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UN IPCC announces new definition of 'climate change,' no longer tied to human behavior, includes natural means, land use, & decades or longer duration

Tweet Citing "progress in science," UN global climate change policy announces a change in the definition of "climate change" from prior UN reports. The term is no longer tied to human behavior, now includes change via "natural processes" and "land use," and must persist for "decades or longer" or is not "climate change." (p.2)

11/19/11, "IPCC Introduces New 'Climate Change' Definition," GWPF

11/18/11, "First Joint Session of Working Groups I and II, IPCC SREX Summary for Policymakers"

"Definitions central to SREX

Core concepts defined in the SREX glossary (1) and used throughout the report include:

[Insert footnote 1 here: Reflecting the diversity of the communities involved in this assessment and in

• progress in science,

several of the definitions used in this Special Report differ in breadth or focus from those used in the AR4 and other IPCC reports].

Climate Change:

Climate change may be due to natural internal processes or external forcings, or to persistent anthropogenic changes in the composition of the atmosphere

• or in land use. ...
  

A change in the state of the climate that can be identified (e.g., by using statistical tests) by
changes in the mean and/or the variability of its properties and that

• persists for an extended period, typically
  
• decades or longer.

[Insert footnote 2: This definition differs from that in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), where climate change is defined as, "a change of climate which is attributed directly or indirectly to human activity that alters the composition of the global atmosphere and which is in addition to natural climate variability observed over comparable time periods."

• The UNFCCC thus makes a distinction
  

between climate change attributable to human activities altering the atmospheric composition,

• and climate variability attributable to natural causes.]

Climate Extreme (extreme weather or climate event):

...For simplicity, both extreme weather events and extreme climate events are

• referred to collectively as "climate extremes."..."

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11/18/11, "Climate Change Weather Effects Unknown: IPCC Report," The Australian, via GWPF

"Great uncertainty remains about how much of an impact climate change will have on future extreme weather events, the world's leading climate scientists have found."...

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Mexico's Calderon allows prisons to buy plasma tv's for inmates, inmates run prisons, also engage in abusive cock fighting

Tweet 11/7/11, "Prostitutes found in Mexico jail," BBC

"A surprise inspection in a prison in Mexico has revealed the presence of 19 prostitutes, 100 plasma televisions, two sacks of marijuana,

• and 100 cockerels for cock fighting.

The discovery in the prison in Acapulco came as police prepared to transfer the inmates to a maximum security jail.

The officers also found six female inmates living in the male section of the prison

• and two peacocks.

Mexican jails are notorious for overcrowding, corruption and rioting.

It is not the first time luxury items and weapons have been found in a Mexican jail.

In July, prisoners in a jail in Sonora state were found to be running a lottery to raffle off a luxury cell they'd equipped with a fridge, DVD player and air conditioning.

An inspector from the State Commission for the Defence of Human Rights, Hipolito Lugo Cortes, recently denounced conditions in five prisons in Guerrero state, among them the one in Acapulco.

He said inmates were running affairs at these penitentiaries according to their own laws and customs, with little or no control by prison authorities."

Philadelphia trio chained 4 mentally disabled persons in basement, cashed in their disability payments

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Above are 3 suspects responsible for chaining disabled people in a basement with dogs and buckets of excrement. This was at least the 4th location where the group had resided. The woman above already did jail time for starving a man to death.

10/17/11, "Philadelphia charges as four found chained in basement," BBC

"Three suspects have been charged with chaining four mentally disabled adults in a basement in Philadelphia and collecting their disability benefits.

Police found the victims after investigating reports of squatters.

The room was too short to stand up in, one victim was chained to a boiler, and the only food in the room was a container of orange juice, police said.

One suspect, Linda Ann Weston, previously served eight years in prison for starving a man to death 1981.

Police officially charged Weston, 51, Gregory Thomas, 47, and Eddie Wright, 50 with multiple charges, including criminal conspiracy, kidnapping and aggravated assault.

Authorities are looking into additional federal charges, a spokesman told the The Philadelphia Inquirer....

The adults found in the basement have the mental capacity of 10-year-olds, police said.

They ranged in age from 29 to 41. Once found, they were taken to hospital and listed as being in a stable condition.

Turgut Gozleveli, the owner of the Philadelphia building, told the Philadelphia Inquirer he checked out the basement after neighbours complained of suspicious people.

