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Post by Pooh on May 3, 2013 4:22:42 GMT
Thornhill, Ted. “Global Warming: Earth Heated up in Medieval Times Without Human CO2 Emissions.” Mail Online, March 26, 2012, sec. Science. www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2120512/Global-warming-Earth-heated-medieval-times-human-CO2-emissions.htmlA team of scientists led by geochemist Zunli Lu from Syracuse University in New York state found that the Medieval Warm Period was in fact a global phenomenon. Evidence was found in a rare mineral that records global temperatures. Warming was far-reaching and NOT limited to Europe. Throws doubt on orthodoxies around 'global warming'. Page, Lewis. “Medieval Warming WAS Global – New Science Contradicts IPCC.” Opinion. The Register, March 23, 2012. www.theregister.co.uk/2012/03/23/warm_period_little_ice_age_global/Watts, Anthony. “More Evidence the Medieval Warm Period Was Global.” Scientific. Watts Up With That?, March 22, 2012. wattsupwiththat.com“Medieval Warm Period Project - CO2 Science.” Scientific. CO2 Science, 2013. co2science.org/data/mwp/mwpp.phpShows Medieval Warm Period and worldwide locations at which its existence has been investigated / confirmed. The "Hockey Stick" graph did not show them, and its existence has been disputed by AGW advocates. Stewart, Sheridan. “Evidence of a Medieval Warm Period in Antarctica.” Scientific. Science & Public Policy Institute, April 3, 2013. scienceandpublicpolicy.org/images/stories/papers/originals/medieval_warm_period.pdfWas there a Medieval Warm Period somewhere in the world in addition to the area surrounding the North Atlantic Ocean, where its occurrence is uncontested? This question is of utmost importance to the ongoing global warming debate, for if the Medieval Warm Period is found to have been a global climatic phenomenon, and if the locations where it occurred were as warm in medieval times as they are currently, there is no need to consider the temperature increase of the past century as anything other than the natural progression of the persistent millennial-scale oscillation of climate that regularly brings the earth several-hundred-year periods of modestly higher and lower temperatures that are totally independent of variations in atmospheric CO2 concentration. Consequently, we here review the findings of several studies that have found evidence for the Medieval Warm Period in a region that is as far away from lands bordering on the North Atlantic Ocean as one could possibly get, i.e., Antarctica.
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Post by Pooh on Apr 13, 2013 5:12:06 GMT
A fifty percent sharp reduction in spending is economic suicide and quite frankly stupid. We need first to cap spending. Then increase revenues modestly over time by reforming the tax code. We cannot cut our way out of this. Our only shot is to grow our way out. Sharp reductions in government spending would be counter productive and hurt growth. We need a long term responsible plan We may not have a "long term". The debtor is slave to the lender. Immediate relief could be had in two areas: - The U.N.: They want to tax us (Agenda 21) based upon a fraud. Further, they want a slice of the sovereignty of our citizens. In particular, UNEP and the UNFCCC should be deep-sixed.
- The EPA: Every office and its personnel involved with "Global Warming". The advantage is not so much the cost saving, but lifting the heavy, authoritarian regulation of the economy. We don't need a "Corporate State" by that term or any of its alternative names.
It could also create a certain respect for the motto "Don't tread on me".
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Post by Pooh on Apr 12, 2013 5:25:00 GMT
duwayne: Responding to Steve, you write "Statistically speaking, this cycle is very regular and very well defined." ... "But some argue ... What is missing is an unassailable scientific explanation as to why this cycle exists." I think Bob Tisdale makes a plausible case for " A" mechanism, not necessarily the one and only mechanism. Part of the mechanism I think of as trade winds causing sloshing in the Pacific Basin. My words, not Tisdale's. Tisdale, Bob. “Edition 2 of Book ‘Who Turned on the Heat? – The Unsuspected Global Warming Culprit, El Niño-Southern Oscillation’.” Scientific. Bob Tisdale - Climate Observations, November 14, 2012. bobtisdale.wordpress.com/2012/11/14/edition-2-of-book-who-turned-on-the-heat-the-unsuspected-global-warming-culprit-el-nino-southern-oscillation/Preview available here: Tisdale, Bob. “Everything You Every Wanted to Know About El Niño and La Niña….” Scientific. Bob Tisdale - Climate Observations, September 3, 2012. bobtisdale.wordpress.com/2012/09/03/everything-you-every-wanted-to-know-about-el-nino-and-la-nina-2/Current Reference Pages - ENSO, EMI, SOI, SST, Global Sea Surface Temperature – 30 Days, etc. Interesting. Includes animations of graphed data over time. wattsupwiththat.com/reference-pages/climatic-phenomena-pages/enso/
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Post by Pooh on Apr 6, 2013 5:27:43 GMT
Amazing......here one min, totally gone the next. I use "Zotero" www.zotero.org/ to capture items I wish to keep. That includes things likely to disappear. Basically it captures documents and web pages "verbatim"; a data base references such items, tags, notes, sources, and related items. The data base engine is SQLite. Capacity does not seem to be a problem (>4200 so far). It supports a search engine and a couple of ways to report results.
