and you were worried about global warming?


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NASA tracks objects at least 3,300 feet in diameter, that could wipe out most life on Earth, much like what is theorized to have happened to dinosaurs 65 million years ago.(NASA Photo)


"A killer asteroid whose target is Earth will likely go undetected because NASA doesn't have the funds to find it, media reported Tuesday. NASA officials say the space agency is capable of finding nearly all the asteroids that mightdestroy Earth, but the priceto find at least 90 percent of the 20,000 potentially hazardous asteroids and comets by 2020 would be about 1 billion U.S. dollars, according to a report NASA will release later this week. The report was previewed Monday at a Planetary Defense Conference in Washington. Congress in 2005 asked NASA to devise a plan to track most killer asteroids and propose how to deflect the potentially catastrophic ones. "We know what to do, we just don't have the money," said Simon "Pete" Worden, director of NASA's Ames Research Center. Theseasteroidsare a threat even if they don't hit Earth because if they explode while close enough -- an event caused by heating in both the rock and the atmosphere -- the devastation from the shockwaves is still immense. The explosion alone could have with the power of 100 million tons of dynamite, enough to devastate a state the size of Maryland. The agency is already keeping track of objectsat least about 1,100 meter in diameter that could wipe out most life on Earth, much like what is theorized to have happened to dinosaurs 65 million years ago. But even that search, which has located 769 asteroids and comets -- none of which is on course to hit Earth -- is behind schedule. It's supposed to be complete by the end of next year. NASA needs ................... "



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Where's Bruce Willis when you need him? Hey Ben, can you leave mommy Jennifer Garner for a minute....

Why bother with NASA funds when about half the High Schools on earth are equipped to do the same thing and aside from thestudents are the thousands of astronomers constantly watching the heavens.
No way any thing sneaks up on us regardless of NASA's tactics.
And for the Al Gore haters I challange you to find a better compilation and presented statement of facts that has been done by anyone else on this earth.. Rent and watch his film it before the critismns. And remember, this guy has been concentrating on this possible calamity since he was in College and as a junior Congressman.
He's no "Johnny come lately" on the envireament bandwagon.
"The Shrub" however, has had his head in the sand since ? (how old is he?)

well, what i was thinking was the waste of funds on the diapers
for all those insane lovers ... dont you agree ?



ORIGINAL: hyperion

Why bother with NASA funds when about half the High Schools on earth are equipped to do the same thing and aside from thestudents are the thousands of astronomers constantly watching the heavens.
No way any thing sneaks up on us regardless of NASA's tactics.
And for the Al Gore haters I challange you to find a better compilation and presented statement of facts that has been done by anyone else on this earth.. Rent and watch his film it before the critismns. And remember, this guy has been concentrating on this possible calamity since he was in College and as a junior Congressman.
He's no "Johnny come lately" on the envireament bandwagon.
"The Shrub" however, has had his head in the sand since ? (how old is he?)

Honestly, I didn't bother to read even one sentence of that cir***stance. Goes on in the business world constantly. Don't you ever watch any of the old "Law and Order's?"
Only thing that got that story off front page was Anna Nicole.
What's next?

Britney Spears, rehab and to come suicide attemtps?

or

how about the Fadhel Al-Maliki, a 35-year-old Iraqi national
that was stopped at LAX yesterday with the rectum wires and
misc objects in a flight to Philadelphia ? During questioning,
Al-Maliki said the objects in his rectum were from another planet.




ORIGINAL: hyperion


What's next?

Hope they immersed him in the Pacific for a couple of hours just to "make sure!"

My 2 cents on the envionment. After fishing in the everglades last week and the keys yesterday my kid and her kids (if she ever has any) don't have a lot to look forward to. Humans are pigs and destroy everything. The glades are a mess and the keys are being over built as I write this. Pissed off that one day I will be telling stories of what once was rather than showing where I used to play. Even dogs don't **** where they eat, humans do.

Sincerely,

Angry

gotta tell you, this open borders policy and amnesty policy
problem of the past three decades is not getting any better.

BOTH parties are for
votes .. votes .. votes ..
give .. give .. give

the sytem is broken, badly ...


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did you hear about the autobahn ?

the German govt has buckled and to do their part in reducing global warming,
they are now implementing speed limits on the autobahn as a whole.

soon, no stretch of the road will be showing the usual "advisory limit" but
will show "mandatory limit"

when you were in H.S., what was the US population?
what is it now?
when Sam turns 40 what will the population be?

the Darwin principles are now being over ridden with
feelings of compassion and the genes that wouldnt
have been passed down are prolifirating.

add to that the Islamic practice of multiple wives
and 50+ children per family,

something has got to break.




ORIGINAL: G.A.R.Y.

My 2 cents on the envionment. After fishing in the everglades last week and the keys yesterday my kid and her kids (if she ever has any) don't have a lot to look forward to. Humans are pigs and destroy everything. The glades are a mess and the keys are being over built as I write this. Pissed off that one day I will be telling stories of what once was rather than showing where I used to play. Even dogs don't **** where they eat, humans do.

Sincerely,

Angry

I have moved within the last few years to the detroit metro area, having grown up in a small town south west of pittsburgh, pa. I lived in the city (of pittsburgh) for 6 years around college, and then moved home to help around the house when my dad got sick. while i didnt like living in the middle of no where at my parents house (half hour to the nearest gas station), moving to the detroit area made me appreciate that area. when i lived there, i didnt think twice about leaving the keys to my bmw in the car, in the driveway. i would park the car near the road, maybe 20-25 yards from the front door, and leave the keys in the ignition...and not worry about it for a second. it was quiet at night and it smelled nice...as odd as that may sound. however, i never realized any of this until i moved to michigan. the roads here are crap, the area is filthy and smells bad, and crime is ridiculous. if i have to get out of my car to run into the house, i am my alarm. i live far enough north of detroit that we arent near the ghetto, as we live in a "nice area" of michigan, but the crime is drifting north from the city.

im far more concerned about the over-population and the filth of certain areas than i am the state of the atmosphere. That probably sounds awful, but the warnings that i hear about with global warning will not effect the US that heavily; it was only caused things like fresh water to cost more.

As for something from space slamming into the earth, there really much that i can do about that, so i dont worry about it.

Patrick,

what are we to do? that sex thing just doesnt quit.

I dont know. Im an american taxpayer...I dont have solutions...just complaints.:D

Send cropdusters packed full of airborne birth control mist over the highest growth regions, especially the low-income areas of the US...

