Department of Inconvenient Truths
Indicium Parilis Facultas ne Necessarius Veritas

http://people-press.org/report/584/policy-priorities-2010.

Dealing with global warming ranks at the bottom of the public’s list of priorities; just 28% consider this a top priority, the lowest measure for any issue tested in the survey. Since 2007, when the item was first included on the priorities list, dealing with global warming has consistently ranked at or near the bottom. Even so, the percentage that now says addressing global warming should be a top priority has fallen 10 points from 2007, when 38% considered it a top priority. Such a low ranking is driven in part by indifference among Republicans: just 11% consider global warming a top priority, compared with 43% of Democrats and 25% of independents.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article6999051.ece

But it emerged last week that the forecast was based not on a consensus among climate change experts, but on a media interview with a single Indian glaciologist in 1999.

A freak metorite will storm through the roof of my house and klonk me in the head!

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article6994774.ece

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) said yesterday that the prediction in its landmark 2007 report was “poorly substantiated” and resulted from a lapse in standards. “In drafting the paragraph in question the clear and well-established standards of evidence, required by the IPCC procedures, were not applied properly,” the panel said. “The chair, vice-chair and co-chairs of the IPCC regret the poor application of IPCC procedures in this instance.”

http://www.gallup.com/poll/124958/Conservatives-Finish-2009-No-1-Ideological-Group.aspx

PRINCETON, NJ — The increased conservatism that Gallup first identified among Americans last June persisted throughout the year, so that the final year-end political ideology figures confirm Gallup’s initial reporting: conservatives (40%) outnumbered both moderates (36%) and liberals (21%) across the nation in 2009.

Dorgan says he will not seek re-election in 2010

Democratic senators, gov. ditch re-election plans

In blow to Obama, top Senate ally announces retirement

Dodd, Dorgan out; 5 other Senate Dems vulnerable

A Democrat’s defection to the GOP: What does it really mean?

Worry Grows Over Dem Defections On EFCA

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=a7ab2K_0_80Y

‘…Jan. 6 (Bloomberg) — As many as one in five former Guantanamo Bay detainees are suspected of or confirmed to have engaged in terrorist activity after their release, U.S. officials said, citing the latest government statistics…’

— Here’s what to do: Execute the sons of bitches on the spot. Fuck interviewing them. Chop their mother-fucking-heads off, shove a pork chop in their mouths and let a pack of wild dogs eat their remains. Video tape it and send it to Al Jazeera. Fuck ’em. I am tired of hearing shit like the above.

/CF

http://www.metro.co.uk/news/807821-pensioners-burn-books-for-warmth

Volunteers have reported that ‘a large number’ of elderly customers are snapping up hardbacks as cheap fuel for their fires and stoves.

Temperatures this week are forecast to plummet as low as -13ºC in the Scottish Highlands, with the mercury falling to -6ºC in London, -5ºC in Birmingham and -7ºC in Manchester as one of the coldest winters in years continues to bite.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/topics/weather/6937854/Britain-braced-for-heaviest-snowfall-in-50-years.html

Forecasters predicted that more than one foot of snow could fall in less than 24 hours in most southern areas leading to widespread chaos and disruption for millions.