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NASA was wrong!

Michelle Malkin does an outstanding job of breaking down the NASA Y2K error that sort of invented global warming.

In short, 1998 was NOT the hottest year of the 20th century. And half of the hottest years on record occured before WWII. Al Gore is an idiot, and now NASA scientists have proven it.

Earlier this week, the wackos got bad news from U of C San Diego and NASA who discovered that aerosols do not mask atmospheric warming but accelerate it. Now, we learn this from NASA:

Four of the top ten are in the 1930’s, before mainstream scientists believe humans had any discernible impact on temperatures.

So, if you believe human activity is responsible for global warming YOU’RE WRONG!

If you believe 8 of the hottest 10 years on record happened in the past 14 years, as Al Gore claims, YOU’RE WRONG!

If you believe that you lived through the hottest year on record, YOU’RE WRONG!

Good Lord, it feels good to tell enviro-wackos they’re wrong.

But, there’s more . . .

Several years (2000, 2002, 2003, 2004) fell well down the leaderboard, behind even 1900. (World rankings of temperature are calculated separately.)

In fact, the only thing that Al Gore is right about is churning out more carbon than the average family of 60.

I’m setting the AC down to 68 degrees tonight. Pleasant dreams.

Michael Laprrarie links the Brown Cloud to Newsweek’s 1975 climate problem story: Global Cooling.

UPDATE:  I found the global warming alarmist epicenter.  Proceed with caution.

UPDATE: AP story on several endangered species making comeback, plus deforestation slowing in Peru. Must be global warming.

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This is the blogosphere’s answer to O. J. Simpson’s low speed chase.

If I were a client of Mr. Reynolds’s law firm, I’d check my bill very closely for charges this date.  Seems he’s done nothing but DNS management all day.  By 10:00 p.m., Reynolds will reach the end of the internet and www.imwithfred2008.com will point at Hennessy’s View.

I hope.

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Over the past two or three weeks, several polls have shown increased support for the war in Iraq.  Now, we see that President Bush’s poll numbers are up.

• AP/IPSOS poll shows Bush’s favorability up to 31 percent in July from 28 in June
• CBS/NYT found that 42 percent now consider the war in Iraq “the right thing to do”

FoxNews.com a longer list of the small victories President Bush and the Pentagon have achieved in Iraq and with the public.  It’s must reading, because it drives home the breadth and the depth of this growing support.  Even Sen. Dick Durbin admits things in Baghdad are getting better.Two things to take away from this:Bush and the war are inexorably linked:  Since we first went into Iraq in 2003, Bush’s success as a president has been linked to one outcome:  the war.  When all was well, his numbers went up.  When he allowed the Pentagon to adopt a hunker down strategy, public perception was that we were losing.  Now that we’re back on the offensive and the news is improving, so Bush’s numbers.  There is a lag, but Bush’s numbers follow the war’s numbers.People always assume the aggressor is winning: I’ve made this point before, but it’s very important. Watch a boxing match and count the number of times the ring-side expert mentions “the aggressor” or “one the offensive.”  That’s because boxing judges award points for scoring punches, not for dancing and dodging.  Most of the time, the guy dodging ends up getting smacked.  The aggressor usually wins.  Sure, he can walk into a right hand and go down, but usually the aggressor wins.   Because of this perception, when people hear the US is on the offense in Iraq, they perceive the US is winning.Stay on the offensive, Mr. President.  Don’t let generals or Secretaries of Defense tell you it’s time to hunker down in the green zone.  Listen to generals who’ve won wars, like Patton:  “When in doubt, attack.”  If the surge continues, if we continue to kill more of theirs than they kill of ours, if we take Sean Connery’s line from “The Untouchables*,” we will win in Iraq and in the minds of Americans.  If we hunker down, we might win in Iraq, but you’ll never convince the people.  If we pull out, you’ll go down in history as a loser.

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