Seriously though, the area in which I live is about 40% hardcore white trash, which is why I lock my doors. Sitting on my porch last summer, I heard the neighbor's (single mother, three high school age kids...the police are there at least once a week) daughter who is around 16, bragging about how she was pregnant, and her ****ty little friends were very excited for her. Some how, urban culture has made it trendy for kids, to have kids. Thisgirl was really pleased,although the police have come to their house for this girl standingin their front yard, screaming back and forth with some kid that i assume is her baby's daddy, so i cant imagine that its going to be a good life for that baby.

I dont know if there is something in the water, or what, but around here, its AMAZING if a girl makes it to 18 without getting knocked up, and it has turned into some sort of status symbol.

They need to start a program requiring birth control for girls until they turn 18...at which point they are adults, and are responsible for themselves. That way, you dont have kids rasing kids, with the (now) grandparents left to raise two kids who are 16 years apart. If the parent didnt do a good job of raising the first kid, there isnt much chance of the pair of them doing a good job of raising the new kid, and that is where the problematic overpopulation is coming from.

My views are egocentric...yes.

Global Warming Expedition to North Pole Cancelled Due to Cold and Frostbite
AP, March 12, 2007

" ..... explorers, Ann Bancroft and Liv Arnesen, on Saturday called off what was intended to be a 530-mile trek across the Arctic Ocean after Arnesen suffered frostbite in three of her toes, and extreme cold temperatures drained the batteries in some of their electronic equipment."Ann said losing toes and going forward at all costs was never part of the journey," said Ann Atwood, who helped organize the expedition.

Then there was the cold - quite a bit colder, Atwood said, then Bancroft and Arnesen had expected. One night they measured the temperature inside their tent at 58 degrees below zero, and outside temperatures were exceeding 100 below zero at times, Atwood said.

She said Bancroft and Arnesen were applying hot water bottles to Arnesen's foot every night, but had to wake up periodically because the bottles froze.

The explorers had planned to call in regular updates to school groups by satellite phone, and had planned online posts with photographic evidence of global warming. In contrast to Bancroft's 1986 trek across the Arctic with fellow Minnesota explorer Will Steger, this time she and Arnesen were prepared to don body suits and swim through areas where polar ice has melted.

"They were experiencing temperatures that weren't expected with global warming," Atwood said.
"But one of the things we see with global warming is unpredictability." ..."








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Mars Melt Hints at Solar, Not Human, Cause for Warming
Kate Ravilious
for National Geographic News (http://news.nationalgeographic.com/)
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Simultaneous warming on Earth and Mars suggests that our planet's recent climate changes have a natural—and not a human-induced—cause, according to one scientist's controversial theory.
Earth is currently experiencing rapid warming, which the vast majority of climate scientists says is due to humans pumping huge amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.


Mars, too, appears to be enjoying more mild and balmy temperatures. In 2005 data from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor and Odyssey missions revealed that the carbon dioxide "ice caps" near Mars's south pole had been diminishing for three summers in a row.
Habibullo Abdussamatov, head of space research at St. Petersburg's Pulkovo Astronomical Observatory in Russia, says the Mars data is evidence that the current global warming on Earth is being caused by changes in the sun.
"The long-term increase in solar irradiance is heating both Earth and Mars," he said.

Solar Cycles Abdussamatov believes that changes in the sun's heat output can account for almost all the climate changes we see on both planets.

Mars and Earth, for instance, have experienced periodic ice ages throughout their histories. "Man-made greenhouse warming has made a small contribution to the warming seen on Earth in recent years, but it cannot compete with the increase in solar irradiance," Abdussamatov said.
By studying fluctuations in the warmth of the sun, Abdussamatov believes he can see a pattern that fits with the ups and downs in climate we see on Earth and Mars.







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Waxman hearing
19 Mar 2007


Rep. Henry Waxman's Oversight Committee (http://oversight.house.gov/) has another go
as the subject of "Allegations of Political Interference with the
Work of Government Climate Change Scientists." the following folks testify:

Philip Cooney, former chief of staff for the White House Council on Environmental Quality;
James Hansen, director of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies in the National Aeronautics and Space Administration;
George Deutsch, former public affairs officer for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration;
James Connaughton, chairman of the White House Council on Environmental Quality;
Roy Spencer of the University of Alabama in Huntsville.

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Interview with Dr. Roy Spencer
by James K. Glassman (http://www.capmag.com/author.asp?name=17) (September14,2005)

Dr. Roy Spencer is a principal research scientist for University of Alabama in Huntsville. In the past, he has served as Senior Scientist for Climate Studies at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, where he directed research into the development and application of satellite passive microwave remote sensing techniques for measuring global temperature, water vapor, and precipitation. He currently is the U.S. Science Team Leader for the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer (AMSR-E) on NASA's Aqua satellite.

James Glassman:
Do you reject the idea that Katrina was in any way manmade?

Dr. Roy Spencer:
Well, yes. I think that’s an irresponsible position to take. Certainly, the previous huge hurricanes that we had in the 20’s, 30’s, 40’s, 50’s, didn’t have anything to do with mankind’s production of CO2 because we hadn’t produced very much by then, and I find it just irresponsible that anyone would claim that this hurricane was caused by global warming.

Glassman:
You know, I was looking at the National Hurricane Center’s website and they list the 10 most intense hurricanes by barometric pressure. I know you feel we should take those numbers with a grain of salt; but still, these are clearly very intense hurricanes in American history. Now we add Katrina to that. We’ve got 11. Five of these hurricanes occurred between 1900 and 1935 and only two of them have occurred since 1969. I’m just wondering whether there is any evidence that the intensity of storms is increasing in the United States.

Spencer:
Well, that brings up a good point – and that is that there is a known natural cycle in hurricane activity. We have been going through a lull in activity for about the past 20 or 30 years. Hurricane Andrew of 1992 was the early wake-up call that we were heading back into a period of greater hurricane frequency. Indeed, as you mentioned, the 1930’s, ‘40’s, ‘50’s – these were the peak periods that had some very intense hurricanes, but of course, there was very little development along the coasts back then. We’re not seeing anything that different from what occurred 40 or 50 or 60 years ago – which is we’re back now into a more active part of the natural hurricane cycle.

Glassman:
Do you think that there is personal or even governmental responsibility that was shirked here? I mean, this was a storm where the weather service did predict, almost within inches, where it was going to hit.

