Sitting here in Barbara Jordan Terminal, waiting for my plane home and surfing the net, I came upon yet more Climategate/Glaciergate news from the the superb ongoing Telegraph coverage. Now they reveal the UN IPCC’s head climate honcho Rajendra Pachauri has hired the very scalawag who lied to us for years that the Himalayan glaciers were receding, the very “finding” from which Pachauri has suddenly been trying to distance himself. (Two weeks ago it was just the opposite. Don’t we all wish we had Pachauri’s bank account?)
So it goes. Anthropogenic Global Warming is rapidly morphing into the greatest scandal in the history of science since the belief in a flat earth – and people had a lot more excuses for that. Not that the Obama administration is even beginning to acknowledge it. Who knows what they say to each other behind the scenes? They have enough to worry about.
But speaking of climate scalawags, how about my Congressman Henry Waxman of Waxman-Markey fame? The reified liberalist lifer undoubtedly is incapable of understanding the science for himself – in fact he admitted as much in front of his committee, saying he “relied” on scientists for that – but it would be funny to watch if and finally they do make a public rollback on this nonsense. Fortunately for sclerotic Henry, this will probably be avoided, since virtually no one is making noises about the risible cap-and-trade legislation any more. And Al Gore appears to have conveniently vanished from the public eye, a John Edwards of climate. (Actually, I’m surprised Gore hasn’t turned up in Haiti to do “pro bono” work to resurrect his reputation.)
Anyway, got to make my flight now. A final word about Austin: it’s a great place and I’d love to come back. Red State cities like Charleston, N’Awlins and Austin are the most fun in today’s America. Walking down Sixth Street here last night, free-beating all the music, was, as we used to say, a “trip.” Beats anything in LA. But could I live here or one of those other Red State cities? I’d like to, but I doubt it. I know I just couldn’t take the summer heat.
But I am taking a bit of Austin back with me – a brisket from The Salt Lick for dinner tonight. Hope the vacuum packing works.
Gah, I’m jealous. I went to grad school at UT in Austin, and loved the place, although from what I understand it ain’t quite what it used to be. Real estate rates during the tech boom ran off a lot of the great old mom & pop joints.
Some survive though, which means I’m especially jealous over Salt Lick takeout…
“I know I just couldn’t take the summer heat.”
It’s a cruel trade off. However, California is in deep financial trouble. Those who decide to stick it out will have to fork over a lot of extra money for a long time into the distant future. Does your business have to be in that hopelessly bankrupt state? What economically compels one to live in California? Those awkward questions cannot be avoided. I strongly suspect that Pajamas Media’s expenses would be cut in half in Texas.
“I know I just couldn’t take the summer heat.”
That’s what air conditioning is for, darlin’…
“I know I just couldn’t take the summer heat.”
Geez Rog, I didn’t know you were a sissy.
Or
“If you can’t stand the heat stay out of the Texas.”
Al Gore and John Edwards…one sired an illegitimate child and denied it, the other sired an illegitimate scam and is hiding from it. Quite a ticket.
Enough to get you and Oscar and a Nobel…if you are willing to sell your soul.
Where is the entrenched media? Digging hard for truth and facts they helped bury while this long con was being played on the American public and the world?
The conspiracy to hide the facts…even now…is appalling. If a leftist commits a scam of epic proportions, they not only refuse to dig…they pick up more shovels for the deep coverup.
Silence. Crickets.
If it was Republicans involved in these scandals, or if one was caught jaywalking…you can bet they would be breathlessly panting over the “worldwide” shock and dismay.
Because, that’s what a co-conspirator does.
Simon writes:
“(Actually, I’m surprised Gore hasn’t turned up in Haiti to do “pro bono” work to resurrect his reputation.)”
Gore is frightened that a voodoo sorceress might cast a spell on him.
I’ve never been to Texas. I’m sooooooo jealous! I want some real, genu-wine Texan brisket. :*(
Roger, I do hope you realize that Austin is one of the most liberal cities in the country – certainly Texas. Not sure from your post if you know that this “Red State city” is, in fact, quite a different type of red.
