Están ocurriendo cambios significativos en sistemas físicos y biológicos de todos los continentes y en la mayoría de océanos [...] La mayoría de estos cambios suceden en la dirección esperada con una mayor temperatura.

[habría] mucho interés entre los políticos en invertir los millones de dólares necesarios, si los científicos pudieran dar respuestas a preguntas fundamentales ... tales como el suministro futuro de alimentos.

It is quite possible that the biosphere (vegetation, sea life, etc.) has been starved for atmospheric CO2. Before humans started burning fossil fuels, vegetation and ocean plankton had been gobbling up as much CO2 out of the atmosphere as they could, but it was like a vacuum cleaner trying to suck through a stopped-up hose. Now, no matter how much CO2 we pump into the atmosphere each year, the biosphere takes out an average of 50 percent of that extra amount. Even after we triple the amount of CO2 we produce, nature still takes out 50 percent of the extra amount.

As a climate researcher, I am increasingly convinced that most of our recent global warming has been natural, not manmade. If true, this would mean that global temperatures can be expected to peak in the coming years (if they haven’t already), and global cooling will eventually ensue.

You would think that science is the last place you would find such religious opinions, yet they dominate the worldview of scientists. Natural scientists tend to worship nature, and they then teach others to worship nature, too . . . all under the guise of “science.” And to the extent that this view is religious, then making environmental laws based upon that view could be considered a violation of the establishment of religion clause of the First Amendment to the Constitution.

La sociedad española ha demostrado que pocas otras -quizás ninguna en el mundo desarrollado- la superan en tolerancia de la mentira. Nunca un Gobierno en democracia les había mentido tanto, de forma tan abierta, obscena, confirmada y hasta reconocida por los mentirosos. Pero el ambiente general de indolencia y resignación han llevado a la práctica abolición del reproche social de la mentira.

[...] here is Ben Stein, sneering and scoffing at Darwin, a man who spent decades observing and pondering the natural world — that world Stein glimpses through the window of his automobile now and then, when he’s not chattering into his cell phone. Stein claims to be doing it in the name of an alternative theory of the origin of species: Yet no such alternative theory has ever been presented, nor is one presented in the movie, nor even hinted at.

[...] creationists have been morally corrupted by the constant effort of pretending not to be what they are. What they are, as is amply documented, is a pressure group for religious teaching in public schools.

The “intelligent design” hoax is not merely non-science, nor even merely anti-science; it is anti-civilization.

For shame, Ben Stein, for shame. Stand up for your civilization, man! and all its glories. The barbarians are at the gate, as they always have been. Come man the defenses with us, leaving the liars and fools to their lies and folly.

[O] el discurso neocon ha cobrado cuerpo con Aguirre y empiezan a deslizarse los reproches que fueron tan del gusto de los Wolfowitz, Perle, Kristol y compañía hacia quienes no les secundaban entre las filas republicanas, o las ideas del neoliberalismo de los 80 han vuelto inoportunamente a la carga cuando una profunda crisis económica está al acecho.

En cualquier caso, sus continuas apelaciones al liberalismo a través de autores como Friedman o Hayek producen cierta inquietud, ya que dejan en el ambiente los ecos neoliberales de la melodía de la revolución conservadora que protagonizaron Reagan y Thatcher.

Libertad

Hay que ponerse en contra de los que hablan por una altavoz; que injurian, apostrofan; contra aquellos cuyos discursos son discursos de potencias superiores a un hombre; que hacen hablar a las cosas ficticias, el Pueblo, la Historia, los dioses y los ídolos; contra los que se ocupan de los demás, y los consideran y piensan en ellos como una materia de sus juicios y de sus fines; que los hacen actuar, pagar, luchar; que estipulan sobre ellos; que pretenden conocer sus intereses y sus necesidades mejor que ellos mismos.

The main current of opposition to McCain faults him for departures from strict free-market ideology. [] if conservatives succeed in marginalizing anyone who does not toe the doctrinaire line of their free market ideology, they will lose an important--indeed the most central and precious--aspect of their creed: the faith in the virtue of individuals to make a good society for themselves, rather than the faith in an ideology to make a good society for us.

Conservatives who forget that the free market is properly a piece of policy rather than an ideological end-in-itself not only obscure the importance of individual virtue, they undermine it

The ideology of the economists leads far too many to sneer at the honest, if imperfect, attempts of a man to be virtuous and to put that virtue in the service of his country.

The problem with absolute faith in any ideology, including that of the free market, becomes evident with a glance at the flagship publication of the libertarians, Reason magazine. It is no coincidence that Reason publishes hagiographies of Milton Freedman [sic] as well as pleas for drug legalization and appreciations of cartoon pornography: economic libertarianism, elevated to the status of inviolable first principle, leads to moral libertarianism.

The moral vacuity of dogmatic libertarianism is poisonous to public life. By teaching that 'greed is good,' strict free-market ideology holds out the promise that private vices can be public virtues [sigue].