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Posts Made By: Dave Snope

January 14, 2014 01:49 AM Forum: Politics

First Black Prez Sets Record For Black Men Jobless

Posted By Dave Snope
But he has the highest perceived empathy for them according to polls. The hip-hop parties with Crystal champagne pyramids, the lavish vacations, and the epic golf rounds must be working wonders for his perception. This could be you too, just hang in there a little longer! If we are to believe Pelosi that every $1 spent in unemployment benefits produces $1.54 in economic activity, the country should be bursting with excess jobs very soon. EZ Street is coming, just after the mid-term elections.

The drop in labor force participation was sharpest for African Americans, who saw a decline of 0.3 percentage points to 60.2 percent, the lowest rate since December of 1977. The rate for African American men fell 0.7 percentage points to 65.6 percent, the lowest on record. The decline in labor force participation was associated with a drop in the overall African American unemployment rate of 0.5 percentage points to 11.9, and a drop of 0.6 percentage points to 11.6 percent for African American men.

http://www.cepr.net/index.php/data-bytes/jobs-bytes/jobs-2014-01

January 14, 2014 09:31 PM Forum: Global Warming - REAL or NOT

Warming to resume in the next few years

Posted By Dave Snope

Climate modeler David Smith of the Hadley Centre, who was not involved in the State of the Climate analysis, says his group’s climate model forecasts—made much the way weather forecasts are made—are still calling for warming to resume in the next few years as ocean influences reverse

and


Researchers may differ about exactly what’s behind recent natural climate variability, but they agree that no sort of natural variability can hold off greenhouse warming much longer. “Our prediction is that if past is prologue, the solar component will turn around and lead to rapid warming in the next 5 years,” says Rind.

Did I mention that these statements were published over four years ago?

Richard Kerr, award-winning climate-change author, Science, October 1, 2009

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/01/14/no-matter-if-its-a-climatic-pause-or-jolt-still-no-warming/#more-101334

January 16, 2014 04:48 PM Forum: Global Warming - REAL or NOT

U.S. Temperatures: Actual vs. Reported

Posted By Dave Snope
Steven Goddard pulls the data off of NOAA's NCDC site (you can too) and plots it. They have cooled the past 0.5C since their 1999 version. No new info here, just a refresh to remind us what has been passing as climate science for years.

NOAA/GISS temperature corrections are larger than the claimed trend, and actually reverse the polarity. No serious scientist would attempt to publish graphs which have an error bar larger than the trend, much less present it as settled science without any error bars.



The standard excuse is that someone wrote a paper once about TOBS, but the actual temperature adjustments are linear and implausible under any vaguely legitimate theory. These adjustments are fraud, intended to create the appearance of a non-existent warming




http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2014/01/16/noaanasa-temperature-corrections-are-junk-science-at-its-worst/

January 23, 2014 08:07 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Sun in Ha 22 Jan 2014

Posted By Dave Snope
This is a solar mosaic shot with the Lunt 80 and Flea3


January 24, 2014 07:55 PM Forum: Off Topic Discussions

North Korea has landed a man on the Sun

Posted By Dave Snope
This just in: North Korea has landed a man on the Sun. 17-year-old Hung Il Gong started his journey at 3am this morning, travelling alone, to reach our nearest star, a journey that took him just 4 hours.

A North Korean central news anchorman said during a live broadcast: "We are very delighted to announce a successful mission to put a man on the sun. North Korea has beaten every other country in the world to the sun. Hung Il Gong is a hero and deserves a hero's welcome when he returns home later this evening".

Hung is expected back on Earth in just a few hours time, where he will be greeted by his uncle, and supreme leader: Kim Jong-un. Hung traveled in the cover of darkness, as it would protect him from the harsh, and extreme temperatures of the Sun. Hung will also be bringing back some sun spot samples for his uncle, which I'm sure he will show off to the world in a short amount of time.

http://www.tweaktown.com/news/35032/north-korea-confirms-it-has-landed-a-man-on-the-sun/index.html

Word is that Iran's mullahs are furious that their own space program wasn't first. Apparently they lost their space monkey, though, causing program setbacks.

