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Here's a simple ten question quiz based on facts, not media nonsense.

http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/GlobWarmTest/start.html

How well do you know the answers?

Labels: global, Political "Correctness"

The Boston Globe

Br-r-r! Where did global warming go?

By Jeff Jacoby, Globe Columnist | January 6, 2008

THE STARK headline appeared just over a year ago. "2007 to be 'warmest on record,' " BBC News reported on Jan. 4, 2007. Citing experts in the British government's Meteorological Office, the story announced that "the world is likely to experience the warmest year on record in 2007," surpassing the all-time high reached in 1998.
But a funny thing happened on the way to the planetary hot flash: Much of the planet grew bitterly cold.

In South America, for example, the start of winter last year was one of the coldest ever observed. According to Eugenio Hackbart, chief meteorologist of the MetSul Weather Center in Brazil, "a brutal cold wave brought record low temperatures, widespread frost, snow, and major energy disruption." In Buenos Aires, it snowed for the first time in 89 years, while in Peru the cold was so intense that hundreds of people died and the government declared a state of emergency in 14 of the country's 24 provinces. In August, Chile's agriculture minister lamented "the toughest winter we have seen in the past 50 years," which caused losses of at least $200 million in destroyed crops and livestock.

Latin Americans weren't the only ones shivering.

University of Oklahoma geophysicist David Deming, a specialist in temperature and heat flow, notes in the Washington Times that "unexpected bitter cold swept the entire Southern Hemisphere in 2007." Johannesburg experienced its first significant snowfall in a quarter-century. Australia had its coldest ever June. New Zealand's vineyards lost much of their 2007 harvest when spring temperatures dropped to record lows.

Closer to home, 44.5 inches of snow fell in New Hampshire last month, breaking the previous record of 43 inches, set in 1876. And the Canadian government is forecasting the coldest winter in 15 years.

Now all of these may be short-lived weather anomalies, mere blips in the path of the global climatic warming that Al Gore and a host of alarmists proclaim the deadliest threat we face. But what if the frigid conditions that have caused so much distress in recent months signal an impending era of global cooling?

"Stock up on fur coats and felt boots!" advises Oleg Sorokhtin, a fellow of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences and senior scientist at Moscow's Shirshov Institute of Oceanography. "The latest data . . . say that earth has passed the peak of its warmer period, and a fairly cold spell will set in quite soon, by 2012."

Sorokhtin dismisses the conventional global warming theory that greenhouse gases, especially human-emitted carbon dioxide, is causing the earth to grow hotter. Like a number of other scientists, he points to solar activity - sunspots and solar flares, which wax and wane over time - as having the greatest effect on climate.

"Carbon dioxide is not to blame for global climate change," Sorokhtin writes in an essay for Novosti. "Solar activity is many times more powerful than the energy produced by the whole of humankind." In a recent paper for the Danish National Space Center, physicists Henrik Svensmark and Eigil Friis-Christensen concur: "The sun . . . appears to be the main forcing agent in global climate change," they write.
Given the number of worldwide cold events, it is no surprise that 2007 didn't turn out to be the warmest ever. In fact, 2007's global temperature was essentially the same as that in 2006 - and 2005, and 2004, and every year back to 2001. The record set in 1998 has not been surpassed. For nearly a decade now, there has been no global warming. Even though atmospheric carbon dioxide continues to accumulate - it's up about 4 percent since 1998 - the global mean temperature has remained flat. That raises some obvious questions about the theory that CO2 is the cause of climate change.

Yet so relentlessly has the alarmist scenario been hyped, and so disdainfully have dissenting views been dismissed, that millions of people assume Gore must be right when he insists: "The debate in the scientific community is over."

But it isn't. Just last month, more than 100 scientists signed a strongly worded open letter pointing out that climate change is a well-known natural phenomenon, and that adapting to it is far more sensible than attempting to prevent it. Because slashing carbon dioxide emissions means retarding economic development, they warned, "the current UN approach of CO2 reduction is likely to increase human suffering from future climate change rather than to decrease it."

Climate science isn't a religion, and those who dispute its leading theory are not heretics. Much remains to be learned about how and why climate changes, and there is neither virtue nor wisdom in an emotional rush to counter global warming - especially if what's coming is a global Big Chill.

Jeff Jacoby's e-mail address is jacoby@globe.com.

© Copyright 2008 The New York Times Company

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Leigh Dayton, Science writer | January 22, 2008

AN active volcano has been found under Antarctica's rapidly melting western ice sheet.

Although it has not erupted for more than 2000 years, heat from the geologically active Hudson Mountains Subglacial Volcano helps explain why nearby Pine Island Glacier shrinks by more than a kilometre every year, British scientists claim.

The discovery follows reports last week that Antarctica's ice cap is melting faster than previously believed.

