tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-74204849310242902292024-03-13T15:30:48.951-04:00The Best Of My Hero DPsusanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14710989163705986252noreply@blogger.comBlogger133125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7420484931024290229.post-21227819287888318132021-08-08T17:13:00.001-04:002021-08-08T17:13:15.924-04:00Everyone who takes a Covid PCR test is entitled to see their Ct score. States should forbid reporting of “cases” without corresponding Ct scores. Rhode Island Ct numbers acquired via FOIA-Todd Kenyon, 1/8/21 <p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>“</span><span style="color: #c72222;"><a href="https://rationalground.com/covid-19-pcr-testing-cycle-threshold-values-are-the-missing-piece-of-the-pandemic-puzzle-until-now/" style="color: #c72222;"><span style="color: black;">Every individual receiving a test should receive their </span><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span>associated Ct score</span></span></a><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span>.</span></span></span> Furthermore, <b><a href="https://rationalground.com/covid-19-pcr-testing-cycle-threshold-values-are-the-missing-piece-of-the-pandemic-puzzle-until-now/">all states should require <span style="color: #2b00fe;"><span>Ct scores</span></span> <span style="color: blue;">to be reported </span></a><a href="https://rationalground.com/covid-19-pcr-testing-cycle-threshold-values-are-the-missing-piece-of-the-pandemic-puzzle-until-now/" style="color: blue;">along with “cases.””…</a></b></span><span style="font-size: medium;">
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<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><span style="font-size: medium;">“Most folks by now have heard that<span style="color: #c72222;"> the great majority of COVID-19 tests are PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction) tests</span>. And you may have heard that there are potential problems with interpreting the results of these tests. <span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://rationalground.com/covid-19-pcr-testing-cycle-threshold-values-are-the-missing-piece-of-the-pandemic-puzzle-until-now/" style="color: blue;">New data obtained from a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request in the State of RI [Rhode Island]</a></span> confirms that there is much more information contained in PCR testing than a simple “positive/negative for COVID” result. <span style="color: #c72222;"><a href="https://rationalground.com/covid-19-pcr-testing-cycle-threshold-values-are-the-missing-piece-of-the-pandemic-puzzle-until-now/" style="color: #c72222;">Yet until now this information has been withheld.</a></span></span>
</figure><p><span style="font-size: medium;">First, a quick review of the PCR test. Originally
developed to detect the presence of DNA and RNA in biological samples,
even its Nobel Prize-winning inventor Kary Mullis declared that PCR
was never intended to diagnose a disease. It simply detects the
presence of specific genetic material, which may or may not indicate
infection.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #c72222;">With every other disease, clinical symptoms are required for diagnosis</span>.
The vaccine trials require specific symptoms along with a positive test
to flag someone as a COVID-19 “case”. Yet we are running<a href="https://rationalground.com/covid-19-pcr-testing-cycle-threshold-values-are-the-missing-piece-of-the-pandemic-puzzle-until-now/"> millions of PCR tests worldwide on asymptomatic folks and quarantining them (this includes essential health care workers)</a> if they test “positive” –<span style="color: #c72222;"> no symptoms required.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">As Dr. Mullis put it, the PCR technique can find almost anything in anybody.
The PCR test uses amplification cycles to find viral RNA. The sample is
repeatedly chemically amplified to increase the RNA copies until they
can be detected. Each “cycle” of amplification doubles the number of
molecules in a sample. If you run enough cycles, you can effectively find a single molecule of any substance.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">But is this clinically significant? Not according to many studies that confirm PCR results<span style="color: #c72222;"> by culturing virus from the samples</span> (a technique not practical for wide-spread testing). <a href="https://rationalground.com/covid-19-pcr-testing-cycle-threshold-values-are-the-missing-piece-of-the-pandemic-puzzle-until-now/"><span style="color: #c72222;">These studies indicate that if the machine must run more than 25 to 35 cycles</span></a> to get the sample to the test’s Limit of Detection,<span style="color: blue;"> there isn’t enough virus in the sample to matter clinically</span> – i.e., no live virus can be cultured.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #c72222;"> Yet data we have obtained indicates that <a href="https://rationalground.com/covid-19-pcr-testing-cycle-threshold-values-are-the-missing-piece-of-the-pandemic-puzzle-until-now/">most labs run more than 35 cycles</a></span><a href="https://rationalground.com/covid-19-pcr-testing-cycle-threshold-values-are-the-missing-piece-of-the-pandemic-puzzle-until-now/">, and <span style="color: blue;">some run as many as 45!</span> </a>Since each cycle doubles the RNA copies, 40 cycles means ONE TRILLION-fold amplification (2 to the 40<sup>th</sup> power)!</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #c72222;">The number of cycles required for the machine to flag</span> the sample positive, known as the CYCLE THRESHOLD or Ct,
is proportional to the original viral load in the sample. Higher viral
load = more infection. Fewer cycles required to detect the virus (Lower
Ct) = more infection.<a href="https://rationalground.com/covid-19-pcr-testing-cycle-threshold-values-are-the-missing-piece-of-the-pandemic-puzzle-until-now/"> <span style="color: #c72222;">Once you get to ~30+ cycles, the likelihood that the subject is infectious becomes very small.<span style="color: blue;"> This Ct number is a crucial part of the PCR test result!</span></span></a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #c72222;">Except that officials don’t seem to think so</span>.<span style="color: blue;"> If you get a positive PCR test result, good luck getting your Ct value.<a href="https://rationalground.com/covid-19-pcr-testing-cycle-threshold-values-are-the-missing-piece-of-the-pandemic-puzzle-until-now/"> It is simply not reported</a></span><a href="https://rationalground.com/covid-19-pcr-testing-cycle-threshold-values-are-the-missing-piece-of-the-pandemic-puzzle-until-now/"><span style="color: blue;">.</span> </a>This
is akin to taking a cholesterol test and getting a yes/no answer. You
are “positive” for high cholesterol, but no information is given on LDL
and HDL levels and how far out of normal range they are. That would be
ridiculous, yet this is what the world is doing with PCR tests for
COVID-19.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">On top of the Ct issue is that <span style="color: #c72222;">tests don’t look for the complete RNA strand</span>. Instead, they test for one, two, or three <a href="https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/8/20-1246_article">gene sequences</a>. Tests that look for only one sequence are less accurate than those that use two or three, and <span style="color: #c72222;">even if the Ct value is reported,</span> that <a href="https://rationalground.com/covid-19-pcr-testing-cycle-threshold-values-are-the-missing-piece-of-the-pandemic-puzzle-until-now/">value is often the average</a> of the values for the different gene sequences
instead of the number of cycles needed to detect each sequence. If the
number of cycles for detecting different sequences varies widely, that
may be an indication that there is a problem with the test, and
averaging the values can hide that.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #c72222;">If you get a positive result, you have no idea “how positive” you are. Are you <span style="color: blue;">infectious? Likely to become ill? </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #c72222;"><span style="color: blue;">There’s no way to know <a href="https://rationalground.com/covid-19-pcr-testing-cycle-threshold-values-are-the-missing-piece-of-the-pandemic-puzzle-until-now/">without the Ct score–</a></span></span> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">but go and quarantine anyway! Not only does this result in<a href="https://rationalground.com/covid-19-pcr-testing-cycle-threshold-values-are-the-missing-piece-of-the-pandemic-puzzle-until-now/"><span style="color: #c72222;"> huge amounts of needless quarantines</span>,</a> it also serves to drive fear and panic. Overly sensitive</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://rationalground.com/covid-19-pcr-testing-cycle-threshold-values-are-the-missing-piece-of-the-pandemic-puzzle-until-now/">tests with no Ct “score”<span style="color: #c72222;"> are used to inflate “case” counts.</span></a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #c72222;">Also, everyone who shows up <a href="https://rationalground.com/covid-19-pcr-testing-cycle-threshold-values-are-the-missing-piece-of-the-pandemic-puzzle-until-now/">at a hospital for any reason is tested, with no Ct information, and if “positive” they are counted as a “COVID hospitalization”</a></span>.<span style="color: blue;"> Even fatalities are inflated</span>, as many jurisdictions only require <span style="color: blue;">a “positive” test <a href="https://rationalground.com/covid-19-pcr-testing-cycle-threshold-values-are-the-missing-piece-of-the-pandemic-puzzle-until-now/">any time in the 1-2 months before death</a></span> to flag someone as a COVID fatality.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">So a binary “positive/negative” PCR test regime with no quantitative information<span style="color: #c72222;"> inflates COVID numbers </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #333333;">from cases </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #333333;">to hospitalizations </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #333333;">to deaths.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://rationalground.com/covid-19-pcr-testing-cycle-threshold-values-are-the-missing-piece-of-the-pandemic-puzzle-until-now/"><span style="color: #c72222;">Ct data is simply not reported, and many labs claim they don’t even keep them. It took a FOIA request</span> </a>from an intrepid member of RIFreedom.org <span style="color: blue;">to finally uncover data from the [Rhode Island] RI State Health Laboratory</span> (RISHL) <a href="https://rationalground.com/covid-19-pcr-testing-cycle-threshold-values-are-the-missing-piece-of-the-pandemic-puzzle-until-now/"><span style="color: blue;">spanning March-June 2020.</span> </a>If this Rhode Island data is at all representative, there is a lot to be learned from PCR test Ct scores.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">First we take a look at each individual positive test,
plotted as Ct score versus date of test. The pandemic hit RI hard in
early spring, and these data cover that period. Note the color code that indicates <span style="color: #c72222;">which of these “positive” tests may have been truly infectious versus not infectious</span>, or “cold positives”. One can argue where exactly to draw these zones, but the point is clear that <a href="https://rationalground.com/covid-19-pcr-testing-cycle-threshold-values-are-the-missing-piece-of-the-pandemic-puzzle-until-now/"><span style="color: blue;">a great number of the positive tests</span> represented “cold”<span style="color: #c72222;">/non-infectious individuals.</span></a></span></p>
<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-12991" height="239" src="https://alachuachronicle.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/image-1.png" width="352" /></span></figure>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">Next we look at the relative numbers of <span style="color: #c72222;">tests in each category, by Ct value.</span></span></p>
<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-12992" height="153" src="https://alachuachronicle.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/image-2.png" width="358" /></span><figcaption><span style="font-size: medium;">Data source: RI HHS via RIFreedom.org<br />
By: TTBikeFit LLC</span></figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">We can see that <a href="https://rationalground.com/covid-19-pcr-testing-cycle-threshold-values-are-the-missing-piece-of-the-pandemic-puzzle-until-now/"><span style="color: #c72222;">nearly half of the positive tests had Ct scores of greater than 32 – meaning they were probably not infectious</span></a>.
Only 42% were likely infectious, and this is during a time when RI was
smack in the middle of the spring pandemic, AND when they were <span style="color: blue;">mainly testing symptomatic people!</span></span></p>
<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-12993" height="166" src="https://alachuachronicle.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/image-3.png" width="326" /></span></figure>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">We can analyze the data further by <span style="color: #c72222;">looking at what percentage of Ct scores were above 32 (likely not infectious) by month.</span> As the Spring progresses, we see more tests with higher Ct values = more people with lower viral loads<span style="color: blue;">, <a href="https://rationalground.com/covid-19-pcr-testing-cycle-threshold-values-are-the-missing-piece-of-the-pandemic-puzzle-until-now/">to the point where 2/3 of tests in June were likely not infectious.</a></span></span></p>
<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-12994" data-attachment-id="12994" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-caption="" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"jo","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="4f816-nytimeseditorialitsdonaldtrumpspartynowmay32016" data-large-file="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2017/08/4f816-nytimeseditorialitsdonaldtrumpspartynowmay32016.jpg?w=440" data-medium-file="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2017/08/4f816-nytimeseditorialitsdonaldtrumpspartynowmay32016.jpg?w=300" data-orig-file="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2017/08/4f816-nytimeseditorialitsdonaldtrumpspartynowmay32016.jpg" data-orig-size="440,163" data-permalink="https://impeachobamatoday.wordpress.com/2017/08/25/if-the-us-fails-it-wont-be-because-of-democrats-or-even-the-seditious-media-it-will-be-those-diguised-today-as-republicans-such-as-newt-gingrich-wholl-gleefully-drive-the-final-nail-the-enemy/4f816-nytimeseditorialitsdonaldtrumpspartynowmay32016/" height="185" src="https://alachuachronicle.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/image-4.png" width="329" /></span><figcaption><span style="font-size: medium;">Data source: RI HHS via RIFreedom.org<br />
By: TTBikeFit LLC</span></figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">Note that RI’s case/hospitalization/death metrics <span style="color: #c72222;">peaked right near the end of April</span> – which corresponds to the large jump in non-infectious Ct scores in May vs April!</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">Now it gets even more interesting. Let’s look at the daily mean Ct scores by date.</span></p>
<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><span style="clear: left; float: left; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-12995" data-attachment-id="12995" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-caption="" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="9795b-whytrumpwinscovertac" data-large-file="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2017/08/9795b-whytrumpwinscovertac.jpg?w=184" data-medium-file="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2017/08/9795b-whytrumpwinscovertac.jpg?w=184" data-orig-file="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2017/08/9795b-whytrumpwinscovertac.jpg" data-orig-size="184,280" data-permalink="https://impeachobamatoday.wordpress.com/2017/08/25/if-the-us-fails-it-wont-be-because-of-democrats-or-even-the-seditious-media-it-will-be-those-diguised-today-as-republicans-such-as-newt-gingrich-wholl-gleefully-drive-the-final-nail-the-enemy/9795b-whytrumpwinscovertac/" height="202" src="https://alachuachronicle.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/image-5.png" width="310" /></span></figure>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">As May approaches, the average <span style="color: #c72222;">Ct score of positive tests rises linearly through the “maybe infectious” zone <span style="color: blue;">into the “not infectious” zone</span></span><span style="color: blue;">,</span> again showing clearly that viral <span style="color: blue;">loads were decreasing</span> (fewer people were actually sick).</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://rationalground.com/covid-19-pcr-testing-cycle-threshold-values-are-the-missing-piece-of-the-pandemic-puzzle-until-now/"><span style="color: #c72222;">Finally, if we overlay fatalities</span></a>, we can clearly see the potential <span style="color: blue;">predictive effect of Ct score</span><span style="color: blue;"> trends relative to pandemic severity.</span>
In the graph below, daily fatalities have been offset by 21 days
(shifted 21 days earlier than actual date of death) to better align with
infection date.</span></p>
<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><span style="clear: left; float: left; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-12996" height="203" src="https://alachuachronicle.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/image-6.png" width="306" /></span></figure>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #c72222;"> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #c72222;"> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #c72222;"> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #c72222;"> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #c72222;"> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #c72222;"> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #c72222;">Here I inverted the Ct scale</span> to represent viral load. <span style="color: #c72222;">As viral load is decreasing (Ct <span style="color: blue;">score increasing), we see that fatalities (21 days later) follow</span></span>. As average Ct scores pass through the yellow into the green zone, fatalities wane.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://rationalground.com/covid-19-pcr-testing-cycle-threshold-values-are-the-missing-piece-of-the-pandemic-puzzle-until-now/"><span style="color: #c72222;">So the Ct score clearly has predictive power!</span> </a>As it should, since it represents viral load, and higher viral load = more severe illness. It is quite possible that <span style="color: blue;">by May-June <a href="https://rationalground.com/covid-19-pcr-testing-cycle-threshold-values-are-the-missing-piece-of-the-pandemic-puzzle-until-now/"><span style="color: #c72222;">most of the positive tests were picking up</span> non-viable RNA–dead virus</a>. </span><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: #333333;">[What Dr. Fauci <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_Vy6fgaBPE">would call “dead nucleotides“</a></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: #333333;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_Vy6fgaBPE"> at 4:30</a></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: #333333;">]</span></span> <span style="color: blue;"><br />
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<p><span style="font-size: medium;">Perhaps one might object that this is just one data set (sadly), so maybe this is a fluke. Well, we did manage to procure <span style="color: blue;">a second small data set from a lab on the U.S. west coast,</span> also from the spring.<span style="color: #c72222;"> And voila, the Ct score distributions are remarkably similar to those in RI.</span></span></p>
<figure class="wp-block-image size-large is-resized"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-12997" height="225" src="https://alachuachronicle.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/image-7.png" width="326" /></span><figcaption><span style="font-size: medium;">Data source: confidential<br />
By: TTBikeFit LLC</span></figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #c72222;">It is frankly negligent that officials and <a href="https://rationalground.com/covid-19-pcr-testing-cycle-threshold-values-are-the-missing-piece-of-the-pandemic-puzzle-until-now/"><span style="color: #c72222;">“experts” on both sides of pandemic policy are</span> ignoring or cannot access this data</a></span><a href="https://rationalground.com/covid-19-pcr-testing-cycle-threshold-values-are-the-missing-piece-of-the-pandemic-puzzle-until-now/">.</a> Labs simply don’t provide them, apparently because they are not required to do so. <span style="color: blue;">Beyond informing a tested individual regarding the severity of infection (or if there is even an infection at all)</span>, the distribution of Ct scores in any given time period<a href="https://rationalground.com/covid-19-pcr-testing-cycle-threshold-values-are-the-missing-piece-of-the-pandemic-puzzle-until-now/"> provides </a><span style="color: #c72222;"><a href="https://rationalground.com/covid-19-pcr-testing-cycle-threshold-values-are-the-missing-piece-of-the-pandemic-puzzle-until-now/">information that clearly has predictive value <span style="color: #333333;">in gauging pandemic severity.</span> <span style="color: #c72222;">Yet Ct values are nearly impossible to obtain</span>.</a> <span style="color: blue;">To date, only<span style="color: #c72222;"> the state of Florida has moved to <a href="https://alachuachronicle.com/florida-department-of-health-mandates-reporting-of-cycle-threshold-values-for-pcr-tests/" style="color: #c72222;">require reporting of Ct scores</a>,</span></span></span> though it’s unclear what the level of public disclosure will be (if any). PCR testing is used as <span style="color: #c72222;"><a href="https://rationalground.com/covid-19-pcr-testing-cycle-threshold-values-are-the-missing-piece-of-the-pandemic-puzzle-until-now/">a blunt instrument to whip up reporting of “cases,</a>”</span> hospitalizations, and deaths,<span style="color: #333333;"> while crucial insights from Ct scores are ignored.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #c72222;">Worse than draconian lockdown policies are lockdowns based on faulty</span> and incomplete data. How can rational policy be set based <span style="color: #333333;">on metrics that are corrupted through improper use of PCR testing? </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="color: #c72222;"><a href="https://rationalground.com/covid-19-pcr-testing-cycle-threshold-values-are-the-missing-piece-of-the-pandemic-puzzle-until-now/"><span style="color: #c72222;">Every individual receiving a test should receive their associated Ct score</span></a>.</span> Furthermore, <a href="https://rationalground.com/covid-19-pcr-testing-cycle-threshold-values-are-the-missing-piece-of-the-pandemic-puzzle-until-now/">all <span style="color: blue;">states should require Ct scores to be reported along with “cases.””…</span></a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="color: blue;"> </span></span></span></p>
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</div><span style="font-size: medium;">..............</span>susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14710989163705986252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7420484931024290229.post-46319568907038483652021-05-25T17:41:00.002-04:002021-08-08T23:22:05.405-04:00British Empire was single biggest buyer of African slaves in late 1700s-early 1800s, bought new African slaves to make them soldiers in West Indies regiments to protect UK Caribbean sugar plantation profits <p> <span style="color: #cccccc;">.</span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #de2121;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span><span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjm45BBbrxhGnFuCBr6WPK0hX0N3ggio4UI-PdAVrSF7Sdih01eHhxT_Ee6PRqjSjY0kc0qtJiYnAuzYa6JvYAgQRfuGo6VhyvMs27bSQzNGXV-Sp45ZjUnwT1jq0ljfGLDH5AvrdUe-o0E/s320/indiessoldier.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="180" data-original-width="320" height="249" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjm45BBbrxhGnFuCBr6WPK0hX0N3ggio4UI-PdAVrSF7Sdih01eHhxT_Ee6PRqjSjY0kc0qtJiYnAuzYa6JvYAgQRfuGo6VhyvMs27bSQzNGXV-Sp45ZjUnwT1jq0ljfGLDH5AvrdUe-o0E/w442-h249/indiessoldier.JPG" width="442" /></a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-4437835838740222835" itemprop="description articleBody"><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-9130422283478202194" itemprop="description articleBody">
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #de2121;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span><span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #de2121;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span><span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #de2121;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span><span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #de2121;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span><span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">"<a href="https://www.forces.net/news/west-india-regiments-story-slavery-army">By the end of the 18th century, <span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #990000;">the British army was the single biggest purchaser of slaves</span>.</span></a></span>" </span></span></span></span><span><span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;">(at 1:50 on video, Forces News)</span>.</span></span></span></span><span> </span><span style="color: black;"><span>Added:</span></span><span> “In the 1790s the </span><a href="http://www.mjr-uk.com/uploads/1/2/2/0/12205473/slavingports.pdf"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #990000;">British Government was the <span style="color: #2b00fe;">largest purchaser</span></span><span style="color: #2b00fe;"> </span><span style="color: #2b00fe;">of captured Africans</span></span><span style="color: #2b00fe;">.</span></a></span> </span><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;">Between 1795-1808 (the very eve of abolition) <span style="color: #990000;">they paid for 13,400 Africans</span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><span style="color: black;">for West India regiments."</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><p><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span><span><span>"</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><span style="color: black;"><span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #990000;"><a href="https://www.forces.net/news/west-india-regiments-story-slavery-army"><span style="color: #990000;">To protect Britain's lucrative sugar plantations on the islands, </span>13,400 African slaves were purchased </a>for its West India Regiments</span> between 1795 and 1807. <span style="color: #990000;">"</span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #990000;">White soldiers, unused to the region's climate, <span>regularly fell ill,</span></span> </span><span style="font-size: large;">leaving garrisons dangerously undermanned.<span style="color: #990000;"> <a href="https://www.forces.net/news/west-india-regiments-story-slavery-army"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">This led to the decision to buy African slaves</span></a></span> to fill those gaps."</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">10/29/2020, <b><span style="color: #990000;"><span>"</span></span></b></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #990000;"><a href="https://www.forces.net/news/west-india-regiments-story-slavery-army"><span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">West India Regiments: The Story Of Slavery In The Army</span></a></span></b><span><span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden"><b><span style="color: #990000;">"</span></b> forces.net, R. Laydon</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #990000;">"Estimates suggest around 13,400 slaves were purchased for the West India Regiments</span> between the years 1795 and 1807.</span><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span> </span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Towards the end of the 18th century, the British Army was charged with<a href="https://www.forces.net/news/west-india-regiments-story-slavery-army"> <span style="color: #2b00fe;">protecting new and lucrative interests in the Caribbean.</span></a></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">The
islands of</span><span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="color: #990000;"><a href="https://www.forces.net/news/west-india-regiments-story-slavery-army"><span>Jamaica, Barbados, Dominica, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent, Trinidad and Tobago</span></a></span> </span><span style="font-size: large;">became</span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"> known as the British West Indies, known for
their<span style="color: #990000;"> <span>sugar plantations....</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;">White <a href="https://www.forces.net/news/west-india-regiments-story-slavery-army">soldiers, unused to the region's climate</a><a href="https://www.forces.net/news/west-india-regiments-story-slavery-army">, regularly fell ill, </a></span></span><span style="font-size: large;">leaving garrisons dangerously undermanned.</span></p><div class="rich-text paragraph paragraph--type--rich-text paragraph--view-mode--default"><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #990000;">This <a href="https://www.forces.net/news/west-india-regiments-story-slavery-army">led to the decision to buy African slaves</a></span> to fill those gaps.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">When the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act of 1807 was passed, as many as 50% of Army regiments in the Caribbean included slaves.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhy-eARQSMH6osb4ogXKKioHSKx0RF7YZtYex-bi8qB2UI_-M2Wjn1cIwuPh3ZNKkrILLDxF9xmR8tqFVY_zlePdyXXxofw4DN68g9pHa1R4jpmOw_Tc6XGdfk_Eynbpsj1_I-nsOAUcYf1/s897/bwi.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="503" data-original-width="897" height="165" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhy-eARQSMH6osb4ogXKKioHSKx0RF7YZtYex-bi8qB2UI_-M2Wjn1cIwuPh3ZNKkrILLDxF9xmR8tqFVY_zlePdyXXxofw4DN68g9pHa1R4jpmOw_Tc6XGdfk_Eynbpsj1_I-nsOAUcYf1/w296-h165/bwi.JPG" width="296" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;">The National
Army Museum's archive in London holds official documents containing
details about the formation of the West India Regiments.</span><p><span style="font-size: large;">"The records available tell us that the [British] Army purchased<span style="color: #990000;"> <a href="https://www.forces.net/news/west-india-regiments-story-slavery-army"><span>about 13,400 slaves for these regiments</span></a></span> [between 1795 and 1807] at the <span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #990000;">cost around £1
million</span>,</span>" says Jasdeep Singh, the Research Curator at the National Army
Museum. <br /></span></p></div><div class="rich-text paragraph paragraph--type--rich-text paragraph--view-mode--default"><p><span style="font-size: large;">"Looking at various years, it averages around £70 for the cost of one single slave.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #990000;">"What
the British soldiers <a href="https://www.forces.net/news/west-india-regiments-story-slavery-army"><span style="color: #990000;">didn't realise is that there were </span><span style="color: #2b00fe;">mosquitos
carrying around Yellow Fever</span></a></span><a href="https://www.forces.net/news/west-india-regiments-story-slavery-army"> </a>and a variety of tropical diseases.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #990000;">"From
Britain, there were policies</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"> sent,...'</span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Here are some
supplies, here are some funds,<a href="https://www.forces.net/news/west-india-regiments-story-slavery-army"> go and <span style="color: #cc0000;">purchase new Africans'</span></a></span><a href="https://www.forces.net/news/west-india-regiments-story-slavery-army"><span style="color: #cc0000;">--</span></a><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><a href="https://www.forces.net/news/west-india-regiments-story-slavery-army">so
purchase Africans from Africa, as slaves</a>,</span> </span></span><span style="font-size: large;">and then recruit them into the
West India Regiments."...</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">In the years after the slave trade was abolished, the role of those
soldiers changed from having to protect colonial assets, to serving
overseas....</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">After
first being raised in 1795 <span style="color: #990000;">to support Britain's presence in the
Caribbean, the <a href="https://www.forces.net/news/west-india-regiments-story-slavery-army">West India Regiments remained a part of the Army until
1927,</a></span> and at one point was comprised of 12 different regiments.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">The unit was briefly re-formed in 1958, before being permanently disbanded four years later.<span>"...images above from forces.net<br /></span></span></p></div><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span>.......................... </span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Second source: <br /> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">2016,<span style="color: #990000;"> “<b><span style="color: #990000;"><a href="http://www.mjr-uk.com/uploads/1/2/2/0/12205473/slavingports.pdf">A Voyage around the Slave Ports of Britain</a>,</span></b></span>” Nigel Pocock<br />
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</span><p><a href="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2021/05/westindies.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-66353 alignleft" data-attachment-id="66353" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"susan mullen","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1621544259","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="westindies" data-large-file="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2021/05/westindies.jpg?w=490" data-medium-file="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2021/05/westindies.jpg?w=300" data-orig-file="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2021/05/westindies.jpg" data-orig-size="490,378" data-permalink="https://impeachobamatoday.wordpress.com/2021/05/20/britain-was-unique-among-slave-trading-nations-in-that-its-members-of-parliament-had-personal-interests-in-west-indies-west-indies-lobby-was-most-powerful-interest-group-in-house-of-commons-in-1820s/westindies/" height="140" src="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2021/05/westindies.jpg?w=183&h=141" width="182" /></a><span style="font-size: large;">[Image: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Indies">West Indies</a>]</span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #de2121;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span>“In the 1790s the </span><a href="http://www.mjr-uk.com/uploads/1/2/2/0/12205473/slavingports.pdf"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #990000;">British Government was the largest purchaser</span> <span style="color: #2b00fe;">of captured Africans</span></span><span style="color: #2b00fe;">.</span></a></span> </span><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;">Between 1795-1808 (the very eve of abolition) <span style="color: #990000;">they paid for 13,400 Africans</span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><span style="color: black;">for West India regiments</span>,</span></span></span> at the then enormous cost of £925,000. <span style="color: #990000;">These deals were concealed in an unaudited account </span>called ‘<span style="color: #2b00fe;">Army Extraordinaries</span><span style="color: #2b00fe;">’</span><span style="color: #cc0000;">.<span style="color: #990000;">
In 1806 </span></span><span style="color: #990000;"><span>the Government negotiated</span></span> (with Dawson of Liverpool) for
between 2,000--4,000 captured Africans ‘...of the tribes of the [African] Gold
Coast...before the act [sic] takes effect.’ <span>In the 12 months before the Abolition Act</span> took effect (ending 1st March, 1808),<span style="color: #990000;"><a href="http://www.mjr-uk.com/uploads/1/2/2/0/12205473/slavingports.pdf"><span> <span>the <span>British Government purchased </span>1,000 Africans for the military.</span></span></a><span><span>...</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #de2121;"><a href="http://www.mjr-uk.com/uploads/1/2/2/0/12205473/slavingports.pdf">Around 50-60 MPs had holdings in the West Indies,</a><span style="color: #990000;"> or commercial interests </span><span style="color: #333333;">there in the <span style="color: blue;">1820s.</span></span><a href="http://www.mjr-uk.com/uploads/1/2/2/0/12205473/slavingports.pdf" style="color: #de2121;"> <span style="color: #990000;">The West India lobby was the most powerful single interest</span> <span style="color: blue;">group in the [House of] commons.</span></a></span>
Sir Thomas Johnson, MP, mayor of Liverpool, was partly responsible for
one of the first slave ships, the ironically named Blessing, to leave
his city.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhI9jXtvCRY70S3CiVkftKa0GpdAjLA_BQswn8IelHu_gcky1iJZNqvMKXsHMnN1PqcGX51A1RV2DGwQ6IldZv3Xt2Hj4LAt9V-y7us4XVBa18fT7E52NyK_KXmEO66JcBpom4BQU-KS-GH/s349/slaves2.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="349" data-original-width="307" height="505" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhI9jXtvCRY70S3CiVkftKa0GpdAjLA_BQswn8IelHu_gcky1iJZNqvMKXsHMnN1PqcGX51A1RV2DGwQ6IldZv3Xt2Hj4LAt9V-y7us4XVBa18fT7E52NyK_KXmEO66JcBpom4BQU-KS-GH/w443-h505/slaves2.jpg" width="443" /></a></span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">[Image: <a href="https://schoolshistory.org.uk/topics/shop/transatlantic-slave-trade-bundle/">African slaves on British ship,</a> schoolhistory.org.uk]</span><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></div><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;"></span>In 1788,</span> there were more than <a href="http://www.mjr-uk.com/uploads/1/2/2/0/12205473/slavingports.pdf"><span style="color: #de2121;"><span style="color: #990000;">60 <span style="color: #2b00fe;">West India merchants</span> in the [House of] Commons</span>,</span> </a><a href="http://www.mjr-uk.com/uploads/1/2/2/0/12205473/slavingports.pdf">mostly merchants in London.</a></span></p><p><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;">[</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #990000;"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/12/british-history-slavery-buried-scale-revealed">The term</a><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/12/british-history-slavery-buried-scale-revealed"> “West India merchants”</a> <span style="color: black;">is a UK euphemism for</span> "</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #990000;"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/12/british-history-slavery-buried-scale-revealed">slave traders.</a>"</span></span>] </span> </span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #de2121;"><span style="color: #990000;">“Britain was unique among the slaving nations</span>,</span> in that <a href="http://www.mjr-uk.com/uploads/1/2/2/0/12205473/slavingports.pdf">policy was the <span style="color: blue;">direct result of </span></a><a href="http://www.mjr-uk.com/uploads/1/2/2/0/12205473/slavingports.pdf"><span style="color: blue;">Parliament</span>, and especially the Board of Trade.</a></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;">“<span style="color: #de2121;"><span style="color: #990000;">Parliament<a href="http://www.mjr-uk.com/uploads/1/2/2/0/12205473/slavingports.pdf"> authorised the West India Dock Company</a></span>.</span> </span>The chairman was George Hibbert, a slave merchant, who was also the driving force behind the West India Docks."...</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span>.......................</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span>Third source:<span style="color: #990000;"> <span><span><span><a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/25612814?seq=1">Britain bought African slaves to fight in Caribbean wars against France</a></span>, <span>1795-1807</span></span>:</span></span><br /></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span>"</span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span><a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/25612814?seq=1">Slave or Freedman: The Question of the Legal Status of the British West India Soldier, 1795-1807</a>" </span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3GAxLHN38JRsmNIQvG50clkC06Lf-NyY4vJWdcHbiUK_2ABpNe5CLV3PaloIWbWMn9svQvjaC4Pi0wITyzxyVhVE5MZvfGaEiJpbbaei_co-Y9Zq7Q_Dsetj8XB-jOj3yprdYvEEtgKrh/s881/westindiessoldiers.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="805" data-original-width="881" height="342" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3GAxLHN38JRsmNIQvG50clkC06Lf-NyY4vJWdcHbiUK_2ABpNe5CLV3PaloIWbWMn9svQvjaC4Pi0wITyzxyVhVE5MZvfGaEiJpbbaei_co-Y9Zq7Q_Dsetj8XB-jOj3yprdYvEEtgKrh/w374-h342/westindiessoldiers.JPG" width="374" /></a></span></span></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span><br /> </span></span></span><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span> </span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #de2121;"><span style="color: #990000;"> </span></span><span><span>..........................</span></span><span style="color: #de2121;"><span style="color: #990000;"><br /></span></span></span></p></div><p> </p></div><p> </p><p> </p>susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14710989163705986252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7420484931024290229.post-651806609425206002021-05-07T01:54:00.002-04:002021-05-07T01:54:38.816-04:00Trump comes full circle, leaving no sign he was ever president. In 2016 we mistakenly thought he wanted to help the country by defeating the vicious GOP Establishment and Karl Rove. In 2020 Trump's campaign accepted $2.5 million from Karl Rove's PAC <p><span style="color: #eeeeee;"></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span><b><span style="color: #d42828;"><span style="color: #990000;">Is</span> <a href="https://www.donaldjtrump.com/news/statement-by-donald-j-trump-45th-president-of-the-united-states-of-america_2">Donald Trump</a> <span style="color: #990000;">planning to return</span> <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/outsidespending/recips.php?cycle=2020&cmte=C00487363" style="color: #d42828;"><span style="color: blue;">the $2,529,979</span> <span style="color: #990000;">his 2020 re-election campaign</span> </a><span style="color: blue;">accepted</span></span> <span style="color: blue;">from Karl Rove’s </span><a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/outsidespending/recips.php?cycle=2020&cmte=C00487363"><span style="color: blue;">American Crossroads</span>?</a></b></span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;"><span>
</span></span><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span>On March 4, 2021, Trump said<b>:</b> <b><span style="color: #d42828;"><a href="https://www.donaldjtrump.com/news/statement-by-donald-j-trump-45th-president-of-the-united-states-of-america_2"><span style="color: #990000;">“If the Republican Party is going to be successful,</span> <span style="color: blue;">they’re going to have to stop dealing with<span style="color: #990000;"> the likes of Karl Rove</span></span></a></span> and just let him float away, or retire.”…”</b><a href="https://www.donaldjtrump.com/news/statement-by-donald-j-trump-45th-president-of-the-united-states-of-america_2">Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America,</a>” donaldjtrump.com</span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;"><span>
</span></span><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span>Below, screen shot, <b><span style="color: #d42828;"><span style="color: #990000;"><a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/outsidespending/recips.php?cmte=C00487363&cycle=2020">American Crossroads, “Targeted Candidates, 2020 Cycle,</a></span>" </span></b>opensecrets.org:</span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;"><span>
</span></span><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span style="color: blue;">“<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/outsidespending/recips.php?cmte=C00487363&cycle=2020" style="color: blue;"><b>Donald Trump, President, $2,529,969, Lost”</b></a></span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;"><span>
</span></span><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span><a href="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2021/05/karl.jpg"><img alt="" class="alignnone wp-image-65317" data-attachment-id="65317" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"susan mullen","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1620268135","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="Karl" data-large-file="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2021/05/karl.jpg?w=497" data-medium-file="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2021/05/karl.jpg?w=300" data-orig-file="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2021/05/karl.jpg" data-orig-size="1108,85" data-permalink="https://impeachobamatoday.wordpress.com/2021/05/06/is-pathetic-trump-planning-to-return-the-2-5-million-his-re-election-campaign-accepted-from-karl-roves-american-crossroads-in-2020-since-he-says-rove-is-so-bad-for-the-gop/karl-2/" height="35" src="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2021/05/karl.jpg?w=522&h=40" width="463" /></a></span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;"><span>
</span></span><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span>This doesn’t even get into the question of why Trump would accept one
penny from Karl Rove since Trump’s 2016 defeat of Karl Rove was the
most astounding and meaningful political accomplishment in history.
