Wednesday, March 20, 2013

20 March - Mixup

Israel Yagur (Photo credit: Verbal Jam)

Palestine Grafities (Photo credit: Wall in Palestine)

"Palestine - Pool of Solomon" (2) (Photo credit: Chatham University JKM Library)

Palestine (Photo credit: Squirmelia)

Cover of The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine

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Obama vs Netanyahu – the next round
March-18-13 3:58 PMAlan Hart says people should give Obama more time to negotiate with Iran since agreement with Tehran “could be a real game-changer because it would leave Netanyahu without his best blackmail card”.

      Women’s struggle for rights in LibyaMarch-16-13 9:12 PMNureddin Sabir highlights the plight of women in Libya where social and cultural backwardness, and the rising influence of religious bigots, are rapidly eroding the few rights they have.( Interesting this happens after NATO murders Khadafi....not to mention bombs cities and wrecks water supplies )

The wrath of the bureaucracy and US public apathyMarch-15-13 4:54 PMLawrence Davidson elaborates on the bureaucratic logic that stifles independent thought and explains why this logic, which is manifested in the prosecution of whistleblower Bradley Manning, finds sympathy among many Americans.

Israeli appetite for US welfare funds
March-14-13 2:42 PMJamal Kanj says while Americans are poised for grinding cuts in public services and the armed forces, the Zionist lobby is already manoeouvring to protect Israel’s multi-billion-dollar annual gift of taxpayer money.

Zionism’s diabolical blueprint
March-11-13 4:50 PMStuart Littlewood reminds the West's political half-wits who stooge for the Israeli regime about Plan Dalet, “the Zionist terror mob's diabolical blueprint for the violent and blood-spattered takeover” of Palestine.

Israel: 65 years of war crimes
March-10-13 10:43 AMAlan Hart recalls Plan Dalet, launched by the Jews who had just emerged from the Nazi holocaust, which kicked off the systematic ethnic cleansing of Palestine and the destruction of Palestinian villages.

Time for Palestine solidarity to liberate itself
/March-09-13 2:17 PMGilad Atzmon calls on the Palestine solidarity movement to focus on its raison d'être – the liberation of Palestine and the right of return – and abandon attempts to appease liberal Zionists.

The great Ethiopian land giveawayMarch-08-13 1:46 PMGraham Peebles argues that the Ethiopian government’s policy of leasing vast tracts of fertile land to foreign agribusiness corporations and forcibly relocating farmers is impoverishing the countryside and degrading its people.

EU-funded Israeli theft
March-07-13 1:48 PMJamal Kanj highlights the European Union’s mealy-mouthed approach to the problem of Israeli colonies, acknowledging that they are “the single biggest threat" to peace while simultaneously subsidizing their produce.

US civil rights take a hitMarch-06-13 3:17 PMLawrence Davidson calls for vigilance in protecting civil rights in the USA, and argues that there are plenty of Americans who are ready to turn back the clock on civil rights.

Israel flag wavers to “re-educate” MP David WardMarch-05-13 3:16 PMStuart Littlewood views reports that UK Liberal Democrats have appointed the pro-Israel lobby as “probation officers and educators” to judge if David Ward is “salvageable” and lay down precise language rules.

http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2012/04/microbes-arent-eating-oil-gulf-beaches-thanks-corexit-dispersant

rebel999 04/20/2012 12:12 PM

We are seeing the results of the BP Oil spill in the fish that have to live every second of their lives in the water that BP spoiled. The fish and mammals health is proof that something is wrong in the Gulf of Mexico caused by the BP Oil spill. Also there is proof in our weather that shows that something is wrong in the Gulf caused by the BP oil spill. Since the spill we haven't had any hurricanes or major storms in the Gulf. Look at the cloud formations since the time of the spill. You will notice abnormal cloud formations over the Gulf when there use to be massive amounts of cloud formation and rain. Texas and other areas have been experiencing droughts since the BP Oil spill. As I predicted on my web page www.mybetteramericaplan.com when the spill happened that there wouldn't be any hurricanes in the Gulf for the last two years I regret to tell you that this abnormal weather condition in the Gulf is going to continue this year with only a slight improvement. Again this year there will be no hurricanes or major storms in the Gulf and only mild rain storms every so often. We need rain in the Gulf to help bring new water to the Gulf to help dilute this mess that BP oil has created. I have talked to scuba divers who have been in the Gulf and they say that there is oil on the bottom of the Gulf where they were. We have to get BP Oil to get back to the Gulf with underwater vacuums that are capable of sucking up oil to finish cleaning up the mess that they have made. Don't buy BP gas until that company finishes the clean up job that they should of done. Tell ALL about the boycott of BP OIL.

