Wednesday, September 2, 2015

How the political class tries to grab power from the climate hysteria


"For over 15 years an inordinate proportion of government and corporate research grants have been awarded to universities for a single specific purpose: to prove human activities and the burning of fossil fuels are the main driving mechanisms causing global warming.
Unfortunately agendas by strong arm politics and the suppression of contrary views have become the primary tools used to manipulate the media, local and state governments (and in turn the general public) into believing what they want us to believe.
Many former research department heads, such as Dr. Reid Bryson (known as the Father of Climatology), openly state that research grants are driven by politics, and in order to receive a government grant you have to play the game. Topics for grants go with the political wind.
In the mid 1990s government grants were typically advertised in such a way to indicate that conclusions should show a connection to human activity as the cause for anthropogenic global warming. The result: most of the research published in journals became one-sided and this became the primary information tool for media outlets.
According to some university researchers who were former heads of their departments, if a university even mentioned natural cycles, they were either denied future grants, or lost grants. And it is common knowledge that United States government employees within NOAA were cautioned not to talk about natural cycles. It is well known that most university research departments live or die via the grant system. What a great way to manipulate researchers in Europe, Australia and the United States."
Note that Mr. Dilley believes that instead of global warming, we are in actuality entering into a cooling cycle, which is in fact consistent with the actual, unadulterated date for the last 20 years of so.


Yes, indeed, where are we on the Gefilte fish issue?


My favorite, so far, of the emails from the Hillary! email dump.

Grandma will kill you


Tuesday, September 1, 2015

Perfect


Motorbike goodness




Have a seat


And a Scotch

Nice


Blacksmithery


Something that would keep the shop warm on a snowy day

Cabin Porn - Reclaimed houseboat in Berlin, Germany.


Motor Porn


Stinking little brothers...


1928 Windhoff Four



How hard is it to set off sporting ammunition?

Republic P-47 Thunderbolt


The Republic P-47 Thunderbolt is one of the largest and heaviest fighter aircraft in history to be powered by a single piston engine. It was built from 1941-1945. It was heavily armed with eight .50-caliber machine guns, four per wing. When fully loaded, the P-47 weighed up to eight tons, and in the fighter-bomber ground-attack roles could carry five-inch rockets or a significant bomb load of 2,500 pounds; it could carry more than half the payload of the B-17 bomber on long-range missions (although the B-17 had a far greater range). The P-47 was designed around the powerful Pratt & Whitney R-2800 Double Wasp engine—the same engine used by two very successful U.S. Navy fighters, the Grumman F6F Hellcat and Vought F4U Corsair, itself the first to fly with Double Wasp power in late May 1940—and was to be very effective as a short-to-medium range escort fighter in high-altitude air-to-air combat. When deployed as a fighter-bomber with its usual "double quartet" of heavy-caliber M2 Browningmachine guns, it proved especially adept at ground attack in both the World War II European and Pacific Theaters.

Waiting for Obama and Bear Grylls.