FIRST THINGS CALLS THE “INTELLIGENT DESIGN” MOVEMENT: A miserable failure. “The ID claim is that certain biological phenomena lie outside the ordinary course of nature. Aside from the fact that such a claim is, in practice, impossible to substantiate, it has the effect of pitting natural theology against science by asserting an incompetence of science.”
Archive for 2010
February 15, 2010
FOMENTING VIOLENCE: Huffington Post: “Obama Better Start Breaking Kneecaps.”
Well, if a Republican said it, it would be beyond the pale. Hey, rubes!
IS THERE A “WAR ON COAL?”
JOHN FUND: Terminator vs. Squirrel.
PETER DIAMANDIS: The Case For Private Space.
HITLER ON climate change.
CLIMATEGATE UPDATE: Washington Post: Series of missteps by climate scientists threatens climate-change agenda. “Some researchers said the U.N. panel’s attitude — appearing to promise that its results were infallible, and reacting slowly to evidence that they were not — could undermine the rest of its work.”
Meanwhile, Walter Russell Mead wonders why the New York Times let itself be scooped here.
FOREIGN POLICY GOES Inside the IPCC’s Climate Bunker. “Few stars have risen and fallen so quickly as Pachauri’s, who has gone from being an international climate hero to subject of increasing ridicule at home and abroad.”
Plus, The Guardian on reforming the IPCC.
Also, Scientists seek better way to do climate report. “A steady drip of unsettling errors is exposing what scientists are calling ‘the weaker link’ in the Nobel Peace Prize-winning series of international reports on global warming. The flaws — and the erosion they’ve caused in public confidence — have some scientists calling for drastic changes in how future United Nations climate reports are done.”
And, from Dana Milbank, “the greens were hoist by their own petard.” But Milbank seems to be endorsing a shift from talking about climate to talking about pork: ‘If the Washington snows persuade the greens to put away the slides of polar bears and pine beetles and to keep the focus on national security and jobs, it will have been worth the shoveling.”
LITTLE MISS ATTILA: “Why is it at all surprising that Dick Cheney thinks Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell should be changed? This is the guy whose daughter-in-law was the first same-sex partner at official state dinners in any Presidential administration.”