HE DID IT FOR A FRIEND

Heartland Institute bore James Taylor has long elicited groans at Forbes for the impudence of his sockpuppetry. Now it seems he has been caught out in the cold by posting his latest column in the midst of a hacker attack that has paralyzed Forbes so completely that no one can comment, or as of this writing, change their password to sign back in.

Except , of course, those posessed of the Author's Password. As with most editorial software systems, there is a  firewalled back door to Forbes columns & comments authors and their pet trolls can access even when the website is in flames. Which makes one wonder who generated this, the sole and only comment on the wit & wisdom of Taylors latest screed, 

        John Kerry's Climate McCarthyism Demeans Science :

Dr. Shooshmon, PhD. 3 days ago

Kerry’s personal attacks on unnamed scientists are horrendous! The fact that he didn’t name any scientists is what makes those attacks so personal and so offensive. It’s like, “I won’t name names, but you know who I’m talking about” (wink wink).

Stop ramping up the personal attacks Kerry! You aren’t a scientist so you aren’t qualified to tell us your stupid opinion about science. Thanks for calling him out James. Well done!

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THE SOYLENCE OF THE LAMBS

Before you embrace your inner recycler, and the manifest destiny of Vegan Imperialism to drive the nation's cattle, swine and sheep into the sea, beware what Bloombergian delights post-Buddhist biotechies may contemplate plating in the name of our new tofu portion control masters.
The question of how far down the fast food chain past the Soylent plant dark Greens are prepared to go to kill methane emissions at long last has an answer :   your local sewage farm.

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THE TIMES CHRONICLE OF LOWER EDUCATION

(CLIMATE SCIENCE SUPPLEMENT)

Honorary degree recipients await Gov. Daniels at Rose-Hulman commencement

Whether they produce or consume disinformation, amateur and professional climate skeptics all must be educated somewhere. 
But where can they go to master disbelief in theories incompatible with career success on Fox Science TV?  

It isn't easy to disremember subjects as unforgettable as thermodynamics and the conservation of energy - it takes more than a few hours of  listening to Mark Steyn lecture at Rush U. 

So who is qualified to teach the next generation of climate ignorami? Since imbiciles are thin on the ground at both ordinary and extraordinary institutions of higher learning, students of the sociology of agnotology need to start at the bottom of the university pecking order and work their way up til they find institutions that fill the bill.

To this end researchers have been harrowing the halls of academe to find places where the Peter Principle distills academic incompetence to levels high enough to produce pundits who share Coungressman Broun's view that scientific basics are "lies straight from the pit of hell," or  Indiana Governor Daniel's judgement that "The debate, so far, has been dominated by “experts” from the University of Hollywood and the P.C. Institute of Technology."

The answer seems to lie in universities with the worst graduation rates. Now Texan oil men, Oklahoman Senators, and Chicago's Heartland Institute can take pride in finding their epicenters of climate denial officially recognized in the Times of London's Chronicle of Higher Education

2010  Bottom Ten List

Institution	Graduation rate @ 6 Years	Graduation rate @ 4 years		Undergrad enrollment		Pell grant recipients	$ spent per degree	Aid per recipient
Vincennes UniversityVincennes, Indiana	0.0%	0.0%		16,595		26.3%	$47,741	$9,675
University of Houston-DowntownHouston, Texas	12.4%	1.0%		12,746		41.8%	$35,690	$4,786
Texas Southern UniversityHouston, Texas	13.3%	5.9%		6,964		69.4%	$135,930	$6,950
Chicago State UniversityChicago, Illinois	13.9%	3.0%		5,667		71.6%	$112,141	$11,856
Cameron UniversityLawton, Oklahoma	14.1%	5.4%		5,860		38.9%	$53,724	$4,998
Utah Valley UniversityOrem, Utah	15.0%	3.9%		32,573		32.8%	$46,697	$4,247
Coppin State UniversityBaltimore, Maryland	16.3%	4.6%		3,298		58.3%	$140,300	$8,027
Indiana University-NorthwestGary, Indiana	19.4%	5.5%		5,307		33.0%	$55,326	$5,679
Central State UniversityWilberforce, Ohio	19.4%	7.9%		2,244		77.0%	$197,534	$7,446
CCNY College Jamaica Plain	19.5%	3.7%		7,784		47.7%	$124,532	$6,076

The Chronicle's methodology seems right on the mark, producing a palpable hit at the Oil Patch's least endowed university.  

Though the Downtown Campus of The University of Houston somehow manages to graduate less than one student in a hundred on time, it still finds hanging space down the street from The Petroleum Club for the mortarboard of  Heartland Institute Fellow Larry Bell, whose chair in 'Space Architecture'  has been endowed by a colorful Japanese political figure and his heavily tattooed associates. 

OVER THE TOP

Not since the Battle of Yorktown has the world been turned so thoroughly upside down: the seasonable incursion of Arctic air chilling the lower 48 has been mirrored by a literally over the top warm air mass raising temperatures up to 20 C. in what should be the coldest depths of the long polar night. 

AND THE LORD BEHELD THE GLYPTODONT AND LIKED IT NOT

Lest you imagine Roy Spencer the only fellow to keep the Book of Genesis atop the copy of the Journal of Geophysical Research on his bedside table, another truly true believer has dropped in on Rabbett Run   to dispatch the problems posed to climate deniers of all mental ages by warm eons past.

Full of squirrily vim, 'I speak so I am said' has this to say to heathens pointing to one un-ignorably torrid greenhouse palaeoclime:

"The Eocene epoch--or its dating, at least--is  

not a part of my faith. I realize that it is part of 

 the faith system of most scientists today. But 

they were not around to observe it, and they 

adhere to the presupposition of uniformitarianism."

Which recalls  The Book Of Genesis , Chapter minus 17, verse four :

And the Lord looked out upon his creation 

and saw it left a Lot to be Desired, 

Yea, even like unto the Pillar of Salt to

be introduced many chapters hence, for the 

Lord was right wroth with the giant sloth.

Neither was He amused by the cumbersome 

Co-ry-pho-don, the unattractive Ui-n-ta-ther-i-um 

the asinine Ar-sin-oi-ther-i-um, the miserable 

Mes'onyx, the unhyphenated Hyaenodon or the 

Sar-kast-o-don, for its teeth curled, and it was snarky.

And lo, when the oafish Moropus

defiled his latest opus the Lord said 

 unto Himself  "No more of this!" and 

therewith erased He the Eocene eon 

from the Book of Numbers, where it 

cannot be found to this day.

Here endeth the lesson . 

We will now pass the plenary indulgence plate for 

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 Bitcoins and glyptodon scutes greatfully accepted.