According to those findings, the greatest loss was from the West Antarctic Ice Sheet and the Antarctic Peninsula. Together, they lost nearly 200billion tonnes of ice in 2006 alone.

Glaciologists Hugh Corr and David Vaughan of the British Antarctic Survey in Cambridge claim the discovery of the first known subglacial volcanic eruption promises to improve predictions of future sea-level rise caused by the melting of the WAIS.

"We believe this was the biggest eruption in Antarctica during the last 10,000 years," Dr Corr said. "It blew a substantial hole in the ice sheet and generated a plume of ash and gas that rose around 12km."

The team identified a large layer of volcanic ash in the ice.

Additional evidence for the eruption came from ice cores collected across the continent.

Writing in Nature Geoscience, Dr Corr and Dr Vaughan suggested the increased heat from the eruption, which they dated to 325BC, led to melting of the surrounding and overlying ice which, in turn, increased the flow rate of nearby glaciers.

The original article.

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This is a primary reason I am supporting Ron Paul for the presidency of the U.S.of A.

Ron Paul is the only non-CFR candidate in either party running for President.

Labels: constitution, global, politics, world gov'ment

Devvy Kidd, the inimitable researcher on NewsWithViews, reveals an excellent link to the problems with NAFTA, CAFTA and the NAU [North American Union].

See and hear about the demise of the U. S. A.

Labels: China, constitution, global, kansas city politics, world gov'ment

Such stalwards as Algore, RFKJunior (a reknowed spewer of Marxist propaganda) and Greenpeace activists keep repeating the lie that global warming is caused by mankind. Nonsense. See John Stossel rebuke the Goebbels like lies here.

Labels: global, world gov'ment

A true view in Bill Steigerwald's column today:

In the great, never-cooling debate over the causes and consequences of global warming, it’s always clear whose side Fred Singer is on: not Al Gore’s. Singer, who was born in Vienna in 1924, was a pioneer in the development of rocket and satellite technology and holds a Ph.D. in physics from Princeton. Now president of the Science & Environmental Policy Project research group (sepp.org), his latest book (with Dennis Avery) is “Unstoppable Global Warming Every 1,500 Years.” I talked with Singer on Oct. 27 by phone from his offices in Arlington, VA.

Read the whole interview Q&A here.

Labels: global

NEWS FLASH:

Chavez is NOW getting a Russian Weapons Factory built by Putin. The RUSSIANS are building an AK-47 Kalashnikov Assault Rifle factory in Venezuela , to give armament support to Communist Rebel groups throughout the Americas.

Chavez NOW has IRANIANS operating his oil refineries in Venezuela for him. It is likely only a matter of time, if not already, before Chavez has Iranian built LONG RANGE missiles, with variety of warhead types aimed at: Guess Who?

CITGO is NOW in the process of Changing Its Name to PETRO EXPRESS due to the loss of gasoline sales in the USA due to the recent publicity of ownership by Chavez of Venezuela

Every dollar you spend with CITGO or PETRO EXPRESS gasoline will be used against you, your basic human rights, and your freedoms. He will start wars here in the Americas that will probably be the death of millions.

Labels: global, politics

By Geoff Metcalf
August 14, 2007
NewsWithViews.com

"All warfare is based on deception.” --Sun Tzu The recent Chinese refutation of speculation they intend to use a massive sell-off of U.S. dollar holdings is deception. It is at best disingenuous…at worst, classic Sun Tzu.

China has $1.3-Trillion in foreign exchange reserves and is the largest in the world. The presumption is that the bulk of those massive reserves is in U.S. dollars and represents a double edge sword of Damocles.

The Chicoms are not yet equal to the U.S. in military might (although they are intent at working their plan to correct that). However, as I have stated many times before, the future preparation of the battlefield by the communist Red Chinese will not consist of just rockets and bombs.

Recently, Britain’s The Daily Telegraph quoted Chicom economists as saying China would dump its dollar holdings if or when there were a trade war with Washington. That Scribean (or Machiavellian) slip of the tongue added significantly to the hinkiness on Wall Street already angst ridden by volatility in U.S. share markets.

The China threat is very real and in many ways far more dangerous and ominous that the contemporary dangers of Islamic fundamentalist terrorism.
• China intends to go to war with us eventually
o They have said so repeatedly.
o Their actions militarily and economically have been in support of their agenda.

• China is meticulously working their plan to correct their military and strategic deficiencies.
o China has control of the Panama Canal and both ends of the channel.
o China is routinely undermining US interests whenever and wherever they can.
o China’s satellite technology (abetted by the Clinton administration) is preparing for preparing the battlefield.
o China’s cyber warfare capacities are significant and growing.
o China has us by the short hairs over the value of the dollar and currency markets worldwide.

I have said it time, Again, Again, and will continue to beat the drum.

