And with good reason.

Three Quarters Believe Global Warming A ‘Natural Occurrence’

ALMOST three quarters of people believe global warming is a ‘natural occurrence’ and not a result of carbon emissions, a survey claimed today.

This goes against the views of the vast majority of scientists who believe the rise in the earth’s temperatures is due to pollution.

The online study which polled nearly 4000 votes found that a staggering 71 percent of people think that the rise in air temperature happens naturally.

And 65 percent think that scientists’ catastrophic predictions if pollution isn’t curbed are ‘far fetched’.

Obviously a random sampling of a few thousand is not a scientific conclusion, and all surveys are prone to error, but I think the point is still made that the average person is not ready to sign off on the issue, not with out actual proof.

The fact is that the facts are inconvenient to the alarmists, and so is the fact that people really do act independently and have opinion.

Yes, according to a Swedish scientist.

Swedish Scientist Accuses UN’s IPCC of Falsifying Data and Destroying Evidence

If you listen to the global warming alarmists working for the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or folks like soon-to-be-Dr. Al Gore, sea levels across the globe are rising at a rate that will eventually doom us all.

According to Swedish paleogeophysicist Nils-Axel Mörner, who’s been studying and writing about sea levels for four decades, the scientists working for the IPCC have falsified data and destroyed evidence to incorrectly prove their point.

Mörner was recently interviewed by Gregory Murphy of Executive Intelligence Review, and began by making it clear that the sea level claims made by the IPCC are a lot of nonsense (emphasis added throughout, h/t Eduardo Ferreyra):

[W]e can see that the sea level was indeed rising, from, let us say, 1850 to 1930-40. And that rise had a rate in the order of 1 millimeter per year. Not more. 1.1 is the exact figure. And we can check that, because Holland is a subsiding area; it has been subsiding for many millions of years; and Sweden, after the last Ice Age, was uplifted. So if you balance those, there is only one solution, and it will be this figure.

Boy: Taliban Recruited Me to Bomb Troops

The story of a 6-year-old Afghan boy who says he thwarted an effort by Taliban militants to trick him into being a suicide bomber provoked tears and anger at a meeting of tribal leaders.

The account from Juma Gul, a dirt-caked child who collects scrap metal for money, left American soldiers dumbfounded that a youngster could be sent on such a mission. Afghan troops crowded around the boy to call him a hero.

Though the Taliban dismissed the story as propaganda, at a time when U.S. and NATO forces are under increasing criticism over civilian casualties, both Afghan tribal elders and U.S. military officers said they were convinced by his dramatic account.

I don’t doubt that it is true.  It certainly would not be the first time a terrorist has used a child as  mule for a bomb attack.  It has happened in many wars where the fighters have no value on the life of innocents.

The Taliban and Al Qaeda have no regard for the lives of civilians, they prove that with each innocent life killed by one of there suicide bombers.

Here we go again.  On the heels of the reports of  Boxer and Clinton discussing this a while back is a current confirmation that the issue is alive and moving in the Senate.

Feinstein might push for fairness doctrine

U.S. Sen. Diane Feinstein, D-Calif., said Sunday she is “looking at” the possibility of reviving the fairness doctrine for U.S. broadcasters.

Feinstein, speaking on “Fox News Sunday” with Sen. Trent Lott, R-Miss., said talk radio in particular has presented a one-sided view of immigration reform legislation being considered by the Senate.

What a shock.  Talk radio is currently mostly conservative and the conservatives generally oppose the bill, so the talk radio has been negative.

So what?

U.S. talk radio is dominated by conservative voices.

“This is a very complicated bill,” said Feinstein. “Most people don’t know what’s in this bill. Therefore, to just have one or two things dramatized and taken out of context, such as the word amnesty — we have a silent amnesty right now, but nobody goes into that. Nobody goes into the flaws of our broken system.”

I know that nature needs wildfires.  I know this intellectually.  I know that the fire clears choking underbrush, helps dormant seeds germinate and all manner of other subtle wonders.

And the newspapers are full of stories showing how forest mismanagement of the eco system has contributed to the tinder box conditions.

But I love Lake Tahoe.  There are a few magic places on earth to me, and Lake Tahoe is one of them.

I spent several wonderful summers there and had some wonder experiences. 

Not just the Casinos mind you.  Granted that Harrah’s is one of my favorites, but I have spent more time on the lake itself then in the gambling dens.

My father has a sailboat you see, and those summer we spent sailing across and around the lake, or inner tubing in the lagoons and even jet skiing.

We sailed over to Emerald Cove to see Vikingsholm, an amazing place.

And the mountains had their attractions, as I took the tram to Heavenly Valley in the summer and my girl and I spent a magical day hiking in the woods.  The view was spectacular.