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For years, global warming alarmists have claimed that aerosols have masked the effects of greenhouse gases in the past, explaining why global temperatures cooled during a period of rapid greenhouse gas production in the 20th century.

But a new study by University of California-San Diego and NASA (found on FoxNews.com) indicates that the alarmists were wrong about the aerosols: they don’t reduce temperature but raise it. In other words, the things that wackos claim to reduce global warming actually cause global warming.

Meanwhile, a global warming kook scientist in England, Chris Goodall, has discovered that exercise, including walking, contributes more to global warming than driving a car. He’s actually advocating sloth and driving short distances to save the world. (Captain’s Quarters). You can’t make this stuff up:

“The troubling fact is that taking a lot of exercise and then eating a bit more food is not good for the global atmosphere. Eating less and driving to save energy would be better.”–Goodall

The Fox News story rightly decries the continued push for idiotic regulations to prevent something that has no scientific support whatsoever. Human-driven global warming is the stuff religion, not science, is made of. The alarmists are mostly idiots who lack the reasoning skills and innate intelligence to separate theory from science. The scientists, on the other hand, are ideologues whose goal is to damage Western civilization, not to save the planet.

Captain Ed strikes gold, too.  His final paragraph on the food post is priceless:

Kennedy focuses mostly on food production in this column. Food production uses a tremendous amount of energy, but what’s the alternative? He quotes experts as advising people to “avoid supermarkets” and to reject frozen foods and meals as especially wasteful. It would be better to have fewer choices, less nutrition and balance, and more starvation, according to this worldview. Kennedy admits that only a vegan would choose to live this way, and even then, they’d have to drive their cars hungry to the organic grocers every other day to buy and keep their food fresh enough to eat without freezing or long-term refrigeration.

The enviroidiots remain all over the place. Lacking science, they simply announce that “all human activity contributes to global warming.” When will they merge their books on things you can do to save the planet with the suicide how-to books, like Final Exit? Clearly, the only thing we can really do to save the planet is to kill ourselves.

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The Chinese government has found a way to regulate reincarnation.  Can we use the method on the Fairness Doctrine?  (h/t Discerning Texan).

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**UPDATE** 
Michelle Malkin reports that the two suspects arrested with explosives near Charleston, SC, last night are Muslims.  See MichelleMalkin.com for updated details. (Maybe they were on their way home from YearlyKos.)  From the Charleston ABC News affiliate’s website:

The Berkeley County Sheriff’s Office believes that among materials in the car’s trunk were a bomb and bomb making materials that include chemicals, fuses, and igniters.  The men 21-year-old Yousef Megahed and 24-year-old Ahmed Mohamed were pulled over Saturday evening during a routine traffic stop near Myers Road and Highway 176.

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The YearlyKos could be the last hurrah of this new hard left, the way Woodstock was the final note of the song of the Sixties.

YearlyKos is a get-together of hard left bloggers organized by DailyKos founder Markos Moulitsas. DailyKos claimed, perhaps rightly, responsibility for the Democrat Congressional victory in 2006–much the way Hammas might claim victory for blowing up an Israeli schoolhouse.

The Kos and Democratic Underground people who filled attendee list are the kind of folks who giggle at Dick Cheney’s heart problems, wish al Qaeda victory in its war against the West, and popped bottles of bubbly upon hearing of Chief Justice Roberts’ seizure. They gloat with a parent’s satisfaction at a child’s first words when news of US military deaths hits the airwaves, and they blush with post-coital splendor when an SUV kills pedestrians. They are, in short, what is left clinging to the toilet bowl after three flushes.

The Democrat candidates for president strode into their den on Saturday last to beg for more good press on the blogs and to beg for more money. These candidates–Clinton, Obama, Edwards, and the rest–sucked up to people barely fit to be called people.

But actions speak louder than words. The Kos folk most earnestly want America to lose the war on terror, beginning in Iraq, and ending, presumably, in Wichita, Kansas. They have no idea what life is like in an Islamic dictatorship, but they are certain it’s preferable to life in these United States where upper middle classers kills spotted owls with emissions from their 4X4 vehicles. Kos (used generically for the ilk) expected the Democrat Congress to cut off military funding and to impeach President Bush. The actions, though, of this Congress have fallen well short of that goal. Instead, the Democrat 110th Congress behaves legislatively much like the Republican 109th. Much talk, little action, and passing whatever Bush asks for.

This explains why Hillary Clinton was booed more than she was cheered. It explains why Cindy Sheehan is running against Nancy Pelosi. UPDATE: Michelle Malkin says Ms. Clinton received more cheers than boos. I didn’t hear it, so I’ll go with Michelle.

Ed Morrissey summarizes the Congress well:

When push comes to shove, especially on war-related issues, the Democrats have failed almost every time to fulfill their campaign promises. The FISA legislation should enrage the Democratic base. The action by Congress this weekend essentially ratifies the NSA’s warrantless wiretap program. After its exposure in December 2005, the DKos community and the rest of the Left that propelled the Democrats to power insisted that the TSP was one of the leading examples of the Bush administration’s attack on freedom and liberty. The Senate promised to hold investigations into its operation and to even perhaps impeach George Bush for violating the Constitution.

The Democrats, then, have proven that their word is no good. As Morrissey later explains, the Democrat candidates in 2006 sold a bill of goods to the hard left, leaving their supporters with empty hopes and empty wallets. (Then again, that’s what the Democrat party has done to the people since Roosevelt first seized power.) Imagine the outcry had Newt Gingrich in January 1995 declared the Contract with America too difficult to carry out. The MSM would have had the Republicans throats, and the GOP would have overwhelming lost power a decade earlier than it did.

The last time the hard left influenced an election was 1974. Richard Nixon was already gone, and the Democrats who entered Congress in 1975 went about the business of destroying the economy, eviscerating the military, and giving the country a case of malaise. While the YearlyKos participants were hoping that Nancy Pelosi’s party would do the same this time, the new Congress seems more likely to leave the country more or less as it found it.

UPDATE: LGF noticed that Terrorist Poetry was big hit at the YK.

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