“Roger, I do hope you realize that Austin is one of the most liberal cities in the country – certainly Texas.”
It is also one of the most expensive areas in Texas. Still, it is a bargain next to any similar place in California.
#10, I assumed everyone reading here realized Austin was the most liberal place in Texas…. even clueless old me. But still, as David Thomson indicates, it’s quite different from California – and not just economically. There is a Red State thing goin’ on culturally. Not everything is about peace stickers on the bumpers of old VWs.
Help me out someone! Which of these scandals about the IPCC report was uncovered first: the unsubstantiated report about the Himalayan glaciers or the non-peer reviewed report about increasing numbers of natural disasters that the author himself claimed was distorted by the IPCC…?
http://rogerpielkejr.blogspot.com/2010/01/castles-built-on-sand.html
I’m not reading much about the latter, so I wonder if it was uncovered sooner — or was just barely uncovered…?
You know it’s really starting to sink in for me now. From now on we won’t be able to believe anything, that any scientist tells us. The more prestigious the institution, the greater the funding…the more we will disbelieve them.
Nice going Mann, IPCC, Gore. More damaging then they realize at this point.
Roger, I suggest that an especially apt historical parallel to the modern scandal of AGW is Lysenkoism. You probably already know all about it, but if not, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trofim_Lysenko
The Disaster Exaggeration is the fresh new scandal of the day
Mike:
Yes. That is exactly right. They are “all” lying to us. And the fact is that they always have. Watched a documentary on WWII the other day. Lots of discussion of the behind the scenes jockeying for power and negotiating that was going on between the USSR, the UK, and the US. And the amazing thing was that on almost every point, almost every issue, the public pronouncements of all involved were not only lies, they were damned lies.
The bottom line is that you can’t believe anybody: local, state, national, and international governments and organizations; corporations; non-governmental organizations; organized religions; the works. They are all lying to us. The best you can do is start with your family and work from there building a group of people you can trust. People you can count on. Individual people who you will help and who will help you when the shit hits the fan.
Everything else is just hot air that is intended to do nothing more than bamboozle the rubes just one more time.
Austin is the most liberal city in Texas, but it don’t hold a candle to liberal enclaves in classic Blue States. Lefty Austinites only dream of the kind of liberalism that pervades the San Francisco Bay area. I lived in the latter for 17 years, and I’ve been here for 3 (and did college here way back when). There is a kind of peaceful coexistence between the city and it’s conservative surroundings. And as a conservative I appreciate the spice liberals bring to the food, art, and music. Still don’t want ‘em running the country of course.
Not everyone here in Austin is blue. The State government helps to counteract the nonsense that our local city government attempts to impose. As city, county, municipal and state revenues decline, the city of Austin is going to struggle to pass a balanced budget without pushing out all the hippies with higher property taxes. I’m looking forward to watching it all unfold – though not to watching my property taxes go up.
You’re missing the bigger story. NOAA has been seriously cherry picking temperature data and then applying heavy modifications to the raw data. The Weather Channel is all over this and it’s completely damning. (Did you know we don’t measure the temperature in Bolivia, but extrapolate it from measurements made on the Peruvian coast and in the Amazon.)
Hope you don’t try to smoke your own brisket where you live. It probably violates all sorts of silly rules. Takes me about 6 hours in my smoker, half hickory, half oak fire ( Tri tips, the California imitation about 1 1/2 to 2 hours). Mine is better than Salt Licks.
The sad thing that the AGWers have done is damage the reputation of scientists in general. Aside from their constant ad hominem attacks on those who disagree with their “settled science”, the other “tell” that they aren’t really into the scientific method is the fact that as a class they never looked to science for a solution, but rather turned to political power.
Oooops, Glenn Reynolds has been hoodwinked, hook line and sinker by Popular Science Magazine.
20% to 30% energy losses to turbines standing in line downwind from the lead turbine?