<span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>Andrew Breitbart actually worked himself to death trying to do it. </b></span>As
if it were a kleenex, Trump simply discarded the earth shattering
results of his 2016 election and put Karl Rove back in power:<b> 11/10/2012</b>, <span style="color: #cf364a;">“</span><b><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/karl-rove-and-his-super-pac-vow-to-press-on/2012/11/10/19ed28ea-2a96-11e2-b4e0-346287b7e56c_story.html?hpid=z3"><span style="color: #cf364a;">Celebrity real estate developer Donald Trump taunted on Twitter</span>:</a> <span style="color: blue;">“Congrats to @KarlRove <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/karl-rove-and-his-super-pac-vow-to-press-on/2012/11/10/19ed28ea-2a96-11e2-b4e0-346287b7e56c_story.html?hpid=z3" style="color: blue;">on blowing $400 million</a> </span></b>this cycle<b>.<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/karl-rove-and-his-super-pac-vow-to-press-on/2012/11/10/19ed28ea-2a96-11e2-b4e0-346287b7e56c_story.html?hpid=z3"> Every race @CrossroadsGPS ran ads in,<span style="color: #c73636;"> the Republicans lost</span>.</a></b> What a waste of money.”<b>..</b>.The
single miraculous gift Trump gave the country in 2016--which was not
defeating a democrat--was defeating the cancerous GOP Establishment led
by Karl Rove. But Trump overturned his own election and reinstated Rove. Today it’s as if
Trump never existed. Rove is back in charge preventing the country from
having an opposition party to open borders, thus gagging Republican voters. Open borders will never be on the ballot so
Republican voters are disenfranchised. Trump obviously wasn’t the answer
either. Candidate Trump turned out to be the exact opposite of Pres.
Trump. <b>Which explains why Karl Rove is back in charge</b>. <b>Trump’s years of
published complaints about Rove are obviously a waste of time.</b></span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;"><span>
</span></span><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span>………………………………………..</span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;"><span>
</span></span><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span>Added: 11/10/2012, “<b><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/karl-rove-and-his-super-pac-vow-to-press-on/2012/11/10/19ed28ea-2a96-11e2-b4e0-346287b7e56c_story.html?hpid=z3"><span style="color: #cf364a;">At the center of the wreckage stands Karl Rove,</span></a> the GOP strategist and supposed dark genius</b>….<b><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/karl-rove-and-his-super-pac-vow-to-press-on/2012/11/10/19ed28ea-2a96-11e2-b4e0-346287b7e56c_story.html?hpid=z3"><span style="color: blue;">Celebrity real estate developer <span style="color: #cc0000;">Donald Trump</span></span> <span style="color: blue;">taunted on Twitter:</span></a><span style="color: #cf364a;"> <span style="color: #990000;">“Congrats to @KarlRove <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/karl-rove-and-his-super-pac-vow-to-press-on/2012/11/10/19ed28ea-2a96-11e2-b4e0-346287b7e56c_story.html?hpid=z3">on blowing $400 million</a></span></span><span style="color: #990000;"> </span></b>this cycle<b>.<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/karl-rove-and-his-super-pac-vow-to-press-on/2012/11/10/19ed28ea-2a96-11e2-b4e0-346287b7e56c_story.html?hpid=z3"><span style="color: blue;"> Every race @CrossroadsGPS ran ads in, the Republicans lost.</span></a></b> What a waste of money.”<b>…11/10/2012</b></span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;"><span>
</span></span><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span>Nov. 10, 2012, "</span><span><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: #990000;"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/karl-rove-and-his-super-pac-vow-to-press-on/2012/11/10/19ed28ea-2a96-11e2-b4e0-346287b7e56c_story.html?hpid=z3"><b>Karl Rove and his super PAC vow to press on</b></a></span></span><span style="color: #990000;"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/karl-rove-and-his-super-pac-vow-to-press-on/2012/11/10/19ed28ea-2a96-11e2-b4e0-346287b7e56c_story.html?hpid=z3">,</a>"<span> <span style="color: black;">Washington Post, Karen Tumulty</span></span> <br /></span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;"><span>
</span></span><article class="paywall"><span style="font-size: large;"><span><b><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/karl-rove-and-his-super-pac-vow-to-press-on/2012/11/10/19ed28ea-2a96-11e2-b4e0-346287b7e56c_story.html?hpid=z3">“In the post-mortems of the 2012 election campaigns</a>,</b> it is already being written that <span style="color: #cf364a;"><span style="color: #990000;"><b>the much-feared super PACs</b></span> </span>— those ostensibly independent, billionaire-funded outside organizations and their hundreds of millions in negative ads —<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/karl-rove-and-his-super-pac-vow-to-press-on/2012/11/10/19ed28ea-2a96-11e2-b4e0-346287b7e56c_story.html?hpid=z3"><span style="color: blue;"><b> turned out to be a bust.</b></span></a><b><span style="color: #cf364a;"> <span style="color: #990000;">At the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/karl-rove-and-his-super-pac-vow-to-press-on/2012/11/10/19ed28ea-2a96-11e2-b4e0-346287b7e56c_story.html?hpid=z3">center of the wreckage stands Karl Rove,</a> the GOP strategist</span><span style="color: blue;"> and supposed dark genius</span></span> </b>who for more than a decade has figured in the mythos of both parties.</span></span></article><span style="font-size: large;"><span>
</span></span><article><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span style="color: white;">………..</span></span></span></article><span style="font-size: large;"><span>
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</span></span><article class="paywall"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>With more than a little glee<b>,</b> Democrats and even some Republicans say <b>the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/karl-rove-and-his-super-pac-vow-to-press-on/2012/11/10/19ed28ea-2a96-11e2-b4e0-346287b7e56c_story.html?hpid=z3"><span style="color: blue;">electoral defeat of so many candidates backed by his brainchild</span></a>, a behemoth super PAC called <span style="color: #cf364a;">American Crossroads</span></b><span style="color: #cf364a;">,</span> is proof that politics has finally passed Rove by….[10/2/2012, <b><span style="color: #990000;"><a href="https://miamiherald.typepad.com/nakedpolitics/2012/10/american-crossroads-like-mack-slams-nelson-for-his-cow-exemption.html">“</a></span><span style="color: #cf364a;"><span style="color: #990000;"><a href="https://miamiherald.typepad.com/nakedpolitics/2012/10/american-crossroads-like-mack-slams-nelson-for-his-cow-exemption.html">The Karl Rove-backed political committee, American Crossroads</a></span>,</span> </b>is out with a new <b><a href="https://miamiherald.typepad.com/nakedpolitics/2012/10/american-crossroads-like-mack-slams-nelson-for-his-cow-exemption.html"><span style="color: blue;">$2 million ad buy in Florida”</span></a></b> <b>in support <a href="https://miamiherald.typepad.com/nakedpolitics/2012/10/american-crossroads-like-mack-slams-nelson-for-his-cow-exemption.html">of</a><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://miamiherald.typepad.com/nakedpolitics/2012/10/american-crossroads-like-mack-slams-nelson-for-his-cow-exemption.html"> Connie Mack IV for US Senate.</a>…<span style="color: #cf364a;"><span style="color: blue;">Connie Mack IV<span style="color: #cc0000;"> </span></span><span style="color: #cc0000;"><a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2012/senate/fl/florida_senate_mack_vs_nelson-1847.html"><span><span>lost</span> to the Democrat by 13 points.</span></a></span></span></span></b></span></span></article><span style="font-size: large;"><span>
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</span></span><article class="paywall"><span style="font-size: large;"><span><a href="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2021/05/conniemack.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-65338 alignleft" data-attachment-id="65338" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="ConnieMack" data-large-file="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2021/05/conniemack.jpg?w=497" data-medium-file="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2021/05/conniemack.jpg?w=300" data-orig-file="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2021/05/conniemack.jpg" data-orig-size="1024,710" data-permalink="https://impeachobamatoday.wordpress.com/2021/05/06/is-pathetic-trump-planning-to-return-the-2-5-million-his-re-election-campaign-accepted-from-karl-roves-american-crossroads-in-2020-since-he-says-rove-is-so-bad-for-the-gop/conniemack/" height="160" src="https://impeachobamatoday.files.wordpress.com/2021/05/conniemack.jpg?w=217&h=150" width="231" /></a><span>10/31/2012, “Former Florida Gov.<span style="color: blue;"><b> <a href="https://www.zimbio.com/photos/Connie+Mack/qzkKqgx6lDK/Mitt+Romney+Campaigns+Throughout+Florida" style="color: blue;">Jeb Bush (L) hugs Rep. Connie Mack (R-FL) during a campaign rally</a></b></span> for Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney <a href="https://www.zimbio.com/photos/Connie+Mack/qzkKqgx6lDK/Mitt+Romney+Campaigns+Throughout+Florida"><span style="color: #cf364a;">at Tampa International Airport on October 31, 2012</span> </a>in Tampa, Florida….(Oct. 30, 2012 – Source: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images North America)]</span></span></span></article><span style="font-size: large;"><span>
</span></span><article><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span style="color: white;">……….</span></span></span></article><span style="font-size: large;"><span>
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<b><span style="color: #990000;">As Rove sees it,</span> the campaign proved that American Crossroads and</b> its more secretive<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/karl-rove-and-his-super-pac-vow-to-press-on/2012/11/10/19ed28ea-2a96-11e2-b4e0-346287b7e56c_story.html?hpid=z3"><span style="color: #cf364a;"><b> <span style="color: #990000;">issue-advocacy arm, Crossroads GPS</span></b><span style="color: #990000;"> </span></span></a>— which allows donors to remain anonymous — are here to stay.Rove is pondering new missions for Crossroads to address <b>weaknesses laid bare by the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/karl-rove-and-his-super-pac-vow-to-press-on/2012/11/10/19ed28ea-2a96-11e2-b4e0-346287b7e56c_story.html?hpid=z3">GOP’s back-to-back failures to win the White House</a><span style="color: #cf364a;"> <span style="color: #990000;">and the fact that the party</span><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/karl-rove-and-his-super-pac-vow-to-press-on/2012/11/10/19ed28ea-2a96-11e2-b4e0-346287b7e56c_story.html?hpid=z3" style="color: #cf364a;"><span style="color: #990000;"> fell short when expected to win back the Senate</span>….</a></span></b><b>Crossroads also is likely to invest more deeply in organizations such as the <a href="http://rslc.com/">Republican State Leadership Committee,</a></b>
which has [allegedly] been trying to build a more appealing GOP farm
team by, among other things, recruiting Hispanic candidates to run for
state-level office….<b>For Crossroads, <span style="color: #cf364a;"><span style="color: #990000;">2012 was </span><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/karl-rove-and-his-super-pac-vow-to-press-on/2012/11/10/19ed28ea-2a96-11e2-b4e0-346287b7e56c_story.html?hpid=z3"><span style="color: #cf364a;"><span style="color: #990000;">a $300 million learning experience</span>…</span>.</a></span></b><b>The failure of Crossroads to live up to expectations is not the only thing that has put Rove back into the news</b> and revived the intrigue that surrounds a man whose seen and unseen hand works in so many places in politics….<span style="color: #cf364a;"><b><span style="color: #990000;">Rove’s is <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/karl-rove-and-his-super-pac-vow-to-press-on/2012/11/10/19ed28ea-2a96-11e2-b4e0-346287b7e56c_story.html?hpid=z3">the most famous name associated with Crossroads</a>, but he said he</span> <span style="color: blue;">receives no money from it,</span></b></span> not even travel expenses, for his work as a strategist and fundraiser. Its day-to-day operations are run by its president,<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/decision2012/head-of-crossroads-gps-once-a-mcconnell-aide-now-his-political-ally/2012/10/30/9f17ea2a-1329-11e2-ba83-a7a396e6b2a7_story.html"> Steven Law</a>.
</span></span><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span>Outside their circle, many of the <span style="color: blue;"><b>performance reviews have been scathing.</b></span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;"><span>
</span></span><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span>The Sunlight Foundation, which tracks money in politics, <a href="http://reporting.sunlightfoundation.com/2012/Return-on-investmet-story/">calculated</a> that <b><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/karl-rove-and-his-super-pac-vow-to-press-on/2012/11/10/19ed28ea-2a96-11e2-b4e0-346287b7e56c_story.html?hpid=z3"><span style="color: #cf364a;">only 6 percent of Crossroads money went to winners;</span></a> by comparison, the Service Employees International Union, an old war horse of Democratic politics,<span style="color: blue;"> had a 70 percent victory rate.</span></b></span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;"><span>
</span></span><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span><b><span style="color: #cf364a;">Celebrity <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/karl-rove-and-his-super-pac-vow-to-press-on/2012/11/10/19ed28ea-2a96-11e2-b4e0-346287b7e56c_story.html?hpid=z3" style="color: #cf364a;">real estate developer Donald Trump taunted on Twitter</a>:</span> <span style="color: blue;">“Congrats to @KarlRove on<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/karl-rove-and-his-super-pac-vow-to-press-on/2012/11/10/19ed28ea-2a96-11e2-b4e0-346287b7e56c_story.html?hpid=z3"> blowing $400 million</a> this cycle. <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/karl-rove-and-his-super-pac-vow-to-press-on/2012/11/10/19ed28ea-2a96-11e2-b4e0-346287b7e56c_story.html?hpid=z3" style="color: blue;">Every race @CrossroadsGPS ran ads</a></span> <span style="color: #cf364a;"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/karl-rove-and-his-super-pac-vow-to-press-on/2012/11/10/19ed28ea-2a96-11e2-b4e0-346287b7e56c_story.html?hpid=z3"><span style="color: #cf364a;">in, the Republicans lost</span></a>. </span></b><span style="color: #333333;">What a waste of money.”…</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;"><span>
</span></span><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span><b>The idea for <span style="color: blue;">Crossroads was born shortly <span style="color: #cf364a;">after the 2008 election</span></span><span style="color: #cf364a;">,</span></b> <b>when Rove wrote a column for the Wall Street Journal</b>
lamenting the fact that the Republicans had no equivalent to the
alliance of organized labor and liberal interest groups that had spent
$194 million on independent advertising for Democrats during the
previous two years.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;"><span>
</span></span><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span><b>The next day, Rove recalled, he heard from former Republican chairman Ed Gillespie, who said, “Great idea.</b> What are we going to do about it?”</span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;"><span>
</span></span><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span><b>As they talked to potential donors, Rove said</b>, they realized “there was just a generalized sense that too much of<b> this kind of activity was basically of, by and for <span style="color: #cf364a;">the consultants</span></b>. Donors said, ‘Consultants set these things up, pay a commission to fundraisers,<span style="color: blue;"><b> hire themselves to do the work and pay themselves too much.’ ”</b></span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;"><span>
</span></span><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span><b><span style="color: #cf364a;"><span style="color: #990000;">“Major donors said, ‘We write checks to these groups</span>,</span> but we’re not enthusiastic,</b> given how they are going about their business,’ ” Rove said.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;"><span>
</span></span><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span><b>He and Gillespie also began sounding out the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/karl-rove-and-his-super-pac-vow-to-press-on/2012/11/10/19ed28ea-2a96-11e2-b4e0-346287b7e56c_story.html?hpid=z3"><span style="color: #cf364a;"><span style="color: #990000;">Senate Republican leadership, which recommended Law</span>,<span style="color: blue;"> a former aide to Republican leader Mitch McConnell</span></span></a> (R-Ky.), to run it. The two talked him into the job, though <span style="color: #cf364a;"><span style="color: #990000;">it meant that Law had to leave a far </span><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: #cf364a;"><span style="color: #990000;">more lucrative post</span> </span>as general counsel at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce….</span></span></b></span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;"><span>
</span></span><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span>Rove boasts that Crossroads remains an efficient operation….</span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;"><span>
</span></span><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span><b>And his wealthy donors?</b> <b><span style="color: #990000;">“</span><span style="color: #cf364a;"><span style="color: #990000;">They all went into this eyes wide open,</span>”<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/karl-rove-and-his-super-pac-vow-to-press-on/2012/11/10/19ed28ea-2a96-11e2-b4e0-346287b7e56c_story.html?hpid=z3"> Rove said,</a></span><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/karl-rove-and-his-super-pac-vow-to-press-on/2012/11/10/19ed28ea-2a96-11e2-b4e0-346287b7e56c_story.html?hpid=z3"> “and their attitude is, <span style="color: blue;">beat them next time.””</span></a></b></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span><b><span style="color: blue;"> </span></b></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span style="color: blue;">............. </span><b><span style="color: blue;"><br /></span></b></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p>susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14710989163705986252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7420484931024290229.post-41614767013033010752020-11-01T18:10:00.002-05:002020-11-01T18:10:41.604-05:00Masks didn’t stop flu, CDC stopped collecting data on the flu: “Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, this system will suspend data collection for the 2020-21 influenza season”-CDC.gov/flu, 10/31/20<p><span style="color: #eeeeee;"></span><span style="color: #d42c2c;"><strong>From <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/overview.htm?fbclid=IwAR1dxXzuxQscgApRl4iydD-Tz28-E4U9jPh1pV-z87WOlxzWHEl29srqDCI" style="color: #d42c2c;">CDC website, Friday, Oct. 30, 2020, cdc.gov/flu</a></strong></span></p>
<p>“<a href="https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/overview.htm?fbclid=IwAR1dxXzuxQscgApRl4iydD-Tz28-E4U9jPh1pV-z87WOlxzWHEl29srqDCI">U.S. Influenza Surveillance System: Purpose and Methods,</a>” cdc.gov/flu…</p>
<p>“<strong>3. </strong><a href="https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/overview.htm?fbclid=IwAR1dxXzuxQscgApRl4iydD-Tz28-E4U9jPh1pV-z87WOlxzWHEl29srqDCI"><strong>Summary of the Geographic Spread of Influenza</strong>“…</a></p>
<p><span style="color: #d42c2c;"><strong>“Due <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/overview.htm?fbclid=IwAR1dxXzuxQscgApRl4iydD-Tz28-E4U9jPh1pV-z87WOlxzWHEl29srqDCI" style="color: #d42c2c;">to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, this system will suspend data collection for the 2020-21 influenza season</a></strong>.</span> Data from previous seasons are available on <a href="https://gis.cdc.gov/grasp/fluview/FluView8.html">FluView Interactive</a>.”…(last item in subhead) (Retrieved Friday, Oct. 30, 2020)</p>
<p><span style="color: #d42c2c;">“</span><strong><span style="color: #d42c2c;">The <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/overview.htm?fbclid=IwAR1dxXzuxQscgApRl4iydD-Tz28-E4U9jPh1pV-z87WOlxzWHEl29srqDCI" style="color: #d42c2c;">2020-2021 influenza season</a> </span><a href="https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/overview.htm?fbclid=IwAR1dxXzuxQscgApRl4iydD-Tz28-E4U9jPh1pV-z87WOlxzWHEl29srqDCI">begins on September 27, 2020 and ends on October 2, 2021.” </a></strong>(scroll to end of page, <span style="color: black;"><a href="https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/overview.htm?fbclid=IwAR1dxXzuxQscgApRl4iydD-Tz28-E4U9jPh1pV-z87WOlxzWHEl29srqDCI">“Influenza Surveillance Considerations</a>“</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">As of 9/27/16, <span style="font-size: large;">"<a href="http://elections.huffingtonpost.com/pollster/us-right-direction-wrong-track">US Right Direction Wrong Track,</a></span>" Huffington Post polls</span><br />
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susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14710989163705986252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7420484931024290229.post-34478424902854185252015-02-17T01:03:00.004-05:002015-07-23T06:34:42.876-04:00Global climate agreement would be counter-productive per peer reviewed study. Southern Hemisphere responds to local changes not to N. Hemisphere changes. Antarctic is isolated from major population centers and not exposed to wind driven black carbon from Asia-University of Queensland study<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>“<a href="http://www.uq.edu.au/news/article/2014/08/climate-change-not-so-global">This study reverses previous findings</a></b>." </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> </span><br />
8/4/14, <span style="font-size: x-large;">"<b><a href="http://www.uq.edu.au/news/article/2014/08/climate-change-not-so-global">Climate change not so global</a>,</b>" </span>University of Queensland, Australia<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>"Scientists are calling for a better understanding of regional
climates,</b> after<b> </b>research into New Zealand's glaciers has revealed
climate change in the <b><a href="http://www.uq.edu.au/news/article/2014/08/climate-change-not-so-global">Northern Hemisphere does not directly affect the
climate in the Southern Hemisphere</a>.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://www.uq.edu.au/news/article/2014/08/climate-change-not-so-global">The University of Queensland study</a></b> showed that future climate changes
may impact differently in the two hemispheres, meaning a <b><a href="http://www.uq.edu.au/news/article/2014/08/climate-change-not-so-global">generalised
global approach isn’t the solution </a></b><a href="http://www.uq.edu.au/news/article/2014/08/climate-change-not-so-global">to climate issues.</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><span style="font-size: large;">UQ School of Geography, Planning and Environmental Management Head <a href="http://www.gpem.uq.edu.au/james-shulmeister">Professor Jamie Shulmeister</a>
said the study provided evidence for the late survival of <b><a href="http://www.uq.edu.au/news/article/2014/08/climate-change-not-so-global">significant
glaciers in the mountains of New Zealand</a> </b>at the end of the last ice age<b> </b>–
a time when other ice areas were retreating.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>“<a href="http://www.uq.edu.au/news/article/2014/08/climate-change-not-so-global">This study reverses previous findings</a></b> which suggested that New
Zealand's glaciers disappeared at the same time as ice in the Northern
Hemisphere,” he said.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;">“We showed that when the Northern Hemisphere started to warm<b> at the
end of the last ice age, New Zealand glaciers were unaffected.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><span style="font-size: large;"><b>“These glaciers began to retreat several thousand years later, </b>when
changes in the Southern Ocean led to increased carbon dioxide emissions
and warming.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>”<a href="http://www.uq.edu.au/news/article/2014/08/climate-change-not-so-global">This indicates that future climate change may impact differently in
the two hemispheres</a> </b>and that changes in the Southern Ocean are likely to
be critical for Australia and New Zealand.”</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;">The study used exposure dating of moraines - mounds of rocks formed
by glaciers - <b>to reconstruct the rate of ice retreat in New Zealand’s
Ashburton Valley</b> after the last glacial maximum – the time when the ice
sheets were at their largest.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;">The researchers found that the period from the last glacial maximum
to the end of the ice age <b><a href="http://www.uq.edu.au/news/article/2014/08/climate-change-not-so-global">was longer in New Zealand than in the Northern
Hemisphere</a>.</b></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><span style="font-size: large;">They also found that the <b>maximum glacier extent in New Zealand
</b>occurred several thousand years before the maximum in the Northern
Hemisphere, demonstrating that <a href="http://www.uq.edu.au/news/article/2014/08/climate-change-not-so-global"><b>growth of the northern ice sheets did not
cause expansion of New Zealand glaciers</b></a>.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>
</b><b>“<a href="http://www.uq.edu.au/news/article/2014/08/climate-change-not-so-global">New Zealand glaciers responded largely to local changes in the
Southern Ocean, rather than changes in the Northern Hemisphere as was
previously believed</a></b>,” Professor Shulmeister said.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;">“This study highlights the need to understand regional climate<b> <a href="http://www.uq.edu.au/news/article/2014/08/climate-change-not-so-global">rather than a global one-size-fits-all</a>.”</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><span style="font-size: large;">The research was conducted in collaboration with the <a href="http://www.uni-greifswald.de/">University of Griefswald</a>, Germany, the <a href="http://www.ansto.gov.au/">Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation</a>, and the <a href="http://www.canterbury.ac.nz/">University of Canterbury</a>, New Zealand, and <b>published in the <a href="http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2014/07/23/1401547111.abstract?sid=01724ef9-c5d5-4e97-be60-f310638b65ce">Proceedings of the National Academy of Science</a> </b>in July."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Peer reviewed study cited above: </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">7/28/2014,<span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="font-size: x-large;">"<a href="http://www.pnas.org/content/111/32/11630.abstract"><b>The early rise and late demise of New Zealand’s last glacial maximum</b>,</a>"</span> </span>PNAS.org</span><span class="name" itemprop="name"><a class="name-search" href="http://www.pnas.org/search?author1=Henrik+Rother&sortspec=date&submit=Submit">, Henrik Rother</a></span><a class="xref-aff" href="http://www.pnas.org/content/111/32/11630.abstract#aff-1" id="xref-aff-1-1"><sup>a</sup></a><span class="xref-sep">,</span><a class="xref-corresp" href="http://www.pnas.org/content/111/32/11630.abstract#corresp-1" id="xref-corresp-1-1"><sup>1</sup></a> <span class="name" itemprop="name"><a class="name-search" href="http://www.pnas.org/search?author1=David+Fink&sortspec=date&submit=Submit">David Fink</a></span><a class="xref-aff" href="http://www.pnas.org/content/111/32/11630.abstract#aff-2" id="xref-aff-2-1"><sup>b</sup></a>,<span class="name" itemprop="name"><a class="name-search" href="http://www.pnas.org/search?author1=James+Shulmeister&sortspec=date&submit=Submit"> James Shulmeister</a></span><a class="xref-aff" href="http://www.pnas.org/content/111/32/11630.abstract#aff-3" id="xref-aff-3-1"><sup>c</sup></a>,<span class="name" itemprop="name"><a class="name-search" href="http://www.pnas.org/search?author1=Charles+Mifsud&sortspec=date&submit=Submit"> Charles Mifsud</a></span><a class="xref-aff" href="http://www.pnas.org/content/111/32/11630.abstract#aff-2" id="xref-aff-2-2"><sup>b</sup></a>,<span class="name" itemprop="name"><a class="name-search" href="http://www.pnas.org/search?author1=Michael+Evans&sortspec=date&submit=Submit"> Michael Evans</a></span><a class="xref-aff" href="http://www.pnas.org/content/111/32/11630.abstract#aff-4" id="xref-aff-4-1"><sup>d</sup></a>, and<span class="name"><a class="name-search" href="http://www.pnas.org/search?author1=Jeremy+Pugh&sortspec=date&submit=Submit"> Jeremy Pugh</a></span><a class="xref-aff" href="http://www.pnas.org/content/111/32/11630.abstract#aff-5" id="xref-aff-5-1"><sup>e</sup></a><span class="xref-sep">,</span><a class="xref-fn" href="http://www.pnas.org/content/111/32/11630.abstract#fn-4" id="xref-fn-4-1"><sup>2</sup></a><br />
<sup><span style="color: #eeeeee;">. </span></sup><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;">"Significance"...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">"This record from a key site in the midlatitude
Southern Hemisphere shows that the<b> <a href="http://www.pnas.org/content/111/32/11630.abstract">largest
glacial advance did not coincide with the coldest temperatures</a></b> during
this phase.