Washington has pointed to China's growing reserves as proof that the Chinese currency is undervalued, making Chinese exports cheap, putting American manufacturers at a disadvantage and compounding a hefty U.S. trade deficit. Recently there have been renewed calls by several U.S. senators to punish Beijing if it does not let the currency, the yuan, rise in value. We are being ‘rope-a-doped’ by Chicom money managers.

Communist China, has been, is, and will remain, an enemy of the United States.
Despite the occasion mixed or contradictory messages, China isn't really even being all that covert about their intentions anymore. China is an enemy because they say so.

Sun Tzu declared in "The Art of War," "Attack when they are unprepared, make your move when they do not expect it . . . So a military force is established by deception, mobilized by gain, and adapted by division and combination."

Confusius said, "If you know, to recognize that you know, if you don't know, to realize that you don't know: That is knowledge."
1. China has SAID intend to go to war with us ‘eventually’.
2. We know they have a stranglehold on our economic well being.
3. We know they have been and continue to build their military.
4. We know they have extended and developed significant strategic footholds beyond their territory.
5. We know they are increasing their satellite technology.
6. We know they are increasing their capacity to wage cyber war.
7. We know they have a plan and are working their plan.
Americans may want/need instant gratification. However, Asians tend to not only develop long-term plans — decade-long plans — they also actually work their plans…and China personifies that axiom.

Eventually, inevitably, failing some unlikely policy or political sea change, China will pick a fight with us. They are preparing . . . we are not.
• China intends to attack Taiwan if or when Taiwan attempts to declare independence.
• Within 15 years Communist China will control over 80 percent of the South China Sea.
• Within three years (2010) China will have a navy FIVE TIMES LARGER THAN OURS.
If you throw in the economic collapse card, mixed with a strategic biological attack, added to global isolation and trade sanctions, the U.S. would be S.O.L. (simply out of luck) when the Red Dragon decided to roll out the bombers and tanks.

Over a decade ago students at the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island, played out a ‘war game’ in a 2010 environment that resulted in the U.S. Seventh Fleet being crushed by China.

China IS a for-real, you damnbetcha threat.

© 2007 Geoff Metcalf - All Rights Reserved
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"Geoff Metcalf is a nationally syndicated radio talk show host for TALK AMERICA and a veteran media performer. He has had an eclectic professional background covering a wide spectrum of radio, television, magazine, and newspapers. A former Green Beret and retired Army officer he is in great demand as a speaker.

Geoff's Web Site: www.geoffmetcalf.com E-mail: geoff@geoffmetcalf.com

Labels: China, global

What do Muslims want? What do the Qu'ran and other Islamic texts actually say? Where does the truth lie? The use of the description Islamofascist is false*. The use of of the description Islamofanatic is probably an understatement. In any case, those who subscribe to Islam should just be called Muslim. Watch the following and your mental image when you hear or read those words may be more accurate. Shalom. Pax.

Islam - What the West needs to know

Part 1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGLqYtSqG30
Part 2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3SSmrEQExU
Part 3 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aieh72qt6_g
Part 4 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8KMc_9AtC0
Part 5 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyFlXLED_7I
Part 6 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LA-rgucX-qk
Part 7 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnX_lHtApms
Part 8 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyX1vBES0Vk
Part 9 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujgzBjI97wg
Part 10- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vSvbd5sfZ4

The Jihad [LtCol Ollie North, USMC (Ret) on FoxNews]

Of course, FauxNews does support the neocon war hawks. Ollie just doesn't wish to tell the correct story. His view and reasoning appears flawed. Nevertheless, the threat to the Judæo-Christian West faces from Islam is real.


Part 1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pz1gQdJ0u5I
Part 2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rF6frYjcepE
Part 3 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiGKOzT2JIE
Part 4 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRJtyCJNfl8
Part 5 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4UUaKoARVg
Part 6 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvxrvJc-oKg

* Fascism is truly defined as the merged efforts of government and corporations to control the world.

Labels: global, islam

Richard S. Lindzen, the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, says in the 04/16/2007 issue of Newsweek International:

What most commentators—and many scientists—seem to miss is that the only thing we can say with certainly about climate is that it changes. The earth is always warming or cooling by as much as a few tenths of a degree a year; periods of constant average temperatures are rare. Looking back on the earth's climate history, it's apparent that there's no such thing as an optimal temperature—a climate at which everything is just right. The current alarm rests on the false assumption not only that we live in a perfect world, temperaturewise, but also that our warming forecasts for the year 2040 are somehow more reliable than the weatherman's forecast for next week.

Aha! A true scientist whose specialty is the climate. Those who believe they are politically correct attack him with fallacious ad hominem statements. What else is new, eh?

Criminy! Just checked out Clayton Cramer's blog and find he and I are thinking together. That's not unusual. However, Clayton is usually more articulate than I.

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Comments? Posted by Jacq' @ 4/09/2007 02:07:00 PM