This isn't the first stated link to the BP blowout and weather changes. Plus the Gulf was a nexus of ocean currents and a cradle of life.

Dueling papers on Tropical Cyclone Frequency | Watts Up With That?

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Oct 16, 2012 – Decreasing trend of tropical cyclone frequency in 228-year .... the Atlantic Ocean and move towards the U.S. East Coast and the Gulf of Mexico.

So who screwed up the obvious ?

Effects of Climate Variability and Change on Gulf of Mexico Tropical ...

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by J Done - 2011 - Cited by 2 - Related articles
... dynamical and statistical techniques, with particular focus on the Gulf of Mexico. ... Storm frequency and storm intensity are shown to increase with increasing ...

Huh ? One chap even argued that Storm Intensity is increased with greater contrast between seawater temps and air...which in meteorology you get with...wait for it...cold fronts

Tropical cyclone accumulated cyclone energy (ACE) has exhibited strikingly large global interannual variability during the past 40-years. In the pentad since 2006, Northern Hemisphere and global tropical cyclone ACE has decreased dramatically to the lowest levels since the late 1970s. Additionally, the frequency of tropical cyclones has reached a historical low..

http://my.opera.com/nepmak2000/blog/noaa-admits-contribution-to-global-warming-scam

http://www.skepticalscience.com/hurricanes-global-warming.htm

Berényi Péter at 01:14 AM on 20 August, 2010 #10 kdkd at 20:08 PM on 19 August, 2010
despite some suggestion that both have increased since the early 1970s

Of course they did. However, if one is trying to do valid climate science, the first question to ask is why hurricane intensity has dropped dramatically between 1959 and 1972?

Until we have an answer to that question, there is no point in making fancy theories about the partial recovery after 1990 which still have not reached the levels once seen during the 1940s. Not even those in the 1880s when temperature is supposed to be way lower than today.

NOAA: Hurricane frequency and global warming NOT the cause of increased destruction

Dan Pangburn says:

February 21, 2008 at 2:10 pm

It is unfortunate that so many people have bought in to the anthropogenic global warming mistake when they could have investigated the issue themselves using credible sources readily available on the web. Some people are concerned about the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. The assessment that there is over 50 times as much carbon in the ocean as exists in the atmosphere, http://www.whoi.edu/oceanus/viewArticle.do?id=17726 , does not appear to be very widely known. Apparently no one did any real research before or they would have discovered that 440 mya the planet plunged into the Andean-Saharan ice age, http://www.scotese.com/climate.htm , when atmospheric carbon dioxide was over ten times the present level, http://earthguide.ucsd.edu/virtualmuseum/climatechange2/07_1.shtml (http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/Reference_Docs/Geocarb_III-Berner.pdf if the original paper is preferred). With a little further real research they would have discovered that, in the current ice age, temperature trends have changed direction at many different temperature levels. See temperature anomalies from http://cdiac.ornl.gov/ftp/trends/temp/vostok/vostok.1999.temp.dat supplemented with recent data from http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/anomalies/anomalies.html or ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/anomalies/annual.land_and_ocean.90S.90N.df_1901-2000mean.dat . This could not occur if there was significant positive feedback. If they had also looked at the carbon dioxide level from http://cdiac.ornl.gov/trends/co2/vostok.html they would have discovered that the change in atmospheric carbon dioxide level typically lagged average earth temperature change by hundreds of years. If they had looked at the temperature data and Law Dome carbon dioxide data http://cdiac.ornl.gov/ftp/trends/co2/lawdome.combined.dat and the recent data from Mauna Loa ftp://ftp.cmdl.noaa.gov/ccg/co2/in-situ/mlo/ or other sources from http://cdiac.ornl.gov/trends/co2/ they might have also noticed that there is no correlation, except possibly for the 22 years from 1976 to 1998 when carbon dioxide level and average global temperature both increased. None of the data shows any significant influence of carbon dioxide level on temperature.
Peer review biased by group-think is de facto censorship. The result here is a plethora of papers advocating that human activity is causing global warming and a paucity of ‘peer reviewed’ published papers that objectively investigate the extent to which human-produced carbon dioxide is contributing to global warming. Since this is the case, it’s probably going to have to get a lot colder before very much changes in most of the media. It will get colder eventually and a lot of people are going to look pretty foolish. It might even get warmer first like it has four other times in the last 11000 years but that’s not likely since we are past due for the coming glacial age. During the coming glaciation, half of the population will starve because rice does not grow on ice.