We also show that the regional post-LGM<b> </b>
ice retreat was very gradual,<b> contrary to the rapid ice collapse widely
inferred.</b>
This demonstrates that glacial records
from New Zealand are <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">neither synchronous with nor simply lag or lead
Northern Hemisphere
ice sheet records,</span> </b>which has important
implications for the reconstruction of past interhemispheric climate
linkages and mechanisms.". </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">"Abstract"</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">"</span><span style="font-size: medium;">Recent debate on records of southern midlatitude glaciation has focused
on reconstructing glacier dynamics during the last
glacial termination, with different
results supporting both in-phase and out-of-phase<b> <a href="http://www.pnas.org/content/111/32/11630.abstract">correlations with
Northern Hemisphere
glacial signals. A continuing major
weakness in this debate is the lack of robust data</a>,</b> particularly from
the early and maximum
phase of southern midlatitude glaciation
(∼30–20 ka), to verify the competing models....<span style="color: #cc0000;"><b><a href="http://www.pnas.org/content/111/32/11630.abstract">These
findings preclude</a> the previously inferred
rapid climate-driven ice retreat in the Southern Alps</b></span> after the onset of
Termination
1. Our record documents an early last
glacial maximum, an overall trend of diminishing ice volume in New
Zealand between 28–20
ka, and gradual deglaciation until at
least 15 ka." </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">"</span><span style="font-size: medium;">This article contains supporting information online at <a class="in-nw-vis" href="http://www.pnas.org/lookup/suppl/doi:10.1073/pnas.1401547111/-/DCSupplemental" target="_blank">www.pnas.org/lookup/suppl/doi:10.1073/pnas.1401547111/-/DCSupplemental</a>." </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">NASA confirms above conclusions: <span class="bold"><a href="http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/warming_aerosols.html">Unlike the Arctic, the <b>Antarctic is isolated from major population centers and emissions</b> they produce, in particular it's not exposed to wind driven black carbon from Asia:</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">4/8/2009, <span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>"</b></span><span class="bold"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/warming_aerosols.html">Aerosols May Drive a Significant Portion of Arctic Warming,</a>"</span> </b></span>nasa.gov/topics</span> </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="bold"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"The Arctic region has seen
its surface air temperatures increase by 1.5 C (2.7 F) since the
mid-1970s. <b>In the Antarctic, where aerosols play less of a role, </b>the
surface air temperature has increased about 0.35 C (0.6 F)....</span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="bold"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: medium;">. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b><a href="http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/warming_aerosols.html">Since decreasing amounts of sulfates and increasing amounts of black
carbon both </a></b><a href="http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/warming_aerosols.html"><b>encourage warming</b>, </a><a href="http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/warming_aerosols.html">temperature increases can be especially
rapid</a>.<b> </b></span>The build-up of aerosols also triggers positive feedback cycles
that further accelerate warming as snow and ice cover retreat.</span><br /><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/warming_aerosols.html">In the Antarctic, in contrast, the impact of sulfates and black carbon
is minimized because of the continent’s isolation from major population
centers</a></b> and the emissions they produce....</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="bold"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>A new study, led by climate scientist Drew Shindell of the NASA Goddard
Institute for Space Studies</b>, New York, used a coupled ocean-atmosphere
model to investigate how sensitive different <b>regional climates </b>are to
changes in levels of carbon dioxide, ozone, and aerosols.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><br />
<b>The researchers found that the mid and high latitudes</b> are especially
responsive to changes in the level of aerosols. Indeed, the model
suggests <b><a href="http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/warming_aerosols.html">aerosols likely account for 45 percent or more of the warming
that has occurred in the Arctic during the last three decades</a></b>. The
results were published in the April issue of Nature Geoscience....</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="bold"><b>Sulfates</b>, which come primarily from the burning of coal and oil, scatter
incoming solar radiation and <b>have a net cooling effect on climate. <a href="http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/warming_aerosols.html">Over
the past three decades, the United States and European countries have
passed a series of laws that have reduced sulfate emissions by 50
percent</a>. </b>While improving air quality and aiding public health, the
result has been less atmospheric cooling from sulfates.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="bold"><b><a href="http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/warming_aerosols.html">At the same time, black carbon emissions have steadily risen, largely
because of increasing emissions from Asia</a>.</b> Black carbon -- small,
soot-like particles produced by industrial processes and the combustion
of diesel and biofuels -- absorb incoming solar radiation<b> and have a
strong warming influence on the atmosphere."...</b></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="bold"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="bold">Peer reviewed study cited in above NASA article:</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="bold"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="bold">. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="bold"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="bold"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">3/22/2009,</span> <span style="font-size: x-large;">"<b><a href="http://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/v2/n4/abs/ngeo473.html">Climate response to regional radiative forcing during the twentieth century</a>,</b>" </span><span style="font-size: large;">Nature Geoscience, </span></span><span style="font-size: large;">Drew Shindell<sup><a href="http://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/v2/n4/abs/ngeo473.html#a1" title="affiliated with ">1</a></sup> and
Greg Faluvegi<sup><a href="http://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/v2/n4/abs/ngeo473.html#a1" title="affiliated with ">1</a></sup></span><b><br />
</b>| <span class="doi"><abbr title="Digital Object Identifier">doi</abbr>:10.1038/ngeo473</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="bold"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="bold"><span class="doi">Added: The entire Southern Hemisphere is lucky to have avoided<b> </b></span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="bold"><span class="bold"><span class="doi"><b><a href="http://blog.chron.com/sciguy/2009/04/half-of-recent-arctic-warming-may-not-be-due-to-greenhouse-gases/">being geoengineered </a></b>by George Bush #1:</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><a href="http://ourpresidents.tumblr.com/post/67065126342/president-george-bush-signs-the-1990-clean-air-act">George Bush #1 signs Clean Air Act amendments in 1990</a>, <a href="http://ourpresidents.tumblr.com/post/35774232438/george-bush-signs-the-1990-clean-air-act-on">making rules stricter</a> </b>than </span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><a href="http://www2.epa.gov/laws-regulations/summary-clean-air-act">1970 and 1977 </a></b></span>versions<b>.</b> Top left, clapping, Bush<b> <a href="http://www.worldwildlife.org/leaders/william-k-reilly">EPA chief William Reilly</a></b>, plucked from his <b><a href="http://www.worldwildlife.org/leaders/william-k-reilly">WWF president</a></b> job by Bush. In particular <a href="http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=19039">the 1990 law reduced sulfur dioxide</a> emissions which <a href="http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=19039">Bush said caused acid rain</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Unfortunately this <a href="http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/warming_aerosols.html"><b>exacerbated global warming in Northern latitudes:</b></a> <br />
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<b> </b><b><a href="http://www.pnas.org/content/108/29/11790.full?tab=ds"><b>Post 1970 </b></a> </b><b><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b><a href="http://www.pnas.org/content/108/29/11790.full?tab=ds">g<span style="color: #cc0000;">lobal </span>warming "is driven by efforts to reduce
air pollution
in general and acid deposition in
particular."...</a></b></span></b><span style="color: #cc0000;"><a href="http://www.pnas.org/content/108/29/11790.full?tab=ds">2011 PNAS study</a></span> <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/warming_aerosols.html"><b>2009 NASA graph</b></a> shows warming of <a href="http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/warming_aerosols.html"><b>Arctic latitudes </b></a>after US <a href="http://www2.epa.gov/laws-regulations/summary-clean-air-act">Clean Air Acts of 1970, 1977 and 1990</a><b>:</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Image <a href="http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/warming_aerosols.html"><b>from Nasa.gov</b></a>. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">4/8/2009,<b> <span style="font-size: x-large;">"<a href="http://blog.chron.com/sciguy/2009/04/half-of-recent-arctic-warming-may-not-be-due-to-greenhouse-gases/">Half of recent arctic warming may not be due to greenhouse gases,</a>"</span></b></span> <span style="font-size: large;">Houston Chronicle, Eric Berger</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">July 19, 2011 PNAS study finds<b> </b><b><a href="http://www.pnas.org/content/108/29/11790.full?tab=ds"><b>post 1970 </b></a> </b><b><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b><a href="http://www.pnas.org/content/108/29/11790.full?tab=ds">warming "is driven by efforts to reduce
air pollution
in general and acid deposition in
particular, </a></b></span></b><span style="color: #cc0000;"><a href="http://www.pnas.org/content/108/29/11790.full?tab=ds">which <b>cause sulfur emissions to decline.</b>"</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">7/19/2011, <span style="font-size: large;"><b>"<a href="http://www.pnas.org/content/108/29/11790.full?tab=ds">Reconciling anthropogenic climate change with observed temperature 1998–2008</a></b>,"<b> </b>PNAS.org</span></span></span><span class="name" itemprop="name"> </span><br />
<span class="name" itemprop="name"><a class="name-search" href="http://www.pnas.org/search?author1=Robert+K.+Kaufmann&sortspec=date&submit=Submit">Robert K. Kaufmann</a></span><a class="xref-aff" href="http://www.pnas.org/content/108/29/11790.full#aff-1" id="xref-aff-1-1"><sup>a</sup></a><span class="xref-sep">,</span><a class="xref-corresp" href="http://www.pnas.org/content/108/29/11790.full#corresp-1" id="xref-corresp-1-1"><sup>1</sup></a> <span class="name" itemprop="name"><a class="name-search" href="http://www.pnas.org/search?author1=Heikki+Kauppi&sortspec=date&submit=Submit">Heikki Kauppi</a></span><a class="xref-aff" href="http://www.pnas.org/content/108/29/11790.full#aff-2" id="xref-aff-2-1"><sup>b</sup></a>,<span class="name" itemprop="name"><a class="name-search" href="http://www.pnas.org/search?author1=Michael+L.+Mann&sortspec=date&submit=Submit"> Michael L. Mann</a></span>, and<span class="name"><a class="name-search" href="http://www.pnas.org/search?author1=James+H.+Stock&sortspec=date&submit=Submit"> James H. Stoc<span style="font-size: small;">k</span></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"Conclusion"...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><b>"</b><a href="http://www.pnas.org/content/108/29/11790.full?tab=ds"><b>The post 1970 period of warming</b></a>, which constitutes <b>a
</b>significant
portion of the increase in global surface
temperature since the mid 20th century,<span style="color: #cc0000;"><b> <a href="http://www.pnas.org/content/108/29/11790.full?tab=ds">is driven by efforts to reduce
air pollution
in general and acid deposition in
particular, which cause sulfur emissions to decline</a> </b></span>while the
concentration of greenhouse
gases continues to rise (<a class="xref-bibr" href="http://www.pnas.org/content/108/29/11790.full#ref-7" id="xref-ref-7-2">7</a>)."...<br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">In a section titled "<b><a href="http://www.pnas.org/content/108/29/11790.full?tab=ds">Results</a></b>" the PNAS study says <b><a href="http://www.pnas.org/content/108/29/11790.full?tab=ds">cooling sulfur emissions</a></b> rose somewhat <b><a href="http://www.pnas.org/content/108/29/11790.full?tab=ds">after 2002 due to</a></b> extreme acceleration of <b><a href="http://www.pnas.org/content/108/29/11790.full?tab=ds">China's coal use</a></b>, which "<b><a href="http://www.pnas.org/content/108/29/11790.full?tab=ds">partly reverses a period of declining sulfur emissions</a></b> that had a <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">warming effect</span></b> of 0.19 W/m<sup>2</sup> <b>between 1990 and 2002." </b>(Subhead "Results")</span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><br />For reference, the purpose of this 2011 PNAS study was to address "<a href="http://www.pnas.org/content/108/29/11790.full">the <b>lack of a clear increase in global surface temperature between 1998 and 2008</b></a>:"</span><br />
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</b><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>"<a href="http://www.pnas.org/content/108/29/11790.full">Data for global surface temperature indicate little warming between 1998 and 2008."...</a></b></span> (<a class="xref-bibr" href="http://www.pnas.org/content/108/29/11790.full#ref-1" id="xref-ref-1-1">1</a>)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="bold"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="bold"><span class="doi"> </span><b> </b></span> </span></span></span></span><span style="color: #eeeeee;"> .</span></span>susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14710989163705986252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7420484931024290229.post-59144908391295173002014-01-27T20:04:00.001-05:002014-01-28T00:56:12.595-05:00Complete list of things that have been caused by global warming <span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="color: navy; font-size: large;">5/3/12,<span style="font-size: x-large;"> "<b><a href="http://www.numberwatch.co.uk/warmlist.htm">A
complete list of things caused by global warming,</a>" </b></span>numberwatch.co.uk</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="color: navy;">"</span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/2012/apr/11/global-warming-may-intensify-disease/">AIDS</a>, <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/freak-weather-destroys-afghan-poppies-814072.html?service=Print">Afghan
poppies destroyed</a>, <a href="http://progressive.org/mpballve041510.html">African
holocaust</a>, <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/environment/climate-change/more-aged-deaths-predicted-due-to-increase-in-extreme-heat-20090325-9amn.html">aged
deaths</a>, <a href="http://scienceline.org/2009/08/03/environment-ortlip-poppies-opium-climate-change/">poppies
more potent</a>, <a href="http://www.countercurrents.org/cc-grice140706.htm">Africa
devastated,</a> <a href="http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2008/4/23/worldupdates/2008-04-22T184920Z_01_NOOTR_RTRMDNC_0_-331794-1&sec=Worldupdates">Africa
in conflict,</a> <a href="http://www.royalsociety.ac.uk/news.asp?id=3833">African
aid threatened</a>, <a href="http://www.wssa.net/">aggressive weeds</a>, <a href="http://www.russiatoday.com/Top_News/2009-06-04/Did_global_warming_help_bring_down_Air_France_flight_447.html?fullstory">Air
France crash</a>, <a href="http://www.dnaindia.com/mumbai/report_freefalling-in-air-pockets-with-ace-pilots_1403646">air
pockets</a>, <a href="http://www.newscientist.com/channel/earth/climate-change/mg18725185.500-global-warming-may-have-big-effect-on-air-pressure.html">air
pressure changes</a>, <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1245191/Taxpayers-fund-500-000-research-help-say-virtual-airport-farewell-bid-save-planet.html">airport
farewells virtual</a>, <a href="http://health.usnews.com/articles/health/healthday/2008/12/12/airport-malaria-risk-rising-with-global-warming.html">airport
malaria</a>, <a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article4228406.ece">Agulhas
current</a>, <a href="http://www.dailytech.com/Global+Warming+is+Slowly+Destroying+Alaskan+Town+Residents+Say/article17027.htm">Alaskan
towns slowly destroyed</a>, <a href="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2009/10/10/abc-al-qaeda-taliban-being-helped-global-warming">Al
Qaeda and Taliban Being Helped</a>, <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/7347669/Climate-change-linked-to-allergy-increase.html">allergy
increase</a>, <a href="http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/fea/healthyliving2/stories/DN-nh_ragweed_1202gd.ART.State.Edition1.29d373a.html">allergy
season longer</a>, <a href="http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/bet_you_my_house_against_alligators_in_the_thames#49838">alligators
in the Thames</a>, <a href="http://www.buzzle.com/editorials/7-19-2003-43160.asp">Alps
melting</a>, <a href="http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article1191932.ece">Amazon
a desert</a>, <a href="http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/25351/">American
dream end</a>, <a href="http://amphibiaweb.org/declines/ClimateChange.html">amphibians
breeding earlier (or not)</a>, <a href="http://www.planetark.com/avantgo/dailynewsstory.cfm?newsid=47645">anaphylactic
reactions to bee stings</a>, <a href="http://www.brightsurf.com/news/headlines/21820/Global_warming_dramatically_changed_ancient_forests.html">ancient
forests dramatically changed</a>, <a href="http://www.livescience.com/environment/061214_animals_retreat.html">animals
head for the hills,</a> <a href="http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/health/animals-may-shrink-in-size-because-of-global-warming_100138497.html">animals
shrink</a>, <a href="http://www.heatisonline.org/contentserver/objecthandlers/index.cfm?ID=5014&Method=Full&PageCall=&Title=Grass%20Grows%20in%20Warming%20Antarctica&Cache=False">Antarctic
grass flourishes</a>, <a href="http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C04E0DC1439F933A15756C0A9639C8B63">Antarctic
ice grows</a>, <a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080113.wicesheet13/BNStory/National/home">Antarctic
ice shrinks</a>, <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7248025.stm">Antarctic
sea life at risk</a>, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/16/us/16therapy.html?_r=2&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&ref=todayspaper&pagewanted=print&adxnnlx=1203331272-8ssSbxNzjKZL9vl8LR7VnQ">anxiety
treatment</a>, <a href="http://www.nwf.org/news/story.cfm?pageId=867DBCA1-F1F6-7B10-369BEE5595525202">algal
blooms</a>, <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,228170,00.html">archaeological
sites threatened,</a> <a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/12/1201_041201_siberian_bogs.html">Arctic
bogs melt</a>, <a href="http://www.livescience.com/environment/051024_arctic_lakes.html">Arctic
in bloom</a>, <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7139797.stm">Arctic
ice free</a>, <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7461707.stm">Arctic
ice melt faster</a>, <a href="http://www.livescience.com/environment/050603_lakes_gone.html">Arctic
lakes disappear</a>, <a href="http://e360.yale.edu/content/feature.msp?id=2229">Arctic
tundra lost,</a> <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/11/15/ocean_currents_melt_planet/">Arctic
warming (not),</a> <a href="http://news.asiaone.com/News/AsiaOne+News/Malaysia/Story/A1Story20100322-206015.html">a
rose by any other name smells of nothing,</a> <a href="http://www.ecoenquirer.com/global-warming-asteroid.htm">asteroid
strike risk</a>, <a href="http://http//www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/health/article1782096.ece">asthma</a>,
<a href="http://www.livescience.com/environment/050629_fresh_water.html">Atlantic
less salty</a>, <a href="http://environment.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn12528&feedId=online-news_rss20">Atlantic
more salty</a>, <a href="http://www.umweltbundesamt.at/fileadmin/site/umweltthemen/klima/praesentationen/GastVL_TU_MK.pdf">atmospheric
circulation modified</a>, <a href="http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,519666,00.html">attack
of the killer jellyfish</a>, <a href="http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/igsoc/agl/2001/00000032/00000001/art00029;jsessionid=27gjw6f50jw2.alice">avalanches
reduced</a>, <a href="http://www.taiga.net/nce/schools/lessonplans/snowstudy_impacts.html">avalanches
increased</a>, <a href="http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5huPkYk4bGVvo1Sa1tWeH-tgENiFw">Baghdad
snow</a>, <a href="http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/Story.asp?Article=211740&Sn=BNEW&IssueID=30363">Bahrain
under water</a>, <a href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=17588919&method=full&siteid=94762&headline=a-ha--bananas--name_page.html">bananas
grow</a>, <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/may/15/climatechange">barbarisation</a>,
<a href="http://geochange.er.usgs.gov/sw/impacts/biology/bats/">bats decline</a>, <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/climatechange/6447631/Climate-change-will-push-price-of-bread-to-6.50.html">
beer and bread prices to soar</a>, <a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/08/060803-warming-beer.html">beer
better</a>, <a href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327253.400-climate-change-depresses-beer-drinkers.html">beer
worse</a>, <a href="http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/05/02/news/beetle.php">beetle
infestation</a>,
<a href="http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/23/home-home-on-less-range/?partner=rss&emc=rss">
beef shortage</a>, <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1552092,00.html">bet for
$10,000</a>, <a href="http://www.countercurrents.org/cc-leahy060406.htm">big
melt faster,</a> <a href="http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2006/08/07/71264.htm">billion
dollar research projects</a>, <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/climate-change-could-force-1-billion-from-their-homes-by-2050-817223.html">billion
homeless</a>, <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6532323.stm">billions
face risk</a>, <a href="http://living.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=76062006">billions of
deaths</a>, <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7409034.stm">bird
loss accelerating</a>, <a href="http://www.dailytech.com/researchers+blame+global+warming+for+dying+bird+populations/article19302.htm">bird
populations dying</a>, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/17/nyregion/17birds.html?_r=2&em">bird
strikes</a>, <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6950711.stm">bird
visitors drop</a>, <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/03/16/easwallow116.xml">birds
confused</a>, <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/7841295.stm">birds
decline (Wales)</a>, <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml;jsessionid=35GXYOWCKFANBQFIQMFCFFOAVCBQYIV0?xml=/earth/2008/01/15/eabirds115.xml">birds
driven north</a>, <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSTRE53D7G220090414">birds
face longer migrations</a>, <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11408439">birds
on long migrations threatened</a>, <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/5130538.stm">birds
return early</a>, <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/climatechange/6008714/Global-warming-causing-birds-to-shrink.html">birds
shrink(Aus)</a>, <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8560000/8560694.stm">birds
shrink (USA)</a>, <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7277861.stm">bittern
boom ends</a>, <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?menuId=1588&menuItemId=-1&view=DISPLAYCONTENT&grid=P8&targetRule=0#head6">blackbirds
stop singing</a>, <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/06/11/eabirds111.xml">blackbirds
threatened</a>, <a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=32291">Black
Hawk down</a>, <a href="http://www.dailyfinance.com/story/freezing-weathers-effects-on-oil-orange-juice-skiing-and-goo/19302305/">blizzards</a>,
<a href="http://www.medindia.net/news/Blood-Meant-for-Transfusions-Can-Get-Contaminated-Due-to-Global-Warming-40825-1.htm">blood
contaminated</a>, <a href="http://www.heatisonline.org/contentserver/objecthandlers/index.cfm?ID=5663&Method=Full&PageCall=&Title=Warming%20Arctic%20Brings%20Return%20of%20Blue%20Mussels%20After%201%2C000%20Years&Cache=False">blue
mussels return</a>, <a href="http://www.wendmag.com/blog/2009/03/27/global-warming-causes-italy-and-switzerland-to-redraw-borders/">borders
redrawn</a>, <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=TN1V0TBQIAEOXQFIQMFSFGGAVCBQ0IV0?xml=/news/2007/09/23/nbluetongue123.xml">bluetongue</a>, <a href="http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/03/global_warming__1.html">brains
shrink</a>,
<a href="http://durangoherald.com/article/20111124/NEWS01/711249920/-1/s">
brewers droop</a>, <a href="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2007/08/07/ex-clinton-official-did-global-warming-contribute-mn-bridge-collapse">bridge
collapse (Minneapolis),</a> <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/4806355/Britain-will-become-one-big-city-in-order-to-cope-with-climate-change-refugees.html">Britain
one big city</a>, <a href="http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1153513,00.html">Britain
Siberian</a>, <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening/7505950/Bananas-grow-in-National-Trust-garden-of-the-future.html">Britain's
bananas</a>, <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/6317835/Monsoon-style-floods-to-hit-Britain.html">British
monsoon</a>, <a href="http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?in_article_id=39945&in_page_id=2">brothels
struggle</a>, <a href="http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/47534/story.htm">brown
Ireland</a>, <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/5271502.stm">bubonic
plague</a>, <a href="http://in.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idINIndia-29363120070906?sp=true">Buddhist
temple threatened</a>, <a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article1594310.ece">building
collapse</a>, <a href="http://blogs.ocregister.com/orangepunch/archives/2006/02/must_be_global_warming.html">building season extension</a>, <a href="http://www.countercurrents.org/en-mccarthy050803.htm">bushfires</a>,
<a href="http://www.ia.ucsb.edu/pa/display.aspx?pkey=312">
butterflies move north</a>, <a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100111171859.htm">butterflies
reeling</a>, <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/7857268/Climate-change-brings-back-endangered-butterfly.html">butterfly
saved</a>, <a href="http://www.washtimes.com/news/2009/aug/22/climate-change-campaign-creates-carbon-crimes/print/">carbon
crimes</a>, <a href="http://e360.yale.edu/feature/a_troubling_decline_in_the_caribou_herds_of_the_arctic_/2321/">caribou
decline</a>,
<a href="http://greenanswers.com/news/274241/effects-climate-change-fuels-sex-trade-cambodia">
Cambodian sex trade fuelled</a>,
<a href="http://www.sanfranciscosentinel.com/?p=8430">camel
deaths</a>, <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1336810/Climate-change-cancer-UN-report-warns-deadly-pollutants-glaciers.html">cancer</a>,
<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/1161895.stm">cancer
deaths in England</a>,<a href="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/brent-baker/2008/04/02/turner-iraqi-insurgents-patriots-inaction-warming-cannibalism">
cannibalism</a>, <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/environment/global-warming/Climate-change-increases-cataract-risk/articleshow/2931836.cms">cataracts</a>,
<a href="http://www.thestar.com/article/190006">cats more amorous</a>,
<a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=16328547&dopt=Abstract">caterpillar
biomass shift</a>,<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/09/world/europe/09cave.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin">
cave paintings threatened</a>,
<a href="http://www.uvm.edu/%7Euvmpr/?Page=news&storyID=13395">chagas disease</a>, <a href="http://www.gm.tv/index.cfm?articleid=24717">childhood
insomnia,</a> <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/politics/climate-inaction-risks-childrens-wellbeing-20110705-1h0mj.html">children's
mental health</a>, <a href="http://www.alternet.org/health/148834/global_warming_could_lead_to_vast_chocolate_shortage_">chocolate
shortage</a>, <a href="http://archives.cnn.com/2000/NATURE/07/17/global.warming.enn/">Cholera</a>,
<a href="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2007/11/02/circumcision-rates-africa-decline-because-global-warming#comments">circumcision
in decline</a>, <a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/11/071102152636.htm">cirrus
disappearance</a>, <a href="http://www.muhajabah.com/clarkblog/2005/05/global_warming_and_national_se.php">civil
unrest</a>, <a href="http://www.sustainableenergy.qld.edu.au/fact/factsheet_2.html"> cloud
increase</a>, <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/national/southern-oceans-fizz-a-threat-to-marine-life-20110408-1d7w9.html">clownfish
get lost</a>, <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/08/26/eacoast126.xml">coast
beauty spots lost</a>, <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200703/s1871398.htm">cockroach
migration,</a> <a href="http://www.worldseafishing.com/news/194/ARTICLE/1682/2006-07-06.html">cod
go south,</a> <a href="http://www.terradaily.com/2007/080208050443.h29y1ps4.html">coffee
threatened</a>, <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSTRE5723CP20090803?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews">coffee
berry borer</a>, <a href="http://planetark.org/wen/56716">coffee berry disease,</a>
<a href="http://www.brightsurf.com/news/july_03/EDU_news_070703.php">cold
climate creatures survive</a>, <a href="http://mailgate.supereva.com/sci/sci.bio.ecology/msg05065.html">cold
spells</a>, <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/cold-spells-weird-cause/2006/07/03/1151778873599.html">cold
spells (Australia)</a>, <a href="http://sagharboronline.com/sagharborexpress/page-1/its-seal-season-10474">colder
waters (Long Island)</a>, <a href="http://sify.com/news/fullstory.php?id=14603730">cold
wave (India)</a>, <a href="http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90777/6865817.html">cold
weather (world)</a>, <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=12160105">cold
winters</a>, <a href="http://www.livescience.com/environment/050221_warming_health.html">computer
models</a>, <a href="http://www.numberwatch.co.uk/2005%20February.htm#tale">conferences</a>, <a href="http://www.planetark.com/avantgo/dailynewsstory.cfm?newsid=47375">conflict</a>,
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/mar/10/eu.climatechange/print">conflict
with Russia</a>, <a href="http://www.ethicalcorp.com/content.asp?ContentID=5785&rss=36.xml">consumers
foot the bill</a>, <a href="http://www.climatelawsuit.org/">coral
bleaching</a>,<a href="http://news.smh.com.au/national/climate-change-to-affect-coral-fish-20080616-2r90.html">
coral fish suffer</a>, <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/rn/science/earth/stories/s211822.htm">coral
reefs dying</a>, <a href="http://news.scotsman.com/scitech.cfm?id=1407602004">coral
reefs grow,</a> <a href="http://www.bluewaternetwork.org/campaign_gw_wildlife.shtml">coral
reefs shrink</a>, <a href="http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=42464">coral
reefs twilight</a>, <a href="http://mailgate.supereva.com/sci/sci.bio.ecology/msg05065.html">
</a><a href="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10405800">cost
of trillions</a>, <a href="http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=c5e6120a-be10-4497-8f32-cd8585e5ca33&k=51234">cougar
attacks</a>, <a href="http://wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com/2008/08/27/global-warming-creates-crabgrass-menace/">crabgrass
menace</a>, <a href="http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,547763,00.html">
cradle of civilisation threatened</a>, <a href="http://www.livescience.com/animals/080612-mountain-species.html">creatures
move uphill,</a> <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200611/s1779067.htm">crime
increase</a>, <a href="http://www.inthenews.co.uk/news/news/science/crocodile-gender-affected-by-global-warming-$459349.htm">crocodile
sex,</a> <a href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20727683.600-climate-change-could-drive-crocs-out-of-the-water.html">crocodiles
driven from water</a>, <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7220807.stm">crops
devastated</a>, <a href="http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-10/uol-cfs100710.php">crop
failures increase</a>, <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-arctic-animals-20101216,0,439283.story?track=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+latimes%2Fmostviewed+%28L.A.+Times+-+Most+Viewed+Stories%29">cross-breeding</a>,
