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Trump Appoints Conservative Ex-Navy Flier to Run NASA; Liberal Goes Explode

The next head of NASA is likely to be an ex-Navy fighter pilot turned Republican congressman who believes strongly in space exploration but is skeptical about man-made climate switch.

What’s not to like about about Trump’s nomination of Rep. Jim Bridenstine (R-Oklahoma) for the job of NASA’s administrator?

Everything, if you’re a liberal.

According to Fresh York Daily News columnist Linda Stasi, Trump just blew the flawless chance to switch his “presidency from the chaotic mess of threats, bitterness and bilious paranoia to one of rationality and reasonableness.”

Evidently, the job should have gone to a fully-fledged climate alarmist.

There is no denying that our weather is getting more severe, that the oceans are rising, the Arctic ice is melting and hurricanes are wreaking ever-more havoc each time one pummels another part of the country.

Harvey has officially brought the most devastating rainfall in our nation’s history — more than fifty one inches in some areas of Houston. As many as 42,399 humans are in shelters.

Yet in the face of all this, you, Mr. President, have chosen to nominate a climate change-denying partisan politician, Republican Rep. Jim Bridenstine, to head NASA. How can you even think of such a man.

As this planet heats up, we have to look to space. That won’t be done if the man heading NASA denies the science and looks down on the truth of what’s happening in our atmosphere.

It would be nice to dismiss this as the merely the deranged frothings of a rent-an-opinion, left-wing columnist who has bizarrely chosen to borrow her surname from that of the secret police in former Communist East Germany. Unluckily, she’s by no means the exception. Most liberals think as she does.

Ship of Fools IV: Another Green Arctic Expedition Scuppered by Ice

A sailing expedition to the North Pole to raise awareness of global heating has been coerced to turn back, five hundred ninety nautical miles brief of its destination, after the yachts found their passage blocked by large quantities of an unexpected frozen white substance.

A meeting of the four skippers was held led by Erik de Jong, with Pen Hadow present, and it was agreed further northward progress would increase considerably the risks to the expedition, with very limited scientific prize. The decision to head south, back to an area of less concentrated sea ice in the surroundings of seventy nine degrees thirty minutes North, was made at Legal.30 (Alaskan time).

Concentrated sea ice? In the Arctic Circle? Whoever would have imagined?

As usual, on these occasions, the expedition leaders are covering their embarrassment by billing their failure as a excellent success.

Arctic Mission has undertaken an extensive oceanographic, wildlife and ecosystem research programme during the voyage, led by Tim Gordon of the University of Exeter (UK). This has included work on acoustic ecology, copepod distributions and physiology, microplastic pollution surveying, inorganic carbon chemistry, seabird range expansion and microbial DNA sequencing. Scientific findings will be released following comprehensive data analysis and formal publication in peer-reviewed journals in 2018/Nineteen.

It is believed Arctic Mission has sailed further north from the coastlines surrounding the Arctic Ocean than any vessel in history without icebreaker support.

Well maybe. But that wasn’t the original point of the expedition when it was announced in the Sunday Times earlier this summer:

The State Was Gripping, Moving and Shocking – But It Came at a Moral Cost

No, The State (Channel Four) wasn’t a recruiting manual for the Islamic State, tho’ I did feel uneasy about it via the four gigs. The fundamental problem is this: if you’re going to make a watchable drama about bad people doing terrible things, you inevitably have to humanise them. And from there it’s just a brief step to making them sympathetic.

Peter Kosminsky’s drama followed four British Muslims to Syria to join IS. Shakira, a black convert with a nearly-ten-year-old son, dreamed to apply her abilities as a doctor; Ushna was a teenager seeking to be a ‘lioness for lions’; Ziyaad was an amiable lunk looking for escapade; and his mate Jalal was a ‘hafiz’ — someone who has memorised the entire Koran — who desired to go after in the footsteps of his dead brother and witness the Sharia in its purest form.

