Ipsa scientia potestas est

The Unites States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA, or USEPA) is an agency of the federal government of the US whose task is to protect the health of US citizens, safeguard the natural environment, and regulate chemicals.

One of the arms of the EPA is the National Center for Environmental Economics (NCEE).  According to the NCEE:

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s National Center for Environmental Economics (NCEE) offers a centralized source of technical expertise to the Agency, as well as other federal agencies, Congress, universities, and other organizations. NCEE’s staff specializes in analyzing the economic and health impacts of environmental regulations and policies, and assists EPA by informing important policy decisions with sound economics and other sciences. NCEE also contributes to and manages EPA’s research on environmental economics to improve the methods and data available for policy analysis.

Recently, a senior-researcher of 38 years, Alan Carlin has offered a critique on the standard practice and message which the EPA has been recently promoting based on, “scientific evidence”.

Interestingly enough, Alan’s research and opinions have not been shared outside the bureau.  Apparently his findings, if released to the public would be quite detrimental to the credibility of the EPA in the public eye.

According to an article by WorldnetDaily:

CEI General Counsel Sam Kazman told WND, “His boss basically told him, ‘No, I’m not going to send your study further up. It’s going to stay within this bureau.‘”

A March 12 e-mail to Carlin warned him not to have “any direct communication with anyone outside NCEE on endangerment.”

Carlin, a researcher who earned his doctorate in economics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an undergraduate degree in physics from California Institute of Technology, informed officials that two-thirds of his references were from peer-reviewed publications and defended his inclusion of new research on the topic.

“It is also my view that the critical attribute of good science is its correspondence to observable data rather than where it appears in the technical literature,” he wrote. “I believe my comments are valid, significant and contain references to significant new research … They are significant because they present information critical to justification (or lack thereof) for the proposed [greenhouse gas] endangerment finding.“

Also assisting this information is the Competitive Enterprise Institute, which acquired Endangerment Comments 6-23-09, a PDF containing four EMails from the NCEE regarding this issue, as well as a petition to push the information into the public.

So senior-researchers from the EPA and other peer-organizations are not only realizing that the whole “Global Warming” stance may be out-of-whack, but they’re also trying to come forward and get this information into the public eye.

The EPA and the NCEE need to swallow their pride, cinch up their pants, and not deceive the public any longer.

You may remember back to an earlier post of mine where I analyzed the Vostok ice-core samples.  The findings are irrefutable and debating the validity of the cycle is ludicrous.

Vostok Ice-core CO2 data

I will reiterate again, Earth undergoes a cyclical pattern whereby the temperature fluctuates up and down. Humans may partially contribute in a very small way to the direction in one way or another, but we’re not going to be able to “slow”, or “stop” global warming any more than we can “stop” the moon from orbiting the Earth.

Sure we could spend thousands of quadrillions of dollars in the attempt, but gravity and natural order will prevail, like it always has, for 4+ billion years.

While a bit old, January of 2009, this video is extremely relevant.

Gerald Kaufmann, Jewish British Labour MP, condemns Israel’s state terrorism & Nazism:

“My grandmother was ill in bed when the Nazis came to her home town a German soldier shot her dead in her bed. My grandmother did not die to provide cover for Israeli soldiers murdering Palestinian grandmothers in Gaza. The present Israeli government ruthlessly and cynically exploits the continuing guilt from gentiles over the slaughter of Jews in the Holocaust as justification for their murder of Palestinians.” – Gerald Kaufman

While this video dates back to at least 2006, the ability of this particular singer is spectacular.  If you’ve never heard of Tuvan throat singing, sometimes called “Overtone Singing”, this video will be a treat for you.

No surprises here …

One of my new themes on this site is that the Israel lobby as we know it is over. Gaza and Netanyahu shattered it. Obama gave his speech in Cairo because he knew he would have political cover from American Jews to reach out to the Muslim world. Marty Peretz and Charles Krauthammer didn’t like the speech, but Jeffrey Goldberg and Roger Cohen (and Rahm Emanuel and David Axelrod) did. That’s the ballgame.

This morning Ori Nir of Peace Now provides powerful evidence for my theory from a still-secret poll that says that women and Democrats are defecting:

“Israel Radio ran a scoop this morning: poll data showing a sharp drop in Americans’ perception that Israel’s government seeks peace. The poll was conducted by a U.S. organization that strives to improve Israel’s image here.”

You see: When Obama distances himself from Israel, the American people are listening. And the poll was conducted by The Israel Project, a lobby organization that I gather had a couple of people on hand in Cairo to interpret Obama’s speech to reporters. (I missed them.)  Nir continues:

The state-run radio station’s Washington correspondent, Nathan Guttman, obtained data from a recent unpublished poll, conducted by the Israel Project, an organization that works to improve Israel’s image in the United States.

The Israel Project has been conducting a periodic running poll, asking American registered voters questions about Israel. Consistently, the polls’ results – those that were published – have so far shown a steady, sturdy level of support for Israel as a peace seeking country.

That has changed, quite dramatically, now that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is refusing to get on board President Obama’s two-state peace push. And that change is probably why the Israel Project has not (yet?) published its poll.

According to the poll, conducted among a rather large sample (800 registered voters) between June 9 and June 11, there has been a 20% drop (!) in the perception of Israel’s government as peace seeking. Here are the data. The question asked was: “And, how committed do you think the Israeli government, led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, is to reaching a peace agreement with the Palestinians?” A similar question (“How committed do you think the Israeli government is to reaching a peace agreement with the Palestinians?”) was asked in December 2008 and in March 2009.

In December and March, the results were almost identical: 66% said it was committed and 29% (in December) and 30% (in March) said it was not. This month, however, in the light of the open conflict on Israeli-Palestinian peace between Bibi and Obama, only 46% say Israel is committed and 39% say it is not.

Furthermore, there is a steep decline in the percentage of Americans who say that the U.S. should support Israel. That has dropped from 71% in March 2008 (at the time of the Annapolis process) to only 44% now.

Israel Radio reported that the Israel Project confirmed the validity of the poll and the data, but said they were “not final.”

APN has leaned that the poll findings were sent confidentially to a small number of people in the U.S. and in Israel.

A second source who passed this along includes the following: “An analysis of the results shows that the largest decrease in support for Israel is among women and Democratic Party voters. Those who commissioned the poll have decided not to publicize it for now because of its negative results regarding Israel.”

Taken from:

http://www.philipweiss.org/mondoweiss/2009/06/israel-radio-ran-a-scoop-this-morning-poll-data-showing-a-sharp-drop-in-americans-perception-that-israels-government-s.html

57 States, 1 left, and he couldn’t go to Alaska or Hawaii.  Which means there are a total of 60 States?  I’ve heard Bush say some stupid things but come on…