Fast Takes: How Flock advances freedom, inside fake climate science and other commentary

“Critics of Flock and ALPR technology, predominantly libertarians and leftists, say that the cameras create an unconstitutional system of ‘mass surveillance’,” observes Sam Raus at City Journal.But “Neither response advances liberty,” as “public order is a foundation of our freedoms, and securing it helps keep us free.” “In countless instances, these cameras have served justice and upheld the liberty of law-abiding people,” like child abductions.

They helped catch a “a mass killer in Oregon responsible for five deaths in a remote, rural location.” But do watch those using the tech: “Flock may represent a new and unfamiliar application of technology,” but “what matters is whether governments are using these tools within clearly defined and sensibly designed legal limits.”The advocates at World Weather Attribution claim that the Aug.26 disaster in the Himalayas “was the result of human-caused global warming,” fumes Roger Pielke Jr.

at The Free Press.Yet “WWA scientists have now” done this “more than 120 times since its founding in 2014: They issue a press release and technical report after a significant weather event,” then “purport to explain how much climate change has tilted the odds for such events.” Media eat it up, but WWA does no “legitimate analysis that would actually link the weather event to climate change.

They simply assume it.” Want to show that “increases in global patent applications” worsened “a 2019 typhoon in Japan”? Pielke has used “the WWA’s attribution methodology” to do so.Beware: The WWA’s witchcraft may soon be “displacing legitimate climate science.

which to date has been assessed periodically and authoritatively by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.”“The picture of a dying planet bears little resemblance to the measurable world around us” indeed: “The Earth is getting greener” — yet over half of 12,793 Americans aged 16 to 25 in one survey “sa...