<a href="http://www.canada.com/cityguides/winnipeg/info/story.html?id=c46f7949-4a86-40ae-8c9c-78366355bbdd&k=80218">crumbling
roads, buildings and sewage systems</a>, <a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=spread-of-deadly-cryptococcal-disease-in-northwest-linked-to-global-warming">cryptococcal
disease</a>, <a href="http://www.mercurynews.com/education/ci_8269190">curriculum
change</a>, <a href="http://ams.allenpress.com/amsonline/?request=get-abstract&doi=10.1175%2F1520-0442%282000%29013%3C3029:TCIINA%3E2.0.CO%3B2">cyclones
(Australia)</a>, <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/nature/damselflies-in-distress-forced-back-to-uk-by-climate-change-2032220.html">damselflies
forced back to UK</a>, <a href="http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/571505_2">danger
to kid's health</a>, <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/prem/200704/darfur-climate">Darfur</a>,
<a href="http://www.lse.co.uk/ShowStory.asp?story=US3138044N&news_headline=global_warming_saving_threatened_birds_">Dartford
Warbler plague</a>, <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/arts/media/blogs/popculture/2010/10/imaginenative-2010-inuit-knowledge-and-climate-change.html">daylight
increase,</a> <a href="http://www.physorg.com/news157733711.html">deadly
virus outbreaks</a>, </span><a href="http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/42922/story.htm"><span style="font-size: large;">death
rate increase (US)</span></a><span style="font-size: large;">, <a href="http://www.c3headlines.com/2010/11/global-warming-causes-massive-drop-in-death-rates-opposite-of-ipcc-predictions-peer-reviewed-study-c.html">death
rate drop</a>, <a href="http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/scarewatch/6_billion.html">deaths
to reach 6 million,</a> <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/2010/nov/04/united-nations-human-development-report">decades
of progress at risk</a>, <a href="http://www.worldclimatereport.com/index.php/2005/11/22/overstating-health-impacts-of-global-warming">Dengue hemorrhagic
fever</a>, <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/feeling-under-the-weather/2008/04/06/1207420202584.html">depression</a>,
<a href="http://www.worldclimatereport.com/index.php/2005/11/22/overstating-health-impacts-of-global-warming">desert
advance</a>, <a href="http://www.awitness.org/journal/good_global_warming.html">desert
retreat</a>, <a href="http://rwor.org/a/052/globalwarming-en.html">destruction of the
environment</a>, <a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/court_and_social/article6017454.ece">dig
sites threatened</a>, <a href="http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=29154&Cr=Disaster&Cr1=Climate">disasters</a>, <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/04/AR2006050401931_pf.html">diseases
move north</a>, <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/globalwarming/7904497/Malaysia-closes-diving-reefs-to-save-coral.html">diving
reefs closed</a>, <a href="http://www.insidebayarea.com/animals/ci_11927138">dog
disease</a>, <a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/article4902669.ece">dozen
deadly diseases</a> - <a href="http://www.physorg.com/news157809539.html">or not</a>,
<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_4440000/newsid_4445000/4445054.stm">drought</a>,
<a href="http://www.lawildlifefed.org/articles_detail.cfm?id=41">ducks
and geese decline</a>, <a href="http://www.socialistaction.org/feb05_14.htm">dust bowl in the corn
belt</a>, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/10/garden/10dust.html?pagewanted=1&_r=2&hpw">dust
doubles</a>, <a href="http://www.bushgreenwatch.org/mt_archives/000107.php">earlier pollen
season</a>, <a href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17657-global-warming-could-change-earths-tilt.html">Earth
axis tilt</a>, <a href="http://www.countercurrents.org/cc-rizvi250706.htm">Earth
biodiversity crisis</a>, <a href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20827825.100-a-warming-world-could-leave-cities-flattened.html">Earth
crumbling</a>, <a href="http://www.countercurrents.org/cc-flavin250706.htm">Earth
dying</a>, <a href="http://www.brightsurf.com/news/headlines/24600/World_to_be_even_hotter_by_century39s_end.html">Earth
even hotter</a>, <a href="http://www.sci-tech-today.com/story.xhtml?story_id=24287">Earth light
dimming</a>, <a href="http://www.livescience.com/environment/050629_lopsided_planet.html">Earth
lopsided,</a> <a href="http://www.countercurrents.org/cc-carrell041005.htm">Earth
melting</a>, <a href="http://www.countercurrents.org/cc-lovelock200106.htm">Earth
morbid fever</a>, <a href="http://www.brightsurf.com/news/headlines/23111/Studies_of_ancient_climates_suggest_Earth_is_now_on_a_fast_track_to_global_warming.html">Earth
on fast track</a>, <a href="http://www.countercurrents.org/cc-mccarthy200106.htm">Earth
past point of no return</a>, <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1816860.stm">Earth slowing down</a>,
<a href="http://environment.newscientist.com/article/dn11555-global-warming-will-make-earth-spin-faster.html">Earth
spins faster,</a> <a href="http://nujournal.net/core.pdf">Earth to explode</a>,<a href="http://www.countercurrents.org/cc-monbiot210905.htm">
earth upside down</a>, <a href="http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/news/topstory/2004/0715glacierquakes.html">earthquakes</a>,
<a href="http://http//geoff82.wordpress.com/2008/06/19/ap-cbs-pwned-by-aura-reading-charlatan/">earthquakes
redux</a>, <a href="http://ecolu-info.unige.ch/archives/envcee98/0062.html">El Niño
intensification</a>,<a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2008/01/14/1200159359396.html?page=fullpage">
end of the world as we know it</a>, <a href="http://www.nwf.org/news/story.cfm?pageId=867DBCA1-F1F6-7B10-369BEE5595525202">erosion</a>,
<a href="http://depts.washington.edu/eminf/2004/mod1topic1/">emerging infections</a>,
<a class="noline" href="http://www.newscientist.com/channel/earth/climate-change/mg19025454.700-evangelicals-and-environmentalists-united.html">encephalitis,</a>
<a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/03/31/easwamp131.xml">English
villages lost</a>, <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7017415.stm">equality
threatened</a>, <a href="http://www.heartland.org/Article.cfm?artId=18445">Europe simultaneously
baking and freezing</a>, <a href="http://www.hs.fi/english/article/Climate+change+boosts+eutrophication+in+Gulf+of+Finland+/1135234603147">eutrophication</a>,
<a href="http://tomnelson.blogspot.com/2011/12/settled-science-everyplace-to-be-hit-by.html">
everyplace hit hardest</a>,
<a href="http://climatesci.atmos.colostate.edu/files/sideways.pdf">expansion of university climate groups</a>,
<span style="color: red;"><b> extinctions</b></span>
(<a href="http://sify.com/news/apes-running-out-of-time-due-to-global-warming-news-international-khxqOgahbjd.html">apes</a>,
<a href="http://dc.indymedia.org/newswire/display/114245/index.php">human</a>, <a href="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/category/story.cfm?c_id=26&objectid=3611421">civilisation,</a> <a href="http://planetsave.com/blog/2008/12/15/conservationists-warn-koalas-could-be-headed-for-extinction/">koalas</a>, <a href="http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-05/aaft-agt050710.php">lizards</a>, <a href="http://www.cato.org/dailys/01-13-04-2.html">
logic</a>, <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1104241,00.html">Inuit</a>,
<a href="http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-08/bpl-gwe080505.php">smallest
butterfly</a>, <a href="http://www.eurocean2004.com/pdf/CN04-5.pdf">cod,</a> <a href="http://yalandasblog.blogspot.com/2007/10/penguins-will-be-extinct-very-soon.html">
penguins</a>, <a href="http://www.pikaworks.com/pikas/latimes-article-303.html">pikas</a>,
<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35233-2004Nov8.html">polar bears</a>,
<a href="http://www.brighthub.com/environment/science-environmental/articles/19448.aspx">possums</a>,
<a href="http://news.mongabay.com/2006/0413-walrus.html">walrus</a>, <a href="http://www.merinews.com/article/global-warming-a-threat-to-royal-bengal-tigers/131098.shtml">tigers</a>,
<a href="http://www.utexas.edu/opa/news/03newsreleases/nr_200301/nr_parmesan030101.html">toads</a>, <a href="http://www.seaturtle-world.com/sea-turtles-global-warming.html">turtles</a>,
<a href="http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/736690722?ltl=1151169284">pandas</a>,
<a href="http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/736690722?ltl=1151169284">penguins</a>,
<a href="http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2004-01/ci-ccm010504.php">plants</a>,
<a href="http://www.wildlifetrust.org.uk/herts/news%20and%20projects/london_ladybird_survey.htm">ladybirds</a>,
<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4522663.stm">rhinoceros</a>, <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/3400155.stm">salmon</a>, <a href="http://www.nrdc.org/globalWarming/ntrout.asp">trout</a>,
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0617-09.htm">wild flowers</a>, <a href="http://www.nhm.ac.uk/woodlice/conclusions2.html">woodlice</a>,
<a href="http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2004-01/ci-ccm010504.php">a million
species</a>, <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/04/30/862/">half of all
animal and plant species</a>, <a href="http://www.co2-handel.de/article311_7547.html">mountain
species</a>, <a href="http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=143012005">not
polar bears</a>, <a href="http://theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,21141214-601,00.html">barrier
reef</a>, <a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/09/070905095335.htm">leaches</a>,
<a href="http://www.newspostonline.com/uncategorized/salamanders-may-soon-become-extinct-due-to-global-warming-2009021032603">salamanders</a>,
<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7384807.stm">tropical insects</a>, <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/jul/07/flowering-plants-threat">flowers</a>) <a href="http://www.newscientist.com/channel/earth/climate-change/mg18925403.900-us-agencies-accused-of-muzzling-climate-experts.html">experts
muzzled</a>, <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/08/17/1092508476887.html">extreme changes to
California</a>, <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,303779,00.html">fading
fall foliage</a>, <a href="http://rwor.org/a/052/globalwarming-en.html">famine</a>,<a href="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10512754"> farmers
benefit</a>, <a href="http://temagami.carleton.ca/jmc/cnews/18102002/n1.shtml">farmers
go under</a>, <a href="http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23681267-30417,00.html">farm
output boost</a>, <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/agriculture/farming/6828878/Britain-facing-food-crisis-as-worlds-soil-vanishes-in-60-years.html">farming
soil decline</a>, <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2007/10/09/eafash109.xml">fashion
disaster</a>, <a href="http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,21269012-661,00.html">fever</a>,
<a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1612958,00.html">figurehead
sacked</a>, <a href="http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2004037053_trees27m.html">fir
cone bonanza</a>, <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7968745.stm">fires
fanned in Nepal</a>, <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/07/11/2300949.htm">fish
bigger</a>, <a href="http://www.all-creatures.org/articles/env-bio.html">fish
catches drop</a>, <a href="http://www.physorg.com/news119290923.html">fish
downsize</a>,
<a href="http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/dn13417-global-warming-poses-deaf-threat-to-tropical-fish.html?feedId=online-news_rss20">fish
deaf,</a> <a href="http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-07/uoc-gfo072910.php">fish
feminised</a>, <a href="http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23334655-13762,00.html">fish get
lost</a>, <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/4604439/Tropical-fish-swimming-north-because-of-global-warming.html">fish
head north</a>, <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSSYD15802020080307">fish
lopsided</a>, <a href="http://www.thetimes.co.za/News/Article.aspx?id=1036945">fish
shrinking</a>, <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2007/02/02/1838718.htm?site=science&topic=latest">fish
stocks at risk</a>, <a href="http://www.indiaresource.org/issues/energycc/2003/humancostofcc.html">fish stocks
decline</a>, <a href="http://www.medindia.net/news/view_news_main.asp?x=5777&t=6">five
million illnesses</a>, <a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/08/070815152912.htm">flesh
eating disease</a>, <a href="http://en.cop15.dk/news/view+news?newsid=2341">flies
on Everest</a>, <a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/weather/article2010203.ece">flood
patterns change</a>, <a href="http://www.watsoninstitute.org/gs/Security_Matrix/environment.htm">floods</a>,
<a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=arFSVHVmF0Tw&refer=home"> floods
of beaches and cities</a>, <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/mar/10/climatechange.eu/print">flood
of migrants,</a> <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/02/01/MNC9UOA3M.DTL">flood
preparation for crisis</a>, <a href="http://www.alphagalileo.org/ViewItem.aspx?ItemId=58549&CultureCode=en">flora
dispersed</a>, <a href="http://www.nrdc.org/media/pressReleases/011023.asp">Florida
economic decline</a>, <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2007/12/19/eabloom219.xml">flowers
in peril</a>,<a href="http://www.montrealgazette.com/technology/Bees+flowers+wilted+climate+change+Study/3491208/story.html">
flowers wilt</a>, <a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/greenspace/2010/08/global-warming-san-bernardino-flying-squirrel.html">flying
squirrels move up</a>, <a href="http://www.sfchroniclemarketplace.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/07/06/DDJT187GK9.DTL">fog
increase in San Francisco</a>, <a href="http://www.sfchroniclemarketplace.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/07/06/DDJT187GK9.DTL">fog
decrease in San Francisco</a>, <a href="http://www.canada.com/cityguides/winnipeg/info/story.html?id=c46f7949-4a86-40ae-8c9c-78366355bbdd&k=80218">food
poisoning</a>, <a href="http://www.abcnews.go.com/WNT/GlobalWarming/story?id=2277893&page=1">food
prices rise</a>, <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/7148880.stm">food
prices soar</a>, <a href="http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/secondhandsmoke/2010/08/17/scientists-say-global-warming-could-increase-food-production/">food
production increased</a>, <a href="http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/02/22/theory-climate-change-to-affect-food-safety/">food
safety affected</a>, <a href="http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=45458">food
security threat (SA)</a>, <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,422503,00.html">football
team migration</a>, <a href="http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/science/arctic-climate-impact-assessment.html">forest
decline</a>, <a href="http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/science/arctic-climate-impact-assessment.html"> forest
expansion</a>, <a href="hhttp://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/04/garden/04foundation.html">foundations
threatened</a>, <a href="http://philanthropy.com/article/Foundations-Increase-Support/63203/">foundations
increase grants</a>, <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/animals/newsid_3537000/3537617.stm">frog
with extra heads</a>, <a href="http://www.nwf.org/yourglobalwarmingstory/quilt.cfm?action=next&page=2&nextStartID=3505">frosts</a>, <a href="http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/news/16887788.htm">frostbite</a>,
<a href="http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-03/aiob-wgw022808.php">frost
damage increased</a>, <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6524013.stm">fungi fruitful</a>, <a href="http://news.scotsman.com/scitech.cfm?id=1216572004">fungi
invasion</a>, <a href="http://www.livescience.com/environment/070405_fungus_fruiting.html">fungi
rot the world,</a> <a href="http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55070">games
change</a>, <a href="http://www.newscientist.com/channel/earth/climate-change/mg18925424.400-hidden-garden-of-eden-wilts-as-earth-warms.html">Garden
of Eden wilts</a>, <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/hampshire/7963834.stm">geese
decline in Hampshire</a>, <a href="http://www.scienceagogo.com/news/20030113005339data_trunc_sys.shtml">genetic
changes</a>, <a href="http://www.brightsurf.com/news/sept_04/EDU_news_090804_d.php">genetic
diversity decline,</a> <a href="http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn6359">gene
pools slashed</a>, <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-na-yellowstone6-2009dec06,0,722324,full.story">geysers
imperiled,</a> <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/australia/6768364/Giant-iceberg-heading-for-Australia.html">giant
icebergs (Australia)</a>, <a href="http://www.stuff.co.nz/manawatu-standard/news/world-news/4011691/Giant-iceberg-could-pose-threat-to-oil-shipping">giant
icebergs (Arctic)</a>, <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/nature/invasion-of-the-giant-oysters-793155.html">giant
oysters invade,</a> <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2008-02-20-burmese-pythons_N.htm">giant
pythons invade</a>, <a href="http://www.ktvu.com/news/14782345/detail.html?rss=fran&psp=news">giant
squid migrate</a>, <a href="http://www.terradaily.com/2006/061211182846.nwcc15td.html">gingerbread
houses collapse</a>, <a href="http://www.world-science.net/othernews/060323_glacialfrm.htm">glacial
earthquakes</a>, <a href="http://www.natexaminer.com/warming/glacier.html">glacial retreat,
</a> <a href="http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2043047/posts">glacier
grows (California)</a>, <a href="http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/2010/01/12/glaciers-on-snowdon-warning-91466-25576951/">glaciers
on Snowden</a>, <a href="http://www.panda.org/news_facts/newsroom/news/index.cfm?uNewsID=20460">glacier
wrapped</a>,
<a href="http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2012/08/02/romm-mckibben-think-that-glass-melts-at-114f/">
glass melts</a>, <a href="http://www.dinosauria.com/jdp/news/freeze.html">global
cooling</a>, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2006/05/27/nasa-investigating-myster_n_21724.html">glowing
clouds</a>, <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/7666809.stm">golf
course to drown</a>, <a href="http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/global_warming_wrecks_masters_with_heat_no_cold_no/">golf
Masters wrecked</a>, <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601086&sid=alYpYphnXuEQ">grain
output drop (China)</a>, <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-04-19/global-warming-reduces-grain-output-in-inflation-ridden-india.html">grain
output stagnating (India)</a>, <a href="http://www.heartland.org/Article.cfm?artId=15390">grandstanding</a>,
<a href="http://www.brightsurf.com/news/aug_03/EDU_news_080503_d.php">grasslands
wetter</a>, <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/melting-ice-could-cause-gravity-shift-1685201.html">gravity
shift</a>, <a href="http://news.mongabay.com/2005/1117-corals.html">Great
Barrier Reef 95% dead</a>, <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7390109.stm">great
tits cope</a>, <a href="http://www.scienceblog.com/community/older/2002/E/20023652.html">greening
of the North</a>, <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=070712072227.r2enhwme&show_article=1">Grey
whales lose weight</a>, <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/flash/0,5860,1656541,00.html">Gulf
Stream failure</a>, <a href="http://www.foe.co.uk/resource/briefing_notes/habitats_cchange.pdf">habitat
loss</a>, <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/highlands_and_islands/7648481.stm">haggis
threatened</a>, <a href="http://climate.wri.org/pubs_content_text.cfm?ContentID=2149">Hantavirus pulmonary
syndrome</a>, <a href="http://www.sentienttimes.com/01/dec_jan01/global_warming.html">harvest
increase</a>, <a href="http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/full/101/27/9971"> harvest
shrinkage</a>, <a href="http://www.indiaresource.org/issues/energycc/2003/humancostofcc.html"> hay fever
epidemic</a>, <a href="http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/society/health/climate+change+affecting+health/1400662">health
affected</a>, <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/weather/climate/globalwarming/2007-10-28-kids-effects_N.htm">health
of children harmed</a>,<span style="font-family: Arial;">
</span><a href="http://www.terradaily.com/2007/080924094723.8xnes5ex.html"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">health
risks</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial;">, </span><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/graphic/2007/12/17/GR2007121700096.html">health
risks (even more)</a><span style="font-family: Arial;">, </span><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-10917611">heart
deaths</a>,<span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span><a href="http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/09/05/europe/EU-MED-Global-Warming-Hearts.php">heart
disease,</a><span style="font-family: Arial;">
</span><a href="http://www.smh.com.au/news/National/Climate-change-causes-big-health-risks/2007/10/29/1193555562082.html">heart
attacks and strokes (Australia)</a>,<span style="font-family: Arial;">
</span><a href="http://www.nrdc.org/globalWarming/fcons.asp">heat waves,</a> <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-432937/The-hedgehog-global-balding.html">hedgehogs
bald</a>, <a href="http://www.physorg.com/news121442537.html">hibernation
affected</a>, <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,1792631,00.html">hibernation
ends too soon</a>, <a href="http://www.wtopnews.com/index.php?nid=456&sid=825556">hibernation
ends too late</a>, <a href="http://www.bloggernews.net/15903">homeless 50
million</a>,
<a href="http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/04/28/climate-craziness-of-the-week-global-warming-blamed-for-increase-in-major-league-home-runs/">
home runs</a>, <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/02/21/whornets21.xml">hornets,</a>
<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7113576.stm">human
development faces unprecedented reversal</a>, <a href="http://www.malebiologicalclock.com/docs/Global%20Temperature%20change%20and%20Fertility.pdf">human
fertility reduced</a>, <a href="http://www.ccsa.asn.au/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=260&Itemid=233">human
health risk</a>, <a href="http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2004065445_webclimate11.html">human
race oblivion</a>, <a href="http://allafrica.com/stories/201007210414.html">human
rights violations</a>, <a href="http://www.indiaresource.org/issues/energycc/2003/humancostofcc.html">hurricanes</a>,
<a href="http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/41434/story.htm">hurricane
reduction</a>, <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7404846.stm">hurricanes
fewer</a>, <a href="http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/41592">hurricanes
more intense</a>, <a href="http://wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com/2008/05/19/hurricanes-to-global-warming-link-blown-away/">hurricanes
not</a>, <a href="http://www.irn.org/programs/greenhouse/index.php?id=020921.huanza.html">hydropower
problems</a>, <a href="http://www.svcn.com/archives/almadenresident/20060504/columns1.shtml">hyperthermia
deaths</a>, <a href="http://womennewsnetwork.net/2010/11/02/lakotaelderwomen-1008/">hyphthermia
deaths</a>, <a href="http://armageddoncocktailhour.wordpress.com/2006/08/25/an-ice-age-caused-by-global-warming/">ice
age</a>,<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/mar/05/canada-climate-change-ice-hockey?intcmp=122">
ice hockey extinct</a>,
<a href="http://www.scienceagogo.com/news/20020927213400data_trunc_sys.shtml">ice sheet
growth</a>, <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2001/02/02/archive/main269304.shtml"> ice sheet
shrinkage</a>,<a href="http://planetark.org/wen/50693"> icebergs</a>, <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/aug/10/greenland-ice-sheet-tipping-point">ice sheet
tipping point</a>, <a href="http://gatewaypundit.rightnetwork.com/2010/12/cancun-climate-change-conference-illegal-immigration-caused-by-global-warmin/">illegal
immigration</a>, <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/04/17/MNGFCP9UL41.DTL">illness
and death</a>, <a href="http://www.tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=030206E">inclement weather</a>,
<a href="http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/Global-warming-affecting-Indian-coastline-Govt/298100/">India
drowning</a>, <a href="http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.html?id=b976f438-0cc0-4a9d-acd9-61a842fe55c5&k=96357">infrastructure
failure (Canada)</a>, <a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/01/100111-global-warming-indigestion-monkeys-gorillas/">indigestion</a>,
<a href="http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2005/09/08/59279.htm">industry
threatened</a>, <a href="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=5&ObjectID=10406281">infectious
diseases</a>, i<a href="http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=39144">nflation
in China</a>,<a href="http://http//www.independent.co.uk/environment/nature/insect-explosion-a-threat-to-food-crops-781016.html">
insect
explosion,</a> <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/climatechange/5463255/Nine-alien-insects-to-cause-pain-illness-and-even-death-in-Britain-as-climate-warms-up.html">insect
invasion</a>, <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/09/26/1064083194606.html">insurance premium
rises</a>, <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6908719/site/newsweek/">Inuit
displacement</a>, <a href="http://lists.envirolink.org/pipermail/ar-news/Week-of-Mon-20040510/024939.html">Inuit
poisoned</a>, <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4511556.stm">Inuit
suing</a>, <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/6470529/Earthworm-invaders-nudging-out-British-species.html">invasion
of alien worms,</a> <a href="http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/offbeat-news/global-warming-alien-invasion-antarctica/740">invasion
of Antarctic aliens</a>, <a href="http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1962108,00.html">invasion
of Asian carp</a>, <a href="http://www.physorg.com/news197206539.html">invasion
of cane toads</a>, <a href="http://allafrica.com/stories/201010200815.html">invasion
of caterpillars</a>, <a href="http://www.livescience.com/animals/070606_gw_pets.html">invasion
of cats</a>, <a href="http://www.livescience.com/environment/081203-nhm-crabgrass-lawns.html">invasion
of crabgrass</a>, <a href="http://environment.independent.co.uk/wildlife/article2617442.ece">invasion
of herons</a>, <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/7195823.stm">invasion
of jellyfish</a>, <a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090702080354.htm">invasion
of king crabs</a>, <a href="http://www.superiortelegram.com/event/article/id/41193/group/News/">invasion
of lampreys</a>, <a href="http://www.numberwatch.co.uk/August%202000.htm">invasion of
midges</a>, <a href="http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-09/ufsp-rob090810.php">invasion
of pine beetles</a>, <a href="http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/182624">invasion
of rats (China)</a>, <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/ecology/3304366/Slugs-benefit-from-global-warming.html">invasion
of slugs</a>, <a href="http://www.heatisonline.org/contentserver/objecthandlers/index.cfm?ID=4658&Method=Full&PageCall=&Title=Hawaii%20Sees%20Varied%20Impacts%20of%20Climate%20Change&Cache=False">
island disappears</a>, <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/3930765.stm">islands
sinking</a>, <a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/science/earth-environment/article6917217.ece">Italy
robbed of pasta</a>, <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13046200/">itchier poison ivy</a>,
<a href="http://environment.change.org/blog/view/climate_change_threatens_japans_cherry_blossoms">Japan's
cherry blossom threatened</a>, <a href="http://www.heatisonline.org/contentserver/objecthandlers/index.cfm?ID=4003&Method=Full&PageCall=&Title=Jellyfish%20Flourish%20As%20Water%20Warms&Cache=False">jellyfish
explosion</a>, <a href="http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/0,1518,547335,00.html">jets
fall from sky</a>, <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2006/07/09/cnkew09.xml">Kew
Gardens taxed</a>, <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Global_Warming/Global_warming_link_to_kidney_stones/articleshow/3043921.cms">kidney
stones</a>, <a href="http://news.smh.com.au/climate-change--killer-cornflakes/20080513-2dm3.html">killer
cornflakes</a>, <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/feb/26/climatechange.carbonemissions">killing
us</a>, <a href="http://www.thestar.com/article/190006">kitten boom</a>, <a href="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10502412">koalas
leaves inedible</a>, <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/05/07/eakoala107.xml">koalas
under threat</a>, <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000081&sid=axArg8h6ig8U&refer=australia">krill
decline</a>, <a href="http://www.planet-action.org/web/142-cachet-2-glacial-lake-in-chile-suddenly-empties.php">
lake empties</a>, <a href="http://english.people.com.cn/200707/03/eng20070703_389669.html">lake
shrinking and growing</a>, <a href="http://carbonplanet.com/blog/?m=200601">landslides</a>, <a href="http://www.livescience.com/forcesofnature/041222_permafrost.html">landslides
of ice at 140 mph</a>, <a href="http://www.usgs.gov/newsroom/article.asp?ID=2264&from=rss">large
trees decline</a>, <a href="http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2465/is_8_30/ai_67448382">lawsuits
increase</a>, <a href="http://www.climatelawsuit.org/">lawsuit successful,</a>
<a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,99627,00.html">lawyers'
income increased (surprise surprise!)</a>, <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/climatechange/3530607/Lawyers-call-for-international-court-for-the-environment.html">lawyers
want more</a>, <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/09/17/ealegionnaire117.xml">legionnaires'
surge</a>, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/21/business/economy/21view.html">
lives lost</a>,
<a href="http://io9.com/5875545/global-warming-might-make-lizards-super+intelligent">
lizards super intelligent</a>, <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7240463.stm">lives
saved</a>,
<a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/story/2012/02/27/ns-lobster-climate-change.html">
lobsters grow</a>, <a href="http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/2008/02/13/veteran-loch-ness-monster-hunter-gives-up-86908-20317853/">Loch
Ness monster dead</a>, l<a href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16137-locust-plagues-may-be-eased-by-global-warming.html">ocust
plagues suppressed</a>, <a href="http://www2.timesdispatch.com/rtd/lifestyles/health_med_fit/article/I-OXYG0305_20100408-224502/336104/">low
oxygen zones threaten sea life</a>, <a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article2500311.ece">lush
growth in rain forests</a>, <a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090426182944.htm">Lyme
disease</a>, <a href="http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2010/06/04_climate.shtml">Major
vegetation shifts</a>, <a href="http://www.epcc.pref.osaka.jp/apec/eng/earth/global_warming/dounaru.html">Malaria,</a>
<a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/02/110202102908.htm"> Malaria
decline</a>, <a href="http://www.ippnw.org/MGS/V7N2Gross.html">malnutrition,</a>
<a href="http://http//news.softpedia.com/news/Mammoth-Dung-is-Going-to-Boom-the-Global-Warming-66193.shtml">mammoth
dung melt</a>, <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/8026187/Russia-digs-up-woolly-mammoth-remains-for-guilt-free-ivory.html">mammoth
ivory bonanza</a>, <a href="http://ht.ly/9mvbG">manatees battle</a>, <a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article4092866.ece">mango
harvest fails</a>, <a href="http://www.physorg.com/news125679824.html">Maple
production advanced,</a> <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/laurie-david/global-warming-comes-to-t_b_15775.html">Maple syrup
shortage</a>, <a href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19207-baby-boomer-marmots-fatten-up-with-climate-change.html">marmots
fatter</a>, <a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/09/990908080025.htm">marine
diseases,</a> <a href="http://www.heatisonline.org/contentserver/objecthandlers/index.cfm?ID=5148&Method=Full&PageCall=&Title=RCCE%20Would%20Decimate%20Marine%20Food%20Chain&Cache=False">marine
food chain decimated,</a> <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,895217,00.html">Meaching
(end of the world)</a>, <a href="http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,26265639-601,00.html">Meat
eating to stop</a>, <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7197379.stm">Mediterranean
rises</a>, <a href="http://eobglossary.gsfc.nasa.gov/Newsroom/Headlines/2003/200312.html">megacryometeors</a>,
<a href="http://library.thinkquest.org/J003411/health.htm">Melanoma</a>, <a href="http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/4777870a11.html">Melanoma
decline</a>, <a href="http://news.discovery.com/earth/climate-change-metal-health.html">mental
health decline</a>, <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/02/global_warming_causes_mental_i.html">mental
illness</a>, <a href="http://www.carbon-info.org/carbonnews_028.htm">methane
emissions from plants</a>, <a href="http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2005/02/01/global_warming_methane_could_be_far_worse_than_carbon_dioxide.htm">methane