Spencer:
Yes, this storm was well predicted. The problem we have though is that people get used to getting warnings about hurricane hits. ................................


.............. more here, but center truncated ....................


Glassman:
And certainly the estimates of the economic cost of the Kyoto Protocol going into effect really could set back the efforts of developing countries to acquire the kind of wealth that would in some degree mitigate some of the terrible loss of life and property as a result of natural disasters that are just going to occur.

Spencer:
Yes, I agree completely. Little Band-Aid solutions like the Kyoto Protocol aren’t going to do enough to have any measurable impact on global warming in the future-- no matter what you believe global warming is going to be in the future. Maybe we should be looking more seriously at technological solutions to the problem. That indeed is what the current administration has been advocating most recently.

Glassman:
Thank you, Dr. Roy Spencer. Spencer:
Thank you, Jim.
First appeared in Tech Central Station.

The Kyoto Protocol was negotiated in December of 1997 giving the Clinton-Gore administration more than three years to present the Protocol to the United States Senate for ratification. they did not. the US has not ratified the Kyoto Protocal as of this posting.

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The Kyoto Protocol is an agreement made under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Framework_Convention_on_Climate_Cha nge). Countries (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countries) that ratify (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratify) this protocol (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protocol_%28treaty%29) commit to reduce their emissions of carbon dioxide (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_dioxide) and five other greenhouse gases (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_gas), or engage in emissions trading (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emissions_trading) if they maintain or increase emissions of these gases.
The Kyoto Protocol now covers more than 160 countries globally and over 55% of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. At its heart, the Kyoto Protocol establishes the following principles:
Kyoto is underwritten by governments and is governed by global legislation enacted under the UN’s (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations) aegis Governments are separated into two general categories: developed countries, referred to as Annex I countries (who have accepted GHG emission reduction obligations and must submit an annual greenhouse gas inventory (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_gas_inventory)); and developing countries, referred to as Non-Annex I countries (who have no GHG emission reduction obligations but may participate in the Clean Development Mechanism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_Development_Mechanism)). Any Annex I country that fails to meet its Kyoto obligation will be penalized by having to submit 1.3 emission allowances in a second commitment period for every ton of GHG emissions they exceed their cap in the first commitment period (i.e, 2008-2012). By 2008-2012, Annex I countries have to reduce their GHG emissions by an average of 5% below their 1990 levels (for many countries, such as the EU (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union) member states, this corresponds to some 15% below their expected GHG emissions in 2008). While the average emissions reduction is 5%, national limitations range from 8% reductions for the European Union to a 10% emissions increase for Iceland (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iceland). Reduction limitations expire in 2013. Kyoto includes "flexible mechanisms" which allow Annex I economies to meet their GHG emission limitation by purchasing GHG emission reductions from elsewhere. These can be bought either from financial exchanges (such as the new EU Emissions Trading Scheme (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_Emission_Trading_Scheme)) or from projects which reduce emissions in non-Annex I economies under the Clean Development Mechanism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_Development_Mechanism) (CDM), or in other Annex-1 countries under the JI. Only CDM Executive Board-accredited Certified Emission Reductions (CER) can be bought and sold in this manner. Under the aegis of the UN, Kyoto established this Bonn-based (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonn) Clean Development Mechanism Executive Board to assess and approve projects (“CDM Projects�) in Non-Annex I economies prior to awarding CERs. (A similar scheme called “Joint Implementation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Implementation)� or “JI� applies in transitional economies mainly covering the former Soviet Union (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-Soviet_States) and Eastern Europe (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Europe)).

the politicians and the media keep feeding the masses their twisted truth
and the masses walk around in ignorance .. this thread is meant to be
an education w/o minimal commentary from the poster ...

so read on .. actual observations and published docs..

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Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth"

"Gore discusses glacial and snowpack retreats atop Mt. Kilimanjaro, implying that human induced global warming is to blame. But Gore fails to mention that the snows of Kilimanjaro have been retreating for more than 100 years, largely due to declining atmospheric moisture, not global warming. Gore does not acknowledge the two major articles on the subject published in 2004 in the International Journal of Climatology and the Journal of Geophysical Research showing that modern glacier retreat on Kilimanjaro was initiated by a reduction in precipitation at the end of the nineteenth century

Gore's conclusions are based on showing near constant global temperatures for 1,000 years with a sharp increase in temperature from 1900 onward. The record Gore chooses in the film completely ignores the Medieval Warm Period of 1,000 years ago and Little Ice Age that started 500 years ago and ended just over 100 years ago. Evidence throughout the world shows these climate episodes existed, but on Gore's opinion, they become nothing more than insignificant fluctuations
(Gore even jokes at one point about the Medieval Warm period).

Gore claims that sea level rise could drown the Pacific islands, Florida, major cities the world over, and the 9/11 Memorial in New York City. No mention is made of the fact that sea level has been rising at a rate of 1.8 mm per year for the past 8,000 years"






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fear and money.

scientists know where the grants will come from to pay their salaries. Dr. Patrick Michaels, a leading opponent to the global warming scaremongers, calls it the federal/science paradigm. He describes it this way: Tax $ = Grants = Positive Feedback Loop to Get more Grants.
Says Dr. Michaels, "What worker bee scientist is going to write a proposal saying that global warming is exaggerated and he doesn’t need the money? Certainly no one wanting advancement in the agency! There is no alternative to this process when paradigms compete with each other for finite funding." The only ones who can openly oppose the party line of the day are those who don’t need the grants or who have some other source of funding. There aren’t many.
The money is in catastrophic global warming because it’s being pushed by a political agenda that wants power. Power in Washington. Power on the international stage. Power over economic development. Power over international monetary decisions. Power over energy. In short, power over the motor of the world. It’s driven by literally thousands of large and small non-governmental organizations (NGOs) sanctioned by the United Nations, and implemented by a horde of bureaucrats, university academics and an ignorant but pliable news media.
Case in point. The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) used to publish the journal Science. Since 2000, it has published roughly 75 commentaries which have supported the idea that global warming is a serious problem requiring massive solutions. Now, the AAAS acts as a massive lobbying operation pushing this agenda. Taxpayers have now provided $20 billion into the scientific community for global warming work.
Moreover, Science and its British counterpart Nature won’t publish articles to the contrary of the agenda. If a scientist wants the prestige of being published, then he must carry the catastrophic global warming banner.
According to Dr. Michaels, this is how it works: "They take a little truth and distort it or study it into a lot of revenue for them. Them = Academia + Environmental non governmental organizations + private scientific fields + Government + all the associated public and private organizations supporting this shell."
Concludes Dr. Michaels in his landmark book, Meltdown, "This junk science works for the fish movement, smart growth, sustaining development, rapid transit, wet lands, critical areas, water rights, property rights, fossil fuels, logging, justifying huge government and environmental land wildlife corridor buy ups with public money, changing regulatory laws, changing high court opinions, escalating enforcement codes, on and on." It’s all thrown into the offering plate as the taxpayer sits in the pew of the Church of Global Warming.