Ever see wind patterns on your evening weather cast? Ever see winds blow in one exact row axis in nature as if in a wind tunnel?
Never happen. Nonsense. TG
Austin is San Francisco on the Guadelupe. I can tell. I live in Berkeley on the Willamette, also known as The People’s Republic of Eugene (Oregon). For another fun Texas city, try Fort Worth. It may not have Austin City Limits kinda music, but it’s got a much better symphony!
I can’t stand Texas heat either. I was born in Edinburg, in the lower Rio Grande Valley, also known as “The Valley.”
I wish I had known you were in Austin! My political blog occasionally covers some of the goings-on in the People’s Republic of Austin:
http://www.battleswarmblog.com/
(Actually, I live about two blocks outside the city limits, which means I get to fire off fireworks for July 4 and New Year’s…)
Sadly, AGW is not completely dead due to the EPA’s decision to treat carbon dioxide as a pollutant, which will raise costs for us all and hamper domestic energy production. Sen Murkowski is sponsoring legislation that will hopefully undo that- so we need to keep the pressure on COngress to support her resolution before we can drive a stake through the heart of AGW once and for all.
Yes, Austin *is* very liberal. My fix for that is to live 1 hour away in the beautiful Hill Country of Burnet County which is NOT, I assure you, liberal. This way I live with reasonable people as neighbors but can still enjoy the cultural advantages of Austin.
My fix for the hot summer weather is air conditioning and a summer home in the mountains of southeastern New Mexico…also NOT liberal. Closer than Colorado and don’t have to put up with Texas jokes told by residents of Colorado since many people in southeastern New Mexico are Texans or ex-Texans anyway.
Burnet County is REAL close to Coopers BBQ…a place where they know how to serve great BBQ, Texas style…cooked over a pit and served on butcher paper.
When one has the time, no trip to Austin would be complete without seeing the Hill Country…especially in the spring.
Roger, I’m glad you had a good time in Austin. Despite the fact that a modest majority of its voters go for “progressive” policies and candidates, even Austin still has a rhythm and texture that reflect the rest of Texas. And you’d find sizable progressive pockets in Houston, Dallas, or San Antonio too, who may nevertheless have more in common with rock-ribbed Texas conservatives than they do with the Pelosi/Boxer crowd of California liberals. When you’re taking an up-close and in-person view, the binary labeling process doesn’t work too well. Someone like Scott Brown, for example, might very well have carried Travis County. And I was pleased to read your reports of meeting Rick Perry, who’s easily caricatured as a right-wing Aggie good-old-boy, but (like a few other prominent Texans I can think of) he’s succeeded in part because of his willingness and ability to take advantage of those who misunderestimate him.
Y’all come back soon, now, y’hear?
Shouldn’t now be the time that conservatives find a way to take this issue away from environmentalists? When the economy finally improves, this issue will rear its head again, especially if there are still outward signs of changing climate. Radical environmentalists should not be allowed to hunker down and reconstitute at a later date with more big government “solutions” to global warming.
Free market policies that promote solutions that won’t destroy the economy will give conservatives the momentum to drive this debate into the future. The loss of credibility of AGW supporters shows their motives were not purely based on science. Conversely, conservatives can not appear to treat climate change as a dead issue that isn’t worthy of consideration.
Austin is known as Berkeley on the Brazos for a reason…..
Hey Roger — While you were at the Salt Lick, I hope you got yourself some of their dry rub to take home, too. Best seasoning on the planet (especially for grilled chicken)!
