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NASA had the Mars Rover snap a selfie of itself.

NASA Data On Global Warming 1880-2011

Via Re/Creating Tampa. This video shows a stark picture of how much the plant has warmed up since 1880. The finding were released by NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies. 2012 is likely the warmest year in the history of the planet.

Tea Party Nation Denies Global Warming

Tea Party Nation blogger Alan Caruba tells us the message of Hurricane Sandy.

Long ago, the cartoon character, Pogo, famously said, “We have met the enemy and it is us.” The enemy, I would suggest, is President Barack Hussein Obama, his many shadowy, unaccountable “czars” influencing energy policies, his Cabinet Secretaries of Energy and the Interior, and the rogue Environmental Protection Agency that is set to unleash regulations that will destroy the economy, aided and abetted by the nation’s environmental organizations.

That’s Hurricane Sandy’s message to America.

I'm glad that Caruba is keeping things classy by mentioning Obama's middle name negative manner.

We had the hottest July in United States history.

The average temperature last month was 77.6 degrees — 3.3 degrees above the average 20th-century temperature, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported on Wednesday. July thereby dethroned July 1936, which had set the record at 77.4 degrees, the agency said.

NASA reports that shows the shrinking of the ice cap. Older ice is melting faster than new ice is being created.

Caruba writes that the Earth is actually cooling. Caruba states that climate change science has been disproved. Caruba fails to explains the science or even bother linking to a conservative think tank.

This suspension of common sense is worsened when our President goes on television, as he did last Friday on MTV, to say “I believe the scientists, who say that we are putting too much carbon emissions into the atmosphere, and it is heating the planet and it is going to have a severe effect.” This is literally junk science, long since debunked by legions of scientists who know that carbon dioxide has nothing to do with the Earth’s temperature. The planet has been in a cooling cycle since 1998.

I remember sweating my ass off being out in the Florida heat for more than five minutes during the summer. In Caruba's reality, the planet is experiencing a cooling period. Energy companies set up bogus think tanks to deny global warming because they feel that regulations will cut into their profits. What is Caruba's excuse?

Feeney Doesn't Get It

Tom Feeney is getting justifyably crucified for excepting a $5,000 donation to his defense fund from Tyng-Lin Yang. The latter runs Yang Enterprises. Feeney was a former lobbyist for YEI. State law allowed him to lobby while he was Speaker of the Florida House. (Yes, you did read that last sentence correctly.)

Yang Enterprises has a contract with NASA. Feeney is the ranking Republican on the House Science Space Subcommittee. It isn't a stretch to think a former lobbyist with the company would look favorably after a donor's best interest. To say Feeney has a public ethics perception problem is an understatement. Feeney started his legal defense fund because of his illegal golfing trip with disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff.

It doesn't help matters that Clint Curtis accused Feeney and Yang Enterprises of attempting to talk him into making a computer program that could change voting machine counts.

During a meeting in late September or October of 2000 at YEI, there were four people present, including myself, Tom Feeney, Mike Cohen, Mrs. Yang and to the best of my recollection, two other YEI employees came in and out of the room during the meeting. Mr. Feeney said that he wanted to know if YEI could develop a prototype of a voting program that could alter the vote tabulation in an election and be undetectable. He was very specific in the design and specifications required for this program. He detailed, in his own words, that; {a} the program needed to be touch-screen capable, {b} the user should be able to trigger the program without any additional equipment, {c} the programming to accomplish this remain hidden even if the source code was inspected.

I'm not sure if what Curtis is saying is true or not. Feeney knows these allegations are public. That doesn't stop him from taking Yang's money. He was still eating at Abramoff's restaurant Signatures after other lawmakers had the sense to stay away. It's almost as if Feeney enjoys being embroiled in scandal.