Posts Made By: Dave Snope

It's hard to pick just ten. One that I would put at the top of the list is "Most Transparent Administration Ever". And "Stop Sending American Jobs Overseas". Because they are both so important and he has achieved the opposite effect.

What would you add to this list?



http://lonelyconservative.com/2012/07/obamas-top-ten-broken-promises/

http://vimeo.com/44297885

Study of unprecedented quality shows IPCC underestimated long-term cooling trend.

An international team including scientists from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) has published a reconstruction of the climate in northern Europe over the last 2,000 years based on the information provided by tree-rings. Professor Dr. Jan Esper’s group at the Institute of Geography at JGU used tree-ring density measurements from sub-fossil pine trees originating from Finnish Lapland to produce a reconstruction reaching back to 138 BC. In so doing, the researchers have been able for the first time to precisely demonstrate that the long-term trend over the past two millennia has been towards climatic cooling.

“We found that previous estimates of historical temperatures during the Roman era and the Middle Ages were too low,” says Esper. “Such findings are also significant with regard to climate policy, as they will influence the way today’s climate changes are seen in context of historical warm periods.”
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For the first time, researchers have now been able to use the data derived from tree-rings to precisely calculate a much longer-term cooling trend that has been playing out over the past 2,000 years.

Their findings demonstrate that this trend involves a cooling of -0.3°C per millennium due to gradual changes to the position of the sun and an increase in the distance between the Earth and the sun.”This figure we calculated may not seem particularly significant,” says Esper. “However, it is also not negligible when compared to global warming, which up to now has been less than 1°C. Our results suggest that the large-scale climate reconstruction shown by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) likely underestimate this long-term cooling trend over the past few millennia.”

This is a big problem for the AGW warmists. How can these glaciers be growing when their models say they should be shrinking due to CO2? This will require a LOT more grant money to find a solution that fits the narrative. They used lots and lots of weasel words to make sure they get more.

Using spaceborne data to study a 5,615-square-kilometer section of the Karakoram Range of northern Pakistan and western China, the researchers found an increase in ice thickness of 0.11 (plus or minus 0.22) meters of water equivalent (w.e.) per year between 1999 and 2008. Although small in magnitude, the value is significant because it diverges from best estimates of glacial ice volume change globally and over the entire Himalayan mountain range, which suggest a loss of about 0.4 to 0.8 meters w.e. per year, the team reported in Nature Geoscience.

http://www.earthmagazine.org/article/karakoram-glaciers-buck-global-regional-trends

http://weburbanist.com/2012/07/08/watch-out-10-eerie-abandoned-observatories/

From The Washington Post:

The study, which was led by researchers at the University of Arizona, finds that companies helmed by executives who lean Republican each pay an average of $12 million more in annual taxes than companies headed by Democratic-leaning managers. With a mean pretax income of $541 million for companies in the sample, the difference results in an extra 2.22 percent in taxes paid.

http://ht.ly/cb9ck

This absolutely agrees with all of my experience in business. Which is why I posted it. Conservative officers try hard to understand their tax liabilities to avoid getting the company into any trouble whatsoever with the IRS and state tax boards. Following the law is first on their minds, and they will take less profit to do so. Liberal officers, on the other hand, have an aggressive arrogance, with a reckless attitude of "we'll never get caught", and tend to game the tax system and stretch the truth on expenses as far as possible. They never seemed worried about the consequences of their actions: getting audited, getting sued, or going bankrupt. They take more risks and in some cases will hit home runs while conservatives settle for singles. The dot com boom, for example, was not led by conservatives. Much of it was led by liberal marketing execs spinning yarns about the miracles that their engineers will perform. I used to go to a lot of venture capital meetings during that time and witnessed the evolution of tech business to where the marketing execs were being fast-tracked to the CEO path. The best yarn-spinners got the VC money (rather than the best conservative business fundamentals). They all thought Bill Clinton was an awesome guy, believed in the global warming hoax, were pro-choice, and thought that compassion was synonymous with more government spending.

I see it in small businesses, too. The one-man businesses like sales reps, consultants, accountants, etc. You meet these guys/gals that are flaunting it, bragging about how they put all their personal expenses on the business account, how every time they go out to dinner they lie and say it was a business meeting, all their personal computers, electronics, cars, ball games, even groceries, everything they can, they lie and call it business expense. Once in a while I hear of someone getting audited, which usually leads to bankruptcy and divorce. Then they start it all over again. These people are all about getting free stuff at other people's expense. Their behavior is the opposite of the very definition of 'conservative'. They are invariably democrats.

Well, many of us. Some of us aren't free until early in August. Particularly if you work in a liberal state like NY, Ill, Ca, etc. Get back to work! And if you are working 60 hours weeks to run a successful business, put the saddle on your back and get back to work! You have a long time to go before you are working for yourself.


Cost of Government Day (COGD) is the date of the calendar year on which the average American worker has earned enough gross
income to pay off his or her share of the spending and regulatory burden imposed by government at the federal, state and local levels.

Cost of Government Day 2012
The Cost of Government Day for 2012 is July 15. On average, workers must labor 197 days out of the year to pay for all the costs imposed by the government. From a different perspective, the cost of government makes up 54.0 percent of annual gross domestic product (GDP).

http://www.costofgovernment.org/files/files/COGD2012_hi%20res.pdf

In study after study after, AGW keeps coming up smoke and mirrors.

From the told ya so department, comes this recently presented paper at the European Geosciences Union meeting.

Authors Steirou and Koutsoyiannis, after taking homogenization errors into account find global warming over the past century was only about one-half [0.42°C] of that claimed by the IPCC [0.7-0.8°C].

of 67% of the weather stations examined, questionable adjustments were made to raw data that resulted in:

“increased positive trends, decreased negative trends, or changed negative trends to positive,” whereas “the expected proportions would be 1/2 (50%).”

And…


“homogenation practices used until today are mainly statistical, not well justified by experiments, and are rarely supported by metadata. It can be argued that they often lead to false results: natural features of hydroclimatic times series are regarded as errors and are adjusted.”


http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/07/17/new-paper-blames-about-half-of-global-warming-on-weather-station-data-homgenization/#more-67591

What's this guy up to? One too many head butts?

Utah wildlife officials want to talk to a man spotted in the mountains wearing a goat suit amid a herd of real wild goats.

Phil Douglass of the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources says the person is doing nothing illegal, but he worries the so-called “goat man” is unaware of the dangers.

Sixty permits will be issued for goat hunting season in September in the same area in the mountains above Ogden, north of Salt Lake City. Douglass also says the goats could be dangerous.
A man hiking along Ben Lomond peak in the Wasatch range spotted the goat man on Sunday.

http://youtu.be/kHA6eo2ZYNU

Watch what happens when three different Egyptian actors are told that the show they are on is for Israeli TV, and that there is a Jew in the room. But it's a hoax, there are no Jews.

The one guy is especially a sicko after he attacked a woman who he thought was a Jew, he invited her to his car to rub lotion on her. Then they tell them that they were patriotic for attacking the faux "Jews".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPLFrLOet0Y&feature=player_embedded