burps</a>,<a href="http://www.planetark.com/avantgo/dailynewsstory.cfm?newsid=47071">
methane runaway</a>, <a href="http://www.watsoninstitute.org/gs/Security_Matrix/environment.htm">melting
permafrost</a>, <a href="http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100726/full/news.2010.375.html">Mexican
climate migrant flood</a>, <a href="http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?ItemID=10083">Middle
Kingdom convulses</a>, <a href="http://www.newsrx.com/newsletters/TB-and-Outbreaks-Week/2006-01-17/0117200633318TW.html">migration</a>,
<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/5017346.stm">migratory
birds huge losses</a>, <a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0421/p09s01-coop.html">microbes to
decompose soil carbon more rapidly</a>, <a href="http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/2-annual-milk-production-loss-due-to-global-warming-research/109989/on">milk
production lost</a>, <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/climate-change-hits-minorities-hardest-793990.html?service=Print">minorities
hit,</a> <a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article6892468.ece">monkeys
at risk</a>, <a href="http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/45110/story.htm">monkeys
on the move</a>, <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2007/10/15/eamont115.xml">Mont
Blanc grows</a>,</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,279052,00.html">monuments
imperiled</a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: Arial;">, </span><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2008/03/20/moose_study/">moose
dying</a>,<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;"> </span><a href="http://www.physorg.com/news829.html">more
bad air days</a>, <a href="http://www.livescience.com/forcesofnature/041222_permafrost.html">more
research needed</a>, <a href="http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-01/su-fst010308.php">mortality
increased,</a> <a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/11/1105_TVmozzie.html">mosquitoes
adapting</a>, <a href="http://greennature.com/article2024.html">mountain
(Everest) shrinking</a>, <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/6665257.stm">mountaineers
fears,</a> <a href="http://travel.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1815404,00.html">mountains
break up</a>, <a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/05/080516121650.htm">mountains
green and flowering</a>, <a href="http://www.livescience.com/environment/060804_mountains_growing.html">mountains
taller</a>, <a href="http://www.worldclimatereport.com/index.php/2007/03/14/lower-mortality-thanks-to-global-warming/">mortality
lower</a>, <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/135144/">Mubarak fall</a>, <a href="http://www.dnaindia.com/scitech/report_global-warming-can-lead-to-increased-violence-in-human-beings_1361335">murder
rate increase</a>, <a href="http://www.science.psu.edu/news-and-events/2010-news/Shapiro3-2010">musk
ox decline</a>, <a href="http://www.businessandmedia.org/articles/2008/20080506160205.aspx">Myanmar
cyclone</a>, <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2008Apr25/0,4670,ClimateArcticAnimals,00.html">narwhals
at risk</a>, <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8972000/8972021.stm">narwhals
suffocate</a>, <a href="http://fwix.com/article/27_2ac584a9de">National Parks
damaged</a>, <a href="http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2007/04/09/bill_ties_climate_to_national_security/">National
security implications</a>, <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2044656/Native-wildlife-overwhelmed-by-invaders.html">native
wildlife overwhelmed</a>, <a href="http://www.armageddononline.org/index.php/Natural-Disasters/Natural-disasters-have-quadrupled-in-two-decades.html">natural
disasters quadruple</a>, <a href="http://www.ghananewsagency.org/s_health/r_16042/">neurological
diseases</a>, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/16/science/earth/16gree.html?_r=1&8dpc&oref=slogin">new
islands</a>, <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0130-11.htm">next
ice age</a>, <a href="http://www.wisconsinenvironment.org/newsroom/global-warming/global-warming-news/could-global-warming-threaten-the-packers-edge">NFL
threatened</a>, <a href="http://egyptology.blogspot.com/2005/07/damage-to-nile-delta-caused-by-climate.html">Nile
delta damaged</a>, <a href="http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/aim/multimedia/first_view.html">noctilucent
clouds</a>, <a href="http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=191806">no
effect in India</a>, <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6995999.stm">Northwest
Passage opened</a>, <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/feature/story/0,,1280884,00.html">nuclear
plants bloom</a>, <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml;jsessionid=SHPND5XGIT4OLQFIQMGSFGGAVCBQWIV0?xml=/earth/2008/01/13/eacountry113.xml">oaks
dying</a>, <a href="http://currents.ucsc.edu/05-06/10-31/oaks.asp">oaks
move north</a>, <a href="http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/03/16/study-blames-obesity-epidemic-on-rising-co2-levels/">
obesity</a>, <a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article3037440.ece">oblivion</a>,
<a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/09/990908080025.htm">ocean
acidification</a>, <a href="http://www.physorg.com/news146753497.html">ocean
acidification faster</a>, <a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article6868505.ece">ocean
dead spots</a>, <a href="http://www.windsorstar.com/Technology/Global+warming+could+unleash+ocean+dead+zones+study/1219371/story.html">ocean
dead zones unleashed</a>, <a href="http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2008/125/1">ocean
deserts expand</a>, <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2010/04/16/2874691.htm">ocean
salt extremes</a>, <a href="http://www.energybulletin.net/node/53693">ocean
oxygen crisis</a>, <a href="http://environment.newscientist.com/article/mg19426075.400-global-warming-is-speeding-up-ocean-waves.html">ocean
waves speed up</a>, <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/olympicsNews/idUSLU38985020090930">Olympic
Games to end</a>, <a href="http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=284933">opera
house to be destroyed</a>, <a href="http://www.globalexchange.org/war_peace_democracy/oil/3609.html">outdoor
hockey threatened</a>, <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_9401000/9401733.stm">owls
turn brown</a>, <a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/024392.html">oxygen
depletion zones</a>, <a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/08/100806-oyster-herpes-global-warming-climate-change-science/">oyster
herpes</a>, <a href="http://www.davidsuzuki.org/About_us/Dr_David_Suzuki/Article_Archives/weekly12130001.asp">ozone
repair slowed,</a> <a href="http://www.physorg.com/news829.html">ozone rise</a>, <a href="http://www.bangor.ac.uk/news/full.php.en?nid=6037&tnid=0">peat
bogs problem</a>,
<a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11/04/peat_bogs_not_a_problem_in_global_warming/">
peat bogs no problem</a>,
<a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/07/080702-endangered-penguins.html">penguin
chicks frozen,</a> <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/09/04/2676708.htm">penguin
chicks smaller</a>, <a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=thaw-deal-climate-change-could-leav-2010-07-29">penguins
in the dark</a>, <a href="http://www.newswise.com/articles/most-penguin-populations-continue-to-decline">penguin
populations devastated</a>, <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/globalwarming/7263568/Penguins-in-Antarctica-to-be-replaced-by-jellyfish-due-to-global-warming.html">penguins
replaced by jellyfish,</a>
<a href="http://grist.org/list/global-warming-affects-penguins-sex-lives/">
penguins sex lives affected</a>,
<a href="http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article1185365.ece">personal
carbon rationing</a>, <a href="http://www.forestry.gov.uk/fr/INFD-5ZXGXZ">pest
outbreaks</a>, <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/picture_gallery/05/sci_nat_how_the_world_is_changing/html/6.stm">pests
increase</a>, <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/climatechange/5429593/Climate-change-could-kill-your-pet-warns-the-RSPCA.html">pets
in danger</a>, <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=16321776&dopt=Abstract">phenology
shifts</a>, <a href="http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=global-warming-causes-pining-for-pinons">pines
decline</a>, <a href="http://borkweb.com/story/global-warming-causes-pirate-population-decrease">pirate
population decrease</a>, <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/06/AR2010080602815.html">pirates
run rampant</a>, <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,66651,00.html">plankton
blooms</a>, <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/jul/28/phytoplankton-decline-nature">plankton
plummeting</a>, <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0119-01.htm">plankton
wiped out</a>, <a href="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/climate-change/news/article.cfm?c_id=26&objectid=10552440">plants
lose protein</a>, <a href="http://www.eurocean2004.com/pdf/CN04-5.pdf">plants
march north</a>, <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7477279.stm">plants
move uphill</a>, <a href="http://www.wwf.ru/news/eng/?category=C&frctrg=1">
polar
bears aggressive</a>, <a href="http://http//www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article6949625.ece">polar
bears cannibalistic</a>, <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7638321.stm">polar
bears deaf,</a> <a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1938132,00.html">
polar
bears drowning</a>, <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/climatechange/8311137/Polar-bears-having-fewer-cubs-due-to-global-warming.html#">polar
bears fewer cubs</a>, <a href="http://travel.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,10295-2165655,00.html">polar
tours scrapped</a>, <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/7980954/Bee-decline-already-having-dramatic-effect-on-pollination-of-plants.html">pollination
halved</a>, <a href="http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/scitech.cfm?id=473922007">porpoise
astray</a>, <a href="http://money.guardian.co.uk/businessnews/article/0,,2109358,00.html">profits
collapse</a>, <a href="http://sify.com/news/scienceandmedicine/fullstory.php?id=14640012">psychiatric
illness</a>, <a href="http://www.nwf.org/%7E/media/PDFs/Global-Warming/Reports/Psych_Effects_Climate_Change_Full_3_23.ashx"> psychological
effects</a>, <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/07/28/npuff28.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/07/28/ixhome.html">puffin
decline</a>, </span><a href="http://www.gmanews.tv/story/177346/climate-change-pushes-poor-women-to-prostitution-dangerous-work">pushes
poor women into prostitution</a>,<span lang="EN-GB"> <a href="http://www.banderabulletin.com/articles/2009/04/08/news/564.txt">rabid
bats</a>, <a href="http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/12/07/cold-war-radar-taken-out-by-arctic-warming/">radars taken out</a>,<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11601014">
rail network threatened</a>, <a href="http://www.livescience.com/forcesofnature/041222_permafrost.html">railroad
tracks deformed</a>, <a href="http://archive.greenpeace.org/climate/flood_report/conc.html">rainfall
increase</a>, <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/7928296/Climate-change-could-destroy-80-per-cent-of-rainforest-by-next-century.html">rainforest
destruction</a>, <a href="http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2007/06/does-global-warming-cause-rape-waves.html">rape
wave</a>, <a href="http://usliberals.about.com/b/a/216554.htm">refugees</a>,
<a href="http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/player/popup/?rn=3906861&cl=11189834&ch=4226724&src=news">reindeer
endangered</a>, <a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,2763-2281368,00.html">reindeer
larger</a>, <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0928-02.htm">release of ancient frozen
viruses</a>, <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2001/09/09/AR2005041402506.html">resorts
disappear</a>,
<a href="http://www.medindia.net/news/climate-change-raises-incidence-of-respiratory-diseases-98890-1.htm">respiratory diseases worsen</a>, <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Global-warming-may-rob-basmati-of-its-fragrance/articleshow/7387659.cms">rice
less fragrant</a>, <a href="http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-08/uoc--htt080610.php">rice
production fall</a>, <a href="http://www.terradaily.com/2007/070817032314.vk6ti23m.html">rice
threatened,</a> <a href="http://archives.econ.utah.edu/archives/marxism/2004w26/msg00061.htm">rice
yields crash,</a> <a href="http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2002387475_warming18.html">rift on Capitol
Hill</a>, <a href="http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1153513,00.html">rioting
and nuclear war,</a> <a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/10/071012105820.htm">river
flow impacted</a>, <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/dec/07/climate-change-rerouting-semliki-river?CMP=EMCGT_081210&">river
rerouted</a>, <a href="http://www.newscientist.com/channel/earth/climate-change/dn8727-increased-cosub2sub-may-cause-plant-life-to-raise-rivers.html">rivers
raised</a>, <a href="http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/climate-change-blamed-for-tree-stress/story-e6frea83-1225835811623">road
accidents</a>, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/28/us/28climate.html?_r=1&oref=slogin">roads
wear out</a>, <a href="http://www.worldclimatereport.com/index.php/2008/03/28/the-red-red-koyapigaktoruk-comes-bob-bob-bobbin-along/">robins
rampant</a>, <a href="http://www.livescience.com/forcesofnature/041222_permafrost.html">rocky
peaks crack apart</a>, <a href="http://www.countercurrents.org/cc-lean080506.htm">roof
of the world a desert,</a> <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/news/epicure/raising-the-bar/2007/12/17/1197740130853.html?page=2">rooftop
bars</a>, <a href="http://chge.med.harvard.edu/publications/journals/documents/epi.pdf">Ross
river disease</a>, <a href="http://www.panda.org/news_facts/newsroom/news/index.cfm?uNewsID=140581">Russia
under pressure</a>, <a href="http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-05/uoia-ipt050306.php">salinity
reduction</a>, <a href="http://www.brightsurf.com/news/dec_03/NSF_news_121803_b.php">salinity
increase</a>, <a href="http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/33848/newsDate/6-Dec-2005/story.htm">Salmonella,</a>
<a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,2763-2281368,00.html">salmon
stronger,</a> <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/7921119.stm">sardine run
unpredictable</a>, <a href="http://www.livescience.com/environment/061211_upper_atmosphere.html">satellites
accelerate</a>,</span>
<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17223445">Schmallenberg
virus</a><span lang="EN-GB">, <a href="http://education.guardian.co.uk/schools/story/0,,2052886,00.html">school
closures</a>, <a href="http://www.nrdc.org/globalWarming/fcons.asp">sea level rise</a>,
<a href="http://www.countercurrents.org/cc-connor170206.htm">sea level rise
faster</a>, <a href="http://motherjones.com/blue-marble/2009/10/sea-snot-climate-change">sea
snot</a>, <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=422647&in_page_id=1770">seals
mating more</a>, <a href="http://www.articlesbase.com/environment-articles/will-global-warming-unleash-more-seismic-activity-77891.html">seismic
activity</a>, <a href="http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07276/822386-85.stm">sewer
bills rise</a>, <a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/12/071204121949.htm">severe
thunderstorms</a>, <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/stories/s1073835.htm">sex
change</a>, <a href="http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=147617">sexual
dysfunction</a>, <a href="http://news.theage.com.au/global-warming-set-to-fan-the-hiv-fire/20080430-29eh.html">
sexual promiscuity</a>, <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/may/04/wildlife.climatechange/print">shark
attacks</a>, <a href="http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/sharks/innews/alaskasharks2002.html">sharks
booming</a>,
<a href="http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/hybrid-sharks-found-in-australian-waters/story-e6frg12c-1226235321454">
sharks hybridise</a>, <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4096504.stm">sharks moving
north</a>, <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/5879613/Bye-bye-black-sheep-climate-change-making-sheep-change-colour.html">sheep
change colour</a>, <a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article1522223.ece">sheep
shrink</a>, <a href="http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=336672007">shop
closures</a>, <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/news/pets/shortnosed-dogs-endangered-as-heat-rises/2008/01/19/1200620272510.html">short-nosed
dogs endangered</a>, <a href="http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nation/5409874.html">shrimp
sex problems</a>, <a href="http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-10/uoaf-sps101206.php">shrinking
ponds</a>, <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/how-global-warming-shrank-st-kildas-sheep-1729609.html">shrinking
sheep</a>, <a href="http://www.hindustantimes.com/storypage/storypage.aspx?id=7ce09551-8e19-407f-b093-48931eb8945f&MatchID1=4482&TeamID1=6&TeamID2=3&MatchType1=2&SeriesID1=1117&PrimaryID=4482&Headline=%e2%80%98Global+warming%e2%80%99+shrinks+Shivalingam">
shrinking shrine</a>, <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601081&sid=au84zeUN9Qhk">Sidney
Opera House wiped out</a>, <a href="http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn4441">ski
resorts threatened</a>, <a href="http://womennewsnetwork.net/2010/04/16/kenya-climatechange-trafficking-892/">slavery</a>,
<a href="http://www.taiwantoday.tw/ct.asp?xItem=160795&ctNode=445">skinks
impacted</a>, <a href="http://www.amnestyusa.org/magazine/global_warming.html">slow
death</a>, <a href="http://www.brainbasedbusiness.com/2007/03/expect_smaller_brains.html">
smaller brains</a>, <a href="http://www.physorg.com/news829.html">smog</a>, <a href="http://oregonstate.edu/dept/ncs/newsarch/2006/Mar06/snow.htm">snowfall
decrease,</a> <a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2003/11/031106052121.htm">snowfall
increase</a>, <a href="http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/003200703150312.htm">snowfall
heavy</a>, <a href="http://www.thisisguernsey.com/2009/06/25/global-warming-plays-its-part-in-hampering-greenland-trek/">
snow thicker</a>, <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/7148880.stm">soaring
food prices</a>, <a href="http://www.scienceagogo.com/news/20010027175151data_trunc_sys.shtml">societal
collapse</a>, <a href="http://www.news.utoronto.ca/lead-stories/by-laura-matthews-new-research.html">soil
change</a>, <a href="http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/international/2011/07/05/205100.htm">soil
subsidence</a>, <a href="http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=5535">songbirds
change eating habits</a>, <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/07/10/tech/main1789525.shtml">sour
grapes</a>, <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-07-08/soybean-yields-to-drop-on-climate-ozone-u-s-researcher-says.html">soybean
crop to drop</a>, <a href="http://ecogeek.org/component/content/article/3206">space
junk increase</a>, <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/11/AR2006121101241.html">space
problem</a>, <a href="http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article359768.ece">spectacular
orchids</a>, <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-452264/Warning-rise-UKs-dangerous-spider-warmer-winters.html">spider
danger in UK</a>, <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1380703/Brown-recluse-spider-population-predicted-expand-northern-U-S-world-heats-up.html?ito=feeds-newsxml">spider
bites to increase</a>, <a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/05/090505-spiders-bigger-global-warming.html">spiders
getting bigger</a>, <a href="http://lofi.forum.physorg.com/Global-warming-forces-spiders-to-migrate-northward_3132.html">spiders
invade Scotland</a>, <a href="http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/story/345666.html">squid
aggressive giants</a>, <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/scitech/2002/08/item20020801155009_1.htm">squid
larger</a>, <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=241853&page=1">squid population
explosion</a>, <a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article5348708.ece">squid
tamed</a>, <a href="http://www.heatisonline.org/contentserver/objecthandlers/index.cfm?ID=4349&Method=Full&PageCall=&Title=Squirrel%20Reproduction%20Altered%20by%20Warming&Cache=False">squirrels
reproduce earlier</a>, <a href="http://echinoblog.blogspot.com/2010/07/another-worry-from-global-warming.html">starfish
sperm eaten by parasites</a>, <a href="http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/article-1027624/Killer-stingray-British-coast-experts-warn-arrive-global-warming.html">stingray
invasion</a>, <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-08-19/caribbean-storm-damage-costs-may-rise-505-with-global-warming.html">storm
damage costs rise</a>, <a href="http://www.physorg.com/news116607963.html">storms wetter</a>,
<a href="http://www.wunderground.com/education/strato_cooling.asp">stratospheric
cooling</a>, <a href="http://news.scotsman.com/uk.cfm?id=548292007">street
crime to increase</a>, <a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article3792556.ece">subsidence</a>, <a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/1120/p01s04-woap.html">suicide</a>,
<a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/movies/new-documentary-recounts-bizarre-climate-changes-seen-by-inuit-elders/article1763952/">sunset
displaced</a>, <a href="http://www.norden.org/webb/news/news.asp?id=7832&lang=6#">swordfish
in the Baltic</a>, <a href="http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/editoriales/39130.html">Tabasco tragedy</a>,
<a href="http://www.taxfoundation.org/blog/show/416.html">taxes</a>, <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/31/AR2010123100654_pf.html">tea
flavour change</a>, <a href="http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-04/uot-ior042006.php">tectonic
plate movement</a>, <a href="http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/teen-girls-face-heaviest-risk-from-climate-impacts-report">teenage
prostitution</a>, <a href="http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/enviornment/climate-change-could-help-terrorists-against-india-pachauri_100210301.html">terrorists
(India)</a>, <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/climatechange/4932646/Thatched-cottages-at-risk-from-climate-change.html">thatched
cottages at risk</a>, <a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20071023.wclimate1023/BNStory/International/home">threat
to peace</a>, <a href="http://chge.med.harvard.edu/publications/journals/documents/epi.pdf">ticks
move northward (Sweden)</a>, <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/picture_gallery/05/sci_nat_how_the_world_is_changing/html/3.stm">tides
rise</a>, <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/sep/25/conservation.climatechange">tigers
eat people</a>, <a href="http://wwf.panda.org/wwf_news/news/?uNewsID=186621">tigers
drown</a>, <a href="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/betterplanet/2008/06/17/rotten-tomatoes-caused-by-climate-change/">tomatoes
rot</a>, <a href="http://wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com/2008/02/07/kerry-blames-tornado-outbreak-on-global-warming/">tornado
outbreak</a>, <a href="http://travel.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1832631,00.html">tourism
increase</a>,<a href="http://www.australianclimatemadness.com/2011/02/they-never-give-up-global-warming-to-increase-toxic-bacteria/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=they-never-give-up-global-warming-to-increase-toxic-bacteria">
toxic bacteria</a>, <a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article6740746.ece">toxic
seaweed</a>, <a href="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/feature/story.cfm?c_id=26&objectid=10445325">trade
barriers,</a> <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12612965/">trade winds weakened</a>,
<a href="http://www.businessandmedia.org/articles/2008/20080501093005.aspx">traffic
jams</a>, <a href="http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKN1159583920080311">transport
snarl</a>, <a href="http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-03/tna-ccw031108.php">transportation
threatened</a>, <a href="http://www.greenfingers.com/articledisplay.asp?id=1734">tree foliage increase
(UK)</a>, <a href="http://www.ornl.gov/info/ornlreview/meas_tech/hardwood.htm">tree
growth slowed</a>, <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/19/AR2010021905405.html?hpid=artslot">tree
growth faster</a>, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/28/science/28pines.html?_r=2&pagewanted=all">trees
grow too fast</a>, <a href="http://www.casperstartribune.net/articles/2007/07/31/news/wyoming/73b546306ae54d9e8725732800801daa.txt">trees
in trouble</a>, <a href="http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F4061EFB3C5B0C758DDDA90994DD404482">trees
less colourful</a>, <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/thisweek/story/0,12977,1353258,00.html">trees
more colourful</a>, <a href="http://www.astrobio.net/news/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=177">trees
lush</a>, <a href="http://www.monstersandcritics.com/science/nature/news/article_1180173.php/Climate_change_could_put_trees_on_Antarctica">trees
on Antarctica</a>, <a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090812202047.htm">treelines
change</a>, <a href="http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/520675/">tropics
expansion</a>, <a href="http://www.brightsurf.com/news/jan_03/DOE_news_010703.html">tropopause
raised</a>, <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/weather/climate/globalwarming/2008-02-25-europe-truffles_N.htm">truffle
shortage</a>, <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/11/30/2433481.htm">truffles
down</a>, <a href="http://www.ktvz.com/oregon-northwest/24664820/detail.html">
truffles increase</a>, <a href="http://environment.newscientist.com/article/dn11227?DCMP=NLC-nletter&nsref=dn11227">turtles
crash</a>, <a href="http://blog.coterc.org/2009/02/climate-change-and-costa-rican-sea.html">turtle
feminised</a>, <a href="http://www.heatisonline.org/contentserver/objecthandlers/index.cfm?ID=4643&Method=Full&PageCall=&Title=Turtles%20Laying%20Eggs%20Earlier%20Due%20to%20Warming&Cache=False">turtles
lay earlier</a>, <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/2261941/British-UFO-sightings-at-%27bizarre%27-levels.html">UFO
sightings</a>, <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7191196.stm">UK
coastal impact</a>, <a href="http://environment.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,1855882,00.html">UK
Katrina</a>, <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2012/03/26/451448/climate-change-vampire-bats-texas/">vampire bats</a>, <a href="http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E03E0DC163CF930A35752C1A9629C8B63&n=Top%2fNews%2fScience%2fTopics%2fGlobal%20Warming">Venice
flooded</a>, <a href="http://psychoanalystsopposewar.org/blog/2006/06/11/another-effect-of-global-warming-earthquakes-ad-volcanic-activity/">volcanic
eruptions</a>, <a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=ice-cap-thaw-iceland-volcanoes">volcanoes
awakened in Iceland</a>,
<a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/11/111129103312.htm">walnuts
threatened</a>, <a href="http://www.world-science.net/othernews/othernews-nfrm/060416_walrus.htm">walrus
pups orphaned</a>, <a href="http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2007/12/15/stampedes_kill_thousands_of_walruses/">walrus
stampede</a>, <a href="http://www.wwfblogs.org/climate/content/usgs-confirms-thousands-walruses-hauling-out-alaskas-northwest-coast-sea-ice-rapidly-retreat">walruses
come ashore</a>, <a href="http://www.globalpolicy.org/security/natres/waterindex.htm">wars over
water</a>, <a href="http://www.armageddononline.org/index.php/War-&-Draft/Climate-Change-Can-Spark-War.html">wars
sparked</a>, <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2007/nov/04/climatechange.scienceofclimatechange">wars
threaten billions</a>, <a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/weather/article4009658.ece">wasps</a>,
<a href="http://www.numberwatch.co.uk/2005%20July.htm">water bills double</a>,
<a href="http://www.abc.net.au/rural/news/content/201004/s2870110.htm">water
shortage to increase vegetarianism</a>, <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/sep/06/global-warming-natural-disasters-conference">wave
of natural disasters,</a> <a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100125123233.htm">waves
bigger</a>, <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/climatechange/weather.html">weather
out of its mind</a>, <a href="http://www.brightsurf.com/news/headlines/21052/Impact_of_global_warming_on_weather_patterns_underestimated.html">weather
patterns awry</a>,
<a href="http://www.physorg.com/news185719909.html">weather patterns last longer</a>,
<a href="http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article1174080.ece">Western
aid cancelled out</a>, <a href="http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/vol5no5/hubalek.htm">West
Nile fever</a>, <a href="http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=123279">whale
beachings</a>, <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/08/26/eawhale226.xml">whales
lose weight</a>, <a href="http://www.newscientist.com/channel/earth/climate-change/mg18925434.600-whales-move-north-as-oceans-warm.html">whales
move north</a>, <a href="http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23887804-26103,00.html">whales
wiped out</a>, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/19/health/19global.html?_r=1">wheat
rust in Syria,</a> <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/news/National/Climate-change-could-crush-wheat-yields/2006/06/07/1149359793522.html">wheat
yields crushed in Australia</a>, <a href="http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/6452437-germany-wild-boars-love-climate-change-increase-population">wild
boars thrive</a>, <a href="http://www.nrdc.org/globalWarming/fcons.asp">wildfires</a>, <a href="http://www.windfair.net/press/2691.html">wind
shift</a>, <a href="http://www.countercurrents.org/cc-mudeva271005.htm">wind
reduced,</a> <a href="http://www.alphagalileo.org/ViewItem.aspx?ItemId=58549&CultureCode=en">winds
stronger</a>, <a href="http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2268820/posts">winds
weaker</a>, <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601102&sid=abcUGST60ZFM">wine
- Australian baked</a>, , <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/07/11/MNG03JT3EV1.DTL">wine
industry damage (California)</a>, <a href="http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2003119028_wine11.html">
wine industry disaster (US)</a>, <a href="http://www.wineanorak.com/english_wine_feature.htm">
wine - more
English</a>,
<a href="http://ezinearticles.com/?Global-Warming-Means-no-More-French-Wine%21&id=212155">wine
- no
more French </a> ,
<a href="http://www.physorg.com/news130991554.html">wine - England
too hot</a>, <a href="http://observer.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,,1838001,00.html">wine
-German boon</a>, <a href="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/geoffrey-dickens/2008/03/27/today-food-editor-claims-global-warming-making-napa-valley-wines-p">wine
passé (Napa)</a>, <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/wine/6040419/Best-wines-will-come-from-Scotland-if-climate-change-is-not-stopped-French-chefs-say.html?FORM=ZZNR">wine
- Scotland best</a>, <a href="http://news.scotsman.com/latestnews/Wine-makers-take-heat-out.4071472.jp">wine
stronger</a>, <a href="http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article1147220.ece">winters
in Britain colder</a>, <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=512896&in_page_id=1770">winter
in Britain dead</a>, <a href="http://neveryetmelted.com/?p=3730">witchcraft
executions</a>, <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8494000/8494397.stm">wolverine
decline</a>, <a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/02/110208-wolverines-global-warming-united-states-peacock-animals-science/">wolverines
vanish</a>, <a href="http://commonsblog.org/archives/000429.php">wolves
eat more moose</a>, <a href="http://commonsblog.org/archives/000429.php">wolves
eat less,</a> <a href="http://www.gadling.com/2010/07/22/women-more-likely-to-cheat-on-vacation-than-men-says-new-study/">women
cheat on vacation</a>, <a href="http://www.nau.edu/%7Esoc-p/ecrc/jobs.html">workers laid
off</a>, <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/04/23/eaclimate123.xml">World
at war</a>, <a href="http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/01/hot_war.php">World
War 4</a>, <a href="http://www.epcc.pref.osaka.jp/apec/eng/earth/global_warming/dounaru.html">Yellow
fever</a>, <a href="http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=115x129140">zebra
mussel threat</a>, <a href="http://www-naweb.iaea.org/nafa/aph/stories/2010-climate-change.html">zoonotic
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entries; especially, as always, Our Man in Puerto Rico. Also, thanks to "<a href="http://scraperguy.com/">Scraperguy</a>"
