"If I wanted America to fail"

The 'guru' of man-made climate change admits he was wrong

James Lovelock, the maverick scientist who became a guru to the environmental movement with his “Gaia” theory of the Earth as a single organism, has admitted to being “alarmist” about climate change and says other environmental commentators, such as Al Gore, were too.

“The problem is we don’t know what the climate is doing. We thought we knew 20 years ago. That led to some alarmist books – mine included – because it looked clear-cut, but it hasn’t happened,” Lovelock said.

LINK to MSNBC story: Gaia

Apple on a roll

Apple Inc.'s fiscal second-quarter profit jumped 94% as the consumer electronics giant reported strong sales of its iPhone and iPad products.


WSJ LINK

Birth to 12 years old in 2 min, 45 seconds. Time lapse labor of love

As senator, Obama missed vote on student loan bill

...he now wants to extend.  It wasn't important to him in 2007, but he now sees the issue as important to his re-election.   Promising goodies to the college-age crowd will help him with that voting group.


Byron Tau writing in Politico:

In 2007, then-Illinois Sen. Barack Obama missed two votes on the student loan interest bill that he now wants Congress to extend.

Obama twice skipped the Senate vote on the College Cost Reduction and Access Act when the bill came to the Senate floor first in July and again in September of 2007, according to public records.

The bill, introduced by Rep. George Miller (D-Calif.) and signed into law by President George W. Bush, first cleared the Senate in July on a 78 to 18 vote, with Obama as one of only four senators who didn't cast a ballot. Obama did not cast a vote again in September, after the House and Senate had ironed out different versions of the bill. He was on the conference committee assigned to merge the House and Senate versions of the bill.

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