LET THE SUN SHINE INTO THE CORNERS...

I don't think that the latest development in climate change by legitimate scientists will make the slightest bit of headway against the AGW fanatics. Not because the Solar theory is wrong, in fact because it is pure science I believe it to be absolutely right, but because AGW ceased to be about science a very long time ago.

It is actually about power, a manipulative grab for power and for the redistribution of wealth...sound familiar. Indeed, those who have lived beneath the mantle of communism are amongst the most vociferous voices raised against the AGW scam because they recognise the signs.

First, they constructed the best possible temperature record from 1880 to 2014. Remarkably, no one had ever done this before. This required using only surface temperature data from stations not affected by a changing environment.
They show their temperature record is compatible with temperature trends derived from sea surface temperatures, glacier length records, and tree-ring widths.
Their corrected “composite” temperature record shows warming from the 1880’s to 1940’s, and from the 1980’s to 2000’s, with a cooling period from the 1950’s to 1970’s. The record shows the current warm period is similar to the previous warm period from the 1880’s to 1940’s.
They show climate models do not reproduce the correct temperature record when back tested. This means, of course, climate models are of no value in making climate predictions. The reason is obvious. Climate models do not properly simulate the physical effects of carbon dioxide, water vapor, clouds, aerosols, and solar irradiance.

Read the precis of the paper @  http://edberry.com/blog/ed-berry/new-study-sun-not-co2-causes-climate-change/   The full paper is way to complicated for non scientific dufuses like myself, but many questions are answered in the comment section.

USEFUL INFO

In the 1960s, radical philosopher Herbert Marcuse popularized the "repressive tolerance" theory of modern progressives. "Liberating tolerance would mean intolerance against movements from the right and toleration of movements from the left," Marcuse pontificated. "Certain things cannot be said, certain ideas cannot be expressed, certain policies cannot be proposed."

HOME IS WHERE THE HEART IS

Some (slightly) out-of-date stats proclaim a problem in education in the UK. I seriously doubt that the situation has improved, nor that the situation in Australia is indeed much better.
Hence the explosion in homeschooling.

An official report in 1999 claimed one in five adults could not find the entry for “plumbers” in a telephone directory and that innumeracy was even more widespread. A 1998 Gallup Poll indicated only 56 per cent of the adult population could identify the Queen as the British head of state.[2] A Basic Skills Agency report calculated 24 per cent of the population was functionally illiterate and innumerate. Showing how seriously the government took this, the Minister for Schools, Jim Knight, responsible for class-room standards, published a short letter on his website in 2009, claiming “there is [sic] also a lot of positive things going on in our schools”, which contained several basic spelling and grammatical errors, including “archealogical”, “acheiving” and “maintainence”.

I was at a homeschooling 'collective excursion' yesterday and learned that homeschoolers in South Australia make up the biggest 'school group' in the state. And that reflects only the ones who have registered...many do not. A few of the non-registered parents/caregivers are loons, others just old-fashioned rebels, but most homeschooling parents are dedicated to good education and spare no effort in obtaining both the materials and the opportunities to provide the very best for their children. When one reflects on the above statistics, it becomes difficult to argue for the alternative.

Fortunately there remains a significant cohort of dedicated, moral teachers who treat teaching as a calling rather than a mere job, and if your family has no options but schooling, send them to schools where these teachers are the norm. They exist, you just have to do your homework and pay the price.

CRY WOLF

How easy it is for wily operators to fleece the bleeding heart liberals:

Crikey‘s Josh Taylor weeps about self-slicing illegals:  102 incidents of self-harm on Nauru in 2015. 40 on Manus.

But that was before a travel incentive was removed:

The number of asylum-seekers on Nauru harming themselves plummeted to zero three months after Immigration Minister Peter Dutton stopped family members from being allowed to travel to Australia to accompany a sick or injured person …
Late last year, Mr Dutton instructed the Immigration Department to bring only the person needing medical treatment to Australia, not the whole family, unless there were “extenuating circumstances”.

It was just that easy.

BRAVE NEW UTOPIA

In today's world the more you toady to the elitist ideologists the more fame and fortune you garner. Witness our new 'Australian of the year' whose actual record should have relegated him to janitorial status.