ClimateGate Goes Back to 1980

The mystery deepens — where did that decline go?

peer reviewed data supports the original graphs and that measured temperature did decline from 1960 onwards, sharply. But in the GISS version of that time-period, temperatures from the cold 1970′s period were repeatedly “adjusted” years after the event, and progressively got warmer.

The most mysterious period is from 1958 to 1978, when a steep 0.3C decline that was initially recorded in the Northern Hemisphere. Years later that was reduced so far it became a mild warming, against the detailed corroborating evidence from raobcore data.
Raobcore measurements are balloon measures. They started in 1958, twenty years before satellites. But when satellites began, the two different methods tie together very neatly–telling us that both of them are accurate, reliable tools.

Three decades of adjustments

When did the “funny business” begin? By 1980 Hansen and GISS had already produced graphs which were starting to neutralize the decline. His graphs of 1987 and then 2007 further reduced the decline, until the cooling from 1960 to 1975 was completely lost.
If 1958 temperatures were similar to the 1990′s, it rewrites the entire claim of all the unprecedented warming of late. Lansner also remind us of the photos taken in the arctic by submarines that surfaced around the north pole.
Paul

March 19, 2010 at 12:25 am

“401 Australian surface stations were dropped after 1992″
From what I’ve read, Canada and Russia dropped many stations at the same time, and other countries as well. Does it not strike you as odd that at the very time all of these climate concerns were gaining steam, that there was a significant reduction in measurement capacity? Especially since surface station data forms the basis of all of the most important temperature records. If changing temperatures were such an important thing, wouldn’t you measure more, and more accurately, and not less? Instead, we’ve been treated to an inverse relationship between reliance on measured data and reliance on computer models.
Reality is no longer measured by direct observation, but becomes what the models say it is. Which fits right into a discussion on post-normal science I was reading a few days ago.

The New Truck Stop: Filling Up With Natural Gas for the Long Haul

Ozone Levels Have Sizeable Impact on Worker Productivity

Impact of Pollution on Worker Productivity

Test the Rain
In a report that was published on MSNBC back in 2007 they stated that the government projects at least 36 states will be facing serious water shortages within five years. The reason (http://www.prlog.org/11996528-sittercity-promo-code-25-off-coupon.html) for the projected shortages are a combination of a number of factors including rising temperatures, drought, urban sprawl, population growth, and of course waste and using too much water.

Some Grains of Truth about Salt, Scientific Evidence and Public Policy

Bio-Remediation or Bio-Hazard? Dispersants, Bacteria and Illness in the Gulf

Dr. Sylvia Earle, former chief scientist of NOAA, and other scientists, criticized the agencies' decision, in part, based on concern about harm to human health. Other scientists have also criticized the agencies' decision. Citing the National Academy of Sciences, a Texas Tech University professor testified in Congress that the chemicals break down cell walls, making organisms (including people) more susceptible to oil. The professor called the Gulf an "eco-toxicological experiment," which is inexcusable, because OSHA has known about harm from solvent exposure since at least 1987.

Sylvia Earle to U.S. Congress: Cheap Oil is Costing Us the Earth

Earle focused much of her testimony on the toxic effect of chemicals being used to disperse the oil spill, which she said should not be used under the sea, where they could damage the small organisms so vital to the health of the ocean.
She also lamented the lack of technology to send Coast Guard, NOAA and other experts to the source of the oil gushing into the ocean, 5,000 feet beneath the surface. “How can we not know how much oil is being released,” she asked. “We are dealing from the surface with what is largely a subsea problem.”
Earle also said there was a need to establish a data baseline to find out what species were in the Gulf prior to the oil spill, to help monitor the current situation and assist recovery over many years.
“The Gulf of Mexico is not, as some believe, an industrial wasteland, valuable primarily as a source of petrochemicals and a few species of ocean wildlife that humans exploit for food, commodities, and recreational fishing. These are assets worth protecting as if our lives depend on them, because in no small measure, they do,”