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now, it is MY PLEASURE to present Al Gore
March 21, 2007

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yo7rmajxxnc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLW2T3QgJc0 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yo7rmajxxnc)

"While environmentalists complain about the melting of the polar ice caps,
one group of Greenlanders is making the best of the situation.

An entrepreneurial company is turning the melted Arctic Island ICE into beer.

The first ever Inuit microbrewery is taking the fine, over 2,000 years old and pollutant-free water.
According to the brewers, the ale tastes cleaner and smoother than other beers.
The first 66,000 liters are on their way to Denmark, and the brewery says the
US and Germany have expressed interest in the product. This smooth beer
costs about five euros or $6.4 per half-litre bottle.
Denmark is reported as being the happiest nation in the world."

Thanks for posting this. I was up in the city yesterday and missed it and the media seems to be ignoring it. I had a pretty good idea that I had voted for the wrong guy in 2000 but it helps to know that it wasn't my fault for todays mess becausemy whole state went for the better man..
I would sure vote for this guy today and especially over the group that we will be given a choice.of.
I don't think there is any argument to the evidence now compiled and I'm glad I won't be here in 34 years to see if this guy is telling the truth.
I have to admit I was impressed with the movie that did such a remarkable job of putting all these facts together in such a startling manner. So much so that I have purchased a copy and have lent it to just about everyone I know.

gloval warming solved ....
100% dino fuel, no hybrid
100mpg, 0 to 60 in 15 sec

two-passenger convertible car by Jory Squibb




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ok .. we finally got proof


http://www.cadillacforum.com/upfiles/3799/317AD6001FFB4B9D82C537BCFB2D8B8A.jpg


local://upfiles/3799/317AD6001FFB4B9D82C537BCFB2D8B8A.jpg




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Now we have a fix ..




In a campaign that has spread like wildfire across the Internet, a group of Israeli environmentalists is encouraging Jews around the world to light at least one less candle this Hanukka to help the environment.


The founders of the ************** campaign found that every candle that burns completely produces 15 grams of carbon dioxide. If an estimated one million Israeli households light for eight days, they said, it would do significant damage to the atmosphere.


"The campaign calls for Jews around the world to save the last candle and save the planet, so we won't need another miracle," said ********, the campaign's cofounder, who runs the *** environmental consulting firm and the ***** environmental forum.

"Global warming is a milestone in human evolution that requires us to rethink how we live our lives, and one of the main paradigms of that is religion and how it fits into the current situation."




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The 2008 Smart Fortwo Brabus Xclusive

the Brabus will scurry to 100 km/h (62 mph) in just 9.9 seconds, while the top speed is electronically limited to 95 mph. Given its diminutive size, the sensation of speed is magnified and the Brabus feels just fast enough to induce a giggle.

On the European driving cycle, the Brabus gets 54.3 mpg

The price, in Germany $27,900 in coupe form and $32,100 in cabriolet guise.
the Brabus' is premium over the standard Smart Passion at $13,600 and the standard cabriolet at $16,600.


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Isn't Penske establishing dealerships to peddle (figuratively) The "smart car" designed by mercedes and made in France shortly after the first of the year. Looks much like the Brabus andprices all models around $11,000.
And about those candles and carbon dioxide. My wife always keeps some "Yankee" candles in the kitchen to "wipe" away odors.
Don't really know the principal, only that it works on "sauerkraut."

I also hear candles work on tobacco, mary.j., flatulence, etc ...

speeking of this gore guy..... check this out http://www.snopes.com/politics/bush/house.asp hows this for saving the enviroment?

Rick,

thanks for posting this .. Al Gore is accepting the Nobel Prize today ...



ORIGINAL: rickyd

speeking of this gore guy..... check this out

http://www.snopes.com/politics/bush/house.asp hows this for saving the enviroment?
The email

LOOK OVER THE DESCRIPTIONS OF THE FOLLOWING TWO HOUSES AND SEE IF YOU CAN TELL WHICH BELONGS TO AN ENVIRONMENTALIST.

HOUSE # 1:

A 20-room mansion (not including 8 bathrooms) heated by natural gas. Add on a pool (and a pool house) and a separate guest house all heated by gas. In ONE MONTH ALONE this mansion consumes more energy than the average American household in an ENTIRE YEAR. The average bill for electricity and natural gas runs over $2,400.00 per month. In natural gas alone (which last time we checked was a fossil fuel), this property consumes more than 20 times the national average for an American home. This house is not in a northern or Midwestern "snow belt," either. It's in the South.

HOUSE # 2:

Designed by an architecture professor at a leading national university, this house incorporates every "green" feature current home construction can provide. The house contains only 4,000 square feet (4 bedrooms) and is nestled on arid high prairie in the American southwest. A central closet in the house holds geothermal heat pumps drawing ground water through pipes sunk 300 feet into the ground. The water (usually 67 degrees F.) heats the house in winter and cools it in summer. The system uses no fossil fuels such as oil or natural gas, and it consumes 25% of the electricity required for a conventional heating/cooling system. Rainwater from the roof is collected and funneled into a 25,000 gallon underground cistern. Wastewater from showers, sinks and toilets goes into underground purifying tanks and then into the cistern. The collected water then irrigates the land surrounding the house. Flowers and shrubs native to the area blend the property into the surrounding rural landscape.

HOUSE # 1 (20 room energy guzzling mansion) is outside of Nashville, Tennessee. It is the abode of that renowned environmentalist (and filmmaker) Al Gore.

HOUSE # 2 (model eco-friendly house) is on a ranch near Crawford, Texas. Also known as "the Texas White House," it is the private residence of the President of the United States, George W. Bush.

