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Yesterday in Paris, militant climate-change protestors trashed the impromptu memorials to the victims of 13 November at the Place de la République while scuffling with police.
"Students Referred to Counseling Services to Deal With Trauma After Seeing Confederate Flag"
Obviously Lee missed an opportunity to comprehensively defeat the Union at Gettysburg. The army of Northern Virginia should have displayed a lot more flags and sent traumatized Northern troops racing to the rear in search of counselling. Union soldiers had rifles for expressing their displeasure. Idjit kids these days...
"Will Europe Man Up?"
No. Because - and this so self-evident it hardly needs saying - Europe isn't a nation. France might get tough with the Islamic State. Plucky little Slovakia might insist on Christian refugees only. But the EU is an amorphous bureaucratic blob with a flag. As a customs union/trade zone, it's a fine idea. As a supranational political entity, it's a flop. Man Up?????? That's an unacceptable term!!!! Be ASHAMED of yersef, JJ!!!!!
QUOTE: Above via 18,000 Years of Climate and Civilization (where it is legible) What the chart shows is relative stability in temperature since about ten thousand years ago. It does support the idea that small changes in global temperature can cause vast changes in human civilization. Current warming, and projected warming, are anomalous. QUOTE: Decade long ice age predicted as sun 'hibernates' Zharkova's hypothesis only concerns solar activity, such as sunspots and solar flares. Assuming the hypothesis is correct, and the solar cycle leads to effects on the order of the Maunder Minimum, then they are not sufficient to overcome the effects of greenhouse warming. It's just right where I am. But it will be too cold in a few weeks. But after that it will be just right again until it gets too hot. Been putting up with this all my 84 years. It's enough to drive you wacky.
Agreed Bill.
One wonders if the True Believers in Global Warming ever venture outside? Winter is still Winter and Summer is still Summer. Nothing has changed. I recall in the 80s, the GW alarmists saying that by now we would have Miami type weather here in Central Nebraska in mid December with daily highs of 85 to 90 degrees. And the Summers? Well, they were supposed to be 120 to 140. Every day. The real climate deniers are those that can't accept reality and continue to be lost in the fantasy world of their manipulated statistics. That Coming Ice Age predicted 45 years ago...well, I missed it.
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Sam L.
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2015-11-30 14:19
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feeblemind: Winter is still Winter and Summer is still Summer.
“For years we have been told the Earth is melting like a popcycle, and that humanity will would soon be boiled alive in a rising sea. Well, today that lie stands exposed with evidence that any child can understand. I give you frozen water, falling from the sky.” http://www.cc.com/video-clips/18l8gy/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-unusually-large-snowstorm
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Zachriel
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2015-11-30 17:32
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"Global temperature anomalies over the past 11,300 years compared to historic average (1961-1990). The purple line shows the annual anomaly, and the light blue band shows the statistical uncertainty (one standard deviation). The gray line shows temperature from a separate analysis spanning the past 1,500 years. Image adapted from Figure 1(b) in Marcott et al."
https://www.climate.gov/sites/default/files/styles/inline_all/public/marcott2-13_11k-graph-610.gif That site was funded by the government which has a vested interest in increasing its power over our lives including taking more of my money. That conflict of interest taints the data.
That's my belief too, at least for Americans. Nobody spends any time outside, they are all in their little computer enhanced cubes and have little interraction with the climate outside. If they did, they would know this "climate change" hype is all nonsense.
Just recently there was another article by the hystericals showing various world cities after a five foot sea level rise and a 25 foot sea level rise. (Oooh, we're all gonna die.) The fact is that if you look at NOAA's own data, you are talking about a foot rise in sea level over the next 100 years. Although this rise varies from area to area (partly due to subsidence of the fast land), this is the same rate of increase that has been occurring at least for the past century, at least since NOAA (and its predecessor, the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey) began keeping records. Although NOAA and NASA have been printing all sorts of fantastic nonsense on other parts of their websites, if you go to the tides part of the NOAA website you will see the real truth. I figure they cannot fabricate the data here, because this information is used in most parts of the country to determine the legal boundary between private land and public land for shoreline properties. For the real information on sea level rise, go here:
http://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltrends/sltrends_us.htm For Boston, the actual scientific data published by NOAA states that sea level has been increasing since 1900, and continues to increase, at the rate of "2.81 millimeters/year with a 95% confidence interval of +/- 0.17 mm/yr based on monthly mean sea level data from 1921 to 2014 which is equivalent to a change of 0.92 feet in 100 years." http://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltrends/sltrends_station.shtml?stnid=8443970 Yet a typical recent nonsense article, which abound on the internet and mainstream media, all published by people quoting "climate experts," states: "For example, when the global atmospheric CO2 level reaches 930 gigatons, Boston will be due for about 9 feet of sea level rise. That’s enough water to cover 25 percent of the city during high tide. In the extreme cuts scenario, atmospheric CO2 never reaches that level. Under business as usual fossil emissions however, a quarter of Boston is locked into a future under water by 2045." http://www.wired.com/2015/10/map-shows-sea-level-rise-will-drown-american-cities/ Total fantasy. People need to stop paying attention to all this climate change nonsense, all based on computer models. It's absolutely ridiculous, and none of it is backed up by real data, which in fact show the world has been cooling for the past 15 years.
