For years, I have wondered aloud about when this country would start utilizing a clean, plentiful AND domestic source of energy, natural gas. I’ve written about fracking and technology advances that have made the natural resource so plentiful we barely have room to store it all. Natural gas used to be ok to enviro fanatics because it is far cleaner than coal. That was before the wind and solar subsidy boondoggle started. Now, amazingly, natural gas is the enemy. Why is that at a time of nearly $gas? Because the Greens are out to protect the subsidies they need for their unprofitable, unproductive and marginal pet projects like wind and solar. Not content to simply be hypocrites, they have started a full fledged assault on natural gas. Naturally, they have found an ally in The New York Times.
Author Jon Entine recently published a great article on Real Clear Politics exposing the truth about natural gas and the laugh out loud “reporting” of the New York Times on this topic. Before you Gorebots dismiss Entine as a shill of Big Oil, or something, consider for a moment what liberal New York governor Andrew Cuomo’s administration had to say about the New York Times,
The Cuomo administration is charging The New York Times with using its news pages to crusade against natural-gas drilling in the impoverished Southern Tier section upstate. “To get the story so blatantly wrong by posting a misleading headline on the Times’ home page is a disservice to your readers,” Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner Joseph Martens wrote to the paper Friday in reference to a Times “exclusive” that Cuomo had supposedly given a go-ahead to use the controversial hydrofracturing technique for gas drilling. “The Times has a responsibility to present accurate and balanced coverage of such a controversial matter, and it failed miserably in this case,” Martens, a Cuomo appointee, continued. “The article, ‘Cuomo Moving to End a Freeze on Gas Drilling,’ failed to present an even and objective story. The single environmental viewpoint was that of the Environmental Advocates of NY when several other environmental groups — the National Resources Defense Council, the Adirondack Mountain Club, and the NY League of Conservation Voters — all released statements supportive of DEC’s proposal,” Marten said in a letter, a copy of which was obtained by The Post.
Once again, we see that money, in this case subsidies, is the real motivation of the environmental lobby. They are smearing a clean, abundant natural resource in favor of truly weak, unreliable and utterly unprofitable solutions like wind and solar.
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Bruce McQuain from Blackfive joined us once again for Someone You Should Know, our weekly tribute to the troops. Bruce spent 28 years in the U.S. Army and he is a veteran of the Vietnam war. He brings a perspective and understanding to these stories that we could never match.
This week Bruce told us about Hospital Corpsman 1st Class Amilcar Rodriguez who earned a Silver Star for his heroics in Afghanistan,
Rodriguez, equipped with his SAW, located the sniper position in a building and pulled the trigger, emptying the 200-round magazine and killing the two-man enemy team. While fighting ensued all around, Rodriguez dashed over to a wounded staff sergeant and quickly began to treat his leg wound and drag him to cover.
But suddenly the corpsman felt shocks of pain.
Three successive rounds, likely from a machine gun, struck Rodriguez. One round punctured his chest, cutting into one lung, and another sliced into his right arm. Rodriguez, in an interview with Marine Corps Times, recalled the staff sergeant “saw my neck explode†from one of the rounds. Although wounded himself, the Marine grabbed bandages to stem Rodriguez’s bleeding as the corpsman tried to get both of them to safety.
At the time, Rodriguez couldn’t see his right arm, and he couldn’t feel it. He quickly assumed it had been blown off in the fighting.
Rodriguez was undeterred. “I was prepared for life without my arm,†he said.
Just then, another Marine ran onto the rooftop and pulled Rodriguez toward a stairway. That’s when he realized that his arm was still intact, although it wasn’t functioning and he couldn’t feel anything. Another sergeant trailed them and brought the wounded staff sergeant off the rooftop to safety, and a spec ops medic team worked on their wounds. The young soldiers were flustered, Rodriguez said, so he talked them through the steps and helped calm them down. “It was their first combat experience,†he said.
Rodriguez and several wounded men eventually were evacuated.
The Someone You Should Know radio collaboration began as an extension of Matt Burden’s series at Blackfive. Bruce does an incredible job with the series every week. The SYSK archive can be found here and The Pundit Review Radio Podcast RSS feed can be found here and you can find us on iTunes at Pundit Review Radio.
What is Pundit Review Radio?
On Boston’s Talk Station WRKO since 2005, Pundit Review Radio is where the old media meets the new. Each week we give voice to the work of the most influential leaders in the new media/citizen journalist revolution. Called “groundbreaking” by Talkers Magazine, this unique show brings the best of the blogs to the radio every Sunday evening from 6-9pm on AM680 WRKO, Boston’s Talk Station.
It was great to have Producer Rob back behind the glass this weekend. We decided to lighten it up in hour three. We usually do a movie related topic because of Rob’s Rainman like knowledge. Next month Rob and I are going to see comedian Louis CK so we thought a segment on Favorite Comedians would be fun, and we were right.
The segment turned into an hour, and we got a wide variety of nominees, from Don Rickels to Buddy Hackett to Eddie Izard to Richard Prior. By far, the run away winner was the late, great Rodney Dangerfield. Here’s Rodney killing it on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson during the promotional tour for Caddyshack.