"Morrison presided over one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in this country’s military history, in his over-the-top ­response to the Jedi Council scandal. His impassioned 2013 speech excoriating sexist soldiers made him a hero to the feminist establishment.

But the price was that he ruthlessly sacrificed eight officers on the altar of feminism.

And no one was more hard done by than the most senior of the group, Ken, because he hadn’t even opened the offending emails which were the cause of his downfall."

In our Brave New 'Utopia' you can be excoriated just for receiving a 'sexist' email even if you don't read it. Witness just one of those affected by Morrisons' lack of courage in standing up to the Feminazi's:

“I was the most senior officer he accused ... He embarrassed (me) on national TV. I, like many others, didn’t read the emails or deleted them because I didn’t have time to read stuff from a civilian.
“Morrison tried hard to pin the Jedi Council on me but when he couldn’t, he sacked me from Command because ‘I failed to remain aware of issues that ­affect me, my unit and Army’.
“Removing me from command is a death sentence for your career and particularly me because everyone thought I was part of Jedi Council. I was just dead man walking … The ­betrayal has broken me.”
His life was ruined and yet he had no idea what the “Jedi Council” was, had met Fredrickson twice 12 years earlier, and had never read his obscene emails. Not one.
He was too busy as a commanding officer in Townsville, getting hundreds of emails a day to read any email that wasn’t ­directly addressed to him.

“I did not read the emails from Fredrickson. When Morrison finally agreed that I was not part of the Jedi Council he sacked me from Command (anyway). So as far as Morrison’s justice goes I was going to be sacked whether I was guilty or not. The whole thing felt like the Salem witch trials.”

Ken has since been medically discharged from the Army after 24 years of dedicated service. He’d served in East Timor and Afghanistan, He’d studied at Kings College London. He has three masters degrees. He planned to be a general. Now he is unemployed and has spent six months of the last two years in psychiatric wards.
And of course his wife, his “soulmate”, and his two young children suffer as well.
“You can ruin your own reputation and you have to live with that but when your reputation is ruined by someone else that is when it eats at you.”

Feeling safer in the new Australia?

GODLESS RELIGION

This has to make you think twice, surely! Everyone has a 'religion', even those who claim there is no God.

A Catholic priest would earn in a year what Morrison earns in just two or three speeches of his own brand of moralising:
Former army chief David Mor­­rison is charging up to $15,000 for speaking engagements as Australian of the Year, up to three times more than his predecessor Rosie Batty asked for each appearance.
In an insight into the growth of the industry that has built up around advocacy of equality and diversity, Mr Morrison stands to earn as much as $780,000 while he is Australian of the Year if he gives one speech a week.
How about equality of salary? A few bracing lectures from Morrison on that would be interesting.
On the same theme, a Human Rights Commissioner gets ten times the salary of a Catholic priest, and usually gets treated by the media like a minor oracle and not a leper.
New Age moralists don’t come cheap. It’s a business now. But I rather suspect we’d hear more to our advantage from the priest.

AUSSIE RUI(NATION)

Often it is the comments on the various blogs I read that hit the home-run. There are, particularly on conservative blogs, always the foul mouthed/brained Trolls (whose nom de plumes usually rather amusingly describe their predilections) who are often of insignificant intellect and a waste of space, but their are also the rather erudite and sometimes prescient commentators whose contribution bears repeating, as in the following remarks by 'R Blake' about our new 'Australian of the year' (as I now retire to wash my mouth out with soap):

David Morrison is a just another self-serving public servant, riding the wave of the new immoral paradigm. He has found himself a lucrative “social issues” gig and he’ll work it for everything it’s got, just like the others. These talkative media advocates tend to fit a certain personality type - i.e. fragile egos craving attention, emotional, committed, but with relatively low intelligence.
David Morrison, Elizabeth Broderick, Gillian Triggs, Rosie Batty - none of these could be remotely described as intellectual heavyweights. They are stock-standard, ideologically based misinformation disseminators, who crave appreciation and attention, especially media attention.
Bleating about social issues, regardless of the accuracy of their statements (because accuracy does not matter in the digital era), provides them with both financial and emotional sustenance. At the end of the day, this is what they seek.