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		<title>The Times Finds A Lone Crazed Assassin</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 05:05:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter Collier]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What the Grey Lady won't tell you about professor Amy Bishop.]]></description>
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<p><strong>Visit <a href="http://www.newsrealblog.com/">Newsreal</a></strong><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/21/us/21bishop.html" target="_blank"><em></em></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/21/us/21bishop.html" target="_blank"><em>The New York Times</em>’ front page profile</a> on Saturday of professor Amy Bishop, who allegedly executed three University of Alabama Biology Department colleagues after being denied tenure, appears to be an exhaustively reported piece based on “numerous interviews with colleagues and others who knew her.” It portrays Bishop as violent and unpredictable, rejected by Harvard because of mediocre work and shunned by a series of neighbors and co-workers scared off by the suppressed rage that kept bubbling up to the surfaces of her social life, and also someone who may already have gotten away with the murder of her brother years earlier possibly because of her mother’s political connections in her home town of Braintree, Mass.</p>
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<p>“Between brilliance and rage” is the caption of the photo of Bishop used by the<em> Times</em> for the story, although the piece makes no case for the former.  But is this all the news that is fit to print about the perpetrator of this murder spree in academe?  What about the “family source” who told the Boston Herald that Bishop was,</p>
<blockquote><p>“<a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/guideDesc.asp?catid=144&amp;type=issue" target="_blank">a far left</a> political activist who was ‘obsessed’ with <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1511" target="_blank">President Obama</a> to the point of being off putting”?</p></blockquote>
<p>What about the student who called her a <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/guideDesc.asp?catid=115&amp;type=issue" target="_blank">“socialist”</a>? What about one report that Bishop complained about a rule issued by University  of Alabama administrators regarding underclassmen living on campus because she believed it was destructive of “diversity.”  And what about the crowning irony of this case, whether or not she made this complaint: that two of the colleagues she allegedly killed were black and one was South Asian, and that Bishop thus wiped out the 14 person Biology department’s entire diversity in one burst of gunfire?</p>
<p>Considering the politics of Bishop’s <em>ressentiment</em> might have helped fill out the Times’ portrait of a psychopathic time bomb who had already gone off several times in her disordered life on her way to the Big Explosion on February 12 in Huntsville. There is no doubt, as the blogosphere has already noted, that the paper would have pursued even the vaguest hint that Bishop had been a fan of Glenn Beck or was a Tea Party fellow traveler as a major story line. For the Grey Lady, only the politics of the Right is personal.</p>
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		<title>The Heretics: Dr. Roy Spencer – by Rich Trzupek</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A former NASA climatologist casts doubt on climate change zealots’ cherished dogmas.]]></description>
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<p>Given the dogmatic fervor of global warming proponents, and their intolerance of skeptics who dare to question the latest commandment (see: <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2009/12/10/how-to-stop-cap-and-trade-by-rich-trzupek/">cap-and-trade</a>) in the green scripture, it is perhaps no coincidence that the environmentalist movement sometimes seems to have more in common with theology than with science. If that is true, then the logical word to describe those scientists who have challenged environmental hysteria and extremism is “heretics.” In a series of profiles, <em>Front Page’s </em><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/author/rich-trzupek/">Rich Trzupek</a> will spotlight prominent scientists whose “heretical” research, publications, and opinions have helped add a much-needed dose of balance and fact to environmental debates that for too long have been driven by fear mongering and alarmism. In a field that demands political conformity, they defiantly remain the heretics. Previous profiles in the series include <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2010/01/05/the-heretics-steve-milloy-by-rich-trzupek/">Steve Milloy</a> and <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2010/01/06/the-heretics-dr-craig-idso-by-rich-trzupek/">Dr. Craig Idso</a>. – <em>The Editors</em></p>
<p>Former NASA climatologist Roy Spencer, currently a professor at the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), was drawn into the global warming debate by accident, while he was working at the space agency over two decades ago. “John Christy and I started looking at data that is used for weather forecasting and we wondered if it could be used for climate forecasting,” Spencer said.</p>
<p>As Spencer and Christy (also a professor at UAH) studied that data, they became convinced that, contrary to climate-alarmists’ claims, the climate is not all that sensitive to increasing concentrations of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. Some scientists, like NASA physicist James Hansen maintain that increasing concentrations of relatively weak man-made greenhouse gases will result in a disastrous increase in the atmosphere’s most powerful greenhouse gas: water vapor. Spencer and Christy, on the other hand, don’t completely discount the effect of carbon dioxide. They just don’t find it very significant. The climate, they say, has ways of correcting itself.</p>
<p>A great deal of the evidence that man-made global warming has indeed occurred is based on surface temperature records. Some scientists, most notably <a href="http://wattsupwiththat.com/">Anthony Watts</a>, have questioned the validity of those records. Spencer focused on atmospheric temperature, as recorded by NASA satellites, which revealed a much different picture. “Over thirty years we didn’t get quite a much of a warming trend as the surface data gets,” he said. “It’s about thirty percent less.”</p>
<p>The satellite data compares closely to weather balloon data, Spencer said, but does not correlate with either surface station data or with the temperature increases predicted by International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) models. The reason for the disconnect, he believes, is that the models don’t properly account for a ubiquitous feature of the earth’s atmosphere: clouds.</p>
