Harper guts more fish protections: NEB takes over habitat along pipelines -The Common Sense Canadian
Under
a new memorandum of understanding, DFO gives up control of habitat
protections along pipeline corridors to the National Energy Board.
commonsensecanadian.ca
Academi,
formerly and more popularly known as Blackwater, is back in the news as
reports are trickling in that they’ll train an “experimental battalion”
of 550...
us.sputniknews.com
The Atlantic shared a link.
The F-35 fighter jet was supposed to do everything. Instead, it can barely do anything.
theatlantic.com
Police the Police - (A Community Project)
Think you might be safer in America without police? You might be right... This is truly horrifying.
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But there’s a more sophisticated set of climate “skeptics” who make arguments that, at least to the lay ear, sound like they’re grounded in scientific evidence. And because most of us lack the background to evaluate their claims, they can muddy the waters around an issue that’s been settled in the scientific community.
So, as a public service, we gathered eight of the most common of these pseudoscientific arguments and asked some serious climate scientists — all working climatologists who have been widely published — to help us understand what makes these claims so misleading.
The letter simply chastised NASA for crossing the line between science and advocacy. They stated that:
“We believe the claims by NASA and GISS, that man-made carbon dioxide is having a catastrophic impact on global climate change are not substantiated, especially when considering thousands of years of empirical data. With hundreds of well-known climate scientists and tens of thousands of other scientists publicly declaring their disbelief in the catastrophic forecasts, coming particularly from the GISS leadership, it is clear that the science is NOT settled.”
There was no reference to a scam, only that they did not believe the science was settled and that NASA’s strident claims to the contrary were not consistent with an organization based upon scientific principles.
In order for the science to be settled, you need an actual hypothesis to be tested. Then you need an actual system which when applied can prove the hypothesis true or false. The problem here is the hypothesis is morphing. Is that human activities are making the planet warmer? Changing the weather? Which one?
Beyond there is no experimental system which can be used to test any of these hypotheses. Left with no system to prove predictions of climate catastrophe driven by human endeavors, it is perfectly reasonable to be skeptical of those who appear to be driven by advocacy, not science and apear to be oblivious to the unintended consequences such an effort might spawn.
This is not about simple math. Science is not settled by political or democratic means. Consensus is not truth.
Sorry to disturb the group think operating here.
BTW – no money from the Koch Brothers.
http://georgiacontrarian.blogspot.com/
My Uncle signed this. And, of course they’re a lot more than 49 that agree with them and didn’t sign. NASA has politics just like any organization. I’ve told him to forget about this many times, but its hard to convince someone that was on a team that went to the Moon that he can’t make a difference. I don’t know about AGW (not a climate scientist) , but it is fun to ask all kinds of questions and find out how they did things. He was on the teams that investigated accidents from the Apollo fire to the shuttle failures. Why the US used pure oxygen and the Russians didn’t? He was on the team that drew up the procedure for Apollo 13 CO2 scrubbers. When he heard about the accident and that they were going to use the Lunar module as a life raft, the first thing he thought was they were going to have trouble with the canisters. Also how the suits were constructed and how they protected against possible micro meteor impacts, and how heating and cooling were done with the massive temperature contrasts. The surprising thing is the different projects he worked on, how they solved the endless problems, and the often time simple solutions and every day materials they used. Many NASA engineers were first generation college graduates: a bunch bright farm boys that went to the Moon.
A7L-B
AGW models are imperfect, sometimes significantly flawed. This is a key reason why many reputable scientists, even climatologists, have concerns. Science is not about popularity, or feelings, rather, about facts.
One need not be a climatologist to recognize flawed methodology. Like it or not, virtually every tenet of AGW can be reasonably challenged, and should be. If the AGW computer models withstand continued scrutiny, they will become accepted as mainstream.
That’s what good science is about. Making your data available, and subjecting it to scrutiny, often from a wide range of scientific disciplines, including the astronomers and comparative planetologists, who have indeed found significant shortcomings in the models developed by earth-centric climatologists.
You may want to believe in the popular theory du jour, but science is not a popularity contest, as Galileo sadly discovered, it about facts which withstand continued multidisciplinary scrutiny. Many early assumptions of the AGW crowd have been disproven. More will follow. As a reality check, which climate scientist can accurately predict climate conditions for even next week?
