Dr. Jenkins, in Britain. He said that Dr. Anthony Slingo, another scientist there, found a decade ago that in theory, a decrease or an increase in the size of water droplets of just 10 or 20 percent “could either halve or double the amount of climate change you’d get.”” Wow. That’s a huge variation – of which we now know nothing. The only thing here that’s really fueled by politics is the Times’ editing.
THE TIMES RATCHETS UP ITS BIAS II: “Though the Bush administration has now agreed to reopen talks with North Korea, it has set demands far broader than those pressed by President Bill Clinton, raising the prospect of protracted negotiations while Pyongyang continues to sell missiles around the world.” – from the Times today. How’s that for both sides of the issue?
BIG GAY AL IS NOT A LEFTIST: A great sign of the declining power of the gay activist left is that their ungainly rhetoric and authoritarian politics isn’t cutting it any more with most homosexuals, especially those who actually have lives and a sense of humor. Exhibit A is South Park, a truly genius comic creation on Comedy Central, and a recent movie that was easily the funniest and most shocking for a decade (in one scene it had Satan flying a Rainbow Flag hang-glider). Now South Park does the Boy Scouts and Big Gay Al, the homosexual character, comes out swinging in defense of the First Amendment. Although Big Gay Al is thrown out of the Scouts (replaced by a heterosexual pedophile), and even though the kids sue to get him reinstated, BGA declines the honor. Here’s his speech, every word of which rings true to me: “”Look, I appreciate what you kids did. I really do. But this isn’t what I wanted. I’m proud to be gay. And I’m proud to be in a country where I’m free to express myself. But freedom is a two-way street. If I’m free to express myself, then the scouts have to be free to express themselves too. I know these [scout leaders]. They are good men. They are kind men. They do what they think is best for the kids. No matter how wrong we think they might be, it isn’t right for us to force them to think our way. It’s up to us to persuade and help them see the light, not extort them to… I will continue to persuade them to change their minds, but this is the wrong way to do it. So, I am hereby dropping my case and allowing the scouts their right to not allow gays into their private club.”” Can Big Gay Al please take over the Human Rights Campaign?
The Dish 