GLOBAL WARMING IS COOLING DOWN: Britain’s University of East Anglia says the director of its prestigious Climatic Research Unit is stepping down pending an investigation into allegations that he overstated the case for man-made climate change.

But we need give it only a year or two and the “warmists” will turn “coolists” with the same fervor and lack of scientific rigor. Their grants depend on it.

AN UPDATE ON OBAMA’S AFGHANISTAN SPEECH: ”Obama has decided to fight the war with the proper resourcing, or close to it. But what exactly is the purpose of the escalation? There was no sense of purpose in the speech, no grand sense of mission, save one: getting out. Obama never once mentioned “victory” in the address, nor [did he] attempt to define (or even re-define) what he wanted for an outcome.”

Which is why his speech was so disappointing.

LIVE GREEN, LIVE CLEAN. How long is another matter for discussion.

Not to worry. Congress has the solution.

WHY I’M ANGRY: “The economic decisions involved [in ClimateGate] make [hundreds of million dollar] drug research programs look like roundoff errors. The data involved have to be very damned good and convincing, given the potential impact on the world economy, through both the possible effects of global warming itself and the effects of trying to ameliorate it. Looking inside the CRU does not make me confident that their data come anywhere close to that standard.”

Link via Instapundit.

NEW WAY OF DETECTING EXOMORONS NARROWS SEARCH FOR INTELLIGENT LIFE. Surely, somewhere, there’s a cartoonist, satirist, journalist who can write to that title. Any takers? Scott Ott? Frank J? Chris Muir? Scott Adams?

Loosely based on the title of an Instapundit post.

THE AMERICAN PUBLIC has an attention span “measured in angstroms.”

Since an angstrom is a measure of distance, not time, what does that tell us about the scientific knowledge of journalists?

I’d suggest that an angstrom is the proper measure of its depth.

HOW CHILDISH: White House insisted F-22 be removed from Obama speech venue.

When President Obama spoke to troops at Alaska's Elmendorf Air Force Base last month, the unit there parked a shiny new F-22 fighter plane in the hanger. But according to multiple sources, White House aides demanded the plane be changed to an older F-15 fighter because they didn't want Obama speaking in front of the F-22, a controversial program he fought hard to end.

“I won’t play; it’s not my football.”

You’ll have to scroll down from the top of the page as the permalink doesn't appear to work.

METRO RECOVERY INDICES: an interesting ranking of the top 100 U.S. metro areas as they begin to recover from the recession.

CAT TRACKING: Using GPS to find KooKoo.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON proposes change we can believe in. Needless to say, it's not change the Obama administration believes in.

Read it all.

"IT'S SUCH A PERSONAL INSULT to liberals that we would choose deciding for ourselves over their magnanimous offer to have their wisdom decide things for us. It’s almost like we don’t think they’re all geniuses — and we really don’t, because liberals are pretty much all useless idiots who can’t run their own lives, much less tell someone else how to run his."

Read it all.

"SCIENTISTS AT the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit (CRU) have admitted throwing away much of the raw temperature data on which their predictions of global warming are based."

"It means that other academics are not able to check basic calculations said to show a long-term rise in temperature over the past 150 years. "

And we're supposed to trust these clowns?

IT’S A LOCAL CALL: I’ve given away the punch line, but the joke’s still good.

EVEN THE DEMOCRATS ARE WORRIED:

“I have no idea what [the Administration believes],” a leading House Democrat and Obama ally told me recently when I asked if he could define the administration’s governing philosophy. “I know that their governing strategy seems to be, ‘Don’t worry, the big guy will make it all right in the end.’ They have the sublime sense that they don’t have to do all that much to plan events, or to come up with the message for what they’re doing, or to line up support ...."

Read it all.

HEALTHCARE RATIONING: first it was mammograms, then pap smears, now swine flu shots for seniors, and Americans are upset.

Maybe it’s because Americans understand rationing by price, over which the patient has at least some control, and rationing by bureaucrat, over which the patient has no control ....

LIFE ON MARS? Suppose for a moment that this report is true. What will be the effect on America’s space program?

DIVERSITY is not a strength; unity is.

The article is specific to the trial of the Navy Seals who allegedly gave a terrorist suspect a fat lip, but the conclusion is relevant to political correctness generally.

"MSNBC REACHED A NEW LOW tonight when Chris Matthews referred to West Point as an 'enemy camp.'"

"Chris, he's commander-in-chief."

U.N. RETALIATES against nuclear Iran with 'utter neglect': "The U.N. Security Council today retaliated against Iran's newly announced plans to build 10 nuclear enrichment facilities in defiance of previous U.N. resolutions by passing a resolution punishing the Islamic Republic with 'utter, devastating neglect from the global community.'"

GOOD GRIEF: doctors should give patients advice on climate change. Oh, yes; take two aspirin and reduce your carbon footprint ....

Via Tim Blair.