News and Views

This is a piece that one of our members, Bill Martel, wrote for CNN.

Obama must shift on terror trial

Since the last time I editorialized in the Bedford papers on the subject of the Great Global Warming Scam, events have occurred that only strengthen my case. In November 2009, thousands of emails were hacked from the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia, exposing that the leading scientific authorities on global warming theory were deliberately falsifying data and lying about warming trends. Equally disturbing to learn was the shameful extent to which climatologists of the global warming cabal attacked, ignored and suppressed dissenting voices. The “Climategate” scandal has cast a pall and doubt over the CRU’s famous hockey stick graph, supposedly showing global temperatures to be at equilibrium for a thousand years until the Industrial Revolution, when it began to spike. When asked to substantiate their hockey stick graph, the CRU scientists then claimed to have “lost” the relevant data. The CRU has been the primary source of data for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which for 20 years has been fueling global warming hysteria. The IPCC has been viewed as the international authority on global warming and has been used as the source of information by countless news media, political organizations and even Oscar-winning movies (paging Al Gore). This new information requires that anything the IPCC produced to be re-examined more skeptically.

As such, it was recently exposed that the IPCC’s claim that global warming will cause the disappearance of Himalayan glaciers by 2035 was based, not on science, but solely on a pamphlet published by the World Wildlife Federation. But that’s not all. It seems every few weeks a new scandal breaks.

There was the bombshell in mid-February when CRU Director Phil Jones not only admitted that there has been no warming since 1995, but conceded that the world may have been warmer during medieval times than now! This obliterates the hockey stick graph and along with it the notion that mankind is heating up the planet. The time has come for people to no longer blindly accept global warming hype.

The science is not settled. The debate is not over. It has just begun.

Stephen A Poschmann
Bedford

Both Bedford papers last week reported that Federal Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood was in town promoting the Manchester Airport Access Road (MAAR) project as evidence of the success of the federal stimulus package. His visit and his message, amidst news that the national unemployment rate has now climbed to 10.2 percent, shows how deluded our bureaucrats and elected officials actually are.

The MAAR project, which was approved in 2003 and began 2007, received an additional $10 million in stimulus funds earlier this year. How many new jobs were created as a result of that $10 million stimulus funding? An astounding twenty-one! That breaks down to about $478,000 per job. Governor John Lynch has ignored this glaring failure by pointing out the glorious potential for local business created by the new access road. Potential that would exist with or without stimulus funds.

In addition to the disastrous national unemployment numbers, the New Hampshire media reported that of the 16,000 jobs projected to be “saved or created” by the stimulus, only 3,007 have actually come to fruition–a dismal failure by any measure. And of those 3,007 jobs, 96 percent (or 2,880) of them are government jobs!

Despite the delusion of our government officials, the citizens of New Hampshire see this situation with clarity. We the people know that our government at all levels has ceased working for the people, and it is only out to better its own interests and increase its own power and authority. Next year, watch as the state government adds those 2,880 jobs to the budget baseline (considered by the state as necessary for government to operate), because once a government program or job is created, it is nearly impossible to eliminate it.

It is time for We the People to wrest control away from government at all levels, take responsibility for ourselves and our communities, and tell our misguided officials to keep their hands off our wallets, our healthcare, and anything else they are wanting to control.

Stephen A Poschmann w/Carolyn McKinney
Bedford NH