Austin indeed is a lousy place to have to pay carbon taxes since it has so far been magically immune to Global Warming, as has Washington D.C., London and Copenhagen as shown in the two following simple plots of their temperature:
http://www.appinsys.com/globalwarming/climgraph.aspx?pltparms=GHCNT100AJanDecI188020080900101AS42572583001x
http://i49.tinypic.com/rc93fa.jpg
Another possible conclusion is one expressed by George Orwell — also about 50 years ago — when he remarked that the average person today is about as naive as was the average person in the Middle Ages. In the Middle Ages people believed in the authority of their religion, no matter what. Today, we believe in the authority of our science, no matter what
http://realitytunnel.com/LastPage.htm
North of Austin was a joint Named Hunt’s. (30 some years ago) They had the best brisket and ribs and chicken and texas sausage and the coldest scooners of beer I’ve ever had. Everything was family style and it just kept coming. (free seconds) East of Austin in the little town of Coupland was another family style place. Only open on Thursdays thru Saturdays. Across the street was a Texas style bar, (a place for the whole family), where they had a small band in the corner and a guy singing dirty Italian songs in Italian. The place was ventilated by a wooden airplane propellor bolted to a huge electric motor. (The lights dimmed when it was turned on)
God, but I miss Texans.
Ya’ll need to refresh yourselves on your Texas geography.
“Austin is San Francisco on the Guadelupe.”
Nope. Wrong river. The Guadelupe is to the west of Austin and just east of San Antonio.
“Austin is known as Berkeley on the Brazos for a reason…”
Nope. Again, wrong river. The Brazos is to the east of Austin, it runs close to Waco and Bryan/College Station.
Austin is actually known as Moscow on the Colorado. The Colorado River is the one that runs right through Austin.
It is a nice place to visit, but I wouldn’t want to live there. The thing is, there are places that are equally nice without the leftist baggage and that aren’t far from there.
“I know I just couldn’t take the summer heat.”
I was worried about that too when I moved back to my home state of South Carolina in 1989 after about 37 years away (the last 25 of that living in Southern California in various locations from Redondo Beach to San Diego), but I adapted in no time. A/C, which was almost unknown outside of theaters when I left in the early 50′s, is a big help. Let’s hope “Cap & Trade” fails so that it will continue to be available to middle-classers like me. The last 20 years I’ve lived here have been the happiest of my life.
I don’t know why, but when I first moved back I noticed a lot of complaining about the heat from old-timers when it didn’t seem that bad to me.
Like the other cities you mention, Roger, the other advantages far outweigh the less-than-ideal climate, and no offense, but the very thought of returning to So Cal fills me with fear and dread!
Credit where credit is due – that fine piece is not from the Times, it’s from the Telegraph.
Austin is not on the Brazos, or on the Guadalupe. It’s on the Colorado River. And it IS liberal, albeit surrounded by a sea of red. The city government is so kooky-liberal that the state legislature once seriously considered exerting control, a la District of Columbia.
BBQ and TexMex are the culinary draws here, and Salt Lick is pretty good, if a little pricey. It’s true that the real estate boom has priced many of the old places out of the market, and a lot of the funky old feel from the 70′s and early 80′s has been lost is suburban sprawl, traffic and high prices. But there’s still not a better city in Texas, and that’s from the perspective of someone who loves ‘em all, even Houston (my hometown) and Lubbock (where I went to college). And you can adapt to the heat!
North of Austin was a joint Named Hunt’s. (This is 30 some years ago) They had the best brisket and ribs and chicken and texas sausage and the coldest scooners of beer I’ve ever had. Everything was family style and it just kept coming. (free seconds) Everything was cooked outside, barbeque style, in long brick ovens. East of Austin in the little town of Coupland was another family style place. Only open on Thursdays thru Saturdays. Across the street was a Texas style bar with a pool table, and a large dance floor. (a place for the whole family). They had a small band in the corner and a guy, (the owner I think), singing dirty Italian songs, — in Italian. The place was ventilated by a wooden airplane propellor bolted to a huge electric motor. (The lights dimmed when it was turned on) It had no cage.
God, but I miss Texans.
Berkeley on the Brazos? San Francisco on the Guadelupe? People, learn your geography! Austin is on the Colorado river (no, not that one), not the Brazos or the Guadelupe.
Yeah, it’s liberal here. But the city also has a certain affection for Bubbas, which tempers the usual liberal elitism to an extent.
29. SDN:
Austin is known as Berkeley on the Brazos for a reason…..
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24. Mike:
Austin is San Francisco on the Guadelupe.