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Jim
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2015-11-30 13:41
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Thanks, Jim, for a reasoned analysis. I love the real information that hasn't come from someone's imagination. Wasn't it you who pointed out several years ago the discrepancy between hurricane wind speeds touted on 24 hour news and the actual speeds from buoys?
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mary
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2015-11-30 19:31
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Re: Reducing poverty
I should have known the answer would be to monkey with the statistics. I think there is merit in making sure the statistics accurately describe the reality, but I think there's a larger issue. We have a lot of poverty because we pay for it. Back in the '90s BEFORE Clinton finally signed welfare reform, the mere threat of it caused massive reductions in welfare rolls. It was clear that the system had become a crutch but Obummer ended welfare reform as we know it so it would not be a surprising if that was part of the increase in the poverty rate. The structure of the welfare system also disincentivizes because getting a job disqualifies the recipient for many if not all benefits and thus causing a loss of income. At the very least, welfare needs massive reform. Of course, so does the rest of the economy because given how weak this "recovery" is, the opportunities for people coming off of welfare are slim. Of course, the fact that we have people who are unemployable after twelve years of school is a disgrace and an indictment of the education system and the culture in which those kids grow up... Mere incompetence can not account for the mismanagement of our "War on Poverty." There are a lot of things we could do to fight poverty or to help poor people (not the same thing). But giving money, housing and trillions in free stuff is counter-productive and creates poverty (at least as we define it). Would you just give your adult kids money all their life when their problem is laziness, alcohol/drugs and life style? If tomorrow the federal and state governments ended all forms of welfare/assistance two thiings would happen over night:
1. The drug cartels and pushers would go out of business and all the 7-11 and mom and pop stores would have to sell food and necessities instead of beer, wine and cigarettes. 2. 90% of the 'poor' people would find jobs and other ways to support themselves including getting married. The biggest incentive to be poor in this country is the excessive help our co-dependent government and activists provide. End it and people will respond in their own self interest and figure out how to take care of themselves. WORLD WAR III
IN THE PLANNING STAGES Former President Bush and VP Cheney are sitting in a bar. A guy walks in and asks the barman, 'Isn't that Bush and Cheney sitting over there?' The bartender says, 'Yep, that's them.' So the guy walks over and says, 'Wow, this is a real honor! What are you guys doing in here?' Bush says, 'We're planning WW III.' The guy says, 'Really? What's going to happen?' Cheney says, 'Well, we're going to kill 140 million Muslims and one blonde with big tits.' The guy exclaimed, 'A blonde with big tits? Why kill a blonde with big tits?' Cheney turns to Bush and says, 'See, I told you, no one gives a crap about the 140 million Muslims.’ Of course we care about the 140 million Muslims...
But do you have any pictures of the blonde with big tits? Just so we know what we are discussing, of course. Climate and human civilization...warmer is always better. Unless you are anti-human like the Paul Ehrlichs of the world. Consider the advance of civilization, ie humans, since the end of the last ice age approximately 12,000 years ago when it began to warm up. And if you don't believe warm is better then explain Florida.
I live 5 blocks from the beach in Northeast Florida. My duplex is 6-7 feet above mean sea level. If the sea rises, most of us will be rather happy because of the rush of seafood flooding in.
We fishermen feel it's time for the groupers, snappers, shrimp and lobsters to come to us for a change! Who was keeping track of the weather cycles 18,000 years ago and till now?
They have had that much practice for that long and are still getting it wrong? Who are THESE people? |