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He's our H.L. Mencken, IMO.
1 posted on 02/03/2010 6:55:20 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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ping.


2 posted on 02/03/2010 6:59:43 PM PST by Lurker (The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)
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I wish there were some way to “short” Global Warming. I’d make a fortune!


3 posted on 02/03/2010 7:01:48 PM PST by PGR88
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That was a tour de force


4 posted on 02/03/2010 7:05:38 PM PST by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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ROFLOL - I love the title.


5 posted on 02/03/2010 7:07:39 PM PST by J Edgar
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Damn he’s good.


7 posted on 02/03/2010 7:15:12 PM PST by Ramius (Personally, I give us... one chance in three. More tea?)
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Brilliant. He can take a complex series of scholarly mistakes that most people would need a hundred footnotes to unravel, and put it all together so that it’s not only perfectly clear what happened, but it’s fun to read.


8 posted on 02/03/2010 7:18:54 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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Great post.


9 posted on 02/03/2010 7:20:59 PM PST by balls
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Bravo, Mark! And I say that with the best English accent I can imitate (and all due respect).


10 posted on 02/03/2010 7:22:42 PM PST by swatbuznik
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"The plural of IPCC reports is not data."

Cheers!

11 posted on 02/03/2010 7:40:57 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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The WWF is a pressure group. They’re not scientists. They’re not even numerate: one of their more startling glacier-melt claims derives entirely from an arithmetical miscalculation arising from a typing error.

LOL!

12 posted on 02/03/2010 7:42:38 PM PST by neverdem (Xin loi minh oi)
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For a Texan like myself, readin’ Steyn, is a much more relaxed and entertaining endeavor than hearin’ Steyn. :)


13 posted on 02/03/2010 7:46:48 PM PST by lrb111 (resist)
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As they say in the glacier business, ice work if you can get it.

LOL. Styne's pen really is mightier than the sword. The guy has a wonderful gift for turning phrases.

Creative, funny, and a damn good and very concise thinker.

14 posted on 02/03/2010 7:58:23 PM PST by Ditto (Directions for Clean Government: If they are in, vote them out. Rinse and repeat.)
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"By 2008, Syed Hasnain’s decade-old casual chit-chat over the phone to a London journalist had become “settled science,” so Dr. Pachauri’s company TERI (The Energy & Resources Institute) approached the Carnegie Corporation for a grant to research “challenges to South Asia posed by melting Himalayan glaciers,” and was rewarded with half a million bucks. Which they promptly used to hire Syed Hasnain. In other words, professor Hasnain has landed a cushy gig researching solutions to an entirely non-existent global crisis he accidentally invented over a 15-minute phone call 10 years earlier. As they say in the glacier business, ice work if you can get it. "

Mencken is a great comparison.

Steyn has it all. Brilliant, acerbic, brutally honest wit.

15 posted on 02/03/2010 8:05:34 PM PST by Senator Goldwater
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We’re still seeing lots of corporations advertising their green credentials on what they are doing to combat climate change. I just saw one this evening on Fox Business from Siemens Company. I have no idea what they do, but I am tempted to e-mail them and ask them why they haven’t heard yet that climate change is a hoax.


17 posted on 02/03/2010 8:56:00 PM PST by Pining_4_TX
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This piece has so much content, factually correct, artfully presented, with a unique perspective, with wit, flowing prose, and on and on.

Mark Steyn makes all the other pundits look like so plodding.

18 posted on 02/03/2010 9:24:44 PM PST by Plutarch
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BTTT


19 posted on 02/03/2010 11:02:39 PM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion ( DRAFT PALIN)
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Beam me to Planet Gore !

20 posted on 02/03/2010 11:46:40 PM PST by steelyourfaith (FReepers were opposed to Obama even before it was cool to be against Obama.)
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We recently bought a hybrid car and we are looking into solar to help with our electricity. No, we aren't doing it to be Green. We are doing it to save money. The Green Movement has tarnished the name of good and smart Conservatives who are simply moneywise. Love Steyn.
23 posted on 02/04/2010 8:26:25 AM PST by originalbuckeye
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“Climate change” is not a story of climate change, which has been a fact of life throughout our planet’s history. It is a far more contemporary story about the corruption of science and “peer review” by hucksters, opportunists and global-government control-freaks.

Steyn rules. Moonbats drool..

24 posted on 02/04/2010 8:48:48 AM PST by GOPJ ("Climate change" - the story of corruption and peer review by hucksters...Steyn)
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Steyn is the best. Krauthammer can keep up with him in analytical ability, but Steyn combines that with the best writing, bar none.
26 posted on 02/04/2010 9:17:25 AM PST by colorado tanker
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