On Voting Republicans Out Of Office

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GOOD: The Grassroots “Pledge to Impeach” Movement is Exploding

The online petition reads:

Yes, I support impeaching and removing Barack Hussein Obama and his fellow collaborators, including Vice President Joe Biden–and I am determined to vote only for those House and Senate candidates in 2014 who are willing to support impeachment and conviction of these corrupt, usurping, derelict individuals upon sufficient evidence.

Both the pledge and the petition from Pledge to Impeach continue to gain signatures amid public statements from a growing number of prominent individuals about the possibility and advisability of impeaching the president.

In addition to Callahan and Nader, the list of individuals calling for impeachment includes former White House official Allen Keyes, Oklahoma Senator James Inhofe, and actor Steven Seagal. Former Florida Congressman Allen West, former federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy, and Texas Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst all agree that Congress must impeach the president. At least 15 sitting members of Congress have made comments regarding possible impeachment.

As the movement grows, liberals are beginning to grow concerned that impeachment is a real threat given the increasingly high likelihood that Republicans will take over the Senate as a result of the 2014 midterm elections.

University threatens legal action to protect study behind 97% climate change consensus

Climate scientist John Cook of the University of Queensland’s Global Change Institute published the study showing that there was virtually no debate over man-made climate change.

But Cook’s 97 percent consensus claim was rebutted in subsequent analyses of his study. A paper by five leading climatologists published in the journal Science and Education last year found that Cook’s study misrepresented the views of most consensus scientists.

The definition Cook used to get his consensus was weak, the climatologists said. Only 41 out of the 11,944 published climate studies examined by Cook explicitly stated that mankind caused most of the warming since 1950 — meaning the actual consensus is 0.3 percent.

A research paper by the Skeptical Science team - Cook et al (2013) - Quantifying the consensus on anthropogenic global warming in the scientific literature - was an assessment of the level of consensus on the matter of human-caused global warming in the peer-reviewed scientific literature. Based on the abstracts (a short summary at the beginning of a research paper) of almost 12,000 papers, what we found was that, of those that expressed a view as to the cause, 97.1% of the scientific literature indicated that human activity was largely responsible for global warming. We also invited the authors of the papers we assessed (expressing a view as to cause) to rate their own papers (not abstracts) and based on those ratings it was determined that 97.2% of the author's papers attributed global warming to human activity.

This isn't really that much of a surprise to people familiar with climate science, for example Doran & Zimmerman (2009) found 97.4% endorsement amongst those most active in climate research, and Anderegg et al (2010) found a figure of 97-98%. Of course it's easy to understand why this is so, multiple lines of evidence point the finger at fossil fuel emissions for the increased (enhanced) Greenhouse Effect which is warming the Earth. And yes, the Earth is still warming despite wishful thinking to the contrary - accumulating heat long-term at the rate of 4 Hiroshimas bombs per second. Most of this heat is going into the oceans, but the atmosphere is still warming too. Land-based ice sheets are disintegrating and sea levels are rising because of this, and because warmer ocean waters expand as well. The list goes on and on, but you get the picture. The wealth of accumulated scientific evidence is immense and the observations are gobsmackingly obvious.