Can even one of them? No. Food for thought… More and better research is needed, including an accurate accounting of the observed temperature variations seen on other planets and their moons.
~~~
BR: As George Box pointed out: “All modes are wrong, some are useful.”
My suspicions run against those “Skeptics” who are paid to be skeptical, funded by the Oil & Coal indusrty
Staff on 19 June 2011 for the Molokai Dispatch-
(http://themolokaidispatch.com/hawaii-s-one-sided-love-affair-gmos)
Clearly the GMO corn seed companies have cultivated a love affair with
Hawaii’s legislators and governing agencies with a crop of alluring
promises of tax and employment benefits. Instead, this love affair has
birthed unrestricted and unregulated access to our scarce agriculture
resources of water and land for Monsanto, Pioneer, Syngenta, Dow and
BASF, with no oversight, no inspections and no protections against
unintended – but sure to happen - consequences.
The GMO seed companies are the ultimate self-licking ice cream cone;
with no consumer demand for the non- food product, the companies created
an artificial demand called “crop improvement”, then manipulated genes
to create new patented life-forms, then controlled all research,
production, sales, distribution and ultimately replanting.
The global protest against GMOs challenges its science and seeks to
abolish GMOs worldwide. Meanwhile, our `aina has become the laboratory
test bed for both GMO seed production and also high risk, open-field,
bio-pharmaceutical research with the unfortunate result that GMO corn
seed – a non-food commodity - is now Hawaii’s highest valued
agriculture crop. Shame on us!!
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GPS trackers are bringing us some added security, 1984 style.
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The
American Medical Association is a mafia and they have very little
concern for prevention but focus on the treatment after we get sick
because that's where the big bucks are.
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The
number of Palestinian properties destroyed by Israeli bulldozers in the
West Bank and East Jerusalem so far this year is 561, displacing more
than 1,165 people, according to UN figures.
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Apparently the government doesn't like when people use seed banks to save and trade their crops.
theantimedia.org
Vance Major's photo.
Haha this cracks me up
Developments
in the world's oil trade reveal that the standoff between the US and
Iran may have little, if anything, to do with nukes.
caseyresearch.com
Only 14 percent of East Jerusalem land is zoned for Palestinian
residential construction, while one-third of Palestinian land has been
confiscated since 1967 to build illegal Jewish-only settlements, the
Association for Civil Rights in Israel says.
Although Palestinians in East Jerusalem live within territory Israel has unilaterally annexed, they lack citizenship rights and are instead classified only as "residents" whose permits can be revoked if they move away from the city for more than a few years.
Although Palestinians in East Jerusalem live within territory Israel has unilaterally annexed, they lack citizenship rights and are instead classified only as "residents" whose permits can be revoked if they move away from the city for more than a few years.
Al Jazeera English shared a link.
Drilling for oil in occupied Golan is part of a larger plan to increase Israeli settlement activity, rights groups say.
aje.io|By Creede Newton, Patrick Strickland
This is called "Perlemorskyer" in Norway or we would call it
Polar Stratospheric Clouds or nacreous clouds. This photo was taken by
Elin Fumuholt in Norway. They're rare
because the stratosphere doesn't hold much moisture and they need to be
lit from sunlight below meaning this happens around dawn or dusk. WILD!
A detailed explanation of these clouds is found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polar_stratospheric_cloud
December
30, 2014 - Radioactivity from Japan's crippled nuclear reactors has
turned up off the British Columbia coast and the level will likely peak
in waters...
leaderpost.com|By Margaret Munro
Eight Pseudoscientific Climate Claims Debunked by Real Scientists
Most people who deny that human activity is warming the planet just dismiss a massive body of scientific evidence as a big hoax.But there’s a more sophisticated set of climate “skeptics” who make arguments that, at least to the lay ear, sound like they’re grounded in scientific evidence. And because most of us lack the background to evaluate their claims, they can muddy the waters around an issue that’s been settled in the scientific community.
So, as a public service, we gathered eight of the most common of these pseudoscientific arguments and asked some serious climate scientists — all working climatologists who have been widely published — to help us understand what makes these claims so misleading.
“almost all working climate scientists — 97 percent — accept the consensus view.”