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Post by Pooh on Apr 6, 2013 4:56:34 GMT
By whom. The president was elected by people who believe in "change". I had a conversation last weekend with a gentleman who maintained only another dark age will "save" us. Well not us but maybe a future generation. Despite being written in fairly dense prose, the Federalist Papers are an informative read. For example: Madison, James. “The Federalist No. 10, The Union as a Safeguard Against Domestic Faction and Insurrection.” The Federalist Papers (November 22, 1787). thomas.loc.gov/home/histdox/fed_10.html "Hence it is that such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths."
The federal Constitution forms a happy combination in this respect; the great and aggregate interests being referred to the national, the local and particular to the State legislatures." This group of Constitutional framers were concerned about preserving liberty of all citizens, not just the majority. Federalist #25, #28, #29 and #46 all address the problem of countering tyranny, whether within a State, a combination of States, or by the national authority. Unfortunately, they found no solution to the existence of slavery. That was remedied by the Civil war (at a cost of a half-million lives) and the 13th and 15th amendments. The right to vote was completed by the 19th.
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Post by Pooh on Apr 5, 2013 3:46:18 GMT
Re: trbixler: Tyranny! Grounds for impeachment?
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Post by Pooh on Mar 31, 2013 4:56:31 GMT
I remember when we used to discuss climate and AGW :-) Economics, AGW / Climate Change and Politics together form one giant Power hairball.
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Post by Pooh on Mar 31, 2013 4:48:30 GMT
Gray, L. J., S. Crooks, C. Pascoe, S. Sparrow, and M. Palmer. “Solar and QBO Influences on the Timing of Stratospheric Sudden Warmings.” Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences 61, no. 23 (May 10, 2004): 2777–2796. journals.ametsoc.org/doi/pdf/10.1175/JAS-3297.1MacMath, Jillian. “What’s Causing All the Warm Weather?” Scientific. AccuWeather.com, March 22, 2012. www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/whats-causing-all-the-warm-wea/63076
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Post by Pooh on Mar 31, 2013 4:32:26 GMT
Sunstein, Cass R. “Throwing Precaution to the Wind: Why the ‘Safe’ Choice Can Be Dangerous.” Opinion. Boston.com - The Boston Globe, July 13, 2008. www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2008/07/13/throwing_precaution_to_the_wind. Main point: "Yet the precautionary principle, for all its rhetorical appeal, is deeply incoherent. It is of course true that we should take precautions against some speculative dangers. But there are always risks on both sides of a decision; inaction can bring danger, but so can action. Precautions, in other words, themselves create risks - and hence the principle bans what it simultaneously requires." ... "In the context of climate change, precautions are certainly a good idea. But what kinds of precautions? A high tax on carbon emissions would impose real risks - including increased hardship for people who can least afford it and very possibly increases in unemployment and hence poverty. A sensible climate change policy balances the costs and benefits of emissions reductions. If the policy includes costly (and hence risk-creating) precautions, it is because those precautions are justified by their benefits.
"The nations of the world should take precautions, certainly. But they should not adopt the precautionary principle."
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Post by Pooh on Mar 31, 2013 4:24:03 GMT
Pooh You get no argument from me about possible cooling, in fact more like real cooling. We do live in interesting times. However, people are beginning to notice, excluding those who might profit from denying it. Nelson, Fraser. “It’s the Cold, Not Global Warming, That We Should Be Worried About.” Telegraph.co.uk, March 28, 2013, sec. elderhealth. www.telegraph.co.uk/health/elderhealth/9959856/Its-the-cold-not-global-warming-that-we-should-be-worried-about.htmlNo one seems upset that in modern Britain, old people are freezing to death as hidden taxes make fuel more expensive. Anonymous. “A Sensitive Matter.” Economics. The Economist, March 30, 2013. www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21574461-climate-may-be-heating-up-less-response-greenhouse-gas-emissionsOVER the past 15 years air temperatures at the Earth’s surface have been flat while greenhouse-gas emissions have continued to soar. The world added roughly 100 billion tonnes of carbon to the atmosphere between 2000 and 2010. That is about a quarter of all the CO? put there by humanity since 1750. And yet, as James Hansen, the head of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, observes, “the five-year mean global temperature has been flat for a decade.”
