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Posts Made By: Dave Snope

July 30, 2013 11:09 PM Forum: Global Warming - REAL or NOT

IPCC Official Admits It's About Wealth Redistribut

Posted By Dave Snope
Not the first IPCC'er to say this, but one of the most important.

Nov. 2010:
But one must say clearly that we redistribute de facto the world's wealth by climate policy. Obviously, the owners of coal and oil will not be enthusiastic about this. One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. This has almost nothing to do with environmental policy anymore...

Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2010/11/18/un-ipcc-official-we-redistribute-worlds-wealth-climate-policy#ixzz2aZapGwu5

Edenhofer was co-chair of the IPCC's Working Group III, and was a lead author of the IPCC's Fourth Assessment Report.

So now there's a billboard about in at Coors Field:


August 1, 2013 03:37 PM Forum: Politics

Obama's Union Goon Pals Disrupt Childs' Funeral

Posted By Dave Snope
Disgusting creeps:

Secretary-Treasurer John T. Coli, one of Illinois’ most influential labor leaders, heads the 6,800-member union. Coli brokered the Teamsters endorsement of Barack Obama during his then-long shot campaign for the Democratic nomination—a major turning point in the 2008 primary.

Obama, then a junior senator of Illinois, pledged in private meetings with Teamster leadership to end federal oversight of the powerful union, which had come under scrutiny for its ties to the mafia under Jimmy Hoffa, father to current Teamsters President James Hoffa Jr. Both sides denied any quid pro quo in the deal.

The company testified in its filing that union members blocked grieving family members from leaving its parking lot, used bullhorns to shout obscenities at workers and mourners, and unleashed a German Shepard on a dead woman’s daughter and husband.

The funeral home was eventually forced to call the police when picketers allegedly disrupted a child’s funeral with laughter. The officer asked the Teamsters to leave, but protesters returned when he drove away.

“We will be here for the visitation; we will be here for your funeral,” Teamster driver Lester Plewa allegedly shouted into a bullhorn as a funeral director met with a dying man planning his arrangements with family members.



http://freebeacon.com/teamsters-ordered-to-stop-picketing-funeral-homes/


August 1, 2013 10:40 PM Forum: Politics

Massive Coverup On Benghazi

Posted By Dave Snope
Even the leftist CNN is doing scandal stories on Benghazi. They won't say it, but this is all about covering up arms shipments to the (now) al-qaeda controlled FSA via Turkey, and the subsequent attack on the compound to stop it, an embarassment of broken laws and incompetence that had to be kept under wraps to make sure Obama got re-elected. They'll never sort it out while he is still in office, though. Unless they can get some Turks to talk.

CNN has uncovered exclusive new information about what is allegedly happening at the CIA, in the wake of the deadly Benghazi terror attack.

Four Americans, including Ambassador Christopher Stevens, were killed in the assault by armed militants last September 11 in eastern Libya.

Sources now tell CNN dozens of people working for the CIA were on the ground that night, and that the agency is going to great lengths to make sure whatever it was doing, remains a secret.

CNN has learned the CIA is involved in what one source calls an unprecedented attempt to keep the spy agency's Benghazi secrets from ever leaking out.

Since January, some CIA operatives involved in the agency's missions in Libya, have been subjected to frequent, even monthly polygraph examinations, according to a source with deep inside knowledge of the agency's workings.

The goal of the questioning, according to sources, is to find out if anyone is talking to the media or Congress.

It is being described as pure intimidation, with the threat that any unauthorized CIA employee who leaks information could face the end of his or her career.

In exclusive communications obtained by CNN, one insider writes, "You don't jeopardize yourself, you jeopardize your family as well."

Another says, "You have no idea the amount of pressure being brought to bear on anyone with knowledge of this operation."

"Agency employees typically are polygraphed every three to four years. Never more than that," said former CIA operative and CNN analyst Robert Baer.

In other words, the rate of the kind of polygraphs alleged by sources is rare.