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Liberal it may be, but Austin is on the Colorado river, not the Brazos or the Guadalupe.
–and #22–it isn’t real Texas BBQ if it isn’t done with mesquite wood.
The lies are too big for anyone to climb down from.
These people can never admit they have been duped. They have been telling us that all life is doomed unless we hand them all power.
It reminds me of the “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” story where they convinced an entire planet that a giant mutant space goat was about to eat their planet, so billions of people moved to another world.
A liberal Austin is still more conservative than a conservative Massachusetts.
God knows I love Austin. If they were to kick the hobos out it would be heaven!
Charlie (see you at Uncle Billy’s!)
While Austin is definitely liberal/leftist, liberals/leftists do not have the overwhelming majority they do in university towns like Amherst, Cambridge, or Berserkeley. This means that when libs interact with those of a different political persuasion, they are more likely to treat them with civility. There are too many of us for ostracism to be as effective as it would be in Cambridge. I go out for drinks every Friday night with a friend who is a staunch supporter of the Democratic Party- though he would have preferred Hillary. While we disagree with politics, and spend a fair amount of time in debating politics in a civil manner, the disagreement does not rupture the friendship. This is not unusual in Austin.
While some may consider Austin to be “Berkeley on the Brazos” (should be Berkeley on Another Colorado, not the Colorado that flows in to the Gulf of Mexico, not into the Gulf of California.), the tone in Austin is decidedly different from Berserkeley. When I lived in Berkeley some years ago, it was very easy to locate hard-core Marxists of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat persuasion. I knew a fair number of such people, and interacted with them on a daily basis. IMHO, it is still not difficult to locate such people there. Medea Benjamin of Code Pink, who lived in Cuba several years, comes to mind. While such loonies exist in Austin, they are much less common. Does Code Pink harass Army recruiting stations in Austin the way they do in Berserkeley?
Another factor increasing civility is that to a big degree, Austin libs, if they are from TX, are first generation libs. Many grew up in right wing families. While they saw converting to liberalism in the same light as being “enlightened” with a university education, they still have warm ties with their right wing relatives. Most TX libs have a fair number of right wing relatives, IMHO more so than in the North. They are thus more accustomed to political disagreements than many libs in the North, and are less inclined to
You know you are getting accustomed to TX heat when you think that a high of 95 degrees is quite tolerable. Compared to 105, 95 IS rather comfy.
Tony Guitar… You see the windmills ALL line up with the direction the wind is blowing. Thus the air is always turblent behind whichever set of turbines is in front. Pretend each dot below is a turbine in a 16 turbine field. Now pretend the wind is coming from any direction and they all “turn” to face it.
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TURBULENCE! A bit less at the corners but massive nonetheless.
#13 Carol: The disaster story is actually older; Roger Jr wrote about the issue first in 2006, while the 2035 typo issue was first raised on December 1 2009 in Roger SR’s blog and here on PJM. I’ve got more to come on this, starting with today’s piece.
#21 Joe: We covered the data manipulation in several articles in the last months — for example here for the ‘divergence problem’ and here for the mysterious data corrections. But enough new news has accumulated that I need to do another one.
So glad you were here in Austin! I am a U.T. grad and have lived here for the past 25 years. But I live “outside” the Austin city limits in the middle of Austin near Zilker park (yeah, try to figure that out!). I call it a purple enclave…. a little less blue.
Anyway, even with the summer heat I just don’t know where else I’d rather be.
Austin used to be a small University town with all the lefty agitprop one has come to expect in such environs. Outside of the 40 acres of UT, it was a mix of legislature wonks, slow aging hippies, and general western style conservatism. Libertarianism flourished.
With the tech boom came all the apparatchiks of middle management. It would be more accurate to call Austin little California for all those who have immigrated from there. These folks have the new age version of liberalism. Truly they are just a kinder gentler bourgeoisie. The affluent, compassionate left. They imagine themselves achievers and seek to remake Austin into the familiar that they left behind. A sort of social scent marking. But for them having cute daughters I’d be distraught.