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Post by Pooh on Mar 30, 2013 5:41:42 GMT
Trbixler are you familiar with Godwin's Law? Godwin's law (also known as Godwin's Rule of Nazi Analogies or Godwin's Law of Nazi Analogies[1][2]) is an observation made by Mike Godwin in 1990[2] that has become an Internet adage. It states: "As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1."[2][3] In other words, Godwin observed that, given enough time, in any online discussion—regardless of topic or scope—someone inevitably makes a comparison to Hitler or the Nazis. Indeed, most of us are familiar with Godwin's "Law". "Steve" invoked it some time ago. Invoking "Godwins 'Law'" is a deflection from the underlying similarity: Tyranny. The National Socialist German Workers Party (NSDAP) began as an appeal to nationalism, socialism and workers. It degraded into Authoritarianism, descended into Totalitarianism and ultimately extermination. The course of NSDAP illustrates the character of Tyranny: One man; one vote; one time. We do well to note the feather edge of the storm. “ 2.10: Meme, Counter-meme.” Accessed June 28, 2008. www.wired.com/wired/archive/2.10/godwin.if_pr.html“Godwin’s Law - Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia.” Accessed June 28, 2008. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law“ Godwin’s Law FAQ.” Accessed June 28, 2008. www.killfile.org/~tskirvin/faqs/godwin.html
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Post by Pooh on Mar 30, 2013 4:55:48 GMT
"It’s the cold, not global warming, that we should be worried about" .... linkSee: Precaution, Post Normal Science & Possible Coolingsolarcycle24com.proboards.com/thread/1948/precaution-post-normal-science-cooling?page=1There is a link to a PDF attachment at the post linked above (page 2 dated Mar 29, 2012 at 1:57pm). It has the advantage of links to monthly updates at Watts and NOAA. Locally, we have had 29% more Heating Degree Days than last year so far; more snow, more precipitation.
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Post by Pooh on Mar 28, 2013 6:50:47 GMT
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Post by Pooh on Mar 28, 2013 6:28:32 GMT
Many times people write about somethings that they do not know about and mix with some things they do know about. I caught the hollow point as cop killers as opposed to the tef over tungsten coated real cop killers but the real question is why does the government want to build up force against ? ? ? Hollow points are to be used against me and I do not like the idea. An armed citizenry is more a deterrent than a heavily armed czar led new army without the discipline of a real army controlled by congress. There is a gorilla in the room in the debate over gun control. It is there, unmentioned. Its name is “Liberty”. “Liberty” is the inherent right of Citizens to decide and act for themselves, under Constitutional law. I do not suggest rebellion or revolution as a solution to Federal over-reach. That would tear the nation apart and open the door for external conquest. The Federalist Papers suggest that its authors believed that the possibility of citizens defending their Liberty was useful in checking an ambitious Federal government. The utility of Militias in preserving the Liberty of the citizens is often cited in the Federalist Papers (see #25, #28, #29 & #46, table below). The citizens’ right to bear arms was essential to this. It does not matter if Militias have been incorporated into the National Guard or that the prohibition of Posse Comitatus was weakened or eliminated in 2011 (S. 1867, the National Defense Authorization Act). The principle remains. It is worth noting that the arms and tactics of Continental Militias were sometimes superior to those of British regulars (rifles versus muskets). In this light, including semi-automatic rifles as “assault” weapons is a somewhat devious word play, as is the insistent mention of target shooting and hunting. The semi-automatic rifle is useful in defending against multiple assailants.
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Post by Pooh on Mar 22, 2013 4:52:20 GMT
I grew up around Feynman science. 1. He would not have blamed someone else for his shortcomings. 2. He would have admitted he was wrong, and tried to figure out WHY he was wrong. 3. He would have considered his original theory invalid. 4. He would have once again, thought OUTSIDE of the box, as by his experiment at least he knew what he did NOT have correct. He was an astonishing scientist. Agreed. That is the way Science is done. Post-Normal-Science does not. Note that Science now has additional observations, which may lead to discovering missing variables (such as natural variability or decadal oceanic cycles). It may lead to modification of the original theory. Consider the tale of Gamow and Hoyle, which I think of as a synthesis of hard-fought competing theories.
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