<p>“The scientists who assume that global warming is man-made assume that cloud cover doesn’t change,” Spencer said. “All of their models assume that cloud cover remains the same.” The net effect of increased cloud cover is to cool the planet. When this effect is taken into account, Spencer asserts, the net effect of introducing more weak greenhouse gases into the atmosphere is minimal, compared to the natural phenomena that influence the climate.</p>
<p>Testifying before the House Ways and Means Committee in February 2009, Dr. John Christy commented on Spencer’s work:</p>
<blockquote><p>“My colleague Dr. Roy Spencer has shown that in the real world – the world of observations from satellites &#8211; that during warming episodes, clouds respond by stepping up their cooling effect (the basic effect of clouds is the cool the climate already). When climate model output calculated in the same way is compared with observations, not one model mimics this cooling effect – in fact the models’ clouds lead to further warming, not cooling as it is in nature. We hypothesize that this poor representation of clouds in models is the reason we find the warming rates of model projections to have significantly overshot what has actually happened.”</p></blockquote>
<p>It is difficult for climate change alarmists to criticize Spencer’s credentials. He is a degreed climatologist; he worked for NASA for fourteen years; he is still involved with NASA projects; and he has received the NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal (1991) and the American Meteorological Society Special Award (1996). His colleague, Dr. Christy, was a lead author of the IPCC’s 2001 report on climate change, though Christy has long since distanced himself from the IPCC’s increasingly-alarmist views.</p>
<p>Accordingly, many critics resort to ad hominem attacks when it comes to Spencer’s work. For some, he has to be a paid minion of Exxon-Mobil. To others, he’s a Christian extremist. The supposed Exxon-Mobil connection most often attributed to Spencer relates to his involvement with the <a href="http://www.heartland.org/">Heartland Institute</a>, a libertarian think tank that, <a href="http://www.heartland.org/about/truthsquad.html">according to its web-site</a>, has never received more than five percent of its funding from Exxon-Mobil. Since 2006, it has received no contributions at all from Exxon-Mobil.</p>
<p>Spencer’s critics frequently point to the fact that he was a co-author of a paper published by The Interfaith Stewardship Alliance, “<a href="http://erlc.com/article/a-call-to-truth-prudence-and-protection/">A Call to Truth, Prudence, and Protection of the Poor: An Evangelical Response to Global Warming</a>,” in July 2006. Far from being a theological treatise, “A Call to Truth” lays out a scientific case for climate change skepticism. Citing scientific evidence, it urges Christians not to join in global-warming alarmism or to press for unneeded reductions in carbon emissions that would have disastrous effects for the world’s poor. It was written as a response to the Evangelical Climate Initiative’s (ECI) “<a href="http://christiansandclimate.org/learn/call-to-action/">Call to Action</a>,” a document that advises Evangelicals to support massive reductions in greenhouse gases.</p>
<p>The tone of “Call to Truth” reflects the kind of reasoned approach that Spencer adopts when attempting to explain climate science to an audience:</p>
<blockquote><p>It is important to speak directly to the issue of motive. We do not question the motive of those who produced or signed the ECI’s “Call to Action.” We assume that they acted out of genuine concern for the world’s poor and others and considered their action justified by scientific, economic, theological, and ethical facts. We trust that they will render us the same respect. It is not sufficient, however, to have good intentions. They must be linked to sound understanding of relevant principles, theories, and facts. As we shall argue below, that linkage is lacking for the ECI’s “Call to Action.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Having worked with James Hansen, Spencer explained a core reason why the NASA physicist is so adamant that mankind is causing catastrophic climate change. “I think he has a pretty simplistic view of how the climate system works,” Spencer said. “He thinks he knows how the ice ages were started. He believes that tiny shifts in the earth’s orbit cause the ice ages and that leads him to conclude that the earth’s climate is very sensitive. Personally, I don’t think we know what caused the ice ages.”</p>
<p>Spencer, like many other skeptical scientists, doesn’t believe that earth’s climate is nearly as sensitive as Hansen and others in his camp assume. And, for Spencer, if the climate were in fact as “infinitely sensitive” as Hansen suggests, then nothing could be done except to adapt to the shifts in temperature to come. It’s the kind of cool-headed assessment that has turned the mild-mannered scientist into such a lightning rod for the more zealous champions of climate change.</p>
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		<title>Alabama Rep. Parker Griffith switches to GOP over health care &#8211; POLITICO.com</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[POLITICO has learned that Rep. Parker Griffith, a freshman Democrat from Alabama, will announce today that he’s switching parties to become a Republican.According to two senior GOP aides familiar with the decision, the announcement will take place this afternoon in Griffith&#8217;s district in northern Alabama.Griffith’s party switch comes on the eve of a pivotal congressional [&#8230;]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>POLITICO has learned that Rep. Parker Griffith, a freshman Democrat from Alabama, will announce today that he’s switching parties to become a Republican.According to two senior GOP aides familiar with the decision, the announcement will take place this afternoon in Griffith&#8217;s district in northern Alabama.Griffith’s party switch comes on the eve of a pivotal congressional health care vote and will send a jolt through a Democratic House Caucus that has already been unnerved by the recent retirements of a handful of members who, like Griffith, hail from districts that offer prime pickup opportunities for the GOP in 2010.The switch represents a coup for the House Republican leadership, which had been courting Griffith since he publicly criticized the Democratic leadership in the wake of raucous town halls during the summer.Griffith, who captured the seat in a close 2008 open seat contest, will become the first Republican to hold the historically Democratic, Huntsville-based district. A radiation oncologist who founded a cancer treatment center, Griffith plans to blast the Democratic health care bill as a prime reason for his decision to switch parties—and is expected to cite his medical background as his authority on the subject.</p>
<p>via <a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1209/30896.html">Exclusive: Rep. Parker Griffith switches to GOP &#8211; - POLITICO.com</a>.</p>
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