When he failed to find anyone in the basement, he followed the sound of a barking dog to a room under the basement, where a chain was wrapped around a door handle.

Inside he saw two small dogs and blankets, and then people's faces.

"It was terrible," he said. "Something I never expected to see in my life."

He then called police, who found the adults in the 15ft by 15ft (4.5m), room, surrounded by buckets of their own excrement.

According to police interviews with the captives , they had been brought to Philadelphia about 10 days before they were found, having been in West Palm Beach, Florida, and Texas.

Linda Ann Weston and Eddie Wright recently lived for about two months at a home in West Palm Beach, stripping it of wire and plumbing and smearing faeces on the walls, according to a report by the Palm Beach Post.

Previously she served eight years in prison for starving to death 25-year-old Bernardo Ramos. Ramos had refused to support her sister's unborn child.

She held him in the closet of their Philadelphia apartment in 1981 for two months, feeding him only three times, according to reports."

Like US, UK has been starving small and medium sized businesses

Tweet "Given evidence of continued impairment in the flow of credit to some parts of the real economy, notably small and medium-sized businesses"...

10/7/11, "Bank of England governor fears crisis is 'worst ever'," BBC

"Bank of England governor Mervyn King has said this financial crisis could be the worst the UK has ever seen.

His comments came after the Bank authorised the injection of a further £75bn into the economy through quantitative easing (QE).

Explaining the move Sir Mervyn told Sky News: "This is the most serious financial crisis we've seen at least since the 1930s, if not ever."...

"Mervyn King wrote to the chancellor earlier on Thursday, setting out the MPC's case for expanding the asset purchasing programme.

In his letter of response, in which he authorised the move, Chancellor George Osborne said: "I agree that an increase in the ceiling would provide the MPC with scope to vary the stance of monetary policy to meet the inflation target."

In his speech to the Conservative Party conference earlier in the week, Mr Osborne said that the Treasury would look into "credit easing" - a way to underwrite loans to small businesses who are struggling to get credit now.

He confirmed this in his letter to Mr King: "Given evidence of continued impairment in the flow of credit to some parts of the real economy, notably small and medium-sized businesses, the Treasury is exploring further policy actions. Such interventions should complement the MPC's asset purchases.""...

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All of this was predictable, preventable, and in the private sector would often result in jail time. Government is the best place to be today if you like white collar crime. ed.

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Bad parenting creates adolescents and young adults who drink to excess

Tweet 8/27/11, "Parenting style strongly affects drinking, Demos says," BBC

"Parenting style is one of the strongest influences on how a child drinks as a young adult, a study suggests.

• Independent think tank Demos studied data based on more than 30,000 children born in the UK in the last 40 years....

Data used in Demos's study came from the 1970 British Cohort Study and the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children....

It found that a "tough love" style of parenting was the best way to ensure children drank more responsibly when they were aged between 16 and 34.

The research also suggests that being too authoritarian with children could be as ineffectual as being too casual.

Researchers found that the best approach was for parents to be warm and affectionate until the age of 10 and then combine this with more discipline. Then at ages 15 to 16 there should be more supervision.

It found high levels of parental attachment when children were aged under five significantly

• reduced the chances of them drinking excessively later in life.

Demos's study found children more than eight times more likely to drink excessively at that age and

• over twice as likely to binge drink when they were 34."

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Thick Arctic Ice increasing for 3 years per NSIDC, $cientific American has access to same data but says the OPPO$ITE

Tweet 4/8/11, "Scientific American vs NSIDC," Real Science, S. Goddard

• Scientific American, April 7, 2011 inaccurately says thick Arctic Ice has decreased. NSIDC chart shows it has increased for the past 3 years ('Figure 5' NSIDC article, bottom of page):
  

4/7/11, "Government Shutdown Would Put Arctic Study on Ice," Scientific American

"Over the past several years, the proportion of older, thicker Arctic sea ice has fallen, leaving polar waters dominated by thinner ice* that forms in the fall and melts in the summer."...(last paragraph, page 1) (*see end of this post re "thin ice")

• Following is NSIDC actual ice chart and data:
  

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4/5/11, "Ice extent low at start of melt season; ice age increases over last year," NSIDC

"New data on ice age shows that the amount of older, thicker ice has increased slightly over last year."...(item in first paragraph, but it's actually increased for 3 years per NSIDC chart below, 'Figure 5' near bottom of page on NSIDC site). "Older ice has been increasing for the last three years. Apparently SA lacks access to the Internet"
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*Regarding 'thin ice'

*Researchers found they were mistaken in believing 'thin ice' would melt more easily, as in SA article item above. This notion about thin ice has been proven false according to NSID (citation below). There is so much money at stake that apparently some people want the facts kept quiet.