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<span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://pressmediawire.com/article.cfm?articleID=4626">Acne</a>, <a href="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/rtrs/20070905/tts-uk-africa-environment-warming-e892cc9_2.html">Africa
hit hardest,</a> <a href="http://allafrica.com/stories/200807240806.html">African
summer frost</a>, <a href="http://www.msc-smc.ec.gc.ca/saib/climate/Climatechange/SOE_95-2/sections/image-27_large_e.html">agricultural
land increase</a>, <a href="http://www.npca.org/magazine/2004/summer/globalwarming.html">Alaska
reshaped</a>, <a href="http://www.newmatilda.com/policytoolkit/policydetail.asp?PolicyID=316">anxiety</a>,
<a href="http://www.physorg.com/printnews.php?newsid=123925453">Arctic
tundra to burn</a>, <a href="http://www.cgfi.org/materials/articles/2004/june_17_04.htm">atmospheric
defiance</a>, <a href="http://www.climateark.org/articles/reader.asp?linkid=54184">bananas
destroyed</a>, <a href="http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23505712-23109,00.html">beer
shortage</a>, <a href="http://www.rspb.org.uk/birds/sotukb/distributionchanges.asp">bird
distributions change</a>, <a href="http://www.nsc.org/EHC/minute/em960418.htm">blizzards</a>,
<a href="http://www.anxietycenter.com/warning/main.htm#are">boredom</a>,
<a href="http://www.signsofwitness.com/?p=971">brain eating amoebae</a>, <a href="http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,18566311%5E5000107,00.html">business
opportunities</a>, <a href="http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,18566311%5E5000107,00.html">business
risks</a>, <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/devon/outdoors/gardens/gardens_changing.shtml">British
gardens change</a>, <a href="http://www.ecobridge.org/content/mobilize.html">budget increases</a>,
<a href="http://chge.med.harvard.edu/research/ccf/documents/ccf_final_report.pdf">cardiac
arrest</a>, <a href="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/afp/20080407/tts-health-australia-climate-warming-c1b2fc3.html">cataracts</a>,
<a href="http://eriss.erin.gov.au/minister/env/2002/sp18dec02.html">challenges
and opportunities</a>, <a href="http://www.earthwatch.org/site/pp2.asp?c=dsJSK6PFJnH&b=1170717">cloud
stripping</a>, <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070418/lf_afp/lifestylewarmingdeath_070418143046">cremation
to end</a>, <a href="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/22052006/325/earth-solar-cycle-spurs-greenhouse-gases-studies.html">damages equivalent to $200
billion</a>, <a href="http://chge.med.harvard.edu/research/ccf/documents/ccf_final_report.pdf">dermatitis</a>,
<a href="http://www.climateark.org/articles/reader.asp?linkid=57111">desert
life threatened</a>, <a href="http://chge.med.harvard.edu/research/ccf/documents/ccf_final_report.pdf">diarrhoea,</a>
<a href="http://www.louisianaweekly.com/weekly/news/articlegate.pl?20060501h">disappearance of coastal
cities</a>, <a href="http://www.swissinfo.org/eng/Swissinfo.html?siteSect=143&sid=5088097">Dolomites
collapse</a>, <a href="http://www.dailytech.com/Study+Climate+Change+in+Atlantic+Can+Cause+Droughts+in+Distant+Regions/article18743c.htm#comments">drought
in distant regions</a>, <a href="http://chge.med.harvard.edu/research/ccf/documents/ccf_final_report.pdf">drowning
people</a>, <a href="http://allafrica.com/stories/200711140057.html">early
marriages</a>, <a href="http://daily.stanford.edu/tempo?page=content&id=17400&repository=0001_article">early
spring</a>, <a href="http://www.jang.com.pk/thenews/feb2005-daily/17-02-2005/world/w1.htm">Earth spinning out of
control</a>, <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20060626/sc_space/weathermakesearthwobble">Earth
wobbling</a>, <a href="http://www.progressiveu.org/102236-global-warming-is-spurring-evolution">evolution
accelerating</a>, <span style="color: red;"><b>extinctions</b></span> (<a href="http://wwf.org.au/ourwork/climatechange/biodiversity/">bats</a>,
<a href="http://wwf.org.au/ourwork/climatechange/biodiversity/">pigmy possums</a>,
<a href="http://wwf.org.au/ourwork/climatechange/biodiversity/">koalas</a>, <a href="http://powerswitch.panda.org/the_problem/nature_at_risk.cfm">turtles</a>,
<a href="http://powerswitch.panda.org/the_problem/nature_at_risk.cfm">orang-utan</a>,
<a href="http://powerswitch.panda.org/the_problem/nature_at_risk.cfm">elephants</a>,
<a href="http://powerswitch.panda.org/the_problem/nature_at_risk.cfm">tigers</a>,
<a href="http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/736690722?ltl=1151169284">gorillas</a>,
<a href="http://powerswitch.panda.org/the_problem/nature_at_risk.cfm">whales</a>,
<a href="http://powerswitch.panda.org/the_problem/nature_at_risk.cfm">frogs</a>,)
<a href="http://www.wjbf.com/midatlantic/jbf/news_index/entertainment_news.apx.-content-articles-JBF-2008-02-28-0014.html">fainting</a>,
<a href="http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/story/7947557p-7841020c.html">fish catches rise</a>, <a href="http://www.sacbee.com/101/story/1436736.html">
flames stoked</a>, <a href="http://www.snw.org.uk/tourism/downloads/CCVE_PR_Generic.doc">footpath
erosion</a>, <a href="http://www.calacademy.org/calwild/2005fall/stories/glaciers.html">glacial
growth</a>, <a href="http://news.sympatico.msn.ctv.ca/TopStories/ContentPosting.aspx?newsitemid=CTVNews%2f20060727%2fglobal_dimming_060727&feedname=CTV-TOPSTORIES_V2&showbyline=True">global
dimming</a>, <a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/07/01/kashmir.pilgrims.reut/index.html">god
melts</a>, <a href="http://www.truthout.org/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/34/17087">Gore
omnipresence</a>, <a href="http://www.greatlakesdirectory.org/oh/111803_great_lakes.htm">Great
Lakes drop</a>, <a href="http://www.physorg.com/printnews.php?newsid=126450596">harmful
algae</a>, <a href="http://scitation.aip.org/getabs/servlet/GetabsServlet?prog=normal&id=JOEEDU000131000005000810000001&idtype=cvips&gifs=yes">hazardous
waste sites breached</a>, <a href="http://s-r.com/nation_world/story.asp?ID=137463">high
court debates</a>, <a href="http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23621210-1702,00.html?from=public_rss">HIV
epidemic</a>, <a href="http://www.acton.org/ppolicy/environment/theology/m_protest.html">human health improvement,</a>
<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20080325/sc_livescience/vastantarcticiceshelfonvergeofcollapse">ice
shelf collapse</a>, <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-briefs19apr19,1,2107625.story">jet
stream drifts north</a>, <a href="http://www.eman-rese.ca/eman/reports/publications/SECOND/part9.html">lake
and stream productivity decline</a>, <a href="http://chge.med.harvard.edu/research/ccf/documents/ccf_final_report.pdf">lightning
related insurance claims</a>, <a href="http://www.cgfi.org/materials/articles/2004/june_17_04.htm">little
response in the atmosphere</a>, <a href="http://thenationonlineng.net/web3/news/27348.html">lost
$350 billion</a>,
<a href="http://chge.med.harvard.edu/research/ccf/documents/ccf_final_report.pdf">Lyme
disease</a>, <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/26/AR2006072601685.html">marine
dead zone</a>, <a href="http://www.physorg.com/printnews.php?newsid=125679824">Maple
production advanced</a>, <a href="http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/sr-sr/finance/hprp-prpms/final/2004-scleros_e.html">mental
illness (Alberta)</a>, <a href="http://www.bto.org/notices/climate_change.htm">migration difficult
(birds)</a>, <a href="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/rtrs/20080414/tsc-uk-water-9ff7fe2.html">mountains
melting,</a> <a href="http://www.swissinfo.org/eng/Swissinfo.html?siteSect=111&sid=817591">mudslides</a>,
<a href="http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,24749101-1702,00.html?from=public_rss">oceans
noisier</a>, <a href="http://chge.med.harvard.edu/research/ccf/documents/ccf_final_report.pdf">oyster
diseases</a>, <a href="http://greennature.com/article1265.html">ozone loss</a>, <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=2304861">Pacific dead zone</a>,
<a href="http://www.cwi.nl/pr/press-releases/2006/pb-Nature-en-190106.html">plankton
destabilised</a>, <a href="http://powerswitch.panda.org/the_problem/nature_at_risk.cfm">plankton
loss</a>, <a href="http://chge.med.harvard.edu/research/ccf/documents/ccf_final_report.pdf">plant
viruses</a>, <a href="http://www.life.ca/nl/71/bears.html">polar bears
starve</a>, <a href="http://chge.med.harvard.edu/research/ccf/documents/ccf_final_report.pdf">psychosocial
disturbances</a>, <a href="http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-popcorn15mar15,0,444119.story">popcorn
rise</a>, <a href="http://www.greenhouse.vic.gov.au/impacts/Aus%20climate%20change%20Hennessy.pdf">rainfall
reduction</a>, <a href="http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/fn/4659334.html">riches</a>,
<a href="http://www.waterconserve.info/articles/reader.asp?linkid=53729">rivers
dry up</a>, <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060707/sc_afp/switzerlandmountains_060707200614;_ylt=AvprbfqTUiY9YMubm945TUlrAlMA;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl">rockfalls</a>, <a href="http://www.livescience.com/environment/061107_ap_climate_ruins.html">ruins
ruined,</a>
<a href="http://ukpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5gCBCVybx2KhBXxJ_jDeftZnmudvQ">skin
cancer</a>, <a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iEEuRaGx0b6auiqe7Vr-YtmtB3NAD9EG15P82">smelt
down</a>, <a href="http://www.skimag.com/skimag/fall_line/article/0,12795,327171,00.html">snowfall
reduction,</a> <a href="http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/peter_wedderburn/blog/2009/05/27/climate_change_and_globalisation_a_double_threat_to_animal_health">stick
insects</a>, <a href="http://pda.physorg.com/lofi-news-climate-change-culverts_7158.html">stormwater
drains stressed</a>, <a href="http://www.lacrossetribune.com/articles/2007/05/27/news/00lead.txt">teenage
drinking</a>, <a href="http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20574527-29277,00.html">terrorism</a>,
<a href="http://chge.med.harvard.edu/research/ccf/documents/ccf_final_report.pdf">tree
beetle attacks,</a> <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060712/sc_afp/australiaantarctica_060712173026">
trees could return to Antarctic</a>, <a href="http://www.co2science.org/articles/V11/N10/B2.jsp">tree
growth increased</a>, <a href="http://asiantsunami.blogspot.com/2004/12/global-warming-will-increase-tsunami.html">tsunamis</a>,
<a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5hs8ZNOHYfz_UDABLKYTaxOeEitCg">tundra
plant life boost</a>, <a href="http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=un-says-climate-change-ma&print=true">uprooted
- 6 million</a>, <a href="http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=143&art_id=nw20070604222515217C596751">Vampire
moths</a>, <a href="http://www.theprovince.com/Technology/Musical+prof+mouthpiece+propaganda/1393831/story.html">violin
decline</a>, <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071006/ap_on_sc/sea_ice_walrus;_ylt=AiTAGZGcl50JLomh6KLSOe6s0NUE">walrus
displaced</a>, <a href="http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20574527-29277,00.html">war</a>,
<a href="http://www.globalwarming.org/node/2876">war between US and Canada</a>, <a href="http://www.worldwatch.org/node/1779">water
scarcity (20% of increase),</a> <a href="http://www.met-office.gov.uk/research/hadleycentre/pubs/brochures/B1999/imp_water_res.html">water
stress</a>, <a href="http://www.energy.ca.gov/pier/final_project_reports/CEC-500-2005-054.html">water
supply unreliability</a>, <a href="http://chge.med.harvard.edu/research/ccf/documents/ccf_final_report.pdf">weeds</a>,
<a href="http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=2026812005">white
Christmas dream ends</a>,
<a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/australia/sa/port/200410/s1219759.htm">wine - harm
to Australian industry</a>, <a href="http://www.sentienttimes.com/01/dec_jan01/global_warming.html">World
bankruptcy</a>, <a href="http://url4.eu/2YiRz">World-famous places threatened</a>,
<a href="http://www.weatherimages.org/forums/showthread.php?t=1490">World
in crisis</a>, <a href="http://environment.independent.co.uk/climate_change/article2686846.ece">World
in flames</a>,</span></div>
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11/29/2007, "<b><a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2007/11/everything_is_caused_by_global.html">Everything is Caused by Global Warming (600+ links),</a></b>" American Thinker, Christopher Alleva</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: navy; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">"<span style="font-family: times new roman,times;"><b>Dr. John Brignell, a British engineering professor</b>, runs a website called <a href="http://www.numberwatch.co.uk/">numberwatch</a></span><span style="font-family: times new roman,times;">. He has compiled what has to be the most complete collection of <b><a href="http://www.numberwatch.co.uk/warmlist.htm">links to media stories ascribing the cause of everything under the sun to global warming</a></b>. He has already posted more than six-hundred links. </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman,times; font-size: large;">The
site's stated mission is to expose<b> </b>all<b> <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2007/11/everything_is_caused_by_global.html">the "scares, scams, junk, panics
and flummery cooked up by the media, politicians, bureaucrats</a></b> and
so-called scientists and others that try to confuse the public with
wrong numbers" Professor Brignell's motto is "Working to Combat Math
Hysteria." </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: times new roman,times; font-size: large;"><b>This exercise is not merely a lark to show the abject absurdity of this global warming nonsense</b>. Brignell wrote a great <a href="http://www.numberwatch.co.uk/cover.htm">book</a> titled <i> Sorry Wrong Number, The Abuse of Measurement </i>on this very subject."...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: navy; font-size: large;"> </span></span>susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14710989163705986252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7420484931024290229.post-78172186957978060512013-12-18T19:13:00.001-05:002013-12-18T19:35:38.504-05:00Record high in US in 2013 say Big Government is Greatest Threat, Democrats and Independents at 56% and 71% up from 48% and 64% in 2011-Gallup poll<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">.</span><br />
<a href="http://www.gallup.com/poll/166535/record-high-say-big-government-greatest-threat.aspx?utm_source=alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=syndication&utm_content=morelink&utm_term=All">56% of democrats and 71% of independents</a> in 2013 up<a href="http://www.gallup.com/poll/151490/fear-big-government-near-record-level.aspx"> from 48% and 64% in 2011</a>. <b><a href="http://www.gallup.com/poll/166535/record-high-say-big-government-greatest-threat.aspx?utm_source=alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=syndication&utm_content=morelink&utm_term=All">92% of Republicans</a></b> in 2013 say Big Government is biggest threat. Scroll down for last chart <a href="http://www.gallup.com/poll/151490/fear-big-government-near-record-level.aspx">showing 2009 and 2011</a>.<br />
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12/18/13, <span style="font-size: large;">"</span><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://www.gallup.com/poll/166535/record-high-say-big-government-greatest-threat.aspx?utm_source=alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=syndication&utm_content=morelink&utm_term=All">Record High in U.S. Say Big Government Greatest Threat,</a></b>"</span> Gallup poll, Jeffrey M. Jones<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"<a href="http://www.gallup.com/poll/166535/record-high-say-big-government-greatest-threat.aspx?utm_source=alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=syndication&utm_content=morelink&utm_term=All"><b>Now 72% say it is greater threat</b></a></span> <span style="font-size: large;">than big business or big labor."
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</span><span style="font-size: large;"><b>"<a href="http://www.gallup.com/poll/166535/record-high-say-big-government-greatest-threat.aspx?utm_source=alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=syndication&utm_content=morelink&utm_term=All">Seventy-two percent of Americans
say big government is a greater</a> threat to the U.S.</b> in the future than
is big business or big labor, <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">a record high in the nearly 50-year
history of this question.</span> </b>The prior high for big government was 65% in
1999 and 2000. Big government has always topped big business and big
labor, including in the initial asking in 1965, but just 35% named it at
that time.</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.gallup.com/poll/166535/record-high-say-big-government-greatest-threat.aspx?utm_source=alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=syndication&utm_content=morelink&utm_term=All">The latest update comes from <b>a Dec. 5-8 poll</b></a>. Gallup has documented a
steady increase in concern about big government since 2009, rising from
55% in March 2009 to 64% in November 2011 and 72% today.<br />
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<a href="http://www.gallup.com/poll/166535/record-high-say-big-government-greatest-threat.aspx?utm_source=alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=syndication&utm_content=morelink&utm_term=All">This suggests
that government policies</a> specific to the period, <b>such as the Affordable
Care Act -- </b>perhaps coupled with recent revelations of government spying
tactics by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden -- may be factors.<br />
<br />
<b><a href="http://www.gallup.com/poll/166535/record-high-say-big-government-greatest-threat.aspx?utm_source=alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=syndication&utm_content=morelink&utm_term=All">Currently, 21% name big business as the greatest threat</a>,</b> while 5%, a
record low, say big labor. The high point for big labor was 29% in 1965.
No more than 11% of Americans have chosen big labor since 1995, clearly
reflecting the decline of the labor movement in the United States in
recent decades.<br />
<br />
<b><a href="http://www.gallup.com/poll/166535/record-high-say-big-government-greatest-threat.aspx?utm_source=alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=syndication&utm_content=morelink&utm_term=All">The historical high choosing big business, 38%, </a></b>came in <a href="http://www.gallup.com/poll/6382/More-Americans-Now-View-Big-Business-Threat.aspx">2002</a>,
after a series of corporate scandals rocked major corporations
including Enron and Tyco. Also at that time, Americans may have been
less willing to choose government given the <a href="http://www.gallup.com/poll/4984/Trust-Government-Increases-Sharply-Wake-Terrorist-Attacks.aspx">rally in support</a> for government institutions and officials after the 9/11 terrorist attacks.<br />
<br />
<b><a href="http://www.gallup.com/poll/166535/record-high-say-big-government-greatest-threat.aspx?utm_source=alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=syndication&utm_content=morelink&utm_term=All">Americans were also more likely to view big business as</a> </b>a big threat
during the recent recession<b>, <span style="color: #cc0000;">with more than three in 10 choosing it in
2008 and 2009</span></b><span style="color: #cc0000;">,</span> a time when many large corporations,<b> </b>including financial
and automotive companies, failed or were in danger of failing without<b>
government intervention.</b> But fewer Americans now view big business as a
threat -- the current 21% is the lowest Gallup has measured since 1983....<br />
<br />
<b><a href="http://www.gallup.com/poll/166535/record-high-say-big-government-greatest-threat.aspx?utm_source=alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=syndication&utm_content=morelink&utm_term=All">Each party group currently rates big government as the greatest
threat to the country</a>, </b>including a record-high <b><span style="font-size: large;">92% of Republicans and
71% of independents, as well as 56% of Democrats.</span> </b>Democrats are most
likely of the partisan groups to name big business as the biggest
threat, at 36%; relatively few Republicans, 4%, view big business as the
most threatening.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMyVtJNGaEjurgQ1rIXRpY5XemHX-o8XqrOHM4HPCiB3wHkP5ZeX62GVv8TCfsOhurq35_rrsUJKhh2AAJiQj-5u3GzJJFiBuURFP6JEaUyJGDNdWW2GCs-0wotHsgzSS8ukxbApFr1Lc/s1600/GallupBigGovBigThreatDec2013PolitParty.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="176" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMyVtJNGaEjurgQ1rIXRpY5XemHX-o8XqrOHM4HPCiB3wHkP5ZeX62GVv8TCfsOhurq35_rrsUJKhh2AAJiQj-5u3GzJJFiBuURFP6JEaUyJGDNdWW2GCs-0wotHsgzSS8ukxbApFr1Lc/s400/GallupBigGovBigThreatDec2013PolitParty.png" width="400" /></a> <b><a href="http://www.gallup.com/poll/166535/record-high-say-big-government-greatest-threat.aspx?utm_source=alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=syndication&utm_content=morelink&utm_term=All">Democrats</a></b> are more
likely to see <br />
government as a threat <b>when a Republican is in office</b>;
however, they tend to see government as less threatening than
Republicans do, and their <b>concern about big government topped out at 62%
in 2005</b> under Bush. During the Johnson, Nixon, Carter, and Reagan
administrations, party differences were much more modest than they are
today. ...<br />
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Implications<br />
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<b><a href="http://www.gallup.com/poll/166535/record-high-say-big-government-greatest-threat.aspx?utm_source=alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=syndication&utm_content=morelink&utm_term=All">Americans have</a></b> <b>consistently viewed big government as a greater threat</b> to the United States than either big business or big labor, but <b>never
more than they do now</b>. That may be partly a reaction to <b>an
administration that favors the use of government to solve problems.</b>
Also, the revelation of widespread government monitoring of U.S.
Internet activity may be a factor in raising Americans' concern about
the government. The threat of big business may seem diminished now,
during a relatively calm period for big business, with<b> rising stock
values </b>and relatively few major corporate scandals such as occurred in
the early 2000s. Also, the<b> labor movement is far less influential</b> in
U.S. policy today than in the past, including in 1965, when Gallup first
asked the question.<br />
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<b><a href="http://www.gallup.com/poll/166535/record-high-say-big-government-greatest-threat.aspx?utm_source=alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=syndication&utm_content=morelink&utm_term=All">In the future, Americans likely will continue</a> to view big government
as the greatest threat</b> of the three, partly because of Republicans'
reluctance to rely on government to solve problems, and because
<b><span style="color: #cc0000;">Democrats and independents are also inclined</span> to view big government as a
greater threat </b>than big business or big labor. But the percentage of
Americans viewing big government as the greatest threat will also likely
to continue to vary, in response to current conditions in the political
and business environments."<br />
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Comment: Big business and big labor may seem <b>"<a href="http://www.gallup.com/poll/166535/record-high-say-big-government-greatest-threat.aspx?utm_source=alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=syndication&utm_content=morelink&utm_term=All">less influential</a></b>" today as stated above but the two <b><a href="http://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2013/02/14/the_dangerous_partnership_between_business_and_government_100148.html">partner with federal government</a> </b>today so in important ways are more powerful than ever. The article cites "<b><a href="http://www.gallup.com/poll/166535/record-high-say-big-government-greatest-threat.aspx?utm_source=alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=syndication&utm_content=morelink&utm_term=All">rising stock prices</a></b>" as a reason people may not be upset with big business. This may be so but again not reality. Today's stock prices are more a <b><a href="http://www.cnbc.com/id/49031991">reflection of federal reserve actions</a>,</b> not business health. ed.<br />
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"The Gallup poll was conducted<b> <a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/193554-poll-record-high-fear-big-government#disqus_thread">from Dec. 5 to 8</a></b> and was based on interviews with more than 1,000 people across the country."<br />
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12/18/13,<span style="font-size: large;"> "<b><a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/193554-poll-record-high-fear-big-government#disqus_thread">Gallup: Record high fear 'big government',</a></b>"</span> The Hill, Julian Hattem<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>"<a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/193554-poll-record-high-fear-big-government#disqus_thread">A record number of Americans think that “big government” is the biggest threat</a></b> to the country, according to a new poll.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>The
Gallup survey released on Wednesday</b> <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>showed that 72 percent</b> </span>of people
say that “big government” is <b>a bigger threat to the country than “big
labor” or “big business.”</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/193554-poll-record-high-fear-big-government#disqus_thread">That’s the highest percentage</a> </b>of Americans who have expressed the
preference since the pollster <b>began asking the question in 1965.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">According
to the poll, just 21 percent of Americans cite “big business” as the
greatest threat to the country, and only 5 percent have concerns about
“big labor.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The recent wariness about the government <b>could be
partly due to troubles with the recent rollout of ObamaCare</b>, as well as
revelations about surveillance from the National Security Agency (NSA),
Gallup noted.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Though Republicans have driven the recent trend and
are more concerned about government overreach, they are not alone. The
survey found that <b><a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/193554-poll-record-high-fear-big-government#disqus_thread">56 percent of Democrats and 71 percent of independents
also fear “big government.”</a></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The new findings chart a steady
increase in concern about the government over recent years, since a low
point in 2001 that could be partly attributable to sentiments following
the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/193554-poll-record-high-fear-big-government#disqus_thread">The size of the federal government has certainly grown in recent years</a>.</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Though
there are only imperfect metrics of measuring the pace of regulatory
activity at the federal government, most accounts show that<b> federal
power is increasing every year.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Fears about "big government" have always topped the poll since Gallup began asking the question nearly 50 years ago.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/193554-poll-record-high-fear-big-government#disqus_thread">The
previous high mark for Americans’ concerns about the federal government
was in 1999 and 2000</a>,</b> when 65 percent of the public said they feared it
more than labor or business.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/193554-poll-record-high-fear-big-government#disqus_thread">The Gallup poll was conducted from Dec. 5 to 8</a></b> and was based on interviews with more than 1,000 people across the country."</span> via Free Republic<br />
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<b>In <a href="http://www.gallup.com/poll/151490/fear-big-government-near-record-level.aspx">2011 democrats dissatisfaction</a></b> with big government increased <b><a href="http://www.gallup.com/poll/151490/fear-big-government-near-record-level.aspx">to 48% up from 32% in 2009</a>:</b><br />
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<b>12/12/11,</b> <span style="font-size: large;">"</span><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://www.gallup.com/poll/151490/fear-big-government-near-record-level.aspx">In
U.S., Fear of Big Government at Near-Record Level</a></b>,"</span><br />
Gallup poll, Elizabeth Mendes<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In 2011, "<a href="http://www.gallup.com/poll/151490/fear-big-government-near-record-level.aspx"><b>Democrats lead increase in concerns about big government."</b></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"<b>Americans' concerns about the
threat of big government </b>continue to dwarf those about big business and
big labor, and by an <b>even larger margin now than in <a href="http://www.gallup.com/poll/117739/Big-Gov-Viewed-Greater-Threat-Big-Business.aspx">March 2009</a>.</b>
The 64% of </span><span style="font-size: large;">Americans who say big government will be the biggest threat
to the country is just one percentage point shy of the record high,
while the 26% who say big business is down from the 32% recorded during
the recession. Relatively few name big labor as the greatest threat....</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Democrats Lead Increase in Concern About Big Government</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://www.gallup.com/poll/151490/fear-big-government-near-record-level.aspx">Almost half of Democrats now say big government is the biggest threat
to the nation</a></b>, more than say so about big business, and far more than
were concerned about big government in March 2009. <b>The 32% of Democrats
concerned about big government at that time -- shortly after President
Obama took office</b> -- was down significantly from a reading in 2006, when
George W. Bush was president.</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-size: large;">By contrast, <b>82% of Republicans and 64% of independents</b> today view
big government as the biggest threat, slightly higher percentages than
Gallup found in 2009.</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-size: large;">Lower percentages of Democrats, Republicans,
and independents are now concerned about big business than was the case
in 2009."...<a href="http://www.gallup.com/poll/151490/fear-big-government-near-record-level.aspx">chart above from Gallup, 12/12/11</a></span><br />
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<br />susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14710989163705986252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7420484931024290229.post-9053448421319387972013-12-07T01:52:00.001-05:002013-12-07T01:55:21.953-05:00December 7, 1941, 2400 Americans were killed by the Japanese at Pearl Harbor. This began World War II <div class="post-header">
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"<a href="http://kids.britannica.com/comptons/art-100673/A-US-battleship-sinks-during-the-Japanese-attack-on-Pearl">On the morning of Sunday, December 7, 1941</a>, Japanese bombers, fighter
planes, and torpedo planes attacked the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor
in Hawaii. This sneak attack brought the United States into World War
II."<br />
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"<a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/12/06/pearl-harbor-memories-fading/3899443/">Tactically, Pearl Harbor was a U.S. defeat. In all, more than 2,400
soldiers, sailors and Marines were killed</a><b><a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/12/06/pearl-harbor-memories-fading/3899443/"> </a></b><a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/12/06/pearl-harbor-memories-fading/3899443/">and almost 1,200 wounded</a>, as
well as more than 1,000 civilians, most of them by U.S. anti-aircraft
artillery shells landing in residential areas.<br />
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In all, eight
battleships were sunk or damaged so badly it took years for them to be
repaired. Two, including the USS Arizona, were total losses. In
addition, 10 other major ships were heavily damaged. In addition, 165
airplanes were destroyed.<br />
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Japanese losses numbered 185 airmen and sailors, 29 aircraft, five mini-submarines and a large submarine.<br />
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But
the Japanese miscalculated. Their primary target, the U.S. Navy's
aircraft carriers, were out of the harbor on exercises. And when initial
reports of success and fear that a response by U.S. forces was imminent
led to cancellation of a planned third strike, the Imperial Japanese
navy left largely undamaged the vital fuel tank farms and submarine
facility at Pearl Harbor.<br />
<br />
The carriers, their vital fuel intact,
and the long arm of the submarine fleet would take the war home to the
Japanese. What began at Pearl Harbor <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/12/06/pearl-harbor-memories-fading/3899443/">ended with Hiroshima</a> and Nagasaki.
It took almost four years, but Pearl Harbor ended up as a strategic
victory for the United States."<br />
<br />
12/6/13, "<a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/12/06/pearl-harbor-memories-fading/3899443/">Pearl Harbor memories fading with time,</a>" USA Today, John Andrew Prime. top image from <a href="http://kids.britannica.com/comptons/art-100673/A-US-battleship-sinks-during-the-Japanese-attack-on-Pearl">National Archives</a>.
Image of pilot is my father and a Stearman biplane in the 1940's. He
was an Air Force pilot, flew missions in the Pacific, B-29's, and
sometimes biplanes. He's still living as of December 7, 2013 and is 91.
