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you might have heard about al gore‘s movie, an inconvenient truth. it has (predictably) recieved a warm welcome (no pun intended) from the media and environmental wackos alike, typically with reviewers calling for immediate action or revolution. well, there’s just one problem: global warming is still a sham.

not since bowling for columbine have we had to deal with such an ignorance of the facts and distortion of the truth. what’s funny is that the AP ran a story about how scientists confirmed all the facts in the movie. here’s a sample:

“Excellent,” said William Schlesinger, dean of the Nicholas School of Environment and Earth Sciences at Duke University. “He got all the important material and got it right.”

“I sat there and I‘m amazed at how thorough and accurate,” Corell said. “After the presentation I said,

Al, I‘m absolutely blown away. There‘s a lot of details you could get wrong.‘ … I could find no error.”

you can read the rest of it here, if you’re so inclined. interestingly, they made no mention of the petition project. what’s that? well here’s main text of the petition itself:

We urge the United States government to reject the global warming agreement that was written in Kyoto, Japan in December, 1997, and any other similar proposals. The proposed limits on greenhouse gases would harm the environment, hinder the advance of science and technology, and damage the health and welfare of mankind.

There is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gasses is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth’s atmosphere and disruption of the Earth’s climate. Moreover, there is substantial scientific evidence that increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide produce many beneficial effects upon the natural plant and animal environments of the Earth.

i guess the 19 scientists that the AP talked to on the phone carry more weight than the 17,100 scientists (that is, 17,100 that have been verified as physicists, geophysicists, climatologists, meteorologists, oceanographers, chemists, biochemists, etc… not your average joe moron like mr. gore) that have signed the petition against the global warming agreement.

then, we get a majority press release from the senate, which contains interesting bits of information, like this one:

Richard S. Lindzen, the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Atmospheric Science at MIT, wrote:

“A general characteristic of Mr. Gore’s approach is to assiduously ignore the fact that the earth and its climate are dynamic; they are always changing even without any external forcing. To treat all change as something to fear is bad enough; to do so in order to exploit that fear is much worse.” – Lindzen wrote in an op-ed in the June 26, 2006 Wall Street Journal

so who am i going to believe? al gore (who i should probably thank for inventing the internet so i could post this), backed by the associated press (and their 19 scientists), the entertainment industry and every moonbat environmentalist wacko on the planet, making their decisions based almost entirely upon emotion… or 17,100 scientists who deal with such issues as a daily part of their professional responsibilities and expertise, making their decision based upon factual data and practical experience?

last weekend i was lucky enough to attend the nhra hot rod reunion in bowling green, ky. it’s an event that gives guys like me a chance to see what drag racing was like when my dad was in his twenties and gives him a chance to relive some of the higher points of his younger years. it was a great weekend of racing and my dad took plenty of pictures. you can view all of them in the gallery, but here are a few of my favorites.

this is one of the thunderbolts we saw. i never thought i’d actually get to see a real one, but there were a couple of them there.

here’s some more stuff that falls under the category of “things i never thought i’d get to see in real life.” the first couple pictures are a mercury cyclone powered by a 427 cammer. the last picture is another cammer powered car, but you can see where the engine has been shoved back almost behind the firewall. if you look in the car, the driver actually sits where the back seat should be.

here’s a hemi powered belvedere we found when we walked out of our hotel room and two sox and martin race cars. be sure and check out the rest of the pictures.

i saw this billboard on my way to work this morning. how completely random.

DAPHNE, Ala. — Worried about the safety of her family during a stormy Memorial Day trip to the beach, Clara Jean Brown stood in her kitchen and prayed for their safe return as a strong thunderstorm rumbled through Baldwin County, Alabama.

But while she prayed, lightning suddenly exploded, blowing through the linoleum and leaving a blackened area on the concrete. Brown wound up on the floor, dazed and disoriented by the blast but otherwise uninjured.

She said ‘Amen’ and the room was engulfed in a huge ball of fire. The 65-year-old Brown said she is blessed to be alive.

Firefighters said its likely she was hit by a bolt of lightning that apparently struck outside and traveled into the house yesterday afternoon. She was found lying on the floor by her 14-year-old granddaughter.

Fire officials think the lightning likely struck across the street from the couple’s home and traveled into the house through a water line. The lightning continued into the couple’s backyard and ripped open a small trench.

A family member said he will no longer assume it is safe to be indoors during a lightning strike.

Dime-sized hail and wind gusts of up to 45 miles-per-hour moved across coastal Baldwin County. As much as three inches of rain fell in some areas in three hours.