Lucid Links (020810, Morning)

India has had enough of globaloney — “India abandons IPCC, sets up own panel”:

The Indian government has moved to establish its own body to address and monitor science surrounding climate change, saying it “cannot rely” on the official United Nation panel.

…. “There is a fine line between climate science and climate evangelism,” Ramesh said. “I am for climate science.”

Maybe the Indian organization will actually produce some legitimate climate science. It has become very clear that what the IPCC has published surely doesn’t qualify.

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George Will (”How to get the country to solvency on entitlements”), on Mitch Daniels, Paul Ryan, and sensible conservative ideas for escaping the loony-left mess being currently created (internal link is in original):

(Under Daniels) Indiana property taxes have been cut 30 percent, and for the first time Standard & Poor’s has raised the state’s credit rating to AAA. But in January 2010, Ryan released an updated version of his “Roadmap for America’s Future” (PDF), a cure for the most completely predictable major problem that has ever afflicted America.

…. Republicans are frequently criticized as “the party of no.” But because most new ideas are injurious, rejection is an important function in politics. It is, however, insufficient. Fortunately, Ryan, assisted by Republican Reps. Devin Nunes of California and Jeb Hensarling of Texas, has become a think tank, refuting the idea that Republicans lack ideas.

Read the whole thing.

Ryan is the Ranking Member of the House’s Committee on the Budget. Will is right. Ryan’s “Roadmap” web site makes mincemeat of the “no ideas” canard.

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Via the Wall Street Journal, Democratic Climate Revolt:

The Obama Administration has been moving full-speed ahead on anticarbon regulation, never mind waiting for Congress to pass a bill. But now opposition is building among senior Democrats, with two powerful committee Chairmen introducing a bill last week to bar the Environmental Protection Agency from declaring that carbon is a dangerous pollutant.

As the WSJ notes, there is irony in what’s motivating the effort, but says “we’ll take what we can get.”

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In a separate Wall Street Journal editorial, “Andrew Cuomo has more to answer for than does Bank of America.”

He sure does. The Journal quotes this document at HUD’s own web site bragging about what happened there during Cuomo’s tenure there (under “Increasing Homeownership and Helping Homebuyers”):

In July 1999, Secretary Cuomo established new Affordable Housing Goals requiring Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac – two government sponsored enterprises involved in housing finance – to buy $2.4 trillion in mortgages in the next 10 years.

In other words, Cuomo created the framework for the housing bubble and subprime mortgage mess — and HUD is bragging about it.

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FOF (Flat-Out Falsehood) of the Day:

The nation’s health care bill increased 5.7% last year, or 3.01% after 2009’s calendar-year inflation of 2.7%. Even for these guys, this is a spectacularly ridiculous fib, as noted in this post that I put together Monday afternoon.