So whose house is gentler on the environment? Yet another story you WON'T hear on CNN, CBS, ABC, NBC, MSNBC or read about in the New York Times or the Washington Post. Indeed, for Mr. Gore, it's truly "an inconvenient truth."




snopes
Glass Houses Claim: E-mail compares George W. Bush's eco-friendly ranch with Al Gore's energy-expending mansion.

Status: True.

Example: [Collected via e-mail, 2007]


According to the Associated Press,

the Gore's 10,000 square foot Belle Meade residence consumes electricity at a rate of about 12 times the average for a typical house in Nashville (191,000 kwh versus 15,600 kwh). While there are mitigating factors (further discussed in our article about the Gore household's energy use (http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/gorehome.asp)), this is still a surprising number, given that the residence is approximately four times the size of the average new American home.


The Prairie Chapel Ranch ranch home owned by George W. Bush in Crawford, Texas, was designed by Austin architect David Heymann, an associate dean for undergraduate programs at the University of Texas School of Architecture. As the Chicago Tribune described the house in a 2001 article: The 4,000-square-foot house is a model of environmental rectitude.

Geothermal heat pumps located in a central closet circulate water through pipes buried 300 feet deep in the ground where the temperature is a constant 67 degrees; the water heats the house in the winter and cools it in the summer. Systems such as the one in this "eco-friendly" dwelling use about 25% of the electricity that traditional heating and cooling systems utilize.

A 25,000-gallon underground cistern collects rainwater gathered from roof runs; wastewater from sinks, toilets and showers goes into underground purifying tanks and is also funneled into the cistern. The water from the cistern is used to irrigate the landscaping surrounding the four-bedroom home. Plants and flowers native to the high prairie area blend the structure into the surrounding ecosystem.

This isn't meant to be "sour grapes" but when G Bush was building his home just about everyone with a buck was doing all the same. I had a set of drawings in 82 that had all these offerings but we didn't build. Not allowed to use a tin roof in the sub-division we moved into. All these things make the house much "cheaper" to live in. A lot of friends of mine in Connecticut have added these systems in their new homes. The well water and heat pumps are very sucessfull anywhere since the well water pumped up is always about 55 degrees.
You might find (since snopes articles never stated) that Gores home may be 100 years old.

Gore and Bush are both politicians and no matter that one of the two is getting a Nobel even for the wrong reason, who has done the most Damage to our country and least deserves to be mentioned?
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.Strange in all the articlesno mention of a swimming pool on Grorge Bushes ranch and I'm sure if he didn't, the U.S. Governmentdid build a pretty good sized "guest house" on the ranch, at least for the secret service. (And I bet it is heated and cooled by a standard Texas "heat pump."
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.You have to be very carefull how you interpret what you see in print nowadays!.
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Of course you only HEAR that it works on mary. j.

i have pictures of these homes, though i'm not sure how to get them into the Forum..... they were sent to me via e-mail...... need some help and i'll make the picture appear..... tx
rick

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natural gas. Add on a pool ( and a pool house) and a separate guest
house, all heated by gas. In one month this residence consumes more
energy than the average American household does in a year. The
average bill for electricity and natural gas runs over $2400. In
natural gas alone, this property consumes more than 20 times the
national average for an American home. This house is not situated
in a Northern or Midwestern "snow belt" area. It's in the South.[/font][/font]
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House #2Designed by an architecture professor at a
leading national university. This house incorporates every
"green" feature current home construction can provide. The house is
4,000 square feet ( 4 bedrooms ) and is nestled on a high prairie in the
American southwest. A central closet in the house holds geothermal
heat-pumps drawing ground water through pipes sunk 300 feet into the
ground. The water (usually 67 degrees F. ) heats the house in the winter
and cools it in the summer. The system us es no fossil fuels such as oil or
natural gas and it consumes one-quarter electricity required for a
conventional heating/cooling system. Rainwater from the roof is collected
and funneled into a 25,000 gallon underground cistern. Wastewater from
showers, sinks and toilets goes into underground purifying tanks and then
into the cistern. The collected water then irrigates the land
surrounding the house. Surrounding flowers and shrubs native to the area
enable the property to blend into the surrounding rural landscape.

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HOUSE #1 is outside of Nashville , Tennessee ; it is the abode of
the "environmentalist" Al Gore.

HOUSE #2 is on a ranch near Crawford , Texas ; it is the residence
[font=arial][color=black]the of the President of the United States , George W. Bush.

An "inconvenient truth".

Exactly what I meant. Do you relly believe that shot is actually a picture today of where The Bushes live and invite other countries heads of state to visit? Think a royal saudi prince would spend the weekend there? The picture shown is only missing a shot of the "outhouse" in the rear under the only tree! And where does George park his Allante, Tractor and pickup?

well, of the two, i like this one the best .... as long as i dont have to mow the lawn, paint the fence, or clean the windows. But i gotta ask .. what is that 4 ft strip between the white fence and the wire fence for?

My whole thing with Gore is his level of hypocracy where he thinks he knows better what is good for us yet doesnt apply to him. Then again, is not that the mark of every Presidential candidate in the past 200 years?



http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff155/rickyd1228/Goreshome.jpg

What have both these multi-millionaires got against "paved" driveways?

zinzin,

paved driveways, specially black top driveways, are for poor folks that cant afford to maintain the gravel and lawns.

It is the "in" thing for such little homes.

http://www.bluejeansplace.com/images/Img590.gif
the gravel driveway
http://www.bluejeansplace.com/images/Img587.gif
the cottage



Before you say, "that's just a gravel driveway", remember "if only the walls could talk..." You're looking down the main house's driveway totheNew York Route 9,on the very spot, about 300 yardsfrom the mansion shown above, where FDR stopped after carrying himself on crutches toproveto himself that polio would not beat him. He went on fromhere to become theGovernor of New York and President of the United States.

And I almost forgot. Horses don't care for pavement.

ORIGINAL: hyperion

Exactly what I meant. Do you relly believe that shot is actually a picture today of where The Bushes live and invite other countries heads of state to visit? Think a royal saudi prince would spend the weekend there? The picture shown is only missing a shot of the "outhouse" in the rear under the only tree! And where does George park his Allante, Tractor and pickup?


thats what his White House is for.... and the day i snapped the picture, goerge and laura were not home, thus, no Allante or pick-up.....hehe..... yes i do believe....gee it wouldn't be on the internet if it wasn't true....hehe
rickyd

you didnt say that you snapped the picture yourself.

do you have others?
are you sure you got the right house?


