Priceless irony!



I'm waiting for the headline, "Global warming activists die in blizzard."

Via Captain Capitalism.

"Don't Panic."

Assuming this pans out, this is both funny and good news.

Or bad news if reports of Global Cooling are true.

James Taranto writes:

Now it turns out that there was a Y2K bug--and it contributed to global warming hype. Michael Asher of DailyTech.com has the story:

My earlier column this week detailed the work of a volunteer team to assess problems with US temperature data used for climate modeling. One of these people is Steve McIntyre, who operates the site climateaudit.org. While inspecting historical temperature graphs, he noticed a strange discontinuity, or "jump" in many locations, all occurring around the time of January, 2000.

These graphs were created by NASA's Reto Ruedy and James Hansen (who shot to fame when he accused the administration of trying to censor his views on climate change). Hansen refused to provide McKintyre with the algorithm used to generate graph data, so McKintyre reverse-engineered it. The result appeared to be a Y2K bug in the handling of the raw data. . . .

NASA has now silently released corrected figures, and the changes are truly astounding. The warmest year on record is now 1934. 1998 (long trumpeted by the media as record-breaking) moves to second place. 1921 takes third. In fact, 5 of the 10 warmest years on record now all occur before World War II.

This almost sounds too good to be true: The one Y2K bug that happened to slip through was the one that contributed to another alarmist narrative. But when you think about it, it makes sense. NASA's faulty findings didn't look faulty to global warmists, who saw exactly what they were expecting to see.

She was telling the truth?!?!!?

A couple of weeks ago, I mentioned the deposition where I uncovered how certain witnesses apparently parleyed their illegal status into legal status. I mentioned what I thought was particularly preposterous testimony by the wife that she had secured a Social Security Number for "banking" which she was able to use thereafter to gain access into the American economy. I mentioned that I thought it was inane to think that a person who was here illegally would be able to acquire a SSN for whatever reason, but that nothing was too inane to put past the American government when it came to immigration policy. I also mentioned how a roomful of attorneys were incredulous about this story.

Well, apparently, she was telling the truth. NRO has a post on "non-work" SSNs, which - surprise! - illegals are using to obtain jobs, even jobs with the federal government.

Amazing.

Even Penner thought this one was comment-worthy.

My partner is pretty easy-going when it comes to the finer distinctions of Christian theology, but the Episcopalian priestess who is a practicing Muslim generated a raised eyebrow.

The money quote for the story:

She says she felt an inexplicable call to become Muslim, and to surrender to God — the meaning of the word "Islam."

"It wasn't about intellect," she said. "All I know is the calling of my heart to Islam was very much something about my identity and who I am supposed to be.

"I could not not be a Muslim."

Clearly it wasn't about "intellect."

Update: It occurred to me that this was a good example of "Muggeridge's Law."