Global Warming...

What?  No Hazmat suit required?  And these are the idiots that make more than their civilian counterparts that write this drivel.  Eliminate the EPA would solve a lot of our problems!

Any idea why? I thought they'd removed mercury from those a years ago and that's the only reason I can think of that they'd yank them.

This is just excellent, a must read and save.

Eight Botched Environmental Forecasts

Actually every one listed is a favorite but this has to take the cake.

"By the year 2000 the United Kingdom will be simply a small group of impoverished islands, inhabited by some 70 million hungry people ... If I were a gambler, I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000." Ehrlich, Speech at British Institute For Biology, September 1971.

Found another interesting bit at the same site.

On the “march of the thermometers”

That said, the GHCN station dropout Smith has been working on is a significant event, going from an inventory of 7000 stations worldwide to about 1000 now, and with lopsided spatial coverage of the globe.

Huh? You go from 7k to 1k data collection locations and you expect that there are no deviations in the data because of that? That ain't science. I don't know what it is but it ain't science.

What a bunch of [expletive deleted].

Concerning "2010 – where does it fit in the warmest year list?", that's some serious data analysis pointing in the wrong direction for the liberal wackos.

Concerning "On the 'march of the thermometers'", It's refreshing to see a scientific approach being published for all to see, "All the methods and code used have been posted there at Lucia’s blog which enables a number of people to have a look at and replicate the issue independently..."

Same with Atlanta's airport here - always a higher temperature.

I think the way the setup here is that the official Weather Service data comes from the airport.  Our local tv weather guy has a network of "weather watchers" that also report temps.  The two are most always different by a couple of degrees.  Now when you talk about big cities the city temps can differ a lot (warmer) from the airport (or outlying wx stations) due to the mass of concrete - there's a name for that phenomenon I can't recall at the moment ... Urban heat islands.

I could be wrong but I think that incandescent bulbs are illegal in Ca. as of today. 

I expect there will be a sizable bootleg business.

Having said that the people who lived here before us were crazy for the things and in some applications they aren't terrible but gosh, how much energy could they save?

But then we don't have the lights on unless we need them and that's not all that often.

Funny you should mention that:

American Thinker: Bootleg Lightbulbs Coming to California

Has to happen.  I bet there winds up being shortages in neighboring states of the 100 watt bulbs.