The Pundit Review Radio Podcast RSS feed can be found here and you can find us on iTunes at Pundit Review Radio.
What is Pundit Review Radio?
On Boston’s Talk Station WRKO since 2005, Pundit Review Radio is where the old media meets the new. Each week we give voice to the work of the most influential leaders in the new media/citizen journalist revolution. Called “groundbreaking” by Talkers Magazine, this unique show brings the best of the blogs to the radio every Sunday evening from 6-9pm on AM680 WRKO, Boston’s Talk Station.
The idea that the science is settled on something as dynamic as the earth’s environment simply defies rational thought. It is a leap of faith, putting facts aside in favor of beliefs, much like the people who deny evolution. How ironic. The true believers, the Gorebot crowd that wants to “restore science to its rightful place” is actually deeply anti-science.
Here is a link to 900 peer reviewed scientific studies that dare to question the “consensus” on man made global warming. Gorebots won’t look at this science, they will simply dismiss it and point to their science while also smearing the dissenters as bought and paid for shills of Big Oil. They couldn’t possibly be more anti-science if they tried.
The folly of “scientific consensus” perfectly destroyed by author Michael Crichton
Let’s be clear: The work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus. Consensus is the business of politics. Science, on the contrary, requires only one investigator who happens to be right, which means that he or she has results that are verifiable by reference to the real world. In science consensus is irrelevant. What is relevant is reproducible results. The greatest scientists in history are great precisely because they broke with the consensus. There is no such thing as consensus science. If it’s consensus, it isn’t science. If it’s science, it isn’t consensus. Period. . .
1543: The Copernican Revolution
The science is settled!
The Copernican Revolution refers to the paradigm shift away from the Ptolemaic model of the heavens, which postulated the Earth at the center of the galaxy, towards the heliocentric model with the Sun at the center of our Solar System. It was one of the starting points of the Scientific Revolution of the 16th Century.
1632 Galileo Galilei: Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems
The science is settled!
In 1615 he went to Rome to argue on behalf of the merits of the Copernican theory, but the political atmosphere was such that Copernicus’ De Revolutionibus was placed on the Index of Prohibited Books in 1616, and his theory declared “foolish and absurd philosophically and formally heretical inasmuch as it expressly contradicts the doctrines of the holy scripture.” There is evidence that Galileo was warned against promoting the Copernican theory at this time. A Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems first made it past the censors by purporting to be neutral on the astronomical debate. Its failure to do so was but one of the objections raised after publication.
It had taken the Catholic Church seventy-three years to deem it neccessary to ban De Revolutionibus, but when Galileo published A Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems in 1632, it reacted within in five months, and in 1633 his famous trial and recantation took place.
1859: Charles Darwin On the Origin of Species
The science is settled!
Darwin proposed in 1859 that natural selection — “preservation of favorable individual differences and variations, and the destruction of those which are injurious,” in his words — was the inherited mechanism of evolution, how living things endured by hanging onto the traits that helped them survive and eventually losing those that didn’t.
Upending the widespread belief among biologists that all species arose separately, Darwin’s central argument in his landmark 1859 book On the Origin of Species was this: “It inevitably follows, that as new species in the course of time are formed through natural selection, others will become rarer and rarer, and finally extinct.”
1974: Time Magazine: Another Ice Age
The science is settled!
As they review the bizarre and unpredictable weather pattern of the past several years, a growing number of scientists are beginning to suspect that many seemingly contradictory meteorological fluctuations are actually part of a global climatic upheaval. However widely the weather varies from place to place and time to time, when meteorologists take an average of temperatures around the globe they find that the atmosphere has been growing gradually cooler for the past three decades. The trend shows no indication of reversing. Climatological Cassandras are becoming increasingly apprehensive, for the weather aberrations they are studying may be the harbinger of another ice age.
And whose fault is it?
…Man, too, may be somewhat responsible for the cooling trend. The University of Wisconsin’s Reid A. Bryson and other climatologists suggest that dust and other particles released into the atmosphere as a result of farming and fuel burning may be blocking more and more sunlight from reaching and heating the surface of the earth.
Much like today’s true believers, it is human’s fault for cooling the world. If it was something else, how could they seek to control our lives? They couldn’t. So, if it’s getting colder, that’s your fault. Today, “consensus” says it is getting warmer, that too is your fault.
2005: Saint Al Gore: The science is settled
“… the science is extremely clear now, that warmer oceans make the average hurricane stronger, not only makes the winds stronger, but dramatically increases the moisture from the oceans evaporating into the storm – thus magnifying its destructive power – makes the duration, as well as the intensity of the hurricane, stronger. Last year we had a lot of hurricanes. Last year, Japan set an all-time record for typhoons: ten, the previous record was seven. Last year the science textbooks had to be re-written. They said, “It’s impossible to have a hurricane in the south Atlantic.†We had the first one last year, in Brazil. We had an all-time record last year for tornadoes in the United States, 1,717 – largely because hurricanes spawned tornadoes.”