Arctic Sea ice maintains 30 year level, Arctic Research Center

• "Thirty years of sea ice data. The record begins at 1979, the year satellite observations began (Source: Arctic Research Center, University of Illinois)"

"Why were predictions so wrong? Researchers had expected the newer sea ice,

• which is thinner, to be less resilient and melt easier.

Instead, the thinner ice had less snow cover to insulate it from the bitterly cold air,

• and therefore grew much faster than expected, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center."...

1/1/09, "Sea Ice ends year at same level as 1979,"

"Rapid growth spurt leaves amount of ice at levels seen 29 years ago," Daily Tech, M. Asher

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P.S. The Scientific American article title expresses concern about a "government shutdown." This topic is only in the news because Obama chose not to pass a budget in October 2010 when he had majorities in both the House (overwhelmingly) and the Senate. Did Scientific American wonder then why the American people were treated so cavalierly while their country was in such crisis?
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Reference: http://www.scientificamerican.com"...

"http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/2011/040511.html




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Hamilton College invites admitted liar Al Gore to give commencement address and will disgracefully award him an honorary degree

Tweet Gore said he lied about the efficacy of corn ethanol in an attempt to get elected president. NY Mayor Bloomberg said in 2008 US ethanol policy will ensure starvation and death, as rising food prices "always do." Knowing all this, Hamilton College invites Al Gore as an example of what?

• Fraud and mass murder?

3/3/11, "Hamilton College announces Al Gore will give commencement address," WKTV News, Clinton, New York

"Former Vice President Al Gore will deliver the commencement address at Hamilton College this spring. The 45th vice president will deliver his speech in the Margaret Bundy Scott Field House.

• Gore was most recently in Central New York, and Hamilton College, in April of 2007. He was a speaker in the college's Sacerdote Great Names.

Gore will also be awarded an honorary degree along with longtime benefactor of the college Patsy Couper. A 1989 Hamilton graduate, Paul Lieberstein, will also be honored. Lieberstein is co-executive producer, writer and actor in the NBC sitcom "The Office."

• Gore will deliver his speech at the college's 199th commencement on Sunday, May 22nd.

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11/22/10, Reuters: On the rise of food prices, Gore "said there was no doubt

• biofuels have an effect" on food prices.
  

"The size, the percentage of corn particularly, which is now being (used for) first generation ethanol definitely has an impact on food prices.

• "The competition with food prices is real.""...

11/22/10, "US corn ethanol "was not a good policy"-Gore," Reuters

The US ethanol industry will consume 41% of the US corn crop this year....

"Total U.S. ethanol subsidies reached $7.7 billion last year according to the International Energy Industry, which said

• biofuels worldwide

• received more subsidies

• than any other form of renewable energy."...

(continuing, Reuters)

GORE: ""It is not a good policy to have these massive subsidies for (U.S.) first generation ethanol," said Gore, speaking at a green energy business conference in Athens sponsored by Marfin Popular Bank.

• "First generation ethanol I think was a mistake. The energy conversion ratios are at best very small....

He explained his own support for the original programme

• on his presidential ambitions.

"One of the reasons I made that mistake is that I paid particular attention to the farmers in my home state of Tennessee, and I had a certain fondness for

• the farmers in the state of Iowa because
  

• I was about to run for president.""...

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2/11/08, "Bloomberg slams U.S. energy law over corn ethanol" Reuters by Louis Charbonneau and Timothy Gardner

"A new U.S. energy law will cause an increase in global food prices and lead to starvation deaths worldwide

because it continues to promote corn ethanol, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said on Monday.

• "People literally will starve to death in parts of the world,
• it always happens when food prices go up," Bloomberg told reporters

after addressing a U.N. General Assembly debate on climate change....

"Cuban leader Fidel Castro blasted the Bush administration's biofuels policy as "genocidal" in a series of articles last year, saying

• they threatened to worsen global hunger by pushing up prices for food crops used to make ethanol."...

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