It’s hard to get somebody to go against the flow when his job is on the line. That’s why resistance from those past the need to secure employment is so significant…and from those in related disciplines who need not conform to ‘expectations’. Nor do allegations about ‘deniers’ make any sense when talking about unaminity – unless one cherry picks the qualified to quip. How does that conform to ‘scientific method’, I wonder ?
When I read ‘working climate scientists’ I read what you write – and note the precision with which you select those ‘qualified’ to think for themselves.
It’s hard to get somebody to go against the flow when his job is on the line. That’s why resistance from those past the need to secure employment is so significant…and from those in related disciplines who need not conform to ‘expectations’. Nor do allegations about ‘deniers’ make any sense when talking about unaminity – unless one cherry picks the qualified to quip. How does that conform to ‘scientific method’, I wonder ?
When I read ‘working climate scientists’ I read what you write – and note the precision with which you select those ‘qualified’ to think for themselves.
Innumerate Claim of the Day: NASA Scientists Dispute Climate Change
The letter simply chastised NASA for crossing the line between science and advocacy. They stated that:
“We believe the claims by NASA and GISS, that man-made carbon dioxide is having a catastrophic impact on global climate change are not substantiated, especially when considering thousands of years of empirical data. With hundreds of well-known climate scientists and tens of thousands of other scientists publicly declaring their disbelief in the catastrophic forecasts, coming particularly from the GISS leadership, it is clear that the science is NOT settled.”
There was no reference to a scam, only that they did not believe the science was settled and that NASA’s strident claims to the contrary were not consistent with an organization based upon scientific principles.
In order for the science to be settled, you need an actual hypothesis to be tested. Then you need an actual system which when applied can prove the hypothesis true or false. The problem here is the hypothesis is morphing. Is that human activities are making the planet warmer? Changing the weather? Which one?
Beyond there is no experimental system which can be used to test any of these hypotheses. Left with no system to prove predictions of climate catastrophe driven by human endeavors, it is perfectly reasonable to be skeptical of those who appear to be driven by advocacy, not science and apear to be oblivious to the unintended consequences such an effort might spawn.
This is not about simple math. Science is not settled by political or democratic means. Consensus is not truth.
Sorry to disturb the group think operating here.
BTW – no money from the Koch Brothers.
http://georgiacontrarian.blogspot.com/
My Uncle signed this. And, of course they’re a lot more than 49 that agree with them and didn’t sign. NASA has politics just like any organization. I’ve told him to forget about this many times, but its hard to convince someone that was on a team that went to the Moon that he can’t make a difference. I don’t know about AGW (not a climate scientist) , but it is fun to ask all kinds of questions and find out how they did things. He was on the teams that investigated accidents from the Apollo fire to the shuttle failures. Why the US used pure oxygen and the Russians didn’t? He was on the team that drew up the procedure for Apollo 13 CO2 scrubbers. When he heard about the accident and that they were going to use the Lunar module as a life raft, the first thing he thought was they were going to have trouble with the canisters. Also how the suits were constructed and how they protected against possible micro meteor impacts, and how heating and cooling were done with the massive temperature contrasts. The surprising thing is the different projects he worked on, how they solved the endless problems, and the often time simple solutions and every day materials they used. Many NASA engineers were first generation college graduates: a bunch bright farm boys that went to the Moon.
A7L-B
AGW models are imperfect, sometimes significantly flawed. This is a key reason why many reputable scientists, even climatologists, have concerns. Science is not about popularity, or feelings, rather, about facts.
One need not be a climatologist to recognize flawed methodology. Like it or not, virtually every tenet of AGW can be reasonably challenged, and should be. If the AGW computer models withstand continued scrutiny, they will become accepted as mainstream.
That’s what good science is about. Making your data available, and subjecting it to scrutiny, often from a wide range of scientific disciplines, including the astronomers and comparative planetologists, who have indeed found significant shortcomings in the models developed by earth-centric climatologists.
You may want to believe in the popular theory du jour, but science is not a popularity contest, as Galileo sadly discovered, it about facts which withstand continued multidisciplinary scrutiny. Many early assumptions of the AGW crowd have been disproven. More will follow. As a reality check, which climate scientist can accurately predict climate conditions for even next week?