Al Gore, laughingstock: A look back at his hurricane predictions
During the past 6-years since Hurricane Katrina, global tropical cyclone frequency and energy have decreased dramatically, and are currently at near-historical record lows. According to a new peer-reviewed research paper accepted to be published, only 69 tropical storms were observed globally during 2010, the fewest in almost 40-years of reliable records.
Furthermore, when each storm’s intensity and duration were taken into account, the total global tropical cyclone accumulated energy (ACE) was found to have fallen by half to the lowest level since 1977.
After a few days worth of technical difficulties, I am finally able to post this. Sunday’s show was a ton of fun. I was able to welcome to the WRKO studio Conor Units, SVP for New Media and Public Affairs with Liberty Square Group, an influencial government affairs shop. Conor is another Massachusetts politico who I follow on Twitter (@conoryunits) but had never met in “real life”. It was great to have him on. Little did we know when we scheduled the appearance, the most wanted man in the world would be caught and we’d be talking more Whitey than politics.
Joining us was a true subject matter expert. Dick Lehr was a member of the Globe Spotlight team that did the groundbreaking reporting on Whitey Bulger in the late 80’s & early 90s. Dick did such a good job in fact, that a death threat was passed to him by none other than those helpful fellas in the FBI. Dick is co-author of an absolute MUST READ book on Bulger and the FBI, Black Mass: The True Story of an Unholy Alliance Between the FBI and the Irish Mob. Can’t stress how great this book is! It was an honor to have an expert like Dick join us on Pundit Review Radio.
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What is Pundit Review Radio?
On Boston’s Talk Station WRKO since 2005, Pundit Review Radio is where the old media meets the new. Each week we give voice to the work of the most influential leaders in the new media/citizen journalist revolution. Called “groundbreaking” by Talkers Magazine, this unique show brings the best of the blogs to the radio every Sunday evening from 6-9pm on AM680 WRKO, Boston’s Talk Station.
Reagan’s Journey: Lessons From a Remarkable Career
This isn’t a political book as much as it is a self-help and business book ala Tom Peters. What makes it so great to me, is all of the lessons are from the incredible life of Ronald Reagan. Politically, he remains as relevant as ever. The lessons imparted in this book are timeless.
Setting politics and policies largely aside, Morrell highlights the strategies and tactics Ronald Reagan used to transform himself from shy introvert to confident communicator; the methods and tools he employed to keep his career on track; and the skills he developed that led to his many accomplishments. Each chapter of Reagan’s Journey is followed by summary bullet points and an essential overview titled “Working It In,” to facilitate these lessons into your formation as a leader. Anyone interested in strengthening their leadership and communications skills, becoming more resilient in the face of setbacks, or taking their careers to the next level will find practical and useful lessons in the life of Ronald Reagan.
The Pundit Review Radio Podcast RSS feed can be found here and you can find us on iTunes at Pundit Review Radio.
What is Pundit Review Radio?
On Boston’s Talk Station WRKO since 2005, Pundit Review Radio is where the old media meets the new. Each week we give voice to the work of the most influential leaders in the new media/citizen journalist revolution. Called “groundbreaking” by Talkers Magazine, this unique show brings the best of the blogs to the radio every Sunday evening from 6-9pm on AM680 WRKO, Boston’s Talk Station.
Bruce McQuain from Blackfive joined us once again for Someone You Should Know, our weekly tribute to the troops. Bruce spent 28 years in the U.S. Army and he is a veteran of the Vietnam war. He brings a perspective and understanding to these stories that we could never match.
SFC Danny Hall is someone we first told you way back in 2006, when Matt Burden, Blackfive himself, was still doing the Someone You Should Know segment Sunday’s on WRKO. In this edition, Bruce McQuain provides further details on his heroism,
SFC Hall’s actions were in keeping with the finest traditions of a Special Forces Medic, serving as both a rifleman and a combat medic. His demonstrated exceptional heroism, selflessness and lifesaving medical competence proved infectious to the entire ODA as he rallied his comrades in the face of overwhelming enemy firepower. Throughout the engagement, SFC Hall’s decisiveness, calm demeanor and aggressive spirit allowed the ODA to close with and destroy the enemy elements, to include 17 x AIF Killed in Action, 5 destroyed vehicles and numerous weapons. SFC Hall’s actions are in keeping with the finest traditions of heroic military service and reflect great credit upon himself, the Special Operations Command Central, and the United States Army.
The Someone You Should Know radio collaboration began as an extension of Matt Burden’s series at Blackfive. Bruce does an incredible job with the series every week. The SYSK archive can be found here and The Pundit Review Radio Podcast RSS feed can be found here and you can find us on iTunes at Pundit Review Radio.
What is Pundit Review Radio?
On Boston’s Talk Station WRKO since 2005, Pundit Review Radio is where the old media meets the new. Each week we give voice to the work of the most influential leaders in the new media/citizen journalist revolution. Called “groundbreaking” by Talkers Magazine, this unique show brings the best of the blogs to the radio every Sunday evening from 6-9pm on AM680 WRKO, Boston’s Talk Station.