At the end of the war, he flew to Guam and picked up some surviving
American soldiers who had been captured by the Japanese. He says the men
weren't in very good shape.<br />
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<li>Born in Brooklyn, 1922.</li>
</ul>
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susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14710989163705986252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7420484931024290229.post-63300034559708468652013-08-26T10:37:00.004-04:002013-08-26T11:10:50.584-04:00Global warming 'pause' is widely accepted by scientists, so it's vital to ask if government will 'pause' its expensive use of taxpayer dollars to 'cure' it until picture becomes clearer-BBC News program, Neil <span style="font-size: medium;"><span id="tab-container-landscape"><span id="tab-container"><span style="font-size: large;">A BBC discussion suggests a<b> <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-23405202">pause in confiscation of taxpayer dollars</a></b> <span style="font-size: medium;">for CO2 induced terror that's not happening.</span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span id="tab-container-landscape"><span id="tab-container"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="notranslate"><span class="notranslate"> <b><a href="http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.spiegel.de%2Fwissenschaft%2Fnatur%2Fstillstand-der-temperatur-erklaerungen-fuer-pause-der-klimaerwaermung-a-877941.html">Temperatures have remained flat since 1998</a></b></span></span><b>,</b> </span></span>while <a href="http://www.earth-policy.org/indicators/C52/carbon_emissions_2013">CO2 has increased globally</a><b> (</b></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span id="tab-container-landscape"><span id="tab-container"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: medium;">though <b><b><a href="http://www.vancouverobserver.com/blogs/climatesnapshot/2012/06/04/climate-change-stunner-usa-leads-world-co2-cuts-2006">US CO2 emissions have plunged</a></b>).<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #783f04;"> Billions of taxpayer dollars were diverted </span></span></b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #783f04;">based on predictions</span></span><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #783f04;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-size: large;">that didn't happen</span> which</span> "<b><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-23405202">peer reviewed literature regards as established yet unexplained</a>:</b>"</span><br />
<br />
7/22/13,<span style="font-size: large;"> "<b><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-23405202">Andrew Neil on Ed Davey climate change interview critics,</a></b>" </span>BBC, Andrew Neil<b> </b><br />
<br />
<b>Multi-billion dollar "spending decisions,</b> <b>paid for by consumers
and taxpayers</b></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>...<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-23405202">might not have been taken</a> </b>(at least to the same
degree or with the same haste)<span style="color: #783f04;"> <b>if global warming was</b> <b>not quite the
imminent threat it has been depicted</b></span>....</span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #783f04;">The recent standstill in global temperatures is a puzzle.</span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"> <b><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-23405202">Experts do not know why it is occurring or</a></b> how long it will last.<b>..</b>.<b>There is no consensus.</b> <b>Extensive peer-reviewed literature</b><b> regards it as established</b>
yet unexplained</span></span><span style="font-size: medium;">.<b> <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">It is widely accepted that</span> <span style="color: #cc0000;">the main climate models
which inform government policy <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-23405202">did not predict it.".</a></span><span style="color: #cc0000;"><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-23405202">..</a></span></span></b>(subhead, "Reputable evidence") </span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>"The Sunday Politics interview</b> with <b><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-23405202">Energy and
Climate Change Secretary Ed Davey</a></b> on <b>July 14</b> provoked widespread
reaction in the twittersphere and elsewhere, which was only to be
expected given the interview was about the<b> latest developments in global
warming <span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-23405202">and the implications for government policy</a>. </span></b></span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: medium;">The Sunday Politics remit and interview duration means <b>we are able to
carry out proper forensic interviews on such matters..</b>..Many of the
criticisms of the Davey interview seem to misunderstand the purpose of a
<b><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-19863895">Sunday Politics interview</a>. </b></span>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;">This was neatly summed up in a<b> </b><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/%28http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2013/jul/17/climate-change-scepticism-andrew-neil-ed-davey">Guardian blog by Dana Nuccitelli</a>,<span style="font-size: large;"><b>
<span style="color: #cc0000;"> <span style="color: #990000;">who works for a multi-billion dollar US environmental business (Tetra
Tech</span></span></b><span style="color: #990000;">)</span></span> and <b><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-23405202">writes prodigiously about global warming</a> </b>and related matters
from a very distinct perspective. </span>
<span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: medium;">He finished by saying: "[Andrew] Neil focussed only on the bits of evidence that seemed to support his position".</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: medium;">This is partly right. We did come at Mr Davey with a
particular set of evidence, which was <b>well-sourced from mainstream
climate science</b>. But it<b> was nothing to do with advocating a "position". </b></span>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><b> </b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><b>First, the Sunday Politics does not have a position </b>on any of the
subjects on which it interrogates people. Second, it is the job of the
interviewer to assemble evidence
from authoritative sources which best challenge the position of the
interviewee. There is hardly any purpose in presenting evidence which
supports the </span><span style="font-size: medium;">interviewee's position - that is his or her job.</span>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><b> </b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><b>It is for viewers to decide</b> how well the interviewee's
position holds up under scrutiny and the strength of the contrary
evidence or points put to him or her.</span>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="cross-head"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span class="cross-head">Reputable evidence</span></b><br />
<span class="cross-head"> </span>
<br />
It is how the Sunday Politics <b><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-23405202">approaches all the longer
forensic</a></b> interviews on the programme, no matter the subject or the
interviewee. <b>It is how it will approach any future interview with a
leading light of the global warming sceptic camp. </b>They can expect just
as fair, forensic and robust an interview as Mr Davey.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: medium;">Taking an opposite or challenging position from the person being
interviewed is pretty much standard practice in long-form broadcast
interviews.<br />
<br />
<b>But the contrary position has to be based on reputable
evidence.</b> The Guardian blog and other critics on Twitter <b>alleged that
the challenges put to Mr Davey were based on errors, false evidence or
parroted the perspective of "deniers". </b>That is untrue.<br />
<br />
The main purpose of the interview <span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-23405202">was to establish</a></b> <b>if the
government thought the </b></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>recent and continuing pause in global
temperatures</b> meant it should<span style="color: #cc0000;"><b> <span style="color: black;">re-think its policies</span></b></span> </span>in response to global
warming.<br />
<br />
</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-23405202">This is a vital policy issue</a></b></span> since the strategy of this
government and the previous Labour government to decarbonise the economy<span style="color: #cc0000;">
<span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></span><b><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-size: large;">involves multi-billion pound </span></span><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-size: large;">spending decisions, paid for by consumers
and taxpayers, which might not have been taken</span></span> </span></span></b><span style="font-size: medium;">(at</span> <span style="font-size: medium;">least to the same
degree or with the same haste)</span><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #990000;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">if global warming was not quite the
imminent threat it has been depicted. </span></span></b></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;">It might also be argued that challenging interviews on
matters in which there is an overwhelming consensus in Westminster - <span style="font-size: large;">but
not necessarily among </span><span style="font-size: large;">voters who pay for both the licence fee and the
government's energy policies </span>- is a particularly legitimate purpose of
public-service broadcasting.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />
No consensus</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The recent standstill in global temperatures is a puzzle. <b><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-23405202">Experts do not know why it is occurring or</a> </b>how long it will last. </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Climate scientists have proffered a variety of possible explanations. <b>But there is no consensus. </b></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Extensive peer-reviewed literature regards it as established
yet unexplained</b>. <span style="font-size: large;">It is widely accepted that the main climate models
which inform government policy<b> <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-23405202">did not predict it</a></b><b> </b>(which raises
interesting issues of the models' predictions about the future course of
temperatures).</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">For many climate scientists the plateau - which may or may
not have long-term significance - has come as something of <b><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-23405202">a surprise</a>. </b><b><br />
</b><br />
Recently<b> Nature,</b> which has published extensively on global warming, called it<a href="http://www.nature.com/news/climate-change-the-forecast-for-2018-is-cloudy-with-record-heat-1.13344"> <b>one of climate science's greatest mysteries</b></a><b>.</b><br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-23405202"><b>So it is legitimate to ask if the government</b> </a>takes the pause
seriously and if it has any implications for policy ie, if there is a
pause in warming, is there a case <span style="color: #cc0000;">for the </span></span></span><b><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">government to pause or
slowdown its expensive efforts </span>to decarbonise the economy </b>until the
picture becomes clearer?<br />
</span><br />
</b><span style="font-size: medium;">The graph we presented illustrating the temperature plateau
was not constructed by the Sunday Politics but taken from a website, <span style="color: #cc0000;">
<b>produced by Phil Jones, a leading figure at the Climate Research Unit,
University of East Anglia</b>,<span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">which works closely </span><span style="color: black;">with the UK Met Office </span></span>
and whose work, especially on temperature measurements, <b>has done so much
to inform government policy here and abroad.</b> The basis of the graph can
</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;">be <b><a href="http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/documents/421974/1295957/Info+sheet+%231.pdf/c612fc7e-babb-463c-b5e3-124ac76680c5">found here</a>.</b><br />
<br />
The graph we presented on screen is pretty much identical to the
post-1980 data in the graph created by the CRU.<b> It is based on HadCRUT 3
data rather than HadCRUT 4,</b> but the discrepancy between the two is
small.<b><br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-23405202">We made it clear on air that the graph</a> </b>had been "smoothed" -
not by us but <b>by the CRU </b>- to iron out fluctuations and to highlight the
trend.<br />
<br />
This is legitimate for TV when viewers only have a view
seconds to take in a visual. We used this graph in the belief that the
CRU would not do the smoothing in a manner that distorted either the
post-1980s rise or the post late-1990s plateau in temperatures.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="cross-head">Man-made heating</span><br />
<span class="cross-head"> </span>
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>We chose 1980 as the start date for the graph because that is
roughly when the IPCC says</b> </span>man-made warming became the dominant factor
in global temperature rises.<br />
<br />
<b>The IPCC said in 2007</b>: "The rapid warming observed since the
1970s has occurred in a period when the increase in greenhouse gases has
dominated over all other factors."</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>It said that, prior to then in the 20th century, any man-made
heating was offset by other </b>natural variations in the climate; but that
human-released greenhouse gasses are the dominant explanation of the
rise in temperatures post the 1970s.<br />
<br />
Global temperatures between 1940-80 were broadly constant. They <b><a href="http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/wg1/en/faq-9-2.html">started rising in 1980</a>;</b> and <b><a href="http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/wg1/en/figure-9-5.html">especially here.</a></b><br />
</span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><b>So it is reasonable to start the graph circa 1980 to show how
temperatures rose thereafter -</b> overwhelmingly as a result of greenhouse
gasses,<b> according to the IPCC - until the late 1990s; </b>and then started
to plateau, albeit at a high level compared with the rest of the 20th
century.<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-23405202"><b>Some have detected a slight decline in temperatures</b> </a>since
circa 2004 but we did not dwell on that since it is statistically
insignificant.<b><br />
<br />
The 2007 IPCC study reported that the likely rise in
equilibrium temperatures in response </b>to a doubling of C02 in the
atmosphere was between 2C and 4.5C, with 3C "most probable" (a slip of
the tongue on air said 3%, but it was clear what was meant).<br />
<br />
The plateau has made some climate scientists wonder about the<span style="font-size: large;">
<b>efficacy of the IPCC</b></span> <b><span style="font-size: large;">central forecast, <span style="color: #cc0000;">which has been seminal in
informing official policy</span></span>,</b><span style="font-size: large;"> and some are <b><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-23405202">re-considering the IPCC's
measurement of climate sensitivity</a></b><b> </b>i.e. the extent to which temperatures
rise in response to any given </span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">amount of C02 emissions. </span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><b>There are reports in the media that the upcoming 2013 IPCC
report might conclude </b>that the climate is indeed more insensitive to
emissions than previous concluded. We have no views on such matters,
other than <b>they are worthy of examination and debate - and have policy
implications.<br />
<br />
Mr Nuccitelli points out</b> that temperatures have plateaued in the
past, which is true. But since that was before, <b>according to the IPCC,
global warming became the dominant factor </b>in temperature rises,<b> <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-23405202">it is
not clear past plateaux are relevant</a> </b>to this debate; and the current
hiatus is one of the longer ones. <br />
<br />
It is also not clear from his blog if Mr Nuccitelli denies there is a plateau.<br />
<br />
<b>He has been a voluble exponent of a controversial "missing
heat" theory</b> that somehow the extra energy from global <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-23405202"><b>warming has
started to bypass the atmosphere</b> </a>(hence the stalling in surface
temperatures) and is storing up in the deep ocean; so perhaps he does
accept the plateau.</span><br />
<span class="cross-head"> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="cross-head">Principle point</span><br />
<span class="cross-head"> </span><b>
<br />
Mr Davey said in his interview </b>- and others echoed the point
later -<span style="color: #cc0000;"> </span><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">that we should not </span>concentrate just on land temperatures,</b> but
look at what was happening to ocean temperatures and the polar ice melt
for </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;">evidence that global warming was continuing unabated.<br />
<br />
This is a reasonable point. But in a 15-minute interview we
wanted to stick with the metric that most viewers would understand and
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-23405202">which has been used most to judge the course of global warming</a></b> in public
debate<span style="color: #cc0000;"> <span style="color: black;">i.e.</span><b> <span style="color: black;">surface temperatures, which are central to the science</span></b></span></span> and,
for viewers, the principle point of interest.<br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">At the Sunday Politics<b> <span style="color: #cc0000;">we are also used to public figures who try to
change the metric</span> </b>when the one they've put their faith in does not
behave as expected. We try not to let that happen.</span></span><b><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span><br />
</b><span style="font-size: medium;">Moreover, the purpose of the interview was not to question
all aspects of climate science, <b>just the one metric that has commanded
most attention. </b> Other possible indicators of climate change - ice melt,
ocean temperatures and extreme weather events - <b>are a matter of
widespread debate in which <span style="font-size: large;">the science most certainly is not "settled".</span></b><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span><br />
<b>For example, trends in Arctic ice decline and ocean warming
are not necessarily irrefutable</b> evidence of continued global warming,
though many climate scientists believe they are indeed caused by global
warming.<br />
<br />
<b>Others point out that satellite observations began in 1979
and caught a decline in Arctic ice already in progress.</b> So the origin of
the decline could be many decades ago, and might not have been started
by </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;">man (though global warming could now be exacerbating a previous
"natural" melting trend).<br />
<b><br />
There is evidence of great variability in sea ice in the Arctic from
historical records</b> and old newspaper cuttings from decades ago reporting
the disappearance of the ice.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: medium;">A new paper by the <b><a href="http://www.dmi.dk/dmi/sr05-02.pdf">Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI</a>)</b>
suggest that Greenland ice sheet melting is <b>related to solar activity</b>
and "a considerable fraction of the current withdrawal <b>could be a
natural occurrence".<br />
</b><br />
These are fascinating and contested matters and could easily
be pursued in future interviews. The Sunday Politics has no views on
their efficacy; but <b>they are issues worthy of investigation and
interrogation.</b><br />
<br />
The question in the interview which stated that the Arctic
ice melt this year is "normal" should have been qualified: <b>it is normal
in the sense of the much greater normal summer ice melt of recent years
i.e. it has not got worse - but even that cannot be said for sure until
September<span style="font-size: large;"> </span></b><span style="font-size: large;">when the ice melt reaches its greatest extent. </span>This
illustrates that we cannot do justice to the canon of global warming in
15 minutes - and justifies the decision to stick to one well-known and
crucial metric.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: medium;">It is not true to say - though it was said by Mr Davey and
subsequently - that we ignored ocean temperatures altogether. <b>The
HadCRUT data measures surface temperatures across the globe, including
ocean surface temperatures.</b><br />
<br />
There is a huge debate in climate science over the relationship
between global warming and ocean temperatures. As pointed out above <b>some
scientists (and Mr Nuccitelli) believe that global warming is </b></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>causing
the depths of the oceans to heat up</b> and that one day this heat will be
released.<br />
<br />
This is <b><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-23405202">widely contested</a></b> and even, by some, dismissed. <b>The
data is short-lived and contentious</b> (the "warming" at depths of many
hundreds of metres is being <span style="font-size: large;">measured in hundredths of a degree C</span>). We
did not have time to go there in the interview.<b><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">We stuck to the advice of Professor Judith Curry</span></b><span style="font-size: large;">, chair of
the School of Earth and </span>Atmospheric Sciences at the Georgia Institute of
Technology and a world authority on global warming, that: "… </span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>the best
(most mature, highest quality)</b> </span><b><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-23405202"><span style="font-size: medium;">data set for inferring recent climate
change</span></a></b><span style="font-size: medium;"> is the surface temperature data record."</span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />
<br />
Mr Nuccitelli is also one of the authors of the recent study of <b>
</b>climate science abstracts which concludes that <b>97% of climate scientists</b>
<b> <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-23405202">are part of the global warming consensus</a>.</b><br />
<br />
This survey has been quoted several times by <b>Mr Davey in
interviews to assert that the</b><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-23405202"> <b>science is "settled"</b></a>; he did so again in
our interview. It was reasonable to point out that the <b>methodology and
conclusions of the survey have been fiercely challenged by Prof Richard
Tol, a respected academic</b> quoted extensively in the Stern Report. Other
academics have their misgivings.<br />
<b><br />
</b>There is now an argument underway between critics and authors
<b>about how much raw data they are </b></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>prepared to make available for
examination</b>; and that neither the academic publication which carried it
nor the Guardian will give Professor Tol a right of reply.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: medium;">These are matters for academia. We simply wanted to point
out, when Mr Davey called it in aid, that <b><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-23405202">the survey, especially given</a></b>
the strongly partisan positions of the authors, <b>is not uncontested.</b><br />
<br />
More important, the survey's definition of "global warming
consensus" is so wide<b> </b>as to include most who are regarded as sceptics,
most of whom agree that global warming is happening and that there is a
man-made contribution.<br />
<br />
<b>The survey was recently attacked in testimony to the US
Congress by Dr Roy Spencer,</b> Principal Research Scientist at the
University of Alabama Hunstville, which carries out world-renowned and
heavily-relied upon <b>satellite measurements of global temperatures.</b><br />
<br />
<b>He told Congress the definition of consensus </b>in the survey
was so widely drawn as to be "innocuous" <b>and would include him within
the consensus</b> even though he is often depicted by people like Mr
Nuccitelli as being on the sceptical wing of climate science.<br />
</span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="cross-head">Unfounded claims</span></span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="cross-head"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The differences that separate climate scientists even within
the "consensus" are over the speed and extent of warming, the
consequences (economic and environmental) and the importance of other
climate factors which are not man-made and which may affect the
climate's sensitivity to the rise in C02 emissions.<br />
<br />
Only those who have been dismissed as "deniers" deny that man
is playing any role whatsoever, though the word is often applied to
sceptics too (and even, ridiculously, to the Sunday Politics!).</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />
<b>Contrary to many unfounded claims on Twitter</b>, the research
work behind our interview and the evidence it gathered was not
influenced by any deniers. <b><span style="font-size: large;">We relied on Nature magazine, the work of the
Climate Research Unit, Professor Judith Curry </span>of Georgia Tech and
Professor <span style="font-size: large;">Hans von Storch of Hamburg University</span></b><span style="font-size: large;"> among others</span>, all of
whom think man-made global warming is real and some of whom have been at
the very heart of the climate science community. <b>We quoted no deniers
or even sceptics. </b>All our evidence came from mainstream scientists who
do not doubt the fundamental tenets of global warming.<b><br />
<br />
Professor Tol is a climate economist.</b> He has strong views on
the economic impact of climate change. But we are not aware he denies it
is happening.<br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">At no stage in the interview was it ever claimed that global warming
is not real </span>or that it is not man-made. It is not for the Sunday
Politics to take such positions.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="cross-head"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="cross-head"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-23405202">Our focus was on</a></b> <b>a global temperature plateau</b> which could be a
challenge to the forecasts of climate models <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">which have determined
government policy.</span></b></span> <span style="font-size: large;">The plateau <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-23405202"><b>could continue for</b> </a>the foreseeable future
or melt away </span>as temperatures resume their upward trajectory. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;">The Sunday Politics has no views on such matters. We have put<b>
<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-23405202">the existence of this plateau</a></b> into the broader public domain. It is for
others to determine its significance."</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">1/18/13,<span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">“<b><a href="http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.spiegel.de%2Fwissenschaft%2Fnatur%2Fstillstand-der-temperatur-erklaerungen-fuer-pause-der-klimaerwaermung-a-877941.html">Climate change: scientists puzzle over halt in global warming,</a></b>”</span> Der Spiegel, by <a href="http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&hl=en&ie=UTF8&prev=_t&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=auto&tl=en&twu=1&u=http://www.spiegel.de/extra/0,1518,670762,00.html&usg=ALkJrhiJRn_gU-c_LCkIxZ6lMIK4UIOOcQ" target="_blank">Axel Bojanowski </a>(translation from German)<br />
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<b>"</b><span class="notranslate"><b>The British Met Office <a class="spTextlinkExt text-link-ext" href="http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&hl=en&ie=UTF8&prev=_t&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/climate/seasonal-to-decadal/long-range/decadal-fc&usg=ALkJrhgu0locIMFvzWH43tyj_TWfyK3Clw" target="_blank" title="Met Office: Climate Forecast to 2017">forecast even more recently</a> </b>that the temperature interval could continue at a high level <b><a href="http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.spiegel.de%2Fwissenschaft%2Fnatur%2Fstillstand-der-temperatur-erklaerungen-fuer-pause-der-klimaerwaermung-a-877941.html">until the end of 2017</a></b> - despite the <b><a class="text-link-int" href="http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&hl=en&ie=UTF8&prev=_t&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/natur/messungen-in-arktis-treibhausgas-co2-ueberschreitet-erstmals-400-ppm-a-836398.html&usg=ALkJrhh2SkYEen3TXNZrFw6-9UNFIO-Kww" title="rapidly increasing emissions of greenhouse gases">rapidly increasing emissions of greenhouse gases</a></b>.</span> <span class="notranslate"> Then global warming would pause 20 years."..."</span><span class="notranslate"><span class="notranslate">The
exact reasons of the <b><a href="http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.spiegel.de%2Fwissenschaft%2Fnatur%2Fstillstand-der-temperatur-erklaerungen-fuer-pause-der-klimaerwaermung-a-877941.html">temperature standstill since 1998</a></b></span></span><b>,</b> are not yet
understood, says climate researcher Doug Smith <b><a href="http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.spiegel.de%2Fwissenschaft%2Fnatur%2Fstillstand-der-temperatur-erklaerungen-fuer-pause-der-klimaerwaermung-a-877941.html">of the Met Office.</a>"...</b></span>
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</span>susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14710989163705986252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7420484931024290229.post-36530035022226527512013-07-25T03:26:00.000-04:002013-07-25T15:53:53.864-04:00Antarctic Ice Sheet projected to increase this century per UN IPCC 2007 report. UN IPCC says understanding is too limited to make best estimate about melting of other ice sheets such as Greenland<span style="font-size: large;">"<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: black;"><b><a href="http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/wg1/en/ch10s10-es-8-sea-level.html">For an average model</a>,</b> the scenario spread in sea level rise is </span><b><a href="http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/wg1/en/ch10s10-es-8-sea-level.html">only
0.02 m by the middle of the century.</a>"</b></span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>UN IPCC,</b> "<b><a href="http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/wg1/en/ch10s10-es-8-sea-level.html"><span style="color: black;">Climate Change 2007: Working Group I: The Physical Science Basis,"</span> Chapter 10, Executive Summary, Sea Level</a></b></span><br />
<br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;">"<a href="http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/wg1/en/ch10s10-es-8-sea-level.html">Sea level is projected to rise between the present </a>(1980–1999) </span>and
the end of this century (2090–2099)</b> under the SRES B1 scenario<b><span style="font-size: large;"> <a href="http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/wg1/en/ch10s10-es-8-sea-level.html">by 0.18
to 0.38 m</a></span>,</b> B2 by 0.20 to 0.43 m<span class="bi">,</span> A1B by 0.21 to 0.48 m, A1T by 0.20 to 0.45 m<span class="bi">, </span>A2
by 0.23 to 0.51 m, and A1FI by 0.26 to 0.59 m. <b>These are 5 to 95%
ranges</b> based on the spread of AOGCM results,<b> not including uncertainty
in carbon cycle feedbacks.... In all scenarios, the
average rate of rise during the 21st century</b> <span class="bi">very likely </span>exceeds the 1961 to 2003 average rate (1.8 ± 0.5 mm yr<sup>–1</sup>).<b> <span style="font-size: large;"> </span></b><br />
<br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;">During 2090 to 2099</span> under A1B, the</b><span style="font-size: large;"> c</span><b><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/wg1/en/ch10s10-es-8-sea-level.html">entral estimate of the rate of rise is 3.8 mm yr</a></span></b><sup><b>–</b>1</sup><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc;">.
<span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>For an average model, the scenario spread in sea level rise is <a href="http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/wg1/en/ch10s10-es-8-sea-level.html">only
0.02 m by the middle of the century</a></b></span>, and by the end of the century it is<b>
0.15 m.</b> </span><br />
<br />
<b>Thermal expansion is the largest component,
contributing 70 to 75% of the central estimate </b>in these projections for
all scenarios. Glaciers, ice caps and the Greenland Ice Sheet are also <b>
projected to contribute</b> positively to sea level. <b>General Circulation
Models indicate that <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">the Antarctic Ice Sheet </span><a href="http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/wg1/en/ch10s10-es-8-sea-level.html">will receive increased
snowfall without experiencing substantial surface melting</a></span>, <span style="font-size: large;">thus gaining
mass </span>and contributing negatively to sea level.</b>"...<br />
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[Ed. note: Translation:<b> <span style="color: #cc0000;">No Antarctic melting is predicted</span>, </b>therefore no sea level rise is predicted from Antarctic melt. Antarctic growth is expected to lower sea levels.] <br />
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(continuing): <b>"Further accelerations in
ice flow</b> of the kind recently observed<a href="http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/wg1/en/ch10s10-es-8-sea-level.html"> <span style="font-size: large;">in some Greenland outlet glaciers
and West Antarctic ice streams</span><b><span style="font-size: large;"> could</span></b> </a>substantially increase the
contribution from the ice sheets.<span style="font-size: large;"><b> For example, if</b></span> ice discharge from
these processes were to scale up in future in proportion to global
average surface temperature change (taken as a measure of global climate
change),<b><span style="font-size: large;"> it would add 0.1 to 0.2 m </span></b>to the upper bound of sea level rise
by 2090 to 2099. In this example, during 2090 to 2099 the rate of
scaled-up Antarctic discharge would roughly balance the expected
increased rate of Antarctic accumulation, being under A1B a factor of 5
to 10 greater than in recent years. <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/wg1/en/ch10s10-es-8-sea-level.html">Understanding of these effects is
too limited to assess their likelihood or to give a best estimate</a>. </span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Sea
level rise during the 21st century is projected to have </span><b><span style="font-size: large;">substantial
geographical variability</span></b><span style="font-size: large;">.</span> The model median spatial<span style="font-size: large;"> <b>standard deviation is
0.08 m</b></span> under A1B. <b><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/wg1/en/ch10s10-es-8-sea-level.html">The patterns from different models are not generally
similar in detail</a>, </span>but have <span style="font-size: large;">some common features</span></b><span style="font-size: large;">, <b>including smaller than
average sea level rise in the Southern Ocean</b>, larger than average in
the Arctic, and a narrow band of pronounced sea level rise stretching
across the southern Atlantic and Indian Oceans."</span><br />
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. susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14710989163705986252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7420484931024290229.post-51937139804612570072013-07-09T04:05:00.001-04:002015-02-07T03:37:24.450-05:00Peer reviewed PNAS study acknowledges no global warming 1998-2008<span style="color: #eeeeee;">. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">7/5/11, "<b><a href="http://www.pnas.org/content/108/29/11790.full#aff-1">Reconciling anthropogenic climate change with observed temperature 1998–2008</a></b>," PNAS.org</span><br />
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<h2>
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">"Abstract"</span></span></h2>
<span style="font-size: large;">"Given the <b>widely noted increase in the warming effects of rising greenhouse gas concentrations,</b> it has been <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>unclear why <a href="http://www.pnas.org/content/108/29/11790.full#aff-1">global
surface temperatures did not rise</a> between 1998 and 2008. </b></span>We find that this hiatus in warming coincides with a
period of little
increase in the sum of anthropogenic and
natural forcings. Declining solar insolation as part of a normal
eleven-year cycle,
and a cyclical change from an El Nino to a
La Nina dominate our measure of anthropogenic effects because rapid
growth in short-lived
sulfur emissions partially offsets rising
greenhouse gas concentrations.<b> As such, we find that recent global
temperature records
are consistent with the existing
understanding </b>of the relationship among global surface temperature,
internal variability,
and radiative forcing, which includes
anthropogenic factors with <b>well known warming and cooling effects.</b></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Data for global surface temperature indicate little warming between 1998 and 2008 (<a class="xref-bibr" href="http://www.pnas.org/content/108/29/11790.full#ref-1" id="xref-ref-1-1">1</a>). </b>Furthermore, global surface temperature declines 0.2 °C between 2005 and 2008. Although temperature increases in 2009 and
2010,<b> <a href="http://www.pnas.org/content/108/29/11790.full">the lack of a clear increase in global surface temperature between 1998 and 2008</a> (<a class="xref-bibr" href="http://www.pnas.org/content/108/29/11790.full#ref-1" id="xref-ref-1-2">1</a>), <a href="http://www.pnas.org/content/108/29/11790.full">combined with rising concentrations of atmospheric CO<sub>2</sub> and other greenhouse gases</a>,</b> prompts some popular commentators (<a class="xref-bibr" href="http://www.pnas.org/content/108/29/11790.full#ref-2" id="xref-ref-2-1">2</a>, <a class="xref-bibr" href="http://www.pnas.org/content/108/29/11790.full#ref-3" id="xref-ref-3-1">3</a>)
<b> to doubt the existing understanding of the relationship</b> among radiative
forcing, internal variability, and global surface
temperature. This seeming disconnect may be
one reason <b>why the public is increasingly sceptical about anthropogenic
climate
change </b>(<a class="xref-bibr" href="http://www.pnas.org/content/108/29/11790.full#ref-4" id="xref-ref-4-1">4</a>)."...
