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"Netroots Nation"--formerly known as the Yearly Kos Convention--is a splendid affair (I'm sure) that's been going on all weekend, July 17-20, 2008. Featuring the creme de la creme of the nutroots: the 'elite' of the leftist bloggers (and their leashed politicians); and over-the-top BDS sorts of all stripes (although mostly those with a yellow stripe running right down their backs...) Just about everything you can imagine that's counter to what's Conservative in America is on display.

Air America finally gets a captive audience. Maybe now they can claim more than 10 listeners.

Al Gore couldn't miss his chance to see his constituents, and beg for more Global Warming activism...

"Thank you for the movement that you have created," Mr. Gore said. "I can't tell you how important I think it is that you continue what you are doing."

Gore was the 'surprise' guest of Nancy Pelosi, who had some love for her maggots in attendance...

"The end could be in sight," she said to cheers from the audience. "This will not happen without the election of Barack Obama as president of the United States."

The end of what, Nancy? The end of the excellent run we've had for decades? With the implementation of economy-destroying carbon-taxing Gorebage.

From Dr. David Evans, a consultant for the Australian Greenhouse Office from 1999 to 2005, a new question for Mr. Gore and his paid acolytes...

"But since 1999 new evidence has seriously weakened the case that carbon emissions are the main cause of global warming, and by 2007 the evidence was pretty conclusive that carbon played only a minor role and was not the main cause of the recent global warming. As Lord Keynes famously said, "When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?"

There has not been a public debate about the causes of global warming and most of the public and our decision makers are not aware of the most basic salient facts:

1. The greenhouse signature is missing. We have been looking and measuring for years, and cannot find it.

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2. There is no evidence to support the idea that carbon emissions cause significant global warming. None. There is plenty of evidence that global warming has occurred, and theory suggests that carbon emissions should raise temperatures (though by how much is hotly disputed) but there are no observations by anyone that implicate carbon emissions as a significant cause of the recent global warming.

3. The satellites that measure the world's temperature all say that the warming trend ended in 2001, and that the temperature has dropped about 0.6C in the past year (to the temperature of 1980). Land-based temperature readings are corrupted by the "urban heat island" effect: urban areas encroaching on thermometer stations warm the micro-climate around the thermometer, due to vegetation changes, concrete, cars, houses. Satellite data is the only temperature data we can trust, but it only goes back to 1979. NASA reports only land-based data, and reports a modest warming trend and recent cooling. The other three global temperature records use a mix of satellite and land measurements, or satellite only, and they all show no warming since 2001 and a recent cooling.

4. The new ice cores show that in the past six global warmings over the past half a million years, the temperature rises occurred on average 800 years before the accompanying rise in atmospheric carbon. Which says something important about which was cause and which was effect.

But, really, that's not the purpose of this here post.

Nearly everyone will remember the events surrounding the unfortunate early death of Steve Gilliard last year. That death caused some repercussions amongst the blog community here in Tennessee. Water under the bridge.

Now, this new award...the Gilly. What we know of Steve Gilliard is that he was a far-left blogger, primarily of note because he was the one who created the blackface photoshop of Michael Steele...

"In the incident that brought him the most infamy, Gilliard acidly attacked Michael Steele, the black Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Maryland in 2006, as a traitor to his race. Black conservatives like Steele infuriated Gilliard, who couldn’t understand how any African-American could support a party that exploited racial prejudice. “I’s Simple Sambo and I’s Running for the Big House,” read Gilliard’s caption, below a doctored photo of Steele as a minstrel. Only after the post earned him headlines in major newspapers and recriminations from politicians of both parties did a lot of readers come to understand that a white man hadn’t written it — although, for Gilliard’s critics, that hardly made it less offensive."

Now, his leftover legacy blog, the Group News Blog (I affectionately call that bunch of agitprops the 'Liberal's News Blog' in my RSS feed) has a new Award, The Gilly, presented at this Nutroots Nation. See the original post and drawing linked here.

Of course, I had to fix that award.

Because if you're gonna give a freakin' award, you have to make it recognizable, don't you? How else were we to know?

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