Unnecessary to say, each was horribly, fiercely disabused. But already you see the problem: here were some fairly likeable characters — kind, sensitive Jalal, especially — a million miles from the hopped-up, insensate, savage killers we now see harshly once a fortnight bombing, shooting, slashing, van-murdering innocents for the crime of living a normal western life.

Read the rest in the Spectator.

Hollywood Plans All-Female Remake of ‘Lord of the Flies’. Yeah – That’ll Work…

Hollywood is planning an all-female remake of Lord of the Flies.

Yeah, that’ll work.

It might even be the greatest thing since Ghostbusters (the two thousand sixteen mega-hit which critics hailed as such a massive improvement on the original. No wait…).

William Golding’s one thousand nine hundred fifty four classic is one of the greatest books ever written about toxic masculinity. Indeed, the author took agonies to point out that his story – about a group of schoolboys on a desert island who leisurely descend into savagery – just wouldn’t make sense if damsels were involved.

“I think women are foolish to pretend they’re equal to studs – they’re far superior, and always have been.

No, indeed. And if the two (masculine) scriptwriters treatment their material with any psychological acuity, then the outcome will be very different from the one in the book.

One Last Time – Hurricane Harvey Had Nothing Whatsoever to Do with ‘Climate Change’

All week some of the very worst people in climate activism have been attempting to make political mileage out of Hurricane Harvey.

They range from the inescapable Naomi Klein…

NOW IS EXACTLY the time to talk about climate switch, and all the other systemic injustices — from racial profiling to economic austerity — that turn disasters like Harvey into human catastrophes.

Climate switch worsened the influence of Hurricane Harvey.

…to whichever disgruntled, anti-Trump, predictably left-wing NOAA employee runs the @altnoaa Twitter account:

What all these blowhard charlatans have in common is that they are all talking drivel. They are, as the EPA rightly says, attempting “to politicize an ongoing tragedy.”

As scientists – or, in Klein’s case, people with pretensions to having scientific evidence on their side – they indeed ought to know better than to pin man-made climate switch on a natural meteorological event which has nothing whatsoever to do with man-made climate switch.

‘Harvey Is What Climate Switch Looks Like…’ (See Also: Katrina; Sandy; Matthew; Every Storm Ever…)

In all of U.S. history, there’s never been a storm like Hurricane Harvey. That fact is increasingly clear, even however the rains are still falling and the water levels in Houston are still rising.

This apocalyptic bed-wetting would be a lot more effective if climate activists didn’t trot out the same tired old line pretty much every time the U.S. was hit by any weather event more troubling than a mild breeze…

Meantime, in the real world, yes it seems likely that Texas’s troubles are far from over. The 30in of rain that Houston has had already may dual by the end of the week, causing more flooding mayhem.

Australian Environment Editor – ‘Houston – You Made This Problem!’

Houston had it coming because oil, the environment editor of one of Australia’s leading left-liberal newspapers has predictably claimed.

Yes, Houston, you do have a problem, and – as insensitive as it seems to bring it up just now – some of it is your own making.

Let’s be clear upfront. I unreservedly wish that all of your millions of citizens get securely through Tropical Storm Harvey, and the biblical-scale deluge and floods that are forecast to swamp your city in coming days.

But, as the self-styled “world capital of the oil and gas industry”, there’s a connection inbetween rising global greenhouse gas levels and the extreme weather now being inflicted that some of your residents have understood for decades and had a mitt in.

Actually, no, there is no connection at all. Obviously you wouldn’t expect an Environment Editor to know this. But there is no evidence whatsoever of any positive link inbetween “climate change” and hurricane strength.

On the contrary, the incidence of hurricanes in the US has actually decreased markedly since the global heating scare began:

Thomas Wictor Is the Latest Victim of Google Censorship

Twitter thread genius Thomas Wictor has become the latest victim of the liberal-left tech sector’s war on free speech.

YouTube has suspended his account — allegedly because he violated their “terms of use”; but truly, he suspects, for the crime of being a Trump supporter who speaks unpalatable truths about leftist evils.