Another eco-friendly home?
I rather like this one house off Ocala, Florida, better than those other two .. more Presidential looking, dont you think? OK .. who can ID the car?


http://www.flatrock.org.nz/topics/flying/assets/travoltas_house.jpg

Is that travolta's house?

That's got to be John Travoltas home and one of my old airplanes. It was an "extra."

can anyone ID the cars ? ? ?

how about the solar flare ? ? ?

http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/162167main_surface_flare.jpg

Hell na superman with your xray vision!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

hey, do what Al Gore did.
Buy some carbon credits and feel good ..
not that such will change the planet.

http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?from=R40&_trksid=m37&satitle=carbon+cre dits&category0=

ok .. we finally got proof


http://www.cadillacforum.com/upfiles/3799/317AD6001FFB4B9D82C537BCFB2D8B8A.jpg


http://www.benyami.org/Proof%20of%20global%20warming.jpg




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more proof of global warming !


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http://www.benyami.org/Proof%20of%20global%20warming.jpg


http://www.cadillacforum.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=135&d=1245915952 (http://www.cadillacforum.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=135&d=1245915952)

http://newsbusters.org/static/2007/08/2007-08-06GlobalWarming.jpg


http://samuelatgilgal.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/global-warming-hoax.jpg

When did the ice ages occur?
Several ice ages have occurred throughout our planet's history. Major periods of glaciations occurred during the late Proterozoic Era (between 600 and 800 million years ago), during the Pennsylvanian and Permian Eras (between about 250 and 350 million years ago), and the late Neocene to Quaternary Eras (the last 4 million years). Somewhat less extensive glaciations occurred during parts of the Ordovician and Silurian Eras (between about 430 and 460 million years ago). The most recent ice age began about 1.8 million years ago during the Pleistocene Era. During this time, giant ice sheets advanced and retreated many times in North America and Europe.
Recent cycles of advancing and retreating ice sheets have occurred approximately every 100,000 years. Each cycle consists of a long, generally cold period during which the ice sheets slowly reach their maximum size, and a relatively short, warm period during which the ice sheets rapidly retreat.
We are now in a warm period that has lasted more than 10,000 years, which is longer than many of the previous warm intervals. If the pattern of glacial cycles holds true, scientists believe the Earth is soon due for another cold period. In the 1800s, global temperatures began decreasing during a period known as the Little Ice Age. Currently, patterns indicate that the Earth is nearing the end of an interglacial period, meaning that another ice age is predicted in a few thousand years.


http://www.learner.org/courses/essential/earthspace/session6/closer1.html

Feb 8, 2010

Philadelphia and Washington each are about to have their snowiest winters since 1884, the first year records were kept.

The storm hit the Midwest early, closing schools and greeting commuters with slick, slushy roads from Minneapolis and Chicago to Louisville, Ky. Powerful winds and snow were expected to hit Mid-Atlantic states by the afternoon, and could leave as much as 20 inches of new snow in Washington and 18 inches near Philadelphia by Wednesday night.


Parts of the region were already buried under nearly 3 feet of snow.

Feb 01, 2010

Frosted oranges, strawberries encased in ice: the images of Florida’s freezes are familiar, sad and earthy. But just past the crop rows here in the state’s agricultural core, there swims another sizable industry that has suffered more than any other because of this year’s unusually long cold snap — tropical fish.

Workers at Urban Tropical covered ponds with plastic and used nets to remove angelfish that could be salvaged from the cold.

The little guys are dying by the millions.

A severe guppy shortage has already emerged, according to distributors, while fish farmers statewide expect losses of more than 50 percent as African cichlids, marble mollies, danios and other cheerful-looking varieties sink like pebbles to the bottom of freshwater ponds across Florida.


The freezing temperatures have come at the worst possible time. Florida provides about half of the tropical fish sold nationwide (Asia provides most of the rest), and like oranges, the colorful pets sell best in winter.

feb 01, 2010

Waters all around Florida are getting stinky as hundreds of thousands of fish killed by the recent and extended cold weather decompose and float to the surface. From the Panhandle to the Keys, from the Gold Coast north to the First Coast, anglers and fisheries scientists venturing out into chilly bays, estuaries, rivers, canals, and even the open ocean, are finding dead and stunned fish in a wide range of sizes and species, freshwater and saltwater.

From Phil Jones Date: Mon Jan 5 16:18:24 2009

Tim, Chris,
I hope you're not right about the lack of warming lasting
till about 2020. I'd rather hoped to see the earlier Met Office
press release with Doug's paper that said something like -
half the years to 2014 would exceed the warmest year currently on record, 1998!
Still a way to go before 2014.
I seem to be getting an email a week from skeptics saying
where's the warming gone. I know the warming is on the decadal
scale, but it would be nice to wear their smug grins away.

So, it seems, the scientific uncertainty generated by not having good data from the mid-20th century is going to be repeated in the early 21st century



It appears that Mike MacCracken in a message to Phil Jones (and others) is suggesting that raising the acidity of the oceans is not a bad thing. I thought they told us that CO2 was killing the oceans by raising their PH levels? Which is guys, is the increased acidity from CO2 (and SO2) hurting the oceans or not? Sent: 03 January 2009 16:44

That there is a large potential for a cooling influence is sort of evident in the IPCC figure about the present sulfate distribution--most is right over China....Now, I am not at all sure that having more tropospheric sulfate would be a bad idea as it would limit warming--I even have started suggesting that the least expensive and quickest geoengineering approach to limit global warming would be to enhance the sulfate loading--or at the very least we need to maintain the current sulfate cooling offset while we reduce CO2 emissions (and presumably therefore, SO2 emissions, unless we manage things) or we will get an extra bump of warming. Sure, a bit more acid deposition, but it is not harmful over the ocean (so we only/mainly emit for trajectories heading out over the ocean)



Does Mr Phil Jones actually hope that global warming comes back? Of course he does, his funding depends on it! Sent: 05 January 2009

Tim, Chris,
I hope you're not right about the lack of warming lasting
till about 2020. I'd rather hoped to see the earlier Met Office
press release with Doug's paper that said something like -
half the years to 2014 would exceed the warmest year currently on
record, 1998!



From: Mike MacCracken Sent: 03 January 2009 16:44, he seems awfully worried that their hypothesis is wrong as well as their predictions of warming. So a little damage control seems to be in order and they need to come up with an alternative excuse for the cooling.