February 4, 2014 06:59 AM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

AR1967 and AR1968

Posted By Dave Snope
AR1967 is the lower sunspot region. AR1968 is the upper region.

2 panel mosaic at 1120mm focal length.

Camera: Flea 3, Scope: Lunt 80

http://www.pbase.com/dsnope/image/154371062


February 5, 2014 06:14 PM Forum: Global Warming - REAL or NOT

New Paper: Seas Cooler Now Than During MWP

Posted By Dave Snope

What was done
Using ten proxy sea surface temperature (SST) records - six from the Norwegian Margin, three from the North Icelandic Shelf and one from the Scottish Margin - Cunningham et al. prepared a 1,000-year SST record spanning the period from AD 1000 to 2000, which revealed, in their words, that "the 'Medieval Climate Anomaly' warming was most pronounced before AD 1200, with a long-term cooling trend apparent after AD 1250." And what did the new record reveal about the uniqueness - or not! - of the region's late-20th-century Current Warm Period?

What was learned
The twenty researchers report that "in recent decades temperatures have been similar to those inferred for the 'Medieval Climate Anomaly'." However, their graphical representations (three versions of them) of the one-thousand-year period clearly indicate that the peak warmth of the Current Warm Period has actually been a couple tenths of a degree C less than that of the earlier Medieval Warm Period.

What it means
As has been found to be the case in so many land-based assessments of the relative warmth of the Medieval and Current Warm Periods, there is nothing unusual, unnatural or unprecedented about earth's current level of warmth ... although it could be thought to be somewhat unusual in that even with the 120-ppm increase in the atmosphere's CO2 concentration that occurred over the last 1000 years, it is still not as hot now as it was back in the Medieval Warm Period.

http://www.co2science.org/articles/V17/N6/C1.php

February 11, 2014 05:51 PM Forum: Politics

Losing 2.5 Million Jobs Is Beneficial

Posted By Dave Snope
Obama's #1 navigator at the LA Times, Michael Hiltzik, continues his campaign of distorted logic to support Obamacare. Losing jobs is good because it gives people choice, is the new message from the admin. How long will it be before Hiltzik makes the argument that people dying from rationed healthcare is good? Because a smaller supply of labor increases wages and reduces global warming or something. This guy is going to earn himself an ambassadorship to some country that he's never been to.

The CBO projects that [ObamaCare] will reduce the supply of labor, not the availability of jobs. There’s a big difference. In fact, it suggests that aggregate demand for labor (that is, the number of jobs) will increase, not decrease; but that many workers or would-be workers will be prompted by the ACA to leave the labor force, many of them voluntarily.

As economist Dean Baker points out, this is, in fact, a beneficial effect of the law, and a sign that it will achieve an important goal. It helps “older workers with serious health conditions who are working now because this is the only way to get health insurance. And (one for the family-values crowd) many young mothers who return to work earlier than they would like because they need health insurance. This is a huge plus.”

http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-mh-cbo-20140204,0,3106578.story#axzz2skYIttDW

February 12, 2014 07:06 PM Forum: Politics

Mayor of "Chocolate City" Guilty on 20 Counts

Posted By Dave Snope
During all of his times blaming Bush and Brownie for not doing his job for him, Nagin was a criminal ripping off the people of his own city.

Prosecutors in the federal corruption case alleged Nagin took bribes worth more than $500,000 through various criminal acts, starting before Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005 and continuing through the storm's recovery.

Nagin, a Democrat who was mayor for two terms from 2002 to 2010, denied he took any bribes. He faced a 21-count indictment, and was found guilty of 20 counts.
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/crime-courts/former-new-orleans-mayor-ray-nagin-guilty-corruption-n28666

Maybe Nagin (D) can share a cell with William Jefferson (D) in his prison block in Beaumont. He just missed a chance to share a cell of Gov. Edwin Edwards (D) who was released in 2013, and N.O. Councilman Oliver Thomas (D).

February 13, 2014 01:58 AM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

AR1974 and 3098 Region

Posted By Dave Snope
Sun pics Feb 12, 2014.

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