<b><br /></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>"</b></span></span><span class="name" itemprop="name"><a class="name-search" href="http://www.pnas.org/search?author1=Robert+K.+Kaufmann&sortspec=date&submit=Submit">Robert K. Kaufmann</a></span><a class="xref-aff" href="http://www.pnas.org/content/108/29/11790.full#aff-1" id="xref-aff-1-1"><sup>a</sup></a><span class="xref-sep">,</span><a class="xref-corresp" href="http://www.pnas.org/content/108/29/11790.full#corresp-1" id="xref-corresp-1-1"><sup>1</sup></a> ,<span class="name" itemprop="name"><a class="name-search" href="http://www.pnas.org/search?author1=Heikki+Kauppi&sortspec=date&submit=Submit">Heikki Kauppi</a></span><a class="xref-aff" href="http://www.pnas.org/content/108/29/11790.full#aff-2" id="xref-aff-2-1"><sup>b</sup></a>, <span class="name" itemprop="name"><a class="name-search" href="http://www.pnas.org/search?author1=Michael+L.+Mann&sortspec=date&submit=Submit">Michael L. Mann</a></span><a class="xref-aff" href="http://www.pnas.org/content/108/29/11790.full#aff-1" id="xref-aff-1-2"><sup>a</sup></a>, and<span class="name"><a class="name-search" href="http://www.pnas.org/search?author1=James+H.+Stock&sortspec=date&submit=Submit"> James H. Stock</a></span><a class="xref-aff" href="http://www.pnas.org/content/108/29/11790.full#aff-3" id="xref-aff-3-1"><sup>c"...</sup></a><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Regarding aerosols:</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;">Page 1 notes <a href="http://www.columbia.edu/%7Ejeh1/mailings/2013/20130115_Temperature2012.pdf"><b>lack of scientific data on aerosols</b></a> makes it impossible to accurately interpret global climate.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">
</span>
<span style="font-size: large;">Jan. 15, 2013, “<a href="http://www.columbia.edu/%7Ejeh1/mailings/2013/20130115_Temperature2012.pdf"><b>Global Temperature Update Through 2012, 15 January 2013,</b></a>” Columbia University, J. Hansen, M. Sato, R. Rudy</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">(page 1): <b>“Summary</b>. …”<b><a href="http://www.columbia.edu/%7Ejeh1/mailings/2013/20130115_Temperature2012.pdf">The 5-year mean global temperature has been flat for a decade</a>,</b> which we interpret as a combination of <b>natural variability and a slowdown in the growth rate</b> of the net climate forcing….</span><br />
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</span>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://www.columbia.edu/%7Ejeh1/mailings/2013/20130115_Temperature2012.pdf"><b>(page 1, parag. 3): “The approximate stand-still of global temperature during 1940-1975</b></a>
is generally attributed to an approximate balance of aerosol cooling
and greenhouse gas warming during a period of rapid growth of fossil
fuel use with little control on particulate air pollution, <b>but satisfactory <span style="color: #c7373d;">quantitative interpretation has been impossible because of the absence of adequate aerosol measurements</span></b> 3,4.”…</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://www.columbia.edu/%7Ejeh1/mailings/2013/20130115_Temperature2012.pdf"><b>Page 6 details problem predicting future “climate change</b></a>” referenced on p. 1 above, ie <b><a href="http://www.columbia.edu/%7Ejeh1/mailings/2013/20130115_Temperature2012.pdf">lack of data on aerosols,</a> <span style="color: #444444;">and that <span style="font-size: large;">the one US satellite designed to measure them</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"> <a href="http://www.news24.com/SciTech/News/Nasa-crashes-hit-geoscience-efforts-20110306">crashed on takeoff</a></span></b><span style="font-size: large;"> and no plans exist to restart the mission:</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><b>page 6, last parag</b>. of report under sub-head, “<a href="http://www.columbia.edu/%7Ejeh1/mailings/2013/20130115_Temperature2012.pdf"><b>Climate Change Expectations”</b>: </a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.columbia.edu/%7Ejeh1/mailings/2013/20130115_Temperature2012.pdf">“<b>The one major wild card in projections of future climate change</b> </a>is the unmeasured climate forcing due to <b>aerosol changes and their effects on clouds</b>. <span style="color: #c3313f;"><b>Anecdotal information indicates</b></span> that particulate air pollution has increased in regions with increasing coal burning, but <b><a href="http://www.columbia.edu/%7Ejeh1/mailings/2013/20130115_Temperature2012.pdf">assessment of the climate forcing requires global measurement</a> of detailed physical properties of the aerosols</b>. <span style="color: #c3313f;"><b>The
one satellite mission that was capable of making measurements with the
required detail and accuracy was lost via a launch failure,</b></span> and as yet there are no plans for a replacement mission with the needed capabilities.4″</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Links re: NASA climate satellite crashes in 2009 and 2011. <a href="http://www.news24.com/SciTech/News/Nasa-crashes-hit-geoscience-efforts-20110306"><b>2011 satellite </b>(referenced by Hansen)<b> was to study aerosols:</b></a><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">“A launch malfunction sent the Glory satellite crashing into the ocean, <a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=glory-observatory-crash"><b>almost exactly mimicking the 2009 loss of NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory.</b>“…</a></span><br />
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earth science efforts just as the US space agency faces scrutiny from
Congress over whether climate science should be part of its focus at
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b> </b></span></span>susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14710989163705986252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7420484931024290229.post-50438542862508638722013-07-07T04:45:00.005-04:002013-07-07T04:48:10.987-04:00Army artillery drill started Stuart Creek, Alaska, wildfire. Training took place during red flag warning in which residents are asked to avoid activities that could start fires-Newsminer <span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;"></span>7/6/13, <span style="font-size: large;"><b>"</b></span><span class="blox-headline entry-title"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://www.newsminer.com/news/local_news/army-official-artillery-drill-started-stuart-creek-wildfire/article_ea01d526-e6c5-11e2-8721-001a4bcf6878.html">Army official: Artillery drill started Stuart Creek wildfire</a>,"</b></span> Sam Friedman, newsminer.com</span><br />
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<span class="blox-headline entry-title"></span><span class="paragraph-0"></span>TWO RIVERS, Alaska, "<b><a href="http://www.newsminer.com/news/local_news/army-official-artillery-drill-started-stuart-creek-wildfire/article_ea01d526-e6c5-11e2-8721-001a4bcf6878.html">An Army artillery exercise ignited the
Stuart Creek 2 fire</a></b> now threatening the community of Two Rivers,
according to the Fort Wainwright garrison commander.<br />
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Col. Ron Johnson spoke to area residents this evening at a community meeting at the Pleasant Valley Community Center.<br />
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<b>In general, the Army makes sure it has the
resources to put out a fire </b>that could start from training<b> </b>before
allowing the training, he said.<br />
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“In this case it took some mitigation measures,
they allowed the training to occur, <b><a href="http://www.newsminer.com/news/local_news/army-official-artillery-drill-started-stuart-creek-wildfire/article_ea01d526-e6c5-11e2-8721-001a4bcf6878.html">it was artillery training, it did
start a fire,</a>” </b>Johnson said.<br />
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<b>The fire, which started June 25, </b>was initially
contained until it flared up last week, Johnson said.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>The training took
place during a red flag warning in which residents are asked to avoid
conducting activities that could start fires,</b></span> he said.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">“It was monitored, it smoked up, they hit it again and then when the<b>
fire conditions changed it flared up</b> and now we’ve got what we’ve got,”
Johnson said.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Saturday’s meeting was organized by the
firefighting crew</b> now managing the 32,014-acre fire to give information
to the Chena Hot Springs Road community that’s been under an advisory
evacuation watch since Tuesday.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Johnson was not a scheduled speaker at the
meeting but took the microphone to applause and laughter when a local
resident asked “<b>If the military started this fire, then why aren’t they
here?”</b></span><br />
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Chena Hot Springs Road between 14 mile and 32
mile remains on evacuation watch. Warm weather is forecast for Sunday, <b><a href="http://www.newsminer.com/news/local_news/army-official-artillery-drill-started-stuart-creek-wildfire/article_ea01d526-e6c5-11e2-8721-001a4bcf6878.html">as is wind that would blow the fire</a> toward the community.</b>" </span>via Free Republic<br />
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">. </span>susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14710989163705986252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7420484931024290229.post-88319245021554854772013-06-14T01:18:00.002-04:002013-06-14T01:26:46.589-04:00Obama freely admits March 2012 EPA ruling against electric utilities won't effect US CO2 emissions, rather it will send a strong signal 'internationally' and help 'stimulate investment' <span style="font-size: large;"><b>"<a href="http://epa.gov/carbonpollutionstandard/pdfs/20120327proposal.pdf">Standards of Performance for Greenhouse Gas Emissions for New</a></b></span><span style="font-size: large;"><b> <a href="http://epa.gov/carbonpollutionstandard/pdfs/20120327proposal.pdf">Stationary Sources: Electric Utility Generating Units,</a></b>" </span>EPA, Carbon Pollution Standard, Fed. Register, draft<b>, 3/27/12</b><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>p. 49</b>, "<b><a href="http://epa.gov/carbonpollutionstandard/pdfs/20120327proposal.pdf">While this proposed rule also will not have direct impact on U.S. emissions</a> </b>of greenhouse gases <b>under expected economic conditions</b>, it provides assurance that emission rates from new fossil fuel-fired generation will not exceed the level of the standard and <b>will send a strong signal both domestically and</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">to consider less GHG-intensive forms of power generation."...<span style="font-size: large;">via USNews.com:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">4/12/12, "<b><a href="http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/on-energy/2012/04/12/the-illogic-of-epa-carbon-regulations">The Illogic of EPA Carbon Regulations,</a></b>" USNews.com, by
<a href="http://www.usnews.com/topics/author/daniel_simmons" rel="author"> Daniel Simmons</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">"<b>If global warming is a problem that the EPA needs to address</b>, then
why are they working on <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>imposing rules that the agency admits "will not
have [a] direct impact of U.S. emissions of greenhouse gases?</b></span>" It's
tough to see how EPA regulation makes logical sense. </span></div>
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-large;">Does the EPA not
really care about global warming </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>or are they working to end America's
use of coal?</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Does the EPA only want to increase the price of energy</b> by
making it harder to build low-cost electricity generation? </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>What
explains the EPA's actions?</b> And why are taxpayers paying for this
nonsense?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>The only thing we know for sure is that the EPA claims that global
warming is a problem</b> <b> and <a href="http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/on-energy/2012/04/12/the-illogic-of-epa-carbon-regulations">then announces rules that the agency admits
does nothing about it</a>. </b>Draw your own conclusions."</span><br />
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susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14710989163705986252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7420484931024290229.post-82671182220026393182013-05-28T16:51:00.000-04:002013-05-28T16:51:06.560-04:00US coal production continues to decline, Jan-Feb. 2013 total lower than Jan-Feb 2012 and Jan-Feb 2011, US DOE/ EIAMay 2013, "<b><a href="http://www.eia.gov/totalenergy/data/monthly/pdf/mer.pdf">Monthly Energy Review</a>,</b>" US DOE/EIA, eia.gov<br />
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page 5, Table 1.2, "<a href="http://www.eia.gov/totalenergy/data/monthly/pdf/mer.pdf"><b>Primary Energy Production by Source</b></a>"<br />
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Jan 2013, 1.702<br />
Feb 2013, 1.554<br />
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Two month total <b><a href="http://www.eia.gov/totalenergy/data/monthly/pdf/mer.pdf">2012, 3.664</a></b><br />
Two month total <b>2011, 3.590</b><br />
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;">.</span>susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14710989163705986252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7420484931024290229.post-52293939244064008072013-04-20T22:35:00.002-04:002013-04-20T22:35:41.256-04:00Exit 8A, NJ Turnpike<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Exit 8A on New Jersey Turnpike, 4/20/13, "<a href="http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2013/04/major_delays_expected_on_turnp.html#incart_hbx">Major delays expected on N.J. Turnpike as work shifts for massive widening project</a>," NJ Star-Ledgersusanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14710989163705986252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7420484931024290229.post-41870737207257623242013-02-21T03:58:00.001-05:002013-02-21T03:59:15.983-05:00Issa and Waxman share laugh, photo Dec. 9, 2008<b>"<a href="http://newshopper.sulekha.com/henry-waxman-darrell-issa_photo_585175.htm">House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Rep. Henry
Waxman, D-Calif., shares a laugh</a></b> with committee member Rep. Darrell
Issa, R-Calif., on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2008, as
they wait for the starts of the committee's hearing on the financial
meltdown. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)"<br />
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susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14710989163705986252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7420484931024290229.post-81246332058226160422012-10-09T07:32:00.001-04:002012-10-09T07:36:26.117-04:00Dr. Barbara Bellar explains ObamaCare in one sentence10/6/12, <span class="long-title " dir="ltr" id="eow-title" title="Dr Barbara Bellar Obamacare The best video ever MRCTV"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vr2hZLUXBsY">Dr Barbara Bellar explains Obamacare in One Sentence</a></b></span> </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"We are going to be gifted with a healthcare plan [the ACA]:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> * <b><a href="http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2942152/posts">We are forced to purchase, and fined if we don't</a>; </b><br /> * <span style="color: #cc0000;">Which purportedly covers <a href="http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2942152/posts"><b>at least 10 million more people</b></a><b> </b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b><span style="color: #444444;">*</span> Without adding a single new doctor;</b></span></span> but<br />
* <b>Provides for 16,000 new IRS agents;</b><br />
* Written by a committee whose chairman says he doesn't understand it;<br />
* <b>Passed by a Congress that didn't read it;</b><span style="color: #cc0000;"> <b>but</b></span><br />
*<span style="color: #cc0000;"><b> Exempted themselves from it; </b></span>and<br />
* Signed by a president who smokes;<br />
* With funding <b>administered by a treasury chief who didn't pay his taxes;</b><br />
* <b><a href="http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2942152/posts">For which we will be taxed for four years</a></b> before any benefits take effect;<br />
* By a government which has already bankrupted Social Security and Medicare;<br />
* <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>All to be overseen by a surgeon general who is obese</b></span>; and<br />
* Financed by a country that's broke."<br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">. </span>susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14710989163705986252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7420484931024290229.post-54993149311074153992012-09-26T01:11:00.002-04:002012-09-26T01:11:19.209-04:00Antarctic Sea Ice, NSIDC, Sept. 2012<br />
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susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14710989163705986252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7420484931024290229.post-64103725900134983592012-05-10T10:59:00.004-04:002012-05-16T20:48:08.470-04:00The Suppers Programs explained in 'Logical Miracles' by Dor Mullen<span style="font-size:130%;">"</span><span id="btAsinTitle"><span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Logical-Miracles-Stories-Hope-Healing/dp/1463503873/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1325024455&sr=8-1"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Logical Miracles: 100 Stories of Hope and Healing</span>,</a>"</span> Dor Mullen. The story of the <span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://www.thesuppersprograms.org/">Suppers Programs</a></span><br /><br /></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDdHibnWpN_WTBjukpqWJDDXRhKUVOL4PYmjTb0nZn6ow8b59n2PYJDl4-x_aG-79df6VnwB_nDX_Z2bLiEs7WF29KjyWLrbNus4t1gTFoLztv5rpm7XCBIGXb26MIkvpS5UPX_kWuYh0/s1600/logical_miracles.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 223px; height: 217px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDdHibnWpN_WTBjukpqWJDDXRhKUVOL4PYmjTb0nZn6ow8b59n2PYJDl4-x_aG-79df6VnwB_nDX_Z2bLiEs7WF29KjyWLrbNus4t1gTFoLztv5rpm7XCBIGXb26MIkvpS5UPX_kWuYh0/s400/logical_miracles.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5740921282750615074" border="0" /></a><br /><span id="btAsinTitle"><br />"<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Logical-Miracles-Stories-Hope-Healing/dp/1463503873/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1325024455&sr=8-1"></a></span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Logical-Miracles-Stories-Hope-Healing/dp/1463503873/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1325024455&sr=8-1"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Logical Miracles is a collection of stories by people in The Suppers Programs</span></a> who found their personal solutions by experimenting with whole food. In an environment of nonjudgment, we cook, taste, and feel our way to health, and we forge new friendships based on healthy living. For five years, pilot Suppers groups have been helping people with a range of food-related challenges find their path, especially people with depression, anxiety, learning issues, obesity, diabetes, and problems with alcohol. No special diets. No fees. No commercial messages. The only requirement for membership is the desire to lead a healthier life. Now we’d like to share our logical miracles, our road maps, our recipes, and especially our hard-earned wisdom related as stories of hope and healing. Welcome to Suppers."<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://www.thesuppersprograms.org/">Suppers Programs</a>, "</span>Message to Parents"<br /><br />"There is very compelling research coming out of Columbia University showing that <span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://www.thesuppersprograms.org/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">children who regularly eat dinner at the family table have much lower incidences of drug, alcohol, and tobacco use</span></a></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-size:100%;">.</span> </span>The vast majority of teenagers surveyed said they want to eat dinner with their families. 59% of our children regularly do. Though it doesn’t always seem that way, our children and particularly teenagers want to spend time with us. If creating a family dinner table is beyond you, or if you need help re-establishing the habit, your therapeutic friends in the Suppers Programs can help you make this vital force for parenting a reality in your household. At Suppers we believe that doing whatever it takes to sit down regularly as a family to wholesome meals is the single most important thing a family can do."<br /><br />------------------------------------------------<br /><br />5/2/12, "<span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://princetoninfo.com/index.php?option=com_us1more&key=5-2-12suppers">From This Garden, Plentiful Food for Thought</a></span><a href="http://princetoninfo.com/index.php?option=com_us1more&key=5-2-12suppers">,</a>" PrincetonInfo.com, by Priscilla E. Hayes<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtZZVc54m6xuVKEhWnI8ItJkY4tXK9gVa4H9uN5ioP5iy6kuT3LzKOHfQ7T4RABU5zm4nmJ9VyLwqRCS76LgkZy-kejipt1Zs4p5q7ag2g1iUiyPfgWosswPL3G1QJLg8ayElWtF5o0iA/s1600/dorothymullensuppersprincetoninfomay22012.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 273px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtZZVc54m6xuVKEhWnI8ItJkY4tXK9gVa4H9uN5ioP5iy6kuT3LzKOHfQ7T4RABU5zm4nmJ9VyLwqRCS76LgkZy-kejipt1Zs4p5q7ag2g1iUiyPfgWosswPL3G1QJLg8ayElWtF5o0iA/s400/dorothymullensuppersprincetoninfomay22012.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5740923038649874418" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Dorothy Mullen, <a href="http://princetoninfo.com/index.php?option=com_us1more&key=5-2-12suppers">photo from</a> Princeton Infosusanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14710989163705986252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7420484931024290229.post-5699681485133438472012-03-27T08:30:00.001-04:002013-08-31T17:40:15.260-04:00The Chain, performed March 11, 2009, Boston<br />
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="291" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/wFuL9k-tif0" width="385"></iframe> This is my selection In Memory of Andrew Breitbartsusanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14710989163705986252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7420484931024290229.post-80263903559458574362012-01-24T02:35:00.001-05:002012-03-03T22:50:37.433-05:00NBC's Brian Williams orders Tampa debate audience to 'stay quiet,' giving media and GOP establishment control of the narrativeThe Tampa debate <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://decoded.nationaljournal.com/2012/01/gingrich-lost-his-crowdpleasin.php">crowd submits to NBC's Brian Williams</a><span style="font-weight: bold;">' <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">order</span> </span>to<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"> <span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">'stay quiet.'</span></span> The narrative is taken away from the people. The GOP wants <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2012/01/23/newt_is_a_vessel_he_won_south_carolina_because_he_articulated_conservatism">primaries to be over</a> so they can get back to <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://impeachobamatoday.blogspot.com/2012/01/romney-campaign-adviser-mankiw-suggests.html">selling this country out</a><span style="font-weight: bold;">. </span>As Rush Limbaugh said Monday, <span style="font-weight: bold;">"</span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2012/01/23/newt_is_a_vessel_he_won_south_carolina_because_he_articulated_conservatism">Newt is a vessel</a><span style="font-weight: bold;">"</span> for long silenced and scorned ordinary Americans.<br /><br />1/23/12, "<a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://decoded.nationaljournal.com/2012/01/gingrich-lost-his-crowdpleasin.php">Gingrich Lost His Crowd-Pleasing Groove in Tampa</a><span style="font-weight: bold;">,</span>" National Journal, Tim Alberta<br /><br />"<a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://decoded.nationaljournal.com/2012/01/gingrich-lost-his-crowdpleasin.php">NBC's Brian Williams asked</a><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span>the audience to stay quiet." (parag. 3)<br /><br />----------------------------------------<br /><br />The audience was <a href="http://decoded.nationaljournal.com/2012/01/gingrich-lost-his-crowdpleasin.php"><span style="font-weight: bold;">told to shut up</span> </a>so the media and establishment can create the narrative that Newt was 'a dud.' This is <a href="http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2012/01/23/newt_is_a_vessel_he_won_south_carolina_because_he_articulated_conservatism">not to say Gingrich can or will</a> win just based on cheering audiences.<br /><br /><br /><br />via Drudgesusanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14710989163705986252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7420484931024290229.post-89082080225922832392011-12-09T08:12:00.000-05:002011-12-09T08:24:07.901-05:00UN and others won't give up deadly climate scam easily, trillions have been made, trillions more at stake12/9/2011, <span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-size:100%;">"<a href="http://www.thenewamerican.com/tech-mainmenu-30/environment/10121-doomed-un-climate-summit-in-durban-ridiculed-as-science-crumbles"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Doomed UN Climate Summit in Durban Ridiculed as “Science” Crumbles,</span>" <span style="font-size:85%;">New American, Alex Newman</span></a></span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.thenewamerican.com/tech-mainmenu-30/environment/10121-doomed-un-climate-summit-in-durban-ridiculed-as-science-crumbles"><br /></a></span><blockquote><p>"<a href="http://www.thenewamerican.com/tech-mainmenu-30/environment/10121-doomed-un-climate-summit-in-durban-ridiculed-as-science-crumbles"><span style="font-weight: bold;">But even as many scientists</span></a> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.climatedepot.com/a/9035/SPECIAL-REPORT-More-Than-1000-International-Scientists-Dissent-Over-ManMade-Global-Warming-Claims--Challenge-UN-IPC" target="_blank">say</a><span style="font-weight: bold;"> the climate “scam” is unraveling,</span> analysts noted that the <span style="font-size:130%;">vested interests would not be disappearing without a long and hard fight. </span>Researchers on the taxpayer dole, <span style="font-weight: bold;">dictators seeking handouts, </span><span style="font-size:130%;">Western governments looking for new revenue streams,</span> global bureaucrats after more power, and many others all<br /></p><ul><li><span style="font-size:130%;">depend on the perpetuation of alarmism.</span></li></ul><p><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" ><a href="http://www.thenewamerican.com/tech-mainmenu-30/environment/10121-doomed-un-climate-summit-in-durban-ridiculed-as-science-crumbles">There are literally trillions of dollars at stake</a>. </span><span style="font-size:130%;">And if the global-warming crusade publicly implodes, it will all come crashing down.</span> Plus, the next UN scheme will be much harder to market." </p><p><br /></p><p>via Tom Nelson<br /></p></blockquote>susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14710989163705986252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7420484931024290229.post-91727018181432426152011-12-05T00:32:00.000-05:002011-12-05T00:37:53.695-05:00At least 7 Occupy members found dead in tents, latest in Denton, TexasOccupy members found dead in tents so far in <a href="http://www.vancouversun.com/Woman+dies+Occupy+Vancouver+site/5664471/story.html">at least 7 sites: Vancouver</a>, <a href="http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2011/11/man_found_dead_in_occupy_new_o.html">New Orleans</a>, <a href="http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/article/20111116/NEWS02/111115025">Burlington, Vt</a>., <a href="http://newsok.com/occupy-okc-participant-found-dead-in-tent-at-kerr-park/article/3618763#ixzz1cPX18FZt">Oklahoma City</a>, <a href="http://indianapublicmedia.org/news/city-supports-occupy-bloomington-mans-death-23052/">Bloomington, Ind</a>., <a href="http://www.ksl.com/?nid=1070&sid=18042323&title=man-found-dead-in-tent-at-pioneer-park">Salt Lake City</a>, and Denton, Tx., below.<br /><br />12/4/11, "<a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/12/04/man-found-dead-at-texas-occupy-camp/">Man Found Dead at Texas 'Occupy' Camp</a>," Newscore<br /><br />"<span class="dateline"></span><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/12/04/man-found-dead-at-texas-occupy-camp/">A man was found dead Saturday</a> afternoon in a tent at the "Occupy Denton" campsite on the grounds of the University of North Texas, KNTU-Radio reported. <p style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/12/04/man-found-dead-at-texas-occupy-camp/">University and city police</a> found the body at the eight-tent encampment after someone contacted authorities between 5:00pm and 5:30pm local time, UNT spokesman Buddy Price told the station.</span></p> <p style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Price said crime scene tape had been put up to block off the campsite and that protesters would not be allowed back in to the area until investigations into the death had been finalized.</span></p> <p style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/12/04/man-found-dead-at-texas-occupy-camp/">A statement published on </a>the university's <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/topics/facebook.htm#r_src=ramp" class="r_lapi">Facebook</a> page said police had not yet identified how the as-yet unidentified man had died, but believed he was a participant in the "Occupy" protest.</span></p> <p style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-size:100%;">"According to the UNT Police Department, the time and cause of death is unknown ... The area has been secured while the UNT Police conduct an investigation," the statement said.</span></p> <p style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/12/04/man-found-dead-at-texas-occupy-camp/">The body was taken</a> from the camp by a Denton County coroner about 8:30pm, the North Texas Daily reported, adding it was not believed the man was a student at the university.</span></p> <p style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/topics/football/houston-texans/garrett-graham.htm#r_src=ramp" class="r_lapi">Garrett Graham</a>, a spokesman for "Occupy Denton," told the university's student newspaper the dead man "is a friend of ours <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/12/04/man-found-dead-at-texas-occupy-camp/">who had found a family here.</a> We're dealing with it like a family.""</span></p><p style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-size:100%;">================</span></p><p style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:130%;">11/5/11, "<a href="http://www.vancouversun.com/Woman+dies+Occupy+Vancouver+site/5664471/story.html">Woman dies at Occupy Vancouver site,</a>"</span> </span>Vancouver Sun, by Mike Hager<br /><br />"<a href="http://www.vancouversun.com/Woman+dies+Occupy+Vancouver+site/5664471/story.html">Tensions are high at</a> the Occupy Vancouver site after a female, who is <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">believed to be in her 20s</span>, died late Saturday afternoon in what Vancouver Fire and Rescue Services are calling a "medical emergency."...</p><p><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"></span><a href="http://www.vancouversun.com/Woman+dies+Occupy+Vancouver+site/5664471/story.html">VFRS spokesman Capt.</a> Gabe Roder confirmed the woman who died was in a tent...Shaw said he didn't know if it was an overdose or not, but they don't know how long she was unresponsive because the woman had been in the tent alone....</p><p>-------------------------</p><p><span style="font-size:100%;">11/08/11, "<a href="http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2011/11/man_found_dead_in_occupy_new_o.html">Man found dead in Occupy New Orleans encampment</a>," </span>New Orleans Times-Picayune, L. Williams<br /><br />"<a href="http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2011/11/man_found_dead_in_occupy_new_o.html">A 53-year-old man was found dead</a> Tuesday inside a tent pitched at the Occupy New Orleans encampment at Duncan Plaza across from City Hall. He appears to have been living in the tent inside the occupation zone, said John Gagliano, chief investigator for the Orleans Parish Coroner's Office.<br /><br />The man appears to have been <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">dead for at least two days</span>, Gagliano said."...</p><p>-----------------------</p><p>11/16/11, "<a href="http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/article/20111116/NEWS02/111115025">Occupy Burlington shooting victim had gun all week</a>," Burlington Free Press, Sam Hemingway<br /><br />"<a href="http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/article/20111116/NEWS02/111115025">Burlington police say the man</a> who died last week of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at the Occupy Burlington encampment at City Hall Park had been carrying the gun with him for the previous week.<br /></p><p><span class="pp"></span>Joshua Pfenning, a 35-year-old transient, <span style="font-size:130%;">shot himself in the head </span>with a handgun shortly after 2 p.m. Thursday. He was pronounced dead three hours later at Fletcher Allen Health Care in Burlington.</p><p> <a href="http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/article/20111116/NEWS02/111115025">Deputy Burlington Police Chief</a> Andi Higbee said Tuesday that Pfenning <span style="font-weight: bold;"> told the three people in the tent with him </span>just before the shooting<span style="font-weight: bold;"> about having the gun with him</span><br /></p><ul><li> at the camp <span style="font-weight: bold;">for the past seven days.</span></li></ul><p> “There was no discussion at the camp about him having a gun before it was produced by him in the tent,” Higbee said. “The only time it was present or seen was at the event<span style="font-size:130%;"> just minutes before the (shooting) </span>happened.”</p><p> <a href="http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/article/20111116/NEWS02/111115025">Higbee said police still</a> are trying to determine whether the shooting was accidental or an act of suicide. Police have said <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Pfenning pointed the gun in a threatening manner toward another person in the tent</span> before Pfenning suffered the fatal gunshot wound.</p> <a href="http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/article/20111116/NEWS02/111115025">Police have spoken to all three people</a> who were in the tent when the shooting occurred. Two were interviewed shortly after the incident, but police were unable to locate the third person immediately. The three told essentially the same story about the events that led to the shooting, Higbee said.<p> The shooting <a href="http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/article/20111116/NEWS02/111115025">prompted police to declare</a> the encampment a crime scene. Thursday night, <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">protesters angry about being barred from returning to their tents</span> engaged in a confrontation with police after a woman was arrested. <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">A potential riot was averted when Mayor Bob Kiss persuaded police to release the woman.</span></p> <span style="font-size:100%;">Police on Friday said that </span><span style="font-size:100%;">because of the <a href="http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/article/20111116/NEWS02/111115025">shooting and evidence of excessive alcohol consumption</a> and drug use at the encampment, all tents would have to be removed."...<br /><br />------------------------<br /><br />10/31/11, "</span><a href="http://newsok.com/occupy-okc-participant-found-dead-in-tent-at-kerr-park/article/3618763#ixzz1cPX18FZt">Occupy OKC participant found dead in tent at Kerr Park</a>," newsok.com, Matt Dinger<br /><br />-----------------------<br /><br />11/7/11, "<a href="http://indianapublicmedia.org/news/city-supports-occupy-bloomington-mans-death-23052/">City Still Supports Occupy Bloomington After Man’s Death</a>," IndianaPublicMedia.org<br /><br />Man <a href="http://indianapublicmedia.org/news/city-supports-occupy-bloomington-mans-death-23052/">found dead in tent was</a> said to be homeless, needed place to stay.<br /><br />11/11/11, "<a href="http://www.ksl.com/?nid=1070&sid=18042323&title=man-found-dead-in-tent-at-pioneer-park">Man found dead in Pioneer Park, Occupy SLC ordered to leave both camps,</a>" KSL, Pat Reavy<br /><br />Man found dead in tent.<br /><br />-----------------------<br /><br />11/10/11, "<a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57322819/man-fatally-shot-near-occupy-oakland-camp/">Man fatally shot near Occupy Oakland camp</a>," CBS News<br /><br /><br />via Drudgesusanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14710989163705986252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7420484931024290229.post-55741580394443586792011-12-05T00:02:00.000-05:002011-12-05T00:04:04.719-05:00ActivistCash.com great website to check out who's funding what, foundations, etc.<span style=" font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://activistcash.com/index_organizations.cfm">ActivistCash.com</a></span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">via commenter to Watts Up With That</span><br /></span><span style=" font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></span>susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14710989163705986252noreply@blogger.com0