If you’re unacquainted with Thomas Wictor, you’re missing a treat. He’s a Venezuelan-born recluse with a rich and varied past who, besides being the world’s greatest (and only) pro on World War I flamethrowers, also happens to produce some of the most fascinating Twitter threads and social media movie commentary you will ever see on subjects ranging from Antifa to Pallywood to what’s indeed going on in Syria and Iraq.

But with Wictor you can never be fairly sure because his exposition is so thorough and well-documented.

One of his specialties is forensic movie analysis. This is how I very first came across him, a few years back, when I wrote my very first Breitbart News story based on his research. It worried the four Palestinian boys supposedly throated up on a beach by Israeli artillery during the last Gaza conflict — but truly, or so Wictor claimed, murdered by Hamas who then exploited the dead children for propaganda purposes.

Al Gore’s ‘An Inconvenient Sequel’ – Fact-Checked…

Meteorologist Roy Spencer has written a book which fact-checks Al Gore’s latest climate-disaster-porn movie An Inconvenient Sequel.

Spoiler alert: Gore’s scaremongering ‘facts’ are all inconveniently untrue.

Spencer, a principal research scientist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, starts his book An Inconvenient Deception gladly, by noting that he much chooses the fresh movie to its two thousand six Oscar-winning prequel An Inconvenient Truth.

It was much less of a PowerPoint presentation and more of a human interest story. It goes after Gore over the years as he attempts to woo fellow politicians, foreign goes of state, and the public that the climate crisis is real. While some have considered Gore’s role in the movie to be too self-indulgent, I thought it displayed some humanity in someone many people over the years have considered too “stiff”.

But there the praise completes. When Spencer witnessed the movie, he was one of only three viewers in a 750-seat theater – and one of these people walked out half way through. This local reaction is borne out by the movie’s dismal reception at the box office. No one is going to see Al Gore’s terrible fresh movie. And – scientifically speaking, at least – they’re indeed not missing much.

Here are some of Al Gore’s dubious claims rebutted.

Gore is shown visiting cryospheric experienced Konrad Steffen.

“Surface melting is shown with dramatic aerial movie. Rivers of meltwater form and plunge down into giant slots in the ice sheet called “moulins”.”

“What isn’t mentioned is that this happens every summer, naturally.”

In fact this is a good example of Gore’s dearest cheat: demonstrate dramatic footage of a natural event – eg ice melting rapidly – and then leave the viewer to infer that this is another disastrous and unprecedented consequence of man-made climate switch. It spares him the risk of telling vapid out lies which might get fact-checked later. The viewer’s imagination does all Gore’s dirty work…

Meantime, in the real world, reminisce, Greenland recently recorded its coldest temperature ever measured in July for the Northern Hemisphere.

Trump Lops Off Another of the Green Blob’s Tentacles

That shrieking you can hear is the sound of the Green Blob, mourning the loss of another of its tentacles.

If you believe the liberal media, the ACSNCA – as very likely no one ever called it – was a vital organization established by President Obama in two thousand fifteen as part of his career-defining mission to combat climate switch:

The 15-member Advisory Committee for the Sustained National Climate Assessment included academics, corporate representatives, and local officials who were tasked with helping public and private-sector officials understand the findings of the National Climate Assessment so that the information could factor into their long-term planning.

Put more simply, the panel, which was founded in 2015, existed to make sure government data was able to help both the public and private sectors prepare for the inevitability and disruptiveness of climate switch.

Yeah, whatever. In reality, it was just more expensive, entrenched bureaucracy; more jobs for the usual suspects from the green gravy train; more intrusive environmental policy inserted by these faceless apparatchiks at every level of government.

To get an idea of the people we’re dealing with – and of why the U.S. taxpayer has reason to thank Trump for nipping this operation in the bud – consider the committee’s chair Richard H. Moss.

The way Fresh York magazine describes him below, you’d think he was some kind of scientific experienced:

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