In any case, if the sulfate hypothesis is
right, then your prediction of warming might end up being wrong. I
think we have been too readily explaining the slow changes over past
decade as a result of variability--that explanation is wearing thin.
I would just suggest, as a backup to your prediction, that you also
do some checking on the sulfate issue, just so you might have a
quantified explanation in case the prediction is wrong. Otherwise,
the Skeptics will be all over us--the world is really cooling, the
models are no good, etc.



Mr. Schneider in response to FOIA and other requests for data. It looks like they'll just use the lawyers to hide any "glitches or unexplained bits of code". Stephen H Schneider is a Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment.
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 10:50:56 -0800 (PST)

It would be odious requirement to have scientists do***ent every line of code...This continuing pattern of harassment, as Ben rightly puts it in my opinion, in the name of due diligence is in my view an attempt to create a fishing expedition to find minor glitches or unexplained bits of code--which exist in nearly all our kinds of complex work...Let the lawyers figure this out...
Cheers, Steve
PS Please do not copy or forward this email.



Quoted text in an email on "Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 11:13:21 -0800" from Phil Jones to Benjamin Santer. Does it bother anyone else that these scientists laughingly "make up statements" to support Obama's "openness in government"?

With free wifi in my room, I've just seen that M+M have
submitted a paper to IJC on your H2 statistic - using more
years, up to 2007. They have also found your PCMDI data -
laughing at the directory name - FOIA? Also they make up
statements saying you've done this following Obama's
statement about openness in government!



In an email message to a Mr. Smith, who is requesting Dr. Santer's modeling code, Dr. Santer rants about Mr. Steve McIntyre (of ClimateAudit) and about Mr. Smith for being critical of him for not releasing his data. So after this long rant he ends it by saying that Mr. Smith doesn't even have his permission to share this email message. This all seems a bit childish for a scientist.
From: Ben Santer To: Smithg Subject: Re: data request
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 09:33:53 -0800

Your email to George Miller and Anna Palmisano was highly critical of my
behavior in this matter. Your criticism was entirely unjustified, and
damaging to my professional reputation. I therefore see no point in
establishing a dialogue with you. Please do not communicate with me in
the future. I do not give you permission to distribute this email or
post it on Mr. McIntyre's blog.



Are they suggesting to fill in Antarctica data gaps with random data in order to have more convincing data for the IPCC?

From: "peter.thorne" To: Phil Jones Subject: Re: Visit to Met Office
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 09:54:16 +0000

Antarctic data first piqued my interest with the Science paper on raobs trends which was clearly non-physical but hard to nail down how wrong it was...

Its clear to me that Antarctica is a uniquely difficult environment to collect long-term homogeneous data in. So I have substantial doubts that all the manned station pegs in Steig et al. are adequate. Does this really matter? I'm not sure.

What Steig et al., satellites, and potentially reanalyses does do is allow us, in principle, at least to get around the no-neighbours issue in assessing homogeneity away from the peninsula. For example we could use a bootstrapping of the Steig et al approach by creating say 50 realisations of each station series using randomly seeded combinations of manned station pegs as the S et al. RegEM constraint (excluding the candidate station) to make a neighbour composite ensemble. We could then add in the available reanalysis field estimates and satellite estimates and make a reasonable punt about the existence and magnitude of any breaks based upon multiple lines of evidence (of course, we lose some of these before 1979 ...). We could use this information to assess in a more rigorous way than has been done to date the homogeneity of these sparse stations. Then cleaned up data could be fed back through Steig et al. afterwards to see how it impacts that analysis making for a nice clean self-contained study...

Of course, this doesn't resolve any fundamental methodological concerns about the S et al. approach that may exist but it does give us a reasonable chance of creating a much more homogeneous READER manned station dataset for next IPCC AR and our future products.



Phil Jones is having problems with the Editor of Weather (a RMS Journal) asking too many questions about his papers and requesting the "raw data" behind the papers. Here in his words to Dr. Ben Santer is the pressure he's exerting against the Editor:

From: Phil Jones To: santer1©xxxxxxxxx.xxx
Subject: Re: See the link below
Date: Thu Mar 19 17:02:53 2009

I'm having a dispute with the new editor of Weather. I've complained about him to the RMS Chief Exec. If I don't get him to back down, I won't be sending any more papers to any RMS journals and I'll be resigning from the RMS.

Here is Ben's reply:

If the RMS is going to require authors to make ALL data available - raw data PLUS
results from all intermediate calculations - I will not submit any further papers to RMS
journals.



Phil Jones 24/06/2009 13:09 to Nick Pepin

I don't want to put off, but there is an awful lot of things
wrong with NCEP/NCAR.
They are probably OK for month-to-month variability, but if you look at some
of the figures in Simmons et al (2004) you'll see that for trends they are
practically useless before 1979.
There is just so much wrong with the sondes which together with the
introduction of satellite data in 1978/9 makes reanalyses awful.



http://www.globalwarminghoax.com/comment.php?comment.news.126




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Former IPCC Leader Says Climategate Scientists “Manipulated data.”

Dr. William Sprigg is research professor of atmospheric sciences at the University of Arizona and was head of the International Technical Review Panel for IPCC’s first report. The distinguished doctor slams the conduct of some of his global warming colleagues and accuses fellow IPCC scientists of “too much hubris.” He also told the Arizona conference, “climate data has been withheld and manipulated ”and that it is clear that “someone took out information.”



Federal preemption law forbids Penn State from hiding behind “FOIA Exemption”

Penn State University claimed they are exempt from the Freedom Of Information Act under Pennsylvania’s ‘Right To Know Law.’ U.S. constitutional law advisers have reliably informed climategate.com that Penn State’s latest scam to hide wrongdoing by their climatologist, Michael Mann, is contrary to the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution.



United Nations to recruit new era of graduate climatologists after shake up

The United Nations may soon be advertising vacancies due to an unexpected crop of empty seats on its Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Events have moved rapidly in recent weeks amongst climate science. But just as quickly as scientific careers disappear — so goes climate science in the blink of an eye, or the melt of a glacier.


Alabama State Climatologist Dr. John Christy of the University of Alabama in Huntsville, has split ranks with other members of the discredited “hockey team” of climatologists exposed for fraudulently hiding and destroying data in the Climategate scandal that broke on November 19, 2009.


The scientist behind the bogus claim in a Nobel Prize-winning UN report that Himalayan glaciers will have melted by 2035 last night admitted it was included purely to put political pressure on world leaders.

