Commentary

A FEW DAYS AGO, I wrote how various organizations altered climate statistics to fit a narrative. In Part XXX of Francis Menton’s “The Greatest Scientific Fraud of All Time,” he refers to the “homogenization” of global temperatures; the mission of identifying and correcting for supposed “discontinuities” or “breakpoints” in weather station location or instrumentation in order to provide a more accurate world temperature history.

With a strong disapproval, Menton claims that any collection of government bureaucrats, given the job to ‘adjust’ temperature data, will ‘adjust’ it in the way that best enhances the prospects for growth of staff and budget for the bureaucracy.  The chances that scientific integrity and accuracy might intrude into the process are essentially nil.”

Unethical Reporting

I REMEMBER WHEN journalism used to be about who, what, where, when and why, but seemingly the Associated Press is ignoring its code of ethics, and is adding “how much,” according to Dan Gainor of the New York Post.

In his column, “Climate activists spend millions for friendly Associated Press ‘news’,” Gainor tells how the “news” organization has had its hand out to rich people for years.  It accepts grants to hire impressionable reporters to boost coverage in climate, health, science, and water issues.

The AP’s partners in climate reporting include left-wing groups like the Rockefeller Foundation, the Walton Family Foundation and Quadrivium.  Walton and Quadrivium both fund the radical leftist Environmental Defense Fund.  The pressure groups push everything from pollution regulations to Biden’s Build Back Better plan, which it calls, “a long-overdue step” to address environmental justice.

The Rockefeller Foundation recently gave $1 million to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, which, according to Gainor, is no stranger to buying coverage, having recently given AP $750,000 for “reporting on the increased and urgent need for reliable, renewable electricity in underserved communities worldwide.”

While the AP’s code of ethics says, “We avoid behavior or activities that create a conflict of interest that compromise our ability to report the news fairly and accurately, uninfluenced by any person or action,” they merely decide there is no conflict of interest.

Interestingly, the code of the Society of Professional Journalists states: “Avoid conflicts of interest, real or perceived.”

Climate Subsidies

President Biden, despite everything on his plate these days, hasn’t given up on the billions of dollars in spending for renewables in his Build Back Better concoction.

It’s one thing to dole out bucks for vehicle charging stations on the nation’s highways, but the technology isn’t there for the construction of transmission lines and the need for massive storage, needed to get communities through days without sun or wind.  Chances are the “big idea” greenies haven’t considered the uproar from homeowners when huge transmission towers are constructed in their neighborhoods.

Fossil fuel generators can give us energy no matter what the weather, yet the Biden brain trust wants to “invest” in wind and solar.

PONDER THIS – President Trump’s policies enabled us to become energy independent, but on President Biden’s first day in office, he reversed that, and  we now purchase 12 to 26 million barrels of crude oil and petroleum from Russia … Russia … every month.

There’s Good News

But “ah there’s good news tonight,” as radio commentator of the forties Gabriel Heatter used to open his broadcast.

And I found it gratifying, as I do when I learn that my view is apparently that of others.  Such an occasion occurred yesterday when it was announced that Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds was selected to give the Republican response to President Biden’s State of the Union address.  The fact that Senator Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy also recognized Reynolds as one of our party leaders was gratifying.  You know the feeling.

“While Washington Democrats fail working Americans, Republican governors are fighting and winning for families.  Gov. Kim Reynolds’ brave, bold and successful leadership for Iowans has put her right at the front of that pack,” said McConnell

McConnell referred to her “choosing freedom over lockdowns and personal responsibility over mandates,” and the fact that “she kept kids in school and critical race theory out.”

Now, more than ever … may God continue to bless the United States of America.