Can even one of them? No. Food for thought… More and better research is needed, including an accurate accounting of the observed temperature variations seen on other planets and their moons.
~~~
BR: As George Box pointed out: “All modes are wrong, some are useful.”
My suspicions run against those “Skeptics” who are paid to be skeptical, funded by the Oil & Coal indusrty
GMO's stranglehold on Hawaii
Staff on 19 June 2011 for the Molokai Dispatch-
(http://themolokaidispatch.com/hawaii-s-one-sided-love-affair-gmos)
Image above: Cartoon by Matt Collins of scientists being over-ruled by GMO corn companies.From (http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.scientificamerican.com/media/inline/do-seed-companies-control-gm-crop-research_1.jpg).
Clearly the GMO corn seed companies have cultivated a love affair with
Hawaii’s legislators and governing agencies with a crop of alluring
promises of tax and employment benefits. Instead, this love affair has
birthed unrestricted and unregulated access to our scarce agriculture
resources of water and land for Monsanto, Pioneer, Syngenta, Dow and
BASF, with no oversight, no inspections and no protections against
unintended – but sure to happen - consequences.
The GMO seed companies are the ultimate self-licking ice cream cone;
with no consumer demand for the non- food product, the companies created
an artificial demand called “crop improvement”, then manipulated genes
to create new patented life-forms, then controlled all research,
production, sales, distribution and ultimately replanting.
The global protest against GMOs challenges its science and seeks to
abolish GMOs worldwide. Meanwhile, our `aina has become the laboratory
test bed for both GMO seed production and also high risk, open-field,
bio-pharmaceutical research with the unfortunate result that GMO corn
seed – a non-food commodity - is now Hawaii’s highest valued
agriculture crop. Shame on us!!
Kids' Movies Actually Are Full of Death - The Atlantic
Russian
strategic bombers have made more than 50 flights over the world ocean
in the previous year and fighter jets have made their longest possible
flights to far north regions, spokesman of Russian Air Force Colonel
Igor Klimov told reporters.
In his words, domestic military forces have received more than 200 ...
John
Baird: Canada won't expand airstrikes on ISIS to Syria
Harper also called Thursday for support of the Canadian Forces as part
of his annual holiday address.
Canada has six CF-18 fighter jets in the Middle East as part of an
international effort to help Iraq fight an insurgency by Islamic State
...
"Misusing
the current crisis in Ukraine, the NATO leadership increases
consistently the number of flights at airfields of NATO states in
Eastern Europe," Colonel General Viktor Bondarev said
Material has 1 page
Military fighter jets participating in NATO's Baltic Air Policing
Mission operate in Lithuanian airspace
© AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis
MOSCOW, December 16. /TASS/. ...
#AceNewsServices
- Featured Post:Dec.24 - This is about how the Western Media kept
quiet about the Ukrainian Fighter Jet Shot that l reported on back in
November this is a follow-up post by Global Research. Deleted BBC
Report. "Ukrainian Fighter Jet Shot Down MHI7″, Donetsk Eyewitnesses ...
Russian
strategic bombers have made more than 50 flights over the world ocean
in the previous year and fighter jets have made their longest possible
flights to far north regions, spokesman of Russian Air Force Colonel
Igor Klimov told reporters.
In his words, domestic military forces have received more than 200 ...John
Baird: Canada won't expand airstrikes on ISIS to Syria
Harper also called Thursday for support of the Canadian Forces as part
of his annual holiday address.
Canada has six CF-18 fighter jets in the Middle East as part of an
international effort to help Iraq fight an insurgency by Islamic State
..."Misusing
the current crisis in Ukraine, the NATO leadership increases
consistently the number of flights at airfields of NATO states in
Eastern Europe," Colonel General Viktor Bondarev said
Material has 1 page
Military fighter jets participating in NATO's Baltic Air Policing
Mission operate in Lithuanian airspace
© AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis
MOSCOW, December 16. /TASS/. ...#AceNewsServices
- Featured Post:Dec.24 - This is about how the Western Media kept
quiet about the Ukrainian Fighter Jet Shot that l reported on back in
November this is a follow-up post by Global Research. Deleted BBC
Report. "Ukrainian Fighter Jet Shot Down MHI7″, Donetsk Eyewitnesses ...
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