I remember this campaign to get paid for housework in the '70s.  It was a stupid idea then, and it hasn't improved with age.

It is a mistake to conflate "global warming" with AGW.  But the alarmists do it on purpose.  They think if they show that ice caps are receding, they have proved that they are right and we need to do something about it.

To believe AGW is a problem, you have to buy all 4 of the following:

1.  The earth is warming (basically, it is).

2.  This is bad and will have unprecedented, catastrophic consequences.

3.  Human activity (CO2 production) substantially caused it.

4.  Changes in human activity can significantly reduce or eliminate it.

Alarmists like to concentrate on #1 because there is evidence for it.  #2, 3, and 4 are impossible to prove directly.

Global warming (not AGW) is essentially warming of the earth's atmosphere (which in turn warms the oceans and the land surface).

What is the difference between "global warming" (my post did not mention "anthropogenic") and "atmospheric warming?"

Exactly.  13/13 for me, an extremely easy test.  #12 asked what gas "most scientists" believe causes global warming.  I don't know whether a majority of scientists believe that, but it was pretty obvious that was the answer they were looking for. 

Aww, how cute.  Playing to find out who gets to be obliterated by the Blackhawks in the finals.

Man, does that rock.  Cheap Trick also covered it well.

Hendrix also blasted through Johnny B. Goode live on Hendrix In The West.  Never liked that song much until I heard that.

U2's version of Helter Skelter was energetic and certainly listenable but rough.  Points off for not even getting the lyrics right.  Edge to the Beatles.

Lots of people have done "Watchtower" but I haven't heard a version I like better than Hendrix's.

I have no idea what you look like, but be sure to keep your weight under control.  Big belly + blonde + beard = not a good combination if you know what I mean.

$845 billion is a little less catastrophic, but still greater than any deficit from the years before Obama took office.  Hardly what I'd call a victory; we have so much further to go and almost nobody in Congress with the backbone to try.

Right.  There have been several other versions including one by Dave Mason that I absolutely hate.  He must have thought it clever to sing the song almost entirely on one note.

Teller never says a word.  That's why I wanted him for press secretary.

Maybe Teller could be press secretary.

Maybe it is just you.  I don't think very many people outside of conservative circles and the world of economics have ever heard of him.  Most of the people I talk to are unfamiliar with him.  I don't see him on TV much (other than Uncommon Knowledge, which I have never seen on regular TV).  A little more exposure wouldn't hurt.

He pretends to, and that's usually enough to keep up appearances.

What an interesting choice.  Which suggests another question:  Could a professed atheist ever be elected President?  I really don't think so, at least for the forseeable future.

And to add insult to injury, they printed the catalogs in mirror-image type, to make them even harder to read!