MUF för fri arbetsmarknad. MUF:s ordförande, Niklas Wykman, och min kompis André Assarsson har idag en debattartikel i Göteborgsposten: ”Regeringen offrar de unga för att slippa konflikten med LO”. Ord och inga visor. I denna argumenterar de för att man borde avreglera arbetsmarknaden. De argumenterar för att fackföreningarna och lagar som MBL och LAS gör det omöjligt för ungdomar att komma in på arbetsmarknaden. I själva verket är det inte bara ungdomar som drabbas utan alla. Men ändå. De skriver:

Den höga ungdomsarbetslösheten beror uteslutande på den så kallade svenska modellen. I debatten framhålls den ofta som ett frivilligt system där arbetsmarknadens parter gör upp. Moderata ungdomsförbundets rapport visar hur missvisande detta är. Kollektivavtalet, blockad- och strejkrätten, las och MBL utgör, inte var för sig, men tillsammans, ett oerhört tvångssystem. Detta i kombination med LO:s mångmiljonsubventioner av socialdemokraterna och oerhörda interna medlemskampanjer för samma parti har gjort att arbetsmarknaden har slutat att fungera. Moderaternas hållning att inte ta strid med facket måste omprövas. LO har utvecklat ett samhällssystem som står över demokratins principer, och detta måste stoppas.

De påpekar också att en fri arbetsmarknad vore en trygg arbetsmarknad. Mycket bra.

Mer ammunition. Via Global Warming Hysteria kom jag över en artikel som säger följande:

1. Over the past few thousand years, the climate in many parts of the world has been warmer and cooler than it is now. Civilisations and cultures flourished in the warmer periods.

2. A major driver of climate change is variability in solar effects, such as sunspot cycles, the sun’s magnetic field and solar particles.

These may account in great part for climate change during the past century. Evidence suggests warming involving increased carbon dioxide exerts only a minor influence.

3. Since 1998, global temperature has not increased. Projection of solar cycles suggests that cooling could set in and continue to about 2030.

4. Most recent climate and weather events are not unusual; they occur regularly.
For example, in the 1930s the Arctic experienced higher temperatures and had less ice than now.

5. Stories of impending climate disaster are based almost entirely on global climate models.

Not one of these models has shown that it can reliably predict future climate.

6. The Kyoto Protocol, if fully implemented, would make no measurable difference to world temperatures.

The trillions of dollars that it will cost would be far better spent on solving known problems such as the provision of clean water, reducing air pollution and fighting malaria and Aids.

7. Climate is constantly changing and the future will include coolings, warmings, floods, droughts and storms.

The best policy is to make sure we have in place disaster response plans that can deal with weather extremes and can react adaptively to longer-term climate cooling and warming trends.

Vilka ligger bakom dessa uppgifter?

…Dr Vincent Gray, of Wellington, an expert reviewer for the IPCC and most recently a visiting scholar at the Beijing Climate Centre; Dr Gerrit van der Lingen, of Christchurch, geologist, paleoclimatologist and former director of Geoscience Research and Investigations New Zealand; Professor Augie Auer, of Auckland, past professor of atmospheric science, University of Wyoming, and previously MetService chief meteorologist; Professor Bob Carter, a New Zealand-trained geologist with extensive research experience in palaeoclimatology, now at the Marine Geophysical Laboratory, James Cook University, Queensland; Warwick Hughes, a New Zealand earth scientist living in Pert; and Roger Dewhurst, of Katikati, a consulting environmental geologist and hydrogeologist.

Så mycket för en ”konsensus” bland vetenskapsmännen.

Bomba Iran? Rent moraliskt förtjänar Iran att bli bombade tillbaka till stenåldern. Historikern Victor Davis Hanson noterar dock att Iran förmodligen är mycket svagare än vad många tror.

The Iranian government is desperate to provoke the West to win back friends in the Islamic world, and to quell growing unrest at home. Subsidizing food and gas, providing billions for terrorists and building nukes all cost money at a time when the state-run Iranian economy is in shambles.

Because of incompetence in their oil industry, the Iranian mullahs have achieved the impossible: Despite having among the world’s largest petroleum reserves, their production is shrinking and they have managed to earn increasingly less petrodollars even as the world price has soared.

Implikationen av detta är förstås att ett moraliskt krig mot Iran skulle göra slut på regimen väldigt snabbt. Det skulle inte ta fem år. Det skulle ta månader. Om ens det.

Men måste vi verkligen göra det för att göra slut på hotet från teokratin utgör? Enligt Hanson verkar Iran vara så svag just nu att inte ens bomber skulle vara nödvändigt för att få teokratin på fall.

It is undeniable that the U.S., without either invading or suffering many casualties, could use its air power to send the Iranian economy and military back to the mullahs’ cherished 7th century. But there is no need to do so.

Instead, if the EU would cease all its trade with Iran, and if the West would divest entirely from the country – that is, boycott all companies that do any business with Tehran – the theocracy would face bankruptcy within months.

Men det är klart. Det är förmodligen mer naivt att tro att EU kommer att göra en sådan sak än att tro att USA, efter alla dessa år, till slut kommer att svara på Irans krig, brott och terrorism.

Klimatmodeller är inte att lita på. IBD:

Green advocates want the public to believe that climate projection is an easy business. Of course, environmentalists say, we can know how warm it will be in 10, 25, 50, even 75 years. It’s all in the computer models that predict climate change.

What, then, to make of the scientific uncertainty of La Nina — the periodic cooling of the Pacific Ocean that causes weather havoc?

”A fog of unpredictability enshrouds when (La Nina) may strike and how strong it might be,” says Reuters, noting the U.S. National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration’s cannot say for sure what effect the weather phenomenon will have this year.

In fact, the NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center’s own models show there is ”considerable uncertainty as to when La Nina might develop and how strong it might be.”

Yet, it’s only a few months away. Are computer models looking to forecast climate change decades from now any more accurate?

IBD konkluderar därför att: ”This is one reason why we say global warming theory is more about faith than science”. Verkligen.

Ayn Rand Novels. Ayn Rand-institutet har startat en ny hemsida. I ett e-mail förklarar de syftet:

Thanks largely to the success of ARI’s programs, more students than ever are now reading Ayn Rand’s novels—so ARI is proud to introduce aynrandnovels.com, a resource site designed to provide students with important information about Ayn Rand and her works. The site is a helpful tool for students who want a better understanding of the novels—or for anyone else who is a fan of Ayn Rand’s fiction.

Den heter Ayn Rand Novels och verkar vara ett väldigt trevligt initiativ.

Maddox avslöjar sanningen om Titanic. Via Primacy of Awesome kom jag över denna parodi på konspirationsknäppskallarna i USA. ”Spread the truth!”