Yet for all of that, it is odd that I rarely see more than one Obama bumper sticker a day any more. I think ultimately it is not they who are changing Austin but the other way around.
To: 28. Beldar
Completely off-topic.
Having not seen anything new on your blog since Oct. 2, I’m just glad to see that you are still around.
To: Roger Simon
I doubt you will find better reporting on the ClimateGate scandel that on AJStrata’s blog “The Strata-Sphere” ( http://strata-sphere.com/blog/ ).
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Austin is a city in a Red State, sure enough. But the city itself is about as Blue as you can get. Votes Democrat all the way. The San Francisco of Texas, some calls it.
The San Francisco of Texas? Ouch. Austin sure isn’t “democrat all the way” either. We’re smarter than that. Some liberal Austinites reading the conservablogs, eh?
“…And you’d find sizable progressive pockets in Houston, Dallas, or San Antonio too, who may nevertheless have more in common with rock-ribbed Texas conservatives than they do with the Pelosi/Boxer crowd of California liberals. When you’re taking an up-close and in-person view, the binary labeling process doesn’t work too well….”
I was born & raised in Dallas and lived in Austin for 10 years, between stints in Philadelphia and NYC. I agree. Even Austin hippies sometimes drive pickup trucks with gun racks, and Texans remember they were a sovereign nation at one point and still act like it.
#35 don’t you mean the Liano River. Last time I looked the Colorado River enters Mexico on the Border of Arizona and California. That is quite a bit west of Austin.
No, chemman, it is the Colorado River. This colorado river originates in west Texas and flows down to Matagorda Bay. It’s a pretty important river in Texas.
“#35 don’t you mean the Liano River. Last time I looked the Colorado River enters Mexico on the Border of Arizona and California. That is quite a bit west of Austin.”
Nope. You need to go read up on your Texas geography. While the Llano river does run into the Colorado in Austin (as an arm of Lake LBJ), that isn’t the river I’m talking about. There is a Colorado river in Texas. It is a pretty big river, for that matter. It isn’t the same river as the one that carves out the Grand Canyon. The Llano river is a tributary of the Colorado river.
FWIW, I used to fish and hunt on a ranch just east of Junction, Tx. That ranch bordered the Llano river. It was Hill Country Heaven. Great Fishing! If you haven’t fished a wild river like that (NOBODY fishes there), you haven’t been fishing. Wade it, with ultra-light gear.
The IPCC also has a flawed definition of the greenhouse gas effect, which ends up exaggerating the contributions from CO2. See Leave CO2 Alone!
“#35 don’t you mean the Liano River. …”
BTW — the proper spelling is Llano, with 2 leading “L”s. Not Liano. It is a Spanish word meaning grassy plain.
“…and Texans remember they were a sovereign nation at one point and still act like it.”
Those Texans (like myself [I grew up in the Houston area and now reside in the 'burbs of Dallas]) who are aware of our heritage know this and act like that. Regarding the leftists who reside here — it is more complex than that:
> some are just like you say.
> some are inner city urban who don’t care about our heritage and could care less. Mostly minorities.
> some come here from elsewhere, and aren’t familiar with our rich, independent heritage. Like, say, So. Cal. or North East Yankee (AKA DamnYankee) immigrants. They haven’t the foggiest idea what it means to be a Texan. They haven’t a clue…
Al Gore’s global warming scam. The scientific fraud behind it is the new Lysenkoism.
Hard to get your mind around the worldwide size of this fraud.
I guess this is what liberals do.
You might have been in a “red state” but you sure as hell weren’t in a “red city”. Depending upon the season…Austin is either “East Berkely” “North Caracas” or “West Boston”.
Only Charles at LGF can understand AGW. He has a coloring book with all of the ever-changing answers (lies).