"If somebody is being polygraphed every month, or every two months it's called an issue polygraph, and that means that the polygraph division suspects something, or they're looking for something, or they're on a fishing expedition. But it's absolutely not routine at all to be polygraphed monthly, or bi-monthly," said Baer.


http://thelead.blogs.cnn.com/2013/08/01/exclusive-dozens-of-cia-operatives-on-the-ground-during-benghazi-attack/

August 5, 2013 08:17 PM Forum: Politics

Fast And Furious In The Sinai

Posted By Dave Snope

Jihadists in Egypt’s lawless Sinai Peninsula are using U.S. weapons to carry out attacks against the temporary government in the wake of the military’s ouster of President Mohammed Morsi, according to the embattled nation’s Interior Ministry.

The government office posted an official statement on its Facebook page along with images of an exploded missile that hit the third floor of a building in the city of el-Arish last week. The post said terrorist forces targeted the North Sinai Security Directorate office with a ballistic missile that struck the third floor facade of the building, leaving three soldiers injured. While attacks in the Sinai, which borders Gaza and is a haven for terrorist activity, have become commonplace, the prospect that militants have U.S. weapons typically fired from helicopters at their disposal is especially alarming.

Three photos of the missile posted by the government agency shows that it appears to be an AGM-114F with a label written in English and the letters “U.S.” stenciled on the side.


Reports of U.S.-made weapons turning up in the Sinai date back to at least January, when six U.S.-made missiles were found in a cache of weapons bound for Gaza. And in February, FoxNews.com reported exclusively that weapons left over from the revolution in Libya were being sold at clandestine auctions is the Sinai Peninsula. The U.S. has repeatedly denied arming the Libyan rebels, though it did assist them in other ways with the overthrow of longtime Libyan strongman Muammar Qaddafi.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/08/05/us-made-hellfire-missile-believed-to-have-been-used-in-insurgent-attack-on/#ixzz2b7z4xLP3

August 17, 2013 07:48 PM Forum: Global Warming - REAL or NOT

Just A Reminder: This Summer Arctic Is Ice Free

Posted By Dave Snope
And that is conservatively underestimated. I could be sooner! Because these models were done on supercomputers, and with higher resolution.

Wednesday, 12 December 2007

Scientists in the US have presented one of the most dramatic forecasts yet for the disappearance of Arctic sea ice.

Their latest modelling studies indicate northern polar waters could be ice-free in summers within just 5-6 years.

"Our projection of 2013 for the removal of ice in summer is not accounting for the last two minima, in 2005 and 2007," the researcher from the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, explained to the BBC.
"So given that fact, you can argue that may be our projection of 2013 is already too conservative."

Real world

Using supercomputers to crunch through possible future outcomes has become a standard part of climate science in recent years.

...

"We use a high-resolution regional model for the Arctic Ocean and sea ice forced with realistic atmospheric data. This way, we get much more realistic forcing, from above by the atmosphere and from the bottom by the ocean."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7139797.stm


Wait, what's this?

August 17, 2013 07:59 PM Forum: Global Warming - REAL or NOT

2013 Hottest Summer On Record

Posted By Dave Snope
That's what they are saying on network TV this weekend. I heard it on the radio, too. CBS News. Fox News. So you better believe it. Or should you?

I guess that they weren't around in 1934 or 1936. Or they are using "adjusted" data. Yeah, that's it. Adjusted data. All those people that died from the heat in the 1930's? They don't count.

This has been the 47th coolest summer on record so far. Every summer during the 1930s was hotter than 2013.



Summer maximum temperatures are falling:


Plots from Steven Goddard using official temperature record data from the U.S. HCN.

August 19, 2013 05:38 PM Forum: Global Warming - REAL or NOT

Things I Learned Today On The Radio

Posted By Dave Snope
My local L.A. CBS News radio station said the following two interesting things within 15 minutes of each other:

1) This has been the coolest August in LA since 1919.

2) Lyme disease cases are way up this summer. This could be due to global warming, according to an expert.

You can't make this stuff up.


August 19, 2013 06:12 PM Forum: Global Warming - REAL or NOT

Where Have All The Twisters Gone?

Posted By Dave Snope
Politicians and media figures have been blaming tornadoes on global warming for years. Al Gore has been incessant, for example.

Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif. – Chair of Senate Environment & Public Works Committee) took to the Senate floor and invoked the Oklahoma tornadoes in her speech on global warming.


