Bored blobs and cui bono

"Jet Trail"

Jesu Cristo. The WSJ hit the ball a long, long way this morning.
See zee ball. Hit zee ball. - Freddie Sanchez

1. Bored blobs

I heart Lenore Skenazy and her Free Range Kids blog.

QOTD

Researchers found that kids spend an average of only 2% to 3% of their day in "vigorous activities."
- Lenore, wsj - The importance of child's play

Even better. He he.

QOTD2

In striving to make our kids super safe and super smart we have turned them into bored blobs.
- Lenore

2. Cui bono

Who are these fucking losers? Idiots all.

1. Claude Allegre, former director of the Institute for the Study of the Earth, University of Paris
2. J. Scott Armstrong, cofounder of the Journal of Forecasting and the International Journal of Forecasting
3. Jan Breslow, head of the Laboratory of Biochemical Genetics and Metabolism, Rockefeller University
4. Roger Cohen, fellow, American Physical Society
5. Edward David, member, National Academy of Engineering and National Academy of Sciences
6. William Happer, professor of physics, Princeton
7. Michael Kelly, professor of technology, University of Cambridge, U.K.
8. William Kininmonth, former head of climate research at the Australian Bureau of Meteorology
9. Richard Lindzen, professor of atmospheric sciences, MIT
10. James McGrath, professor of chemistry, Virginia Technical University
11. Rodney Nichols, former president and CEO of the New York Academy of Sciences
12. Burt Rutan, aerospace engineer, designer of Voyager and SpaceShipOne
13. Harrison H. Schmitt, Apollo 17 astronaut and former U.S. senator
14. Nir Shaviv, professor of astrophysics, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
15. Henk Tennekes, former director, Royal Dutch Meteorological Service
16. Antonio Zichichi, president of the World Federation of Scientists, Geneva

These 16 asswipes are climate deniers. Fools. Partisan hacks. They're all thoughtless, uncaring idiots who are a threat our planet and putting out children (the children!) at risk.

In today's WSJ, 16 scientists wrote a direct rebuke of global warming. Every word of this is spot on:

16 concerned scientists:

No need to panic about global warming

OK. Go:

• "CO2 is not a pollutant"
• "Perhaps the most inconvenient fact is the lack of global warming for well over 10 years now."
• "Alarmism over climate is of great benefit to many, providing government funding for academic research and a reason for government bureaucracies to grow."
• "The highest benefit-to-cost ratio is achieved for a policy that allows 50 more years of economic growth unimpeded by greenhouse gas controls"
• "Much of the huge private and government investment in climate is badly in need of critical review"

More important than 16 hotshot scientists is a simple point: what they are saying makes common sense. Simple common sense.

Finally, why has all this global warming nonsense been stirred up in the first place? 
Cui bono.
Follow the money.
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