Survival Under Atomic Attack is the title of an official U.S. government booklet released by the Executive Office of the President, the National Security Resources Board (document 130), and the Civil Defense Office in 1950. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Emblem of the National Ice Center, a tri-agency operational center of the Federal government of the United States (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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We are all one – Namwayut
There is a move afoot in this land, led by Gwawaenuk First Nation Chief Robert Joseph, his daughters Karen and Shelley and others, in an organization called Reconciliation Canada. Working separately from, but in relation to, the national Truth and Reconciliation Commission, their vision is “to promote reconciliation by engaging Canadians in dialogue that revitalizes the relationships between Aboriginal peoples and all Canadians in order to build resilience.” Chief Joseph says “Let’s find a way to belong to this time and place together. Our future and the well-being of all our children, rests with the kind of relationships we build today.”http://www.shakesville.com/2013/10/updated-commenting-policy.html
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The Frailest Thing*
*The Humanities, the Sciences, and the Nature of Education
neither serious humanistic knowledge nor serious scientific knowledge appears to be flourishing in American culture ( get a load of the links by Zemanta about the pushing of Common Core at the end of the previous post.
You'd think Charlotte Iserbyt's revelations were finally being heeded. )
*The Would-Be Assassin and the Camera
*The Miracle of Gravity
World's Most Mysterious Pictures
http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2013/10/climate-denial-fox-media-matters#comment-1082546373
Oceans: ftp://kakapo.ucsd.edu/pub/sio_...
Arctic sea ice volume
http://psc.apl.washington.edu/...
Antarctic sea ice: http://www.tos.org/oceanograph...
Antarctic land ice: http://www.sciencemag.org/cont...
Global ice mass: http://www.wgms.ch/mbb/sum11.h...
Cloud albedo: http://scholar.google.com/scho...
and
http://www.climatechange2013.o... -- chapter 7.2, figures 7.7-7.9. The cloud-albedo net forcing is a complicated calculation. Reading the entire chapter is a good idea. Chapter 7 ("Clouds and Aerosols") directly references ~1050 publications. I think you'll find all aspects of cloud feedback covered, even if we still don't have precise estimates of net feedback and, more importantly, changes in feedback as warming continues. There's evidence (Fasullo & Trenberth 2013) that subtropical cloudiness will subside as the observed changes to Hadley circulation continue.
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The IPCC: Yowling Cat in a Tree
I’ve been interviewed regarding the UN climate panel’s recent announcement. In my view, its future is bleak.Why the IPCC Meeting Isn’t Being Televised
Scientific truth isn’t negotiated in the dead of night behind closed doors.‘Nature’ Spin Elevates Third-Tier IPCC Official to Chair
With attention focused on the IPCC’s imminent Working Group 1 report, a prestigious science journal has published a misleadingly-headlined profile of Working Group 3 co-chair, Ottmar Edenhofer.What Would a Bad Job Look Like?
A US official recently called Rajendra Pachauri’s leadership of the world’s most important climate body ‘extraordinary.’ But ‘inadequate’ and ‘inexcusable’ are more appropriate.The IPCC Chairman’s Fake Second PhD
Rajendra Pachauri holds only one PhD – not two, as his official IPCC bio claims.The UN’s Pretend Climate Scientists
A UN press release falsely describes those attending an IPCC meeting as “climate scientists,” In fact, these people are policy wonks, economists, political scientists, and UN advisors.The IPCC: Politicizing Science Since 1988
If the IPCC was a scientific body, the science section of its upcoming report would be summarized by scientists and that would be the end of the matter. Instead, the science summary will be the battleground at a 4-day political gathering.Continue Reading
Back to the Future: Paradise Lost, or Paradise Regained?
If a warmer, more CO2-rich world would be hell in the future, it logically must have been hell in the past, too, when global temperatures were much warmer and carbon dioxide levels much higher. Paleoclimatologists tell a different story. They more often see our earlier planet as a “paradise,” even “paradise lost.”
In fact, “paradise lost” is the subtitle of a 1994 book on our planet 33 million years ago by veteran paleo-climatologist Donald R. Prothero—The Eocene-Oligocene Transition: Paradise Lost. The Eocene (55-33 million years ago) began what is sometimes called the Golden Age of Mammals. This geological age was at least 10°C warmer than today, free of ice caps, and with CO2 levels, Prothero suggests, of up to 3,000 parts per million, which is almost eight times today’s level of about 400 ppm. Yet Prothero calls the Eocene a “lush, tropical world.”[8]At the end of the still very warm Oligocene (33-23 mya), Prothero puts CO2 levels at 1,600 ppm, or four times today’s levels. For Prothero, the boundary between the Eocene and Oligocene was “paradise lost” because it was then, about 33 million years ago, that the planet began its slide from a “lush, tropical world” into its current ice age conditions (see Figure 1), with glaciations every 85,000 years interspersed with brief, 15,000-year warm interglacials.
Figure 1: Temperatures over 65 million years. Source: Global Warming Art
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Bridge the Gulf shared a link.
The
state chapter of the Sierra Club, which has been trying to block the
plant, says public opinion is shifting in the club's favor."When it
first came out, it was the greatest thing since sliced bread," says
Louie Miller , state director of the environmental group. "Now everyone
has turned against it."
Cost overruns for Mississippi Power's Kemper clean-coal plant are approaching $2 billion
online.wsj.com
For decades, the federal government has touted a bright future for
Bridge the Gulf shared a link via Real Coastal Warriors.
Meanwhile, and while the BP trial continues in New Orleans, Gulf Coast residents are left wondering if BP will ever be held responsible for the damage done to their fisheries, ecosystems and livelihoods, wait to see if their bodies will ever recover from an assault of BP's oil and dispersants, and wonder if anyone will ever - in the words of Purple Strategies' spin writers, found in the mouth of former BP President Tony Hayward - "make it right."
Take a look at the LNG export facilities on the Gulf Coast -
"What we continue to learn from these over flights is that the Gulf carries on as the "energy sacrifice zone" for the rest of the United States. The communities that live, work, and recreate in the Gulf region deserve much better from both industry and our government."
This was sent to me by a friend.
I have worked in the government on
and off for 40 years. During that time I became quite familiar with
requisitions, bidding, awarding contracts etc. It is a time consuming
process with bean-counters and pencil-necked bureaucrats every step of
the way. The simplest request takes months, not days or hours.
In less than 8 hours of the shutdown, miraculously, hundreds of miles
of barricades and professionally printed 3X4 foot signs appeared all
over the country in the tens of thousands saying this park, facility,
etc., with custom logos, closed due to government shutdown.
There has not been a government shutdown in 17 years. These signs were
designed, specifications were determined, signs were then requisitioned,
bids were posted and vetted, and government contracts were awarded. The
materials were then ordered and the signs manufactured then distributed
U.S. Mails or freight companies.
This shutdown was
orchestrated and planned well in advance at least 6-8 month ago.
Millions of tax dollars were appropriated and spent in this process.
There is a paper trail a mile long leading directly to the White House.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zi23Wyz41w&sns=em
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