“This is climate change. We were warned about extreme weather. Not just hot weather. But extreme weather. When I had my hearings, when I had the gavel years ago. -It’s been a while – the scientists all agreed that what we’d start to see was extreme weather. And people looked at one another and said ‘what do you mean? It’s gonna get hot?’ Yeah, it’s gonna get hot. But you’re also going to see snow in the summer in some places. You’re gonna have terrible storms. You’re going to have tornados and all the rest. We need to protect our people. That’s our number one obligation and we have to deal with this threat that is upon us and that is gonna get worse and worse though the years.”
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During CNN’s live coverage of the deadly Oklahoma tornado on Monday night, host Piers Morgan and Bill Nye speculated on the possible role of climate change in the disaster.

Nye said climate change has to be considered after a catastrophic weather event like the devastating tornado in Oklahoma. He also claimed 10 of the last 12 years are the “warmest years recorded.”
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In his Berlin speech, Obama warned of Biblical consequences if he doesn’t act.


The grim alternative affects all nations — more severe storms, more famine and floods, new waves of refugees, coastlines that vanish, oceans that rise. This is the future we must avert. This is the global threat of our time.
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John Kerry infamously tied the 2008 tornadoes to global warming, one of many times he has invoked the punishment of severe storms for the sins of human carbon emissions:
"[I] don't want to sort of leap into the larger meaning of, you know, inappropriately, but on the other hand, the weather service has told us we are going to have more and more intense storms," Kerry said. "And insurance companies are beginning to look at this issue and understand this is related to the intensity of storms that is related to the warming of the earth. And so it goes to global warming and larger issues that we're not paying attention to. The fact is the hurricanes are more intensive, the storms are more intensive and the rainfall is more intense at certain places at certain times and the weather patterns have changed."


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The latest NOAA data shows that 2013 has slipped below the historical minimum, setting a new record for lowest tornado count in the ~60 years of the NOAA tornado database. 2012 was also a very low year.





H/T WUWT

August 21, 2013 04:52 PM Forum: Global Warming - REAL or NOT

Record Sea Ice Extent In The Antarctic

Posted By Dave Snope
Good news if you are happy with more ice, or sad about less ice:

Antarctic sea ice extent for August 19 is 18.70 million square kilometers (7.22 million square miles), a record or near-record high level (August 19, 2010 was similarly high), led by unusually extensive ice in the Bellingshausen, Amundsen, and Ross seas, and in the western Indian Ocean sector.
http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/


August 30, 2013 04:11 PM Forum: Global Warming - REAL or NOT

22 Yachts Trapped In Icy Northwest Passage

Posted By Dave Snope
Godspeed to the adventurers and the eco-tourists there to see the arctic ice before it disappears forever.

The future dreams of dozens of adventurous sailors are now threatened. A scattering of yachts attempting the legendary Passage are caught by the ice, which has now become blocked at both ends and the transit season may be ending early. Douglas Pohl tells the story:

The Passage has become blocked with 5/10 concentrated drifting sea ice at both the eastern and at the western ends of Canada’s Arctic Archipelago. At least 22 yachts and other vessels are in the Arctic at the moment. Some who were less advanced have retreated and others have abandoned their vessels along the way. Still others are caught in the ice in an unfolding, unresolved drama.

The real question is if and when the Canadian Coast Guard(CCG) decides to take early action to help the yachts exit the Arctic before freeze-up... or will they wait until it becomes an emergency rescue operation?

The first blockage area is at Prince Regent Inlet in position 73.7880535N, -89.2529297W which became blocked on 27th August with 5/10 ice concentration with 7/10 ice pushing.

This effectively closes the 2013 Northwest Passage without Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker escorts for transit. The alternative is a very technical and risky southern navigation through Fury & Hecla Strait mostly blocked with sea ice.

Currently there is a commercial cruise ship on a west to east passage which will reach Prince Regent Inlet in another day. It is unknown if there is a CCG icebreaker in the area to provide assistance since government ships do not provide Automatic Identification Service (AIS) to public AIS websites.

http://www.sail-world.com/USA/North-West-Passage-blocked-with-ice—yachts-caught/113788

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