CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR: More misrepresentation from the IPCC:

The University of Colorado’s Dr. Pielke Jr. says those glitches are regrettable, but from a policy standpoint, they have little impact. More serious, he says, is what he terms an egregious misrepresentation of the relationship between damage costs from severe weather in the US and global warming contained in the second of 2007’s climate reports. Essentially, the report claimed an increase, especially after the 2004 and 2005 hurricane season, that doesn’t exist, he says. The report misrepresents work he and others have done on the topic.

At this point, hardly shocking.

GOOGLE refuses to censor Australian YouTube. “Google is seemingly bent on making a clean sweep of the Pacific Rim in its new anti-censorship campaign: first it refused to go on censoring its services at the behest of the Chinese government; now it has refused the Australian government’s (**** crazy) request to censor YouTube videos that Canberra’s censor board put into its ‘refused classification’ bucket.”

PRAISE FOR SARAH PALIN FROM . . . David Broder?

HEY, WAIT: President Barack Obama said he is “agnostic” about raising taxes on households making less than $250,000 as part of a broad effort to rein in the budget deficit. But remember how when critics said he’d do that back during the election, media “fact-checkers” scored that as a lie because Obama had promised otherwise? Now he’s “agnostic?”

SOMETHING REVOLUTIONARY: Frozen Wasteland.

SOME PUSHBACK against the prospect of a Becker recess appointment.

FRANCIS FUKUYAMA: What Became of the ‘Freedom Agenda’? Hell, at this point I’d settle for one of those domestically . . . .

AZIZ POONAWALLA: Revolutionizing The Iran Revolution.

OPEN-CARRY GUN ADVOCATES test the waters at Starbucks.

SOME BLOGGING GUIDELINES from Little Miss Attila.

TSA FAIL? Xeni Jardin on Facebook, from LAX: “I’m in longest TSA line of my entire flight-life. LAX. Line from inside terminal to outside, snakes all way to next terminal, 1/4 mile? . . . Consensus is that ZOMGWTF security line length is in part result of pax blizzard-bumped from canceled flights ystrday. Double volume today. . . .But: still total of only 2 TSA screeners for (300? 500?) this traveler volume. Same line process. Same as a lowest volume time. Jeez.” Put Wal-Mart in charge. Or Disney.

AT LEAST THEY DIDN’T CALL HIM “PROFESSOR.” Because that would have been racist. CNN Clown to Obama: ‘Go Gangsta Against Your Foes’.

BIG PROTESTS in Iran.

FROM CAR LUST TO CAR DISGUST: The mid-70s Buick Century.

THUMBS DOWN FOR ROGER EBERT: “It’s been extraordinary to watch this once beloved critic squander all the universal affection and goodwill he had built up over a lifetime in just a few short months. And over nothing. No one bad-mouthed his mother or rang his doorbell and ran. We disagree on the size and scope of the federal government.”

HEATWAVE ROASTS RIO. If only they could exchange BTUs with Washington, DC.

FEMALE SKI JUMPERS frozen out of Olympics.

CATO’S DAN MITCHELL: Maybe Greece Should Go Bankrupt.

LOTS OF WAR-ON-TERROR NEWS, at Fred Pruitt’s Rantburg.

VATICAN: Recession Caused By Low Birthrate.

JOE BIDEN: Iraq — one of our great accomplishments. Success has a thousand fathers.

ASSOCIATED PRESS: Jobs bill won’t add many jobs. “It’s a bipartisan jobs bill that would hand President Barack Obama a badly needed political victory and placate Republicans with tax cuts at the same time. But it has a problem: It won’t create many jobs. Even the Obama administration acknowledges the legislation’s centerpiece — a tax cut for businesses that hire unemployed workers — would work only on the margins. . . . ‘Right now, business owners just don’t have customers,’ Rys said. ‘Until you have work for the employee to do, there’s really less of a reason to hire a new worker.'”

JOHN MAYER confirms my opinion.

ANDREW MARCUS: Tea Party Convention Exposes Progressive Left’s Age Discrimination Problem.

Yeah, it’s not like it was as diverse as YearlyKos. Oh, wait . . . .

MICKEY KAUS: “GM workers assembling battery packs for the new ‘green’ Chevy Volt will not be members of the UAW or any other union, according to TTAC. … This is in Michigan, not Mexico. . … Does the czar know?”