Liberals suffer from personality disorder, which is why they’re liberals. In his 2006 book, “The Liberal Mind – The Psychological causes of Political Madness”, Lyle H. Rossiter, Jr., M.D. (Board certified in general and forensic psychiatry) states on the back cover, “Modern liberalism’s irrationality can only be understood as the product of psychopathology. So extravagant are the patterns of thinking, emoting, behaving and relating that characterize the liberal mind that its relentless protests and demands become understandable only as disorders of the psyche.” “‘The Liberal Mind’ reveals the madness of the modern liberal for what it is: a massive transference neurosis acted out in the world’s political arenas, with devastating effects on the institution of liberty.”
As a son of North Texas, and current Austin resident, I’d like to say a something good about the city. Austin may be one of the few Blue patches remaining on the Texas map, but that Blue is slowly fading. The Tea Party rallies here have been second to none in the state and are growing. Conservatives are coming out of hiding and are organizing. There’s a sea-change going on here that’s not visible yet, but it’s definitely happening!
Roger – I hope you enjoyed your visit.
I was born in Louisiana and lived most of my life here except for 16 years in the Corpus Christi area. I’ve been to NOLA many times, attended LSU with a bunch of “Yats”. Where’d this “N’Awlins” stuff come from?!? I’ve never known anyone from that city and, even with the thickest Irish Channel accent, who pronounced it that way. “Noo Awlins” is the way that a true New Orleanian pronouces the name of this city!
Enjoy the BBQ! Careful, you might want to come back. And just think, the Salt Lick only got honorable mention in the state for best bbq in the state, according to a magazine.
Advice for Canadians and those from cooler climes when visiting Texas.
Locate in Corpus Christi first. Then you can visit Austin and [HOT] Ft. Worth yet escape to moderate temps of Corpus. Just ask #65 Pierre.
Also Corpus is closer to Padre Island and not far from Pt. Isabelle. A lovely ocean fishing town.
Red or Blue? Not pronounced either way, but that was 30 plus years ago when I lived there.
The roaches in hotels are standard due to climate and can’t be beaten, so don’t be shocked. They are harmless. The control sprays are more of a risk to humans.
Allow 3 weeks to get roach friendly and then really enjoy life in Corpus. Roach tolerance is a step in human maturity.
jpintx, I really appreciate that viewpoint. I have always wondered why we don’t consider global warming a good thing, since intuitively most people prefer warm weather to cold.
Certainly people want to retire in Florida, not North Dakota. So why do we want to spend the big bucks to make sure the cold parts of the USA do not become, say, like Georgia? That appears to be the apocalyptic scenerio and I just don’t see it as a bad thing.
If you’re not already aware of them, I recommend the works of Bjorn Lomborg, who finds that it’s likely, on balance, to be better to mitigate the effects of a warming earth directly, rather than trying to prevent warming. He notes that with all the proposals made, preventing warming is essentially impossible.
D
#63 Doug Stewart wrote: “‘The Liberal Mind’ reveals the madness of the modern liberal for what it is: a massive transference neurosis acted out in the world’s political arenas, with devastating effects on the institution of liberty.”
I agree, whereas righties are just plain nuts.
Dwight,
Comedy writer Conan O’brian gets paid million$ for that quality of material.
I am very conservative, yet not offended. You have a future in comedy.
I like Texas. I just don’t know it very well. Been there only a few times. Don’t like the pan handle much but I would sure like to go to Corpus Christi or Austin. Fort Worth nice for a big city (don’t like big cities much). I can deal with the heat. I used to live in Bakersfield for about 7 years. It’s pretty hot. Now I live in the midwest and the “global warming” is killing me. I’ve lived in the midwest for ten years and this is the first year where the snow just does not leave. It has been on the ground for months. Yes, Al Gore betrayed us. He played on our fears. He lied. NASA lied. So did the CPC or whatever they are in the EU. You can tell they are lying by using common sense. When people tell you they can measure the world’s global temperature over 100 years down to plus or minus one degree you KNOW they are LYING….. big time. And that was only the start of their lies. They actually believe it’s okay to lie as long as it furthers their agenda, which is for “the common good”. Peter Jennings once said that the news had to be interpretted for us. That was when I stopped respecting the guy and stopped listening to him. I like that joke that says “prmitive man used to believe that the sun controled the Earth’s climate. Now we know better that climate is driven by insufficient use of twisty light bulbs”. cheers:)
Let me understand – Henry Waxman voted aye on cap ‘n trade even though he didn’t look at temperture trends? (One does not have to be a scientist to see nothing much has happened and that the model have not worked.) I guess it has become par for the coure for our legislators to pass bills they need understand nor have read.
