AGW Loses at the Premier Formal Debate...

Lord Monckton (a well-known advocate for AGW skepticism) represented the “pro” side in a debate for this motion put before the Oxford Union Society:

That this House would put economic growth before combating climate change.

In that somewhat detached world of formal debate, this provoked a gasp heard 'round the world, as Lord Monckton was supposed to lose. Big.  Instead, he won, 135 to 110.

AGW skepticism (or even better, a more generally skeptic view) seems to be taking root even amongst the young, idealistic, credulous kids at school...

Would Global Warming Really Be All Bad?

Interesting piece over at Watts Up With That?...

There's a Reason Why Farmers are Smarter...

But it just may be a different reason than you imagined...

Full Moon Morning...

Out at 3:30 am to walk the dogs, and there was a nearly full moon hanging just above the horizon to our southwest.  It cast enough light for me to walk easily without a flashligh.  Our local horizon is comprised of mountains, and from our driveway the moon was hanging at the bottom of a deep “notch” in the horizon, with a mountain to either side of it.  Simply beautiful.

The four dogs, of course, couldn't have cared less about the beautiful moon.  As usual, they were noses-down, checking out who visited our yard last night.  I'm sure that if they could only talk they'd be able to give me a detailed list...

Corruption...

My friends hear me say that corruption pervades our politics, and many of them react by giving knowing looks “I knew that guy was crazy!” or by asking me to explain such an irrational comment.  I've tried to explain, but I've never managed to do so quite as well as this.

That, folks, is what I'm talking about when I say that we're all paying for pervasive corruption.  That's what scares me so much about having the government run my healthcare.  And that's what we need to blow up somehow if we really want to change the way politics works...