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http://www.climategate.com/category/academia

Last month the BBC Trust announced that it would perform an internal investigation into charges of bias in the BBC in it’s coverage of climate change. The Daily Express has reported on the brewing scandal.

First, they address the little problem of eight billion pounds of investments that are counting on global warming and cap-and-trade:

The £8billion pension fund is likely to come under close scrutiny over its commitment to promote a low-carbon economy while struggling to reverse an estimated £2billion deficit.

Concerns are growing that BBC journalists and their bosses regard disputed scientific theory that climate change is caused by mankind as “mainstream” while huge sums of employees’ money is invested in companies whose success depends on the theory being widely accepted.

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The Wall Street Journal.com has a must read that says the scandals just keep pouring from the laboratories. This quote about sums it up:

“The experiments never turned out the way they were supposed to, and so we were always having to fudge the results so that the projects wouldnt be screwy. I always felt guilty about that dishonesty, but now I feel like we were doing real science.”





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the 1st chart is the 'manipulated' Jones Hockey stick chart that the world community has used to create laws
the 2nd chart is the Hadley chart, actual surface temps
the 3rd chart is the NASA chart, actual satellite temps.

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compilation of various news bits on the world news today - 02-16-2010

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Professor Jones 324 has been in the spotlight since he stepped down as director of the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit after the leaking of emails that show scientists were manipulating data.

The raw data, collected from hundreds of weather stations around the world and analyzed by his unit, has been used for years to bolster efforts by the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to press governments to cut carbon dioxide emissions. The infamous "jones hockey stick" chart shown below.

The academic at the centre of the ‘Climategate’ affair, whose raw data is crucial to the theory of climate change, has admitted that he has trouble ‘keeping track’ of the information.

Colleagues say that the reason Professor Phil Jones has refused Freedom of Information requests is that he may have actually lost the relevant papers.

Professor Jones 324 told the BBC yesterday there was truth in the observations of colleagues that he lacked organizational skills, that his office was swamped with piles of paper and that his record keeping is ‘not as good as it should be’.

The data is crucial to the famous ‘hockey stick graph’ used by climate change advocates to support the theory.

Professor Jones also conceded the possibility that the world was warmer in medieval times than now – suggesting global warming may not be a man-made phenomenon.

And he said that for the past 15 years there has been no ‘statistically significant’ warming.


"This remark has nothing to do with any 'decline' in observed instrumental temperature. The remark referred to a well-known observation, in a particular set of tree-ring data, that I had used in a figure to represent large-scale summer temperature changes over the last 600 years. The phrase 'hide the decline' was shorthand for providing a composite representation of long-term temperature changes made up of recent instrumental data and earlier tree-ring based evidence, where it was necessary to remove the incorrect impression given by the tree rings that temperatures between about 1960 and 1999 (when the email was written) were not rising, as our instrumental data clearly showed they were."

Phil Jones, director of the Climate Research Unit at England's East Anglia University 324


The scientist at the center of the Climategate email scandal, Phil Jones, 324 conceded in an interview with the BBC that there has been no statistically significant data in the past 15 years that proves climate change is man-made.

But will this concession stop global warming hysteria?
Dont hold your breath.

329 - Rajendra Kumar Pachauri --- 330 - Phil Jones-- 331 - Al Gore

2007 - The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 is to be shared, in two equal parts, between the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Albert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr. 331 for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change.

Indications of changes in the earth's future climate must be treated with the utmost seriousness, and with the precautionary principle uppermost in our minds. Extensive climate changes may alter and threaten the living conditions of much of mankind. They may induce large-scale migration and lead to greater competition for the earth's resources. Such changes will place particularly heavy burdens on the world's most vulnerable countries. There may be increased danger of violent conflicts and wars, within and between states.

Through the scientific reports it has issued over the past two decades, the IPCC has created an ever-broader informed consensus about the connection between human activities and global warming. Thousands of scientists and officials from over one hundred countries have collaborated to achieve greater certainty as to the scale of the warming. Whereas in the 1980s global warming seemed to be merely an interesting hypothesis, the 1990s produced firmer evidence in its support. In the last few years, the connections have become even clearer and the consequences still more apparent.

Al Gore has for a long time been one of the world's leading environmentalist politicians. He became aware at an early stage of the climatic challenges the world is facing. His strong commitment, reflected in political activity, lectures, films and books, has strengthened the struggle against climate change. He is probably the single individual who has done most to create greater worldwide understanding of the measures that need to be adopted.

By awarding the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 to the IPCC and Al Gore, the Norwegian Nobel Committee is seeking to contribute to a sharper focus on the processes and decisions that appear to be necessary to protect the world’s future climate, and thereby to reduce the threat to the security of mankind. Action is necessary now, before climate change moves beyond man’s control.

12 October 2007

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The main activity of the IPCC is publishing special reports on topics relevant to the implementation of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), an international treaty that acknowledges the possibility of harmful climate change.

Implementation of the UNFCCC led eventually to the Kyoto Protocol. The IPCC bases its assessment mainly on peer reviewed and published scientific literature.

The IPCC is only open to member states of the WMO and UNEP. IPCC reports are widely cited in almost any debate related to climate change.

National and international responses to climate change generally regard the UN climate panel as authoritative.

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Rajendra Kumar Pachauri 329 has served as the chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) since 2002. He has also been director general TERI, a research and policy organization in India, and chancellor of TERI University. He has also been the chairman of the governing council of the National Agro Foundation (NAF), as well as the chairman of the board of Columbia University's International Research Institute for Climate and Society. Pachauri has been outspoken about climate change.

At the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony when the award was shared between Al Gore 331 and the IPCC 329 on December 10, 2007, Pachauri represented the IPCC

A report co-written by Anthony Watts, an American meteorologist, shows photographs of weather stations near heat-generating equipment which could be distorting the readings.

Some are next to air-conditioning units or next to waste-treatment plants, while one sits alongside a waste incinerator. A weather station at Rome airport was found to catch the hot exhaust fumes emitted by taxiing jets.

Rising temperatures around the stations, which have been in use for 150 years, could also have been caused by urbanization, the study claimed. One weather station at Manchester airport, which was built when the surrounding land was mainly fields, is now surrounded by heated buildings.

The IPCC used data from these weather stations to back up claims that greenhouse gases had already caused a 0.7C rise in temperature, and gave warnings that further warming of up to 6C by 2100 could have devastating effects on civilization and wildlife.

The IPCC did not find it necessary to assure that the data gathering equipment was properly used and monitored.