“Austin is known as Berkeley on the Brazos for a reason..”
The reason being you don’t know any geography, right?
Any more than our hosts knows anything about
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So somebody made a mistake about Himalayan glaciers. It’s not as if the IPCC only published a pamphlet with five or six facts. As Brad Johnson says, “The New York Times has errors literally every single day, and sometimes they are significant errors. But news media don’t act as if the NYT is totally unreliable and built on a hoax.”
Credibility is about working toward truth, not about being infallible. If infallibility is grounds for dismissal, we don’t have much in the way of a civilization left, do we?
Also the Salt Lick is pretty good, but next time you’re in town you’d be better off going to Black’s, or if you’re not of a mind to drive that far, I’d recommend Hoover’s. Since you got that wrong I believe you should be forced to resign.
# 70 Tony Guitar; thanks for the props.
#73 Dummy wrote; “You can tell they are lying by using common sense. When people tell you they can measure the world’s global temperature over 100 years down to plus or minus one degree you KNOW they are LYING….. big time.”
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Well they can put their figures in and we do have temperature readings here and there for 150 years, but how do you equalize things? Their “adjustments” are supposedly to increase comparative accuracy, but who can tell?
I am more convinced by the migration of mid-Atlantic flora and fauna into New England. Possums, turkey vultures, and mockingbirds come to mind as well as a lot more robins over-wintering. And they are not feeder birds, but rely on berries, especially from cedars There is no question that earth (or at least our part of the northern hemisphere) has warmed over the last 150 years, but the million dollar question remains, WHAT HAS CAUSED IT and recently, is it continuing?
I find it interesting that Ben Stein’s movie “Expelled” alleges that the evolution crowd is engaged in the same tactics that the global warming crowd has been exposed of doing, it makes me wonder.
I thought the catholic church telling us the sun revolves around the earth was the latest scam, not flat earth.
re: #76 Dwight,
Do you know what happened about 150 yrs ago? From your statement I’d guess you don’t.
According to most historical climatology 1850 marks the end of the little ice age. The 500 years from 1350 to 1850 define that period. Prior to 1350 is the period known as the Medevil Climate Optimum. That was the warm period that saw the drastic growth in human habitation in Northern Europe. Romans growing grapes in England, Vikings farming in Greenland, etc.
In other words, the globe has been warming for 150 years BECAUSE WE LEFT AN ICE AGE!!!!!!! I doubt that the SUVs and machinery of the Civil war amounted to much, no?
80 Alan wrote: Do you know what happened about 150 yrs ago? From your statement I’d guess you don’t.
Guess again. That is exactly why I stated the doubts as I did. But let’s take YOUR inference. We might be coming out of “an ice age” ie. warming for whatever natural reasons added onto whatever the effects are of the added co2 in the atmosphere.
Can we clarify yet one more time: Yes, the earth warms and cools for “natural” reasons and no one should say otherwise, BUT that is not to say that the added presence of CO2 cannot accelerate “natural” warming. I have said that now approximately ten times already on PJM, but that the hell, make it eleven!
But Dwight, there is zero evidence that man caused co2 has any effect on the weather at all. The whole premise was based on the fraudulent claim that tempretures were climbing to a) an unprecedented level and b) very rapidly.
Neither of those premises is supported by the evidence unless you accept the fraud that has been perpetrated. Given that the best evidence available shows CO2 levels as a LAGGING indicator of increased temps. (by about 800 years) there is no possible way that man created CO2 is having any measurable effect.
The whole green house gas model is based on a ridiculous over simplification that doesn’t hold in the real world.