Michael F. Cannon of the CATO Institute¹ has provided some interesting metrics for estimating the real cost of ObamaCare.

The issue is that while the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) evaluates the cost of ObamaCare at some $1 trillion, give or take, it is restricting itself to the impact to the Federal budget, and excluding several factors that massively increase the real cost of the proposed legislation.

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Tru$$$t in me...

The Climatic Research Unit (CRU) seems to have destroyed raw weather data that it gathered, only holding onto “value-added (quality controlled and homogenised) data“.¹

Now isn’t that convenient? The same people who manipulated their data to make their models show results they wanted to see are now effectively asking everyone to trust them on the processing of raw measurements into “value-added data”.

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Wry Heat

No matter what side of the issue one might be on, this is serious stuff. And the debate is now turning from how badly the public has been misled, to whether or not someone should face criminal consequences. This isn’t surprising, as it would seem quite logical that actions taken knowingly to deceive for financial gain would be covered by fraud statutes.

Some commentaries on the unraveling ClimateGate scandal:

• Wry Heat
• Congress May Probe Leaked Global Warming E-Mails
• Climategate e-mails sweep America, may scuttle Barack Obama’s Cap and Trade laws
• Obama faces delicate balancing act on climate
• Climategate: five Aussie MPs lead the way by resigning in disgust over carbon tax
• How to Forge a Consensus
• Pretending the climate email leak isn’t a crisis won’t make it go away
• EDITORIAL: Hiding evidence of global cooling
• Climategate: the final nail in the coffin of ‘Anthropogenic Global Warming’?
• Climategate: sack ‘no longer credible’ Michael Mann from IPCC urges climatologist

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Global Warming for Idiots

Interesting development in the continuing saga of the Church of Man Made Global Warming (CMMGW).

It seems that some of the most vocal proponents of the concept of man made global warming were adding quite a thick layer of lipstick on their statistics and numbers to make them fit what they would like to say about the climate.

While this has been long recognized by those who are rightfully critical of the claims made by global warming advocates, it is only now that some leaked emails provide detail into the process by which the lipstick was applied, and the number of layers that some thought were needed.

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What Obamacare Means For You

Obamacare

• The Efficiency of the Postal Service
• The Sustainability of Social Security
• and all the Compassion of the IRS

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