Health Care Personal Liberty Law PASSES State Senate . . .

UPDATE: All three versions win by a vote of 23-17 (h/t Norm at TQ).

The five Democrats who crossed party lines were all Senators desperate to preserve reputations as ”conservative” Democrats – Edd Houck, Charles Colgan, Phil Puckett, John Miller, and Roscoe Reynolds.

I’m guessing this goes through the House of Delegates on greased skids.

The alarmist house of cards continues to fall

On the heels of the Himalayas humiliation, we now have the rainforest runaround (Times of London via From on High) . . .

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) said in its 2007 benchmark report that even a slight change in rainfall could see swathes of the rainforest rapidly replaced by savanna grassland.

The source for its claim was a report from WWF, an environmental pressure group, which was authored by two green activists. They had based their “research” on a study published in Nature, the science journal, which did not assess rainfall but in fact looked at the impact on the forest of human activity such as logging and burning. This weekend WWF said it was launching an internal inquiry into the study.

. . . and the mountain miscue (Telegraph via FoH):

The IPCC’s remit is to provide an authoritative assessment of scientific evidence on climate change.

In its most recent report, it stated that observed reductions in mountain ice in the Andes, Alps and Africa was being caused by global warming, citing two papers as the source of the information.

However, it can be revealed that one of the sources quoted was a feature article published in a popular magazine for climbers which was based on anecdotal evidence from mountaineers about the changes they were witnessing on the mountainsides around them.

The other was a dissertation written by a geography student, studying for the equivalent of a master’s degree, at the University of Berne in Switzerland that quoted interviews with mountain guides in the Alps.

Yikes!  No wonder the IPCC chief is looking to writing harlequin romances as a new career (Mark Steyn).

Cross-posted to VV